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): November 21, 2001
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
Delaware 1-16411 95-4840775
(State or other jurisdiction (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation) Identification No.)
1840 Century Park East
Los Angeles, California 90067
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
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Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (310) 553-6262
Item 5. Other Events
Northrop Grumman Corporation is filing this Current Report on Form 8-K in order to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission certain items that are to be incorporated by reference into its Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-71290).
Item 7. Financial Information, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits
(c) Exhibits
Exhibit Description of Exhibit
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4.1 Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2001, between the
Registrant and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee.
4.2 Officers' Certificate, dated as of November 21, 2001,
describing the terms of the Senior Notes which are a component
of the Registrant's Equity Security Units.
4.3 Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001,
between the Registrant and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase
Contract Agent.
4.4 Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, among the
Registrant, The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent,
Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary, and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent.
4.5 Form of Remarketing Agreement.
4.6 Form of Senior Note (included in Exhibit 4.2).
4.7 Form of Normal Units Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.3).
4.8 Form of Stripped Units Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.3).
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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.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
(Registrant)
Date: November 21, 2001 By: /s/ John H. Mullan
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John H. Mullan, Corporate Vice President
and Secretary
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number Description
4.1 Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2001, between the Registrant and
JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee.
4.2 Officers' Certificate, dated as of November 21, 2001, describing the
terms of the Senior Notes which are a component of the Registrant's
Equity Security Units.
4.3 Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, between
the Registrant and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent.
4.4 Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, among the Registrant,
The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and
Securities Intermediary, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract
Agent.
4.5 Form of Remarketing Agreement.
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EXHIBIT 4.1
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
TO
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, TRUSTEE
INDENTURE
Dated as of November 21, 2001
SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION............................................... 1
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Section 101. Definitions...................................................................................... 1
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Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions............................................................. 8
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Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee........................................................... 8
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Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.................................................................... 9
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Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company............................................................ 11
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Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver........................................................................ 11
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Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................................................................ 12
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Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents......................................................... 12
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Section 109. Successors and Assigns........................................................................... 12
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Section 110. Separability Clause.............................................................................. 12
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Section 111. Benefits of Indenture............................................................................ 12
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Section 112. Governing Law.................................................................................... 12
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Section 113. Legal Holidays................................................................................... 12
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ARTICLE 2 SECURITY FORMS........................................................................................ 13
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Section 201. Forms Generally.................................................................................. 13
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Section 202. Form of Face of Security......................................................................... 13
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Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security...................................................................... 15
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Section 204. Form of Legend for Global Securities............................................................. 19
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Section 205. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.................................................. 19
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ARTICLE 3 THE SECURITIES........................................................................................ 20
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Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series............................................................. 20
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Section 302. Denominations.................................................................................... 22
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Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating................................................... 22
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Section 304. Temporary Securities............................................................................. 24
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Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.............................................. 24
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Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities.................................................. 27
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Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved................................................... 27
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Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners............................................................................ 29
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Section 309. Cancellation..................................................................................... 29
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Section 310. Computation of Interest.......................................................................... 29
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ARTICLE 4 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE............................................................................ 29
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Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.......................................................... 29
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Section 402. Application of Trust Money....................................................................... 30
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ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES.............................................................................................. 31
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Section 501. Events of Default................................................................................ 31
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Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment............................................... 32
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Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.................................. 33
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Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................................................. 34
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Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities...................................... 34
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Section 506. Application of Money Collected................................................................... 34
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Section 507. Limitation on Suits.............................................................................. 35
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Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert...... 35
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Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies............................................................ 36
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Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative................................................................ 36
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Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.................................................................. 36
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Section 512. Control by Holders............................................................................ 36
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Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults....................................................................... 37
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Section 514. Undertaking for Costs......................................................................... 37
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Section 515. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws....................................................... 37
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ARTICLE 6 THE TRUSTEE........................................................................................ 37
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Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities........................................................... 37
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Section 602. Notice of Defaults............................................................................ 39
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Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee..................................................................... 39
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Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities........................................ 40
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Section 605. May Hold Securities........................................................................... 40
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Section 606. Money Held in Trust........................................................................... 40
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Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement................................................................ 41
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Section 608. Conflicting Interests......................................................................... 41
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Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility....................................................... 41
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Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor............................................. 42
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Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor........................................................ 43
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Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business................................... 44
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Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company............................................. 44
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Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent........................................................... 44
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ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY.................................................. 46
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Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders..................................... 46
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Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders........................................ 46
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Section 703. Reports by Trustee............................................................................ 47
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Section 704. Reports by Company............................................................................ 47
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ARTICLE 8 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE............................................... 47
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Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.......................................... 47
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Section 802. Successor Substituted......................................................................... 48
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ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES............................................................................ 48
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Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders............................................ 48
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Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders............................................... 50
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Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.......................................................... 51
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Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures............................................................. 51
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Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act........................................................... 51
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Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures............................................ 51
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ARTICLE 10 COVENANTS......................................................................................... 51
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Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.................................................... 51
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Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................................... 52
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Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust............................................. 52
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Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default........................................................... 53
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Section 1005. Existence..................................................................................... 54
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Section 1006. Maintenance of Properties..................................................................... 54
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Section 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims............................................................. 54
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Section 1008. Waiver of Certain Covenants................................................................... 54
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Section 1009. Limitation on Liens.............................................................................. 55
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Section 1010. Limitation on Sale and Lease-Back................................................................ 56
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ARTICLE 11 REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES............................................................................. 57
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Section 1101. Applicability of Article......................................................................... 57
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Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee............................................................ 57
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Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed................................................ 57
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Section 1104. Notice of Redemption............................................................................. 58
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Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price...................................................................... 59
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Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date............................................................ 59
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Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part...................................................................... 59
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ARTICLE 12 SINKING FUNDS........................................................................................ 60
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Section 1201. Applicability of Article......................................................................... 60
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Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities............................................ 60
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Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund........................................................ 60
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ARTICLE 13 DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE................................................................... 61
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Section 1301. Applicability of Article; Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance........... 61
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Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge......................................................................... 61
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Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance.............................................................................. 61
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Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.................................................. 62
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Section 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.... 64
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Section 1306. Reinstatement.................................................................................... 65
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NOTE: This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
INDENTURE dated as of November 21, 2001 between NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at 1840 Century Park East, Los Angeles, California, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee"), having its Corporate Trust Office at 450 West 33rd Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as this Indenture provides.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the promises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date hereof;
(4) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an "Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture; and
(5) the words "herein," "hereof," and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Attributable Debt" has the meaning specified in Section 1010.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means (i) a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, or (ii) a certificate signed by the authorized officer or officers of the Company to whom the Board of Directors of the Company has delegated its authority, and in each case, delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means, as of any particular time, the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom (a) all current liabilities except for (i) notes and loans payable, (ii) current maturities of long- term debt, (iii) current maturities of obligations under capital leases, and (iv) deferred income taxes and (b) all goodwill, tradenames, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expenses (to the extent included in said aggregate amount of assets) and other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent quarterly or annual consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee or agent of the Trustee, in either case, in the City of New York, at which at any particular time the corporate trust business of the Trustee or such agent shall be principally administered.
"corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint- stock company or business trust.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1303.
"Debt," for purposes of Sections 1009 and 1010, shall have the meaning ascribed that term in Section 1009.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 104.
"Foreign Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in
Section 1304.
"Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 204 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed 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, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term "Indenture" shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.
"interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Mortgage" has the meaning ascribed that term in Section 1009.
"Notice of Default" means a written notice of the kind specified in
Section 501(4).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable
upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 1302; and
(4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Principal Property" means any manufacturing plant or manufacturing
facility which is (i) owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and
(ii) located within the continental United States of America, except any
such plant which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, is not of
material importance to the total business conducted by the Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee including any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer, any senior trust officer or assistant trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Company except any Subsidiary substantially all of the assets of which are located, or substantially all of the business of which is carried on, outside of the United States of America, or any Subsidiary substantially all of the assets of which consist of stock or other securities of such a Subsidiary.
"Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"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."
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the Officers' Certificate provided for in Section 1004 hereof) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read 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, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him 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, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an opinion of counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the opinion with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made 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 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 (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing 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.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction
referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such
record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant
action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or
prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly
after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own
expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders
and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to
each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 106.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join
in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in
Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this
paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant
series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set
pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause
notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable
Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any date as the "Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto which sets such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change
the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to give or take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at 450 West 33rd Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10001, Attn: Institutional Trust Services, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Company and the Holders by the Trustee,
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, Attn. Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
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, to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. 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. 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 give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
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.
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 and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided, that no interest shall accrue with
respect to such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
No. ____________ $_____________
CUSIP_______________
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _______________________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of ______________________ [Dollars] [if other than Dollars, substitute other currency or currency units] on ____________________________________________ [If the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, Interest __, and to pay interest thereon from _________________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [semi-annually on ________ ______________________ and
_____________________ in each year] [if other than semi-annual interest at a
fixed rate, insert frequency of payments and payment dates], commencing
___________________ at [If the Security is to bear interest at a fixed rate,
insert -- the rate of ____% per annum] [if the Security is to bear interest at a
rate determined with reference to one or more formula, refer to description of
index below], until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment
[If applicable, insert --, provided that any principal and premium, and any such
installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear interest at the rate of
____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be
legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or
made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand.]
Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on
any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be the _________________ or ___________________ (whether
or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment
Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may
either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the Payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series
not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in said Indenture].
[If the Securities are securities with respect to which the principal of or any premium or interest may be determined with reference to one or more indices or formulas, insert the text of such indices or formulas]
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert -- The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall bear interest at the rate of _____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand. [Any such interest on overdue principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of _______________% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest on interest shall be legally enforceable), from the date of such demand until the amount so demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue interest shall be payable on demand.]]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert -- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in ________________ in such coin or currency [of the United States of America] [if the Security is denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars, specify other currency or currency unit in which payment of the principal of any premium or interest may be made] as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts [if applicable, insert --; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account maintained by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Security Register.]
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: ________________
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By__________________________
Attest:
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of ________________, ____ (herein called the "Indenture", which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the securities are, and are to be authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [if applicable, insert -- limited in aggregate principal amount to $________________]. [The Securities are [unsecured general obligations of the Company.]]
[If applicable, insert -- the securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, [If applicable, insert --
(1) on _______________ in any year commencing with the year _____________ and
ending with the year ______________ through operation of the sinking fund for
this series at a Redemption Price
equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert -- on or after ______________, ____], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount), if redeemed [if applicable, insert -- on or before __________________, _____% and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning ________________ of the years indicated,
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ---------- ---- ----------
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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to _____% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert -- (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on ______________ in any year commencing with the year ______ and ending with the year ______ through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if applicable, insert -- on or after ________________, as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning _____________________ of the years indicated,
Redemption Price
For Redemption Redemption Price For
Through Operation Redemption Otherwise
of the Than Through Operation
Year Sinking Fund of the Sinking Fund
---- ----------------- ----------------------
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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ______% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to ________________ redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [if applicable, insert -- Clause (2) of the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than _________% per annum.]
[If applicable, insert -- The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on __________________ in each year beginning with the year ___________ and ending with the year ________ of [if applicable, insert -- not less than $_______________ ("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than] $_______________ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [if applicable, insert -- mandatory] [sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert --, in the inverse order in which they become due].]
[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert -- In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.] -
[If the Security is not subject to redemption of any kind, insert - This Security is not redeemable prior to the Stated Maturity.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Indenture contains provisions for
defeasance at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or]
[certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this
Security] [, in each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in
the Indenture.]
[If the Security is convertible into securities of the Company, specify the conversion features.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- [insert formula for determining the amount.] Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
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 MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, As Trustee
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable;
(5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(9) any provision for the conversion or exchange of Securities of the series, either at the option of the Holder thereof or the Company, into or for another security or securities of the Company, the security or securities into or for which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices, including any adjustments thereto, at which and the other terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be converted or exchanged, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(10) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(11) if the amount of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to one or more indices or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(12) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of "Outstanding" in Section 101;
(13) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);
(14) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 502;
(15) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
(16) whether either or both of Section 1302 and Section 1303 shall not apply to the Securities of the series;
(17) if and as applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends
which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 204 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
(18) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;
(19) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the series;
(20) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by
Section 901(5)).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided in the Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of any series, at the option of the Company, interest on the Securities of any series that bears interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President, one of its Vice Presidents or an
Assistant Treasurer, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 201 and 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles and, if applicable, to provisions of law which may require that a judgment for money damages rendered by a court in the United States be expressed in United States dollars.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or
prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein, 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is
hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.
If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security 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 all purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered,
and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered,
in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for
such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an
Event of Default with respect to such Global Security or (C) there shall
exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the
foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by
Section 301.
(3) Subject to the provisions of Clause (2) above, the rights of holders of such Global Securities shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such holders and the Depositary and or the Depositary participants. The initial Depositary will make book-entry transfers among the Depositary participants and receive and transmit distributions of principal and interest on the Global Securities to such Depositary participants.
The Depositary may be treated by the Company and the Trustee, and any of their respective agents, employees, officers and directors, as the absolute owner of the Global Securities for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Indenture shall prevent the Company and the Trustee, or any of their respective agents, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary, or shall impair the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any Global Security. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, any holder may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person to take any action which a holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Global Securities.
(4) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.
(5) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(6) None of the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to
or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose name the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor 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 of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of any notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedure, unless otherwise directed by a Company Order.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(a) 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 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(b) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i) (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose money (either in United States dollars or such other currency or currency units in which the Securities of any series may be payable) in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 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 and any premium and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any 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) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of that series when due, whether at its Maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise; or
(3) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant, agreement or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant, agreement or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company 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 60 consecutive days; or
(6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
Section 501(5) or 501(6)) with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of that
series (or, if any Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be
specified by the terms thereof) to be due and payable immediately, by a notice
in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5)
or 501(6) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding
occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if any
Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion
of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms
thereof) shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the
part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay;
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
The Company covenants that if:
(1) 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
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security whether at the Maturity or upon acceleration or otherwise 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 any premium and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such 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 an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any 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.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act
in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized 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 other 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 to 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 607.
No provision of this Indenture 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; provided, however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or other similar committee.
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 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.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or any premium 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 607; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities 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 any premium and interest, respectively.
THIRD: To the Company or any other Person or Persons entitled thereto.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to convert such Security in accordance with the provisions in the form of Security of any particular series pursuant to Section 301(9) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
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, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall 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.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to 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.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of
Default to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent actions, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default which may have occurred;
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding relating to the time, method and place of conducting a proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it.
This Section is in furtherance of and subject to Sections 315 and 316 of the Trust Indenture Act.
If a default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any
series, the Trustee shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice
of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act;
provided, however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 501(4) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to
Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For
the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of such series.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, 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;
(2) 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 shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by 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 reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost and expense of the Company;
(7) 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, or for the supervision of, any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(8) in the event the Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent or Security Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent or Registrar;
(9) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of an Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge of such event or the Trustee receives written notice of such event from the Company or from Holders of Securities of any series so affected evidencing no less than 51 % of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Securities of such series; and
(10) without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6), such expenses (including the fees and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy or insolvency law.
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 neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation 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);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and its officers, directors, agents, and employees for, and to hold it and its officers, directors, agents, and employees harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder, which may be
Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall
be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such
and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its
Corporate Trust Office in the City of New York. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and
surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time
the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.
The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 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 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, 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 such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, 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 removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its corporate trust office.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed 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; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall
contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration
of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
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, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article. No trustee hereunder shall be liable for the acts or omissions of any successor Trustee.
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 the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to
Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof
or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent 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 an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, as Trustee
By:_________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:_________________________________
Authorized Officer
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee,
(1) semi-annually, not later than April 15 and October 15 in each year, a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the preceding April 1 or October 1 as the case may be; and
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.
Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
The Trustee shall transmit to the Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than October 15 in each calendar year, commencing in 2002.
A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to the Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the Commission.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or
the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this 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.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities;
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series);
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form;
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect to one or more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security or series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding;
(6) to secure the Securities;
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301;
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611;
(9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (9) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or
(10) to make provisions with respect to the conversion rights of Holders, including providing for the conversion of the Securities into any security or securities of the Company.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon (including any change in the index, indices or formula pursuant to which such rate is determined that would reduce such rate for any period) or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, change the right to convert any Security in accordance with the provisions in the form of such Security pursuant to Section 301(9) hereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) or any such right to convert, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1008, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require
the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to "the
Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1008, or the
deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
611 and 901(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agent for any series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such 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 any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of such officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, performed, fulfilled and observed its obligations under this Indenture and stating as to each such officer signing such Officers' Certificate that, to the best of such officers' knowledge, the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company is in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which such officer may have knowledge.
The Company will, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee forthwith upon becoming aware of (i) an Event of Default or default in the performance of a covenant or agreement or condition contained in this Indenture or (ii) any default or Event of Default of the type provided for herein specifying such default or Event of Default, notice of such default or Event of Default.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and the existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of its subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgement of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Section 1009 or 1010 with respect to the Securities of such series or in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed (hereinafter in Sections 1009 and 1010 referred to as "Debt"), secured by a mortgage, security interest, pledge, lien, charge or similar encumbrance (mortgages, security interests, pledges, liens, charges and other encumbrances, hereinafter in Sections 1009 and 1010 referred to as a "Mortgage") upon any Principal Property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or upon any shares of stock or indebtedness or any Restricted Subsidiary (whether such Principal Property, shares of stock or indebtedness are now owned or hereafter acquired) without in any such case effectively providing concurrently with the issuance, assumption or guaranty of any such Debt that the Outstanding Securities (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other indebtedness of or guarantee by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary ranking equally with the Outstanding Securities and then existing or thereafter created) shall be secured equally and ratably with such Debt; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to Debt secured by:
(i) Mortgages on property, shares of stock or indebtedness of any corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;
(ii) Mortgages on property existing at the time of acquisition of such property by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, Mortgages to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price of such property incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 180 days after the acquisition of such property by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Mortgages to secure any Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 180 days after the completion of construction or commencement of full operation of any property for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of improvements to such property;
(iii) Mortgages securing Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary;
(iv) Mortgages existing at the date of this Indenture;
(v) Mortgages on property of a corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged into or consolidated with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of the properties of a corporation as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(vi) Mortgages on property of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of the United States of America or any State thereof, or any
department, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, to secure any payments, including advance or progress payments, pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any indebtedness incurred or guaranteed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost of construction of the property subject to such Mortgages (including, but not limited to, Mortgages incurred in connection with pollution control bonds, industrial revenue bonds or similar financings); or
(vii) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or replacements), in whole or in part, of any Mortgage referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) to (vi), inclusive; provided, however, that such extension, renewal or replacement shall be limited to all or a part of the property which secured the Mortgage so extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements on such property).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1009, the Company and any one or more Restricted Subsidiaries may
issue, assume or guarantee Debt secured by a Mortgage which would otherwise
be subject to the foregoing restrictions in an aggregate amount which,
together with all other outstanding Debt of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries which (if originally issued, assumed or guaranteed at such
time) would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions (not
including Debt permitted to be secured under clauses (i) through (vii)
above), does not at the time exceed the greater of $1,000,000,000 or 10% of
Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as shown on the most recent consolidated financial statements
of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries.
The Company will not, nor will it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any arrangement with any Person that provides for the leasing to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of any Principal Property (except for leases for a term of not more than three years and except for leases between the Company and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries), which Principal Property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to such person, unless (a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 1009, to issue, assume or guarantee Debt secured by a Mortgage upon such Principal Property at least equal in the amount to the Attributable Debt in respect of such arrangement without equally and ratably securing the Outstanding Securities; provided, however, that from and after the date on which such arrangement becomes effective the Attributable Debt in respect of such arrangement shall be deemed for all purposes under Sections 1009 and 1010 to be Debt subject to the provisions of Section 1009, or (b) the Company shall apply an amount in cash equal to the greater of the net proceeds of such sale or the Attributable Debt in respect of such an arrangement to the retirement (other than any mandatory retirement or by way or payment at maturity), within 120 days of the effective date of any such arrangement, of Debt (except as otherwise provided by the terms of any series of Outstanding Securities) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Debt owed by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary) which by its terms matures at or is extendible or renewable at the opinion of the obligor to a date more than twelve months after the date of the creation of such Debt.
For the purposes of this Section 1010, the term "Attributable Debt" means, at the time of determination, the lesser of (a) the fair market value of such property (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company) or (b) the present value (discounted at the rate implicit in the terms of the relevant lease) of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of the lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended).
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities (a) prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (b) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such
Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price, or if not then ascertainable, the manner of calculation thereof,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities as provided for by the terms of such Securities.
The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to
Section 1202 and stating the basis for such credit and that such Securities have
not been previously so credited and will also deliver to the Trustee any
Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking
fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon
such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause
notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense
of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been
duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and
in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.
Unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301, this Article
Thirteen shall be applicable to the Securities of such series, and the Company
may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the
Securities of such series, elect to have either Section 1302 (if applicable) or
Section 1303 (if applicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities of such
series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article
Thirteen.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this
Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may
be, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations
with respect to such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the
date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called
"Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall
be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by
such Securities and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such
Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder; (1) the rights of Holders of such
Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and
as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of
and any premium and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the
Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305,
306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder, and (4) this Article. Subject to compliance with this
Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to have this Section
applied to any Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option (if
any) to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option (if any) to have this
Section applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may
be, (1) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 1006,
1007, 1009 and 1010 (and any other Sections or covenants applicable to such
Securities that are determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this
provision), and any covenants provided pursuant to Section 301(19), 901(2) or
901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, and (2) the occurrence
of any event specified in Section 501(4) (with respect to Sections 1006, 1007,
1009 and 1010 and any other Sections or covenants applicable to such Securities
that are determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this provision, and
any such covenants provided pursuant to Sections 301(19), 901(2) or 901(7)) and
501(7) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case
with respect to such Securities as provided in
this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the extent so specified in the case of Section 501(4)), whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or Article or by reason of any reference in any such Section or Article to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such
Securities, (A) in the case of Securities of such series denominated in
U.S. dollars, (i) money in an amount, (ii) U.S. Government Obligations that
through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof
in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before
the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (iii) a combination
thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be
applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and
discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities
on the respective Stated Maturities or on the applicable Redemption Date or
Dates, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities.
As used herein, "U.S. Government Obligation" means (x) any security that is
(i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of
which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged
or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as
an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation
by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any
depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation
which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the
account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any
specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government
Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction
from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any
amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government
Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by
such depositary receipt or (B) in the case of Securities of such series
denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar,
(i) money in such currency in an amount, or (ii) Foreign Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in such currency in an amount, or (iii) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of such series on the respective Stated Maturities or on the applicable Redemption Date or Dates, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series. As used herein, "Foreign Government Obligation" means (x) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the government that issued such currency for the payment of which full faith and credit of such government is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality for such government the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by such government, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any Foreign Government Obligation which is specified in clause (x) and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Foreign Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Foreign Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
(3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
(4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 501(5) and
(6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit
(it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied
until after such 90th day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of such Act).
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) If the Securities are to be redeemed prior to the Stated Maturity (other than from mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments), notice of such redemption shall have been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made.
(10) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of an amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
Any trustee appointed pursuant to Section 1304 hereof for the purpose of holding trust funds deposited pursuant to that Section shall be appointed under an agreement in form acceptable to the Trustee and shall provide to the Trustee a certificate of such trustee, upon which certificate the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely, that all conditions precedent provided for herein to the related Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been complied with. In no event shall the Trustee be liable for any acts or omissions of said trustee.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: /s/ David H. Strode
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David H. Strode
Assistant Treasurer
ATTEST:
/s/ John H. Mullan
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John H. Mullan
Corporate Vice President and
Secretary
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, as Trustee
By /s/ James P. Freeman
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James P. Freeman
Vice President
ATTEST:
/s/ Natalie B. Pesce
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Natalie B. Pesce
Trust Officer
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EXHIBIT 4.2
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
Each of the undersigned officers of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), does hereby certify as follows:
1. Each of the undersigned has read Sections 201, 301 and 303 of the Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2001 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), and the definitions in such Indenture relating thereto and has reviewed such other corporate documents and records relating to the matters referred to herein, and, in the opinion of the undersigned, has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion on the matters set forth below.
2. The terms of the series of Securities of the Company entitled the "5.25% Senior Notes due 2006" (the "Notes") to be issued under the Indenture are hereby established pursuant to resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on October 22, 2001 and are set forth in Annex A, and in Exhibits A-E hereto.
3. All conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to the establishment and original issuance, authentication and delivery of the Notes have been complied with.
4. In the opinion of the undersigned, Section 301 of the Indenture has been complied with in the establishment of the terms of the Notes.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this Officers' Certificate as of this 21st day of November, 2001.
/s/ John H. Mullan ----------------------------------- John H. Mullan Corporate Vice President and Secretary /s/ David H. Strode ----------------------------------- David H. Strode Assistant Treasurer |
ANNEX A
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Indenture or the Purchase Contract Agreement (the "Purchase Contract Agreement," attached as Exhibit A hereto) between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent (the "Purchase Contract Agent"), dated as of November 21, 2001.
The series of Securities authorized hereby shall be the "5.25% Senior Notes due 2006" of the Company (the "Notes").
The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture in accordance with this Officers' Certificate is initially limited to $600,000,000, subject to increase to $690,000,000 in case of the exercise of the over-allotment option under the Underwriting Agreement, except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, other Notes pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 906 or 1107 of the Indenture and or any Notes which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered under the Indenture; provided, however, that the Company may, without the consent of Holders of the Notes, create and issue additional Notes ranking equally with the Notes and otherwise similar in all respects so that such further Notes would be consolidated and form a single series of the Notes.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the form of Note (attached as Exhibit B hereto), the Notes will mature on November 16, 2006. The Notes will initially pay interest at the annual rate of 5.25% on each February 16, May 16, August 16 and November 16, commencing on February 16, 2002, for quarterly payments due on or before August 16, 2004. If the Notes are successfully remarketed pursuant to the terms set forth in the Remarketing Agreement (the "Remarketing Agreement," attached as Exhibit C hereto) between the Company, the Remarketing Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent, the Remarketing Agent will reset the interest rate on the Notes (including Notes not participating in the remarketing) and the Notes will thereafter pay interest at the annual rate equal to the Reset Rate. If the Notes are not successfully remarketed prior to the Stock Purchase Date, the Notes will continue to pay interest at the initial annual rate of 5.25%. The Notes are not redeemable prior to their stated maturity except as described below.
The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed (1) for any full quarterly period, on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, (2) for any period shorter than a full quarterly period, on the basis of a 30-day month and (3) for periods of less than a month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed per 30-day month. Notwithstanding Section 113 of the Indenture, in the event that any date on which interest is payable on the Notes is not a Business Day, the payment of the interest payable on that date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, without any interest or other payment in respect of the delay, except that, if the Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, then the payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the scheduled payment date.
In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal thereof may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become,
due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.
Each Note will initially be pledged to secure the Holder's obligations under the Purchase Contract, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Pledge Agreement ("Pledge Agreement," attached as Exhibit D hereto) among the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent and The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary, dated as of November 21, 2001.
The Notes held by each Holder of a Normal Unit will be subject to a remarketing, unless the Holder elects not to participate in the remarketing, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
On or prior to the fourth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of a Remarketing Period, Holders of Notes that are not components of Normal Units may elect to have their Notes remarketed in the same manner as Notes that are components of Normal Units by delivering their Notes along with a notice of this election (substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Pledge Agreement) to the Custodial Agent prior to the beginning of a Remarketing Period, but no earlier than the Payment Date immediately preceding August 16, 2004. The Collateral Agent will hold the Notes in an account separate from the Collateral Account in which the pledged Notes will be held. Holders of Notes electing to have their Notes remarketed will also have the right to withdraw that election on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the relevant Remarketing Period.
If a Tax Event occurs and is continuing, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Notes in whole, but not in part, at any time at the Redemption Price (as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement). The Company shall give the Trustee written notice of the Redemption Price promptly after the calculation thereof. Installments of interest on Notes which are due and payable on or prior to the Tax Event Redemption Date will be payable to Holders of the Notes registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record dates. If, following the settlement of the Purchase Contracts and following the occurrence of a Tax Event, the Company exercises its option to redeem the Notes, the proceeds of the redemption will be payable in cash to the Holders of the Notes. If the Tax Event Redemption occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, the Redemption Price for the Notes forming part of Normal Units at the time of the Tax Event Redemption will be distributed to the Collateral Agent, who in turn will purchase the applicable Treasury Portfolio on behalf of the Holders of Normal Units and remit the remainder of the Redemption Price, if any, to the Purchase Contract Agent for payment to the Holders. The Treasury Portfolio will be substituted for corresponding Notes and will be pledged to the Collateral Agent to secure the obligations of the Holders of the Normal Units to purchase shares of the Company's Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts.
Notice of any Tax Event Redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each registered Holder of Notes to be redeemed at its registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price is deposited on or before the Redemption Date and the other conditions set forth in the Indenture are satisfied, then on and after such date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes called for redemption. In the event any Notes are called for redemption, neither the Company nor the Trustee will be required to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes to be redeemed.
If a Last Failed Remarketing occurs, Holders of Notes shall have the right (the "Put Option") to put any such Notes to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date (the "Put Option Exercise Date"), upon at least three Business Days prior notice, for $100, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Put Option Exercise Date (the "Note Repayment Price").
In order for the Notes to be repurchased on the Put Option Exercise Date, the Trustee must receive on or prior to 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Put Option Exercise Date, at its Corporate Trust Office, (i) in the case of Notes that are in certificated form, the Notes to be repurchased with the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (the "Option Form") duly completed, or (ii) in the case of Notes which are Global Securities, the Option Form duly completed. Any such notice received by the Trustee shall be irrevocable. All questions as to the validity, eligibility (including time of receipt) and acceptance of the Notes for repayment shall be determined by the Company, whose determination shall be final and binding.
Payment of the Note Repayment Price to or on behalf of Holders of Separate Notes shall be made either through the Trustee, subject to the Trustee's receipt of payment from the Company in accordance with the terms of the Indenture or through the Company acting as Paying Agent, no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Put Option Exercise Date, and to such account as may be designated by such Holders. Payment of the Note Repayment Price to or on behalf of Holders of Pledged Notes shall be made on behalf of the Holder to the Collateral Agent. If the Trustee holds immediately available funds sufficient to pay the Note Repayment Price of the Notes for which the Put Option is exercised then, immediately prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Put Option Exercise Date, such Notes will cease to be Outstanding and interest thereon will cease to accrue, and all other rights of the Holder in respect of the Notes, including the Holder's right to require the Company to repay such Notes, shall terminate and lapse (other than the right to receive the Note Repayment Price upon delivery of the Notes if the Notes are in certificated form, but without interest on such Note Repayment Price from the Business Day immediately preceding the Put Option Exercise Date). Neither the Trustee nor the Company will be required to register the transfer of any Notes for which repayment has been elected.
Notes that are released from the pledge following substitution or early settlement will be issued in the form of one or more global certificates, referred to as "Global Securities," registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee. Except as provided below and except upon recreation of Normal Units, owners of beneficial interests in such a Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Notes in certificated form and will not be considered the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) thereof for any purpose under the Indenture, and no Global Security representing Notes shall be exchangeable, except for another Global Security of like denomination and tenor to be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee or a successor Depositary or its nominee. Accordingly, each beneficial owner must rely on the procedures of the Depositary or if such person is not a participant, on the procedures of the participant through which such person owns its interest to exercise any rights of a Holder under the Indenture. The Depository Trust Company shall be the initial Depositary.
In the event that: (1) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depositary for the Global Security certificates and no successor Depositary has been appointed within 90 days after this notice, (2) the Depositary at any time ceases to
be a Depositary registered under the Securities Exchange Act at which time the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as the Depositary and no successor Depositary has been appointed within 90 days after the Company learns that the Depositary has ceased to be so registered, (3) the Company determines in its sole discretion that it will no longer have the Notes represented by Global Securities or permit any the Global Security certificates to be so exchangeable or (4) an Event of Default under the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Company will execute, and subject to Article 3 of the Indenture, the Trustee , upon written notice from the Company, will authenticate and deliver the Notes in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.
Upon exchange of the Global Security for such Notes in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, the Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Such Notes in definitive registered form issued in exchange for the Global Security shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Notes to the Depositary for delivery to the persons in whose names such Notes are so registered.
The principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account in the United States designated to the Trustee by a prior written notice by such Person delivered at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date.
The Notes will be issued in denominations of $100 and integral multiples of $100.
The Notes shall not have the benefit of a sinking fund and shall not be exchangeable into shares of the Company's Common Stock.
The provisions of Section 1302 (defeasance) and 1303 (covenant defeasance) of the Indenture shall apply to the Notes.
Exhibit A
Purchase Contract Agreement
Exhibit B
Form of Note
[For inclusion in Global Securities only - Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the Issuer (as defined below) or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO, OR REGISTERED OR EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR, A SECURITY REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.]
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
5.25% Senior Note due 2006
Number: __ CUSIP NO.: ______
Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Issuer", which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to [For inclusion in Global Securities only - Cede & Co.] or registered assigns, the principal sum of ____________ [For inclusion in Global Securities and Pledged Notes only - or such other principal sum as is reflected in the Schedule of Increases or Decreases attached hereto] on November 16, 2006, and to pay interest thereon at 5.25% per annum (the "Interest Rate"), from November 21, 2001, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly in arrears on February 16, May 16, August 16 and November 16 of each year, commencing February 16, 2002 through and including November 16, 2004, and at the Reset Rate thereafter. The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed (1) for any full quarterly period on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and (2) for any period shorter than a full quarterly period, on the basis of a 30-day month and (3) for periods of less than a month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed per 30-day month. Notwithstanding Section
113 of the Indenture, in the event that any date on which interest is payable on this Note is not a Business Day, then payment of interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if the Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, then the payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities, as defined in said Indenture) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment which in the case of a Global Security or a Pledged Note shall be the Business Day next preceding such Interest Payment Date and in the case of all other Notes, shall be the fifteenth calendar day preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest installment not punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holders on such Regular Record Date and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date to be fixed by the Trustee for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, notice whereof shall be given to the registered Holders of this series of Notes not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange all as more fully provided in the Indenture. The principal of (and premium, if any) and the interest on this Note shall be payable at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, in any coin or currency of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account in the United States designated to the Trustee by a prior written notice by such Person delivered at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature.
[Signature page follows]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Northrop Grumman Corporation has caused this instrument to be signed by one of its duly authorized officers and has caused a facsimile of its corporate seal to be affixed hereunto or imprinted hereon.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: ______________________________
Name: ______________________________
Title: ______________________________
ATTEST:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, as Trustee
By: ___________________________________
Authorized Officer
[REVERSE OF NOTE]
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
5.25% Senior Note due 2006
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the Issuer (hereinafter called the "Securities") of the series hereinafter specified, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of November 21, 2001 (herein called the "Indenture"), duly executed and delivered by the Issuer to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee"), as supplemented by an Officers' Certificate dated November 21, 2001 (the "Officers' Certificate"), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of the Securities. The Securities may be issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal amounts, may mature at different times, may bear interest (if any) at different rates, may be subject to different redemption provisions (if any) and may otherwise vary as provided in the Indenture.
This Note is one of a series designated as the 5.25% Senior Notes due 2006 (the "Notes") of the Issuer. The Notes are initially limited in aggregate principal amount of $600,000,000, subject to increase to $690,000,000 in case of the exercise of the over-allotment option under the Underwriting Agreement; provided, however, that the Issuer may, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, create and issue additional notes ranking equally with the Notes and otherwise similar in all respects so that such further notes would be consolidated and form a single series of the Notes.
[For inclusion in Global Securities only - Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, this Note will be issued in global form only registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") or its nominee. This Note will not be issued in definitive form, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, and ownership of this Note shall be maintained in book-entry form by the DTC for the accounts of participating organizations of the DTC.]
In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal hereof may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver
by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note in the manner, at the respective times, at the rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $100 and any integral multiple thereof at the office or agency of the Issuer in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other locations as the Issuer may from time to time designate, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, but without the payment of any service charge, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations.
The Notes shall be redeemable in whole, but not in part, at any time at the option of the Issuer if a Tax Event occurs and is continuing (a "Redemption Date"), at a redemption price equal to the Redemption Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date. The Redemption Amount will be calculated assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Notes that are due and payable on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Notes registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record date according to the terms and the provisions of the Indenture.
Subject to the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement (the "Purchase Contract Agreement") between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent (the "Purchase Contract Agent"), dated as of November 21, 2001 and the Pledge Agreement dated as of November 21, 2001 among the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent and The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary, (the "Pledge Agreement"), the Redemption Price shall be paid to or on behalf of each Holder of the Notes by the Issuer, no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, by
check or wire transfer in immediately available funds, at such place and to such account as may be designated by each such Holder, or to the Collateral Agent.
"Redemption Amount" means in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, for each Note the product of the principal amount of the Note and a fraction whose numerator is the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and whose denominator is the aggregate Outstanding principal amount of Notes, and in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring after a successful remarketing of the Notes, the Stated Amount of the Notes.
"Remarketing Agent" means a nationally recognized investment banking firm chosen by the Issuer to determine the Reset Rate.
"Reset Rate" means the lowest interest rate per annum (rounded to the nearest one-thousandth (0.001) of one percent per annum), as determined by the Remarketing Agent, that the Notes shall bear in order for the Notes to have a market value at the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, of 100.5% of the Remarketing Value, assuming, for this purpose, even if not true, that all of the Notes are held as components of Normal Units and will be remarketed; provided, however, that if there has been a Failed Remarketing, the Reset Rate will be equal to the Interest Rate until (i) the Notes are successfully remarketed pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Remarketing Agreement or (ii) if the Last Failed Remarketing shall have occurred, the principal of the Notes is paid or made available for payment.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Issuer of an opinion of a nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Issuer on the Notes on the next interest payment date would not be deductible, in whole or in part, by the Issuer for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of any amendment to, change in, or announced proposed change in, the laws, or any regulations thereunder, of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of any such law or regulations by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority or any official interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to any such laws or regulations that differs from the generally accepted position as of the date of the Purchase Contract Agreement which amendment, change, or proposed change is effective or which interpretation or pronouncement is announced on or after such date.
"Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price" means the lowest aggregate price quoted by a primary United States government securities dealer in The City of New York to the Quotation Agent on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date for the purchase of the Treasury portfolio for settlement on the Redemption Date.
Notice of any redemption must be given at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at its registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Amount (or portion thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited on or before the Redemption Date and the other conditions set forth in the Indenture are satisfied, then on and after such date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes called for redemption.
If a Last Failed Remarketing occurs, Holders of Notes shall have the right (the "Put Option") to put any such Notes to the Issuer on the Stock Purchase Date (the "Put Option Exercise Date"), upon at least three Business Days prior notice, for $100, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the Put Option Exercise Date (the "Note Repayment Price").
In order for the Notes to be repurchased on the Put Option Exercise Date, the Trustee must receive on or prior to 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Put Option Exercise Date, at its Corporate Trust Office, (i) in the case of Notes that are in certificated form, the Notes to be repurchased with the Option to Elect Repayment form attached hereto (the "Option Form") duly completed, or (ii) in the case of Notes which are Global Securities, the Option Form duly completed. Any such notice received by the Trustee shall be irrevocable. All questions as to the validity, eligibility (including time of receipt) and acceptance of the Notes for repayment shall be determined by the Issuer, whose determination shall be final and binding. The payment of the Note Repayment Price in respect of such Notes shall be made no later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Put Option Exercise Date.
The Notes are not entitled to any sinking fund.
Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Issuer in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at such other locations as the Issuer may from time to time designate, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith. In the event any Notes are called for redemption, neither the Issuer nor the Trustee will be required to register the transfer of or exchange the Notes to be redeemed.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Issuer in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, of the Issuer or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Issuer or any successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration of the issue hereof.
This Note shall for all purposes be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Terms used herein which are defined in the Indenture, the Purchase Contract Agreement or the Pledge Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture, the Purchase Contract Agreement or the Pledge Agreement
ASIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assigns) and transfer(s) unto:
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing such person attorney to transfer such Note on the books of the Issuer, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: ________________ Signed: __________________________________
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Signature Guarantee
[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL SECURITIES AND PLEDGED NOTES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES
The following increases or decreases in this [Global Security] [Pledged Note] have been made:
Amount of Principal
increase in amount of Note
principal Amount of evidenced by
amount of decrease in the [Global
Note principal amount Security]
evidenced by of Note [Pledged Note]
the [Global evidenced by the following such Signature of authorized
Security] [Global Security] decrease or officer of Trustee or
Date [Pledged Note] [Pledged Note] increase Securities Custodian
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OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT
The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Issuer to, in the event of a Last Failed Remarketing, repay $100 principal amount of the _____ aggregate principal amount of Notes held by the undersigned, pursuant to its terms, on the "Put Option Exercise Date," together with any interest thereon accrued but unpaid to the date of repayment, to the undersigned at:
(Please print or type Name and Address of the Undersigned)
and [insert if Note is in certificated form only - to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new Note or Notes representing the remaining aggregate principal amount of the undersigned's Notes].
For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, [insert if Note is in
certificated form only - the undersigned's Notes, with] this Option to Elect
Repayment form duly completed, must be received by the Trustee at JPMorgan Chase
Bank, 450 West 33/rd/ Street, 15/th/ Floor, New York, NY 10001, Attn:
Institutional Trust Services, no later than 5:00 p.m. at least three Business
Days prior to November 16, 2004.
Dated: ___________________ Signature: ___________________________________
Signature Guarantee: _________________________
Note: The signature to this Option to Elect Repayment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Notes for which the Put Option is being exercised in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Exhibit C
Form of Remarketing Agreement
Exhibit D
Pledge Agreement
Exhibit E
OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT
The undersigned hereby irrevocably requests and instructs the Issuer to, in the event of a Last Failed Remarketing, repay $100 principal amount of the _____ aggregate principal amount of Notes held by the undersigned, pursuant to its terms, on the "Put Option Exercise Date," together with any interest thereon accrued but unpaid to the date of repayment, to the undersigned at:
(Please print or type Name and Address of the Undersigned)
and [insert if Note is in certificated form only - to issue to the undersigned, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a new Note or Notes representing the remaining aggregate principal amount of the undersigned's Notes].
For this Option to Elect Repayment to be effective, [insert if Note is in
certificated form only - the undersigned's Notes, with] this Option to Elect
Repayment form duly completed, must be received by the Trustee at JPMorgan Chase
Bank, 450 West 33/rd/ Street, 15/th/ Floor, New York, NY 10001, Attn:
Institutional Trust Services, no later than 5:00 p.m. at least three Business
Days prior to November 16, 2004.
Dated: ___________________ Signature: _____________________________________
Signature Guarantee: ___________________________
Note: The signature to this Option to Elect Repayment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Notes for which the Put Option is being exercised in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
EXHIBIT 4.3
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
AND
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
AS PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 21, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION........................................... 1
SECTION 1.1 DEFINITIONS.............................................................. 1
SECTION 1.2 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS..................................... 15
SECTION 1.3 FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO AGENT..................................... 16
SECTION 1.4 ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES............................................ 16
SECTION 1.5 NOTICES.................................................................. 18
SECTION 1.6 NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER................................................ 19
SECTION 1.7 EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS................................. 19
SECTION 1.8 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS................................................... 19
SECTION 1.9 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE...................................................... 19
SECTION 1.10 BENEFITS OF AGREEMENT.................................................... 20
SECTION 1.11 GOVERNING LAW............................................................ 20
SECTION 1.12 LEGAL HOLIDAYS........................................................... 20
SECTION 1.13 COUNTERPARTS............................................................. 21
SECTION 1.14 INSPECTION OF AGREEMENT.................................................. 21
ARTICLE II. CERTIFICATE FORMS................................................................................ 21
SECTION 2.1 FORMS OF CERTIFICATES GENERALLY.......................................... 21
SECTION 2.2 FORM OF AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION............................ 22
ARTICLE III. THE UNITS....................................................................................... 22
SECTION 3.1 TITLE AND TERMS; DENOMINATIONS........................................... 22
SECTION 3.2 RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS EVIDENCED BY THE CERTIFICATES..................... 23
SECTION 3.3 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING........................... 24
SECTION 3.4 TEMPORARY CERTIFICATES................................................... 25
SECTION 3.5 REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE...................... 25
SECTION 3.6 BOOK-ENTRY INTERESTS..................................................... 27
SECTION 3.7 NOTICES TO HOLDERS....................................................... 28
SECTION 3.8 APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR CLEARING AGENCY................................. 28
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SECTION 3.9 DEFINITIVE CERTIFICATES.................................................. 28
SECTION 3.10 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN CERTIFICATES....................... 29
SECTION 3.11 PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.................................................... 30
SECTION 3.12 CANCELLATION............................................................. 31
SECTION 3.13 ESTABLISHMENT OF STRIPPED UNITS.......................................... 31
SECTION 3.14 REESTABLISHMENT OF NORMAL UNITS.......................................... 33
SECTION 3.15 TRANSFER OF COLLATERAL UPON OCCURRENCE OF TERMINATION EVENT.............. 35
SECTION 3.16 NO CONSENT TO ASSUMPTION................................................. 36
ARTICLE IV. THE NOTES........................................................................................ 36
SECTION 4.1 PAYMENT OF INTEREST; RIGHTS TO INTEREST PAYMENTS PRESERVED; NOTICE....... 36
SECTION 4.2 NOTICE AND VOTING........................................................ 37
SECTION 4.3 TAX EVENT REDEMPTION..................................................... 38
ARTICLE V. THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS; THE REMARKETING........................................................... 39
SECTION 5.1 PURCHASE OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK....................................... 39
SECTION 5.2 CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS............................................. 41
SECTION 5.3 DEFERRAL OF CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS................................. 42
SECTION 5.4 PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE: REMARKETING................................... 44
SECTION 5.5 ISSUANCE OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK....................................... 49
SECTION 5.6 ADJUSTMENT OF SETTLEMENT RATE............................................ 50
SECTION 5.7 NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENTS AND CERTAIN OTHER EVENTS........................... 58
SECTION 5.8 TERMINATION EVENT; NOTICE................................................ 59
SECTION 5.9 EARLY SETTLEMENT......................................................... 59
SECTION 5.10 EARLY SETTLEMENT UPON MERGER............................................. 61
SECTION 5.11 CHARGES AND TAXES........................................................ 63
SECTION 5.12 NO FRACTIONAL SHARES..................................................... 63
ARTICLE VI. REMEDIES......................................................................................... 64
SECTION 6.1 UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK.................. 64
SECTION 6.2 RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES....................................... 64
SECTION 6.3 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE........................................... 64
SECTION 6.4 DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER............................................. 65
SECTION 6.5 UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.................................................... 65
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SECTION 6.6 WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS......................................... 65
ARTICLE VII. THE AGENT....................................................................................... 65
SECTION 7.1 CERTAIN DUTIES, RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES.................................... 65
SECTION 7.2 NOTICE OF DEFAULT........................................................ 68
SECTION 7.3 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF AGENT.................................................. 68
SECTION 7.4 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS, ETC........................................ 69
SECTION 7.5 MAY HOLD UNITS AND OTHER DEALINGS........................................ 69
SECTION 7.6 MONEY HELD IN CUSTODY.................................................... 69
SECTION 7.7 COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT........................................... 69
SECTION 7.8 CORPORATE AGENT REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.................................... 70
SECTION 7.9 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR........................ 71
SECTION 7.10 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR................................... 72
SECTION 7.11 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.............. 73
SECTION 7.12 PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS................... 73
SECTION 7.13 FAILURE TO ACT........................................................... 73
SECTION 7.14 NO OBLIGATIONS OF AGENT.................................................. 74
SECTION 7.15 TAX COMPLIANCE........................................................... 74
ARTICLE VIII. SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS........................................................................ 75
SECTION 8.1 SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS....................... 75
SECTION 8.2 SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.......................... 75
SECTION 8.3 EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS..................................... 77
SECTION 8.4 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS........................................ 77
SECTION 8.5 REFERENCE TO SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS..................................... 77
ARTICLE IX. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE........................................................ 78
SECTION 9.1 COVENANT NOT TO MERGE, CONSOLIDATE, SELL OR CONVEY PROPERTY EXCEPT UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS....................................................... 78
SECTION 9.2 RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SUCCESSOR CORPORATION............................... 78
SECTION 9.3 OPINION OF COUNSEL GIVEN TO AGENT........................................ 79
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ARTICLE X. COVENANTS......................................................................................... 79
SECTION 10.1 PERFORMANCE UNDER PURCHASE CONTRACTS..................................... 79
SECTION 10.2 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.......................................... 79
SECTION 10.3 COMPANY TO RESERVE COMMON STOCK.......................................... 80
SECTION 10.4 COVENANTS AS TO COMMON STOCK............................................. 80
SECTION 10.5 STATEMENTS OF OFFICER OF THE COMPANY AS TO DEFAULT....................... 80
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PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT, dated as of November 21, 2001, between Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, acting as purchase contract agent for the Holders of Units from time to time (the "Agent").
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Certificates evidencing the Units.
All things necessary to make the Purchase Contracts, when the Certificates are executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent, as provided in this Agreement, the valid obligations of the Company, and to constitute this Agreement a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Units by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.1 DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular, and nouns and pronouns of the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders;
(b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States;
(c) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(d) the following terms have the meanings given to them in this
Section 1.1(d):
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the Securities Act or any successor rule thereunder.
"Agent" means the Person named as the "Agent" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter "Agent" shall mean such Person.
"Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.4(b)(i).
"Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Applicable Market Value" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Applicable Ownership Interest" means, with respect to a Normal Unit and the Treasury Securities in the Treasury Portfolio, (A) a 1/10, or 10.0%, undivided beneficial ownership interest in a $1,000 principal or interest amount of a principal or interest strip in a U.S. Treasury security included in such Treasury Portfolio which matures on or prior to November 15, 2004 and (B) for the scheduled interest Payment Date on the Notes that occurs on the Stock Purchase Date, in the case of a successful remarketing, or for each scheduled interest Payment Date on the Notes that occurs after the Tax Event Redemption Date and on or before the Stock Purchase Date, in the case of a Tax Event Redemption, a 10.0% undivided beneficial ownership interest in a $1,000 principal or interest amount of a principal or interest strip in a U.S. Treasury security included in the Treasury Portfolio that matures on or prior to that interest Payment Date or Dates.
"Applicants" has the meaning specified in Section 7.12(b).
"Bankruptcy Code" means Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system of bankruptcy laws.
"Beneficial Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Interest, a Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Interest as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with
such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Company or the Executive Committee of such Board or any other committee of such Board duly authorized to act generally or in any particular respect for such Board hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means (i) a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, (ii) a copy of a unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors or (iii) a certificate signed by the authorized officer or officers to whom the Board of Directors has delegated its authority, and in each case, delivered to the Agent.
"Book-Entry Interest" means a beneficial interest in a Global Certificate, ownership and transfers of which shall be maintained and made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.6.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in The State of New York or at a place of payment are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to be closed.
"Capital Stock" means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) corporate stock or similar interests in other types of entities.
"Cash Merger" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.10.
"Cash Settlement" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a).
"Certificate" means a Normal Units Certificate or a Stripped Units Certificate.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "Clearing Agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act that is acting as a depositary for the Units and in whose name, or in the name of a nominee of that organization, shall be registered a Global Certificate and which shall undertake to effect book-entry transfers and pledges of the Units.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time the Clearing Agency
effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 of the Pledge Agreement.
"Collateral Agent" means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Collateral Agent under the Pledge Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Pledge Agreement, and thereafter "Collateral Agent" shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral Agent thereunder.
"Collateral Substitution" has the meaning specified in Section 3.13.
"Common Stock" means the Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Agreement, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor.
"Constituent Person" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
"Contract Adjustment Payments" means, in the case of Normal Units and
Stripped Units, the amount payable by the Company in respect of each Purchase
Contract constituting a part of such Unit, equal to 2.0% per year of the Stated
Amount, in each case computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months, plus any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued pursuant to
Section 5.3.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Agent at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 450 West 33/rd/ Street, New York, New York 10001.
"Coupon Rate" means the percentage rate per annum at which each Note will bear interest initially.
"Current Market Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(8).
"Custodial Agent" means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Custodial Agent under the Pledge Agreement until a successor Custodial Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the
Pledge Agreement, and thereafter "Custodial Agent" shall mean the Person who is then the Custodial Agent thereunder.
"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.3.
"Depositary" means, initially, DTC, until another Clearing Agency becomes its successor.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency.
"Early Settlement" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(b).
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
"Expiration Time" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Failed Remarketing" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b)(ii).
"Fair Market Value" with respect to securities distributed in a Spin- Off means (a) in the case of any Spin-Off that is effected simultaneously with an initial public offering of such securities, the initial public offering price of those securities, and (b) in the case of any other Spin-Off, the average of the Sale Prices of those securities over the first 10 Trading Days after the effective date of such Spin-Off.
"Global Certificate" means a Certificate that evidences all or part of the Units and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee thereof.
"Holder" means the Person in whose name the Unit evidenced by a Normal Units Certificate and/or a Stripped Units Certificate is registered in the related Normal Units Register and/or the Stripped Units Register, as the case may be.
"Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2001, between the Company and the Trustee as supplemented by any officers' certificate or supplemental indenture.
"Issuer Order" or "Issuer Request" means a written order or request signed in the name of the Company by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or other officer performing similar functions) of the Company and delivered to the Agent.
"Last Failed Remarketing" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b)(ii).
"Merger Early Settlement" has the meaning specified in Section 5.10.
"Merger Early Settlement Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 5.10.
"Merger Early Settlement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 5.10.
"Non-electing Share" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
"Normal Unit" means the collective rights and obligations of a Holder of a Normal Units Certificate in respect of a Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, subject in each case to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
"Normal Units Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Normal Units specified on such certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.
"Normal Units Register" and "Normal Units Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Notes" means the series of senior debt securities of the Company designated the 5.25% Senior Notes due 2006, to be issued under the Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2001, between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee.
"NYSE" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, any Vice- President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or other officer performing similar functions) of the Company and delivered to the Agent.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or an Affiliate and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
"Opt-out Treasury Consideration" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b)(iv).
"Outstanding Units" means, as of the date of determination, all Normal Units or Stripped Units evidenced by Certificates theretofore authenticated, executed and delivered under this Agreement, except:
(i) If a Termination Event has occurred, (A) Stripped Units and (B) Normal Units for which the related Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, has been theretofore deposited with the Agent in trust for the Holders of such Normal Units;
(ii) Normal Units and Stripped Units evidenced by Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Agent or delivered to the Agent for cancellation or deemed cancelled pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement; and
(iii) Normal Units and Stripped Units evidenced by Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other Certificates have been authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, other than any such Certificate in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Agent proof satisfactory to it that such Certificate is held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands the Normal Units or Stripped Units evidenced by such Certificate are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite number of the Normal Units or Stripped Units have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Normal Units or Stripped Units owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Agent shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Normal Units or Stripped Units which a Responsible Officer of the Agent knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Normal Units or Stripped Units so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding Units if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Agent the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Normal Units or Stripped Units and that the pledgee is not the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
"Payment Date" means each February 16, May 16, August 16 and November 16, commencing February 16, 2002.
"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.
"Pledge" means the pledge under the Pledge Agreement of the Notes, the Treasury Securities or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, in each case constituting a part of the Units, property, cash, securities, financial assets and security entitlements of the Collateral Account (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) and any proceeds of any of the foregoing.
"Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Agent, on its own behalf and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders from time to time of the Units.
"Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c) of the Pledge Agreement.
"Pledged Notes" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c) of the Pledge Agreement.
"Pledged Treasury Consideration" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(c) of the Pledge Agreement.
"Pledged Treasury Securities" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(c) of the Pledge Agreement.
"Predecessor Certificate" means a Predecessor Normal Units Certificate or a Predecessor Stripped Units Certificate.
"Predecessor Normal Units Certificate" of any particular
Normal Units Certificate means every previous Normal Units Certificate
evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the
Holder under the Normal Units evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Normal Units Certificate authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Normal Units Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and
obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Normal Units Certificate.
"Predecessor Stripped Units Certificate" of any particular Stripped Units Certificate means every previous Stripped Units Certificate evidencing all or a portion
of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder under the Stripped Units evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Stripped Units Certificate authenticated and delivered under Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped Units Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped Units Certificate.
"Purchase Contract," when used with respect to any Unit, means the contract forming a part of such Unit and obligating the Company to sell and the Holder of such Unit to purchase Common Stock on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article Five.
"Purchase Contract Settlement Fund" has the meaning specified in Section 5.5.
"Purchase Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Purchased Shares" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Quotation Agent" means J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or Salomon Smith Barney Inc., or a successor of either or any other primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City selected by the Company.
"Record Date" for the distribution payable on any Payment Date means, as to any Global Certificate, the Business Day next preceding such Payment Date, and as to any other Certificate, the 15th day preceding such Payment Date.
"Redemption Amount" means, in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, for each Note the product of (i) the principal amount of such Note and (ii) a fraction whose numerator is the applicable Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and whose denominator is the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding on the Tax Event Redemption Date, and in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring after a successful remarketing of the Notes, for each Note the Stated Amount of the Note.
"Redemption Price" means the redemption price per Note equal to the Redemption Amount plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Note to the date of redemption.
"Register" means the Normal Units Register and the Stripped Units Register, as applicable.
"Registrar" means the Normal Units Registrar and the Stripped Units Registrar, as applicable.
"Remarketing Agent" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b)(i).
"Remarketing Agreement" means the Remarketing Agreement to be entered into by and among the Company, the Remarketing Agent and the Agent.
"Remarketing Date" means the third business day preceding August 16, 2004.
"Remarketing Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b)(i).
"Remarketing Period" means the three Business Day period either (i) beginning on the Remarketing Date and ending after the two immediately following Business Days; (ii) immediately preceding October 1, 2004; or (iii) immediately preceding November 16, 2004.
"Remarketing Value" means the sum of
(i) the value at the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, of U.S. Treasury securities that will pay, on or prior to the Payment Date falling on the Stock Purchase Date, an amount of cash equal to the aggregate interest payments that are scheduled to be payable on that Payment Date, on (a) the Notes which are included in Normal Units and are participating in the remarketing and (b) the Separate Notes which are to be remarketed pursuant to Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement, assuming for that purpose that the interest rate on the Notes is equal to the Coupon Rate, and
(ii) the value at the Remarketing Date or the
Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, of U.S.
Treasury securities that will pay, on or prior to the Stock
Purchase Date, an amount of cash equal to the Stated Amount
(a) of such Notes that are included in Normal Units and which
are participating in the remarketing and (b) the Separate
Notes which are to be remarketed pursuant to Section 4.5(d) of
the Pledge Agreement,
provided that for purposes of clauses (i) and (ii) above, the Remarketing Value shall be calculated on the assumptions that (x) the U.S. Treasury securities are highly liquid and mature on or within 35 days prior to the Stock Purchase Date, as determined in good faith by the Remarketing Agent in a manner intended to minimize the cash value of the U.S. Treasury securities, and (y) the U.S. Treasury securities are valued based on the ask-side price of the U.S. Treasury securities at a time between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., New York City time, selected by the Remarketing Agent, on the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, as determined on a third-day settlement basis by a
reasonable and customary means selected in good faith by the Remarketing Agent, plus accrued interest to that date.
"Reorganization Event" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
"Responsible Officer" means, when used with respect to the Agent, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Agent (or any successor of the Agent), including any Vice President, any assistant Vice President, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer, any senior trust officer or any other officer of the Agent who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such Person's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each of the above cases, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Agreement.
"Sale Price" of the Common Stock or any securities distributed in a Spin-Off, as the case may be, on any Trading Day means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average asked prices) on such Trading Day as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. securities exchange on which the Common Stock or such securities are traded or, if the Common Stock or such securities are not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, as reported by Nasdaq.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Securities Intermediary" means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, in its capacity as Securities Intermediary under the Pledge Agreement, together with its successors in such capacity.
"Separate Notes" has the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
"Settlement Date" means any Early Settlement Date or Merger Early Settlement Date or the Stock Purchase Date.
"Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Spin-Off" means a dividend or other distribution of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interests, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business unit of the Company.
"Stated Amount" means, with respect to any one Note, Normal Unit or Stripped Unit, $100.
"Stock Purchase Date" means November 16, 2004.
"Stripped Unit" means the collective rights and obligations of a holder of a Stripped Units Certificate in respect of a 1/10 undivided beneficial interest in a Treasury Security, subject in each case to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
"Stripped Units Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Stripped Units specified on such certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
"Stripped Units Register" and "Stripped Units Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Subsequent Remarketing Date" means, provided there has been one or more Failed Remarketings, the date on which the Remarketing Agent has consummated a successful remarketing in accordance with Section 5.4 hereof, such date to be no later than the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of
a nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters, which may be
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, to the effect that there is more than
an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Notes on the
next Payment Date would not be deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company
for United States federal income tax purposes, as a result of (a) any amendment
to, or change (including any announced proposed change) in, the laws (or any
regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, (b) any amendment to or
change in an official interpretation or application of such laws or regulations
by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority or
(c) any official interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position
with respect to such laws or regulations that differs from the generally
accepted position on November 15, 2001, which amendment, change or proposed
change is effective or which interpretation or pronouncement is announced on or
after November 15, 2001.
"Tax Event Redemption" means, if a Tax Event shall occur and be continuing, the redemption of the Notes, at the option of the Company, in whole but not in part, on not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days' written notice.
"Tax Event Redemption Date" means the date upon which a Tax Event Redemption is to occur.
"Tax Event Redemption Principal Amount" means in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, for each Note the product of the principal amount of the Note and a fraction whose numerator
is the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and whose denominator is the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding on the Tax Event Redemption Date, and in the case of a Tax Event Redemption Date occurring after a successful remarketing of the Notes, the Stated Amount of the Notes.
"Termination Date" means the date, if any, on which a Termination Event occurs.
"Termination Event" means the occurrence of any of the following events:
(i) at any time on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, a judgment, decree or court order shall have been entered granting relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar Federal or state law, adjudicating the Company to be insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization or liquidation of the Company, and, unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the Stock Purchase Date, such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days;
(ii) at any time on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, a judgment, decree or court order for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its property, or for the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered, and, unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the Stock Purchase Date, such judgment, decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
(iii) at any time on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date the Company shall file a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar federal or state law, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or liquidation under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar federal or state law, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or of its property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due.
"Threshold Appreciation Price" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.1.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
"Trading Day" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Transaction Documents" has the meaning specified in Section 7.1(a).
"Treasury Consideration" means the Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration or the Opt-out Treasury Consideration.
"Treasury Portfolio" means: (i) if a Tax Event Redemption occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, a portfolio of principal or interest strips of U.S. Treasury Securities that mature on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes included in the Normal Units on the Tax Event Redemption Date and with respect to each scheduled interest Payment Date on the Notes that occurs after the Tax Event Redemption Date and on or before the Stock Purchase Date, interest or principal strips of U.S. Treasury Securities that mature on or prior to such interest Payment Date in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate interest payment that would be due on the aggregate principal amount of the Notes on such date if the interest rate of the Notes were not reset on the applicable Remarketing Date, and (ii) solely for purposes of determining the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price in the case of a Tax Event Redemption Date occurring prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, a portfolio of U.S. Treasury Securities consisting of principal or interest strips of U.S. Treasury Securities that mature on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on the Tax Event Redemption Date and with respect to each scheduled interest Payment Date on the Notes that occurs after the Tax Event Redemption Date and on or before the Stock Purchase Date, interest or principal strips of U.S. Treasury Securities that mature on or prior to such interest Payment Date in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate interest payment that would be due on the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on the Tax Event Redemption Date.
"Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price" means the lowest aggregate price quoted by a primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City to the Quotation Agent on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Tax Event Redemption Date for the purchase of the Treasury Portfolio for settlement on the Tax Event Redemption Date.
"Treasury Security" means a zero-coupon U.S. Treasury security (CUSIP Number 912833FV7) maturing on the Stock Purchase Date that will pay $1,000 on such maturity date.
"Trustee" means JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, as trustee under the Indenture, or any successor thereto.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement relating to the Units dated November 15, 2001 among the Company and the underwriters named therein.
"Unit" means a Normal Unit or a Stripped Unit.
"Vice-President" means any vice-president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice- president."
SECTION 1.2 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement, upon any application or request by the Company to the Agent to take any action under any provision of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish to the Agent an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Agreement relating to the proposed action have been complied with and, if requested by the Agent, an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Agreement relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Agreement (other than the Officer's Certificate provided for in Section 10.5) shall include:
(a) a statement that the individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such individual to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 1.3 FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO AGENT.
(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
SECTION 1.4 ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement 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 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 Agent 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 Agreement and (subject to
Section 7.1) conclusive in favor of the Agent and the Company, if made in
the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Agent deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Units shall be proved by the Normal Units Register or the Stripped Units Register, as the case may be.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Certificate shall bind every future Holder of the same Certificate and the Holder of every Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Certificate.
(e) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Units entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Agreement to be given, made or taken by Holders of Units. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of the Outstanding Normal Units and the Outstanding Stripped Units, as the case may be, on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action with respect to the Normal Units or the Stripped Units, as the case may be, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Units on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Units on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Agent in writing and to each Holder of Units in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
(f) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the Company may designate any date as the "Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the Agent in writing, and to each Holder of Units in the manner
set forth in Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
SECTION 1.5 NOTICES.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Agreement to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the Agent by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered, mailed, first-class postage prepaid, telecopied or delivered by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the Agent at 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001, Attention: Institutional Trust Services, telecopy: 212-946-8160, or at any other address furnished in writing by the Agent to the Holders and the Company; or
(b) the Company by the Agent or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered, mailed, first-class postage prepaid, telecopied or delivered by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the Company at Northrop Grumman Corporation, 1840 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067, Attention: Secretary, or at any other address furnished in writing to the Agent by the Company; or
(c) the Collateral Agent by the Agent, the Company or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered, mailed, first-class postage prepaid, telecopied or delivered by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, addressed to the Collateral Agent at The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Office, or at any other address furnished in writing by the Collateral Agent to the Agent, the Company and the Holders; or
(d) the Trustee by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered, mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, telecopied or delivered by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, addressed to the Trustee at 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001, Attention: Institutional Trust Services, telecopy: 212-946- 8160 or at any other address furnished in writing by the Trustee to the Company.
SECTION 1.6 NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.
(a) Where this Agreement 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, to each Holder affected by such event, at its address as it appears in the applicable Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders 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. Where this Agreement 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 Agent, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
(b) In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Agent shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 1.7 EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 1.8 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.9 SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Agreement or in the Units shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.10 BENEFITS OF AGREEMENT.
Nothing in this Agreement or in the Units, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and, to the extent provided hereby, the Holders, any benefits or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement. The Holders from time to time shall be beneficiaries of this Agreement and shall be bound by all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Units evidenced by their Certificates by their acceptance of delivery of such Certificates.
SECTION 1.11 GOVERNING LAW.
This Agreement and the Units shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws.
SECTION 1.12 LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
(a) In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Normal Units Certificates) payments on the Notes shall not be made on such date, but such payments shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date, provided that no interest shall accrue or be payable by the Company for the period from and after any such Payment Date, except that if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date.
(b) If any date on which Contract Adjustment Payments are to be made on the Purchase Contracts is not a Business Day, then payment of the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on that date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day, and no interest or additional payment will be paid in respect of the delay. However, if that Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, the payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on that Payment Date.
(c) In any case where the Stock Purchase Date shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Certificates), the Purchase Contracts shall not be performed on such date, but the Purchase Contracts shall be performed on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as if performed on the Stock Purchase Date.
SECTION 1.13 COUNTERPARTS.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts by the parties hereto, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION 1.14 INSPECTION OF AGREEMENT.
A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times during normal business hours at the Corporate Trust Office for inspection by any Holder.
ARTICLE II.
CERTIFICATE FORMS
SECTION 2.1 FORMS OF CERTIFICATES GENERALLY.
(a) The Normal Units Certificates (including the form of Purchase Contract forming part of the Normal Units evidenced thereby) shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange or quotation system on which the Normal Units are listed or quoted for trading or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such Normal Units Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Normal Units Certificates.
(b) The definitive Normal Units Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Normal Units Certificates, consistent with the provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
(c) The Stripped Units Certificates (including the form of Purchase Contracts forming part of the Stripped Units evidenced thereby) shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange or the quotation system on which the Stripped Units may be listed or quoted for trading or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company
executing such Stripped Units Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Stripped Units Certificates.
(d) The definitive Stripped Units Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Stripped Units Certificates, consistent with the provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
(e) Every Global Certificate authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
"THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT."
SECTION 2.2 FORM OF AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
(a) The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Normal Units shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Normal Units Certificates.
(b) The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Stripped Units shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Stripped Units Certificates.
ARTICLE III.
THE UNITS
SECTION 3.1 TITLE AND TERMS; DENOMINATIONS.
(a) The aggregate number of Normal Units and Stripped Units, if any, evidenced by Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder is limited to 6,000,000 (6,900,000 if the Underwriters' (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) over-allotment option pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement is exercised in full), except for
Certificates authenticated, executed and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Certificates pursuant to
Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.10, 3.13, 3.14, 5.9, 5.10 or 8.5.
(b) The Certificates shall be issuable only in registered form and only in denominations of a single Unit and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 3.2 RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS EVIDENCED BY THE CERTIFICATES.
(a) Each Normal Units Certificate shall evidence the number of Normal Units specified therein, with each such Normal Unit representing the ownership by the Holder thereof of a beneficial interest in a Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge of such Note or such Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. The Agent as attorney- in-fact for, and on behalf of, the Holder of each Normal Unit shall pledge, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, forming a part of such Normal Unit, to the Collateral Agent and grant to the Collateral Agent a security interest in the right, title, and interest of such Holder in such Note or such Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligation of the Holder under each Purchase Contract to purchase the Common Stock of the Company. Prior to the purchase of shares of Common Stock under each Purchase Contract, such Purchase Contracts shall not entitle the Holders of Normal Units Certificates to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
(b) Each Stripped Units Certificate shall evidence the number of Stripped Units specified therein, with each such Stripped Unit representing the ownership by the Holder thereof of a 1/10 undivided beneficial interest in a Treasury Security, subject to the Pledge of such interest in such Treasury Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. Prior to the purchase of shares of Common Stock under each Purchase Contract, such Purchase Contracts shall not entitle the Holders of
Stripped Units Certificates to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
SECTION 3.3 EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Sections 3.13 and 3.14, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and at any time and from time to time thereafter, the Company may deliver Certificates executed by the Company to the Agent for authentication, execution on behalf of the Holders and delivery, together with its Issuer Order for authentication of such Certificates, and the Agent in accordance with such Issuer Order shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver such Certificates.
(b) The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or other officer performing similar functions) of the Company and delivered to the Agent. The signature of any of these officers on the Certificates may be manual or facsimile.
(c) Certificates 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 Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such Certificates.
(d) No Purchase Contract evidenced by a Certificate shall be valid until such Certificate has been executed on behalf of the Holder by the manual signature of an authorized officer of the Agent, as such Holder's attorney-in-fact. Such signature by an authorized officer of the Agent shall be conclusive evidence that the Holder of such Certificate has entered into the Purchase Contracts evidenced by such Certificate .
(e) Each Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.
(f) No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by an authorized officer of the Agent by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 3.4 TEMPORARY CERTIFICATES.
(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holders, and deliver, in lieu of such definitive Certificates, temporary Certificates which are in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A or Exhibit B hereto, as the case may be, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, are listed, or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Certificates.
(b) If temporary Certificates are issued, the Company will cause definitive Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be exchangeable for definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary Certificates at the Corporate Trust Office, at the expense of the Company and without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, one or more definitive Certificates of like tenor and denominations and evidencing a like number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, as the temporary Certificate or Certificates so surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall in all respects evidence the same benefits and the same obligations with respect to the Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, evidenced thereby as definitive Certificates.
SECTION 3.5 REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) The Agent shall keep at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the "Normal Units Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of Normal Units Certificates and of transfers of Normal Units Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the "Normal Units Registrar") and a register (the "Stripped Units Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it
may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of the Stripped Units Certificates and transfers of Stripped Units Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the "Stripped Units Registrar").
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the designated transferee or transferees, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of like tenor and denominations, and evidencing a like number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be.
(c) At the option of the Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates, of like tenor and denominations and evidencing a like number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver the Certificates which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(d) All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of a Certificate shall evidence the ownership of the same number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, and be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same obligations, under this Agreement as the Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, evidenced by the Certificate surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(e) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Agent) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.
(f) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of a Certificate, but the Company and the Agent may require payment from the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, other than any exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.4, 3.6, 3.9 and 8.5 not involving any transfer.
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder and deliver any
Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange on or after the Business Day immediately preceding the earlier of the Stock Purchase Date or the Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall,
(i) if the Stock Purchase Date has occurred, deliver the shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of the Units evidenced by such Certificate,
(ii) in the case of Normal Units, if a Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Stock Purchase Date, transfer the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, relating to such Normal Units, or
(iii) in the case of Stripped Units, if a Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Stock Purchase Date, transfer the Treasury Securities relating to such Stripped Units, in each case subject to the applicable conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions of Article V.
SECTION 3.6 BOOK-ENTRY INTERESTS.
The Certificates, on original issuance, will be issued in the form of one or more, fully registered Global Certificates, to be delivered to the Depositary or its custodian by, or on behalf of, the Company. Such Global Certificate shall initially be registered in the applicable Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depositary, and no Beneficial Owner will receive a definitive Certificate representing such Beneficial Owner's interest in such Global Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.9. The Agent shall enter into an agreement with the Depositary if so requested by the Company. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Certificates have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 3.9:
(a) the provisions of this Section 3.6 shall be in full force and effect;
(b) the Company shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement (including receiving approvals, votes or consents hereunder) as the Holder of the Units and the sole holder of the Global Certificate(s) and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial Owners;
(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.6 conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this Section 3.6 shall control; and
(d) the rights of the Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. The Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among Clearing Agency Participants.
SECTION 3.7 NOTICES TO HOLDERS.
Whenever a notice or other communication to the Holders is required to be given under this Agreement, the Company or the Company's agent shall give such notices and communications to the Holders and, with respect to any Units registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or the nominee of a Clearing Agency, the Company or the Company's agent shall, except as set forth herein, have no obligations to the Beneficial Owners.
SECTION 3.8 APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR CLEARING AGENCY.
If any Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as securities depositary with respect to the Units, the Company may, in its sole discretion, appoint a successor Clearing Agency with respect to the Units.
SECTION 3.9 DEFINITIVE CERTIFICATES.
If
(i) a Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as securities depositary with respect to the Units and a successor Clearing Agency is not appointed within 90 days after such discontinuance pursuant to Section 3.8,
(ii) the Company elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency with respect to the Units, or
(iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing a default by the Company in respect of its obligations under one or more Purchase Contracts,
then upon surrender of the Global Certificates representing the Book- Entry Interests with respect to the Units by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Company shall cause definitive Certificates to be
delivered to Beneficial Owners in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. The Company and the Agent shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
SECTION 3.10 MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN CERTIFICATES.
(a) If any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Agent, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, a new Certificate at the cost of the Holder, evidencing the same number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(b) If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Agent (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) such security or indemnity at the cost of the Holder as may be required by them to hold each of them and any agent of any of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Agent that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate, evidencing the same number of Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be
obligated to execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not
be obligated to authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and
deliver to the Holder, a Certificate on or after the Business Day
immediately preceding the earlier of the Stock Purchase Date or the
Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new Certificate, upon
satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in this
Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer
instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if the Stock
Purchase Date has occurred, deliver the shares of Common Stock
issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of the
Units evidenced by such Certificate, or (ii) if a Termination Event
shall have occurred prior to the Stock Purchase Date, transfer the
Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership
Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or the Treasury Securities, as the
case may be, evidenced thereby, in each case subject to the applicable
conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions of Article
V.
(d) Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Company and the Agent may require the payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Agent) connected therewith.
(e) Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and of the Holder in respect of the Unit evidenced thereby, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate (and the Units evidenced thereby) shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and be subject to all the obligations of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates delivered hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.
SECTION 3.11 PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
(a) Prior to due presentment of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Company and the Agent, and any agent of the Company or the Agent, may treat the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered as the owner of the Units evidenced thereby, for the purpose of receiving interest payments on the Notes, receiving payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever (subject to Sections 4.1(a) and 5.2(a)), whether or not any such payments shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company nor the Agent, nor any agent of the Company or the Agent, shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Certificate, thing herein shall prevent the Company, the Agent or any agent of the Company or the Agent, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Clearing Agency (or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Global Certificate or impair, as between such Clearing Agency and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Certificate, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of rights of such Clearing Agency (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Certificate. None of the Company, the Agent, or any agent of the Company or the Agent, will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a
Global Certificate or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 3.12 CANCELLATION.
(a) All Certificates surrendered (i) for delivery of
shares of Common Stock on or after any Settlement Date; (ii) upon the
transfer of Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable
Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Treasury Securities,
as the case may be, after the occurrence of a Termination Event; or
(iii) upon the registration of a transfer or exchange of a Unit shall,
if surrendered to any Person other than the Agent, be delivered to the
Agent and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Agent for cancellation any
Certificates previously authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all
Certificates so delivered shall, upon Issuer Order, be promptly
cancelled by the Agent. No Certificates shall be authenticated,
executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered in lieu of or in
exchange for any Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section,
except as expressly permitted by this Agreement. All cancelled
Certificates held by the Agent shall be disposed of by the Agent in
accordance with its customary procedures unless otherwise directed by
Issuer Order.
(b) If the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall acquire any Certificate, such acquisition shall not operate as a cancellation of such Certificate unless and until such Certificate is delivered to the Agent cancelled or for cancellation.
SECTION 3.13 ESTABLISHMENT OF STRIPPED UNITS.
(a) A Holder may separate the Pledged Notes, Pledged
Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the
Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, from the related Purchase Contracts
in respect of the Normal Units held by such Holder by substituting for
such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be, Treasury Securities that will pay, on the Stock Purchase Date,
an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Notes or the
appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest (as
specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury
Portfolio (a "Collateral Substitution"), at any time from and after the
date of this Agreement and on or prior to the second Business Day
immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, by (i) depositing with
the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities having an aggregate principal
amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of such Normal Units, and
(ii) transferring the related Normal Units to the Agent accompanied by
a notice
to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, stating
that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of Treasury
Securities to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent
instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Pledged Notes, Pledged
Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Normal Units,
whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to the
Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder may not separate the Pledged
Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership
Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the
related Purchase Contracts in respect of the Normal Units held by such
Holder during the periods beginning on the fourth Business Day prior to
any Remarketing Period and ending on the third Business Day after the
end of such Remarketing Period. Upon receipt of the Treasury Securities
described in clause (i) above and the instruction described in clause
(ii) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the
Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the Holder,
such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged
Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be, from the Pledge, free and clear of the Company's security
interest therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Normal Units;
(ii) transfer the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and deliver to such Holder a Stripped Units Certificate executed by the Company in accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Normal Units.
(b) Holders who elect to separate the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the related Purchase Contract and to substitute Treasury Securities for such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable to the Collateral Agent for its services as Collateral Agent in respect of the substitution, and the Company shall not be responsible for any such fees or expenses.
(c) Holders may make Collateral Substitutions (i) if Treasury Securities are being substituted for Pledged Notes, only in integral multiples of
10 Normal Units, or (ii) if the Collateral Substitutions occur after the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, only in integral multiples of Normal Units such that the Treasury Securities to be deposited and the Treasury Consideration to be released are in integral multiples of $1,000.
(d) In the event a Holder making a Collateral Substitution pursuant to this Section 3.13 fails to effect a book-entry transfer of the Normal Units or fails to deliver a Normal Units Certificate to the Agent after depositing Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent, the Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting a part of such Normal Units, and any distributions on such Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Normal Units are so transferred or the Normal Units Certificate is so delivered, as the case may be, or, with respect to a Normal Units Certificate, such Holder provides evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Agent that such Normal Units Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
(e) Except as described in this Section 3.13, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Normal Unit remains in effect, such Normal Unit shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Normal Unit in respect of the Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and the Purchase Contract comprising such Normal Unit may be acquired, and may be transferred and exchanged, only as a Normal Unit.
SECTION 3.14 REESTABLISHMENT OF NORMAL UNITS.
(a) A Holder of Stripped Units may reestablish Normal Units at any time from and after the date of this Agreement and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, by (i) depositing with the Collateral Agent the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio (identified and calculated by reference to the Treasury Consideration then comprising Normal Units), as the case may be, then comprising such number of Normal Units as is equal to such Stripped Units and (ii) transferring such Stripped Units to the Agent accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be, to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent instruct
the Collateral Agent to release the Pledged Treasury Securities
underlying such Stripped Unit, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give
such instruction to the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder may not
reestablish Normal Units during the periods beginning on the fourth
Business Day prior to any Remarketing Period and ending on the third
business day after the end of such Remarketing Period. Upon receipt of
the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable
Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,
described in clause (i) above and the instruction described in clause
(ii) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the
Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the Holder,
such Pledged Treasury Securities from the Pledge, free and clear of the
Company's security interest therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent
shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Stripped Units;
(ii) transfer the Pledged Treasury Securities to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and deliver a Normal Units Certificate executed by the Company in accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Stripped Units.
(b) Holders of Stripped Units may reestablish Normal Units (i) only in integral multiples of 10 Stripped Units for 10 Normal Units or (ii) if the reestablishment occurs after the Remarketing Date (if such remarketing is successful) or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, or after a Tax Event Redemption, only in integral multiples of Stripped Units such that the Treasury Consideration to be deposited and the Treasury Securities to be released are in integral multiples of $1,000.
(c) Except as provided in this Section 3.14, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Stripped Unit remains in effect, such Stripped Unit shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Stripped Unit in respect of the Treasury Security and Purchase Contract comprising such Stripped Unit may be acquired, and may be transferred and exchanged, only as a Stripped Unit.
(d) Holders of Stripped Units who reestablish Normal Units shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable to the Collateral Agent for
its services as Collateral Agent in respect of the substitution, and the Company shall not be responsible for any such fees or expenses.
(e) In the event a Holder who reestablishes Normal Units pursuant to this Section 3.14 fails to effect a book-entry transfer of the Stripped Units or fails to deliver a Stripped Units Certificate to the Agent after depositing Pledged Notes, the Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, with the Collateral Agent, the Treasury Securities constituting a part of such Stripped Units, and any distributions on such Treasury Securities shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Stripped Units are so transferred or the Stripped Units Certificate is so delivered, as the case may be, or, with respect to a Stripped Units Certificate, such Holder provides evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Agent that such Stripped Units Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
SECTION 3.15 TRANSFER OF COLLATERAL UPON OCCURRENCE OF TERMINATION EVENT.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event and the transfer to the Agent of the Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, underlying the Normal Units and the Stripped Units pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent shall request transfer instructions with respect to such Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from each Holder by written request mailed to such Holder at its address as it appears in the Normal Units Register or the Stripped Units Register, as the case may be. Upon book- entry transfer of the Normal Units or Stripped Units or delivery of a Normal Units Certificate or Stripped Units Certificate to the Agent with such transfer instructions, the Agent shall transfer the Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Treasury Securities or Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, to such Holder by book-entry transfer, or other appropriate procedures, in accordance with such instructions. In the event a Holder of Normal Units or Stripped Units fails to effect such transfer or delivery, the Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, underlying such Normal Units or Stripped Units, as the case may be, and any distributions thereon, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Normal Units or Stripped Units are transferred or the Normal Units Certificate or Stripped Units Certificate is surrendered or such Holder provides satisfactory evidence that
such Normal Units Certificate or Stripped Units Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
SECTION 3.16 NO CONSENT TO ASSUMPTION.
Each Holder of a Unit, by acceptance thereof, shall be deemed expressly to have withheld any consent to the assumption under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, of the Purchase Contract by the Company, any receiver, liquidator or person or entity performing similar functions or its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the debtor under the Bankruptcy Code or subject to other similar state or federal law providing for reorganization or liquidation.
ARTICLE IV.
THE NOTES
SECTION 4.1 PAYMENT OF INTEREST; RIGHTS TO INTEREST PAYMENTS PRESERVED; NOTICE.
(a) A payment on any Note, Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, which is paid on any Payment Date other than a Payment Date with respect to the Stated Amount due on Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent (if the Collateral Agent is the registered owner thereof) as provided by the terms of the Pledge Agreement, be paid to the Person in whose name the Normal Units Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Normal Units Certificates) of which such Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, is a part is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
(b) Each Normal Units Certificate evidencing Notes delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Normal Units Certificate shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, which were carried by the Notes and Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such other Normal Units Certificate.
(c) In the case of any Normal Unit with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, Merger Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on a Merger Early Settlement Date, Cash Settlement is effected on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, or a
Collateral Substitution is effected, in each case on a date that is after any Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, payments on the Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Normal Unit otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement, Cash Settlement or Collateral Substitution, as the case may be, and such payments shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent, be payable to the Person in whose name the Normal Units Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Normal Unit Certificates) was registered at the close of business on the Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Normal Unit with respect to which Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution has been effected, payments on the related Notes or payments on the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, that would otherwise be payable after the applicable Settlement Date or after such Collateral Substitution, as the case may be, shall not be payable hereunder to the Holder of such Normal Unit; provided, that to the extent that such Holder continues to hold the Separate Notes that formerly comprised a part of such Holder's Normal Units, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the payments on such Separate Notes.
SECTION 4.2 NOTICE AND VOTING.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be
entitled to exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to
the Pledged Notes but only to the extent instructed by the Holders as described
below. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders of Notes are
entitled to vote or upon any solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of
holders of Notes, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to
the Holders of Normal Units a notice (a) containing such information as is
contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each Holder on the
record date set by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be
the same date as the record date for determining the holders of Notes entitled
to vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the
voting rights pertaining to the Pledged Notes underlying their Normal Units and
(c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the written
request of the Holders of Normal Units on such record date, the Agent shall
endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with
the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of Pledged Notes
as to which any particular voting instructions are received. In the absence of
specific instructions from the Holder of a Normal Unit, the Agent shall abstain
from voting the Pledged Note underlying such Normal Unit. The
Company hereby agrees, if applicable, to solicit Holders of Normal Units to timely instruct the Agent in order to enable the Agent to vote such Pledged Notes.
SECTION 4.3 TAX EVENT REDEMPTION
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the successful remarketing of the Notes, the Company may elect to instruct in writing the Collateral Agent to apply, and upon such written instruction, the Collateral Agent shall apply, out of the aggregate Redemption Price for the Notes that are components of Normal Units, an amount equal to the aggregate Tax Event Redemption Principal Amount for the Notes that are components of Normal Units to purchase on behalf of the Holders of Normal Units the Treasury Portfolio and promptly remit the remaining portion of such Redemption Price to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Normal Units. The Treasury Portfolio will be substituted for the Pledged Notes, and will be pledged to the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement to secure the obligation of each Holder of a Normal Unit to purchase the Common Stock under the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Normal Unit. Following the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to a successful remarketing of the Notes, the Holders of Normal Units and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Normal Units and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Notes, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in Articles II, III, IV, V and VI of the Pledge Agreement, and any reference herein or in the Certificates to the Note shall be deemed to be a reference to such Treasury Portfolio and any reference herein or in the Certificates to interest on the Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to corresponding distributions on the Treasury Portfolio. The Company may cause to be made in any Normal Unit Certificates thereafter to be issued such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) as may be appropriate to reflect the substitution of the Treasury Portfolio for Notes as collateral.
The Company shall cause notice of any Tax Event Redemption to be mailed, at least 30 calendar days but not more than 60 calendar days before such Tax Event Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at its registered address.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption after the successful remarketing of the Notes, the Redemption Price will be payable in cash to the holders of the Notes.
ARTICLE V.
THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS; THE REMARKETING
SECTION 5.1 PURCHASE OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK.
(a) Each Purchase Contract shall, unless an Early Settlement has occurred in accordance with Section 5.9, or a Merger Early Settlement has occurred in accordance with Section 5.10, obligate the Holder of the related Unit to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Stock Purchase Date at a price equal to $100 (the "Purchase Price"), a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate unless, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event with respect to the Unit of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to,
(i) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is greater than or equal to $107.97 (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 0.9262 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract,
(ii) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price, but is greater than $88.50, the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount of the related Unit divided by the Applicable Market Value, and
(iii) if the Applicable Market Value is equal to or less than $88.50, 1.1299 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract,
in each case subject to adjustment as provided in Section 5.6 (and in each case rounded upward or downward to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share). As provided in Section 5.12, no fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts.
(b) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Stock Purchase Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.12.
(c) The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for
trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the- counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the- counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
(d) Each Holder of a Unit, by its acceptance thereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contract on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact (including the execution of Certificates on behalf of such Holder), agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its obligations under such Purchase Contracts, and consents to the provisions hereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent as its attorney-in-fact to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in- fact, and consents to and agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or the Treasury Securities, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement; provided that upon a Termination Event, the rights of the Holder of such Unit under the Purchase Contract may be enforced without regard to any other rights or obligations. Each Holder of a Unit, by its acceptance thereof, further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in Section 5.4 and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments in respect of the Notes, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or the Treasury Securities to be paid upon settlement of such Holder's obligations to purchase Common Stock under the Purchase Contract, shall be paid on the Stock Purchase Date by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contract.
(e) Upon registration of transfer of a Certificate, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee) under the terms of this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts underlying such Certificate and the Pledge Agreement, and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts
underlying the Certificates so transferred and the Pledge Agreement. The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by its acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
SECTION 5.2 CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS.
(a) Subject to Section 5.3 herein, the Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable in respect of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name a Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Certificates) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Payment Date in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for payments. The Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at the office in New York, New York, maintained for that purpose or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such Person's address as it appears on the Register or by wire transfer to the account designated to the Agent by a prior written notice by such Person delivered at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
(b) Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company's obligation to pay Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments), if any, shall cease.
(c) Each Certificate delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of (including as a result of a Collateral Substitution or the re-establishment of a Normal Unit) any other Certificate shall carry the rights to Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, accrued and unpaid, and to accrue Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, which were carried by the Purchase Contracts underlying such other Certificates.
(d) Subject to Sections 5.9 and 5.10, in the case of any Unit with respect to which Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, a Merger Early Settlement Date, respectively, or in respect of which Cash Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution or an establishment or re-establishment of a Normal Unit pursuant to Section 3.14 is effected, in each case on a date that is after any Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract underlying such Unit otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such Cash Settlement, Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement, Collateral Substitution or establishment or re-establishment of Normal Units, and such
Contract Adjustment Payments shall be paid to the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Unit (or one or more Predecessor Certificates) is registered at the close of business on such Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Unit with respect to which Cash Settlement, Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, an Early Settlement Date or Merger Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution or an establishment or re- establishment of a Normal Unit has been effected, Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, that would otherwise be payable after the Early Settlement Date, or Merger Early Settlement Date, Collateral Substitution or such establishment or re-establishment with respect to such Purchase Contract shall not be payable.
SECTION 5.3 DEFERRAL OF CONTRACT ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS.
(a) The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the
Stock Purchase Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election
to defer each such deferred Contract Adjustment Payment (specifying the
amount to be deferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of
(i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is
required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to
payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other
applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in
any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Any
Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred shall, to the extent permitted by
law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of
5.25% per year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of 12 30-day
months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full
(such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any,
together with the additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon,
being referred to herein as the "Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments").
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next
succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred
pursuant to this Section 5.3. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be
deferred to a date that is after the Stock Purchase Date and no such
deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date. If the Purchase
Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the
Holder's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, and
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, will terminate.
(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Stock Purchase Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Stock Purchase Date, each Holder will receive on the Stock Purchase Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (A) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder (net of any required tax withholding on such Deferred Contract Adjustment Payment, which shall be remitted to the appropriate taxing jurisdiction) divided by (B) the Applicable Market Value.
(d) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Stock Purchase Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.12.
(e) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's Common Stock other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers or directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company's Common Stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company's Capital Stock for another class or series of the Company's Common Stock;
(iii) the purchase of fractional interests of the Company's Common Stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such Common Stock or the security being converted or exchanged;
(iv) dividends or distributions in any series of the Company's Common Stock (or rights to acquire Common Stock) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions of Common Stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of any series of the Company's Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company's Common Stock); or redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
SECTION 5.4 PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE: REMARKETING.
(a) Unless a Tax Event Redemption, successful remarketing, Termination Event, Merger Early Settlement or Early Settlement has occurred, each Holder of a Normal Unit may pay in cash ("Cash Settlement") the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to a Purchase Contract if such Holder notifies the Agent by use of a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto of its intention to make a Cash Settlement. Such notice shall be made on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date. The Agent shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of the receipt of such a notice from a Holder intending to make a Cash Settlement.
(i) A Holder of a Normal Unit who has so notified the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement is required to pay the Purchase Price to the Collateral Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashiers' check or wire transfer, in each case payable to or upon the order of the Company. Any cash received by the Collateral Agent will be paid to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date in settlement of the Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
(ii) If a Holder of a Normal Unit fails to notify the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph (a)(i) above, such failure shall constitute an event of default and the Holder shall be deemed to have consented to the disposition of the Pledged Notes pursuant to the remarketing as described in paragraph (b) below. If a Holder of a Normal Units does notify the Agent as
provided in paragraph (a)(i) above of its intention to pay the Purchase Price in cash, but fails to make such payment as required by paragraph (a)(i) above, such failure shall also constitute a default; however, the Notes of such a Holder will not be remarketed but instead the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, will exercise its rights as a secured party with respect to such Notes, including but not limited to those rights specified in subsection (b)(iii) below.
(b) (i) The Company shall engage a nationally recognized investment bank (the "Remarketing Agent") pursuant to a Remarketing Agreement to be mutually agreed on by the Company, the Agent and the Remarketing Agent, but substantially as set forth in Exhibit F hereto to sell the Notes of Holders of Normal Units, other than Holders that have elected not to participate in the remarketing pursuant to the procedures set forth in clause (iv) below, and holders of Separate Notes that have elected to participate in the remarketing pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement. On the seventh day prior to the Remarketing Date the Agent shall give Holders of Normal Units and holders of Separate Notes notice of the remarketing (the form of which notice to be provided by the Company) in a daily newspaper in the English language of general circulation in The City of New York, which is expected to be The Wall Street Journal, including the specific U.S. Treasury security or securities (including the CUSIP number and/or the principal terms of such Treasury security or securities) described in clause (iv) below, that must be delivered by Holders of Normal Units that elect not to participate in the remarketing pursuant to clause (iv) below, no later than 10:00 a.m. on the fourth Business Day preceding the Remarketing Date. The Agent shall notify, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the Remarketing Date, the Remarketing Agent and the Collateral Agent of the aggregate number of Notes of Normal Unit Holders to be remarketed. On the third Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date, no later than by 10:00 a.m. New York City time, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Custodial Agent will notify the Remarketing Agent of the aggregate number of Separate Notes to be remarketed. On the third Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date, the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, will deliver for remarketing to the Remarketing Agent all Notes to be remarketed. Upon receipt of such notice from the Agent and the Custodial Agent and such Notes from the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent, the Remarketing Agent will, on the third Business Day following the Remarketing Date, use its reasonable best efforts to (i) establish a rate of interest that, in the opinion of the
Remarketing Agent, will, when applied to the Notes (assuming, even if not true, that all of the Notes are included in the remarketing), enable the then current aggregate market value of the Notes to have a value equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value as of the Remarketing Date or as of any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be (the "Reset Rate") and (ii) sell such Notes on such date at a price equal to 100.5% of the Remarketing Value. The Remarketing Agent will use the proceeds from a successful remarketing to purchase the appropriate U.S. Treasury securities (the "Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration") with the CUSIP numbers, if any, selected by the Remarketing Agent, described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the definition of Remarketing Value related to the Notes of Holders of Normal Units that were remarketed. On or prior to the third Business Day following the Remarketing Date, the Remarketing Agent shall deliver such Agent- purchased Treasury Consideration to the Agent, which shall thereupon deliver such Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration to the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, will thereupon apply such Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration, in accordance with the Pledge Agreement, to secure such Holders' obligations under the Purchase Contracts. The Remarketing Agent will deduct as a remarketing fee an amount not exceeding 25 basis points (.25%) of the total proceeds from the remarketing (the "Remarketing Fee"). The Remarketing Agent will remit (1) the portion of the proceeds from the remarketing attributable to the Separate Notes to the holders of Separate Notes that were remarketed and (2) the remaining portion of the proceeds, less those proceeds used to purchase the Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration, to the Holders of the Normal Units that were remarketed, all determined on a pro rata basis, in each case, on or prior to the third Business Day following the Remarketing Date. Holders whose Notes are so remarketed will not otherwise be responsible for the payment of any Remarketing Fee in connection therewith.
(ii) If, in spite of using its commercially reasonable best efforts, the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value, the Remarketing Agent will attempt to again remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value on each of the two immediately following Business Days. If the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value on either of those days, it will attempt to remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value on each of the three Business Days immediately
preceding October 1, 2004. If the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value either on any of the two Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date or on any of the three Business Days immediately preceding October 1, 2004, the remarketing in each such period will be deemed to have failed (each, a "Failed Remarketing"). If the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value on any of the three Business Days immediately preceding October 1, 2004, the Remarketing Agent will further attempt to remarket the Notes included in the remarketing at a price equal to at least 100.5% of the Remarketing Value on each of the three Business Days immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date. If, in spite of using its commercially reasonable best efforts, the Remarketing Agent fails to remarket the Notes underlying the Normal Units at 100.5% of the Remarketing Value in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement by 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, the "Last Failed Remarketing" will be deemed to have occurred. In this case, within three Business Days following the date of the Last Failed Remarketing, the Remarketing Agent shall return any Notes delivered to it to the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, may exercise its rights as a secured party with respect to such Notes, including those actions specified in subsection (b) (iii) below; provided, that if upon the Last Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent delivers the Note to the Company in full satisfaction of the Holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract, any accumulated and unpaid interest on such Notes will become payable by the Company to the Agent for payment to the Holder of the Normal Units to which such Notes relate. Such payment will be made by the Company on or prior to 11 a.m., New York City time, on the Stock Purchase Date in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashier's check or wire transfer in immediately available funds payable to or upon the order of the Agent. If any Holder of Notes exercises it right to put such Holder's Notes to the Company pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the proceeds of the put shall be paid (a) to the Collateral Agent on behalf of such Holder to satisfy such Holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract if such Notes are part of a Normal Unit and (b) to the Holder of such Notes if the Notes are Separate Notes. The Company will cause a notice of any Failed Remarketing and of the Last Failed Remarketing to be published on the fourth Business Day following the Remarketing Date, any Subsequent Remarketing Date and the date of the Last Failed Remarketing, as the case may be, in a daily newspaper in the English
language of general circulation in The City of New York, which is expected to be The Wall Street Journal. The Company will also release this information by means of Bloomberg and Reuters newswire.
(iii) With respect to any Notes which constitute part of Normal Units which are subject to the Last Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company reserves all of its rights as a secured party with respect thereto and, subject to applicable law and Section 5.4 (e) below, may, among other things, permit the Company to cause the Notes to be sold or to retain and cancel such Notes, in either case, in full satisfaction of the Holders' obligations under the Purchase Contracts.
(iv) A Holder of Normal Units may elect not to participate
in the remarketing and retain the Notes underlying such Units by
notifying the Agent of such election and delivering the specific U.S.
Treasury security or securities (including the CUSIP number and/or the
principal terms of such security or securities) identified by the
Agent that constitute the U.S. Treasury securities described in
clauses (i) and (ii) of the definition of Remarketing Value relating
to the retained Notes (as if only such Notes were being remarketed)
(the "Opt-out Treasury Consideration") to the Agent not later than
10:00 a.m. on the fourth Business Day prior to the Remarketing Date
(or, in the case of a Failed Remarketing, not later than 10:00 a.m. on
the Business Day immediately prior to the Subsequent Remarketing
Date). Upon receipt thereof by the Agent, the Agent shall deliver such
Opt-out Treasury Consideration to the Collateral Agent, which will,
for the benefit of the Company, thereupon apply such Opt-out Treasury
Consideration to secure such Holder's obligations under the Purchase
Contracts. On the first Business Day immediately preceding the
Remarketing Date, the Collateral Agent, pursuant to the terms of the
Pledge Agreement, will deliver the Pledged Notes of such Holder to the
Agent. Within three Business Days following the Remarketing Date, (A)
if the remarketing was successful, the Agent shall distribute such
Notes to the Holders thereof, and (B) if there was a Failed
Remarketing on such date, the Agent will deliver such Notes to the
Collateral Agent, which will, for the benefit of the Company,
thereupon apply such Notes to secure such Holders' obligations under
the Purchase Contract and return the Opt-out Treasury Consideration
delivered by such Holders to such Holders. A Holder that does not so
deliver the Opt-out Treasury Consideration pursuant to this clause
(iv) shall be deemed to have elected to participate in the
remarketing.
(c) Upon the maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying the Stripped Units and the Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying the Normal Units, on the Stock Purchase Date, the Collateral Agent shall remit to the Company an amount equal to the aggregate Purchase Price applicable to such Units, as payment for the Common Stock issuable upon settlement thereof without receiving any instructions from the Holders of such Units. In the event the payments in respect of the Pledged Treasury Securities, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio underlying a Unit is in excess of the Purchase Price of the Purchase Contract being settled thereby, the Collateral Agent will distribute such excess to the Agent for the benefit of the Holder of such Unit when received.
(d) Any distribution to Holders of excess funds and interest described in Section 5.4(b) and (c) above shall be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York maintained for that purpose or, at the option of the Holder or the holder of Separate Notes, as applicable, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Register or by wire transfer to an account specified by the Holder or the holder of Separate Notes, as applicable.
(e) The obligations of each Holder to pay the Purchase Price are non-recourse obligations and except to the extent paid by Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement, are payable solely out of the proceeds of any Collateral pledged to secure the obligations of the Holders and in no event will Holders be liable for any deficiency between such payments and the Purchase Price.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall not be obligated to issue any Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Holder of the related Unit unless the Company shall have received payment in full for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder by such Holder in the manner herein set forth.
(g) In the event of a successful remarketing, the interest rate on all of the outstanding Notes (whether or not included in the remarketing) shall be adjusted to the Reset Rate.
SECTION 5.5 ISSUANCE OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK.
Unless a Termination Event shall have occurred on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date or an Early Settlement or a Merger Early Settlement shall have
occurred, on the Stock Purchase Date, upon its receipt of payment for the shares of Common Stock purchased by the Holders pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Article and subject to Section 5.6, the Company shall issue and deposit with the Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the Outstanding Units, one or more certificates representing the newly issued shares of Common Stock registered in the name of the Agent (or its nominee) as custodian for the Holders (such certificates for shares of Common Stock, together with any dividends or distributions for which a record date and payment date for such dividend or distribution has occurred after the Stock Purchase Date, being hereinafter referred to as the "Purchase Contract Settlement Fund") to which the Holders are entitled hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, upon surrender of a Certificate to the Agent on or after the Stock Purchase Date, together with settlement instructions thereon duly completed and executed, the Holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate representing that number of whole shares of Common Stock which such Holder is entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article V (after taking into account all Units then held by such Holder) together with cash in lieu of fractional shares as provided in Section 5.12 and any dividends or distributions with respect to such shares constituting part of the Purchase Contract Settlement Fund, but without any interest thereon, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Such shares shall be registered in the name of the Holder or the Holder's designee as specified in the settlement instructions provided by the Holder to the Agent. If any shares of Common Stock issued in respect of a Purchase Contract are to be registered to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered, no such registration shall be made unless the Person requesting such registration has paid any transfer and other taxes required by reason of such registration in a name other than that of the registered Holder of such Certificate or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax either has been paid or is not payable.
SECTION 5.6 ADJUSTMENT OF SETTLEMENT RATE.
(a) Adjustments for Dividends, Distributions, Stock Splits, Etc.
(1) Stock Dividends. In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock in Common Stock, the Settlement Rate, as in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be increased by dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares
constituting such dividend or other distribution, such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (1), the number of shares of Common Stock at the time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include any shares issuable in respect of any scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(2) Stock Purchase Rights. In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock (not being available on an equivalent basis to Holders of the Units upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts underlying such Units) entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a dividend reinvestment, share purchase or similar plan), the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such Current Market Price and the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (2), 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 any shares issuable in respect of any scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company shall not issue any such rights, options or warrants in respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(3) Stock Splits; Reverse Splits. In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided or split into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision or split becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and, conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase or reduction, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination becomes effective.
(4) Debt or Asset Distributions. (i) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in paragraph (2) of this Section, any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in cash and any dividend, shares of capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interests, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business unit in the case of a Spin-Off referred to in the next paragraph, or distribution referred to in paragraph (1) of this Section), the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution filed with the Agent) of the portion of the assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator of which shall be such Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution. In any case in which this paragraph (4) is applicable, paragraph (2) of this Section shall not be applicable.
(ii) In the case of a Spin-Off, the Settlement Rate in effect immediately before the close of business on the record date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive that distribution will be increased by multiplying the Settlement Rate by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock plus the Fair Market Value of the portion of those shares of Capital Stock or similar equity interests so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator of which is the Current
Market Price per share of the Common Stock. Any adjustment to the settlement rate under this paragraph 4(ii) will occur at the earlier of (1) the tenth Trading Day from, and including, the effective date of the Spin-Off and (2) the date of the securities being offered in the Initial Public Offering of the Spin-Off, if that Initial Public Offering is effected simultaneously with the Spin-Off.
(5) Cash Distributions. In case the Company shall, (i) by
dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock
cash (excluding any cash that is distributed in a Reorganization Event
to which Section 5.6(b) applies or as part of a distribution referred
to in paragraph (4) of this Section) in an aggregate amount that,
combined together with (ii) the aggregate amount of any other
distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in
cash within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such
distribution and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this
paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of this Section has been made and (iii)
the aggregate of any cash plus the fair market value as of the date of
the expiration of the tender or exchange offer referred to below (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of consideration
payable in respect of any tender or exchange offer by the Company or
any of its subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common Stock
concluded within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of the
distribution described in clause (i) above and in respect of which no
adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of this
Section has been made, exceeds 15% of the product of the Current
Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date for the
determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive
such distribution times the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on such date, then, and in each such case, immediately
after the close of business on such date for determination, the
Settlement Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the
rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately
prior to the close of business on the date fixed for determination of
the stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction
(A) the numerator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price
per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination
less an amount equal to the quotient of (x) the combined amount
distributed or payable in the transactions described in clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii) above and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on such date for determination and (B) the denominator of
which shall be equal to the
Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on such date for determination.
(6) Tender Offers. In case (i) a tender or exchange offer
made by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for all or any
portion of the Common Stock shall expire and such tender or exchange
offer (as amended upon the expiration thereof) shall require the
payment to stockholders (based on the acceptance (up to any maximum
specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of Purchased
Shares) of an aggregate consideration having a fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) that combined together
with (ii) the aggregate of the cash plus the fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution), as of the expiration
of such tender or exchange offer, of consideration payable in respect
of any other tender or exchange offer, by the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock
expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such tender
or exchange offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to
paragraph (5) of this Section or this paragraph (6) has been made and
(iii) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of the
Company's Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 12 months
preceding the expiration of such tender or exchange offer and in
respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (5) of this
Section or this paragraph (6) has been made, exceeds 15% of the
product of the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock as
of the last time (the "Expiration Time") tenders could have been made
pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended) times
the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any
tendered shares) on the Expiration Time, then, and in each such case,
immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date
of the Expiration Time, the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that
the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement
Rate immediately prior to the close of business on the date of the
Expiration Time by a fraction (A) the numerator of which shall be
equal to (x) the product of (I) the Current Market Price per share of
the Common Stock on the date of the Expiration Time and (II) the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered
shares) on the Expiration Time less (y) the amount of cash plus the
fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate
consideration payable to stockholders based on the transactions
described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above (assuming in the case
of clause (i) the acceptance, up to any maximum specified in
the terms of the tender or exchange offer, of Purchased Shares), and (B) the denominator of which shall be equal to the product of (x) the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock as of the Expiration Time and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) as of the Expiration Time less the number of all shares validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred to as the "Purchased Shares").
(7) Reclassification. The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies) shall be deemed to involve (i) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution" and the "date fixed for such determination" within the meaning of paragraph (4) of this Section), and (ii) a subdivision, split or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the day upon which such subdivision or split becomes effective" or "the day upon which such combination becomes effective," as the case may be, and "the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination becomes effective" within the meaning of paragraph (3) of this Section).
(8) "Current Market Price". The "Current Market Price" of the Common Stock means (a) on any day the average of the Sales Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading Day preceding the earlier of the day preceding the day in question and the day before the "ex date" with respect to the issuance or distribution requiring computation, (b) in the case of any Spin-Off that is effected simultaneously with and Initial Public Offering of the securities being distributed in the Spin-Off, the Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day on which the initial public offering price of the securities being distributed in the Spin-Off is determined, and (c) in the case of any other Spin-Off, the average of the Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the first 10 Trading Days after the effective date of such Spin- Off. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "ex date," when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, shall mean the first date on which the Common Stock trades regular way
on such exchange or in such market without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.
(9) Calculation of Adjustments. All adjustments to the
Settlement Rate shall be calculated to the nearest 1/10,000th of a
share of Common Stock (or if there is not a nearest 1/10,000th of a
share to the next lower 1/10,000th of a share). No adjustment in the
Settlement Rate shall be required unless such adjustment would require
an increase or decrease of at least one percent therein; provided,
that any adjustments which by reason of this subparagraph are not
required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in
any subsequent adjustment. If an adjustment is made to the Settlement
Rate pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (10)
of this Section 5.6(a), an adjustment shall also be made to the
Applicable Market Value solely to determine which of clauses (i), (ii)
or (iii) of the definition of Settlement Rate in Section 5.1(a) will
apply on the Stock Purchase Date. Such adjustment shall be made by
multiplying the Applicable Market Value by a fraction, the numerator
of which shall be the Settlement Rate immediately after such
adjustment pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or
(10) of this Section 5.6(a) and the denominator of which shall be the
Settlement Rate immediately before such adjustment; provided, that if
such adjustment to the Settlement Rate is required to be made pursuant
to the occurrence of any of the events contemplated by paragraph (1),
(2), (3), (4), (5), (7) or (10) of this Section 5.6(a) during the
period taken into consideration for determining the Applicable Market
Value, appropriate and customary adjustments shall be made to the
Settlement Rate.
(10) Increase of Settlement Rate. The Company may make such increases in the Settlement Rate, in addition to those required by this Section, as it considers to be advisable in order to avoid or diminish any income tax to any holders of shares of Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock or issuance of rights or warrants to purchase or subscribe for stock or from any event treated as such for income tax purposes or for any other reasons.
(b) Adjustment for Consolidation, Merger or Other Reorganization Event.
In the event of
(1) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another Person (other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the continuing corporation and in which the Common Stock
outstanding immediately prior to the merger or consolidation is not exchanged for cash, securities or other property of the Company or another corporation),
(2) any sale, transfer, lease or conveyance to another Person of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety,
(3) any statutory exchange of securities of the Company with another Person (other than in connection with a merger or acquisition), or
(4) any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company other than as a result of or after the occurrence of a Termination Event
(any such event, a "Reorganization Event"),
each share of Common Stock covered by each Purchase Contract forming a part of a
Unit immediately prior to such Reorganization Event shall, after such
Reorganization Event, be converted for purposes of the Purchase Contract into
the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable in such
Reorganization Event (without any interest thereon, and without any right to
dividends or distribution thereon which have a record date that is prior to the
Stock Purchase Date) per share of Common Stock by a holder of Common Stock that
(i) is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or into which the
Company merged or which merged into the Company or to which such sale or
transfer was made, as the case may be (any such Person, a "Constituent Person"),
or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person to the extent such Reorganization Event
provides for different treatment of Common Stock held by Affiliates of the
Company and non-Affiliates, and (ii) failed to exercise his rights of election,
if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon such Reorganization Event (provided that if the kind or amount
of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event
is not the same for each share of Common Stock held immediately prior to such
Reorganization Event by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof
and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised
("Non-electing Share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind and amount
of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event
by each Non-electing Share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so
receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-electing Shares). On the Stock
Purchase Date, the Settlement Rate then in effect will be applied to the value
on the Stock Purchase Date of such securities, cash or other property.
In the event of such a Reorganization Event, the Person formed by
such consolidation, merger or exchange or the Person which acquires the assets
of the Company or, in the event of a liquidation or dissolution of the Company,
the Company or a liquidating trust created in connection therewith, shall
execute and deliver to the Agent an agreement supplemental hereto providing that
the Holder of each Outstanding Unit shall have the rights provided by this
Section 5.6. Such supplemental agreement shall provide for adjustments which,
for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental agreement,
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided
for in this Section. The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply
to successive Reorganization Events.
SECTION 5.7 NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENTS AND CERTAIN OTHER EVENTS.
(a) Whenever the Settlement Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall:
(i) forthwith compute the Settlement Rate and the Applicable Market Value in accordance with Section 5.6 and prepare and transmit to the Agent an Officer's Certificate setting forth the Settlement Rate and the Applicable Market Value, the method of calculation thereof in reasonable detail, and the facts requiring such adjustment and upon which such adjustment is based; and
(ii) as soon as practicable following the occurrence of an
event that requires an adjustment to the Settlement Rate pursuant to
Section 5.6 (or if the Company is not aware of such occurrence, as
soon as practicable after becoming so aware), provide a written notice
to the Holders of the Units of the occurrence of such event and a
statement in reasonable detail setting forth the method by which the
adjustment to the Settlement Rate and the Applicable Market Value was
determined and setting forth the adjusted Settlement Rate and the
Applicable Market Value.
(b) The Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Units to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Settlement Rate and the Applicable Market Value, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed in making the same. The Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which may at the time be issued or delivered with respect to any Purchase Contract; and the Agent makes no representation with respect thereto. The Agent shall not be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue,
transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Purchase Contract or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article.
SECTION 5.8 TERMINATION EVENT; NOTICE.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including the rights and obligations of Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Normal Units shall thereafter represent the right to receive the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, forming a part of such Normal Units, and the Stripped Units shall thereafter represent the right to receive the Treasury Securities forming a part of such Stripped Units, in each case in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.3 of the Pledge Agreement. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Register.
SECTION 5.9 EARLY SETTLEMENT.
(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 5.9, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregate Stated
Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, may, at the option
of the Holder thereof, be settled early ("Early Settlement") on or prior to
10:00 a.m. on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Stock
Purchase Date. In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement
with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate
evidencing the related Units shall deliver such Certificate to the Agent at
the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in
blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly
completed and accompanied by payment payable to the Company in immediately
available funds in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (A)
the product of (i) the Stated Amount of such Units multiplied by (ii) the
number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected
to effect Early Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect
to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on
any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business
on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments,
if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase
Contracts; provided that no payment shall be required pursuant to clause
(B) of this sentence if the Company shall have elected to defer the
Contract Adjustment Payments which
would otherwise be payable on such Payment Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence and subject to Section 5.2(d), no payment or adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Unit at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the "Early Settlement Date" with respect to such Unit and if such requirements are first satisfied after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the "Early Settlement Date" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
(b) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract by the Holder of the related Units, the Company shall issue, and the Holder shall be entitled to receive, 0.9262 shares of Common Stock on account of such Purchase Contract (the "Early Settlement Rate"). The Early Settlement Rate shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement Rate is adjusted. As promptly as practicable after Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.9, the Company shall issue and shall deliver to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office a certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.12.
(c) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date the Company shall cause (i) the shares of Common Stock issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and delivered, and (ii) the related Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, in the case of Normal Units, or the related Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of Stripped Units, to be released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent and transferred, in each case, to the Agent for delivery to the Holder thereof or the Holder's designee.
(d) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of shares of Common Stock from the Company and the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Collateral Agent, as applicable, the Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units, (i) transfer to the Holder the Pledged Notes,
Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, forming a part of such Units, and (ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.12.
(e) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent shall authenticate, execute and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as to which Early Settlement was not effected.
SECTION 5.10 EARLY SETTLEMENT UPON MERGER.
(a) In the event of a merger or consolidation of the Company of the type described in clause (1) of Section 5.6(b) in which the Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation is exchanged for consideration consisting of at least 30% cash or cash equivalents (any such event a "Cash Merger"), then the Company (or the successor to the Company hereunder) shall be required to offer the Holder of each Unit the right to settle the Purchase Contract underlying such Unit prior to the Stock Purchase Date ("Merger Early Settlement") as provided herein. On or before the fifth Business Day after the consummation of a Cash Merger, the Company or, at the request and expense of the Company, the Agent, shall give all Holders notice of the occurrence of the Cash Merger and of the right of Merger Early Settlement arising as a result thereof. The Company shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Agent and the Collateral Agent.
Each such notice shall contain:
(i) the date, which shall be not less than 20 nor more than 30 calendar days after the date of such notice, on which the Merger Early Settlement will be effected (the "Merger Early Settlement Date");
(ii) the date, which shall be on or one Business Day prior to the Merger Early Settlement Date, by which the Merger Early Settlement right must be exercised;
(iii) the Settlement Rate in effect as a result of such Cash Merger and the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable by the Holder upon settlement of each Purchase Contract pursuant to Section 5.6(b);
(iv) a statement to the effect that all or a portion of the Purchase Price payable by the Holder to settle the Purchase Contract will be offset against the amount of cash so receivable upon exercise of Merger Early Settlement, as applicable; and
(v) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise the Merger Early Settlement right.
(b) To exercise a Merger Early Settlement right, a Holder
shall deliver to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office on or before 5:00
p.m., New York City time on the date specified in the notice the
Certificate(s) evidencing the Units with respect to which the Merger Early
Settlement right is being exercised duly endorsed for transfer to the
Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the
reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment payable to the
Company in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the Early
Settlement Amount less the amount of cash that otherwise would be
deliverable by the Company or its successor upon settlement of the Purchase
Contract in lieu of Common Stock pursuant to Section 5.6(b) and as
described in the notice to Holders (the "Merger Early Settlement Amount").
(c) On the Merger Early Settlement Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered (i) the net cash, securities and other property to be received by such exercising Holder, equal to the Settlement Rate as adjusted pursuant to Section 5.6, in respect of the number of Purchase Contracts for which such Merger Early Settlement right was exercised, and (ii) the related Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, in the case of Normal Units, or Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of Stripped Units, to be released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent and transferred, in each case, to the Agent for delivery to the Holder thereof or its designee. In the event a Merger Early Settlement right shall be exercised by a Holder in accordance with the terms hereof, all references herein to Stock Purchase Date shall be deemed to refer to such Merger Early Settlement Date.
(d) Upon Merger Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of such net cash, securities or other property from the Company and the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Collateral Agent, as applicable, the Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units, (i) transfer to the Holder the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest
in the Treasury Portfolio, or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, forming a part of such Units, and (ii) deliver to the Holder such net cash, securities or other property issuable upon such Merger Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.12.
(e) In the event that Merger Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Merger Early Settlement the Company (or the successor to the Company hereunder) shall execute and the Agent shall authenticate, execute and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as to which Merger Early Settlement was not effected.
SECTION 5.11 CHARGES AND TAXES.
The Company will pay all stock transfer and similar taxes attributable to the initial issuance and delivery of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Purchase Contracts and in payment of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments; provided, that the Company shall not be required to pay any such tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any exchange of or substitution for a Certificate evidencing a Unit or any issuance of a share of Common Stock in a name other than that of the registered Holder of a Certificate surrendered in respect of the Units evidenced thereby, other than in the name of the Agent, as custodian for such Holder, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such share certificates or Certificates unless and until the Person or Persons requesting the transfer or issuance 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 5.12 NO FRACTIONAL SHARES.
No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued or delivered upon settlement on the Stock Purchase Date or upon Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts. If Certificates evidencing more than one Purchase Contract shall be surrendered for settlement at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock which shall be delivered upon settlement shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Purchase Contracts evidenced by the Certificates so surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock which would otherwise be deliverable upon settlement of any Purchase Contracts on the applicable Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement, the Company, through the Agent, shall make a cash payment in respect of such fractional shares in an amount equal to the value of such fractional shares times the Applicable Market Value. The
Company shall provide the Agent from time to time with sufficient funds to permit the Agent to make all cash payments required by this Section 5.12 in a timely manner.
ARTICLE VI.
REMEDIES
SECTION 6.1 UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK.
The Holder of any Unit shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional,
(a) subject to the right of the Company to defer payment thereof pursuant to Section 5.3, and to the forfeiture of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments upon Early Settlement pursuant to Section 5.9(a) or upon Merger Early Settlement pursuant to Section 5.10 or upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, to receive payment of each installment of the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, with respect to the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Unit on the respective Payment Date for such Unit, and
(b) to purchase Common Stock pursuant to the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Unit and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such right to purchase Common Stock, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.2 RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
If any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company and such Holder shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 6.3 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates in the last paragraph of Section 3.10, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 6.4 DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy upon a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by such Holders.
SECTION 6.5 UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Agreement agree, and each Holder of a Unit, by its acceptance of such Unit 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 Agreement, or in any suit against the Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Agent, 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, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Agent, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Units, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of distributions on any Notes on any Purchase Contract on or after the respective Payment Date therefor in respect of any Unit held by such Holder, or for enforcement of the right to purchase shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contract constituting part of any Unit held by such Holder.
SECTION 6.6 WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Agreement; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VII.
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.1 CERTAIN DUTIES, RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES.
(a) The Agent shall act as agent for the Holders of the Units hereunder with such powers as are specifically vested in the Agent by the terms
of this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement, the Notes and the Units, and any documents evidencing thereof or related thereto (the "Transaction Documents"), together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent:
(1) shall have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents and no implied covenants or obligations shall be inferred from any Transaction Documents against the Agent, nor shall the Agent be bound by the provisions of any agreement by any party hereto beyond the specific terms hereof;
(2) shall be entitled conclusively to rely upon (x) any
certification, order, judgment, opinion, notice or other communication
(including, without limitation, any thereof by telephone or facsimile)
reasonably believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed
or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or Persons (without being
required to determine the correctness of any fact stated therein), (y) the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein and (z) advice and statements of legal counsel and other experts
selected by the Agent;
(3) as to any matters not expressly provided for by any Transaction Document, shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder or thereunder in accordance with instructions given by the Company or the Holders in accordance with the Transaction Documents;
(4) shall not be responsible for any recitals contained in any Transaction Document, or in any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by it under, any Transaction Document or the Units, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of any Transaction Document (other than as against the Agent) or the Units or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or for any failure by the Company, any Holder or any other Person (except the Agent) to perform any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or for the perfection, priority or, except as expressly required hereby, existence, validity, perfection or maintenance of any security interest created under the Pledge Agreement, or for the use or application by the Company of the proceeds in respect of the Purchase Contracts;
(5) shall not be required to initiate or conduct any litigation or collection proceedings hereunder;
(6) shall not be responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or in connection herewith or therewith, except for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct; and
(7) shall not be required to advise any party as to selling or retaining, or taking or refraining from taking any action with respect to, the Units or other rights under any Transaction Document.
(b) No provision of any Transaction Document shall be construed to relieve the Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its own bad faith, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) this paragraph (b) shall not be construed to limit the effect of paragraph (a) of this Section;
(2) the Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Agent was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) in no event shall the Agent be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder.
(c) In no event shall the Agent or its officers, employees or agents be liable for any special, indirect, individual, punitive or consequential loss or damages, lost profits or loss of business, arising in connection with any Transaction Document, whether or not the likelihood of such loss or damage was known to the Agent, and regardless of the form of action.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of every Transaction Document relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Agent shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
(e) The Agent is authorized to execute and deliver the Pledge Agreement and the Remarketing Agreement and any supplement thereto in its capacity as Agent.
(f) The Agent shall have no liability whatsoever for the action or inaction of any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof. In no
event shall any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof be deemed an agent or subcustodian of the Agent.
(g) The Agent shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under any Transaction Document arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; acts of terrorism; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; civil or military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority; governmental actions; or inability to obtain labor, material, equipment or transportation.
SECTION 7.2 NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any default by the Company hereunder of which a Responsible Officer of the Agent has actual knowledge, the Agent shall transmit by mail to the Company and the Holders of Units, as their names and addresses appear in the Register, notice of such default hereunder, unless such default shall have been cured or waived.
SECTION 7.3 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF AGENT.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1:
(a) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(b) whenever in the administration of this Agreement the Agent shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Agent (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer's Certificate of the Company;
(c) the Agent may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(d) the Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but
the Agent, in its discretion, may make reasonable further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters related to the execution, delivery and performance of the Purchase Contracts as it may see fit, and, if the Agent shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be given a reasonable opportunity to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(e) the Agent may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or an Affiliate of the Agent and the Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an Affiliate appointed with due care by it hereunder.
SECTION 7.4 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS, ETC.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Company.
SECTION 7.5 MAY HOLD UNITS AND OTHER DEALINGS.
Any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, or the Agent and its Affiliates, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Units and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Collateral Agent or any other Person with the same rights it would have if it were not Registrar or such other agent, or the Agent. The Agent and its Affiliates may (without having to account therefor to the Company or any Holder of Units or holder of Separate Notes) accept deposits from, lend money to, make their investments in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with the Company, any Holder of Units and any holder of Separate Notes (and any of their respective subsidiaries or Affiliates) as if it were not acting as the Agent and the Agent and their Affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from the Company, any Holder of Units or any holder of Separate Notes without having to account for the same to any such Person.
SECTION 7.6 MONEY HELD IN CUSTODY.
Money held by the Agent in custody hereunder need not be segregated from the Agent's other funds except to the extent required by law or provided herein. The Agent shall be under no obligation to invest or pay interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
SECTION 7.7 COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.
The Company agrees:
(a) to pay to the Agent from time to time compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder or under the Transaction Documents as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Agent;
(b) to reimburse the Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Agent in accordance with any provision of this Agreement or the Transaction Documents (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith; and
(c) to indemnify the Agent and any predecessor Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket expense incurred without gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under the Transaction Documents, including the costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under the Transaction Documents. The Agent shall promptly notify the Company of any third party claim which may give rise to the indemnity hereunder and give the Company the opportunity to participate in the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and no such claim shall be settled without the written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, provided that any failure to give any such notice shall not affect the obligation of the Company under this Section.
The provisions of this Section 7.7 shall survive the termination of this Agreement or the resignation or removal of the Agent.
SECTION 7.8 CORPORATE AGENT REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be an Agent hereunder which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having (or being a member of a bank holding company having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and having a Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if there be such a corporation, qualified and eligible under this Article and willing to act on reasonable terms. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 7.9 RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Agent and no appointment of a successor Agent pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Agent in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10.
(b) The Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company 60 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Agent required by Section 7.10 shall not have been delivered to the Agent within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Agent may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
(c) The Agent may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Units delivered to the Agent and the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Agent fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA, as if the Agent were an Trustee under an indenture qualified under the TIA, after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Unit for at least six months; or
(2) the Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder; or
(3) the Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Agent or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (x) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Agent, or (y) any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Unit 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 Agent and the appointment of a successor Agent.
(e) If the Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Agent for any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Agent and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Unit 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 Agent.
(f) The Company shall give, or shall cause such successor Agent to give, notice of each resignation and each removal of the Agent and each appointment of a successor Agent by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the applicable Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Agent and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 7.10 ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Agent, every such successor Agent so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Agent an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Agent shall become effective and such successor Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, agencies and duties of the retiring Agent; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Agent, such retiring Agent shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Agent all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Agent and duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Agent all property and money held by such retiring Agent hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Agent, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Agent all such rights, powers and agencies referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(c) No successor Agent shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Agent shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 7.11 MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Agent, shall be the successor of the Agent hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Certificates shall have been authenticated and executed on behalf of the Holders, but not delivered, by the Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such Agent shall adopt such authentication and execution and deliver the Certificates so authenticated and executed with the same effect as if such successor Agent had itself authenticated and executed such Units.
SECTION 7.12 PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
(a) The Agent shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders received by the Agent in its capacity as Registrar.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "Applicants") apply in writing to the Agent, and furnish to the Agent reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Unit for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Units and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Agent shall mail to all the Holders copies of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Agent of the materials to be mailed and of payment, or provision, in the absence of bad faith, satisfactory to the Agent for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of such mailing.
SECTION 7.13 FAILURE TO ACT.
In the event of any ambiguity in the provisions of any Transaction Document or any dispute between or conflicting claims by or among the parties hereto or any other Person, the Agent shall be entitled, after prompt notice to the Company and the Holders of Units, at its sole option, to refuse to comply with any and all such claims, demands or instructions so long as such dispute or conflict shall continue, and the Agent shall not be or become liable in any way to any of the parties hereto for its
failure or refusal to comply with such conflicting claims, demands or instructions. The Agent shall be entitled to refuse to act until either (i) such conflicting or adverse claims or demands shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or settled by agreement between the conflicting parties as evidenced in a writing, reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, or (ii) the Agent shall have received security or an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Agent sufficient to save the Agent harmless from and against any and all loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket expense which the Agent may incur by reason of its acting without bad faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence. The Agent may in addition elect to commence an interpleader action or seek other judicial relief or orders as the Agent may deem necessary. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Agent shall not be required to take any action that is in its opinion contrary to law or to the terms of any Transaction Document, or which would in its opinion subject it or any of its officers, employees or directors to liability.
SECTION 7.14 NO OBLIGATIONS OF AGENT.
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Agent assumes no obligation and shall not be subject to any liability under this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or any Purchase Contract in respect of the obligations of the Holder of any Unit thereunder. The Company agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by such Holder's acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have agreed, that the Agent's execution of the Certificates on behalf of the Holders shall be solely as agent and attorney-in-fact for the Holders, and that the Agent shall have no obligation to perform such Purchase Contracts on behalf of the Holders, except to the extent expressly provided in Article V.
SECTION 7.15 TAX COMPLIANCE.
(a) The Agent, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Company, will comply with all applicable certification, information reporting and withholding (including "backup" withholding) requirements imposed on it as a paying agent by applicable tax laws, regulations or administrative practice with respect to any payments made with respect to the Units. Such compliance shall include, without limitation, the preparation and timely filing of required returns and the timely payment of all amounts required to be withheld to the appropriate taxing authority or its designated agent.
(b) The Agent shall comply with any reasonable written direction timely received from the Company with respect to the application of such requirements to particular payments or Holders or in other particular circumstances, and may for purposes of this Agreement rely on any such direction in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.1(a)(2).
(c) The Agent shall maintain all appropriate records documenting compliance with such requirements, and shall make such records available, on written request, to the Company or its authorized representative within a reasonable period of time after receipt of such request.
ARTICLE VIII.
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS
SECTION 8.1 SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Agent, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more agreements supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Certificates; or
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(c) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Agent; or
(d) to make provision with respect to the rights of Holders pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.6(b) or 5.10; or
(e) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions arising under this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
SECTION 8.2 SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
(a) With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding Purchase Contracts voting together as one class, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Agent, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Agent may enter into an agreement or agreements supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent, for the purpose of modifying in any manner the terms of the Purchase
Contracts, or the provisions of this Agreement or the rights of the Holders in respect of the Units; provided, that, except as contemplated herein, no such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Unit affected thereby:
(1) change any Payment Date;
(2) change the amount or the type of Collateral required to be Pledged to secure a Holder's Obligations under the Purchase Contract, impair the right of the Holder of any Purchase Contract to receive distributions on the related Collateral (except for the rights of Holders of Normal Units to substitute the Treasury Securities for the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or the rights of holders of Stripped Units to substitute Notes or appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio for the Pledged Treasury Securities) or otherwise adversely affect the Holder's rights in or to such Collateral or materially adversely alter the rights in or to such Collateral;
(3) reduce any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payment, or change any place where, or the coin or currency in which, any Contract Adjustment Payment is payable;
(4) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any Purchase Contract, any Contract Adjustment Payment, if any, or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payment, if any;
(5) reduce the number of shares of Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to any Purchase Contract, increase the price to purchase shares of Common Stock upon settlement of any Purchase Contract, change the Stock Purchase Date or otherwise materially adversely affect the Holder's rights under any Purchase Contract; or
(6) reduce the percentage of the outstanding Purchase Contracts the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental agreement;
provided, that if any amendment or proposal referred to above would adversely affect only the Normal Units or the Stripped Units, then only the affected class of Holder as of the record date for the Holders entitled to vote thereon will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal, and such amendment or proposal shall not
be effective except with the consent of Holders of not less than a majority or 100% of such class, as the case may be.
(b) It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental agreement, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 8.3 EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
In executing, or accepting the additional agencies created by, any supplemental agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the agencies created by this Agreement, the Agent shall be provided and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental agreement which affects the Agent's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 8.4 EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
Upon the execution of any supplemental agreement under this Article, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental agreement shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 8.5 REFERENCE TO SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered after the execution of any supplemental agreement pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Agent, bear a notation in form approved by the Agent as to any matter provided for in such supplemental agreement. If the Company shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Agent and the Company, to any such supplemental agreement may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent in exchange for Outstanding Certificates.
ARTICLE IX.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 COVENANT NOT TO MERGE, CONSOLIDATE, SELL OR CONVEY PROPERTY EXCEPT UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
The Company covenants that it will not (a) merge or consolidate with any other Person or (b) sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons in one transaction or a series of related transactions other than, with respect to clause (b), a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, unless (i) either the Company shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor (if other than the Company) shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof or the District of Columbia and such corporation shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under the Purchase Contracts, the Notes, this Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement and the Pledge Agreement by one or more supplemental agreements in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered to the Agent and the Collateral Agent by such corporation, and (ii) the Company or such successor corporation, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any covenant or condition hereunder, under any of the Purchase Contracts, under the Remarketing Agreement, or under the Pledge Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company to whom the Company has sold, assigned, transferred, leased or conveyed all or substantially all of its properties and assets shall be required to expressly assume by a supplemental agreement, executed and delivered to the Agent, in form satisfactory to the Agent, all the obligations of the Company under Section 7.7.
SECTION 9.2 RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SUCCESSOR CORPORATION.
(a) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by a successor corporation in accordance with Section 9.1, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under the Purchase Contracts, the Notes, this Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Certificates evidencing Units issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the
Company and delivered to the Agent; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Agreement prescribed, the Agent shall authenticate and execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver any Certificates which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Agent for authentication and execution, and any Certificate evidencing Units which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Agent for that purpose. All the Certificates so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Certificates theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement as though all of such Certificates had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Certificates evidencing Units thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
SECTION 9.3 OPINION OF COUNSEL GIVEN TO AGENT.
The Agent, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.3, shall receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent to the consummation of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance have been met.
ARTICLE X.
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.1 PERFORMANCE UNDER PURCHASE CONTRACTS.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Units that it will duly and punctually perform its obligations under the Purchase Contracts in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contracts and this Agreement.
SECTION 10.2 MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
(a) The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York an office or agency where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for acquisition of shares of Common Stock upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts on any Settlement Date and for transfer of Collateral upon occurrence of a Termination Event, where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, for a Collateral Substitution
or reestablishment of Normal Units and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Units and this Agreement may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Agent of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Agent with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Company hereby appoints the Agent as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
(b) The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Agent of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The Company hereby designates as the place of payment for the Units the Corporate Trust Office and appoints the Agent at its Corporate Trust Office as paying agent in such city.
SECTION 10.3 COMPANY TO RESERVE COMMON STOCK.
The Company shall at all times prior to the Stock Purchase Date reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable against tender of payment in respect of all Purchase Contracts constituting a part of the Units evidenced by Outstanding Certificates.
SECTION 10.4 COVENANTS AS TO COMMON STOCK.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be issued against tender of payment in respect of any Purchase Contract constituting a part of the Outstanding Units will, upon issuance, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
SECTION 10.5 STATEMENTS OF OFFICER OF THE COMPANY AS TO DEFAULT.
The Company will deliver to the Agent, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officer's Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signer thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and
conditions hereof, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which such Officer may have knowledge.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: /s/ John H. Mullan
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Name: John H. Mullan
Title: Corporate Vice President and
Secretary
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
as Purchase Contract Agent
By: /s/ James P. Freeman
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Name: James P. Freeman
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF NORMAL UNITS CERTIFICATE
[FOR INCLUSION IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATES ONLY -- THIS CERTIFICATE IS
A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) 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 such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]
(Form of Face of Normal Units Certificate)
No. ______________ CUSIP No. ____________
Number of Normal Units____________
This Normal Units Certificate certifies that [For inclusion in
Global Certificates only -- Cede & Co.] is the registered Holder of the number
of Normal Units set forth above [For inclusion in Global Certificates only - or
such other number of Normal Units reflected in the Schedule of Increases or
Decreases in Global Certificates attached hereto]. Each Normal Unit represents
(i) either (a) beneficial ownership by the Holder of one 5.25% Senior Note due
2006 (the "Note") of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"). having a principal amount of $100, subject to the Pledge of such
Note by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, or (b) if the Note has
been remarketed by the Remarketing Agent (or if the Holder has elected not to
have the Note remarketed by delivering the appropriate Treasury Consideration
specified by the Remarketing Agent), the appropriate Treasury Consideration,
subject to the Pledge of such Treasury Consideration by such Holder pursuant to
the Pledge Agreement, or (c) if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred, the
appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio subject to
the Pledge of such Applicable Ownership Interest in the
Treasury Portfolio pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one Purchase Contract with the Company. All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Note or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting part of each Normal Unit evidenced hereby has been pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder under the Purchase Contract comprising a part of such Normal Unit.
The Pledge Agreement provides that all payments in respect of the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio received by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire transfer in same day funds (i) in the case of (A) quarterly cash distributions on Normal Units which include Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio and (B) any payments in respect of the Notes, Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, to the Agent to the account designated by the Agent, no later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day) and (ii) in the case of payments in respect of any Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to be paid upon settlement of such Holder's obligations to purchase Common Stock under the Purchase Contract, to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date (as defined herein) in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, in full satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders of the Normal Units of which such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such Normal Units. Quarterly distributions on Normal Units which include Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, which are payable quarterly in arrears on February 16, May 16, August 16 and November 16 each year, commencing February 16, 2002 (a "Payment Date"), shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent (if the Collateral Agent is the registered owner thereof), be paid to the Person in whose name this Normal Units Certificate (or a Predecessor Normal Units Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on November 16, 2004 (the "Stock Purchase Date"), at a price equal to $100 (the "Stated Amount"), a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock, $1 par value per share ("Common Stock"), of the Company, equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date there shall have occurred a Termination Event or a Cash Settlement, Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement with respect to the Normal Units of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. The Purchase Price (as defined herein) for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, if not paid earlier, shall be paid on the Stock Purchase Date by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, pledged to secure the obligations of the Holder under such Purchase Contract.
Payments on the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, will be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on the Normal Units Register or by wire transfer to an account specified by such Person at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
The Company shall pay on each Payment Date in respect of each Purchase Contract forming part of a Normal Unit evidenced hereby an amount (the "Contract Adjustment Payment") equal to 2.0% per year of the Stated Amount, computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, subject to deferral at the option of the Company as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof (provided that if any date on which a Contract Adjustment Payment is to be made on the Purchase Contracts is not a Business Day, then payment of such Contract Adjustment Payment payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day, and no interest or payment will be paid in respect of such delay, except that if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, then such payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day). Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the Person in whose name this Normal Units Certificate (or a Predecessor Normal Units Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on the Normal Units Register or by wire transfer to the account designated to the Agent by a prior written
notice by such Person delivered at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Agent by manual signature, this Normal Units Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to obligations of
such Holder under the Purchase Contracts
evidenced hereby)
By: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, not individually but
solely as Attorney-in-Fact of such Holder
By: __________________________________
Authorized Officer
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This is one of the Normal Units Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Purchase Contract Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Purchase Contract Agent
Dated: _______________________ By:___________________________
Authorized Officer
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(Form of Reverse of Normal Units Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001 (as may be supplemented from time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its successors thereunder, herein called the "Agent"), to which Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company, and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Normal Units Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Stock Purchase Date at a price equal to $100 (the "Purchase Price"), a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event or an Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement with respect to the Unit of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is greater than or equal to $107.97 (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 0.9262 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $88.50, the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to $88.50, 1.1299 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date.
The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company.
A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the- counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby may be settled prior to the Stock Purchase Date through Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement, in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby (i) by effecting a Cash Settlement, Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement, (ii) by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Treasury Consideration acquired from the proceeds of a remarketing of the related Pledged Notes underlying the Normal Units represented by this Normal Units Certificate or (iii) if the Holder has elected not to participate in the remarketing, by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Treasury Consideration deposited by such Holder in respect of such Purchase Contract, or (iv) if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred prior to the successful remarketing of the Notes by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio purchased by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate. If, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, upon the occurrence of a Last Failed Remarketing the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, exercises its rights as a secured creditor with respect to the Pledged Notes related to this Normal Units Certificate, any accrued and unpaid interest on such Pledged Notes will become payable by the Company to the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate in the manner provided for in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Notes. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders of Notes are entitled to vote or upon the solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Notes, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the Holders of Normal Units a notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each such Holder on the record date set by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the record date for determining the holders of Notes entitled to vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the Pledged Notes constituting a part of such Holder's Normal Units and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the written request of the Holders of Normal Units on such record date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of Pledged Notes as to which any particular voting instructions are received. In the absence of specific instructions from the Holder of a Normal Unit, the Agent shall abstain from voting the Pledged Note evidenced by such Normal Unit.
The Normal Units Certificates are issuable only in registered form and only in denominations of a single Normal Unit and any integral multiple thereof. The transfer of any Normal Units Certificate will be registered and Normal Units Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. The Normal Units Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Holder of a Normal Unit may substitute for the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, securing its obligations under the related Purchase Contract Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after such Collateral Substitution, the Unit for which such Pledged Treasury Securities secures the Holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract shall be referred to as a "Stripped Unit." A Holder that elects to substitute a Treasury Security for Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, thereby creating Stripped Units, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in
connection therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Normal Unit remains in effect, such Normal Unit shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Normal Units in respect of the Pledged Note, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and Purchase Contract constituting such Normal Unit may be transferred and exchanged only as a Normal Unit.
A Holder of Stripped Units may reestablish Normal Units by delivering to the Collateral Agent Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in exchange for the release of the Pledged Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable in respect of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Normal Units Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date. Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at the office of the Agent in the City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Normal Units Register or by wire transfer to the account designated by such Person in writing at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Stock Purchase Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to defer Contract Adjustment Payments as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of 5.25% per year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the additional Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, accrued thereon, are referred to herein as the "Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Stock Purchase Date and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Stock Purchase Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be
payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Stock Purchase Date, the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate will receive on the Stock Purchase Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (i) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to the Holder of this Normal Units Certificate divided by (ii) the Applicable Market Value.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the
payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay
dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its Common Stock
other than (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock
in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers or directors or a
stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company
of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date
the Company exercises its rights to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments; (ii)
as a result of a reclassification of the Company's Common Stock or the exchange
or conversion of one class or series of for another class or series of the
Company's Common Stock; (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of
any series of the Company's Common Stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
provisions of such Common Stock or the security being converted or exchanged;
(iv) dividends or distributions in any series of the Company's Common Stock (or
rights to acquire Common Stock) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions of
Common Stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of any series of Common
Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of our Common
Stock; or (v) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of any rights outstanding
under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a
dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, and the rights of the Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral
Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Normal Units Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the Pledge in accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Normal Units Certificate, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Normal Units Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder, by its acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Normal Units Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contracts forming part of the Normal Units evidenced hereby on his behalf as his attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on such Holder's behalf as attorney-in-fact, and consents to the Pledge of the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying this Normal Units Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement. The Holder further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments in respect of the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to be paid upon settlement of such Holder's obligations to purchase Common Stock under the Purchase Contract, shall be paid on the Stock Purchase Date by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such payments.
Each Holder of any Unit, and each Beneficial Owner thereof, by its acceptance thereof or of its interest therein, further agrees to treat (i) itself as the owner of the related Notes, Treasury Consideration, Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, and (ii) the Notes as indebtedness of the Company, in each case, for all tax purposes.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Normal Units Certificate is registered as the owner of the Normal Units evidenced hereby for the purpose of receiving quarterly payments on the Notes, the Treasury Consideration or the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, receiving payments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, and any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever (subject to the Record Date provisions hereof), whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the Agent, such Affiliates nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof, entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Agent.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM - as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - Custodian
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(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
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Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other Identifying Number of Assignee)
(Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)
the within Normal Units Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ___________________________ attorney to transfer said Normal Units Certificates on the books of Northrop Grumman Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _________________________ Signature: _____________________________ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Normal Units Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature Guarantee: ___________________________________________________________
SETTLEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Stock Purchase Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Normal Units evidenced by this Normal Units Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated: ______________________ Signature: _________________________
Signature Guarantee: _______________
(if assigned to another person)
If shares are to be registered in the name REGISTERED HOLDER
of and delivered to a Person other than the
Holder, please (i) print such Person's Please print name and address of
name and address and (ii) provide a Registered Holder:
guarantee of your signature:
_________________________________________ _____________________________________
Name Name
_________________________________________ _____________________________________
Address Address
Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Normal Units Certificate hereby irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Normal Units evidenced by this Normal Units Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Normal Units with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share and any Normal Units Certificate representing any Normal Units evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated: ____________________ Signature: ___________________________ Signature Guarantee: _________________
Number of Units evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock are to be REGISTERED HOLDER
registered in the name of and delivered to
and Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Please print name and address of
Consideration or Pledged Applicable Registered Holder:
Ownership Interest in the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, are to be
transferred to a Person other than the
Holder, please print such Person's name
and address:
_________________________________________ _____________________________________
Name Name
_________________________________________ _____________________________________
Address Address
-1-
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Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any |
Transfer instructions for Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, transferable upon Early Settlement [or a Termination Event]:
(TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES)
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:
Amount of Stated Amount
Decrease in Amount of of the Global
Stated Increase in Certificate
Amount of State Amount Following
the Global of the Global Such Decrease Signature of
Date Certificate Certificate or Increase Authorizing Officer
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF STRIPPED UNITS CERTIFICATE
[FOR INCLUSION IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATES ONLY -- THIS CERTIFICATE IS A
GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) 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 such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]
Form of Face of Stripped Units Certificate
No. CUSIP No. ____________
Number of Stripped Units
This Stripped Units Certificate certifies that [For inclusion in
Global Certificates only -- Cede & Co.] is the registered Holder of the number
of Stripped Units set forth above [For inclusion in Global Certificates only -
or such other number of Stripped Units reflected in the Schedule of Increases or
Decreases in Global Certificate attached hereto]. Each Stripped Unit represents
(i) a 1/10 undivided beneficial ownership interest in a Treasury Security,
subject to the Pledge of such interest in such Treasury Security by such Holder
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the
Holder under one Purchase Contract with Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"). All capitalized terms used herein which are defined
in the Purchase Contract Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Treasury Security constituting part of each Stripped Unit evidenced hereby has been pledged to the Collateral Agent,
for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder under the Purchase Contract comprising a part of such Stripped Unit.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on November 16, 2004 (the "Stock Purchase Date"), at a price equal to $100 (the "Stated Amount"), a number of shares of Common Stock, $1.00 par value per share ("Common Stock"), of the Company, equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date there shall have occurred a Termination Event or an Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement with respect to the Stripped Units of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. The Purchase Price (as defined herein) for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, if not paid earlier, shall be paid on the Stock Purchase Date by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Treasury Securities pledged to secure the obligations under such Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement.
The Company shall pay on each Payment Date in respect of each Purchase Contract forming part of a Stripped Unit evidenced hereby an amount (the "Contract Adjustment Payments") equal to 2.0% per year of the Stated Amount, computed on the basis of a 360-day year of 12 30-day months, subject to deferral at the option of the Company as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof (provided that if any date on which Contract Adjustment Payments are to be made on the Purchase Contracts is not a Business Day, then payment of the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on that date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day, and no interest or payment will be paid in respect of the delay, except that if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day). Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the Person in whose name this Stripped Units Certificate (or a Predecessor Stripped Units Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at the office of the Agent in the City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Stripped Units Register or by wire transfer to the account designated by such Person in writing at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Agent by manual signature, this Stripped Units Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to obligations of
such Holder under the Purchase Contracts)
By: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, not individually
but solely as Attorney-in-Fact of such
Holder
By: ____________________________________
Authorized Officer
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Stripped Units referred to in the within-mentioned Purchase Contract Agreement.
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
as Purchase Contract Agent
Dated:________________________ By:____________________________
Authorized Officer
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(Reverse of Stripped Units Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001 (as may be supplemented from time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its successors thereunder, herein called the "Agent"), to which the Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Stripped Units Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Stock Purchase Date at a price equal to $100 (the "Purchase Price"), a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event or an Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement with respect to the Unit of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is greater than or equal to $107.97 (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 0.9262 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $88.50, the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to $88.50, 1.1299 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date.
The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company.
A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby may be settled prior to the Stock Purchase Date through Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement, in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby (i) by effecting an Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement or (ii) by application of payments received in respect of the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying the Stripped Units represented by this Stripped Units Certificate.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
The Stripped Units Certificates are issuable only in registered form and only in denominations of a single Stripped Unit and any integral multiple thereof. The transfer of any Stripped Units Certificate will be registered and Stripped Units
Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. The Stripped Units Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Holder of a Stripped Unit may substitute for the Pledged Treasury Securities securing its obligations under the related Purchase Contract Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after such substitution, the Unit for which such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio secures the Holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract shall be referred to as a "Normal Unit." A Holder that elects to substitute Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, for Pledged Treasury Securities, thereby reestablishing Normal Units, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in connection therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Stripped Unit remains in effect, such Stripped Unit shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Stripped Unit in respect of the Pledged Treasury Security and the Purchase Contract constituting such Stripped Unit may be transferred and exchanged only as a Stripped Unit.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments, payable in respect of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Stripped Units Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date. Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at the office of the Agent in the City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Stripped Units Register or by wire transfer to the account designated by such Person in writing at least five Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Stock Purchase Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to defer Contract Adjustment Payments as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of 5.25% per year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of 12 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if
any, together with the additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, are referred to herein as the "Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Stock Purchase Date and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Stock Purchase Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Stock Purchase Date, the
Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate will receive on the Stock Purchase
Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition
to the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to
(i) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to the
Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate divided by (ii) the Applicable Market
Value.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its Common Stock other than (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of Capital Stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers or directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date the Company exercises its rights to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments; (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company's Common Stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company's Common Stock for another class or series of the Company's Common Stock; (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's Common Stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such Common Stock or the security being converted or exchanged; (iv) dividends or distributions in Common Stock (or rights to acquire Common Stock) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions of Capital Stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of our Common Stock); or (v) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of any rights outstanding under a
shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, and the rights and obligations of Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Stripped Units Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Treasury Securities from the Pledge in accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Stripped Units Certificate, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Stripped Units Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder, by his acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate, by his acceptance hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contracts forming part of the Stripped Units evidenced hereby on his behalf as its attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on such Holder's behalf as attorney-in- fact, and consents to the Pledge of the Treasury Securities underlying this Stripped Units Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement. The Holder further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments in respect of the Pledged Treasury Securities, to be paid upon settlement of such Holder's obligations to purchase Common Stock under the Purchase Contract, shall be paid on the Stock Purchase Date by the Collateral Agent to
the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such payments.
Each Holder of any Unit, and each Beneficial Owner thereof, by its acceptance thereof or of its interest therein, further agrees to treat (i) itself as the owner of the related Notes, Treasury Consideration or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, and (ii) the Notes as indebtedness of the Company, in each case, for United States federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Stripped Units Certificate is registered as the owner of the Stripped Units evidenced hereby for the purpose of receiving any Contract Adjustment Payments and any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever (subject to the Record Date provisions hereof), whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the Agent, such Affiliate, nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof, entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Agent.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM - as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - Custodian
________________________________
(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
________________________________
(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and
not as tenants in common
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Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other Identifying Number of Assignee)
(Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)
the within Stripped Units Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ____________________________ attorney to transfer said Stripped Units Certificates on the books of Northrop Grumman Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: ______________________ Signature: ___________________________
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must
correspond with the name as it appears upon the
face of the within Stripped Units Certificates in
every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever.
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Signature Guarantee: ___________________________________________________
SETTLEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Stock Purchase Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Stripped Units evidenced by this Stripped Units Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated: ___________________ Signature: _________________________________
Signature Guarantee: _______________________
(if assigned to another person)
If shares are to be registered in the REGISTERED HOLDER
name of and delivered to a Person other
than the Holder, please (i) print such Please print name and address of
Person's name and address and (ii) Registered Holder:
provide a guarantee of your signature:
__________________________________ __________________________________
Name Name
__________________________________ __________________________________
Address Address
Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Stripped Units Certificate hereby irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Stripped Units evidenced by this Stripped Units Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Stripped Units with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share and any Stripped Units Certificate representing any Stripped Units evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Treasury Securities deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated: ____________________ Signature: ___________________________________ Signature Guarantee: _________________________
Number of Units evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock are to REGISTERED HOLDER
be registered in the name of and
delivered to and Pledged Treasury Please print name and address of
Securities are to be transferred Registered Holder:
to a Person other than the Holder,
please print such Person's name
and address:
__________________________________ ______________________________________
Name Name
__________________________________ ______________________________________
Address Address
Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any
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Transfer instructions for Pledged Treasury Securities transferable upon Early Settlement [or a Termination Event]:
(TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES)
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:
Stated Amount of
Amount of Decrease Amount of Increase the Global
in Stated Amount in Stated Amount of Certificate
of the Global the Global Following Such Signature of Authorizing
Date Certificate Certificate Decrease or Increase Officer
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EXHIBIT C
INSTRUCTION FROM PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT TO
COLLATERAL AGENT
The Bank of New York,
as Collateral Agent
101 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10286
We hereby notify you in accordance with Section [4.1] [4.2] of the
Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, (the "Pledge Agreement") among
the Company, you, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities
Intermediary and us, as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the
holders of [Normal Units] [Stripped Units] from time to time, that the holder of
Units listed below (the "Holder") has elected to substitute [$_____ aggregate
principal amount of Treasury Securities (CUSIP No. _________)] [$_______
aggregate principal amount of Notes or $_____ aggregate principal amount of
Treasury Consideration (CUSIP No. _____) or the Applicable Ownership Interest of
the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for the related
[Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged
Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,]
[Pledged Treasury Securities] held by you in accordance with the Pledge
Agreement and has delivered to us a notice stating that the Holder has
Transferred [Treasury Securities] [Notes, the Treasury Consideration or the
appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be,] to you, as Collateral Agent. We hereby instruct you, upon receipt of
such [Pledged Treasury Securities] [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury
Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,], and upon the payment by such Holder of
any applicable fees, to release the [Notes, the Treasury Consideration or the
appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be,] [Treasury Securities] related to such [Normal Units] [Stripped Units]
to us in accordance with the Holder's instructions. Capitalized terms used
herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: _____________________
JPMORGAN CHASE Bank,
as Purchase Contract Agent
By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder electing to substitute
[Treasury Securities] [Notes, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio] for the [Pledged Notes,
Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership
Interest in the Treasury Portfolio] [Pledged Treasury Securities]:
Name:
Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any:
Address:
EXHIBIT D
INSTRUCTION TO PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
as Purchase Contract Agent
450 West 33/rd/ Street
New York, NY 10001
Attn: Institutional Trust Services
Telecopy: (212) 946-8160
Re: Equity Security Units of Northrop Grumman Corporation (the "Company")
The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you that it has delivered to The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary [$_______ aggregate principal amount of Treasury Securities (CUSIP No. _________)] [$_______ aggregate principal amount of Notes or $_____ principal amount of Treasury Consideration (CUSIP No. _____) or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] in exchange for the related [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section [4.1] [4.2] of the Pledge Agreement, dated November 21, 2001 (the "Pledge Agreement"), among you, the Company and the Collateral Agent. The undersigned Holder has paid the Collateral Agent all applicable fees relating to such exchange. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to instruct the Collateral Agent to release to you on behalf of the undersigned Holder the [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] [Pledged Treasury Securities] related to such [Normal Units] [Stripped Units]. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: ___________________ Signature:___________________________________
Signature Guarantee: _______________________
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name:
Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any:
Address:
EXHIBIT E
NOTICE TO SETTLE BY SEPARATE CASH
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
as Purchase Contract Agent
450 West 33/rd/ Street
New York, NY 10001
Attn: Institutional Trust Services
Telecopy: (212) 946-8160
Re: Equity Security Units of Northrop Grumman Corporation (the "Company")
The undersigned Holder hereby irrevocably notifies you in accordance with Section 5.5 of the Purchase Contract Agreement dated as of November 21, 2001 among the Company and yourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent and as Attorney-in-Fact for the Holders of the Purchase Contracts, that such Holder has elected to pay to the Collateral Agent, on or prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, (in lawful money of the United States by [certified or cashiers check or] wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds), $_________ as the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock issuable to such Holder by the Company under the related Purchase Contract on the Stock Purchase Date. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to notify promptly the Collateral Agent of the undersigned Holder's election to make such cash settlement with respect to the Purchase Contracts related to such Holder's Normal Units.
Dated:_____________ ____________________________________________
Signature
Signature Guarantee:_______________
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Signatures must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any:
EXHIBIT 4.4
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent
and Securities Intermediary
AND
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
as Purchase Contract Agent
PLEDGE AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 21, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS......................................................................................... 2
SECTION 1.1 Definitions.................................................................................... 2
ARTICLE II PLEDGE; CONTROL AND PERFECTION..................................................................... 4
SECTION 2.1 The Pledge..................................................................................... 4
SECTION 2.2 Control and Perfection......................................................................... 6
ARTICLE III PAYMENTS ON PLEDGED COLLATERAL.................................................................... 8
SECTION 3.1 Payments....................................................................................... 8
SECTION 3.2 Application of Payments........................................................................ 9
ARTICLE IV SUBSTITUTION, RELEASE, REPLEDGE AND SETTLEMENT OF NOTES............................................ 10
SECTION 4.1 Collateral Substitution and the Creation of Stripped Units..................................... 10
SECTION 4.2 Collateral Substitution and the Re-Creation of Normal Units.................................... 11
SECTION 4.3 Termination Event.............................................................................. 11
SECTION 4.4 Early Settlement; Merger Early Settlement; Cash Settlement..................................... 12
SECTION 4.5 Remarketing; Application of Proceeds; Settlement............................................... 13
ARTICLE V VOTING RIGHTS -- NOTES.............................................................................. 16
SECTION 5.1 Exercise by Purchase Contract Agent............................................................ 16
ARTICLE VI RIGHTS AND REMEDIES; TAX EVENT REDEMPTION.......................................................... 16
SECTION 6.1 Rights and Remedies of the Collateral Agent.................................................... 16
SECTION 6.2 Substitutions.................................................................................. 18
SECTION 6.3 Tax Event Redemption........................................................................... 18
ARTICLE VII REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; COVENANTS......................................................... 18
SECTION 7.1 Representations and Warranties................................................................. 18
SECTION 7.2 Covenants...................................................................................... 19
ARTICLE VIII THE COLLATERAL AGENT............................................................................. 20
SECTION 8.1 Appointment, Powers and Immunities............................................................. 20
SECTION 8.2 Instructions of the Company.................................................................... 21
SECTION 8.3 Reliance....................................................................................... 22
SECTION 8.4 Rights in Other Capacities..................................................................... 22
SECTION 8.5 Non-Reliance on Collateral Agent............................................................... 22
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SECTION 8.6 Compensation and Indemnity..................................................................... 23 SECTION 8.7 Failure to Act................................................................................. 23 SECTION 8.8 Resignation.................................................................................... 24 SECTION 8.9 Right to Appoint Agent or Advisor.............................................................. 25 SECTION 8.10 Survival....................................................................................... 26 SECTION 8.11 Exculpation.................................................................................... 26 ARTICLE IX AMENDMENT.......................................................................................... 26 SECTION 9.1 Amendment Without Consent of Holders........................................................... 26 SECTION 9.2 Amendment with Consent of Holders.............................................................. 27 SECTION 9.3 Execution of Amendments........................................................................ 27 SECTION 9.4 Effect of Amendments........................................................................... 28 SECTION 9.5 Reference to Amendments........................................................................ 28 ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS....................................................................................... 28 SECTION 10.1 No Waiver...................................................................................... 28 SECTION 10.2 GOVERNING LAW.................................................................................. 29 SECTION 10.3 Notices........................................................................................ 29 SECTION 10.4 Successors and Assigns......................................................................... 29 SECTION 10.5 Counterparts................................................................................... 30 SECTION 10.6 Severability................................................................................... 30 SECTION 10.7 Expenses, Etc.................................................................................. 30 SECTION 10.8 Security Interest Absolute...................................................................... 31 SECTION 10.9 Waiver of Jury Trial........................................................................... 31 |
EXHIBIT A Instruction from Purchase Contract Agent to Collateral Agent EXHIBIT B Instruction to Purchase Contract Agent EXHIBIT C Instruction to Custodial Agent Regarding Remarketing |
EXHIBIT D Instruction to Custodial Agent Regarding Withdrawal from Remarketing
PLEDGE AGREEMENT
PLEDGE AGREEMENT, dated as of November 21, 2001 (this "Agreement"), among Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, not individually but solely as collateral agent (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the "Collateral Agent"), as custodial agent (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the "Custodial Agent") and as "securities intermediary" as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the Code (as defined herein) (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the "Securities Intermediary"), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, not individually but solely as purchase contract agent and as attorney-in-fact of the Holders from time to time of the Units (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the "Purchase Contract Agent") under the Purchase Contract Agreement (as defined herein).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company and the Purchase Contract Agent are parties to the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as modified and supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), pursuant to which there may be issued Units having a Stated Amount of $100 per Unit, all of which will initially be Normal Units.
WHEREAS, each Normal Unit will be comprised of (a) a Purchase Contract and
(b) either beneficial ownership of (i) a Note, (ii) following the successful
remarketing of the Notes in accordance with the Purchase Contract Agreement and
the Remarketing Agreement, the appropriate Treasury Consideration or (iii)
following a Tax Event Redemption in accordance with the Purchase Contract
Agreement, any Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio.
WHEREAS, in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, a holder of Normal Units may separate the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the related Purchase Contracts by substituting for such Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, Treasury Securities that will pay in the aggregate an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Normal Units. Upon such separation, the Normal Units will become Stripped Units. Each Stripped Unit will be comprised of (a) a Purchase Contract and (b) a 1/10 undivided beneficial interest in a Treasury Security.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Purchase Contracts, the Holders, from time to time, of the Units have irrevocably authorized the Purchase Contract Agent, as attorney-in-fact of such Holders, among
other things, to execute and deliver this Agreement on behalf of such Holders and to grant the pledge provided hereby of the Notes, any Treasury Consideration, any Treasury Securities and any Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio delivered in exchange therefor to secure each Holder's obligations under the related Purchase Contract, as provided herein and subject to the terms hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent, on its own behalf and as attorney-in-fact of the Holders from time to time of the Units, agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
For all purposes of this agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) capitalized terms used but not defined herein are used as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement;
(b) the defined terms in this Agreement have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular; and
(c) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Code" has the meaning specified in Section 6.1 hereof.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Collateral Account" means the securities account (number 423831) maintained at The Bank of New York in the name "JPMorgan Chase Bank, a New York banking corporation, as Purchase Contract Agent on behalf of the holders of certain securities of Northrop Grumman Corporation, Collateral Account subject to the security interest
of The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Northrop Grumman Corporation, as pledgee" and any successor account.
"Collateral Agent" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, and thereafter "Company" shall mean such successor.
"Custodial Agent" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Intermediary" means any entity that in the ordinary course of its business maintains securities accounts for others and is acting in that capacity.
"Pledge" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Pledged Notes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Pledged Treasury Consideration" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Pledged Treasury Securities" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 hereof.
"Proceeds" means all interest, dividends, cash, instruments, securities, financial assets (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the Code) and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed upon the sale, exchange, collection or disposition of the Collateral or any proceeds thereof.
"Purchase Contract Agent" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Purchase Contract Agreement" has the meaning specified in the Recitals.
"Securities Intermediary" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
"Security Entitlement" has the meaning set forth in Section 8-102(a) (17) of the Code.
"Separate Notes" means any Notes that are not Pledged Notes.
"Tax Event Redemption Date" means the date upon which a Tax Event Redemption is to occur.
"TRADES Regulations" means the regulations of the United States Department of the Treasury, published at 31 C.F.R. Part 357, as amended from time to time. Unless otherwise defined herein, all terms defined in the TRADES Regulations are used herein as therein defined.
"Transfer" means, with respect to the Collateral and in accordance with the instructions of the Collateral Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent or the Holder, as applicable:
(i) in the case of Collateral consisting of securities which cannot be delivered by book-entry or which the parties agree are to be delivered in physical form, delivery in appropriate physical form to the recipient accompanied by any duly executed instruments of transfer, assignments in blank, transfer tax stamps and any other documents necessary to constitute a legally valid transfer to the recipient;
(ii) in the case of Collateral consisting of securities maintained in
book-entry form by causing a "securities intermediary" (as defined in
Section 8-102(a)(14) of the Code) to (a) credit a "security entitlement"
(as defined in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the Code) with respect to such
securities to a "securities account" (as defined in Section 8-501(a) of the
Code) maintained by or on behalf of the recipient and (b) to issue a
confirmation to the recipient with respect to such credit. In the case of
Collateral to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, the securities
intermediary shall be the Securities Intermediary and the securities
account shall be the Collateral Account. In addition, any Transfer of
Treasury Securities and Treasury Consideration hereunder shall be made in
accordance with the TRADES Regulations and other applicable law.
ARTICLE II
PLEDGE; CONTROL AND PERFECTION
(a) The Holders from time to time acting through the Purchase Contract Agent, as their attorney-in-fact, and the Purchase Contract Agent, as such attorney-in-fact, hereby pledge and grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, as collateral security for the performance when due by such Holders of their respective obligations under the related Purchase Contracts, a security interest in all of the right, title and interest of the Purchase Contract Agent and such Holders in:
(i) (A) the Notes, Treasury Consideration, Treasury Securities
and any Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio
constituting a part of the Units, (B) any Treasury Securities delivered in
exchange for any Notes, Treasury Consideration or any Applicable Ownership
Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, in accordance with
Section 4.1 hereof, and (C) any Notes, Treasury Consideration or any
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable,
delivered in exchange for any Treasury Securities in accordance with
Section 4.2 hereof, in each case that have been Transferred to or otherwise
received by the Collateral Agent and not released by the Collateral Agent
to such Holders under the provisions of this Agreement;
(ii) the Collateral Account and all securities, financial assets, security entitlements, cash and other property credited thereto and all Security Entitlements related thereto; and
(iii) all Proceeds of the foregoing (all of the foregoing, collectively, the "Collateral").
(b) Prior to or concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Purchase Contract Agent, on behalf of the initial Holders of the Units, shall cause the Notes comprising a part of the Normal Units to be Transferred to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company.
(c) The pledge provided in this Section 2.1 is herein referred to as the "Pledge" and the Notes (or the Notes that are delivered pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof), Treasury Consideration, Treasury Securities or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio subject to the Pledge, excluding any Notes, Treasury Consideration, Treasury Securities or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio released from the Pledge as provided in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 hereof, respectively, are hereinafter referred to as "Pledged Notes," "Pledged Treasury Consideration," "Pledged Treasury Securities" or "Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio," respectively. Subject to the Pledge and the provisions of Section 2.2 hereof, the Holders from time to time shall have full beneficial ownership of the Collateral. For purposes of perfecting the Pledge under applicable law, including, to the extent applicable, the TRADES Regulations or the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted and in effect in any applicable jurisdiction, the Collateral Agent shall be the agent of the Company as provided herein. Whenever directed by the Collateral Agent acting on behalf of the Company, the Securities Intermediary shall have the right to re- register in its name the Notes or any other securities held in physical form.
(d) Except as may be required in order to release Notes or Treasury Consideration, as applicable, in connection with a Tax Event Redemption or with a Holder's election to convert its investment from a Normal Unit to a Stripped Unit, or
except as otherwise required to release Notes as specified herein, neither the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent nor the Securities Intermediary shall relinquish physical possession of any certificate evidencing a Note prior to the termination of this Agreement. If it becomes necessary for the Securities Intermediary to relinquish physical possession of a certificate in order to release a portion of the Notes evidenced thereby from the Pledge, the Company or the Purchase Contract Agent shall use its best efforts to obtain physical possession of a replacement certificate evidencing any Notes remaining subject to the Pledge hereunder registered to the Securities Intermediary or endorsed in blank within fifteen days of the date the Securities Intermediary relinquished possession. The Securities Intermediary shall promptly notify the Company and the Collateral Agent of the Securities Intermediary's failure to obtain possession of any such replacement certificate as required hereby.
(a) In connection with the Pledge granted in Section 2.1, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Holders from time to time acting through the Purchase Contract Agent, as their attorney-in-fact, hereby authorize and direct the Securities Intermediary (without the necessity of obtaining the further consent of the Purchase Contract Agent or any of the Holders), and the Securities Intermediary agrees, to comply with and follow any instructions and entitlement orders (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the Code) that the Collateral Agent may deliver with respect to the Collateral Account, the Collateral credited thereto and any Security Entitlements with respect to any thereof. In the event the Securities Intermediary receives from the Holders or the Purchase Contract Agent entitlement orders which conflict with entitlement orders received from the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary shall follow the entitlement orders received from the Collateral Agent. Such instructions and entitlement orders may, without limitation, direct the Securities Intermediary to transfer, redeem, assign, or otherwise deliver the Notes, the Treasury Consideration, the Treasury Securities, any Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio and any Security Entitlements with respect thereto or sell, liquidate or dispose of such assets through a broker designated by the Company, and to pay and deliver any income, proceeds or other funds derived therefrom to the Company. The Holders from time to time acting through the Purchase Contract Agent hereby further authorize and direct the Collateral Agent, as agent of the Company, to itself issue instructions and entitlement orders, and to otherwise take action, with respect to the Collateral Account, the Collateral credited thereto and any Security Entitlements with respect thereto, pursuant to the terms and provisions hereof, all without the necessity of obtaining the further consent of the Purchase Contract Agent or any of the Holders. The Collateral Agent shall be the agent of the Company and shall act only in accordance with the terms hereof or as otherwise directed in writing by the Company. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall issue
entitlement orders to the Securities Intermediary as directed in writing by the Company.
(b) The Securities Intermediary hereby confirms and agrees that:
(i) all securities or other property underlying any financial assets credited to the Collateral Account shall be registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary, or its nominee, indorsed to the Securities Intermediary, or its nominee, or in blank or credited to another Collateral Account maintained in the name of the Securities Intermediary and in no case will any financial asset credited to the Collateral Account be registered in the name of the Purchase Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Company or any Holder, payable to the order of, or specially indorsed to, the Purchase Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Company or any Holder except to the extent the foregoing have been specially indorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in blank;
(ii) all property delivered to the Securities Intermediary pursuant to this Pledge Agreement (including, without limitation, any Notes, Treasury Consideration, Treasury Securities or any Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio) will be promptly credited to the Collateral Account;
(iii) the Collateral Account is an account to which financial assets are or may be credited, and the Securities Intermediary shall, subject to the terms of this Agreement, treat the Purchase Contract Agent as entitled to exercise the rights of any financial asset credited to the Collateral Account;
(iv) the Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and until the termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement with any other Person relating to the Collateral Account and/or any financial assets credited thereto pursuant to which it has agreed to comply with entitlement orders (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the Code) of such other Person; and
(v) the Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and until the termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement with the Company, the Collateral Agent or the Purchase Contract Agent purporting to limit or condition the obligation of the Securities Intermediary to comply with entitlement orders as set forth in this Section 2.2 hereof.
(vi) The Securities Intermediary hereby agrees that each item of property (whether investment property, financial asset, security, instrument or cash) credited to the Collateral Account shall be treated as a "financial asset" within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the Code.
(vii) In the event of any conflict between this Agreement (or any portion thereof) and any other agreement now existing or hereafter entered into, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail.
(c) The Purchase Contract Agent hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent and the Company, with full power of substitution, as the Purchase Contract Agent's attorney-in-fact to take on behalf of, and in the name, place and stead of, the Purchase Contract Agent and the Holders, any action necessary or desirable to perfect and to keep perfected the security interest in the Collateral referred to in Section 2.1. The grant of such power- of-attorney shall not be deemed to require of the Collateral Agent any specific duties or obligations not otherwise assumed by the Collateral Agent hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Collateral Agent or Securities Intermediary be responsible for the preparation or filing of any financing or continuation statements in the appropriate jurisdictions or responsible for maintenance or perfection of any security interest hereunder.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENTS ON PLEDGED COLLATERAL
So long as the Purchase Contract Agent is the registered owner of the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, it shall receive all payments thereon. If the Pledged Notes are reregistered, such that the Collateral Agent becomes the registered holder, all payments of the principal of, or interest on, the Pledged Notes and all payments of the principal of, or cash distributions on, any Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Treasury Securities or any Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, that are received by the Collateral Agent and that are properly payable hereunder, shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire transfer in same day funds:
(i) in the case of (A) quarterly cash distributions on Normal Units which include Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or any Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, any interest payments with respect to the Pledged Notes or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio (as specified in clause (B) of the definition of Applicable Ownership Interest) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and (B) any payments of principal or, if applicable, the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio with respect to any Notes, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, that have been released from the Pledge
pursuant to Section 4.3 hereof, to the Purchase Contract Agent, for the benefit of the relevant Holders of the Normal Units, to the account designated by the Purchase Contract Agent for such purpose, no later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day);
(ii) in the case of any payments with respect to any Treasury Securities that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to Section 4.3 hereof, to the Holders of the Stripped Units to the accounts designated by them in writing for such purpose no later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 10 a.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day); and
(iii) in the case of payments in respect of any Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Treasury Securities or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to be paid upon settlement of such Holder's obligations to purchase Common Stock under the Purchase Contract, to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date in accordance with the procedure set forth in Section 4.5(a) or 4.5(b) hereof, in full satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders under the related Purchase Contracts.
All payments received by the Purchase Contract Agent as provided herein shall be applied by the Purchase Contract Agent pursuant to the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement. If, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Purchase Contract Agent shall receive any payments of principal on account of any Note, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, that, at the time of such payment, is a Pledged Note, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or a Holder of a Stripped Unit shall receive any payments of principal on account of any Treasury Securities that, at the time of such payment, are Pledged Treasury Securities, the Purchase Contract Agent or such Holder shall hold the same as trustee of an express trust for the benefit of the Company (and promptly deliver the same over to the Company) for application
to the obligations of the Holders under the related Purchase Contracts, and the Holders shall acquire no right, title or interest in any such payments of principal so received.
ARTICLE IV
SUBSTITUTION, RELEASE, REPLEDGE AND SETTLEMENT OF NOTES
At any time on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding
the Stock Purchase Date, a Holder of Normal Units shall have the right to
substitute Treasury Securities for the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury
Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, securing such Holder's obligations under the
Purchase Contracts comprising a part of such Normal Units, in integral multiples
of 10 Normal Units, or after a remarketing of the Notes pursuant to the Purchase
Contract Agreement, in integral multiples of Normal Units such that Treasury
Securities to be deposited and the applicable Treasury Consideration to be
released are in integral multiples of $1,000, by (a) Transferring to the
Collateral Agent Treasury Securities having an aggregate principal amount equal
to the aggregate Stated Amount of such Normal Units and (b) delivering such
Normal Units to the Purchase Contract Agent, accompanied by a notice,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, to the Purchase Contract Agent
stating that such Holder has Transferred Treasury Securities to the Collateral
Agent pursuant to clause (a) above (stating the principal amount and the CUSIP
numbers of the Treasury Securities Transferred by such Holder) and requesting
that the Purchase Contract Agent instruct the Collateral Agent to release from
the Pledge the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,
related to such Normal Units, whereupon the Purchase Contract Agent shall
promptly give such instruction in writing to the Collateral Agent in the form
provided in Exhibit A; provided that, such Holder may not substitute such
Treasury Securities for such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or
Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio pursuant to this
Section 4.1 during the period from four Business Days prior to any Remarketing
Period until the expiration of three Business Days after the end of such
Remarketing Period. Upon receipt of Treasury Securities from a Holder of Normal
Units and the related written instruction from the Purchase Contract Agent, the
Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration
or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the
case may be, and shall promptly Transfer such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury
Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, free and clear of any lien, pledge or security
interest created hereby, to the Purchase Contract Agent. All items Transferred
and/or substituted by any Holder pursuant to this
Section 4.1, Section 4.2 or any other Section of this Agreement shall be Transferred and/or substituted free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances.
At any time on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding
the Stock Purchase Date, a Holder of Stripped Units shall have the right to
reestablish Normal Units (a) consisting of the Purchase Contracts and Notes in
integral multiples of 10 Normal Units, or (b) after a remarketing of the Notes
pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement or a Tax Event Redemption,
consisting of the Purchase Contracts and the appropriate Treasury Consideration
(identified and calculated by reference to the Treasury Consideration then
comprising Normal Units) or the appropriate portion of the Treasury Portfolio in
integral multiples of Stripped Units such that the Treasury Consideration or
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio to be deposited and the
Treasury Securities to be released are in integral multiples of $1,000, by (x)
Transferring to the Collateral Agent Notes or the appropriate Treasury
Consideration or the Applicable Ownership Interest (as defined in clause (A) of
the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, then
comprising such number of Normal Units as is equal to such Stripped Units and
(y) delivering such Stripped Units to the Purchase Contract Agent, accompanied
by a notice, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, to the Purchase
Contract Agent stating that such Holder has transferred Notes, Treasury
Consideration or Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio to the
Collateral Agent pursuant to clause (a) above and requesting that the Purchase
Contract Agent instruct the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge the
Pledged Treasury Securities related to such Stripped Units, whereupon the
Purchase Contract Agent shall give such instruction to the Collateral Agent in
the form provided in Exhibit A; provided that, such Holder of Stripped Units
shall not have the right to reestablish Normal Units pursuant to this Section
4.2 during the period from four Business Days prior to any Remarketing Period
until the expiration of three Business Days after the end of such Remarketing
Period. Upon receipt of the Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,
from such Holder and the instruction from the Purchase Contract Agent, the
Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Treasury Securities and shall
promptly Transfer such Pledged Treasury Securities, free and clear of any lien,
pledge or security interest created hereby, to the Purchase Contract Agent.
Treasury Securities to the Purchase Contract Agent for the benefit of the Holders of the Normal Units and the Stripped Units, respectively, free and clear of any lien, pledge or security interest or other interest created hereby.
(b) If such Termination Event shall result from the Company's becoming a debtor under the Bankruptcy Code, and if the Collateral Agent shall for any reason fail promptly to effectuate the release and Transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, as provided by this Section 4.3, the Purchase Contract Agent shall
(i) use its best efforts to obtain at the expense of the Company an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent to the effect that, as a result of the Company's being the debtor in such a bankruptcy case, the Collateral Agent will not be prohibited from releasing or Transferring the Collateral as provided in this Section 4.3, and shall deliver such opinion to the Collateral Agent within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event, and if (y) the Purchase Contract Agent shall be unable to obtain such opinion within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event or (z) the Collateral Agent shall continue, after delivery of such opinion, to refuse to effectuate the release and Transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, as provided in this Section 4.3, then the Purchase Contract Agent shall within fifteen days after the occurrence of such Termination Event commence an action or proceeding in the court with jurisdiction of the Company's case under the Bankruptcy Code seeking an order requiring the Collateral Agent to effectuate the release and transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, as provided by this Section 4.3 or
(ii) commence an action or proceeding like that described in subsection (i)(z) hereof within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event.
Upon written notice to the Collateral Agent by the Purchase Contract Agent that one or more Holders of Units have elected to effect Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement of their respective obligations under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such Units in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contracts and the Purchase Contract Agreement (setting forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holders have elected to effect Early Settlement,
Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement), and that the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holders, and paid to the Company, as confirmed to the Collateral Agent in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amounts, Merger Early Settlement Amounts or Cash Settlement Amounts, as the case may be, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Contracts and the Purchase Contract Agreement and that all conditions to such Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement, as the case may be, have been satisfied, then the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge (a) Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in the case of a Holder of Normal Units or (b) Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of a Holder of Stripped Units, relating to such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holders have elected to effect Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or Cash Settlement, and shall Transfer all such Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, free and clear of the Pledge created hereby, to the Purchase Contract Agent for the benefit of such Holders.
(a) Pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Purchase Contract
Agent shall notify, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day
preceding the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case
may be, the Remarketing Agent and the Collateral Agent of the aggregate
principal amount of Notes comprising part of Normal Units to be remarketed. The
Collateral Agent shall, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day
immediately preceding the first day of any Remarketing Period or any Subsequent
Remarketing Period, as the case may be, without any instruction from Holders of
Normal Units, deliver the Pledged Notes to be remarketed to the Remarketing
Agent for remarketing. After deducting as the remarketing fee an amount not
exceeding 25 basis points (.25%) of the total proceeds of such remarketing of
Pledged Notes, the Remarketing Agent will deliver the Agent-purchased Treasury
Consideration (as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement) purchased from the
proceeds of the remarketing to the Purchase Contract Agent, which shall
thereupon deliver such Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration to the Collateral
Agent. Upon receipt of the Agent-purchased Treasury Consideration from the
Purchase Contract Agent following a successful remarketing, (i) the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Company, shall thereupon hold in the Collateral
Account such Agent-Purchased Treasury Consideration to secure such Normal Units
Holders' obligations under the Purchase Contracts and to fund the quarterly
interest payment due to Normal Units Holders on the Stock Purchase Date, and
(ii) the remaining portion, if any, of the proceeds of such successful
remarketing shall be distributed by the Remarketing Agent to the Purchase
Contract Agent for payment to such Normal Units Holders participating in such
remarketing. On the Stock Purchase Date, the Collateral Agent shall, at the
direction of the Company,
(i) apply that portion of the payments received in respect of the Pledged Treasury Consideration equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the related Normal Units to satisfy in full the obligations of such Normal Units Holders to pay the Purchase Price under the related Purchase Contracts and (ii) apply the remaining portion to pay the quarterly interest payment due to Normal Units Holders on such Stock Purchase Date, which such quarterly interest payment shall be paid on the Pledged Notes in an amount equal to the Coupon Rate for such quarterly interest payment.
(b) Within three Business Days following the Last Failed Remarketing, the Notes delivered to the Remarketing Agent pursuant to Section 4.5(a) hereof shall be returned to the Collateral Agent, together with written notice from the Remarketing Agent of the Last Failed Remarketing. The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, shall thereupon hold such Notes to secure the Normal Units Holders' obligations under the Purchase Contracts. The Remarketing Agent shall make one or more attempts to remarket the Notes in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Remarketing Agreement, provided that the requirements of Section 5.4(b)(ii) of the Purchase Contract Agreement have been met. If by 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, the Remarketing Agent has failed to remarket the Notes at 100.5% of the Remarketing Value (as described in the Purchase Contract Agreement), the Last Failed Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred. In this case, the Remarketing Agent shall advise the Collateral Agent in writing that it cannot remarket the related Pledged Notes of such Holders of Normal Units. If any Holder of Notes exercises it right to put such Holder's Notes to the Company pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the proceeds of the put shall be paid (a) to the Collateral Agent on behalf of such Holder to satisfy such Holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract if such Notes are part of a Normal Unit and (b) to the Holder of such Notes if the Notes are Separate Notes. The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company will, at the written direction of the Company, retain or dispose of the Pledged Notes in accordance with applicable law and satisfy in full, from any such disposition or retention, such Holders' obligations to pay the Purchase Price for the Common Stock; provided, that if upon a Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent exercises such rights for the benefit of the Company with respect to such Notes, any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes will become payable by the Company to the Purchase Contract Agent for payment to the Holder of the Normal Units to which such Notes relate in accordance with the Purchase Contract Agreement.
(c) In the event a Holder of Stripped Units has not made a Cash Settlement, Early Settlement or Merger Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts underlying its Stripped Units, such Holder shall be deemed to have elected to pay for the shares of Common Stock to be issued under such Purchase Contracts from the payments received in respect of the related Pledged Treasury Securities. Without receiving any instruction from any such Holder, the Collateral Agent shall apply such payments to
the settlement of such Purchase Contracts on the Stock Purchase Date. In the event the payments received in respect of the related Pledged Treasury Securities are in excess of the aggregate Purchase Price of the Purchase Contracts being settled thereby, the Collateral Agent shall distribute such excess, when received, to the Purchase Contract Agent for the benefit of such Holders of Stripped Units.
(d) On or prior to the fourth Business Day preceding the first day of any Remarketing Period, but no earlier than the Payment Date immediately preceding August 16, 2004, holders of Separate Notes may elect to have their Separate Notes remarketed by delivering their Separate Notes, together with a notice of such election, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto, to the Custodial Agent. On the third Business Day prior to the first day of any Remarketing Period, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, the Custodial Agent shall notify the Remarketing Agent of the number of such Separate Notes to be remarketed. The Custodial Agent will hold such Separate Notes in an account separate from the Collateral Account. A holder of Separate Notes electing to have its Separate Notes remarketed will also have the right to withdraw such election by written notice to the Custodial Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of any Remarketing Period and any Subsequent Remarketing Period, upon which notice the Custodial Agent will return such Separate Notes to such holder. On the third Business Day immediately preceding the first day of any Remarketing Period and any Subsequent Remarketing Period, the Custodial Agent at the written direction of the Remarketing Agent will deliver to the Remarketing Agent for remarketing all Separate Notes delivered to the Custodial Agent pursuant to this Section 4.5(d) and not withdrawn pursuant to the terms hereof prior to such date. The portion of the proceeds from such remarketing equal to the amount calculated in respect of such Separate Notes as set forth in Section 5.4(b) of the Purchase Contract Agreement will automatically be remitted by the Remarketing Agent to the Custodial Agent for the benefit of the holders of such Separate Notes. In addition, after deducting as the remarketing fee an amount not exceeding 25 basis points (.25%) of the total proceeds of such remarketing of such Separate Notes, the Remarketing Agent will remit to the Custodial Agent the remaining portion of the proceeds, if any, for the benefit of such holders of such Separate Notes. If, despite using its reasonable best efforts, the Remarketing Agent advises the Custodial Agent in writing that there has been a Failed Remarketing, the Remarketing Agent will promptly return such Separate Notes to the Custodial Agent for redelivery to such holders of such Separate Notes.
ARTICLE V
VOTING RIGHTS -- NOTES
The Purchase Contract Agent may exercise, or refrain from exercising, any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Notes or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement; provided, that the Purchase Contract Agent shall not exercise or, as the case may be, shall not refrain from exercising such right if, in the judgment of the Company, such action would impair or otherwise have a material adverse effect on the value of all or any of the Pledged Notes; and provided, further, that the Purchase Contract Agent shall give the Company and the Collateral Agent at least five days' prior written notice of the manner in which it intends to exercise, or its reasons for refraining from exercising, any such right. Upon receipt of any notices and other communications in respect of any Pledged Notes, including notice of any meeting at which holders of Notes are entitled to vote or solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Notes, the Collateral Agent shall use reasonable efforts to send promptly to the Purchase Contract Agent such notice or communication, and as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of a written request therefor from the Purchase Contract Agent, execute and deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent such proxies and other instruments in respect of such Pledged Notes (in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) as are prepared by the Purchase Contract Agent with respect to the Pledged Notes.
ARTICLE VI
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES; TAX EVENT REDEMPTION
(a) In addition to the rights and remedies available at law or in equity, after an event of default under the Purchase Contracts, the Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral of a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code (or any successor thereto) as in effect in the State of New York from time to time (the "Code") (whether or not the Code is in effect in the jurisdiction where the rights and remedies are asserted) and the TRADES Regulations and such additional rights and remedies to which a secured party is entitled under the laws in effect in any jurisdiction where any rights and remedies hereunder may be asserted. Wherever reference is made in this Agreement to any section of the Code, such reference shall be deemed to include a reference to any provision of the Code which is a successor to, or amendment of, such section. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such remedies may include, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, (i) retention of the Pledged Notes or other Collateral in full satisfaction of the Holders' obligations under the Purchase Contracts or (ii) sale of the Pledged Notes or other Collateral in one or more public or private sales, in each case at the written direction of the Company.
(b) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this Agreement to the Collateral Agent, in the event the Collateral Agent is unable to make payments to the Company on account of any Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities as provided in Article III hereof in satisfaction of the obligations of the Holder of the Units of which such Pledged Treasury Consideration or Pledged Treasury Securities, as applicable, is a part under the related Purchase Contracts, the inability to make such payments shall constitute an event of default under the Purchase Contracts and the Collateral Agent shall have and may exercise, with reference to such Pledged Treasury Securities, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Consideration, as applicable, and such obligations of such Holder, any and all of the rights and remedies available to a secured party under the Code and the TRADES Regulations after default by a debtor, and as otherwise granted herein or under any other law.
(c) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this Agreement to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized to receive and collect all payments of (i) the principal amount of, or interest on, the Pledged Notes, or (ii) the principal amount of, or interest (if any) on, the Pledged Treasury Consideration, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Pledged Treasury Securities, subject, in each case, to the provisions of Article III, and as otherwise granted herein.
(d) The Purchase Contract Agent, individually and as attorney-in-fact for each Holder of Units, agrees that, from time to time, upon the written request of the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the written request of the Company), the Purchase Contract Agent or such Holder shall execute and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the written request of the Company) may reasonably request in order to maintain the Pledge, and the perfection and priority thereof, and to confirm the rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder. The Purchase Contract Agent shall have no liability to any Holder for executing any documents or taking any such acts requested by the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the written request of the Company) hereunder, except for liability for its own negligent act, its own negligent failure to act, its bad faith or its own willful misconduct.
Whenever a Holder has the right to substitute Treasury Securities, Notes, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, for Collateral held by the Collateral Agent, such substitution shall not constitute a novation of the security interest created hereby.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to a successful remarketing of the Pledged Notes, the aggregate Redemption Price payable on the Tax Event Redemption Date with respect to such Pledged Notes shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent by the Trustee on or prior to 12:00 p.m., New York City time, by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and at such account as may be designated by the Collateral Agent in exchange for the Pledged Notes. In the event the Collateral Agent receives such Redemption Price, the Collateral Agent will, at the written direction of the Company, apply an amount, out of such Redemption Price, equal to the aggregate Redemption Amount with respect to the Pledged Notes to purchase from the Quotation Agent the Treasury Portfolio and promptly remit the remaining portion of such Redemption Price to the Purchase Contract Agent for payment to the Holders of Normal Units. The Collateral Agent shall Transfer the Treasury Portfolio to the Collateral Account to secure the obligation of all Holders of Normal Units to purchase Common Stock of the Company under the Purchase Contracts constituting a part of such Normal Units, in substitution for the Pledged Notes. Thereafter the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Treasury Portfolio as it had in respect of the Pledged Notes as provided in Articles II, III, IV, V and VI, and any reference herein to the Notes shall be deemed to be reference to such Treasury Portfolio, and any reference herein to interest on the Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to distributions on such Treasury Portfolio.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; COVENANTS
The Holders from time to time, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent as their attorney-in-fact (it being understood that the Purchase Contract Agent shall not be liable for any representation or warranty made by or on behalf of a Holder), hereby represent and warrant to the Collateral Agent, which representations and warranties shall be deemed repeated on each day a Holder Transfers Collateral that:
(a) such Holder has the power to grant a security interest in and lien on the Collateral;
(b) such Holder is the sole beneficial owner of the Collateral and, in the case of Collateral delivered in physical form, is the sole holder of such Collateral and is the sole beneficial owner of, or has the right to Transfer, the Collateral it Transfers to the Collateral Agent, free and clear of any security interest, lien, encumbrance, call, liability to pay money or other restriction other than the security interest and lien granted under Section 2.1 hereof;
(c) upon the Transfer of the Collateral to the Collateral Account, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, will have a valid and perfected first priority security interest therein (assuming that any central clearing operation or any Intermediary or other entity not within the control of the Holder involved in the Transfer of the Collateral, including the Collateral Agent, gives the notices and takes the action required of it hereunder and under applicable law for perfection of that interest and assuming the establishment and exercise of control pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof); and
(d) the execution and performance by the Holder of its obligations under this Agreement will not result in the creation of any security interest, lien or other encumbrance on the Collateral other than the security interest and lien granted under Section 2.1 hereof or violate any provision of any existing law or regulation applicable to it or of any mortgage, charge, pledge, indenture, contract or undertaking to which it is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets.
The Holders from time to time, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent as their attorney-in-fact (it being understood that the Purchase Contract Agent shall not be liable for any covenant made by or on behalf of a Holder), hereby covenant to the Collateral Agent that for so long as the Collateral remains subject to the Pledge:
(a) neither the Purchase Contract Agent nor such Holders will create or purport to create or allow to subsist any mortgage, charge, lien, pledge or any other security interest whatsoever over the Collateral or any part of it other than pursuant to this Agreement; and
(b) neither the Purchase Contract Agent nor such Holders will sell or otherwise dispose (or attempt to dispose) of the Collateral or any part of it except for the beneficial interest therein, subject to the pledge hereunder, transferred in connection with the Transfer of the Units.
ARTICLE VIII
THE COLLATERAL AGENT
(a) The Collateral Agent shall act as agent for the Company hereunder with such powers as are specifically vested in the Collateral Agent by the terms of this Agreement, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Each of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary:
(i) shall have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and no implied covenants or obligations shall be inferred from this Agreement against any of them, nor shall any of them be bound by the provisions of any agreement by any party hereto beyond the specific terms hereof;
(ii) shall not be responsible for any recitals contained in this Agreement, or in any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by it under, this Agreement, the Units or the Purchase Contract Agreement, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement (other than as against the Collateral Agent), the Units or the Purchase Contract Agreement or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or for any failure by the Company or any other Person (except the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be) to perform any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or for the perfection, priority or, except as expressly required hereby, existence, validity, perfection or maintenance of any security interest created hereunder;
(iii) shall not be required to initiate or conduct any litigation or collection proceedings hereunder (except in the case of the Collateral Agent, pursuant to written directions furnished under Section 8.2 hereof, subject to Section 8.6 hereof);
(iv) shall not be responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or in connection herewith or therewith, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct; and
(v) shall not be required to advise any party as to selling or retaining, or taking or refraining from taking any action with respect to, the Units or other property deposited hereunder.
Subject to the foregoing, during the term of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall take all reasonable action in connection with the safekeeping and preservation of the Collateral hereunder.
(b) No provision of this Agreement shall require the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder. In no event shall the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary be liable for any amount in excess of the value of the Collateral or for any special, indirect, individual, consequential damages or lost profits or loss of business, arising in connection with this Agreement even if the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage being incurred and regardless of the form of action. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent and Securities Intermediary, each in its individual capacity, hereby waive any right of setoff, bankers lien, liens or perfection rights as securities intermediary or any counterclaim with respect to any of the Collateral.
(c) The Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary shall have no liability whatsoever for the action or inaction of any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof. In no event shall any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof be deemed an agent or subcustodian of the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary. The Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; war (whether declared or undeclared); terrorism; civil or military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority; governmental actions; or inability to obtain labor, material, equipment or transportation.
The Company shall have the right, by one or more instruments in writing executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for the realization of any right or remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or of exercising any power conferred on the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, or to direct the taking or refraining from taking of any action authorized by this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) such direction shall not conflict with the provisions of any law or of this Agreement and (ii) the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities
Intermediary shall each receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it as provided herein. Nothing in this Section 8.2 shall impair the right of the Collateral Agent in its discretion to take any action or omit to take any action which it deems proper and which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Each of the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled conclusively to rely upon any certification, order, judgment, opinion, notice or other communication (including, without limitation, any thereof by telephone or facsimile) reasonably believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or Persons (without being required to determine the correctness of any fact stated therein), and upon advice and statements of legal counsel and other experts selected by the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder in accordance with instructions given by the Company in accordance with this Agreement.
The Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary and their affiliates may (without having to account therefor to the Company) accept deposits from, lend money to, make their investments in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with the Purchase Contract Agent, any Holder of Units and any holder of Separate Notes (and any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates) as if it were not acting as the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, and the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary and their affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from the Purchase Contract Agent, any Holder of Units or any holder of Separate Notes without having to account for the same to the Company; provided that each of the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Collateral Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that, except as provided in this Agreement, it shall not accept, receive or permit there to be created in favor of itself (and waives any right of set-off or banker's lien with respect to) and shall take no affirmative action to permit there to be created in favor of any other Person, any security interest, lien or other encumbrance of any kind in or upon the Collateral and the Collateral shall not be commingled with any other assets of any such Person.
None of the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Collateral Agent shall be required to keep itself informed as to the performance or observance by
the Purchase Contract Agent or any Holder of Units of this Agreement, the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Units or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or to inspect the properties or books of the Purchase Contract Agent or any Holder of Units. The Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide the Company or the Remarketing Agent with any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of the Purchase Contract Agent, any Holder of Units or any holder of Separate Notes (or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates) that may come into the possession of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary or any of their respective affiliates.
The Company agrees:
(a) to pay each of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, for all services rendered by each of them hereunder, and
(b) to indemnify the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and their officers, directors and agents for, and to hold each of them harmless from and against, any loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket expense incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its powers and duties under this Agreement, including the out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of such powers and duties or collecting such amounts. The Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall each promptly notify the Company of any third party claim which may give rise to the indemnity hereunder and give the Company the opportunity to participate in the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and no such claim shall be settled without the written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary or the termination of this Agreement.
In the event of any ambiguity in the provisions of this Agreement or any dispute between or conflicting claims by or among the parties hereto or any other Person with respect to any funds or property deposited hereunder, the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall be entitled, after prompt notice to the
Company and the Purchase Contract Agent, at its sole option, to refuse to comply with any and all claims, demands or instructions with respect to such property or funds so long as such dispute or conflict shall continue, and none of the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary shall be or become liable in any way to any of the parties hereto for its failure or refusal to comply with such conflicting claims, demands or instructions. The Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall be entitled to refuse to act until either (i) such conflicting or adverse claims or demands shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or settled by agreement between the conflicting parties as evidenced in a writing, reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, or (ii) the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, shall have received security or an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, sufficient to save the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, harmless from and against any and all loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket expense which the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, may incur by reason of its acting without willful misconduct or gross negligence. The Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary may in addition elect to commence an interpleader action or seek other judicial relief or orders as the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, may deem necessary. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, none of the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary shall be required to take any action that is in its opinion contrary to law or to the terms of this Agreement, or which would in its opinion subject it or any of its officers, employees or directors to liability.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as provided below, (a) the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary may resign at any time by giving notice thereof to the Company and the Purchase Contract Agent as attorney-in-fact for the Holders of Units, (b) the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary may be removed at any time by the Company and (c) if the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary fails to perform any of its material obligations hereunder in any material respect for a period of not less than 20 days after receiving written notice of such failure by the Purchase Contract Agent and such failure shall be continuing, the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary may be removed by the Purchase Contract Agent. The Purchase Contract Agent shall promptly notify the Company of any removal of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary pursuant to clause (c) of the immediately preceding sentence. The Company shall promptly notify
the Purchase Contract Agent of any removal of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary pursuant to clause (b) of the second preceding sentence. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Company shall have the right to appoint a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be. If no successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Collateral Agent's, Custodial Agent's or Securities Intermediary's giving of notice of resignation or such removal, then the retiring Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, may at the Company's expense petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be. Each of the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall be a bank which has an office in New York, New York with a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, hereunder by a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, such successor shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, and the retiring Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, shall take all appropriate action to transfer any money and property held by it hereunder (including the Collateral) to such successor after the payment of any outstanding fees, expenses and indemnities due and owing to such remaining party. The retiring Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary shall, upon such succession, be discharged from its duties and obligations as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary hereunder. After any retiring Collateral Agent's, Custodial Agent's or Securities Intermediary's resignation hereunder as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary, the provisions of this Section 8.8, and Section 8.6 hereof, shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary. Any resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent hereunder shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement as the simultaneous resignation or removal of the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary hereunder.
The Collateral Agent shall have the right to appoint or consult with agents or advisors in connection with any of its duties hereunder, and the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by, or in reliance upon the advice of, such agents or advisors selected in good faith. The appointment of agents (other than legal counsel) pursuant to this Section 8.9 shall be subject to prior consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The provisions of this Article VIII shall survive termination of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary.
Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall any of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary or their officers, employees or agents be liable under this Agreement to any third party for indirect, special, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including lost profits, whether or not the likelihood of such loss or damage was known to the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, or any of them, and regardless of the form of action.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENT
Without the consent of any Holders or the holders of any Separate Notes, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Purchase Contract Agent, at any time and from time to time, may amend this Agreement, in form satisfactory to the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Purchase Contract Agent, for any of the following purposes:
(i) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company; or
(ii) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company so long as such covenants or such surrender do not adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of the security interests granted or created hereunder; or
(iii) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary or Purchase Contract Agent; or
(iv) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be inconsistent with any other such provisions herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions arising
under this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the Purchase Contracts at the time outstanding, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, the Company, when duly authorized by a Board Resolution, the Purchase Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary may amend this Agreement for the purpose of modifying in any manner the provisions of this Agreement or the rights of the Holders in respect of the Units; provided, however, that no such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Unit adversely affected thereby,
(i) change the amount or type of Collateral underlying a Unit (except for the rights of holders of Normal Units to substitute the Treasury Securities for the Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or the rights of Holders of Stripped Units to substitute Notes or the appropriate Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, for the Pledged Treasury Securities), impair the right of the Holder of any Unit to receive distributions on the underlying Collateral or otherwise adversely affect the Holder's rights in or to such Collateral; or
(ii) otherwise effect any action that would require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Unit affected thereby pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement if such action were effected by an agreement supplemental thereto; or
(iii) reduce the percentage of Purchase Contracts the consent of whose Holders is required for any such amendment.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
In executing any amendment permitted by this Section, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Purchase Contract Agent shall receive and (subject to Section 8.1 hereof, with respect to the Collateral Agent, and Section 7.1 of the Purchase Contract Agreement, with respect to the Purchase Contract
Agent) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement and that all conditions precedent, if any, to the execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied and, in the case of an amendment pursuant to Section 9.1, that such amendment does not adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of the security interests granted or created hereunder.
Upon the execution of any amendment under this Article IX, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such amendment shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered under the Purchase Contract Agreement shall be bound thereby.
Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered after the execution of any amendment pursuant to this Section may, and shall if required by the Collateral Agent or the Purchase Contract Agent, bear a notation in form approved by the Purchase Contract Agent and the Collateral Agent as to any matter provided for in such amendment. If the Company shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Collateral Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent and the Company, to any such amendment may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Purchase Contract Agent in accordance with the Purchase Contract Agreement in exchange for outstanding Certificates.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
No failure on the part of any party hereto or any of its agents to exercise, and no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise by any party hereto or any of its agents of any right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. The remedies herein are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS. Without limiting the foregoing, the above choice of law is expressly agreed to by the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Holders from time to time acting through the Purchase Contract Agent, as their attorney-in-fact, in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the Collateral Account, which law, for purposes of the Code, shall be deemed to be the law governing all Security Entitlements related thereto. In addition, such parties agree that, for purposes of the Code, New York shall be the Securities Intermediary's jurisdiction. The Company, the Collateral Agent and the Holders from time to time of the Units, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent as their attorney-in-fact, hereby submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and of any New York state court sitting in New York City for the purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company, the Collateral Agent and the Holders from time to time of the Units, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent as their attorney-in-fact, irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Unless otherwise stated herein, all notices, requests, consents and other communications provided for herein (including, without limitation, any modifications of, or waivers or consents under, this Agreement) shall be given or made in writing (including, without limitation, by telecopy) delivered to the intended recipient at the "Address for Notices" specified below its name on the signature pages hereof or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all such communications shall be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or, in the case of a mailed notice or notice transmitted by telecopier, upon receipt, in each case given or addressed as aforesaid.
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Purchase Contract Agent, and the Holders from time to time of the Units, by their acceptance of the same, shall be deemed to have agreed to
be bound by the provisions hereof and to have ratified the agreements of, and the grant of the Pledge hereunder by, the Purchase Contract Agent.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart.
If any provision hereof is invalid and unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) the other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect in such jurisdiction and shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the intentions of the parties hereto as nearly as may be possible and (ii) the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
The Company agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Custodial Agent for:
(a) all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and all reasonable expenses of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary), in connection with (i) the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery or performance of this Agreement and (ii) any modification, supplement or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement;
(b) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent (including,
without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with
(i) any enforcement or proceedings resulting or incurred in connection with
causing any Holder of Units to satisfy its obligations under the Purchase
Contracts forming a part of the Units and (ii) the enforcement of this Section
10.7; and
(c) all transfer, stamp, documentary or other similar taxes, assessments or charges levied by any governmental or revenue authority in respect of this Agreement or any other document referred to herein and all costs, expenses, taxes, assessments and other charges incurred in connection with any filing, registration, recording or perfection of any security interest contemplated hereby.
All rights of the Collateral Agent and security interests hereunder, and all obligations of the Holders from time to time hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any provision of the Purchase Contracts or the Units or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or any other term of, or any increase in the amount of, all or any of the obligations of Holders of Units under the related Purchase Contracts, or any other amendment or waiver of any term of, or any consent to any departure from any requirement of, the Purchase Contract Agreement or any Purchase Contract or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto; or
(c) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or discharge of, a borrower, a guarantor or a pledgor.
EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE IT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: /s/ John H. Mullan
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Name: John H. Mullan
Title: Corporate Vice President and
Secretary
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Address for Notices:
Northrop Grumman Corporation
1840 Century Park East
Los Angeles, California 90067
Attention: Secretary
Telecopy: (310) 556-4556
JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase
Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact
of the Holders from time to time of the
Units
By: /s/ James P. Freeman
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Name: James P. Freeman
Title: Vice President
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Address for Notices:
JPMorgan Chase Bank
450 West 33rd Street
New York, New York, 10001
Attention: Institutional Trust Services
Telecopy: (212) 946-8160
The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary
By: /s/ Remo J. Reale
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Name: Remo J. Reale
Title: Vice President
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Address for Notices:
101 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10286
EXHIBIT A
INSTRUCTION FROM PURCHASE CONTRACT
AGENT TO COLLATERAL AGENT
The Bank of New York,
as Collateral Agent
101 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10286
We hereby notify you in accordance with Section [4.1] [4.2] of the Pledge
Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, (the "Pledge Agreement") among the
Company, you, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary
and us, as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the holders of
[Normal Units] [Stripped Units] from time to time, that the holder of Units
listed below (the "Holder") has elected to substitute [$_____ aggregate
principal amount of Treasury Securities (CUSIP No. _________)] [$_______
aggregate principal amount of Notes or $_____ aggregate principal amount of
Treasury Consideration (CUSIP No. _____) or the Applicable Ownership Interest of
the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for the related
[Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged
Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,]
[Pledged Treasury Securities] held by you in accordance with the Pledge
Agreement and has delivered to us a notice stating that the Holder has
Transferred [Treasury Securities] [Notes, the Treasury Consideration or the
appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be,] to you, as Collateral Agent. We hereby instruct you, upon receipt of
such [Pledged Treasury Securities] [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury
Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest of the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,], and upon the payment by such Holder of
any applicable fees, to release the [Notes, the Treasury Consideration or the
appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be,] [Treasury Securities] related to such [Normal Units] [Stripped Units]
to us in accordance with the Holder's instructions. Capitalized terms used
herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: _____________________________
JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent
By: ___________________________________ Name:
Title:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder electing to substitute
[Treasury Securities] [Notes, Treasury Consideration or the appropriate
Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio] for the [Pledged Notes,
Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership
Interest in the Treasury Portfolio] [Pledged Treasury Securities]:
Name:
Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any:
Address:
EXHIBIT B
INSTRUCTION TO PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
JPMorgan Chase Bank,
As Purchase Contract Agent
450 West 33rd Street
New York, New York 10001
Attn: Institutional Trust Services
Telecopy: (212) 946-8160
Re: Equity Security Units of Northrop Grumman Corporation (the "Company")
The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you that it has delivered to The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary [$_______ aggregate principal amount of Treasury Securities (CUSIP No. _________)] [$_______ aggregate principal amount of Notes or $_____ principal amount of Treasury Consideration (CUSIP No. _____) or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] in exchange for the related [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section [4.1] [4.2] of the Pledge Agreement, dated November 21, 2001 (the "Pledge Agreement"), among you, the Company and the Collateral Agent. The undersigned Holder has paid the Collateral Agent all applicable fees relating to such exchange. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to instruct the Collateral Agent to release to you on behalf of the undersigned Holder the [Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Consideration or the appropriate Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be] [Pledged Treasury Securities] related to such [Normal Units] [Stripped Units]. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: ___________________ Signature:___________________________________
Signature Guarantee: ________________________
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name:
Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any:
Address:
EXHIBIT C
INSTRUCTION TO CUSTODIAL AGENT REGARDING REMARKETING
The Bank of New York,
as Custodial Agent
101 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10286
Re: Notes of Northrop Grumman Corporation (the "Company")
The undersigned hereby notifies you in accordance with Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001 (the "Pledge Agreement"), among the Company, yourselves, as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary and Custodial Agent, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders of Normal Units and Stripped Units from time to time, that the undersigned elects to deliver $__________ aggregate principal amount of Notes for delivery to the Remarketing Agent on the fourth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of any Remarketing Period or any Subsequent Remarketing Period for remarketing pursuant to Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement. The undersigned will, upon request of the Remarketing Agent, execute and deliver any additional documents deemed by the Remarketing Agent or by the Company to be necessary or desirable to complete the sale, assignment and transfer of the Notes tendered hereby.
The undersigned hereby instructs you, upon receipt of the proceeds of such remarketing from the Remarketing Agent, net of amounts payable to the Remarketing Agent in accordance with the Pledge Agreement, to deliver such proceeds to the undersigned in accordance with the instructions indicated herein under "A. Payment Instructions." The undersigned hereby instructs you, in the event of a Failed Remarketing, upon receipt of the Notes tendered herewith from the Remarketing Agent, to be delivered to the person(s) and the address(es) indicated herein under "B. Delivery Instructions."
With this notice, the undersigned hereby (i) represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to tender, sell, assign and transfer the Notes tendered hereby and that the undersigned is the record owner of any Notes tendered herewith in physical form or a participant in The Depositary Trust Company ("DTC") and the beneficial owner of any Notes tendered herewith by book-entry transfer to your account at DTC and (ii) agrees to be bound by the terms and
conditions of Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: _______________ Signature:__________________________
Signature Guarantee:
Name: Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any:
Address:
A. PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Proceeds of the remarketing should be paid by check in the name of the person(s) set forth below and mailed to the address set forth below.
Name(s): ________________________________
(Please Print)
Address: ________________________________
(Please Print)
(Zip Code)
(Tax Identification or Social Security Number):
B. DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS
In the event of a Failed Remarketing, Notes which are in physical form should be delivered to the person(s) set forth below and mailed to the address set forth below.
Name(s): ________________________________
(Please Print)
Address: ________________________________
(Please Print)
(Zip Code)
(Tax Identification or Social Security Number):
In the event of a Failed Remarketing, Notes which are in book-entry form should be credited to the account at The Depository Trust Company set forth below.
Name of Account Party: DTC Account Number:
EXHIBIT D
INSTRUCTION TO CUSTODIAL AGENT REGARDING
WITHDRAWAL FROM REMARKETING
The Bank of New York
as Collateral Agent
101 Barclay Street
New York, NY 10286
Re: Notes of Northrop Grumman Corporation (the "Company")
The undersigned hereby notifies you in accordance with Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001 (the "Pledge Agreement"), among the Company, yourselves, as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary and Custodial Agent and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders of Normal Units and Stripped Units from time to time, that the undersigned elects to withdraw the $_____ aggregate principal amount of Notes delivered to the Custodial Agent on ___________, 2004 for remarketing pursuant to Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement. The undersigned hereby instructs you to return such Notes to the undersigned in accordance with the undersigned's instructions. With this notice, the Undersigned hereby agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
Date: _______________ Signature:__________________________
Signature Guarantee:
Name: Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any:
Address:
A. DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS
In the event of a Failed Remarketing, Notes which are in physical form should be delivered to the person(s) set forth below and mailed to the address set forth below.
Name(s): ________________________________
(Please Print)
Address: ________________________________
(Please Print)
(Zip Code)
(Tax Identification or Social Security Number):
In the event of a Failed Remarketing, Notes which are in book-entry form should be credited to the account at The Depository Trust Company set forth below.
Name of Account Party: DTC Account Number:
EXHIBIT 4.5
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION REMARKETING AGREEMENT
REMARKETING AGREEMENT, dated as of __________________ (the "Agreement") by and between Northrop Grumman Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), JPMorgan Chase Bank, not individually but solely as Purchase Contract Agent (the "Purchase Contract Agent") and as attorney-in-fact of the Holders of Purchase Contracts (as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement (as defined herein)), and [ ] (the "Remarketing Agent").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Company issued $600,000,000 (or up to $690,000,000 if the underwriter's over-allotment option was exercised in full) aggregate stated amount of its Equity Security Units (the "Equity Security Units") under the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of November 21, 2001, by and between the Purchase Contract Agent and the Company (the "Purchase Contract Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Company issued concurrently in connection with the issuance of the Equity Security Units $600,000,000 (or up to $690,000,000 if the underwriter's over-allotment option was exercised in full) aggregate principal amount of 5.25% Senior Notes due November 16, 2006 (the "Notes") of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Notes forming a part of the Equity Security Units have been pledged pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (the "Pledge Agreement"), dated as of November 21, 2001, by and among the Company, The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as collateral agent (the "Collateral Agent"), and the Purchase Contract Agent, to secure the Equity Security Unit Holders' obligations under the related Purchase Contract on the Stock Purchase Date; and
WHEREAS, the Remarketing Agent will attempt on the Remarketing Date to remarket all of (i) the Notes of Normal Units Holders, other than the Notes of Normal Units Holders who elect not to participate in the remarketing, and (ii) the Separate Notes of Holders who elect to participate in the remarketing, pursuant respectively to the procedures set forth in Section 5.4(b) of the Purchase Contract Agreement and Section 4.5(d) of the Pledge Agreement (each of which Sections is incorporated herein by reference); and
WHEREAS, in the event the remarketing on the Remarketing Date is unsuccessful, the Remarketing Agent will remarket the Notes to be included in the remarketing on each of the two Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date, and, if necessary, will attempt to remarket such Notes on each of the three
Business Days immediately preceding October 1, 2004 and, if necessary, will further attempt to remarket such Notes on each of the three Business Days immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date; and
WHEREAS, in the event of a successful remarketing on the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, the applicable interest rate on the Notes included in such successful remarketing will be reset on such Remarketing Date or on any Subsequent Remarketing Date to the Reset Rate to be determined by the Remarketing Agent (as defined below) such that the then current aggregate market value of the Notes will equal at least 100.50% of the Remarketing Value (as described in the Purchase Contract Agreement) as of such Remarketing Date or Subsequent Remarketing Date, provided that in the determination of such Reset Rate, the Company shall, if applicable, limit the Reset Rate to the maximum rate permitted by applicable law; and
WHEREAS, the Company has requested [ ] to act as the Remarketing Agent, and as such to perform the services described herein; and
WHEREAS, [ ] is willing to act as the Remarketing Agent and as such to perform such duties on the terms and conditions expressly set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the covenants herein made, and subject to the conditions herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Definitions.
Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Agreement, in the recitals hereto or in the paragraph preceding such recitals shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Contract Agreement or, if not therein defined, the Pledge Agreement.
Section 2. Appointment and Obligations of Remarketing Agent.
(a) The Company hereby appoints [ ] and [ ] hereby accepts such appointment, (i) as the Remarketing Agent to determine, in consultation with the Company, in the manner provided for herein and in the Indenture (as in effect on the date of this Remarketing Agreement) with respect to the Notes, the Reset Rate that, in the opinion of the Remarketing Agent, will, when applied to the Notes (assuming, even if not true, that all of the Notes are included in the remarketing), enable the then current aggregate market value of the Notes to have a value equal to at least 100.50% of the Remarketing Value as of the Remarketing Date or as of any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, provided that the
Company, by notice to the Remarketing Agent prior to (A) the [tenth] Business Day preceding the Remarketing Date, with respect to any remarketing to occur on either the Remarketing Date or the two Business Days immediately following such Remarketing Date, (B) the [thirteenth] Business Day preceding October 1, 2004 with respect to any remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days immediately preceding October 1, 2004, or (C) the [thirteenth] Business Day preceding the Stock Purchase Date with respect to any remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days immediately preceding such Stock Purchase Date, shall, if applicable, limit the Reset Rate so that it does not exceed the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, and (ii) as the exclusive Remarketing Agent (subject to the right of such Remarketing Agent to appoint additional remarketing agents hereunder as described below) to remarket the Notes to be included in the remarketing on the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be. The Company agrees that the Remarketing Agent shall have the right, on 15 Business Days notice to the Company, to appoint one or more additional remarketing agents so long as any such additional remarketing agents shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. Upon any such appointment, the parties shall enter into an appropriate amendment to this Agreement to reflect the addition of any such remarketing agent.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the
Remarketing Agent shall use its reasonable efforts to (i) remarket on the
Remarketing Date the Notes that the Purchase Contract Agent or the Custodial
Agent shall have notified the Remarketing Agent are to be remarketed at a Reset
Rate such that the then current aggregate market value of the Notes is equal to
at least 100.50% of the Remarketing Value, and (ii) in the event the Remarketing
Agent cannot establish such a Reset Rate on the Remarketing Date, attempt to
remarket such Notes on each of the two Business Days immediately following the
Remarketing Date and, if necessary, on each of the three Business Days
immediately preceding October 1, 2004, and, if necessary, on each of the three
Business Days immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, in each case at a
Reset Rate such that the then current aggregate market value of the Notes is
equal to at least 100.50% of the Remarketing Value, and (ii) in the event of a
Last Failed Remarketing, promptly return the Separate Notes, if any, included in
such Last Failed Remarketing to the Collateral Agent to be held by the
Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 4.5(b) of the Pledge Agreement
(which Section is incorporated herein by reference). After deducting the fee
specified in Section 3 below, the proceeds of any such remarketing shall be
delivered to the Purchase Contract Agent in accordance with Section 4.5(a) of
the Pledge Agreement (which Section is incorporated herein by reference) and
Section 5.4(b) of the Purchase Contract Agreement. The right of each Holder of
Normal Units or Separate Notes to have Notes included in any remarketing shall
be limited to the extent that (i) the Remarketing Agent conducts a remarketing
on the Remarketing Date or on any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may
be, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, (ii) the Notes included in a
remarketing have not been called for
redemption pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement, (iii) the Remarketing Agent is able to find a purchaser or purchasers for the Notes included in a remarketing at a Reset Rate such that the then current aggregate market value of the Notes is equal to at least 100.50% of the Remarketing Value, and (iv) such purchaser or purchasers deliver the purchase price therefor to the Remarketing Agent as and when required.
(c) It is understood and agreed that the Remarketing Agent shall not have any obligation whatsoever to purchase any Notes, whether in a remarketing held on the Remarketing Date or on any Subsequent Remarketing Date or otherwise, and shall in no way be obligated to provide funds to make payment upon tender of Notes for remarketing or to otherwise expend or risk their own funds or incur or be exposed to financial liability in the performance of their respective duties under this Agreement. The Company shall not be obligated in any case to provide funds to make payment upon delivery of Notes for remarketing.
Section 3. Fees.
In the event of a successful remarketing, the Remarketing Agent shall retain as a remarketing fee (the "Remarketing Fee") an amount not exceeding 25 basis points (0.25%) of the total proceeds received in connection with any such remarketing. Payment of such Remarketing Fee shall be made by the Company on the date of any such successful remarketing in immediately available funds or, upon the instructions of the Remarketing Agent, by certified or official bank check or checks or by wire transfer.
Section 4. Replacement and Resignation of Remarketing Agent.
(a) The Company may in its absolute discretion replace [ ] as
the Remarketing Agent by giving notice prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time
(i) on the [eleventh] Business Day immediately prior to the Remarketing Date in
the case of a remarketing to occur on the Remarketing Date or any of the two
Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date, (ii) the [fourteenth]
Business Day immediately prior to October 1, 2004 in the case of a remarketing
to occur on a Subsequent Remarketing Date immediately following a Failed
Remarketing on any of the two Business Days immediately following the
Remarketing Date, or (iii) the [fourteenth] Business Day immediately prior to
the Stock Purchase Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the
three Business Days immediately prior to the Stock Purchase Date. Any such
replacement shall become effective upon the Company's appointment of a successor
to perform the services that would otherwise be performed hereunder by the
Remarketing Agent. Upon providing such notice, the Company shall use all
reasonable efforts to appoint such a successor and to enter into a remarketing
agreement with such successor as soon as reasonably practicable.
(b) [ ] may resign at any time and be discharged from its
duties and obligations hereunder as the Remarketing Agent by giving notice prior
to 3:00 p.m., New York City time (i) on the [eleventh] Business Day immediately
prior to the Remarketing Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on the
Remarketing Date or any of the two Business Days immediately following the
Remarketing Date, (ii) the [fourteenth] Business Day immediately prior to
October 1, 2004 in the case of a remarketing to occur on a Subsequent
Remarketing Date immediately following a Failed Remarketing on any of the two
Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date, or (iii) the
[fourteenth] Business Day immediately prior to the Stock Purchase Date in the
case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days immediately
prior to the Stock Purchase Date. Any such resignation shall become effective
upon the Company's appointment of a successor to perform the services that would
otherwise be performed hereunder by the Remarketing Agent. Upon receiving notice
from the Remarketing Agent that it wishes to resign hereunder, the Company shall
appoint such a successor and enter into a remarketing agreement with it as soon
as reasonably practicable.
(c) The Company shall give the Purchase Contract Agent and the Trustee prompt written notice of any replacement of the Remarketing Agent pursuant to this section.
Section 5. Dealing in the Securities.
The Remarketing Agent, when acting hereunder or when acting in its individual or any other capacity, may, to the extent permitted by law, buy, sell, hold or deal in any of the Notes, Stripped Units, Equity Security Units or any other securities of the Company. With respect to any Notes, Stripped Units, Equity Security Units or any other securities of the Company owned by it, the Remarketing Agent may exercise any vote or join in any action with like effect as if it did not act in any capacity hereunder. The Remarketing Agent, in its individual capacity, either as principal or agent, may also engage in or have an interest in any financial or other transaction with the Company as freely as if it did not act in any capacity hereunder.
The Company or its affiliates may, to the extent permitted by law, purchase any Notes that are remarketed by any Remarketing Agent.
Section 6. Registration Statement and Prospectus.
(a) In connection with any remarketing to occur on the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, if and to the extent required, in the view of counsel (which need not be an opinion) for each of the Remarketing Agent and the Company, by applicable law, regulations or interpretations in effect at the time of any such Remarketing Date or Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, the Company shall use its reasonable efforts, if requested by the Remarketing Agent,
(i) (A) to have a registration statement relating to the Notes effective under the Securities Act of 1933 and (B) to furnish a current preliminary prospectus and, if applicable, a current preliminary prospectus supplement (in such quantities as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request), to be used by the Remarketing Agent in a remarketing pursuant hereunder, in each case by a date that is no later than (x) [seven] Business Days prior to the Remarketing Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on the Remarketing Date or on any of the two Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date, (y) [ten] Business Days prior to October 1, 2004 in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days prior to October 1, 2004, or (z) [ten] Business Days prior to the Stock Purchase Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days immediately prior to the Stock Purchase Date (or in each such case, at such earlier date as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request), and (ii) if requested by the Remarketing Agent, shall furnish a current final prospectus and, if applicable, a final prospectus supplement, to be used by the Remarketing Agent in the remarketing pursuant hereunder, by a date that is no later than (x) [five] Business Days prior to the Remarketing Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on the Remarketing Date or on any of the two Business Days immediately following the Remarketing Date, (y) [eight] Business Days prior to October 1, 2004 in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days prior to October 1, 2004, or (z) [eight] Business Days prior to the Stock Purchase Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days immediately prior to the Stock Purchase Date (or in each such case, at such earlier date as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request). The Company shall pay all expenses relating thereto.
(b) If in connection with any remarketing, it shall not be possible, in the view of counsel (which need not be an opinion) for each of the Remarketing Agent and the Company, under applicable law, regulations or interpretations in effect as of the Remarketing Date or Subsequent Remarketing Date, as the case may be, to register the offer and sale by the Company of the Notes under the Securities Act of 1933 as otherwise contemplated by this Section 6, the Company (i) shall use its reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all action and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper and advisable to permit and effectuate the offer and sale of the Notes in connection with any remarketing pursuant hereunder without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to an exemption therefrom, if available, including the exemption afforded by Rule 144A under the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, (ii) if requested by the Remarketing Agent, shall furnish a current preliminary remarketing memorandum and a current final remarketing memorandum (in such quantities as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request) to be used by the Remarketing Agent in any remarketing pursuant hereunder, in each case by a date that is not later than (A) [seven] Business Days prior to the Remarketing Date, in the case of a remarketing to occur on the Remarketing Date or on any of the two Business Days immediately
following the Remarketing Date, (B) [ten] Business Days prior to October 1, 2004 in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days prior to October 1, 2004, or (C) [ten] Business Days prior to the Stock Purchase Date in the case of a remarketing to occur on any of the three Business Days prior to the Stock Purchase (or in either case such earlier date as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request). The Company shall pay all expenses relating thereto.
(c) The Company shall also take all such actions as may (upon advice of counsel to the Company or the Remarketing Agent) be necessary or desirable under state securities or blue sky laws in connection with any remarketing.
Section 7. Conditions to the Remarketing Agent's Obligations.
(a) The obligations of the Remarketing Agent under this Agreement
shall be subject to the terms and conditions hereunder, including, without
limitation, the following conditions: (i) the Notes to be included in any
remarketing have not been called for redemption, (ii) the Remarketing Agent is
able to find a purchaser or purchasers for Notes included in any remarketing at
a price not less than 100.50% of the Remarketing Value, (iii) the Purchase
Contract Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities
Intermediary, the Company and the Trustee shall have performed their respective
obligations in connection with any remarketing pursuant hereunder and pursuant
to the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Indenture, and the
Agreement (including, without limitation, the Purchase Contract Agent's and the
Custodial Agent's giving the Remarketing Agent notice of the aggregate principal
amount of the Notes to be remarketed, no later than 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, on the third Business Day preceding the Remarketing Date and concurrently
delivering the Notes to be remarketed to the Remarketing Agent), (iv) no Event
of Default (as defined in the Indenture) shall have occurred and be continuing,
(v) the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company included
in this Agreement or in certificates of any officer of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries delivered pursuant to the provisions included in this Agreement,
(vi) the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations
included herein, and (vii) the satisfaction of the other conditions set forth in
this Agreement.
(b) If at any time during the term of this Agreement, any Event of Default or event that with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would become an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture, then the obligations and duties of the Remarketing Agent under this Agreement shall be suspended until such default or event has been cured. The Company will promptly give the Remarketing Agent notice of all such defaults and events of which the Company is aware.
Section 8. Termination of Remarketing Agreement.
This Agreement shall terminate as to any Remarketing Agent which is replaced on the effective date of its replacement pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof or pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations set forth in Section 3 hereof shall survive and remain in full force and effect until all amounts payable under said Section 3 shall have been paid in full; provided, however, that if any Remarketing Agent resigns, then the obligations set forth in Section 3 hereof shall not survive the termination of this Agreement and no fee shall be payable to such Remarketing Agent in such capacity. In addition, each former Remarketing Agent shall be entitled to the rights and benefits under Section 10 of this Agreement notwithstanding the replacement or resignation of such Remarketing Agent.
Section 9. Remarketing Agent's Performance; Duty of Care.
The duties and obligations of the Remarketing Agent shall be determined solely by the express provisions hereunder. No implied covenants or obligations of or against the Remarketing Agent shall be read into this Agreement. In the absence of a final judicial determination of willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Remarketing Agent, the Remarketing Agent may conclusively rely upon any document furnished to it which purports to conform to the requirements hereunder as to the truth of the statements expressed therein. The Remarketing Agent shall be protected in acting upon any document or communication reasonably believed by it to be signed, presented or made by the proper party or parties. The Remarketing Agent shall not have any obligation to determine whether there is any limitation under applicable law on the Reset Rate on the Notes or, if there is any such limitation, the maximum permissible Reset Rate on the Notes, and it shall rely solely upon timely written notice from the Company pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof as to whether or not there is any such limitation and, if so, the maximum permissible Reset Rate. The Remarketing Agent shall not incur any liability under this Agreement to any beneficial owner or holder of Notes, or other securities, either in its individual capacity or as Remarketing Agent, as the case may be, for any action or failure to act in connection with the Remarketing or otherwise in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except to the extent that such liability has, by final judicial determination, resulted from the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of the Remarketing Agent or by its failure to fulfill their express obligations hereunder. The provisions of this Section 9 shall survive any termination of this Agreement and shall also continue to apply to every Remarketing Agent notwithstanding its resignation or removal. The Remarketing Agent will act as the agent of the Holders.
Section 10. Indemnification.
The Company agrees to indemnify the Remarketing Agent for, and to hold it harmless from and against, any loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket
expense incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its powers and duties under this Agreement, including the reasonable out-of- pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of such powers and duties or collecting such amounts. The Remarketing Agent shall promptly notify the Company of any third party claim which may give rise to the indemnity hereunder and give the Company the opportunity to participate in the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and no such claim shall be settled without the written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Section 11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.
Section 12. Term of Agreement.
(a) Unless otherwise terminated in accordance with the provisions hereof and except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect from the date hereof until the Business Day immediately following the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date, as applicable, in the case of any successful remarketing held on any such date. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the provisions of the last section of Section 8 hereof and the provisions of Sections 3, 9, 10 and 12(b) hereof shall survive any termination of this Agreement and remain in full force and effect; provided, however, that if any Remarketing Agent resigns, then the obligations set forth in Section 3 hereof shall not survive the termination of this Agreement and no fee shall be payable to such Remarketing Agent in such capacity.
(b) All representations and warranties included in this Agreement or contained in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto or thereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Remarketing Agent or any of their controlling persons, or by or on behalf of the Company or the Purchase Contract Agent, and shall survive the remarketing of the Notes.
Section 13. Successors and Assigns.
The rights and obligations of the Company and the Purchase Contract Agent (both in its capacity as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact) hereunder may not be assigned or delegated to any other person (except pursuant to sections 7.9 and 7.10 of the Purchase Contract Agreement) without the prior written consent of the Remarketing Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The rights and obligations of the Remarketing Agent hereunder may not be assigned or delegated to any other person without the prior written consent of the Company, except that the Remarketing Agent shall have the right to appoint additional remarketing agents as provided herein. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent and the Remarketing Agent and their respective successors and assigns and the other indemnified parties (set forth in Section 10 hereof) and the successors, assigns, heirs and legal representatives of such indemnified parties. The terms "successors" and "assigns" shall not include any purchaser of Notes merely because of such purchase.
Section 14. Headings.
Section headings have been inserted in this Agreement as a matter of convenience of reference only, and it is agreed that such section headings are not a part of this Agreement and will not be used in the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.
Section 15. Severability.
If any provision of this Agreement shall be held or deemed to be or shall, in fact, be invalid, inoperative or unenforceable as applied in any particular case in any or all jurisdictions because it conflicts with any provisions of any constitution, statute, rule or public policy or for any other reason, then, to the extent permitted by law, such circumstances shall not have the effect of rendering the provision in question invalid, inoperative or unenforceable in any other case, circumstances or jurisdiction, or of rendering any other provision or provisions of this Agreement, as the case may be, invalid, inoperative or unenforceable to any extent whatsoever.
Section 16. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be regarded as an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same document.
Section 17. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended by any instrument in writing signed by the parties hereto.
Section 18. Notices.
Unless otherwise specified, any notices, requests, consents or other communications given or made hereunder or pursuant hereto shall be made in writing or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication, including telephone or telecopy, and confirmed in writing. All written notices and confirmations of notices by telecommunication shall be deemed to have been validly given or made when
delivered or mailed, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and
postage prepaid. All such notices, requests, consents or other communications
shall be addressed as follows: if to the Company, to Northrop Grumman
Corporation, 1840 Century Park East, Los Angeles, California 90067, Attention:
Treasurer; if to the Remarketing Agent, to [ ]; and if to the Purchase Contract
Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001,
Attention: Institutional Trust Services, or to such other address as any of the
above shall specify to the other in writing.
Section 19. Information.
The Company agrees to furnish the Remarketing Agent with such information and documents as the Remarketing Agent may reasonably request in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Remarketing Agreement, and if the remarketing is effected pursuant to a registration statement in accordance with Section 6 hereof, make reasonably available to the Remarketing Agent and any accountant, attorney or other advisor retained by the Remarketing Agent such information that parties would customarily require in connection with a due diligence investigation conducted in accordance with applicable securities laws and cause the Company's officers, directors, employees and accountants to participate in all such discussions and to supply all such information reasonably requested by any such person in connection with such investigation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent and the Remarketing Agent has caused this Agreement to be executed in its name and on its behalf by one of its duly authorized signatories as of the date first above written.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
By: __________________________
Name:
Title:
__________________________ [Remarketing Agent]
By: __________________________
Name:
Title:
CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED:
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
not individually but solely as Purchase Contract
Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders of
the Purchase Contracts
By:_______________________
Name:
Title: