SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
TO
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 12, 1996
Pennsylvania 1-2227 23-1526444 - ----------------- ------------- ------------------ (State or other (Commission (IRS Employer jurisdiction of File Number) Identification No.) incorporation) |
United Kingdom 333-16869-01 Not Applicable - ----------------- ------------- ------------------ (State or other (Commission (IRS Employer jurisdiction of File Number) Identification No.) incorporation) |
France 333-16869-02 Not Applicable - ----------------- ------------- ------------------ (State or other (Commission (IRS Employer jurisdiction of File Number) Identification No.) incorporation) |
On December 12, 1996, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation ("Crown"), Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC, a public limited company organized under the laws of England & Wales ("Crown UK"), Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A., a societe anonyme organized under the laws of the Republic of France ("Crown France", and together with Crown and Crown UK, the "Registrants"), entered into a Terms Agreement with Salomon Brothers Inc, CS First Boston Corporation, Chase Securities Inc. and JP Morgan Securities Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriters"). Such Terms Agreement relates to the issuance of (i) $350,000,000 7 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 and $150,000,000 7 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 by Crown, (ii) $200,000,000 6 3/4% Notes Due 2003 and $300,000,000 7% Notes Due 2006 by Crown UK, and (iii) $200,000,000 6 3/4% Notes Due 2003 by Crown France and is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
In addition, on December 12, 1996, Crown issued a press release announcing the Terms Agreement, which press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Item 7(c). Exhibits. -------- Exhibit Number Description - -------------- ----------- 1.1 Terms Agreement, dated December 12,1996 among the Registrants and the Underwriters. 4.1 Form of Indenture among the Registrants, dated December __, 1996, and The Bank of New York, as trustee (such form replaces the form of Indenture filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrants' Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-16869)). 99.1 Press release issued by Crown on December 12, 1996. |
SIGNATURE
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.
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
By: /s/ Alan W. Rutherford ------------------------------ Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC
By: /s/ Alan W. Rutherford ------------------------------ Managing Director |
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.
By: /s/ Alan W. Rutherford ------------------------------ Chief Financial Officer and Director Date: December 16, 1996 |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No., As provided Page in in Item 601 Sequentially Exhibit Number Description Numbered Copy - -------------- ----------- ------------- 1.1 Terms Agreement, dated December 12, 1996. among the Companies and the Underwriters 4.1 Form of Indenture among the Registrants, dated December __, 1996 and The Bank of New York, as trustee such form replaces the form of Indenture filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrants' Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-16869). 99.1 Press release issued by Crown on December 12, 1996. |
[Draft--12/14/96]
INDENTURE
Among
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
as Issuer and Guarantor
and
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC
as Issuer
(with Guarantee of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.)
and
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.
as Issuer
(with Guarantee of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.)
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
as Trustee
Dated as of , 1996
Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture, dated as of
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section - --------------------------- ----------------- (S) 310(a)(1)............................................... 6.9 (a)(2)............................................... 6.9 (a)(3)............................................... N\A (a)(4)............................................... N\A (a)(5)............................................... 6.9 (b) ................................................ 6.8, 6.10 (S) 311(a) ................................................ 6.13(a) (b) ................................................ 6.13(b) (b)(2)............................................... 7.3(a)(2) ............................................... 7.3(b) (S) 312(a) ................................................ 7.1, 7.2(a) (b) ................................................ 7.2(b) (c) ................................................ 7.2(c) (S) 313(a) ................................................ 7.3(a) (b) ................................................ 7.3(b) (c) ................................................ 7.3(a) 7.3(b) (d) ................................................ 7.3(c) (S) 314(a) ................................................ 7.4 (b) ................................................ N\A (c)(1)............................................... 1.2 (c)(2)............................................... 1.2 (c)(3)............................................... N\A (d) ................................................ N\A (e) ................................................ 1.2 (S) 315(a) ................................................ 6.1(a) (b) ................................................ 6.2, (c) ................................................ 6.1(b) 7.3(a)(b) (d) ................................................ 6.1(c) (d)(1)............................................... 6.1(a)(1) (d)(2)............................................... 6.1(c)(2) (d)(3)............................................... 6.1(c)(3) (3) ................................................ 5.14 (S) 316(a)(1)............................................... 1.1 (a)(1)(A)............................................ 5.2, 5.12 (a)(1)(B)............................................ 5.13 (b) ................................................ 5.8 |
(S) 317(a)(1)............................................... 5.3 (a)(2)............................................... 5.4 (b) ................................................ 10.3 (S) 318(a) ................................................ 1.7 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS/1
Page ---- PARTIES............................................................. RECITALS............................................................ ARTICLE I Definitions and Other --------------------- Provisions of General Application --------------------------------- SECTION 1.01. Definitions......................................... SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions................ SECTION 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.............. SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders..................................... SECTION 1.05. Notices, etc., to Trustee and Issuers and the Guarantor.......................................... SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver........................... SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................... SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents............ SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns.............................. SECTION 1.10. Severability Clause................................. SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indentures.............................. SECTION 1.12. Governing Law....................................... SECTION 1.13. Submission to Jurisdiction; Appointment of Agent for Service of Process..................... SECTION 1.14. Legal Holidays...................................... SECTION 1.15. Certain Matters Relating to Currencies.............. SECTION 1.16. Indenture, Securities and Guarantees Solely Corporate Obligations.............................. SECTION 1.17. Execution in Counterparts........................... ARTICLE II Security Forms -------------- SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally..................................... SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security............................ SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security......................... SECTION 2.04. Form of Notation of Guarantees...................... |
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..... ARTICLE III The Securities -------------- SECTION 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series................ SECTION 3.02. Denominations....................................... SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...... SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities................................ SECTION 3.05. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.... SECTION 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...... SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners............................... SECTION 3.09. Cancelation......................................... SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest............................. SECTION 3.11. Global Securities................................... SECTION 3.12. UK Global Securities................................ SECTION 3.13. Payment to be in Proper Currency.................... SECTION 3.14. CUSIP Numbers....................................... ARTICLE IV Satisfaction and Discharge -------------------------- SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of any Series............ SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money.......................... SECTION 4.03. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture............. SECTION 4.04. Reinstatement....................................... ARTICLE V Remedies -------- SECTION 5.01. Events of Default................................... SECTION 5.02. Acceleration for Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee......................................... SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................... SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities......................................... SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected...................... SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits................................. |
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest............................... SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.................. SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................... SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver........................ SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders.................................. SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults............................. SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs............................... SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws............. ARTICLE VI The Trustee ----------- SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities................. SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults.................................. SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee........................... SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities......................................... SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities................................. SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust................................. SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement...................... SECTION 6.08. Qualification of Trustee; Conflicting Interests..... SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility............. SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor... SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.............. SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business........................................... SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issurers or the Guarantor................................... SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent................. ARTICLE VII Holders' Lists and Reports by ----------------------------- Trustee and Issuers and the Guarantor ------------------------------------- SECTION 7.01. Issuers and the Guarantor to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders........................... SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders............................................ SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee.................................. SECTION 7.04. Reports by Issuers and the Guarantor................ |
ARTICLE VIII Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, --------------------------------- Transfer or Lease ----------------- SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms SECTION 8.02 Subsidiary Issuers May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms...................................... SECTION 8.03. Successor Substituted............................... SECTION 8.04. Assumption by Company of Subsidiary Issuers' Obligations........................................ SECTION 8.05. Indemnification Procedure........................... ARTICLE IX Supplemental Indentures ----------------------- SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.. SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders..... SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures................ SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures................... SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act................. SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.. ARTICLE X Covenants --------- SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest........ SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency................... SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust... SECTION 10.04. Corporate Existence............................... SECTION 10.05. Maintenance of Properties......................... SECTION 10.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................. SECTION 10.07. Additional Amounts................................ SECTION 10.08. Limitations on Liens.............................. SECTION 10.09. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback................. SECTION 10.10. Statement by Officers as to Default............... SECTION 10.11. Waiver of Certain Covenants....................... SECTION 10.12. Defeasance of Certain Obligations................. SECTION 10.13. Calculation of Original Issue Discount............ |
ARTICLE XI Redemption of Securities ------------------------ SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article.......................... SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee............. SECTION 11.03. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed. SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption.............................. SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price....................... SECTION 11.06. Securities Payable on Redemption Date............. SECTION 11.07. Securities Redeemed in Part....................... SECTION 11.08. Optional Redemption Due to Changes in Tax Treatement....................................... SECTION 11.09. Optional Redemption............................... SECTION 11.10. Conditional Rights to Shorten Maturity............ ARTICLE XII Sinking Funds ------------- SECTION 12.01. Applicability of Article.......................... SECTION 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities....................................... SECTION 12.03 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund......... ARTICLE XIII Guarantees of Securities ------------------------ SECTION 13.01. Guarantees........................................ SECTION 13.02. Execution of Guarantees........................... |
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INDENTURE, dated as of December 17, 1996, among CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company" and, with respect to Securities (as defined herein) issued by either Subsidiary Issuer (as defined herein), the "Guarantor"); CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A., a societe anonyme organized under the laws of the Republic of France ("Crown France"); CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales ("Crown UK") (each of Crown France and Crown UK being a "Subsidiary Issuer" and, collectively the "Subsidiary Issuers"); and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the "Trustee"). The Subsidiary Issuers and the Company in its capacity as an issuer of Securities are herein referred to individually as an "Issuer" and collectively as the "Issuers".
Each of the Issuers 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 in this Indenture provided.
The Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the Guarantees of the Securities provided for herein.
All things necessary have been done to make this Indenture a valid agreement of each of the Issuers and the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities, it is mutually covenanted and
agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with 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 of this Indenture;
(d) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to the Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;
(e) references to the "applicable Issuer" are to the Issuer of the Securities being described; and
(f) references to "Guarantees" and the "Guarantor" are operative only where a Subsidiary Issuer is, was or may become the Issuer of the relevant series of Securities, and only with respect to such series of Securities.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.
"Administrative Action" has the meaning specified in Section 11.10.
"Additional Amounts" has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
"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 terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Agreement Currency" has the meaning specified in Section 1.18.
"Attributable Debt" with respect to any sale leaseback transaction restricted by Section 10.09 means the lesser of (i) the total net amount of rent required to be paid during the remaining base term of the related lease or until the earliest date on which the lessee may terminate such lease upon payment of a penalty or a lump-sum termination payment (in which case the total net rent shall include such penalty or termination payment), discounted at the weighted average interest rate borne by the Outstanding Securities, compounded semi- annually, or (ii) the sale price of the property so leased multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the remaining base term of the related lease (expressed in months) and the denominator of which is the base term of such lease (expressed in months).
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities.
"Authorized Agent" has the meaning specified in Section 1.13.
"Authorized Officer" means any person (whether designated by name or the persons for the time being holding a designated office) appointed by or pursuant to a Board Resolution for the purpose, or a particular purpose, of this Indenture, provided that written notice of such appointment shall have been given to the Trustee.
"Bearer Security Depositary" means, with respect to any series of Securities of Crown UK issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more UK Global Securities, the book-entry depositary or its nominee or the custodian of either, designated by Crown UK in the Bearer Security Depositary Agreement until a successor depositary shall have become such pursuant to applicable provisions of the Bearer Security Depositary Agreement, and thereafter "Bearer Security Depositary" shall mean such successor book-entry depositary or its nominee or the custodian of either, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Bearer Security Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Bearer Security Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.
"Bearer Security Depositary Agreement" means the Bearer Security Depositary Agreement dated as of the date of this Indenture between the Company Crown UK and The Bank of New York.
"Beneficial Owner" means, with respect to Global Securities or UK Global Securities, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Securities as reflected on the books of the Depositary for such Securities or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depositary (directly or as an indirect participant, in accordance with the rules of such Depositary).
"Board of Directors", when used with reference to any of the Issuers or the Guarantor, means the board of directors (or any duly authorized committee thereof) of such Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be.
"Board Resolution", when used with reference to an Issuer or the Guarantor, means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to have been duly adopted by the applicable Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and 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, regulation or executive order to close.
"Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants" means a certificate signed by any firm of independent public accountants of recognized national standing selected by the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor. The term "independent" when used with respect to any specified firm of public accountants means such a firm which (1) is in fact independent, (2) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in such Issuer or in any other obligor upon the Securities of any series or in any affiliate of such Issuer or of such other obligor, and (3) is not connected with such Issuer or such other obligor or any affiliate of such Issuer or of such other obligor, as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions, but such firm may be the regular auditors employed by such Issuer or the Guarantor. Whenever it is herein provided that any Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants shall be furnished to the Trustee for Securities of any series, such Certificate shall state that the signer has read this definition and that the signer is independent within the meaning hereof.
"Code" shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and regulations, rulings and judicial decisions thereunder as of December 12, 1996.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this 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.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.
"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day, (A) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (B) if the Trustee obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Quotations.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom (a) all current liabilities and (b) all goodwill, tradenames, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense (to the extent included in said aggregate amount of assets) and other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in The City of New York, in the State of New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of
execution of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 21 West, New York, New York 10286.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint stock company or business trust.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"Depositary" means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities or UK Global Securities, a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange Act, or any successor thereto, which shall in either case be designated by the applicable Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Depositary" as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of that series.
"Discounted Security" means any Security which provides for an amount (excluding any amounts attributable to accrued but unpaid interest thereon) less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02.
"Dollars" and the sign "$" mean the currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Article V.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case, as amended from time to time.
"Exempted Indebtedness" means as of any particular time the sum of
(i) all then-outstanding indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company and
Restricted Subsidiaries incurred after the date hereof and secured by any
mortgage, security interest, pledge or lien other than those permitted by
paragraph (a) of Section 10.08, and (ii) all Attributable Debt with respect to
Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into by the Company and Restricted
Subsidiaries after the date hereof other than those permitted by paragraph (a)
of Section 10.09.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of any country other than the United States of America or any composite currency (including, without limitation, the European Currency Unit).
"Funded Debt" means any indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary for borrowed money having a maturity of more than 12 months from the date such indebtedness was incurred or having a maturity of less than 12 months but by its terms being renewable or extendable beyond 12 months from the date such indebtedness was incurred at the option of the obligor.
"Global Security" means a Security evidencing all or part of a series of Securities which the applicable Issuer executed and authenticated and delivered to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary's instructions, and which the Guarantor executed, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, all in accordance with this Indenture and pursuant to an Issuer Order, which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and which shall represent the amount of uncertificated Securities as specified therein.
"Government Obligations" means securities that are (i) direct obligations of the government which issued the currency in which the Securities of a particular series are payable or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the government which issued the currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed by such government, which, in either case, are full faith and credit obligations of such government payable in such currency and are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.
"Guarantee" means the irrevocable and unconditional guarantee by the Guarantor of any Security of any series of any Subsidiary Issuer authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture either (i) if specified in a Board Resolution of the Guarantor as contemplated by Section 3.01 and endorsed on such Security or (ii) otherwise applicable pursuant to Article XIII.
"Guarantor" means the Person named as the "Guarantor" 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 "Guarantor" shall mean such successor Person.
"Holder" means, (i) with respect to Securities of any series of Crown UK issued in the form of one or more UK Global Securities, the bearer thereof or its nominee, which shall initially be the Bearer Security Depositary and (ii) otherwise a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.
"Indemnifiable Transaction" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 8.05.
"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 and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the applicable Issuer.
"Interest", when used with respect to a Discounted 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.
"Issuer" means (i) any of the Persons named as an "Issuer" in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture in respect of any such Person, and thereafter "Issuer", in respect of such Person, shall mean such successor Person and (ii) when used with respect to Securities, shall mean the Issuer of Securities of the relevant series.
"Issuer Request" or "Issuer Order" means, with respect to Securities of a series, a written request or order signed in the name of the Issuer or the Guarantor of such Securities by any one of such Issuer's or the Guarantor's Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, and by any one of such Issuer's or the Guarantor's Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Judgment Currency" has the meaning specified in Section 1.18.
"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.
"Officers' Certificate", with respect to the Company means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice President or the Treasurer, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company or in the case of Crown UK or Crown France, any authorized officer or director and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for an Issuer or the Guarantor
(including in-house counsel) or the Trustee, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(c) Securities, except to the extent provided in Section 4.03, as to which the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor has effected defeasance as provided in Article IV; and
(d) Securities that have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 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 applicable Issuer;
Affiliate of an Issuer or the Guarantor or such other obligor; (ii) the principal amount of any Discounted Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration pursuant to Section 5.02; (iii) if the principal amount of a Security payable at Maturity is to be determined by reference to an index or indices, the principal amount of such Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the face amount thereof; (iv) 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 established as contemplated by Section 3.01; and (v) 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 equivalent in Dollars, determined as of such date in the manner established as contemplated by Section 1.15, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in Clause (ii) or (iii) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause).
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by any Issuer to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of such Issuer.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, 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 (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"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 3.06 in exchange for a mutilated Security or in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"Primary Treasury Dealer" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.01 in the definition of "Reference Treasury Dealer."
"Principal Property" means any single manufacturing or processing plant or warehouse (excluding any equipment or personalty located therein), other than any such plant or warehouse or portion thereof that the Board of Directors of
the Company reasonably determines is not of material importance to the business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption established 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 established pursuant to this Indenture.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
"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 established as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Required Currency" has the meaning specified in Section 3.13.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that owns, operates or leases one or more Principal Properties.
"Securities" has the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.05.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"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 with respect to the Company each corporation of which the Company, or the Company and one or more Subsidiaries, or any one or more Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly own securities entitling the holders thereof to elect a majority of the directors, either at all times or so long as there is no default or contingency that permits the holders of any other class or classes of securities to vote for the election of one or more directors.
"Subsidiary Assignee" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.02.
"Succession Date" has the meaning specified in Section 11.08.
"Successor" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.02.
"Successor Additional Amounts" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 8.02.
"Tax Event" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.10.
"Tax Event Securities" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11.10.
"Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
"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 such successor Trustee, 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.
"UK Global Security" means a Security evidencing all or part of a series of Securities which Crown UK executed and authenticated and delivered to the Bearer Security Depositary or pursuant to the Bearer Security Depositary's instructions, and which the Guarantor executed, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, all in accordance with this Indenture and pursuant to an Issuer Order, which shall be in bearer form and represent the amount of uncertificated Securities as specified therein.
"Yield to Maturity", when used with respect to any Discounted Security, means the yield to maturity, if any, set forth on the face thereof.
Every certificate (other than certificates provided pursuant to
Section 10.10) or opinion by or on behalf of an Issuer or the Guarantor with
respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this
Indenture shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or
opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) 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
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of an Issuer or the Guarantor 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 such Issuer or the Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of such Issuer or the Guarantor, 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 Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the applicable Issuer and to the Guarantor. 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 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, such Issuer and the Guarantor, 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 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.
(c) The ownership of Securities other than Securities issued as UK Global Securities shall be proved by the Security Register. The bearer of any Securities issued as a UK Global Security shall be treated as the owner thereof for all purposes, subject to the terms of this Indenture.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, suffered or omitted to be done by the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by an Issuer or the Guarantor shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if mailed first class, postage
prepaid to, or otherwise made, given, furnished or filed, in writing, to or
with the Trustee at its principal Corporate Trust Office, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration; or
(b) an Issuer or the Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as provided in Sections 5.01(d), 3.12 and 3.13) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to such Issuer or Guarantor addressed to such party at the respective addresses of their principal offices specified in Annex A to this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause, it shall be impracticable to mail notice of any event as required by any provision of this Indenture, then any method of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Authorized Agent in accordance with the preceding sentence. Each of the Company and each of the Subsidiary Issuers further agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of such agent in full force and effect until this Indenture has been satisfied and discharged in accordance with Article IV or Article X hereof. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent addressed to it at the address set forth above, as such address may be changed within the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York by notice given by the Authorized Agent to the Trustee, together with written notice of such service mailed or delivered to the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Issuer shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process on the Company or such Subsidiary Issuer, as the case may be.
The Trustee shall segregate moneys, funds and accounts held by the Trustee in one currency or currency unit from any moneys, funds or accounts held in any other currencies or currency units, notwithstanding any provision herein that would otherwise permit the Trustee to commingle such amounts.
ARTICLE II
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the form set forth in this Article.
If Article XIII is to be applicable to Securities of any series then the Securities of each such series shall bear a notation of the Guarantees in substantially the form set forth in Section 2.04. For any other series of Securities, the Guarantees shall be endorsed on the Securities and shall be substantially in the form established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution of the Guarantor in accordance with Section 3.01 or one or more indentures supplemental hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the notation of the Guarantees to be endorsed on the Securities of any series may have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other corrections from the forms thereof referred to above 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 delivering the same, in each case as evidenced by such delivery.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY TO THE [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY OR BY THE [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR [BEARER SECURITY] DEPOSITARY.]
No. $
the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.]
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 duly 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.
[NAME OF APPLICABLE ISSUER],
[SEAL] Name: Attest: Title: ____________________ Authorized Signature] |
Redemption Redemption Year Price Year Price ---- ---------- ---- ---------- |
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 Holder hereof on such date] [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.]
indicated, Redemption Price Redemption Price for for Redemption through Redemption Otherwise Operation of the than through Operation Year Sinking Fund of the Sinking Fund - ------ ---------------------- ---------------------- |
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 Holder hereof on such date] [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 Issuer may not, prior to __________, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [Clause (2)] of the preceding paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operations by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Issuer (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less than % per annum.]
[If applicable, insert--[In addition to its ability to redeem this Security pursuant to the foregoing, this] [This] Security may be redeemed by the Issuer on the terms set forth, and as more fully described, in the Indenture, in certain circumstances where the Issuer would be required to pay Additional Amounts in respect hereof as a result of a change or amendment of any law, regulation or published tax ruling of the jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any Successor is organized, or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, affecting taxation, or change in the official administration, interpretation or application thereof, in each case occurring after the issue date hereof or which change in such official administration, interpretation or application shall not have been available to the public prior to the issue date hereof, which change shall require the Issuer to pay Additional Amounts.]
[The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on
_________ in each year beginning with the year ___________ and ending with the
year __________ of [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 Issuer otherwise than
through [mandatory] sinking fund
payments may be credited against subsequent [mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made.]
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued to [in the name of] the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[If applicable, insert--All payments pursuant to this Security shall be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the jurisdiction (the "applicable taxing jurisdiction") in which the Issuer or any
Successors is organized or resident (or deemed for tax purposes to be resident) or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges are required by the applicable taxing jurisdiction or any such subdivision or authority to be withheld or deducted. In that event, the Issuer will pay such Additional Amounts (as defined in the Indenture) as will result (after deduction of such taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges and any additional taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges payable in respect of such) in the payment to each Holder of a Security of the amounts which would have been payable in respect of the Security thereof had no such withholding or deduction been required, subject to certain exceptions as set forth in Section 10.07 of the Indenture.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer [and the Guarantor] and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer [, the Guarantor] and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate 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 aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Issuer [and the Guarantor] with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by or on behalf of the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest [and any Additional Amounts] on this Security at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
be maintained for such purpose], duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable [in bearer form without coupons] [in registered form without coupons] in denominations of $_______ and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made to the Holders for any [registration of] transfer or exchange or redemption of Securities, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
[Prior to and at the time of due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,] the Issuer, [the Guarantor,] the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer [, the Guarantor,] or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered] [Holder] as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Issuer, [the Guarantor,] the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security [if applicable, insert--and the notation of the Guarantees set forth below] which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
The obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of the Securities and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantees and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XIII of
the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such Article and Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantees.
The Guarantees shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this notation of the Guarantees is endorsed shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Guarantor has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
Title:
[SEAL]
Attest:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee,
ARTICLE III
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to Board
Resolutions of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, and set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that 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 Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of, and any premium on, the Securities of the series is payable;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on Securities of the series shall be payable, any Securities of that series may be surrendered for exchange, and notices and demands to or upon the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served;
(6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currency unit in which, and the terms and conditions upon which, Securities of the series shall be redeemed, in whole or in part, either at the option of the applicable Issuer of such Securities or mandatorily;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the applicable Issuer to redeem or purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which, the currency or currency unit in which, and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(9) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02;
(10) any Events of Default in addition to the Events of Default described in Section 5.01 and any covenants of the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor with respect to the Securities of the series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;
(11) if other than Dollars, the currency or currency unit in which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be made or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated and the particular provisions applicable thereto;
(12) if the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the applicable Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currency unit other than that in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable, the currency or currency unit in which the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of determining the exchange rate between the currency or currency unit in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable and the currency or currency unit in which such Securities are to be so payable;
(13) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index based on a currency or currency unit other than that in which such Securities are denominated or stated to be payable or any other index or formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(14) if the Securities will be entitled to the benefits of the Guarantees afforded by Article XIII of the Indenture or, if not, the form of the Guarantees to be endorsed on the Securities;
(15) where appropriate, that the Securities of the series, in whole or in part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Article IV or Article X;
(16) if the Securities of the series do not bear interest, the applicable dates for purposes of Section 7.01;
(17) if the provisions of Section 4.01 relating to the satisfaction and discharge of Securities of any series shall apply to the Securities of such series; or if provisions for the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture other than as set forth in Section 4.01 shall apply to the Securities of the series;
(18) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities or UK Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary or Bearer Security Depositary for such Global or UK Global Securities, as the case may be; and whether such Global Securities or UK Global Securities shall be temporary or permanent; and whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in bearer form (including Securities registrable as to principal only) with or without interest coupons and, if applicable, the exchangeability of such Securities with Securities issued in fully registered form;
(19) if the Securities of any series may be converted into or exchanged for any other securities, the terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange; and
(20) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture except as permitted by
Section 9.01(e)).
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 such Board Resolutions or supplemental indentures relating thereto. The terms of such Securities, as set forth above, may be determined by the applicable Issuer from time to time if so provided in or established pursuant to the authority granted in Board Resolutions of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time, and unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuance of additional Securities of such series.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to Board Resolutions or supplemental indentures, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Securities or any Guarantees bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall bind such Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or Guarantees or did not hold such offices on the date of such Securities or Guarantees.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the applicable Issuer may deliver Securities of any series executed by such Issuer bearing the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or having any Guarantees endorsed thereon, as applicable, in each case executed by the Guarantor, to the Trustee for authentication, together with an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance with such Issuer Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or supplemental indentures as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01,
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 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,
(a) if the form of such Securities or any Guarantees has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolutions or indentures supplemental hereto as permitted by Section 2.01, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(b) if the terms of such Securities or any Guarantees have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolutions or indentures supplemental hereto as permitted by Section 3.01, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and
(c) that such Securities and any Guarantees thereof, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Issuer and the Guarantor, respectively, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and to general equity principles.
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, the Guarantees and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security or Guarantee shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security or Guarantee has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute
delivery of any Guarantees endorsed or noted thereon on behalf of the Guarantor. The Guarantor by its execution of this Indenture hereby authorizes the applicable Subsidiary Issuer, in the name and on behalf of the Guarantor, to confirm the applicable Guarantees to the Holder of each Security authenticated and delivered hereunder by its execution and delivery of each such Security, with such Guarantees noted or endorsed thereon, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. When delivered pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.03 hereof, only Guarantees endorsed or noted on the Securities shall bind the Guarantor notwithstanding the fact that the Guarantees do not bear the signature of the Guarantor.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the applicable Issuer will cause definitive Securities of such 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 such Issuer in a Place of Payment for such series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series the Issuer shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or the Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of such series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of such series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
other office or agency of such Issuer in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, such Issuer shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby initially 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 any series at the office or agency of the applicable Issuer in a Place of Payment for such series, such Issuer shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or the Guarantees endorsed on, 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 denomination or denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and with the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series of any authorized denomination or denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and with the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the applicable Issuer shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or the Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities and any Guarantees issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, respectively, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange and any Guarantees thereof.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer, or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the applicable Issuer or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to such Issuer and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange or redemption of Securities, but the applicable Issuer 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 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
The applicable Issuer shall not be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange, any Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of any Securities of that same series selected for redemption under Section 11.03 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 Securities being redeemed in part.
The provisions of this Section 3.05 shall not apply to any Securities in bearer form.
If (i) the applicable Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (ii) there is delivered to the applicable Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to such Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, such Issuer shall execute, and the Guarantors shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and upon such Issuer's written request, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated Security or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon, as applicable, 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 applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, each in its discretion, may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay any such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Securities under this Section, the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, 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, and any Guarantees thereof, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities and Guarantees of such 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.
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 ("Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder in accordance with the preceding paragraph, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (a) or (b) below:
(a) The applicable Issuer or the Guarantor may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Holders of the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) 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. Such Issuer or the Guarantor 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 such Issuer or Guarantor 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 the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify such Issuer and the Guarantor in writing of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of such Issuer or the Guarantor, the Trustee shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons entitled thereto pursuant to the first sentence of this Clause (a) and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (b).
(b) The applicable Issuer or the Guarantor 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 written notice given by such Issuer or the Guarantor to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
of, such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Beneficial Owners.
Except as otherwise provided herein, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive form, a Global Security representing all or a portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary. The Beneficial Owner's ownership of Securities shall be recorded on the records of a participant of the Depositary that maintains such Beneficial Owner's account for such purpose and the participant's record ownership of such Securities shall be recorded on the records of the Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for the Securities of a series, whether as Holder of a Global Security or the recipient of certificateless depositary interests in a UK Global Security, notifies the applicable Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Securities of such series or if at any time the Depositary for Securities of a series shall no longer be registered or in good standing under the Exchange Act, or other applicable statute or regulation, and such Issuer shall not have appointed a successor Depositary with respect to the Securities of such series, such Issuer will execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security or UK Global Security representing such series in exchange for such Global Security or UK Global Security, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon. In addition, if at any time there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series, any Holder of the Global Security, upon written request given by registered or certified mail to the applicable Issuer, shall be entitled to receive definitive Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for its respective beneficial interest in the Global Security, executed, authenticated and delivered as aforesaid.
The applicable Issuer may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or Securities.
In such event, such Issuer will execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive form and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security or Securities representing such series in exchange for such Global Security or Securities, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon.
If specified by the applicable Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01 which respect to Securities of a series, the Depositary for such series of Securities may surrender a Global Security for such series of Securities in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of such series in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to such Issuer and such Depositary. Thereupon, the applicable Issuer shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without charge,
(i) to each Person specified by the Depositary a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's beneficial interest in the Global Security, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon; and
(ii) to the Depositary a new Global Security in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Securities delivered to the Beneficial Owners thereof, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon.
Upon the exchange of a Global Security for Securities in definitive form, such Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee. Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section 3.11 shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
of one or more UK Global Securities, then Crown UK shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall, in accordance with Section 3.03 and the Issuer Order with respect to such series, authenticate and deliver one or more UK Global Securities in temporary or permanent form that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by one or more UK Global Securities, (ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to the Bearer Security Depositary or pursuant to the Bearer Security Depositary's instruction and (iii) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: "Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Bearer Security Depositary to a nominee of the Bearer Security Depositary or by a nominee of the Bearer Security Depositary to the Bearer Security Depositary or another nominee of the Bearer Security Depositary or by the Bearer Security Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Bearer Security Depositary or a nominee of such successor Bearer Security Depositary". Pursuant to the Bearer Security Depositary Agreement, the Bearer Security Depositary shall issue a certificateless depositary interest representing an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the UK Global Security or Securities to the Depositary, which upon its confirmation that the Bearer Security Depositary or a nominee thereof has custody of the UK Global Security or Securities and acceptance of such certificateless depositary interest, shall credit accounts of Persons held with it with the respective principal amounts of the series of Securities represented by such UK Global Security or Securities. The Trustee shall deal with the Bearer Security Depositary for purposes of exercising the rights of the Holders hereunder and under any Guarantees and the rights of the Beneficial Owners of the UK Global Securities shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the Depositary and its participants. The Beneficial Owner's ownership of Securities shall be recorded on the records of a participant of the Depositary that maintains such Beneficial Owner's account for such purpose and the participant's record ownership of such Securities shall be recorded on the records of the Depositary. Dealings between the Bearer Security Depositary and the Depositary and its participants relating to exercising the rights of the Holders hereunder and under any Guarantees and the rights of the Beneficial Owners of the UK Global Securities shall be governed by the Bearer Security Depositary Agreement. Beneficial Owners shall not be entitled to certificates for UK Global Securities as to which they are the Beneficial Owners. Requests and directions from, and votes of, such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Beneficial Owners.
Except as otherwise provided herein, unless and until a UK Global
Security is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive form,
(i) such UK Global Security representing all or a portion of the Securities of a
series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Bearer Security
Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Bearer Security Depositary or by
a nominee of such Bearer Security Depositary to such Bearer Security Depositary
or another nominee of such Bearer Security Depositary or by such Bearer Security
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Bearer Security Depositary for
such series or a nominee of such successor Bearer Security Depositary, and (ii)
the certificateless depositary interest in such UK Global Security held by the
Depositary may not be transferred except as a whole by such Depositary to a
nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary
or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee
to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such Successor Depositary.
If at any time the Bearer Security Depositary for the Securities of a series notifies Crown UK that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Bearer Security Depositary for the Securities of such series and Crown UK shall not have appointed a successor Bearer Security Depositary with respect to the Securities of such series, Crown UK will execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the UK Global Security or Securities representing such series in exchange for such UK Global Security or Securities, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon. In addition, if at any time there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series, any Holder of the UK Global Security, upon written request given by registered or certified mail to Crown UK shall be entitled to receive definitive Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for its respective beneficial interest in the UK Global Security, executed, authenticated and delivered as aforesaid.
Crown UK may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the Securities of any series issued in the form of one or more UK Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such UK Global Security or Securities. In such event, Crown UK will execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Issuer
Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive form and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the UK Global Security or Securities representing such series in exchange for such UK Global Security or Securities, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon.
If specified by Crown UK pursuant to Section 3.01 which respect to Securities of a series, the Bearer Security Depositary for such series of Securities may surrender a UK Global Security for such series of Securities in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of such series in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to Crown UK, the Bearer Security Depositary and the Depositary. Thereupon, Crown UK shall execute, and the Guarantor shall execute, as applicable, the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without charge,
(i) to each Person specified by the Bearer Security Depositary a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's beneficial interest in the UK Global Security, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon; and
(ii) to the Bearer Security Depositary a new UK Global Security in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered UK Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Securities delivered to the Beneficial Owners thereof, having the notation of any Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or any Guarantees endorsed thereon.
Upon the exchange of a UK Global Security for Securities in definitive form, such UK Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee. Securities issued in exchange for a UK Global Security pursuant to this Section 3.12 shall be issued only in registered form and shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Bearer Security Depositary for such UK Global Security, pursuant to instructions from the Depositary and its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
applicable Issuer and the Guarantor to make any payment of the principal, premium or interest or any Additional Amounts thereon shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender by such Issuer or the Guarantor, or recovery by the Trustee, in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the Trustee timely holding the full amount of the Required Currency then due and payable. If any such tender or recovery is in a currency other than the Required Currency, the Trustee may take such actions as it considers appropriate to exchange such currency for the Required Currency. The costs and risks of any such exchange, including without limitation the risks of delay and exchange rate fluctuation, shall be borne by the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, and such Issuer and the Guarantor shall remain fully liable for any shortfall or delinquency in the full amount of the Required Currency then due and payable, and in no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable therefor. In the event of such a shortfall, the Trustee shall make payments on a pro rata basis unless otherwise notified by the Issuer in writing. Each Issuer and the Guarantor hereby waive any defense of payment based upon any such tender or recovery which is not in the Required Currency, or which, when exchanged for the Required Currency by the Trustee, is less than the full amount of Required Currency then due and payable.
ARTICLE IV
pursuant to Section 3.01, and, so long as no Event of Default shall be continuing, the Trustee for the Securities of such series, upon Issuer Request and at the expense of the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of such indebtedness, when:
(1) either
(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and
delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than
(i) any Securities and coupons of such series which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 3.06, (ii) coupons appertaining to Securities
called for redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date
and (iii) Securities and coupons of such series for whose payment
money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held
in trust by such Issuer or the Guarantor and thereafter repaid to such
Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or discharged from such
trust, as provided in the last paragraph of Section 10.03) have been
delivered to such Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) with respect to all Outstanding Securities of such series described in (A) above (and, in the case of (i) or (ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto) not theretofore so delivered to the Trustee for the Securities of such series for cancellation:
(i) such Issuer or the Guarantor has deposited or caused to
be deposited with such Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount
in the currency or currency unit in which the Securities of such
series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series), sufficient to
pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all such Outstanding
Securities of such series and any related coupons for unpaid
principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, to the date
of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due
and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date as
contemplated by Section 4.02, as the case may be; or
(ii) such Issuer or the Guarantor has deposited or caused to be deposited with such Trustee as obligations in trust such amount of Government Obligations denominated in the
Required Currency as will, as evidenced by a Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants delivered to such Trustee, together with the predetermined and certain income to accrue thereon (without consideration of any reinvestment thereof), be sufficient to pay and discharge when due the entire indebtedness on all such Outstanding Securities of such series and any related coupons for unpaid principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date as contemplated by Section 4.02, as the case may be; or
(iii) such Issuer or the Guarantor has deposited or caused to be deposited with such Trustee in trust an amount equal to the amount referred to in clause (i) or (ii) in any combination of currency or currency unit or Government Obligations;
(2) such Issuer or the Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable with respect to the Securities of such series and any related coupons;
(3) such Issuer or the Guarantor has delivered to such 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 the entire indebtedness on all Securities of such series and any related coupons have been complied with; and
(4) the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall have delivered to the Trustee, not later than the date of such deposit, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Holders of the Securities of all series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes or be subject to any taxes or recognize gain or loss for income tax purposes in the jurisdictions in which such Issuer is organized, resident or carries on a business as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax and income taxes, capital and other taxes, including withholding taxes in such jurisdictions on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred.
(b) Upon the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this Section 4.01 with respect to all the Securities of a series, the terms and conditions of such
(b) The applicable Issuer or the Guarantor shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee for any series of Securities against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 4.01 or the interest and principal received in respect of such Government Obligations other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is payable by or on behalf of Holders. The obligation of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor under this Section 4.02(b) shall be deemed to be an obligation of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor under Section 6.07(b).
(c) Anything in this Article IV to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee for any series of Securities shall deliver or pay to the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, from time to time upon Issuer Request any money or Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 4.01 which, as expressed in a Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants delivered to such Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such money or Government Obligations were deposited or received provided such delivery can be made without liquidating any Government Obligations.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, any obligations of any Issuer or the Guarantor under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 4.02(b), 6.07, 6.10, 6.14, 7.01, 10.02 and 10.12 and the obligations of the Trustee for any series of Securities under Section 4.02 shall survive.
ARTICLE V
(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of such series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of such series at its Maturity; or
(c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of such Issuer or the Guarantor in this Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series (other than a default in the performance, or a breach, of a covenant or warranty which is specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section or which has expressly been included in this Indenture
solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than such series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to such Issuer and the Guarantor by the Trustee or to such Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such 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
(e) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging such Issuer or the Guarantor a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of such Issuer or the Guarantor under any applicable law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of such Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of such Issuer's or the Guarantor's property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of such Issuer's or the Guarantor's 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
(f) the commencement by the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable 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 such Issuer or the Guarantor to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable 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 such Issuer or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable law, or the consent by such Issuer or the Guarantor to the filing of such petition or the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of it or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by such Issuer or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by such Issuer or the Guarantor in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of
corporate action by such Issuer or the Guarantor in furtherance of any such action; or
(g) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
At any time after such 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 such series, by written notice to the applicable Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) such Issuer or the Guarantor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities of such series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of such series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and 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, disbursement and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of such series, other than the non-payment of principal of Securities of such series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(a) default is made by such Issuer in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(b) default is made by such Issuer in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
such Issuer or the Guarantor 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 premium, if any) and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the rate borne by the Securities; and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If such Issuer or the Guarantor fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against such Issuer or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of such Issuer or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated.
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 for 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.
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of such Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
First: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07;
Second: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest; and
Third: the balance, if any, to the applicable Issuer, to the Guarantor or to any other Person or Persons entitled thereto.
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount for the Outstanding Securities of such 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;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
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.
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture; and
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
(a) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX 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.
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the respective Maturity or Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE VI
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture or the Trust Indenture Act, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by 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) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) 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 a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, determined as provided in Section 5.12, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of an Issuer or the Guarantor mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request or Issuer Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors of such Issuer or the Guarantor may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) 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 and Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection 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;
(e) 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;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, 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 applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys; and
(h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities of the series to which such default applies and this Indenture.
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing with the Trustee 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);
(b) 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
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, 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.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(e) or Section 501(f), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
whether the Trustee has a conflicting interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the securities of any series, there shall be excluded securities of any particular series of securities other than that series.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series of an Issuer by giving written notice thereof to such Issuer and the Guarantor. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, subject to Section 6.09.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by an Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the delivery
of such Act to the Trustee, the Trustee being removed may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, subject to Section 6.09.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee for a series of Securities shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act pursuant to Section 6.08 hereof after written request therefor by the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of such Security for at least six months unless the Trustee's duty to resign is stayed in accordance with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, or
(2) the Trustee for a series of Securities shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of such Security for at least six months, or
(3) the Trustee for a series of Securities shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any case, (i) the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor by a Board
Resolution may remove such Trustee with respect to all Securities, or
(ii) subject to Section 5.14, the Holder of any such Security who has been a
bona fide Holder of such 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.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of any one or more series of an Issuer, such Issuer and the Guarantor, by Board Resolutions, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. 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 of an Issuer shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series delivered to such Issuer and the Guarantor 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 6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series of such Issuer and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by such Issuer and the Guarantor. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series of any Issuer shall have been so appointed by such Issuer and the Guarantor or the Holders of such Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, the Holder of any Security of such series who has been a bona fide Holder for at least six months may, subject to Section 5.14, 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 of such Issuer, subject to Section 6.09.
(f) The applicable Issuer shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series of such Issuer and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series of such Issuer by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. 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.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series of one or more Issuers, the applicable Issuer, the Guarantor, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series of such Issuer 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, trust 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 applicable Issuer, the Guarantor 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.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers, trusts and duties referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) 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, including, without limitation, under Section 6.09.
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, to the applicable Issuer or Issuers and to the Guarantor. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent, to the applicable Issuer or Issuers and to the Guarantor. 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 each of the applicable Issuers and shall mail written 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, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. 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 Issuers and the Guarantor agree 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 alternate 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.
ARTICLE VII
(a) semiannually, not later than May 15 and November 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Outstanding Securities of each series of the applicable Issuer as of the preceding April 1 or October 1, as the case may be; and
(b) If three or more Holders (hereinafter referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security 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 Indenture or under the Securities and the Guarantees and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either
(1) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), or
(2) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a) , a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with each of the Issuers, the Guarantor and the Trustee that none of the Issuers, the Guarantor nor the Trustee shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with Section 7.02(b), regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 7.02(b).
Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. With respect to each series of Securities, the Trustee shall also comply with Sections 313(b) and 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. At any time a report is mailed to the Holders of any particular series of Securities, a copy of such report shall be filed with the Commission and with each securities exchange, if any, on which the Securities of such series are listed. With respect to each series of Securities, the applicable Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee when such series of Securities is listed on any securities exchange.
ARTICLE VIII
(1) any Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to whom the Company has conveyed, transferred or leased its properties and assets substantially as an entirety is a corporation, partnership or trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and such Person expressly assumes 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 of the Company and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed (including the performance or observance of the Guarantees);
(2) immediately after giving effect to 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 occurred and be continuing;
(3) the Company shall expressly agree by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, (i) to immediately indemnify (pursuant to the indemnification
procedure described in Section 8.05) the Holder of each Security against
(A) any tax, assessment or governmental charge imposed on such Holder or
required to be withheld or deducted from any payment to such Holder
(including any governmental charge or withholding attributable to the
Company's indemnifying such Holder) as a consequence of such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and (B) any other tax costs or other
tax expenses imposed on such Holder as a result of the act of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease (except that if the
Company or such Person delivers by the date of any such transaction an
opinion of an independent counsel or a tax consultant of recognized
standing that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S.
federal income tax purposes as a result of such transaction, a Holder
will have such rights to indemnification only if and when gain for U.S.
federal income tax purposes is actually imposed on such Holder) and
(ii) that all payments pursuant to the Securities in respect of the
principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities, as the case
may be, shall be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account
of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental
charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the
jurisdiction of organization of such Person or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, duties, assessments
or governmental charges are required by such jurisdiction or any such
subdivision or authority to be withheld or deducted, in which case such
Person will pay such additional amounts of, or in respect of, principal and
any premium and interest as will result (after deduction of such taxes,
duties, assessments or governmental charges and any additional taxes,
duties, assessments or governmental charges payable in respect of such) in
the payment to each Holder of a Security of the amounts which would have
been payable pursuant to the Securities had no such withholding or
deduction been required, subject to the same exceptions as would apply with
respect to the payment by such Subsidiary Issuer of Additional Amounts in
respect of the Securities;
(4) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such conveyance, transfer or lease, any Principal Property of the Company would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other
encumbrance that would not be permitted by this Indenture, such Person shall take such steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure the Securities of the Company and of the Subsidiary Issuers equally and ratably with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured thereby; and
(5) 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.
(1) any Person formed by such consolidation or into which the applicable Subsidiary Issuer is merged or to whom such Subsidiary Issuer has conveyed, transferred or leased its properties and assets substantially as an entirety (a "Successor") is a corporation, partnership or trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Person, and expressly assumes 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 of such Subsidiary Issuer and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of such Subsidiary Issuer to be performed or observed (including any obligation to pay any Additional Amounts);
(2) immediately after giving effect to 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 occurred and be continuing;
(3) any such Person shall expressly agree, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, (i) to immediately indemnify (pursuant to the indemnification procedure described in Section 8.05) the Holder of each Security against (A) any tax, assessment or governmental charge imposed on such Holder or required to be withheld or deducted from any payment to such Holder (including any governmental
charge or withholding attributable to such Person's indemnifying such
Holder) as a consequence of such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease, and (B) any other tax costs or other tax expenses of the
act of such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease (except
that if the Company or any such Person delivers by the date of any such
transaction an opinion of an independent counsel or a tax consultant of
recognized standing that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or
loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such transaction,
a Holder will have such rights to indemnification only if and when gain for
U.S. federal income tax purposes is actually imposed on such Holders) and
(ii) that all payments pursuant to the Securities in respect of the
principal of and any premium and interest on such Securities, as the case
may be, shall be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account
of, any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental
charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the
jurisdiction of organization of such Person or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, duties, assessments
or governmental charges are required by such jurisdiction or any such
subdivision or authority to be withheld or deducted, in which case such
Person will pay by way of additional interest such additional amounts of,
or in respect of, principal and any premium and interest ("Successor
Additional Amounts") as will result (after deduction of such taxes, duties,
assessments or governmental charges and any additional taxes, duties,
assessments or governmental charges payable in respect of such) in the
payment to each Holder of a Security of the amounts which would have been
payable pursuant to the Securities had no such withholding or deduction
been required, except that no Successor Additional Amounts shall be so
payable for or on account of:
(A) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such Holder: (i) was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the jurisdiction of organization of such Successor or any of its territories or any political subdivision thereof or otherwise had some connection with such jurisdiction other than the mere ownership of, or receipt of payment under, such Security; (ii) presented (if presentation is required) such Security for payment in such jurisdiction or any of its territories or any political subdivision thereof, unless such Security could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; or (iii) presented (if presentation is required) such Security more than thirty (30) days after the date on which the payment in respect of such
Security first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such Successor Additional Amounts if it had presented such Security for payment on any day within such period of thirty (30) days;
(B) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;
(C) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge which is payable otherwise than by withholding or deduction from payments of (or in respect of) principal of or any premium or interest on, such Securities;
(D) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of the failure to comply by the Holder or the beneficial owner of the Security with a request of such Subsidiary Issuer or the Successor addressed to the Holder (i) to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial owner or (ii) to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (i) or (ii), is required or imposed by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the taxing jurisdiction as a precondition or exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or
(E) any combination of items (A), (B), (C) and (D);
nor shall Successor Additional Amounts be paid with respect to any payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security to any Holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of such Person (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein) to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Successor Additional Amounts had it been the Holder of the Security; and
(4) such Subsidiary Issuer 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.
(b) A Subsidiary Issuer may assign its obligations under any series of Securities to any other Subsidiary (the "Subsidiary Assignee") and such Subsidiary Assignee shall be treated as the Successor to such Subsidiary Issuer with respect to such series of Securities, provided that the conditions set forth in Section 8.02(a) that would apply to the merger of such Subsidiary Issuer into such Subsidiary Assignee are satisfied.
(b) Upon any assignment of its obligations under any series of
Securities by a Subsidiary Issuer to any Subsidiary Assignee in accordance with
Section 8.02(b), the Subsidiary Assignee shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, such Subsidiary Issuer under
this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities with the same effect as
if such Subsidiary Assignee had been named as such Subsidiary Issuer herein, and
thereafter, such Subsidiary Issuer shall be relieved of all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities with respect to such series of
Securities.
(i) the Company expressly assumes in an assumption agreement or supplemental indenture 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 such Securities and the performance or observance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of such Subsidiary Issuer to be
performed or observed (including any obligation to pay any Additional Amounts);
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such assumption, no Event of Default and no event, which after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(iii) the Company shall expressly agree in an assumption agreement or supplemental indenture executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to immediately indemnify (pursuant to the indemnification procedure described in Section 8.05) the Holder of each Security against (i) any tax, assessment or governmental charge imposed on such Holder or required to be withheld or deducted from any payment to such Holder (including any governmental charge or withholding tax attributable to the Company's indemnifying such Holder) as a consequence of such assumption and (ii) any costs or expenses of such assumption (except that if the Company delivers to the Trustee an opinion of an independent counsel or a tax consultant of recognized standing that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such assumption by the date of such assumption, a Holder will have indemnification rights pursuant to the indemnification procedure described in Section 8.05 only if and when gain for U.S. federal income tax purposes is actually imposed on such Holder); and
(iv) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that such assumption and such assumption agreement comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such assumption have been complied with.
(b) Upon any assumption pursuant to Section 8.04(a), the Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for, any may exercise every right and power of, the applicable Subsidiary Issuer under such Securities and this Indenture with the same effect as if the Company had been the applicable Subsidiary Issuer thereof, and such Subsidiary Issuer shall be released from its liability as obligor upon the Securities and under this Indenture.
(including any governmental charge or withholding attributable to an indemnification payment made by or on behalf of the Company or any Person) and any other tax costs or other tax expenses attributable to such Indemnifiable Transaction, the Company or any such Person, as the case may be, shall comply with the following indemnification procedures:
(1) Unless the Company or any such Person, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee by the date of an Indemnifiable Transaction an opinion of an independent counsel or a tax consultant of recognized standing to the effect that such Indemnifiable Transaction will not be a taxable event for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company or any such Person, as the case may be, shall send to each Holder on or prior to the date of such Indemnifiable Transaction (i) notification explaining the U.S. federal income tax consequences to each such Holder of such Indemnifiable Transaction and (ii) an indemnification claim form requesting (A) information concerning each such Holder's tax basis and holding period in a Security and (B) a statement that the Holder is not then an entity described in Section 5.01 of the Code that is exempt from U.S. federal income tax and (iii) a statement setting forth the address to which each such Holder must remit such form.
(2) If the Company or any such Person delivers such an opinion, each Holder will have indemnification rights pursuant to this Section 8.05 only if and when gain for U.S. federal income tax purposes is actually imposed on such Holder.
(3) When the Company or any Person, as the case may be, receives from a Holder an indemnification claim form, the Company or such Person, as the case may be, shall within 15 business days remit to such Holder a certified check in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the product of any gain recognized as a result of the Indemnifiable Transaction and the highest marginal tax rate in effect at the time of such Indemnifiable Transaction (the "Indemnification Amount"), and (ii) the product of the Indemnification Amount and such tax rate. For these purposes, a Holder's gain shall equal the amount by which the fair market value of a Security at the time of such Indemnifiable Transaction exceeds such Holder's adjusted tax basis in such Security.
ARTICLE IX
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to such Issuer or the Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of such Issuer or the Guarantor herein and in the Securities or the Guarantees; or
(b) to add to the covenants of such Issuer or the Guarantor 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 such Issuer or the Guarantor; or
(c) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to any or all series of Securities (and, if any such Event of Default applies to fewer than all series of Securities, stating each series to which such Event of Default applies); or
(d) to add 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
(f) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; or
(g) 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 6.11(b); or
(i) to add to the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, form, terms or purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set forth, other conditions, limitations and restrictions thereafter to be observed; or
(k) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, as contemplated by Section 9.05 or otherwise.
(a) 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 or any premium payable upon the redemption
thereof, or change any obligation of such Issuer or the Guarantor to pay
any Additional Amounts or reduce the amount of the principal of a
Discounted Security or any other Security that would be due and payable
upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.02, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency
in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable,
or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment after the Maturity thereof; or
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series of such Issuer, 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
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.
Upon the request of the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor, each accompanied by copies of Board Resolutions of, respectively, the applicable Issuer and the Guarantor authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with such Issuer and the Guarantor in the execution of such supplemental indenture.
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.
ARTICLE X
series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
The Guarantor will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities to which the Guarantees apply an office or agency where Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for payment pursuant to the Guarantees and where notices and demands to or upon the Guarantor in respect of the Guarantees and this Indenture may be served. The Guarantor 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 Guarantor shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrender and demands.
If any of the Issuers shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the applicable Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of such action or any failure so to act.
The applicable Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the applicable Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest;
(c) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(d) acknowledge, accept and agree to comply in all aspects with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the duties, rights and liabilities of such Paying Agent.
Any of the Issuers may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the applicable Issuer 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 such Issuer 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.
for tax purposes to be resident) (the "applicable taxing jurisdiction"), unless such taxes, duties, levies, assessments or governmental charges are required by the applicable taxing jurisdiction or any such subdivision or authority to be withheld or deducted. In that event, the Subsidiary Issuer will pay by way of additional interest such additional amounts of, or in respect of, principal and any premium and interest ("Additional Amounts") as will result (after deduction of such taxes, duties, levies, assessments or governmental charges and any additional taxes, duties, levies, assessments or governmental charges payable in respect of such Additional Amounts) in the payment to each Holder of such Securities of the amounts which would have been payable in respect of such Securities had no such withholding or deduction been required, except that no Additional Amounts shall be so payable for or on account of:
(1) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such Holder: (A) was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the applicable taxing jurisdiction or otherwise had some connection with the applicable taxing jurisdiction other than the mere ownership of such Security; (B) presented (if presentation is required) such Security for payment in the applicable taxing jurisdiction, unless such Security could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; or (C) presented (if presentation is required) such Security more than thirty (30) days after the date on which the payment in respect of such Security first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such Additional Amounts if it had presented such Security for payment on any day within such period of thirty (30) days;
(2) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;
(3) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge which is payable otherwise than by withholding or deduction from payments of, or in respect of, principal of or any premium or interest on the Security;
(4) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of the failure to comply by the Holder or the beneficial owner of a Security with a request of the applicable Subsidiary Issuer addressed to the Holder (A) to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial
owner or (B) to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (A) or (B), is required or imposed by a statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the applicable taxing jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or
(5) any combination of items (1), (2), (3) and (4);
nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to any payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any such Security to any Holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the applicable taxing jurisdiction to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts had it been the Holder of the Security.
Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of principal of, or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Securities of any series issued by a Subsidiary Issuer or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Securities of any series issued by a Subsidiary Issuer, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided for in this Section to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to this Indenture.
(i) Liens that exist on the date of this Indenture;
(ii) Liens on property, shares of capital stock or evidences of indebtedness of any corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary;
(iii) Liens in favor of the Company or any Subsidiary;
(iv) Liens in favor of governmental bodies to secure progress, advance or other payments pursuant to contract or statute or indebtedness incurred to finance all or a part of construction of or improvements to property subject to such Liens;
(vi) mechanics', landlords' and similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations not due or being contested in good faith;
(vii) Liens for taxes, assessments, or governmental charges or levies that are not delinquent or are being contested in good faith;
(viii) Liens arising from any legal proceedings that are being contested in good faith;
(ix) any Liens that (A) are incidental to the ordinary conduct of its business or the ownership of its properties and assets, including Liens incurred in connection with workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance or other forms of governmental insurance or benefits, or to secure performance of tenders, statutory obligations, leases and contracts, (B) were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit and (C) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of the property of the Company or any Subsidiary or materially
impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;
(x) Liens securing industrial development or pollution control bonds; and
(xi) Liens for the sole purpose of extending, renewing or replacing (or successively extending, renewing or replacing) in whole or in part any of the foregoing.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section 10.08, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may, without equally and ratably securing the Securities, create, assume or suffer to exist Liens which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions if at the time of such creation, assumption or sufferance of existence, and after giving effect thereto, Exempted Indebtedness does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section 10.09, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into Sale and Leaseback Transactions, if at the time of such entering into, and after giving effect thereto, Exempted Indebtedness does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
(a) with respect to all Outstanding Securities of such series and any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor shall have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee for such series as trust funds or obligations in trust an amount of:
(i) cash in the currency or currency unit in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series);
(ii) Government Obligations; or
(iii) a combination of such cash and Government Obligations;
in each case in an amount which, together with, as evidenced by a Certificate of a Firm of Independent Public Accountants delivered to such Trustee, the predetermined and certain income to accrue on any Government Obligations when due (without the consideration of any reinvestment thereof) is sufficient to pay and discharge when due the entire indebtedness on all such Outstanding Securities of such series and any related coupons for unpaid principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, to the Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) no Event of Default or event which with the giving of notice or
lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to
the Securities of that series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit and no Event of Default under Section 5.01(e) or
Section 5.01(f) or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time,
or both, would become an Event of Default under Section 5.01(e) or Section
5.01(f) shall have occurred and be continuing on the 91st day after such
date;
(d) the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor 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 defeasance contemplated in the Section have been complied with; and
(e) the applicable Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall have delivered to the Trustee, not later than the date of such deposit, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes or be subject to any taxes or recognize gain or loss for income tax purposes in the jurisdictions in which such Issuer is organized, resident or carries on a business as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax and income taxes, capital and other taxes, including withholding taxes in such jurisdiction on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred.
ARTICLE XI
writing by the Issuer), and the amounts to be redeemed may be equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the applicable Issuer and each Security Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) in the case of a Security to be redeemed in part, the principal amount of such Security to be redeemed, and that after the Redemption Date upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in the aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued;
(e) subject to Section 11.07, that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(f) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that (unless the applicable Issuer shall default in payment of the Redemption Price) interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(g) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(h) the CUSIP Number of the Securities; and
(i) 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 any of the Issuers shall be given by the applicable Issuer or, at such Issuer's request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of such Issuer.
The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by such Security.
the Security Registrar or the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the applicable Issuer shall execute, the Guarantor shall execute the notation of the Guarantees pursuant to Article XIII or the Guarantees endorsed on, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge to the Holder, a new Security or Securities of the same series, 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; provided, however, that the Depositary or the Bearer Security Depositary need not surrender Global Securities or UK Global Securities, as the case may be, for a partial redemption and may be authorized to make a notation on such Global Security or UK Global Security of such partial redemption. In the case of a partial redemption of the Global Securities, the Depositary, and in turn, the participants in the Depositary, shall have the responsibility to select any Securities to be redeemed by random lot.
Prior to any redemption of any Securities pursuant to this Section, the applicable Subsidiary Issuer or a Successor shall provide the Trustee with an Opinion of
Counsel that the conditions precedent to the right of such Subsidiary Issuer or Successor to redeem such Securities pursuant to this Section have occurred. Such Opinion of Counsel shall be based on the laws and application and interpretation thereof in effect on the date of such opinion or to become effective on or before the next succeeding Interest Payment Date.
(b) In the event that the applicable Issuer elects to exercise its rights to shorten the maturity of Tax Event Securities on the occurrence of a Tax Event, such Issuer will, by first-class mail, postage prepaid, give a notice of shortened maturity to each Holder of such Tax Event Securities not more than 60 days after the occurrence of such Tax Event, which notice shall state the new Stated Maturity of such Tax Event Securities.
(c) For purposes of this Section 11.10, "Tax Event" means that the applicable Issuer of a series of Securities shall have received an opinion of a nationally recognized independent tax counsel to the effect that on or after the date of the issuance of such Securities, as a
result of (a) any amendment to, clarification of, or change (including any announced prospective change) in laws, or any regulations thereunder, of the United States, (b) any judicial decision, official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt such procedures or regulations (an "Administrative Action"), or (c) any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of such Administrative Action or judicial decision that differs from the theretofore generally accepted position, in each case, on or after, the date of the issuance of such Securities, such change in tax law creates a more than insubstantial risk that interest paid by the applicable Issuer on such Securities is not, or will not be, deductible, in whole or in part, by such Issuer for purposes of United States federal income tax.
ARTICLE XII
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series 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 Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.
by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
ARTICLE XIII
The Guarantor hereby fully and unconditionally guarantees to each
Holder of a Security of each series issued by a Subsidiary Issuer, authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal
(including any amount due in respect of original issue discount) of and any
premium and interest on such Security (and any Additional Amounts (as defined in
Section 10.07) payable in respect thereof), and the due and punctual payment of
any sinking fund payments provided for pursuant to the terms of such Security,
when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity, by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, in
accordance with the terms of such Security and of this Indenture. The Guarantor
hereby agrees that in the event of an Event of Default its obligations hereunder
shall be as if it were a principal debtor and not merely a surety, and shall be
absolute and unconditional, irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by, any
invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of any Security of any series or
this Indenture, any failure to enforce the provisions of any
The Guarantor also agrees, to pay any and all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or any Holders in enforcing any rights under this Guarantee.
The Guarantor hereby waives any right of set-off which the Guarantor may have against the Holder of any Security of a Subsidiary Issuer in respect of any amounts which are or may become payable by such Holder to such Subsidiary Issuer.
The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders of any series of Securities and the Trustee against the applicable Subsidiary Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holders and the Trustee by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees;
No past, present or future stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator of the Guarantor shall have any personal liability under the Guarantees set forth in this Section 13.01 by reason of his or its status as such stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator.
The Guarantees set forth in this Section 13.01 shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to a Security until the certificate of authentication on such Security shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.,
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC,
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee,
Title:
Exhibit 10.1
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.
Debt Securities
December 12, 1996
Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.
Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC
Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A.
c/o Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc.
9300 Ashton Road
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19136
Attention: Mr. Alan W. Rutherford
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We understand that (i) Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell $350,000,000 principal amount of its 7 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 and $150,000,000 principal amount of its 7 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 (collectively, the "Debentures"), (ii) Crown Cork & Seal Finance PLC ("Crown UK"), a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales, proposes to issue and sell $200,000,000 of its 6 3/4% Notes Due 2003 and $300,000,000 of its 7% Notes Due 2006 (collectively, the "UK Notes") and (iii) Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A. ("Crown France" and collectively with the Company and Crown UK, the "Issuers"), a societe anonyme organized under the laws of the Republic of France, proposes to issue and sell $200,000,000 principal amount of its 6 3/4% Notes Due 2003 (collectively with the Debentures and the UK Notes, the "Offered Debt Securities"). We offer to purchase, on and subject to the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") filed as an exhibit to the registration statements of the Issuers on Form S-3 (No. 333-16869) and incorporated by reference herein, the Offered Debt Securities on the following terms:
I. CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
A. 7 3/8% Debentures Due 2026 -------------------------- Principal Amount: $350,000,000 Interest: 7.375% per annum, from December 17, 1996, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 1997, to holders of record on the preceding June 1 or December 1, as the case may be. Maturity: December 15, 2026 Currency: US$ Denominations: $1,000 Form: Represented by 2 Global Notes in registered form, and beneficial interests in such will trade in DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Optional Redemption: Section 11.09 of the Indenture shall be applicable, at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points. Sinking Fund: None. Delayed Delivery Contracts: None. Other: Sections 4.01 and 10.12 of the Indenture shall be applicable. Purchase Price: 97.924% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. Expected Reoffering Price: 98.799% of principal amount, subject to change by the undersigned. |
3 B. 7 1/2% Debentures Due 2096 -------------------------- Principal Amount: $150,000,000 Interest: 7.500% per annum, from December 17, 1996, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 1997, to holders of record on the preceding June 1 or December 1, as the case may be. Maturity: December 15, 2096 Currency: US$ Denominations: $1,000 Form: Represented by 1 Global Note in registered form, and beneficial interests in such will trade in DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Optional Redemption: Section 11.09 of the Indenture shall be applicable, at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points. Sinking Fund: None. Delayed Delivery Contracts: None. Other: Sections 4.01, 10.12 and 11.10 ("Conditional Right to Shorten Maturity") of the Indenture shall be applicable. Purchase Price: 97.224% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. Expected Reoffering Price: 98.349% of principal amount, subject to change by the undersigned. |
II. CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC
A. 6 3/4% Notes Due 2003 --------------------- Principal Amount: $200,000,000 Guarantee: Unconditionally guaranteed by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. on the terms set forth in Section 13.01 of the Indenture. Interest: 6.750% per annum, from December 17, 1996, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 1997, to holders of record of the certificateless depositary interests in the Notes on the preceding June 1 or December 1, as the case may be. Maturity: December 15, 2003 Currency: US$ Denominations: $1,000 Form: Represented by 1 Global Note in bearer form and beneficial interests in such will trade in DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Optional Redemption: Section 11.09 of the Indenture shall be applicable, at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate. Sinking Fund: None. Delayed Delivery Contracts: None. Other: Sections 4.01 and 10.12 of the Indenture shall be applicable. Purchase Price: 98.913% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. |
5 Purchase Price: 98.913% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. Expected Reoffering Price: 99.463% of principal amount, subject to change by the undersigned. B. 7% Notes Due 2006 ----------------- Principal Amount: $300,000,000 Guarantee: Unconditionally guaranteed by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. on the terms set forth in Section 13.01 of the Indenture. Interest: 7.000% per annum, from December 17, 1996, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 1997, to holders of record of the certificateless depositary interests in the Notes on the preceding June 1 or December 1, as the case may be. Maturity: December 15, 2006 Currency: US$ Denominations: $1,000 Form: Represented by 2 Global Notes in bearer form and beneficial interests in such will trade in DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System. Optional Redemption: Section 11.09 of the Indenture shall be applicable, at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate. Sinking Fund: None. |
6 Delayed Delivery Contracts: None. Other: Sections 4.01 and 10.12 of the Indenture shall be applicable. Purchase Price: 99.017% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. Expected Reoffering Price: 99.667% of principal amount, subject to change by the undersigned. |
III. CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.
Principal Amount: $200,000,000 Guarantee: Unconditionally guaranteed by Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. on the terms set forth in Section 13.01 of the Indenture. Interest: 6.750% per annum, from December 17, 1996, payable semiannually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 1997, to holders of record on the preceding June 1 or December 1, as the case may be. Maturity: December 15, 2003 Currency: US$ Denominations: $1,000 Form: Represented by 1 Global Note in registered form and beneficial interests in such will trade in DTC's Same-Day Funds Settlement System. |
7 Optional Redemption: Section 11.09 of the Indenture shall be applicable, at a rate equal to the Treasury Rate. Sinking Fund: None. Delayed Delivery Contracts: None. Other: Sections 4.01 and 10.12 of the Indenture shall be applicable. Purchase Price: 98.913% of principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from December 17, 1996. Expected Reoffering Price: 99.463% of principal amount, subject to change by the undersigned. |
The Closing will be held at 10:00 a.m., New York City time on December 17, 1996, at the offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, with payment to be made by wire transfer of same day funds.
The Address for Service of Notices is:
c/o Salomon Brothers Inc
Seven World Trade Center
New York, NY 10048
The respective principal amounts of the Offered Debt Securities to be purchased by each of the Underwriters are set forth opposite their names in Schedule A hereto.
It is understood that we may, with your consent, amend this offer to add additional Underwriters and reduce the aggregate principal amount to be purchased by the Underwriters listed in Schedule A hereto by the aggregate principal amount to be purchased by such additional Underwriters.
All the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement, attached as Exhibit A hereto, are incorporated herein by reference. We are in receipt of (i) a draft of the letter required to be delivered by Price Waterhouse pursuant to Section 5(a) of the Underwriting Agreement and (ii) a draft of the letter required to be delivered by Befec-Price Waterhouse pursuant to Section 5(b) of the Underwriting Agreement, and understand that we will receive executed copies of such letters no later than December 17, 1996.
The Offered Debt Securities will be made available for checking and packaging at the office of The Bank of New York, New York, New York at least 24 hours prior to the Closing Date.
Please signify your acceptance of our offer by signing the enclosed response to us in the space provided and returning it to us.
Very truly yours,
SALOMON BROTHERS INC
CS FIRST BOSTON CORPORATION
CHASE SECURITIES INC.
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
By SALOMON BROTHERS INC
By /s/ David Sullivan ------------------------------- Name: David Sullivan Title: Vice President |
Acting severally on behalf of themselves as Underwriters
Schedule A
Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of 2026 2096 UK 2003 UK 2006 French 2003 Underwriters Debentures Debentures Notes Notes Notes - ------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Salomon Brothers Inc.............. 87,500,000 37,500,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 50,000,000 CS First Boston Corporation....... 87,500,000 37,500,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 50,000,000 Chase Securities Inc.............. 87,500,000 37,500,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 50,000,000 J.P. Morgan Securities Inc........ 87,500,000 37,500,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 50,000,000 Total.......................... 350,000,000 150,000,000 200,000,000 300,000,000 200,000,000 |
December 12, 1996
To: Salomon Brothers Inc
CS First Boston Corporation
Chase Securities Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
c/o Salomon Brothers Inc
Seven World Trade Center
New York, NY 10048
We accept the offer contained in your letter dated December 12, 1996 (including the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below)), relating to $1,200,000,000 principal amount of our Debt Securities, subject to the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement. We also confirm that, to the best of our knowledge after reasonable investigation, (i) the representations and warranties of the undersigned in the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") filed as an exhibit to the undersigned's registration statement on Form S-3 (Nos. 333-16869) (the "Registration Statement") are true and correct in all material respects, (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and (iii) subsequent to the dates of the most recent financial statements in the Prospectus (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement) (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or results
of operations of Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries taken as a whole except as set forth in or contemplated by the Prospectus.
Very truly yours,
CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.
By /s/ Alan W. Rutherford -------------------------------- Name: Alan W. Rutherford Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE PLC
By /s/ Alan W. Rutherford ------------------------------ Name: Alan W. Rutherford Title: Managing Director |
CROWN CORK & SEAL FINANCE S.A.
By /s/ Alan W. Rutherford ------------------------------ Name: Alan W. Rutherford Title: Chief Financial Officer and Director |
Exhibit 99.1
[CROWN CORK & SEAL LETTERHEAD APPEARS HERE]
Philadelphia, PA - December 12, 1996. Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc. (NYSE & Paris Bourse - CCK) announced today that is sold $1.2 billion of public debt securities in five separate tranches of maturities ranging from seven to 100 years. Closing will occur on December 17, 1996. The issuers include the parent company and two finance subsidiaries located in the U.K. and France which are fully guaranteed by the parent. The offerings by the finance subsidiaries were converted into fixed rate, sterling and French franc obligations through cross- currency interest rate swaps with various counterparties. The terms of the transactions are as follows:
All-in Cost (semi-annual equivalent basis) in: -------------------------------- Amount U.S. Pounds French Issuer (millions) Issue Dollars Sterling Francs - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crown Cork & Seal Finance S.A. 200 6 3/4% Notes due 2003 6.949% - 5.942% Crown Cork & Seal 200 6 3/4% Notes due 2003 6.949 8.307% - Finance PLC 300 7% Notes due 2006 7.139 8.541 - Crown Cork & Seal 350 7 3/8% Debentures due 2026 7.551 - - Company, Inc. 150 7 1/2% Debentures due 2096 7.714 - - |
The proceeds from the offering will be used to repay a portion of the $1.9 billion of indebtedness arising from the February 1996 acquisition of CarnaudMctalbox S.A. The balance of the outstanding acquisition debt will continue to be financed through bank loans until it is repaid or refinanced.
Salomon Brothers Inc (book runner), CS First Boston, Chase Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. were managers in the offering. When available, copies of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from any of these firms.
Crown Cork & Seal is the leading supplier of packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world. World headquarters are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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