Exhibit 1.1
Enterprise Products Operating L.P.
7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 (Notes)
guaranteed by
Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
May 21, 2007
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
As Representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I
c/o J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
270 Park Ave
New York, New York 10017
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
Operating
Partnership
), proposes to issue and sell to the underwriters named in Schedule I hereto
(collectively, the
Underwriters
), for whom J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global
Markets Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC are acting as representatives
(the
Representatives
), $700,000,000 principal amount of the Operating Partnerships
7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 (the
Notes
), as set forth
in Schedule I hereto, to be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a junior subordinated,
unsecured basis by Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
Partnership
) (the
Guarantee
, and together with the Notes, the
Securities
).
The Securities are to be issued under the indenture dated as of October 4, 2004 (the
Base
Indenture
) among the Operating Partnership, as issuer, the Partnership, as parent guarantor,
and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the
Trustee
), as supplemented by
the Ninth Supplemental Indenture (the
Supplemental Indenture
), to be dated as of the
Delivery Date (as defined in Section 3) (the Base Indenture, as so supplemented, the
Indenture
). Enterprise Products GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
General Partner
), is the general partner of the Partnership. Enterprise Products OLPGP,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (
OLPGP
), is the general partner of the Operating
Partnership. The General Partner, the Partnership, OLPGP and the Operating Partnership are
collectively referred to herein as the
Enterprise Parties
.
This is to confirm the agreement among the Enterprise Parties and the Underwriters concerning
the purchase of the Notes from the Operating Partnership by the Underwriters.
1.
Representations, Warranties and Agreements of the Enterprise Parties
. Each of the
Enterprise Parties represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Underwriters that:
(a) The Partnership and the Operating Partnership have filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the
Commission
) a registration statement on Form S-3 (file numbers 333-123150
and 333-123150-01), including a prospectus, relating to the Securities and the Partnership and the
Operating Partnership have filed with, or transmitted for filing to, or shall promptly hereafter
file with or transmit for filing to, the Commission a prospectus supplement (the
Prospectus
Supplement
) specifically relating to the Securities pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the
Securities Act
). The registration statement as amended at
the date of this underwriting agreement (the
Agreement
), including information, if any,
deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A
under the Securities Act, is hereinafter referred to as the Registration Statement. The term
Base Prospectus
means the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. The term
Prospectus
means the Base Prospectus together with the Prospectus Supplement dated May
21, 2007. The term
Preliminary Prospectus
means any preliminary prospectus supplement
specifically relating to the Securities, together with the Base Prospectus.
(b) As used in this Agreement:
(i)
Applicable Time
means 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the day of this
Agreement;
(ii)
Effective Date
means any date as of which any part of such registration
statement relating to the Notes became, or is deemed to have become, effective under the
Securities Act in accordance with the Rules and Regulations;
(iii)
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
means each free writing prospectus (as
defined in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations) prepared by or on behalf of the
Partnership and the Operating Partnership or used or referred to by the Partnership and the
Operating Partnership in connection with the offering of the Securities (including, for the
avoidance of doubt, (a) the pricing term sheet attached as
Exhibit A
to this
Agreement and (b) road shows which are deemed to be free writing prospectuses pursuant to
Rule 433);
(iv)
Pricing Disclosure Package
means, as of the Applicable Time, the most
recent Preliminary Prospectus together with each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus filed with
the Commission by the Partnership and the Operating Partnership on or before the Applicable
Time and identified on
Schedule II
hereto and the pricing term sheet attached as
Exhibit A
to this Agreement; and
(v) the term
Registration Statement
includes the various parts of the
registration statement referenced in
Section 1(a)
, each as amended as of the
Effective Date for such part, including any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus.
Any reference to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be
deemed to refer to and include any documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Form S-3
under the Securities Act as of the date of such document, as the case may be. Any
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reference to the
most recent Preliminary Prospectus
shall be deemed to refer to the
latest Preliminary Prospectus included in the Registration Statement or filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) on or prior to the date hereof. Any reference to any amendment or supplement to any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any document filed
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
Exchange Act
), after the date
of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and incorporated by reference
in such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference to any
amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to include the most recent annual report of
the Partnership on Form 10-K filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act after the Effective Date that is incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement. The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement, and no proceeding or examination for such purpose has been instituted or, to the
Partnerships knowledge, threatened by the Commission. The Commission has not notified the
Partnership of any objection to the use of the Registration Statement.
(c)
Well Known Seasoned Issuer
. The Partnership has been since December 1, 2005 and
continues to be a well known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act),
including not having been an ineligible issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act)
at any such time or date.
(d)
Form of Documents
. The Registration Statement conformed and will conform in all
material respects on the Effective Date and on the Delivery Date, and any amendment to the
Registration Statement filed after the date hereof will conform in all material respects when
filed, to the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder (the
Rules and Regulations
). The Preliminary Prospectus conformed, and the
Prospectus will conform, in all material respects when filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. The documents
incorporated by reference in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus conformed, and any
further documents so incorporated will conform, when filed with the Commission, in all material
respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act or the Securities Act, as applicable, and the
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
(e)
Registration Statement
. The Registration Statement did not, as of the Effective
Date, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided that no
representation or warranty is made as to information contained in or omitted from the Registration
Statement in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to any of the
Enterprise Parties through the Representatives by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for
inclusion therein, which information is specified in Section 8(b).
(f)
Prospectus
. The Prospectus will not, as of its date and on the Delivery Date,
contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided that no representation or warranty is made as to information contained in or
omitted from the Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
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furnished to any of the Enterprise Parties through the Representatives by or on behalf of any
Underwriter specifically for inclusion therein, which information is specified in Section 8(b).
(g)
Documents Incorporated by Reference
. The documents incorporated by reference in
any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus did not, and any further documents filed and
incorporated by reference therein will not, when filed with the Commission, contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(h)
Pricing Disclosure Package
. The Pricing Disclosure Package did not, as of the
Applicable Time, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided that no representation or warranty is made as to information
contained in or omitted from the Pricing Disclosure Package in reliance upon and in conformity with
written information furnished to any of the Enterprise Parties through the Representatives by or on
behalf of any Underwriters specifically for inclusion therein, which information is specified in
Section 8(b).
(i)
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and Pricing Disclosure Package
. Each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Pricing Disclosure Package as of the
Applicable Time, did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading.
(j)
Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
. (i) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
conformed or will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and
the Rules and Regulations on the date of first use, and the Partnership and the Operating
Partnership have complied with any filing requirements applicable to such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus pursuant to the Rules and Regulations. No Enterprise Party has made any offer relating
to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus without the prior written
consent of the Representatives, except as set forth on
Schedule IV
hereto. The Partnership
and the Operating Partnership have retained in accordance with the Rules and Regulations all Issuer
Free Writing Prospectuses that were not required to be filed pursuant to the Rules and Regulations;
and (ii) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include any information that conflicts with
the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, including any document incorporated therein by reference that has not been superseded
or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Operating Partnership by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein,
it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any
Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereto.
(k)
Formation and Qualification of the Partnership Entities
. Each of the General
Partner, the Partnership, OLPGP, the Operating Partnership and the subsidiaries of the Operating
Partnership listed on
Schedule III
hereto (each, a
Partnership Entity
and
collectively,
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the
Partnership Entities
, and the subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership listed
on
Schedule III
hereto, the
Subsidiaries
) has been duly formed or incorporated,
as the case may be, and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of its respective
jurisdiction of formation or incorporation, as the case may be, with all corporate, limited
liability company or partnership, as the case may be, power and authority necessary to own or hold
its properties and conduct the businesses in which it is engaged and, in the case of the General
Partner and OLPGP, to act as general partner of the Partnership and the Operating Partnership,
respectively, in each case in all material respects as described in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus. Each Partnership Entity is duly registered or qualified to do business and is in
good standing as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as the
case may be, in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
businesses requires such qualification or registration, except where the failure to so qualify or
register would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the
condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the Partnership
Entities taken as a whole (a
Material Adverse Effect
) or subject the limited partners of
the Partnership to any material liability or disability.
(l)
Ownership of General Partner
. Enterprise GP Holdings L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership (
EPE
), owns 100% of the issued and outstanding membership interests in the
General Partner; such membership interests have been duly authorized and validly issued in
accordance with the limited liability company agreement of the General Partner, as amended and/or
restated on or prior to the date hereof (the
GP LLC Agreement
); and EPE owns such
membership interests free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, equities,
charges or claims other than those in favor of lenders of EPE.
(m)
Ownership of General Partner Interest in the Partnership
. The General Partner is
the sole general partner of the Partnership with a 2.0% general partner interest in the Partnership
(including the right to receive Incentive Distributions (as defined in the Partnership Agreement)
(the
Incentive Distribution Rights
)); such general partner interest has been duly
authorized and validly issued in accordance with the agreement of limited partnership of the
Partnership, as amended and/or restated on or prior to the date hereof (the
Partnership
Agreement
); and the General Partner owns such general partner interest free and clear of all
liens, encumbrances, security interests, equities, charges or claims.
(n)
Ownership of OLPGP
. The Partnership owns 100% of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of OLPGP; such capital stock has been duly authorized and validly issued in
accordance with the bylaws of OLPGP, as amended or restated on or prior to the date hereof (the
OLPGP Bylaws
), and the certificate of incorporation of OLPGP, as amended and restated on
or prior to the date hereof (the
OLPGP Certificate of Incorporation
), and is fully paid
and non-assessable; and the Partnership owns such capital stock free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, security interests, equities, charges or claims.
(o)
Ownership of Operating Partnership
. (i) OLPGP is the sole general partner of the
Operating Partnership with a 0.001% general partner interest in the Operating Partnership; such
general partner interest has been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the
agreement of limited partnership of the Operating Partnership, as amended and/or restated on or
prior to the date hereof (the
Operating Partnership Agreement
); and
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OLPGP owns such general partner interest free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security
interests, equities, charges or claims; and (ii) the Partnership is the sole limited partner of the
Operating Partnership with a 99.999% limited partner interest in the Operating Partnership; such
limited partner interest has been duly authorized and validly issued in accordance with the
Operating Partnership Agreement and is fully paid (to the extent required under the Operating
Partnership Agreement) and non-assessable (except as such non-assessability may be affected by
Sections 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (the
Delaware LP Act
) and as otherwise described in the Prospectus); and the Partnership owns
such limited partner interest free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests,
equities, charges or claims.
(p)
No Registration Rights
. Neither the filing of the Registration Statement nor the
offering or sale of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement gives rise to any rights for
or relating to the registration of any securities of the Partnership, the Operating Partnership or
any Subsidiary, except such rights as have been waived.
(q)
Ownership of Subsidiaries
. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock,
partnership interests or membership interests, as the case may be, of each Subsidiary have been
duly and validly authorized and issued, and are fully paid and non-assessable (except as such
non-assessability may be affected by Sections 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware LP Act, in the case
of partnership interests, or Sections 18-607 and 18-804 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company
Act (the
Delaware LLC Act
), in the case of membership interests, and except as otherwise
disclosed in the Prospectus). Except as described in the Prospectus, the Partnership and/or the
Operating Partnership, as the case may be, directly or indirectly, owns the shares of capital
stock, partnership interests or membership interests in each Subsidiary set forth on
Schedule
III
hereto free and clear of all liens, encumbrances (other than contractual restrictions on
transfer contained in the applicable constituent documents), security interests, equities, charges,
claims or restrictions upon voting or any other claim of any third party. None of the Enterprise
Parties has any subsidiaries other than as set forth on
Schedule III
hereto that,
individually or together with its subsidiaries, would be deemed to be a
significant
subsidiary
as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
(r)
Power and Authority.
(i) Each of the Enterprise Parties has all requisite power
and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; (ii)
each of the Operating Partnership and the Partnership has all requisite power and authority to
execute and deliver the Supplemental Indenture and to perform its obligations thereunder; and (iii)
the Operating Partnership and the Partnership have all requisite power and authority to issue, sell
and deliver the Notes and the Guarantee, respectively, in accordance with and upon the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Partnership Agreement, the Operating Partnership
Agreement, the Indenture, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All action required to be
taken by the Enterprise Parties or any of their security holders, partners or members for the (A)
due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Indenture, (B) the
authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities and (C) the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby has been duly and validly taken.
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(s)
Authorization, Execution and Delivery of Agreement
. This Agreement has been duly
authorized and validly executed and delivered by each of the Enterprise Parties party hereto.
(t)
Enforceability of Indenture
. The execution and delivery of, and the performance by
the Operating Partnership and the Partnership of their respective obligations under the Indenture
have been duly and validly authorized by each of the Operating Partnership and the Partnership,
and, at the Delivery Date, the Indenture will be duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and
the Indenture, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, when
executed and delivered by the Operating Partnership and the Partnership, will constitute a valid
and legally binding agreement of the Partnership (to the extent set forth in the Supplemental
Indenture) and the Operating Partnership enforceable against the Operating Partnership and the
Partnership in accordance with its terms; provided that, the enforceability thereof may be limited
by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws
relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general principles of equity
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(u)
Valid Issuance of the Notes
. The Notes have been duly authorized for issuance and
sale to the Underwriters, and, when executed by the Operating Partnership and authenticated by the
Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the
Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will have been duly executed and
delivered by the Operating Partnership, and will constitute the valid and legally binding
obligations of the Operating Partnership entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable
against the Operating Partnership in accordance with their terms; provided that, the enforceability
thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium
and similar laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally and by general principles of
equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law).
(v)
Valid Issuance of the Guarantee
. The Guarantee to be endorsed on the Notes by the
Partnership has been duly authorized by the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership and, on
the Delivery Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Partnership; when the Notes
have been issued, executed and authenticated in accordance with the Indenture, including
endorsement of the Notes by the Partnership, and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Guarantee will constitute the valid and legally
binding obligation of the Partnership enforceable against the Partnership in accordance with its
terms; provided that, the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting
creditors rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(w)
No Conflicts or Violations.
None of the (i) offering, issuance and sale by the
Operating Partnership and the Partnership of the Securities, (ii) execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the Indenture by the Enterprise Parties that are parties thereto,
or (iii) consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (A) conflicts or will
conflict with or constitutes or will constitute a violation of the certificate of limited
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partnership or agreement of limited partnership, certificate of formation or limited liability
company agreement, certificate or articles of incorporation or bylaws or other organizational
documents of any of the Partnership Entities, (B) conflicts or will conflict with or constitutes or
will constitute a breach or violation of, or a default (or an event that, with notice or lapse of
time or both, would constitute such a default) under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which any of the Partnership Entities is a
party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may be bound, (C) violates or
will violate any statute, law or regulation or any order, judgment, decree or injunction of any
court, arbitrator or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over any of the Partnership
Entities or any of their properties or assets, or (D) results or will result in the creation or
imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of any of the Partnership
Entities, which conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults or liens, in the case of clauses (B) or
(D), would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(x)
No Consents.
No permit, consent, approval, authorization, order, registration,
filing or qualification (
Consent
) of or with any court, governmental agency or body
having jurisdiction over the Partnership Entities or any of their respective properties is required
in connection with (i) the offering, issuance and sale by the Operating Partnership and the
Partnership of the Securities in the manner contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration
Statement and Prospectus, (ii) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the
Indenture by the Enterprise Parties that are parties thereto or (iii) the consummation by the
Enterprise Parties of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Indenture, except for
(A) such Consents required under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act and
state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the
Securities by the Underwriters and (B) such Consents that have been, or prior to the Delivery Date
(as defined herein) will be, obtained.
(y)
No Default
. None of the Partnership Entities is (i) in violation of its
certificate of limited partnership or agreement of limited partnership, certificate of formation or
limited liability company agreement, certificate or articles of incorporation or bylaws or other
organizational documents, (ii) in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, administrative or
governmental rule or regulation applicable to it or of any order, judgment, decree or injunction of
any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over it or has failed to obtain any
license, permit, certificate, franchise or other governmental authorization or permit necessary to
the ownership of its property or to the conduct of its business, or (iii) in breach, default (and
no event that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default has occurred
or is continuing) or violation in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition
contained in any bond, debenture, note or any other evidence of indebtedness or in any agreement,
indenture, lease or other instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties
may be bound, which breach, default or violation, in the case of clause (ii) or (iii), would, if
continued, have a Material Adverse Effect, or could materially impair the ability of any of the
Partnership Entities to perform their obligations under this Agreement.
(z)
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
. Deloitte & Touche LLP, who has
audited the financial statements contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and the most recent Preliminary Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto)
(other than the interim unaudited financial statements included for the
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periods ended March 31, 2006 and March 31, 2007) is an independent registered public
accounting firm with respect to the Partnership and the General Partner within the meaning of the
Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and
the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the
PCAOB
).
(aa)
Financial Statements
. The historical financial statements (including the related
notes and financial statement schedule) contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and the most recent Preliminary Prospectus (and any amendment or supplement thereto) (i)
comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements under the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act and the related Rules and Regulations (except that certain financial statement
schedules are omitted), (ii) present fairly in all material respects the financial position,
results of operations and cash flows of the entities purported to be shown thereby on the basis
stated therein at the respective dates or for the respective periods, and (iii) have been prepared
in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
consistently applied throughout the periods involved, except to the extent disclosed therein. The
other financial information of the General Partner and the Partnership and its subsidiaries,
including non-GAAP financial measures, if any, contained or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement and the most recent Preliminary Prospectus (and any amendment or supplement
thereto) has been derived from the accounting records of the General Partner and the Partnership
and its subsidiaries, and fairly presents the information purported to be shown thereby. Nothing
has come to the attention of any of the Partnership Entities that has caused them to believe that
the statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement and the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in
all material respects.
(bb)
No Distribution of Other Offering Materials
. None of the Enterprise Entities has
distributed or, prior to the completion of the distribution of the Notes, will distribute, any
offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes other than any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to which the Representatives have
consented in accordance with Section 1(j), 4(k) or 5 and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus set
forth on
Schedule IV
hereto and any other materials, if any, permitted by the Securities
Act, including Rule 134 of the Rules and Regulations.
(cc)
Conformity to Description of the Securities
. The Securities, when issued and
delivered against payment therefor as provided in this Agreement and in the Indenture, will conform
in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package.
(dd)
Certain Transactions
. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the
most recent Preliminary Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), subsequent to the
respective dates as of which such information is given in the Registration Statement and the most
recent Preliminary Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), (i) none of the Partnership
Entities has incurred any liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, or entered into
any transactions, not in the ordinary course of business, that, individually or in the aggregate,
is material to the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole, and (ii) there has not been any material
change in the capitalization or material increase in the long-term
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debt of the Partnership Entities, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid
or made by the Partnership on any class of its partnership interests.
(ee)
No Omitted Descriptions; Legal Descriptions
. There are no legal or governmental
proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Enterprise Parties, threatened or contemplated,
against any of the Partnership Entities, or to which any of the Partnership Entities is a party, or
to which any of their respective properties or assets is subject, that are required to be described
in the Registration Statement or the most recent Preliminary Prospectus but are not described as
required, and there are no agreements, contracts, indentures, leases or other instruments that are
required to be described in the Registration Statement or the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or
to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required
by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations or the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations
thereunder. The statements included in or incorporated by reference into the Registration
Statement and the most recent Preliminary Prospectus under the headings Description of the Notes
and Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations, insofar as such statements summarize
legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair
summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings.
(ff)
Title to Properties
. Each Partnership Entity has (i) good and indefeasible title
to all its interests in its properties that are material to the operations of the Partnership
Entities, taken as a whole, and (ii) good and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid rights to
lease or otherwise use, all items of other real and personal property which are material to the
business of the Partnership Entities, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances,
claims and defects and imperfections of title except such as (A) do not materially affect the value
of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such
property by the Partnership Entities, (B) could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect or (C) are described, and subject to the limitations contained, in the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus.
(gg)
Rights-of-Way
. Each of the Partnership Entities has such Consents, easements,
rights-of-way or licenses from any person (
rights-of-way
) as are necessary to conduct its
business in the manner described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, subject to such
qualifications as may be set forth in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and except for such
rights-of-way the failure of which to have obtained would not have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Partnership Entities has fulfilled and performed
all its material obligations with respect to such rights-of-way and no event has occurred which
allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or would
result in any impairment of the rights of the holder of any such rights-of-way, except for such
revocations, terminations and impairments that will not have a Material Adverse Effect, subject in
each case to such qualification as may be set forth in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus; and,
except as described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, none of such rights-of-way contains
any restriction that is materially burdensome to the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole.
(hh)
Permits
. Each of the Partnership Entities has such permits, Consents, licenses,
franchises, certificates and authorizations of governmental or regulatory authorities
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(
permits
) as are necessary to own or lease its properties and to conduct its
business in the manner described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, subject to such
qualifications as may be set forth in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and except for such
permits that, if not obtained, would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect; each of the Partnership Entities has fulfilled and performed all its material obligations
with respect to such permits in the manner described, and subject to the limitations contained in
the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, and no event has occurred that would prevent the permits
from being renewed or reissued or that allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow,
revocation or termination thereof or results or would result in any impairment of the rights of the
holder of any such permit, except for such non-renewals, non-issues, revocations, terminations and
impairments that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. None
of the Partnership Entities has received notification of any revocation or modification of any such
permit or has any reason to believe that any such permit will not be renewed in the ordinary
course.
(ii)
Books and Records; Accounting Controls
. The Partnership Entities (i) make and
keep books, records and accounts that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the
transactions and dispositions of assets, and (ii) maintain systems of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with
managements general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to
assets is permitted only in accordance with managements general or specific authorization; and (D)
the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(jj)
Related Party Transactions
. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between
or among the Partnership Entities on the one hand, and the directors, officers, partners, customers
or suppliers of the General Partner and its affiliates (other than the Partnership Entities) on the
other hand, which is required to be described in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and which
is not so described.
(kk)
Environmental Compliance
. There has been no storage, generation, transportation,
handling, treatment, disposal or discharge of any kind of toxic or other wastes or other hazardous
substances by any of the Partnership Entities (or, to the knowledge of the Enterprise Parties, any
other entity (including any predecessor) for whose acts or omissions any of the Partnership
Entities is or could reasonably be expected to be liable) at, upon or from any of the property now
or previously owned or leased by any of the Partnership Entities or upon any other property, in
violation of any statute or any ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or
which would, under any statute or any ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation,
order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or
liability that could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate with all
such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has been no disposal,
discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such property or into the environment
surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances with respect
to which any of the Enterprise Parties has knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge,
emission or other release of any kind which could not reasonably be
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expected to have, individually or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other
releases, a Material Adverse Effect.
(ll)
Insurance
. The Partnership Entities are covered under policies of insurance
covering their properties, operations, personnel and businesses against such losses and risks as
are reasonably adequate to protect them and their businesses in a manner consistent with other
businesses similarly situated. Except as disclosed in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, none
of the Partnership Entities has received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that
substantial capital improvements or other expenditures will have to be made in order to continue
such insurance; all such insurance is outstanding and duly in force on the date hereof and will be
outstanding and duly in force on the Delivery Date.
(mm)
Litigation
. There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which any
Partnership Entity is a party or of which any property or assets of any Partnership Entity is the
subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to such Partnership Entity,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and to the knowledge of the
Enterprise Parties, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities
or threatened by others.
(nn)
No Labor Disputes
. No labor dispute with the employees that are engaged in the
business of the Partnership or its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Enterprise
Parties, is imminent or threatened that is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(oo)
Intellectual Property
. Each Partnership Entity owns or possesses adequate rights
to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark
registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade
secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems
or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses; and the conduct of their
respective businesses will not conflict in any material respect with, and no Partnership Entity has
received any notice of any claim of conflict with, any such rights of others.
(pp)
Investment Company
. None of the Partnership Entities is now, or after sale of
the Securities to be sold by hereunder and application of the net proceeds from such sale will be,
an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.
(qq)
Absence of Certain Actions
. No action has been taken and no statute, rule,
regulation or order has been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which
prevents the issuance or sale of the Securities in any jurisdiction; no injunction, restraining
order or order of any nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction has been
issued with respect to any Partnership Entity which would prevent or suspend the issuance or sale
of the Securities or the use of the most recent Preliminary Prospectus in any jurisdiction; no
action, suit or proceeding is pending against or, to the knowledge of the Enterprise Parties,
threatened against or affecting any Partnership Entity before any court or arbitrator or any
governmental agency, body or official, domestic or foreign, which could reasonably be expected to
interfere with or adversely affect the issuance of the Securities or in any manner draw into
question the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any action taken or to be taken
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pursuant hereto; and the Partnership has complied with any and all requests by any securities
authority in any jurisdiction for additional information to be included in the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus.
(rr)
No Prohibition of Dividends or Distribution
. No Subsidiary is currently
prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Operating Partnership, from
making any other distribution on such Subsidiarys capital stock or partnership or member
interests, from repaying to the Operating Partnership any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from
the Operating Partnership or from transferring any of such Subsidiarys property or assets to the
Operating Partnership or any other Subsidiary of the Operating Partnership, except as described in
or contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or
supplement thereto).
(ss)
No Stabilizing Transactions
. None of the General Partner, the Partnership, the
Operating Partnership or any of their controlled affiliates has taken, directly or indirectly, any
action designed to or which has constituted or which would reasonably be expected to cause or
result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of the Operating Partnership
or the Partnership to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.
(tt)
Form S-3
. The conditions for the use of a shelf registration on Form S-3, by the
Partnership and the Operating Partnership, as set forth in the General Instructions thereto, have
been satisfied.
(uu)
Disclosure Controls
. The General Partner and the Partnership have established
and maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and
15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) which (i) are designed to ensure that material information
relating to the Partnership, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the General
Partners principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those
entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange
Act are being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated for effectiveness as of the end of the period
covered by the Partnerships most recent annual report filed with the Commission; and (iii) are
effective in achieving reasonable assurances that the Partnerships desired control objectives as
described in Item 9A of the Partnerships Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December
31, 2006 (the
2006 Annual Report
) have been met.
(vv)
No Deficiency in Internal Controls
. Based on the evaluation of its disclosure
controls and procedures conducted in connection with the preparation and filing of the 2006 Annual
Report, neither the Partnership nor the General Partner is aware of (i) any significant
deficiencies which are still deemed significant deficiencies on the date hereof or material
weaknesses in the design or operation of its internal controls over financial reporting that are
likely to adversely affect the Partnerships ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial data; or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a role in the Partnerships internal controls over financial reporting.
(ww)
No Changes in Internal Controls
. Since the date of the most recent evaluation of
such disclosure controls and procedures, there have been no significant changes in
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the Partnerships internal controls that materially affected or are reasonably likely to
materially adversely affect the Partnerships internal controls over financial reporting.
(xx)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
. The principal executive officer and principal financial
officer of the General Partner have made all certifications required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002 (the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
) and any related rules and regulations promulgated by the
Commission, and the statements contained in any such certification are complete and correct. The
Partnership and the General Partner are otherwise in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that are effective.
2.
Purchase of the Securities
. (a) On the basis of the representations and
warranties contained in, and subject to the terms and conditions of, this Agreement, the Operating
Partnership agrees to issue and sell the Notes to the several Underwriters and each of the
Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase the principal amount of Notes from the
Operating Partnership set forth opposite that Underwriters name in Schedule I hereto at a price
equal to 98.625% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, from the Delivery
Date. The Operating Partnership shall not be obligated to deliver any of the Notes except upon
payment for all the Notes to be purchased as provided herein.
(b) The Operating Partnership understands that the Underwriters intend to make a public
offering of the Notes on the terms and conditions set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package. The
Operating Partnership acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Notes to or
through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Notes
purchased by it to or through any Underwriter.
(c) The Partnership and the Operating Partnership hereby confirm their engagement of Lehman
Brothers Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. hereby confirms its agreement with the Partnership and the
Operating Partnership to render services as, a qualified independent underwriter within the
meaning of Rule 2720(b)(15) of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the NASD)
with respect to the offering and sale of the Notes. Lehman Brothers Inc., in its capacity as
qualified independent underwriter and not otherwise, is referred to herein as the Independent
Underwriter.
3.
Delivery of and Payment for the Securities
. Delivery of and payment for the Notes
shall be made at the office of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, Houston, Texas, at 9:00 A.M., Houston
time, on the third full business day after the date of this Agreement or such other date and time
and place as shall be determined by agreement between the Underwriters and the Operating
Partnership (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Notes being herein called the
Delivery Date
). Delivery of the Notes shall be made to the Underwriters against payment
by the Underwriters of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Operating Partnership
by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Operating Partnership.
Delivery of the Notes shall be made in book-entry form through the Full Fast Program of the
facilities of The Depository Trust Company (
DTC
) unless the Underwriters shall otherwise
instruct. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to
this Agreement is a further condition of the obligation of the Underwriters.
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4.
Further Agreements of the Enterprise Parties
. Each of the Enterprise Parties,
jointly and severally, covenants and agrees with each Underwriter:
(a)
Preparation of Prospectus and Registration Statement
. (i) To prepare the
Prospectus in a form approved by the Underwriters and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Securities Act not later than Commissions close of business on the second
business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such earlier
time as may be required by Rule 430A(a)(3) under the Securities Act; (ii) to make no further
amendment or any supplement to the Registration Statement or to the Prospectus except as permitted
herein; (iii) to advise the Underwriters, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time
when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any
supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the
Underwriters with copies thereof; (iv) to advise the Underwriters promptly after it receives notice
thereof of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or
suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, of the suspension of
the qualification of the Notes for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or
threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose or of any request by the Commission for the
amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or for additional information; and (v) in the event of the issuance of any stop order or
of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best efforts to obtain its
withdrawal.
(b)
Conformed Copies of Registration Statements
. To furnish promptly to the
Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters, upon request, a conformed copy of the
Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission, and each amendment thereto filed
with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith.
(c)
Exchange Act Reports
. To file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or
information statements required to be filed by the Partnership with the Commission pursuant to
Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (
Exchange Act Reports
) subsequent
to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in
connection with the offering or sale of the Notes.
(d)
Copies of Documents to the Underwriters
. To deliver promptly to the Underwriters
such number of the following documents as the Underwriters shall reasonably request: (i) conformed
copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission and each amendment
thereto (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any
amended or supplemented Prospectus, (iii) each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (iv) any document
incorporated by reference in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus; and, if the delivery of
a prospectus is required at any time after the date hereof in connection with the offering or sale
of the Notes or any other securities relating thereto and if at such time any events shall have
occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such
Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary to amend
or supplement the Prospectus or to file
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under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to
comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or with a request from the Commission, to notify
the Underwriters immediately thereof and to promptly prepare and, subject to Section 4(e) hereof,
file with the Commission an amended Prospectus or supplement to the Prospectus which will correct
such statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(e)
Filing of Amendment or Supplement
. To file promptly with the Commission any
amendment to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any supplement to the Prospectus that
may, in the judgment of the Partnership, the Operating Partnership or the Underwriters, be required
by the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or requested by the Commission. Prior to filing with the
Commission any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus, any
document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424 of the
Rules and Regulations, to furnish a copy thereof to the Underwriters and counsel for the
Underwriters and not to file any such document to which the Underwriters shall reasonably object
after having been given reasonable notice of the proposed filing thereof unless the Partnership is
required by law to make such filing.
(f)
Reports to Security Holders
. As soon as practicable after the Delivery Date, to
make generally available to the Partnerships security holders an earning statement of the
Partnership and its Subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Partnership, Rule
158).
(g)
Copies of Reports
. For a period of two years following the date hereof, to
furnish to the Underwriters copies of all materials furnished by the Partnership to its security
holders and all reports and financial statements furnished by the Partnership to the Commission
pursuant to the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation of the Commission thereunder, in each case
to the extent that such materials, reports and financial statements are not publicly filed with the
Commission.
(h)
Blue Sky Laws
. Promptly to take from time to time such actions as the
Underwriters may reasonably request to qualify the Notes for offering and sale under the securities
or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriters may designate and to continue such
qualifications in effect for so long as required for the resale of the Notes; and to arrange for
the determination of the eligibility for investment of the Notes under the laws of such
jurisdictions as the Underwriters may reasonably request; provided that no Partnership Entity shall
be obligated to qualify as a foreign entity in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or
to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.
(i)
Application of Proceeds
. To apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes as
set forth in the Prospectus.
(j)
Investment Company
. To take such steps as shall be necessary to ensure that no
Partnership Entity shall become an
investment company
as defined in the Investment
Company Act.
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(k)
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
. (1) To prepare a pricing term sheet, containing
solely a description of final terms of the Securities and the offering thereof, in the form
approved by you and attached as
Exhibit A
hereto and to file such pricing term sheet
pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act within the time required by such rule, and (2) not to
make any offer relating to the Notes that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
without the prior written consent of the Representatives.
(l)
Retention of Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
. To retain in accordance with the
Rules and Regulations all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses not required to be filed pursuant to the
Rules and Regulations; and if at any time after the date hereof and prior to the Delivery Date, any
events shall have occurred as a result of which any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as then amended
or supplemented, would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or, when considered together with the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus, would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary to
amend or supplement any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to notify the Representatives and, upon its
reasonable request or as required by the Rules and Regulations, to file such document and to
prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter as many copies as the Representatives may
from time to time reasonably request of an amended or supplemented Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
that will correct such conflict, statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(m)
Foreign Sales
. To take such reasonable steps as are reasonably requested by the
Representatives to comply with all applicable securities and other applicable laws, rules and
regulations in each foreign jurisdiction in which the Securities are offered.
5.
Further Agreements of the Underwriters
. Each Underwriter severally represents and
warrants to, and agrees with, the Operating Partnership and each other Underwriter that such
Underwriter, has not made, and will not make, an offer relating to the Notes that would constitute
a
free writing prospectus
(as defined in Rule 405 but excluding any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus identified on
Schedule IV
hereto) required to be filed with the Commission,
without the prior written consent of the Operating Partnership and the Representatives prior to the
use of such free writing prospectus, other than a free writing prospectus containing no more than
the information contained in the pricing term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(k)
hereof; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been
given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule II hereto and any electronic
road show. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or the Operating
Partnership is hereinafter referred to as a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus. The Operating
Partnership agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as
the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and
recordkeeping.
6.
Expenses
. The Operating Partnership agrees to pay (a) the costs incident to the
authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Notes and any taxes payable in that
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connection; (b) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the
Securities Act of the Registration Statement, any amendments and exhibits thereto, and except as
provided in the proviso to this Section 6, the Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus; (c) the costs
of printing and distributing the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment
thereto and any post-effective amendments thereof (including, in each case, exhibits); (d) the
costs of producing and distributing this Agreement, any underwriting and selling group documents
and any other related documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the
Notes; (e) the filing fees incident to securing the review, if applicable, by the NASD of the terms
of sale of the Notes; (f) any applicable listing or other similar fees; (g) the fees and expenses
of preparing, printing and distributing a Blue Sky Memorandum (including related fees and expenses
of counsel to the Underwriters); (h) the cost of printing certificates representing the Notes; (i)
the costs and charges of any transfer agent or registrar or the Independent Underwriter (in its
capacity as such), if any; (j) the costs and expenses of the Partnership and the Operating
Partnership relating to investor presentations on any road show undertaken in connection with the
marketing of the offering of the Notes, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the
production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in
connection with the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Operating Partnership or
the Partnership, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Partnership
and any such consultants; and (k) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the
obligations of the Enterprise Parties under this Agreement; provided that, except as provided in
this Section 6 and in Section 12 hereof, the Underwriters shall pay (i) their own costs and
expenses, including the costs and expenses of their counsel, any transfer taxes on the Notes which
they may sell and the expenses of advertising any offering of the Notes made by the Underwriters
and (ii) the Operating Partnership in the amount of $875,000 in respect of certain of the Operating
Partnerships offering expenses.
7.
Conditions of Underwriters Obligations
. The respective obligations of the
Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy, when made and on the Delivery Date, of the
representations and warranties of the Enterprise Parties contained herein, to the accuracy of the
statements of the Enterprise Parties and the officers of the General Partner and OLPGP made in any
certificates delivered pursuant hereto, to the performance by each of the Enterprise Parties of its
obligations hereunder and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:
(a) The Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section
4(a); no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or
suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses or any part thereof
shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened
by the Commission; any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise shall have been complied with to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Underwriters; and the Commission shall not have notified the
Enterprise Parties of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement.
(b) The Underwriters shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Enterprise Parties on or
prior to the Delivery Date that the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Pricing
Disclosure Package, or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of a fact
which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to
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state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated
therein or in the documents incorporated by reference therein or is necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading.
(c) All corporate, partnership and limited liability company proceedings and other legal
matters incident to the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement, the authorization,
execution and filing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the
Underwriters, and the Enterprise Parties shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and
information that they or their counsel may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such
matters.
(d) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, special counsel to the Enterprise Parties, shall have furnished
to the Underwriters its written opinion addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Delivery Date,
in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth in
Exhibit B
to this Agreement.
(e) Richard H. Bachmann, Esq., shall have furnished to the Underwriters his written opinion,
as Chief Legal Officer of the Enterprise Parties, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the
Delivery Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to
the effect set forth in
Exhibit C
to this Agreement.
(f) The Underwriters shall have received from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, counsel for
the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Delivery Date, with respect to such matters
as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Enterprise Parties shall have furnished to such
counsel such documents and information as they may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling
them to pass upon such matters.
(g) At the time of execution of this Agreement, the Underwriters shall have received from
Deloitte & Touche LLP a letter or letters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters,
addressed to the Underwriters and dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are an independent
registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance
with the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB, and
(ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments
since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the most recent
Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, as of a date not more than five days prior to the date
hereof), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information of the
Partnership and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants comfort letters to underwriters
in connection with registered public offerings.
(h) With respect to the letter or letters of Deloitte & Touche LLP referred to in the
preceding paragraph and delivered to the Underwriters concurrently with the execution of this
Agreement (the
initial letters
), such accounting firm shall have furnished to the
Underwriters a letter (the
bring-down letter
) of Deloitte & Touche LLP, addressed to the
Underwriters and dated the Delivery Date, (i) confirming that they are an independent registered
public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the
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applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB, (ii)
stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or
developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the
Prospectus, as of a date not more than five days prior to the date of the bring-down letter), the
conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information of the Partnership
and other matters covered by the initial letters and (iii) confirming in all material respects the
conclusions and findings set forth in the initial letters.
(i) The Partnership and the Operating Partnership shall have furnished to the Underwriters a
certificate, dated the Delivery Date, of the chief executive officer and the chief financial
officer of the General Partner and OLPGP stating that: (i) such officers have carefully examined
the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package; (ii) in their
opinion, (1) the Registration Statement, including the documents incorporated therein by reference,
as of the most recent Effective Date, (2) the Prospectus, including any documents incorporated by
reference therein, as of the date of the Prospectus and as of the Delivery Date, and (3) the
Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not and do not include any untrue
statement of a material fact and did not and do not omit to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading; (iii) as of the Delivery Date, the representations and warranties of the Enterprise
Parties in this Agreement are true and correct; (iv) the Enterprise Parties have complied with all
their agreements contained herein and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or
satisfied hereunder on or prior to the Delivery Date; (v) no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus
or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or, to the best of such officers knowledge, are threatened; (vi) the Commission has not
notified the Partnership of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement or
any post-effective amendment thereto; (vii) since the date of the most recent financial statements
included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse effect
on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the
Partnership Entities, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary
course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Prospectus; and (viii) since the
Effective Date, no event has occurred that is required under the Rules and Regulations or the Act
to be set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that has not been so set forth.
(j) If any event shall have occurred on or prior to the Delivery Date that requires the
Partnership or the Operating Partnership under Section 4(e) to prepare an amendment or supplement
to the Prospectus, such amendment or supplement shall have been prepared, the Underwriters shall
have been given a reasonable opportunity to comment thereon as provided in Section 4(e) hereof, and
copies thereof shall have been delivered to the Underwriters reasonably in advance of the Delivery
Date.
(k) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been
enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would, as of the Delivery Date,
prevent the issuance or sale of the Notes; and no injunction, restraining
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order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction
shall have been issued as of the Delivery Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the
Notes.
(l) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, if any debt securities of any
of the Partnership Entities are rated by any nationally recognized statistical rating
organization, as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) of the
Exchange Act, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded such debt securities
(including the Notes) and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under
surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any securities of any of
the Partnership Entities.
(m) On or after the Applicable Time, the Notes shall have been accorded a rating of not less
than BB by Standard & Poors Ratings Group and not less than Bal by Moodys Investors Service, Inc.
(n) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) neither the Partnership
nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss or interference with its business from
fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor
dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree and (ii) except as set forth in the
Prospectus, there shall not have been any change in the capital or long-term debt of the
Partnership or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective
change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, unitholders
equity, properties, management, business or prospects of the Partnership and its subsidiaries taken
as a whole, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the
judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable
to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Notes being delivered on the Delivery
Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(o) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred
any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the
American Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or materially limited or the settlement of such
trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been
established on the New York Stock Exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by
federal or New York State authorities, (iii) a material disruption in commercial banking or
clearance services in the United States, (iv) the United States shall have become engaged in
hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States or
there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (v) a
calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole
judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or
delivery of the Notes being delivered on the Delivery Date on the terms and in the manner
contemplated in the Prospectus.
(p) The Operating Partnership, the Partnership and the Trustee shall have executed and
delivered the Notes and the Supplemental Indenture.
All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents mentioned above or elsewhere in this
Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in
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form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters and to counsel for the Underwriters.
8.
Indemnification and Contribution
. (a) Each of the Enterprise Parties, jointly and
severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers,
employees and agents of any Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the
meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses,
claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which that Underwriter, director, officer,
employee or contesting person may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or
other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based
upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in: (A) the
Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus
or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or (B) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or in
any amendment or supplement thereto; or (ii) the omission or the alleged omission to state in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus,
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and
agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim,
damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Enterprise Parties will not be liable in
any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is
based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission
made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Enterprise Parties by the Underwriters through the Representatives specifically for inclusion
therein, which information consists solely of the information specified in Section 8(b). This
indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Enterprise Parties may otherwise
have.
(b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each
Enterprise Party, the directors of the General Partner and OLPGP, the respective officers of the
General Partner and OLPGP who signed the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the
Enterprise Parties within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act to the same
extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Partnership to the Underwriters, but only with reference
to written information relating to the Underwriters furnished to the Partnership by the
Underwriters through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in
the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the
Underwriters may otherwise have. The Enterprise Parties acknowledge that the statements set forth
in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (i) in the last paragraph of the cover
page regarding delivery of the Notes and (ii) under the heading Underwriting, (A) the list of
names of each of the Underwriters and (B) the statements in the fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth
paragraphs regarding discounts, short sales, stabilization and penalty bids constitute the only
information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the Underwriters for inclusion in any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus,
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses or in any amendment or supplement thereto.
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(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of any claim
or the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to
be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in
writing of the claim or the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying
party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the
extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the
indemnifying party of substantive rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the
indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification
obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to
appoint counsel of the indemnifying partys choice at the indemnifying partys expense to represent
the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the
indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the reasonable fees, costs and expenses
of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below);
provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party.
Notwithstanding the indemnifying partys election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified
party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel
(including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and
expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to
represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the
actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified
party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that
there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different
from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall
not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the
indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv)
the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the
expense of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written
consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment
with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which
indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are
actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent
includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such
claim, action, suit or proceeding.
(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in this Section 8 is unavailable to or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Enterprise Parties, the
Underwriters agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities
(including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or
defending same) (collectively, the
Losses
) to which the Enterprise Parties and the
Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits
received by the Enterprise Parties on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the
offering of the Notes; provided, however, that in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may be
provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be
responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the
Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately
preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Enterprise Parties and the Underwriters shall
contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative
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benefits but also the relative fault of the Enterprise Parties on the one hand and of the
Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such
Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Enterprise
Parties shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting
expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to
the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of
the Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether
any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission
to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Enterprise Parties on the one hand
or the Underwriters through the Representatives on the other, the intent of the parties and their
relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue
statement or omission. The Enterprise Parties and each of the Underwriters agree that it would not
be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of
allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes
of this Section 8, each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of any
Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as the Underwriters, and each person who
controls the Enterprise Parties within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, each officer of the General Partner and OLPGP who shall have signed the Registration Statement
and each director of the General Partner and OLPGP shall have the same rights to contribution as
the Enterprise Parties, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this
paragraph (d).
(e) Without limitation of and in addition to its obligations under the other paragraphs of
this Section 8, each of the Enterprise Parties, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold
harmless Lehman Brothers Inc., in its capacity as Independent Underwriter, and its directors,
officers and employees and each person who controls the Independent Underwriter within the meaning
of Section 15 of the Securities Act from and against any and all loss, claim, damage or liability,
joint or several, or any action in respect thereof (including, but not limited to, any loss, claim,
damage, liability or action relating to purchases and sales of the Notes) to which the Independent
Underwriter, director, officer, employee or controlling person may become subject, under the
Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out
of, or is based upon, the Independent Underwriters acting as a qualified independent underwriter
(within the meaning of NASD Conduct Rule 2720) in connection with the offering contemplated by this
Agreement, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party promptly upon demand for any legal
or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending or
preparing to defend any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the
Enterprise Parties shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that it is determined in a
final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, claim, damage, liability or
action resulted directly from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Independent
Underwriter.
9.
No Fiduciary Duty
. The Enterprise Parties hereby acknowledge that each Underwriter
is acting solely as an underwriter in connection with the purchase and sale of the
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Notes. The Enterprise Parties further acknowledge that each Underwriter is acting pursuant to
a contractual relationship created solely by this Agreement entered into on an arms-length basis
and in no event do the parties intend that each Underwriter acts or be responsible as a fiduciary
to any of the Partnership Entities, their management, unitholders, creditors or any other person in
connection with any activity that each Underwriter may undertake or have undertaken in furtherance
of the purchase and sale of the Notes, either before or after the date hereof. Each Underwriter
hereby expressly disclaims any fiduciary, advisory or similar obligations to any of the Partnership
Entities, either in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters
leading up to such transactions, and the Partnership hereby confirms its understanding and
agreement to that effect. The Enterprise Parties and the Underwriters agree that they are each
responsible for making their own independent judgments with respect to any such transactions and
that any opinions or views expressed by the Underwriters to any of the Partnership Entities
regarding such transactions, including but not limited to any opinions or views with respect to the
price or market for the Notes, do not constitute advice or recommendations to any of the
Partnership Entities. The Enterprise Parties hereby waive and release, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any claims that they may have against each Underwriter with respect to any breach
or alleged breach of any fiduciary, advisory or similar duty to any of the Enterprise Parties in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such
transactions and agree that they will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory
services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Enterprise
Parties, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
10.
Defaulting Underwriters
. If, on the Delivery Date, any Underwriter defaults in
the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the remaining non-defaulting Underwriters
shall be obligated to purchase the Notes that the defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to
purchase on the Delivery Date in the respective proportions which the number of Notes set forth
opposite the name of each remaining non-defaulting Underwriter in
Schedule I
hereto bears
to the total number of Notes set forth opposite the names of all the remaining non-defaulting
Underwriters in
Schedule I
hereto; provided, however, that the remaining non-defaulting
Underwriters shall not be obligated to purchase any of the Notes on the Delivery Date if the total
number of Notes that the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on
such date exceeds 9% of the total number of Notes to be purchased on the Delivery Date, and any
remaining non-defaulting Underwriters shall not be obligated to purchase more than 110% of the
number of Notes that it agreed to purchase on the Delivery Date pursuant to the terms of Section 2.
If the foregoing maximums are exceeded, the remaining non-defaulting Underwriters, or those other
underwriters satisfactory to the Representatives who so agree, shall have the right, but shall not
be obligated, to purchase, in such proportion as may be agreed upon among them, all the Notes to be
purchased on the Delivery Date. If the remaining Underwriters or other underwriters satisfactory
to the Representatives do not elect to purchase the Notes that the defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase on the Delivery Date, this Agreement shall terminate
without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriters or the Enterprise Parties, except
that the Enterprise Parties will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses to the extent
set forth in Sections 6 and 12. As used in this Agreement, the term
Underwriter
includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context requires otherwise, any party not
listed in
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Schedule I
hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Notes that a defaulting
Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have
to the Enterprise Parties for damages caused by its default. If other Underwriters are obligated
or agree to purchase the Notes of a defaulting or withdrawing Underwriter, either the
Representatives or the Enterprise Parties may postpone the Delivery Date for up to seven full
business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Enterprise
Parties or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement.
11.
Termination
. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated by
the Representatives by notice given to and received by the Operating Partnership prior to delivery
of and payment for the Notes if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Section 7(o)
shall have occurred or if the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Notes for any reason
permitted under this Agreement.
12.
Reimbursement of Underwriters Expenses
. If the sale of the Notes provided for
herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in
Section 7 hereof is not satisfied (other than Section 7(o)) or because of any refusal, inability or
failure on the part of any Enterprise Party to perform any agreement herein or comply with any
provision hereof other than by reason of a default by the Underwriters, the Enterprise Parties will
reimburse the Underwriters, severally through the Representatives on demand for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have
been incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Notes.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof by
reason of the default of one or more of the Underwriters, the Enterprise Parties shall not be
obligated to reimburse any defaulting Underwriter on account of such Underwriters expenses, and
(ii) if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof, the Enterprise Parties shall
not be obligated to reimburse the Underwriters in respect of those expenses.
13.
Research Analyst Independence
. Each of the Enterprise Parties acknowledges that
the Underwriters research analysts and research departments are required to be independent from
their respective investment banking divisions and are subject to certain regulations and internal
policies, and that such Underwriters research analysts may hold views and make statements or
investment recommendations and/or publish research reports with respect to each of the Enterprise
Parties and/or the offering that differ from the views of their respective investment banking
divisions. Each of the Enterprise Parties hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, any claims that the Enterprise Parties may have against the Underwriters with
respect to any conflict of interest that may arise from the fact that the views expressed by their
independent research analysts and research departments may be different from or inconsistent with
the views or advice communicated to the Partnership by such Underwriters investment banking
divisions. Each of the Enterprise Parties acknowledges that each of the Underwriters is a full
service securities firm and as such from time to time, subject to applicable securities laws, may
effect transactions for its own account or the account of its
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customers and hold long or short positions in debt or equity securities of the companies that
may be the subject of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
14.
Notices
. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in
writing, and:
(a) if to the Underwriters, shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to
(i) J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Attn: High Grade
Syndicate (Fax: 212-834-6081), with a copy to the General Counsels office at the same address;
(ii) Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York, 10013, (Fax: (212)
816 7912); (iii) Lehman Brothers Inc., 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019 Attention: Debt
Capital Markets, Power Group (Fax: 646-834-8133) (with a copy to the General Counsel at the same
address);(iv) Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina
28288-0613 Attention: Debt Capital Markets (Fax: 704-383-9165) and (v) a copy to Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft LLP, One World Financial Center, New York, New York 10281, Attention: Louis J.
Bevilacqua, Esq. (Fax: 212-504-6666);
(b) if to the Enterprise Parties, shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission
to Enterprise Products Partners L.P., 1100 Louisiana Street, 18
th
Floor, Houston, Texas
77002, Attention: Chief Legal Officer (Fax: 713-803-2905), with a copy to Bracewell & Giuliani
LLP, 711 Louisiana Street, Suite 2300, Houston, Texas 77002-2770, Attention: Michael S. Telle, Esq.
(Fax: 713-221-2113);
provided, however, that any notice to any Underwriter pursuant to Section 8(c) shall be delivered
or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriters at its address set forth in
its acceptance telex to the Underwriters, which address will be supplied to any other party hereto
by the Underwriters upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take
effect at the time of receipt thereof.
The Enterprise Parties shall be entitled to rely upon any request, notice, consent or
agreement given or made by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters.
15.
Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement
. This Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriters, the Enterprise Parties and their respective
successors. This Agreement and the terms and provisions hereof are for the sole benefit of only
those persons, except as provided in Section 8 with respect to affiliates, officers, directors,
employees, representatives, agents and controlling persons of the Partnership, the Operating
Partnership and the Underwriters. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to
give any person, other than the persons referred to in this Section 15, any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein.
16.
Survival
. The respective indemnities, representations, warranties and agreements,
as applicable, of the Enterprise Parties, the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by
or on behalf on them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered
pursuant hereto, shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Notes and shall remain in full
force and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of this
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Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any of them or any person controlling
any of them. The Underwriters acknowledge and agree that the obligations of the Enterprise Parties
hereunder are non-recourse to the General Partner.
17.
Definition of the Terms Business Day and Subsidiary
. For purposes of this
Agreement, (a)
business day
means any day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is
open for trading and (b)
affiliate
and
subsidiary
have their respective
meanings set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations.
18.
Governing Law
. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
19.
Jurisdiction; Venue
. The parties hereby consent to (i) nonexclusive jurisdiction
in the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York, (ii) nonexclusive personal service
with respect thereto, and (iii) personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in which any
claim arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement is brought by any third party against
the Underwriters or any indemnified party. Each of the parties (on its behalf and, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its limited partners and affiliates) waives all right to
trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based upon contract, tort or
otherwise) in any way arising out of or relating to this Agreement. The parties agree that a final
judgment in any such action, proceeding or counterclaim brought in any such court shall be
conclusive and binding upon the parties and may be enforced in any other courts to the jurisdiction
of which the parties is or may be subject, by suit upon such judgment.
20.
Counterparts
. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if
executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an
original but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
21.
Amendments
. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any
consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same
shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.
22.
Headings
. The headings herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and
are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement among the Enterprise Parties and the
Underwriters please indicate your acceptance in the space provided for that purpose below.
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ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P.
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Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its general partner
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ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P.
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W. Randall Fowler
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For themselves and the other Representatives,
as Representatives of the several Underwriters named
in Schedule I hereto.
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J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
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Schedule I
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Principal Amount
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of Notes
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Underwriters
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to be Purchased
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J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
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175,000,000
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Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
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112,000,000
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Lehman Brothers Inc.
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112,000,000
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Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
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112,000,000
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Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
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42,000,000
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Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
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42,000,000
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BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
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21,000,000
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Daiwa Securities America Inc.
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21,000,000
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HVB Capital Markets, Inc.
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21,000,000
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ING Financial Markets LLC
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21,000,000
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Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
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21,000,000
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TOTAL
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700,000,000
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Schedule II
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses Included in Disclosure Package
None, other than the pricing term sheet attached as Exhibit A.
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Schedule III
Subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership
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Jurisdiction of
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Ownership Interest
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Subsidiary
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Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC
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Delaware
|
|
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100.00
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%
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Enterprise GTM Holdings L.P.
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Delaware
|
|
|
100.00
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%
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Enterprise Hydrocarbons L.P.
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Delaware
|
|
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100.00
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%
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Enterprise Field Services, L.L.C.
|
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Delaware
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|
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100.00
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%
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Enterprise Products Texas Operating L.P.
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Delaware
|
|
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100.00
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%
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Enterprise Texas Pipeline L.P.
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Delaware
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100.00
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%
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Mapletree, LLC
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Delaware
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|
|
100.00
|
%
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Mid-America Pipeline Company, LLC
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|
Delaware
|
|
|
100.00
|
%
|
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Schedule IV
Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses
other than those to which the Underwriters provided their consent
None.
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EXHIBIT A
Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
File Numbers 333-123150
333-123150-01
May 21, 2007
Enterprise Products Operating L.P.
7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068
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Issuer:
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Enterprise Products Operating L.P.
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Guarantor
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Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
will guarantee, on a junior
subordinated basis, payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on the notes.
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Principal Amount:
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$700,000,000
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Security Type:
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Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068
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Ratings (Moodys / S&P / Fitch):
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Ba1 / BB (expected) / BB+
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A securities rating is not a
recommendation to buy, sell, or
hold securities and may be subject
to review, revision, suspension,
reduction, or withdrawal at any
time by the assigning rating
agency.
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Minimum Denomination:
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$1,000
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Pricing Date:
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May 21, 2007
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Settlement Date:
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May 24, 2007 (T + 3)
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Maturity Date:
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January 15, 2068
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Treasury Benchmark:
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T 4.500% due May 15, 2017
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Benchmark Yield:
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4.784%
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Spread to Benchmark:
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225 basis points (2.25%)
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Yield to Maturity:
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7.034%
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Coupon:
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7.034%
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Interest during Fixed Rate Period:
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From May 24, 2007 to January 15,
2018, at an annual rate of 7.034%,
payable semi-annually in arrears on
January 15 and July 15 of each
year, commencing on January 15,
2008, subject to the Issuers right
to defer interest payments on one
or more occasions for up to ten
consecutive years.
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Interest during Floating Rate Period:
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From January 15, 2018 through
maturity, at an annual floating
rate equal to the greater of (a)
the 3-month LIBOR Rate plus a
spread of 268 basis points, reset
quarterly, or (b) 7.034% per annum,
payable quarterly in arrears on
January 15, April 15, July 15 and
October 15 of each year, commencing
on April 15, 2018, subject to the
Issuers right to defer interest
payments on one or more occasions
for up to ten consecutive years.
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Underwriting Discount:
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1.375%; $9,625,000 in the aggregate
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Price to Public:
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99.979%
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Net Proceeds to Issuer After
Deducting Underwriting Commissions
and Net Estimated Offering Expenses:
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$690,228,000
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Optional Redemption:
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In whole or in part at any time on or after
January 15, 2018, at a redemption price equal
to 100% of their principal amount plus accrued
and unpaid interest;
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in whole or in part at any
time prior to January 15, 2018, at a
redemption price equal to the Make-Whole
Redemption Price; or
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in whole but not in part prior
to January 15, 2018, after the occurrence of a
Tax Event or Rating Agency Event at a
redemption price equal to the Special Event
Make-Whole Redemption Price.
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The Make-Whole Redemption Price will be
equal to (a) all accrued and unpaid interest
to but not including the redemption date, plus
(b) the greater of (i) 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes being redeemed and (ii) as
determined by the Independent Investment
Banker, the sum of the present values of
remaining scheduled payments of principal and
interest on the Notes (exclusive of interest
accrued to the redemption date) being redeemed
from the redemption date to January 15, 2018,
discounted to the redemption date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the
Treasury Yield plus 0.50%.
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The Special Event Make-Whole Redemption
Price for the Notes if redeemed prior January
15, 2018 in connection with a Rating Agency
Event or Tax Event will be equal to (a) all
accrued and unpaid interest to but not
including the redemption date, plus (b) the
greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of
the Notes being redeemed and (ii) as
determined by the Independent Investment
Banker, the sum of the present values of
remaining scheduled payments of principal and
interest on the Notes (exclusive of interest
accrued to the redemption date) being redeemed
from the redemption date to January 15, 2018,
discounted to the redemption date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the
Treasury Yield plus 0.50%.
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CUSIP:
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293791AW9
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ISIN:
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US293791AW97
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Joint Bookrunning Managers:
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J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
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Senior Co-Managers:
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Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
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Co-Managers:
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BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
HVB Capital Markets, Inc.
ING Financial Markets LLC
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
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The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a base prospectus and a prospectus
supplement) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the offering to which this
communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus supplement for this
offering, the prospectus in that registration statement and any other documents the issuer has
filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get
these documents for free by searching the SEC online data base (EDGAR) on the SEC web site at
http://www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the
offering will arrange to send you the prospectus supplement and prospectus if you
request it by calling J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. collect at (212) 834-4533, Citigroup Global
Markets Inc. toll-free at (877) 858-5407, Lehman Brothers Inc. toll-free at (888) 603-5847, or
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC toll-free at (866) 289-1262.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF BRACEWELL & GIULIANI LLPS OPINION
1. Each of the General Partner, the Partnership, the Operating Partnership and OLPGP is
validly existing in good standing as a limited liability company, limited partnership or
corporation, as applicable, under the laws of the State of Delaware with all necessary limited
liability company, limited partnership or corporate, as the case may be, power and authority to own
or lease its properties and conduct its businesses and, in the case of the General Partner, to act
as the general partner of the Partnership and, in the case of OLPGP, to act as the general partner
of the Operating Partnership, in each case in all material respects as described in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Each of the General Partner, the Partnership, the
Operating Partnership and OLPGP is duly registered or qualified as a foreign limited liability
company, limited partnership or corporation, as the case may be, for the transaction of business
and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas.
2. There are no preemptive rights under U.S. federal law or under the Delaware LP Act to
subscribe for or purchase the Notes. There are no preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or
to purchase the Notes included in the Operating Partnerships limited partnership agreement. To
such counsels knowledge, neither the filing of the Registration Statement nor the offering or sale
of the Notes as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement gives rise to any rights for the
registration of any securities of the Partnership or any of its subsidiaries, other than as have
been waived, effectively complied with or satisfied.
3. To such counsels knowledge and other than as set forth in the Prospectus, there are no
legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Partnership or any of its subsidiaries is a
party or of which any property of the Partnership or any of its subsidiaries is the subject that,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected by such counsel to have a material
adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Partnership and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and, to such counsels knowledge, no such proceedings are
threatened.
4. The Partnership and the Operating Partnership have all requisite partnership power and
authority to issue, sell and deliver the Securities in accordance with and upon the terms and
conditions set forth in the Agreement, the Partnership Agreement, the Operating Partnership
Agreement, the Indenture, the Registration Statement and Prospectus.
5. The Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Operating Partnership and, when
authenticated by the Trustee and issued and delivered in the manner provided in the Indenture
against payment of the consideration therefor, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the Operating Partnership, enforceable against the Operating Partnership in
accordance with their terms, and will be entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture.
6. The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Partnership
and the Operating Partnership and has been duly qualified under the Trust
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Indenture Act and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the
Trustee, constitutes a valid and binding agreement of each of the Partnership and the Operating
Partnership, enforceable against each of the Partnership and the Operating Partnership in
accordance with its terms.
7. The Guarantee has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Partnership and when
the Notes (including the notations of the Guarantee thereon) are executed and authenticated in
accordance with the Indenture against payment of the consideration therefor in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, the Guarantee endorsed by the notations on the Notes will be entitled to
the benefits of the Indenture and will constitute legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations
of the Partnership.
8. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the
Enterprise Parties.
9. The authorization, execution and delivery of the Notes, the Indenture, and the Underwriting
Agreement by the Enterprise Parties do not, and the issuance of the Notes by the Operating
Partnership in accordance with the Indenture and their sale to the Underwriters in accordance with
the Underwriting Agreement and the performance by the Enterprise Parties of their respective
obligations under the Notes, the Indenture, the Guarantee and the Underwriting Agreement will not,
(i) violate the certificate of limited partnership or agreement of limited partnership, certificate
of formation or limited liability company agreement, certificate or articles of incorporation or
bylaws, as applicable, of the General Partner, the Partnership, the Operating Partnership or OLPGP,
each as amended to the date hereof; or (ii) violate any applicable provisions of existing U.S.
federal law, the laws of the State of Texas or the State of New York, the Delaware LP Act, the
Delaware LLC Act or the DGCL (except, in the case of this clause (ii), where such violations would
not, individually or in the aggregate, (a) have a material adverse effect on the financial
condition, business or results of operations of the Partnership Entities, taken as a whole, or (b)
materially impair the ability of the Enterprise Parties to perform their respective obligations
under the Underwriting Agreement).
10. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any U.S. federal or Texas
governmental authority or agency having jurisdiction over the Enterprise Parties or, to our
knowledge, any U.S. federal or Texas court is required to be obtained or made and has not been
obtained or made by the Enterprise Parties for (i) the issue and sale by the Operating Partnership
to the Underwriters of the Notes and (ii) the execution, delivery and performance by the Enterprise
Parties of the Underwriting Agreement, except as may be required under state securities or blue
sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters,
as to which such counsel need not express any opinion.
11. The Partnership and the Operating Partnership are not and, after giving effect to the
issue and sale of the Notes to the Underwriters and the application of the proceeds from the sale
of the Notes as described under the caption Use of Proceeds in the Prospectus, will not be, an
investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.
12. The statements made in the Prospectus under the caption Description of Debt Securities
and Description of the Notes insofar as they purport to constitute summaries
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of the terms of the Notes, the Indenture, and the Guarantee, constitute accurate summaries of
such terms in all material respects.
13. The statements made in the Prospectus under the caption Certain United States Federal
Income Tax Considerations, insofar as they purport to constitute summaries of matters of U.S.
federal tax law and regulations, constitute accurate summaries of the matters described therein in
all material respects.
14. The Registration Statement became effective under the Securities Act on March 23, 2005,
and the Prospectus was filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities
Act on [___]. To such counsels knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no proceeding for such purpose
has been instituted or threatened by the Commission.
15. The Registration Statement, as of the date it became effective under the Securities Act,
the Preliminary Prospectus, as of its date, and the Prospectus, as of its date, appeared on their
face to be appropriately responsive, in all material respects, to the requirements of the
Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, except that in each case such counsel need express no
opinion with respect to the financial statements and the notes and schedules thereto or other
financial, accounting or statistical data contained or incorporated or deemed incorporated by
reference in or omitted from the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus.
Such counsel may state that the enforceability of the obligations of the Enterprise Parties
under the Notes, the Indenture and the Guarantee are subject to the effect of any applicable
bankruptcy (including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance and preference), insolvency,
reorganization, rehabilitation, moratorium or similar laws and decisions relating to or affecting
the enforcement of creditors rights generally and to general principles of equity (regardless of
whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), including, without
limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, and the possible
unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief. Such principles are of general
application, and in applying such principles a court, among other things, might decline to order
the Enterprise Parties to perform covenants. Such counsel need not express any opinion as to the
validity, binding effect or enforceability of any provisions of the Notes, the Indenture or the
Guarantee that requires or relates to the payment of liquidated damages or additional interest at a
rate or in an amount that a court would determine in the circumstances under applicable law to be
commercially unreasonable or a penalty or a forfeiture. Further, such counsel need not express any
opinion with respect to the enforceability of provisions in the Notes, the Indenture or the
Guarantee with respect to waiver, delay, extension or omission of notice of enforcement of rights
or remedies or waivers of defenses or waivers of benefits of stay, extension, moratorium,
redemption, statutes of limitations or other nonwaivable benefits provided by operation of law. In
addition, the enforceability of any exculpation, indemnification or contribution provisions
contained in the Indenture or the Guarantee may be limited by applicable law or public policy.
Because the primary purpose of such counsels engagement was not to establish or confirm
factual matters or financial or accounting matters and because of the wholly or partially non-legal
character of many of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, the
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Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package, such counsel need not pass upon and does not
assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in
the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Pricing Disclosure Package (except to the extent
expressly set forth in paragraphs 12 and 13 above), and such counsel need not independently verify
the accuracy, completeness or fairness of such statements (except as aforesaid). Without limiting
the foregoing, such counsel need not assume any responsibility for, and has not independently
verified and has not been asked to comment on the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the
financial statements, schedules and other financial or accounting data included in the Registration
Statement, the Prospectus or the Pricing Disclosure Package or the exhibits to the Registration
Statement or the documents incorporated by reference therein, and such counsel has not examined the
accounting, financial or other records from which such financial statements, schedules and other
financial or accounting data and information were derived. Such counsel may state that they are
not experts with respect to any portion of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the
Pricing Disclosure Package, including, without limitation, such financial statements and supporting
schedules and related data and other financial or accounting data included therein. Such counsel
may state that they did not participate in the preparation of the documents incorporated by
reference into the Registration Statement. However, such counsel shall state that they have
participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Partnership Entities,
the independent registered public accounting firm for the Partnership, the Underwriters
representatives and the Underwriters counsel at which the contents of the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package and related matters were discussed. Based upon
such participation and review, and relying as to materiality in part upon the factual statements of
officers and other representatives of the Partnership Entities and upon the Underwriters
representatives, such counsel shall advise the Underwriters that no facts have come to such
counsels attention that have caused such counsel to believe that (i) the Registration Statement
(including the documents incorporated by reference therein, but excluding the financial statements,
schedules and related data and other financial or accounting data, as to which such counsel has not
been asked to comment), as of the Effective Date (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement),
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Prospectus (including the documents
incorporated by reference therein, but excluding the financial statements, schedules and related
data and other financial or accounting data, as to which such counsel has not been asked to
comment), as of the date of the Prospectus and as of the time of delivery of such counsels letter,
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading or (iii) the Pricing Disclosure Package, considered together (including the documents
incorporated by reference therein, but excluding the financial statements, schedules and related
data and other financial or accounting data, as to which such counsel has not been asked to
comment), as of the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
except that the public offering price of and interest rate of the Notes and disclosures directly
relating thereto that are included on the cover page of the Prospectus are not included in the most
recent Preliminary Prospectus.
In rendering such opinions, such counsel may (A) rely in respect of matters of fact
exclusively upon certificates of officers and employees for the Partnership Entities and upon
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information obtained from public officials, (B) assume that all documents submitted to them as
originals are authentic, that all copies submitted to them conform to the originals thereof, and
that the signatures on all documents examined by them are genuine, (C) state that their opinion is
based on and limited to the Delaware LP Act, the Delaware LLC Act, the DGCL and the laws of the
State of Texas, the applicable laws of the United States of America and, with respect to the
opinion set forth in paragraph 13 above, United States federal income tax law, and, with respect to
the opinions set forth in paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 9, the relevant contract law of the State of New
York, (D) state that they express no opinion with respect to the state securities or blue sky laws
of any jurisdiction or with respect to the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws,
(E) with respect to the opinion expressed in paragraph 1 above as to the due qualification or
registration under the laws of the State of Texas as a foreign limited partnership, limited
liability company or corporation, as the case may be, of the General Partner, the Partnership, the
Operating Partnership and OLPGP, state that such opinions are based solely on certificates of
foreign qualification or registration for each such entity provided by the Secretary of State of
the State of Texas, and (F) state that such counsel expresses no opinion with respect to (i) any
permits to own or operate any real or personal property or (ii) state or local taxes or tax
statutes to which any of the limited partners of the Partnership or any of the Partnership Entities
may be subject.
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF GENERAL COUNSELS OPINION
1. Each of the Partnership Entities (other than the Enterprise Parties) has been duly formed
or incorporated, as the case may be, and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
its respective jurisdiction of formation with all necessary corporate, limited liability company or
limited partnership, as the case may be, power and authority to own or lease its properties and
conduct its business, in each case in all material respects as described in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus. Each of the Partnership Entities is duly registered or qualified as
a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company, as the case may be, for
the transaction of business under the laws of each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of
property or the conduct of its businesses requires such qualification or registration, except where
the failure to so qualify or register would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
2. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock, partnership interests or membership
interests, as the case may be, of each of the Partnership Entities have been duly and validly
authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable. Except as described in the Prospectus,
the Operating Partnership and/or the Partnership, as the case may be, directly or indirectly, owns
the shares of capital stock, partnership interests or membership interests, as applicable, in each
of the Partnership Entities as set forth on
Schedule III
, free and clear of any lien,
charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or any other claim.
3. Each of the Enterprise Parties has all requisite right, power and authority to execute and
deliver the Underwriting Agreement and to perform its respective obligations thereunder. The
Partnership has all requisite partnership power and authority to issue and deliver the Guarantee in
accordance with and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Partnership
Agreement, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. The Operating Partnership has all
requisite partnership power and authority to issue, sell and deliver the Notes in accordance with
and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Operating Partnership Agreement,
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All action required to be taken by the Enterprise
Parties or any of their security holders, partners or members for (i) the due and proper
authorization, execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement, (ii) the authorization,
issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities and (iii) the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, has been duly and validly taken.
4. None of (i) the offering, issuance and sale by the Operating Partnership of the Notes, (ii)
the issuance by the Partnership of the Guarantee, (iii) the execution, delivery and performance of
the Underwriting Agreement by the Enterprise Parties or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby or (iv) the execution, delivery and performance of the Indenture by the
Partnership and the Operating Partnership or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
thereby (A) conflicts or will conflict with or constitutes or will constitute a violation of the
certificate of limited partnership or agreement of limited partnership, certificate of formation or
limited liability company agreement, certificate or articles of incorporation or bylaws or other
organizational documents of any of the Partnership Entities
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(other than the Enterprise Parties), (B) conflicts or will conflict with or constitutes or
will constitute a breach or violation of, or a default (or an event that, with notice or lapse of
time or both, would constitute such a default) under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which any of the
Partnership Entities is a party or by which any of them or any of their respective properties may
be bound, (C) will result, to the knowledge of such counsel, in any violation of any judgment,
order, decree, injunction, rule or regulation of any court, arbitrator or governmental agency or
body having jurisdiction over any of the Partnership Entities or any of their assets or properties,
or (D) results or will result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any property or assets of any of the Partnership Entities, which conflicts, breaches, violations,
defaults or liens, in the case of clauses (B), (C) or (D), would, individually or in the aggregate,
have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, business or results of operations of the
Partnership Entities, taken as a whole, or could materially impair the ability of any of the
Enterprise Parties to perform its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement.
5. To the knowledge of such counsel, (a) there is no legal or governmental proceeding pending
or threatened to which any of the Partnership Entities is a party or to which any of their
respective properties is subject that is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus and is not so disclosed and (b) there are no agreements, contracts or other
documents to which any of the Partnership Entities is a party that are required to be described in
the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement that are not described or filed as required.
In addition, such counsel shall state that he has participated in conferences with officers
and other representatives of the Partnership Entities, the independent registered public accounting
firm for the General Partner and the Partnership, your counsel and your representatives, at which
the contents of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and
related matters were discussed, and, although such counsel has not independently verified, is not
passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of,
the statements contained or incorporated by reference in, the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (except as and to the extent set forth in certain opinions
above), on the basis of the foregoing (relying to a limited extent with respect to factual matters
upon statements by officers and other representatives of the Partnership Entities and their
subsidiaries), no facts have come to such counsels attention that have led him to believe that (i)
the Registration Statement, as of the Effective Date (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement),
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to
be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Pricing
Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the public offering price of
and interest rate of the Notes and disclosures directly relating thereto that are included on the
cover page of the Prospectus are not included in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus, or (iii)
the Prospectus, as of its date and as of the Delivery Date, contained or contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
it being understood that such counsel expresses no statement or belief in this letter with respect
to (i) the financial statements and related schedules,
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including the notes and schedules thereto and the auditors report thereon, any other
financial, accounting or statistical data, included or incorporated or deemed incorporated by
reference in, or excluded from, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or the Pricing
Disclosure Package, and (ii) representations and warranties and other statements of fact included
in the exhibits to the Registration Statement or to the Incorporated Documents.
In rendering such opinion, such counsel may (A) rely on certificates of officers and
representatives of the Partnership Entities and upon information obtained from public officials,
(B) assume that all documents submitted to him as originals are authentic, that all copies
submitted to him conform to the originals thereof, and that the signatures on all documents
examined by him are genuine, (C) state that his opinion is limited to federal laws, the Delaware LP
Act, the Delaware LLC Act, the DGCL and the laws of the State of Texas, and (D) state that such
counsel expresses no opinion with respect to: (i) any permits to own or operate any real or
personal property, (ii) the title of any of the Partnership Entities to any of their respective
real or personal property, other than with regard to the opinions set forth above regarding the
ownership of capital stock, partnership interests and membership interests, or with respect to the
accuracy or descriptions of real or personal property or (iii) state or local taxes or tax statutes
to which any of the limited partners of the Partnership or any of the Partnership Entities may be
subject.
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Exhibit 4.2
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P.,
as Issuer
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P.,
as Parent Guarantor
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
NINTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of May 24, 2007
to
Indenture dated as of October 4, 2004
7.034% FIXED/FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2068
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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Section 1.1
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Definition of Terms
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Section 1.2
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Rules of Construction
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ARTICLE II GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
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Section 2.1
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Designation and Principal Amount
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Section 2.2
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Maturity
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Section 2.3
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Form
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Section 2.4
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Registrar and Paying Agent
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Section 2.5
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Transfer and Exchange
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Section 2.6
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Interest Rates; Payment of Principal and Interest
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ARTICLE III REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES
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Section 3.1
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Optional Redemption
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Section 3.2
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Certain Redemption Procedures
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Section 3.3
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No Sinking Fund
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ARTICLE IV DEFERRAL OF INTEREST
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Section 4.1
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Optional Deferral of Interest
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Section 4.2
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Notice of Deferrals
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ARTICLE V CERTAIN COVENANTS
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Section 5.1
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Covenants in Indenture
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Section 5.2
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Restricted Payments
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ARTICLE VI SUBORDINATION
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Section 6.1
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Ranking of the Notes
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Section 6.2
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Amendment and Restatement of Section 12.02 of the Base Indenture
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Section 6.3
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Amendment and Restatement of Section 12.03 of the Base Indenture
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ARTICLE VII GUARANTEE OF THE NOTES
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Section 7.1
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Guarantee of the Notes
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Section 7.2
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Ranking of the Guarantee
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ARTICLE VIII APPLICABILITY OF DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
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Section 8.1
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Applicability of Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
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ARTICLE IX events of default and REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS of NOTES
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Section 9.1
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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 10.2
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Separateness
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Section 10.4
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Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals
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Governing Law
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Separability
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Treatment of the Notes
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Section 10.9
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Counterparts
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Section 10.10
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Withholding
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THIS NINTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of May 24, 2007 (this
Ninth Supplemental
Indenture
), is among (i) Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
(the
Company
), (ii) Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
(the
Parent Guarantor
), and (iii) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national
banking association, as trustee (the
Trustee
).
W
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S
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:
WHEREAS, the Company and the Parent Guarantor have executed and delivered to the Trustee an
Indenture, dated as of October 4, 2004 (as amended from time to time, and as amended hereby, the
Base Indenture
), providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of one or
more series of the Companys Debt Securities (as defined therein), unlimited as to principal
amount, and the guarantee by the Parent Guarantor of such Debt Securities;
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized and desires to cause to be issued pursuant to the
Base Indenture and this Ninth Supplemental Indenture a new series of Debt Securities designated the
7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 (the
Notes
), all of such
Notes to be guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor as provided in Article XIV of the Base Indenture and
Article VII of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to cause the issuance of the Notes pursuant to Sections 2.01 and
2.03 of the Base Indenture, which sections permit the execution of indentures supplemental thereto
to establish the form and terms of Debt Securities of any series;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Base Indenture, the Company and the Parent Guarantor
have requested that the Trustee join in the execution of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture to
establish the form and terms of the Notes; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done to make the Notes, when executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered hereunder and under the Base Indenture and duly issued by the
Company, and the guarantee thereof by the Parent Guarantor when the Notation of Guarantee affixed
to the Notes has been executed by the Parent Guarantor, the valid obligations of the Company and
the Parent Guarantor, respectively, and to make this Ninth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company and the Parent Guarantor, enforceable against them in accordance with its terms;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trustee hereby agree that the
following provisions shall amend and supplement the Base Indenture:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1
Definition of Terms
. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term defined in the Base Indenture has the same meaning when used in this Ninth
Supplemental Indenture;
provided
,
however
, that, where a term is defined both in
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture and in the Base Indenture the meaning given to such term in this
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Ninth Supplemental Indenture shall control for purposes of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture
and, in respect of the Notes, but not any other series of Debt Securities, the Base Indenture;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Ninth Supplemental Indenture has the same meaning
throughout this Ninth Supplemental Indenture and, in respect of the Notes, but not any other series
of Debt Securities, the Base Indenture;
(c) any term used herein which is defined in the TIA, either directly or by reference therein,
has the meanings assigned to it therein; and
(d) the following terms have the following respective meanings:
Bankruptcy Event
means, with respect to any Person, that (a) such Person, pursuant
to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, (i) commences a voluntary case; (ii) consents to
the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case; (iii) consents to the
appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or (iv) makes a
general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (b) a court of competent jurisdiction
enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that (i) is for relief against such Person as
debtor in an involuntary case; (ii) appoints a Custodian of such Person or a Custodian for all or
substantially all of the property of such Person; or (iii) orders the liquidation of such Person,
and, in the case of clauses (b)(i) through (b)(iii), the order or decree remains unstayed and in
effect for 60 days.
Base Indenture
has the meaning set forth in the recitals of this Ninth Supplemental
Indenture.
BookEntry Notes
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.
Calculation Agent
means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (and its successors)
or any other firm hereafter appointed by the Company to act as calculation agent in respect of the
Notes.
Company
means the Person named as the Company in the preamble of this Ninth
Supplemental Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter Company shall mean such successor Person.
Comparable Treasury Issue
means the United States Treasury security selected by the
Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life of the Notes
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 Life of the Notes;
provided
,
however
, that if no maturity is within three
months (before or after) of the end of the Remaining Life, yields for the two published maturities
most closely corresponding to such United States Treasury security will be determined and the
Treasury Yield will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight-line basis
rounding to the nearest month.
Comparable Treasury Price
means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (a) the
average, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, of
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up to five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, or (b) if the
Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations received.
Current Interest
means, on or prior to an Interest Payment Date, interest accrued on
the principal amount of the Notes at the Fixed Rate or the Floating Rate, as the case may be, since
the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date. For the avoidance of doubt, Current Interest
shall not include Deferred Interest.
Deferred Interest
means (a) interest the payment of which has been deferred pursuant
to Section 4.1 plus (b) all interest accrued thereon since the due date thereof in accordance with
Section 2.6(a) and 2.6(d).
Depositary
, means DTC or, if DTC shall have ceased performing such function, any
other Person selected by the Company, so long as such Person is registered as a clearing agency
under the Exchange Act or other applicable statutes or regulations.
DTC
means The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, or any successor
thereto.
Fixed Rate
means 7.034% per annum.
Fixed Rate Period
means the period commencing on May 24, 2007 to, but not including,
January 15, 2018.
Floating Rate
means, with respect to a Quarterly Interest Period, the greater of (1)
the sum of the Three-Month LIBOR Rate for such Quarterly Interest Period plus 2.68% or (2) 7.034%
per annum.
Floating Rate Period
means the period commencing on January 15, 2018 to, but not
including, January 15, 2068.
Guarantee
has the meaning given in Section 7.1.
Indenture
means the Base Indenture, as amended and supplemented by this Ninth
Supplemental Indenture, including the form and terms of the Notes as set forth herein, as the same
shall be amended from time to time.
Independent Investment Banker
means any of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup
Global Markets Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. or Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (or their respective
successors) or, if no such firm is willing and able to select the applicable Comparable Treasury
Issue or perform the other functions of the Independent Investment Banker provided herein, an
independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Trustee and
reasonably acceptable to the Company.
Interest
means, collectively, Current Interest and Deferred Interest.
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Interest Payment Date
means a Quarterly Interest Payment Date or a Semi-Annual
Interest Payment Date, as the case may be.
Interest Period
means a Quarterly Interest Period or a Semi-Annual Interest Period,
as the case may be.
LIBOR Interest Determination Date
has the meaning set forth in the definition of
Three-Month LIBOR Rate.
LIBOR Rate Reset Date
has the meaning set forth in the definition of Three-Month
LIBOR Rate.
London Banking Day
means any Business Day on which dealings in deposits in U.S.
dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.
Make-Whole Redemption Price
means, with respect to a Redemption Date, an amount
equal to (a) all accrued and unpaid Interest to but not including such Redemption Date, plus (b)
the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed and (ii) as determined
by an Independent Investment Banker, the sum of the present values of remaining scheduled payments
of principal and interest on the Notes (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) being
redeemed during the Remaining Life, discounted to such Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Yield plus 0.50%. The
Make-Whole Redemption Price, calculated as provided herein, shall be calculated and certified to
the Trustee and the Company by an Independent Investment Banker.
Ninth Supplemental Indenture
has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Notes
has the meaning set forth in the recitals of this Ninth Supplemental
Indenture.
Optional Deferral
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1(a).
Optional Deferral Period
means the period of time commencing on an Interest Payment
Date with respect to which the Company has optionally deferred payment of Interest pursuant to
Section 4.1(a) and ending upon the earlier of (a) the Interest Payment Date on which all Deferred
Interest and Current Interest to, but not including, such Interest Payment Date shall have been
paid and (b) the first Interest Payment Date on which the Company shall have deferred payment of
some or all of the Interest due on a number of consecutive Interest Payment Dates with respect to
consecutive Interest Periods which, taken together as a single period, would equal or exceed ten
(10) consecutive years.
Optional Redemption Price
means, with respect to a Redemption Date, 100% of the
principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus all unpaid Interest thereon to but not including
such Redemption Date.
Parent Guarantor
means the Person named as the Parent Guarantor in the preamble of
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to
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the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter Parent Guarantor shall mean such
successor Person.
Primary Treasury Dealer
has the meaning set forth in the definition of Reference
Treasury Dealer.
Quarterly Interest Payment Date
means each January 15, April 15, July 15, and
October 15 during the Floating Rate Period, commencing April 15, 2018;
provided
,
however
, that if any such day is not Business Day, then the Quarterly Interest Payment Date
shall be the immediately succeeding Business Day (except if such next succeeding Business Day falls
in the next succeeding calendar month, then such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding
Business Day).
Quarterly Interest Period
means each period commencing on a Quarterly Interest
Payment Date and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Quarterly Interest Payment
Date (except that the first Quarterly Interest Period will commence on January 15, 2018).
Redemption Price
means, (a) in the case of redemption of the Notes pursuant to
Section 3.1(a), the Make-Whole Redemption Price, (b) in the case of redemption of the Notes
pursuant to Section 3.1(b), the Special Event Make-Whole Redemption Price and (c) in the case of
redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.1(c), the Optional Redemption Price.
Reference Banks
has the meaning set forth in the definition of Three-Month LIBOR
Rate.
Reference Treasury Dealer
means (a) any of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup
Global Markets Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. or Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (and their respective
successors) and (b) one other primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City (each, a
Primary Treasury Dealer
) selected by an Independent Investment Banker;
provided
,
however
, that if either of the foregoing is not a Primary Treasury Dealer at the time the
Make-Whole Redemption Price is being calculated hereunder, the Company will substitute therefor
another Primary Treasury Dealer.
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation
means, with respect to each Reference Treasury
Dealer and any Redemption Date for the Notes, an average, as determined and furnished to the
Independent Investment Banker 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 or about 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
Remaining Life
means the period of time from the date on which the Notes are
redeemed to January 15, 2018.
Reuters Page LIBOR01
means the display so designated on the Reuters 3000 Xtra (or
such other page as may replace such page on such service, or such other service as may be nominated
as the information vendor, for the purpose of displaying rates or prices comparable to the London
Interbank Offered Rate for U.S. dollar deposits).
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Semi-Annual Interest Period
means each period commencing on a Semi-Annual Interest
Payment Date and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Semi-Annual Interest Payment
Date (except that the first Semi-Annual Interest Period will begin on May 24, 2007.
Semi-Annual Interest Payment Date
means each January 15 and July 15 commencing
January 15, 2008 (or, in the case of any additional Notes issued pursuant to clause (ii) of Section
2.1, the date set forth in the Company Order providing for the issuance of any such additional
Notes) through January 15, 2018;
provided
,
however
, that if any such day is not
Business Day, then the Semi-Annual Interest Payment Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
Senior Indebtedness
means, with respect to any Person, the principal of, any
interest and premium, if any, on and any other payments in respect of any of the following, whether
currently outstanding or hereafter created or incurred: (a) (i) indebtedness of such Person for
borrowed money; (ii) indebtedness of such Person evidenced by securities, bonds, notes, and
debentures, including any of the same that are subordinated, issued under credit agreements,
indentures or other similar instruments (other than this Ninth Supplemental Indenture) and other
similar instruments, other than, in the case of the Company, the Notes; (iii) obligations of such
Person arising from or with respect to guarantees and direct credit substitutes, other than, in the
case of the Parent Guarantor, the Parent Guarantors obligations under the Guarantee; (iv)
obligations of such Person arising from or with respect to hedges and derivative products
(including, but not limited to, interest rate, commodity, and foreign exchange contracts); (v)
capital lease obligations of such Person; (vi) all of the obligations of such Person arising from
or with respect to any letter of credit, bankers acceptance, security purchase facility, cash
management arrangements or similar credit transactions; (vii) operating leases of such Person (but
only to the extent the terms of such leases expressly provide that the same constitute Senior
Indebtedness); and (viii) guarantees by such Person of any indebtedness or obligations of others
of the types described in clauses (i) through (vii) other than, in the case of the Parent
Guarantor, the Guarantee and (b) any modifications, refundings, deferrals, renewals, or extensions
of any of the foregoing or any other evidence of indebtedness issued in exchange therefor;
provided
,
however
, that Senior Indebtedness shall not include the obligations of
such Person in respect of: (v) trade accounts payable of such Person; (w) any indebtedness
incurred by such Person for the purchase of goods or materials or for services obtained in the
ordinary course of business to the extent that the same is incurred from, and owed to, the vendor
of such goods or materials or the provider of such services; (x) any indebtedness or other
obligation of such Person which by the terms of the instrument creating or evidencing it is
expressly made equal in rank and payment with or subordinated to the Notes or the Guarantee, as the
case may be; (y) indebtedness owed by such Person to its Subsidiaries; and (z) in the case of the
Company, the Companys Subordinated Notes due 2066 and, in the case of the Parent Guarantor, the
Parent Guarantors guarantee of the Subordinated Notes due 2066.
Special Event
means (a) the receipt by the Company of an opinion of counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of any (i) amendment to, clarification
of or change (including any prospective change) in the laws or regulations of the United States or
any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States that is effective on or
after the date of issuance of the Notes, (ii) proposed change in those laws or regulations that is
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announced on or after the date of issuance of the Notes, (iii) official administrative
decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement (including a
private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum or other similar pronouncement) by any court,
government agency or regulatory authority interpreting or applying those laws or regulations that
is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Notes, or (iv) threatened challenge asserted
in connection with an audit of the Company or any of the Companys subsidiaries, or a threatened
challenge asserted in writing against any taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of
securities that are substantially similar to the Notes (including any trust preferred or similar
securities) that occurs on or after the date of issuance of the Notes, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that interest payable on the Notes is not, or within 90 days of the date of such
opinion will not be, deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company or its partners, as
applicable, for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (b) a change by any nationally recognized
statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act that
publishes a rating for the Company (a
rating agency
) to its equity credit criteria for
securities such as the Notes, as such criteria is in effect on the date of this Ninth Supplemental
Indenture (the
current criteria
), which change results in (i) any shortening of the
length of time for which such current criteria are scheduled to be in effect with respect to the
Notes, or (ii) a lower equity credit being given to the Notes as of the date of such change than
the equity credit that would have been assigned to the Notes as of the date of such change by such
rating agency pursuant to its current criteria.
Special Event Make-Whole Redemption Price
means, with respect to a Redemption Date,
an amount equal to (a) all accrued and unpaid Interest to but not including such Redemption Date,
plus (b) the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed and (ii) as
determined by an Independent Investment Banker, the sum of the present values of remaining
scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes (exclusive of interest accrued to the
Redemption Date) being redeemed during the Remaining Life, discounted to such Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury
Yield plus 0.50%. The Special Event Make-Whole Redemption Price, calculated as provided herein,
shall be calculated and certified to the Trustee and the Company by an Independent Investment
Banker.
Subordinated Notes due 2066
means the Companys 8.375% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior
Subordinated Notes due 2066.
Three-Month LIBOR Rate
means, for each Quarterly Interest Period during the Floating
Rate Period, the rate (expressed as a percentage per year) for deposits in U.S. dollars for a
three-month period that appears on Reuters Page LIBOR01 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the
second London Banking Day (the
LIBOR Interest Determination Date
) immediately preceding
the first day of such Quarterly Interest Period (the
LIBOR Rate Reset Date
). If such
rate does not appear on such page for the purpose of displaying offered rates of leading banks for
London interbank deposits in U.S. dollars, the Three-Month LIBOR Rate will be determined on the
basis of the rates, at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the LIBOR Interest Determination
Date, at which U.S. dollar deposits with a maturity of three months in an amount determined by the
Calculation Agent as representative of a single transaction in the relevant market and at the
relevant time are offered by four major banks in the London interbank market selected and certified
to the Calculation Agent by the Company (
Reference Banks
) to prime
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banks in the London interbank market for the interest period commencing on the LIBOR Rate
Reset Date. The Company will request the principal London office of each of the Reference Banks to
provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two quotations are provided as requested, the
Three-Month LIBOR Rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If fewer than two quotations
are provided as requested, the Three-Month LIBOR Rate will be the interest rate per annum equal to
the average of the rates per annum quoted by three major banks in New York City selected and
certified to the Calculation Agent by the Company, at or about 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
the LIBOR Interest Determination Date, for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks in
amounts that are representative of a single transaction in the relevant market and at the relevant
time with a maturity corresponding to the interest period and commencing on the LIBOR Rate Reset
Date. If fewer than three New York City banks selected and certified to the Calculation Agent by
the Company are quoting rates, the Three-Month LIBOR Rate for the applicable interest period will
be the same as for the immediately preceding Quarterly Interest Period or, in the case of the
Quarterly Interest Period beginning on June 1, 2017, the interest rate on the Notes will be the
same as for the most recent quarterly period for which the Three-Month LIBOR Rate can be
determined.
Treasury Yield
means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal
to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately
preceding such Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
Trustee
means the Person named as the Trustee in the preamble of this Ninth
Supplemental Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter Trustee shall mean such successor Person.
Section 1.2
Rules of Construction
. In addition to the Rules of Construction under
Section 1.04 of the Base Indenture, the following provisions also shall be applied wherever
appropriate herein:
(a) any references herein to a particular Section, Article, or Exhibit means a Section or
Article of, or an Exhibit to, this Ninth Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise expressly stated
herein; and
(b) the Exhibits attached hereto are incorporated herein by reference and shall be considered
part of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
ARTICLE II
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES
Section 2.1
Designation and Principal Amount
. There is hereby authorized a series of
Debt Securities under the Indenture designated the 7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Notes due 2068. The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (i) the Notes for original issue on
the date hereof in the aggregate principal amount of $700,000,000 and (ii)
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additional Notes for original issue from time to time after the date hereof in such principal
amounts as may be specified from time to time in a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery thereof pursuant to Sections 2.04 and 2.05 of the Base Indenture. Any additional Notes
shall have the same Stated Maturity and other terms as the original issue of Notes and shall be
consolidated with and be part of the original issue of Notes. The Notes shall be issued in
denominations of $1,000 in principal amount and integral multiples thereof.
Section 2.2
Maturity
. The principal amount of the Notes shall be payable on the
maturity date of the Notes, which is January 15, 2068.
Section 2.3
Form
. The Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication thereon
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
The Notes shall be issued only in registered form and, when issued, shall be registered in the
Debt Security Register of the Company. The Notes shall be originally issued in the form of one or
more Global Securities (the
Book-Entry Notes
). Each of the Book-Entry Notes shall
represent such of the Outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it
shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be reduced
or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of Book-Entry
Notes to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Notes
represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in accordance with written instructions or such
other written form of instructions as is customary for the Depositary, from the Depositary or its
nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in such Book-Entry Notes. The Company
initially appoints DTC to act as Depositary with respect to the Book-Entry Notes.
Section 2.4
Registrar and Paying Agent
. The Company initially appoints the Trustee as
Registrar and paying agent with respect to the Notes. The office or agency in the City and State
of New York where the Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange and the Place
of Payment for the Notes shall initially be Wells Fargo Corporate Trust, c/o DTC 1
st
Floor, TADS Department, 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041.
Section 2.5
Transfer and Exchange
.
The transfer and exchange of Book-Entry Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be
effected through the Depositary, in accordance with Section 2.15 of the Base Indenture and the
rules and procedures of the Depositary therefor.
Section 2.6
Interest Rates; Payment of Principal and Interest
.
(a) Rates.
(i)
Interest During the Fixed Rate Period
. During the Fixed Rate Period, (A)
the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and (B) to the extent permitted by applicable
law, any Deferred Interest or overdue interest thereon, will bear interest at a per annum
rate equal to the Fixed Rate until the commencement of the Floating Rate Period or, if
earlier, until the principal thereof and all Interest thereon is paid,
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compounded semi-annually and payable (subject to the provisions of Article IV)
semi-annually, in arrears on each Semi-Annual Interest Payment Date.
(ii)
Interest During the Floating Rate Period
. During the Floating Rate
Period, (A) the outstanding principal amount of the Notes and (B) to the extent permitted by
applicable law, any Deferred Interest or overdue interest thereon will bear interest during
each Quarterly Interest Period at a per annum rate equal to the applicable Floating Rate for
such period, until the principal thereof and all Interest thereon is paid, compounded
quarterly and payable (subject to the provisions of Article IV) quarterly in arrears on each
Quarterly Interest Payment Date. The Calculation Agent will calculate the Floating Rate
with respect to each Floating Rate Period and the amount of Interest payable on each
Quarterly Interest Payment Date as promptly as practicable according to the appropriate
method described herein. Promptly upon such determination, the Calculation Agent will
notify the Company and the Trustee of the Floating Rate for the Floating Rate Period and the
amount of Interest payable to each Holder on each Quarterly Interest Payment Date. The
Floating Rate determined by the Calculation Agent, absent manifest error, will be binding
and conclusive upon the beneficial owners and Holders of the Notes, the Company and the
Trustee.
(b)
Payment of Interest to Record Holders of the Notes
. Payments of principal of,
premium, if any, and Interest due on the Notes representing Book-Entry Notes on any Interest
Payment Date, upon redemption or at maturity will be made available to the Trustee by 11:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on the applicable maturity date, Redemption Date, or Interest Payment Date,
unless such date falls on a day which is not a Business Day, in which case such payments will be
made available to the Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business
Day;
provided
,
however
, that, during the Floating Rate Period, if such next
succeeding Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, then such payments will be
made available to the Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately preceding
Business Day. As soon as possible thereafter, the Trustee will make such payments to the
Depositary. Other than in connection with the maturity or redemption of the Notes or in connection
with payment of Defaulted Interest, Interest on the Notes may be paid only on an Interest Payment
Date. Payments of principal of, premium, if any, and Interest due on Notes other than Book-Entry
Notes on any Interest Payment Date, upon redemption or at maturity will be made in accordance with
Article II of the Base Indenture. The regular record date for Interest payable on the Notes on any
Interest Payment Date during the Fixed Rate Period shall be the January 1 or July 1, as the case
may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date and during the Floating Rate Period shall
be the January 1, April 1, July 1 or October 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding such
Interest Payment Date.
(c) The amount of Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date during the Fixed Rate Period
will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. The amount of
Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date during the Floating Rate Period will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed.
(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, Interest not paid when due hereunder,
including, without limitation, all Deferred Interest and overdue Interest, shall in accordance with
Section 2.6(a), until paid, compound (i) semi-annually at the Fixed Rate on each
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Semi-Annual Interest Payment Date during the Fixed Rate Period and (ii) quarterly at the
applicable Floating Rate on each Quarterly Interest Payment Date during the Floating Rate Period.
(e) If the Company shall make a partial payment of Interest on any Interest Payment Date, such
payment shall, with respect to the Notes, be applied, first, to Deferred Interest until all such
Deferred Interest has been paid and, second, to any Current Interest.
(f) To the extent that the provisions of this Section 2.6 are inconsistent with the provisions
of Article II of the Base Indenture, the provisions of this Section 2.6 shall control.
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION OF THE NOTES
Section 3.1
Optional Redemption
. Subject to the provisions of Article III of the Base
Indenture, the Company shall have the option to redeem the Notes for cash:
(a) in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time prior to January 15, 2018, at the
Make-Whole Redemption Price;
(b) after the occurrence of a Special Event, in whole but not in part, at any time prior to
January 15, 2018, at the Special Event Make-Whole Redemption Price; and
(c) in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time on or after January 15, 2018, at
the Optional Redemption Price.
Section 3.2
Certain Redemption Procedures
. Notes called for optional redemption shall
become due on the Redemption Date. Notices of optional redemption will be mailed at least 30 days
but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed at
its registered address. The notice of optional redemption for the Notes will state, among other
things, the amount of Notes to be redeemed, the Redemption Date, the method of calculating such
Redemption Price, and the place(s) that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of
Notes to be redeemed. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price or the paying
agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of Article XII of the Base
Indenture, interest will cease to accrue on the Redemption Date with respect to any Notes that have
been called for optional redemption. If less than all the Notes are redeemed at any time, the
Trustee will select the Notes to be redeemed on a pro rata basis or by any other method the Trustee
deems fair and appropriate. The Company may not redeem the Notes in part if the principal amount
of the Notes has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded unless all accrued
and unpaid Interest (including Deferred Interest) has been paid in full on all outstanding Notes
for all Interest Periods terminating on or before the Redemption Date.
The Notes may be redeemed in part only in principal amounts that are integral multiples of
$1,000.
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Section 3.3
No Sinking Fund
. The Notes will not be entitled to the benefit of any
sinking fund.
ARTICLE IV
DEFERRAL OF INTEREST
Section 4.1
Optional Deferral of Interest
.
(a) The Company shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during the term of the
Notes, to elect to defer payment of all or any portion of any Current Interest and/or Deferred
Interest otherwise due on the Notes on any Interest Payment Date (
Optional Deferral
);
provided
,
however
, that the Company may not (i) elect to defer payment of any
Interest otherwise due on any Interest Payment Date if, as a result of such deferral, the Company
shall have deferred payment of some or all of the Interest due on a number of consecutive Interest
Payment Dates with respect to a number of consecutive Interest Periods which, when taken together
as a single period, would equal or exceed ten (10) consecutive years, or (ii) elect to defer
payment of any Interest due on the maturity date of the Notes, or, with respect to any Notes being
redeemed, on the Redemption Date for such Notes. No Interest on the Notes shall be due and payable
on any Interest Payment Date during an Optional Deferral Period; however, Interest shall accrue on
the Notes during such period in accordance with Sections 2.6(a) and 2.6(d).
(b) Following the termination of an Optional Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred
Interest accrued during such Optional Deferral Period, the Company may again elect pursuant to
Section 4.1(a) to make an Optional Deferral of Interest.
(c) On the Interest Payment Date on which the Company desires to terminate an Optional
Deferral Period or at the end of an Optional Deferral Period pursuant to clause (b) of the
definition of Optional Deferral Period, the Company shall pay all Deferred Interest and Current
Interest due on such Interest Payment Date. Such Interest shall be payable to the Holders of the
Notes in whose names the Notes are registered in the Debt Security Register for the Notes on the
record date with respect to such Interest Payment Date.
Section 4.2
Notice of Deferrals
.
(a) The Company shall give written notice to the Trustee of any election of Optional Deferral
pursuant to Section 4.1 not fewer than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) Business Days prior to the
applicable Interest Payment Date for which Interest on the Notes will be deferred, other than an
Optional Deferral in the circumstances described in Section 4.2(b). The Trustee shall forward such
written notice promptly to each Holder of the Notes.
(b) In the case of an election of Optional Deferral pursuant to Section 4.1 when the Company
or the Parent Guarantor would be prohibited pursuant to Section 12.03 of the Base Indenture from
paying Interest on the Notes, the Company shall give written notice to the Trustee of such election
of Optional Deferral not later than the time monies in respect of the Interest payment on the
applicable Interest Payment Date must be made available to the Trustee
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pursuant to Section 2.6(b) hereof. The Trustee shall forward such written notice promptly to
each Holder of the Notes.
ARTICLE V
CERTAIN COVENANTS
Section 5.1
Covenants in Indenture
. Holders of the Notes shall not have the benefit
of and shall not be entitled to enforce the covenants contained in Sections 4.12 and 4.13 of the
Base Indenture.
Section 5.2
Restricted Payments
.
(a) Subject to Section 5.2(b), during any Optional Deferral Period, (i) the Company and the
Parent Guarantor will not declare or make any distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase,
or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of their respective equity securities and (ii)
the Company and the Parent Guarantor will not, and will cause their respective Subsidiaries not to
(A) make any payment of interest, principal, or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase, or redeem
any of the Companys or the Parent Guarantors debt securities (including securities similar to the
Notes) that contractually rank equally with or junior to the Notes or the Guarantee, respectively,
or (B) make any payment under a guarantee of the Companys or the Parent Guarantors debt
securities (including under a guarantee of debt securities that are similar to the Notes) that
contractually ranks equally with or junior to the Notes or the Guarantee, respectively.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.2(a), the Company, the Parent Guarantor and
any of their respective Subsidiaries may take any of the following actions at any time, including
during an Optional Deferral Period: (i) make any purchase, redemption or other acquisition of any
equity securities in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors, or agents, or a securities
purchase or dividend or distribution reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction of obligations pursuant
to any contract or security outstanding on the date that the Optional Deferral Period commences
requiring the purchase, redemption or acquisition of such equity securities; (ii) make any payment,
repayment, redemption, purchase, acquisition or declaration of a distribution as a result of a
reclassification of any of their respective equity securities or the exchange or conversion of all
or a portion of one class or series of such equity securities for another class or series of such
equity securities; (iii) purchase fractional interests in any of their respective equity securities
pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such securities or the security being
converted or exchanged, in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts or in
connection with any split, reclassification or similar transaction; (iv) make a distribution paid
or made in any of their respective equity securities (or rights to acquire such equity securities),
or a repurchase, redemption or acquisition of such equity securities in connection with the
issuance or exchange of such equity securities (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable
for such equity securities) and distributions in connection with the settlement of securities
purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the Optional Deferral Period commences; (v) make
any redemption, exchange or repurchase of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a
rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a distribution
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of or with respect to rights in the future; (vi) make any payments under (A) the Notes and
under securities similar to the Notes (including trust preferred securities) that are (or, in the
case of a trust preferred security, the underlying debt obligation is)
pari passu
with the Notes
and (B) the Guarantee and similar guarantees associated with any instruments that are (or, in the
case of a trust preferred security, the underlying debt obligation is)
pari passu
with the Notes,
in each case, so long as any such payments are made on a pro rata basis with the Notes and the
Guarantee, respectively; or (vii) make any regularly scheduled dividend or distribution payments
declared prior to the date that the Optional Deferral Period commences.
(c) Whether another security is similar to the Notes and whether another guarantee is similar
to the Guarantee for purposes of Section 5.2(b)(vi) shall be determined by the Company in its
reasonable discretion. For purposes of Section 5.2(b)(vi), the Subordinated Notes due 2066 are
similar to the Notes and the Parent Guarantors guarantee of the Subordinated Notes due 2066 is
similar to the Guarantee. For purposes of Section 5.2(b)(iv) of the Amended and Restated Eighth
Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 25, 2006, the Notes are similar to the Subordinated Notes
due 2066 and the Guarantee is similar to the Parent Guarantors guarantee of the Subordinated Notes
due 2066.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall prevent the Company or the
Parent Guarantor from issuing any other securities, whether senior to,
pari passu
with or
subordinated to the Notes, including securities having covenants and provisions the same as or
similar to those applicable to the Notes, or any guarantees with respect thereto.
ARTICLE VI
SUBORDINATION
Section 6.1
Ranking of the Notes
.
(a) The Notes shall be subordinated to all Senior Indebtedness (as defined in this Ninth
Supplemental Indenture) of the Company on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in
Article XII of the Base Indenture, and each Holder of Notes issued hereunder by such Holders
acceptance thereof acknowledges and agrees that all Notes shall be issued subject to the provisions
of this Article VI and such Article XII and that each Holder of Notes, whether upon original
issuance or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such provisions.
The Notes shall be Subordinated Debt Securities as such term is used in the Indenture, and, for
purposes of the Notes only, and not for purposes of any other Debt Securities, all references in
the Indenture to Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall mean Senior Indebtedness of the Company
as defined in this Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
(b) The Notes shall be equal in rank and right of payment in all respects and are
pari passu
with the Subordinated Notes due 2066.
Section 6.2
Amendment and Restatement of Section 12.02 of the Base Indenture
. For
purposes of the Notes only, and not for purposes of any other Debt Securities, Section 12.02 of the
Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
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Section 12.02
Liquidation, Dissolution, Bankruptcy
. Upon any payment
or distribution of the assets of the Company to creditors upon a total or partial
liquidation or a total or partial dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the
Company or its property:
(a) holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be entitled to receive
payment in full in cash of such Senior Indebtedness (including interest (if any),
accruing on or after the commencement of a proceeding in bankruptcy, whether or not
allowed as a claim against the Company in such bankruptcy proceeding) before Holders
of Subordinated Debt Securities of the Company shall be entitled to receive any
payment of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Subordinated Debt
Securities; and
(b) until the Senior Indebtedness of the Company is paid in full, any such
distribution to which Holders of Subordinated Debt Securities would be entitled but
for this Article XII shall be made to holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company
as their interests may appear, except that such Holders may receive securities
representing partnership interests of the Company and any debt securities of the
Company that are subordinated to Senior Indebtedness of the Company to at least the
same extent as the Subordinated Debt Securities of the Company.
Upon any payment or distribution of the assets of any Guarantor to creditors upon a
total or partial liquidation or a total or partial dissolution of such Guarantor or
in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding
relating to such Guarantor or its property:
(a) holders of Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor shall be entitled to
receive payment in full in cash of such Senior Indebtedness (including interest (if
any), accruing on or after the commencement of a proceeding in bankruptcy, whether
or not allowed as a claim against such Guarantor in such bankruptcy proceeding)
before Holders of Subordinated Debt Securities shall be entitled to receive, under
such Guarantors guarantee of such Subordinated Debt Securities, any payment of
principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Subordinated Debt Securities;
and
(b) until the Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor is paid in full, any such
distribution to which Holders of Subordinated Debt Securities would be entitled
under such Guarantors guarantee but for this Article XII shall be made to holders
of Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor as their interests may appear, except that
such Holders may receive securities representing equity interests of such Guarantor
and any debt securities of such Guarantor that are subordinated to Senior
Indebtedness of such Guarantor to at least the same extent as the guarantee of the
Subordinated Debt Securities of such Guarantor.
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Section 6.3
Amendment and Restatement of Section 12.03 of the Base Indenture
. For
purposes of the Notes only, and not for purposes of any other Debt Securities, Section 12.03 of the
Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
Section 12.03
Default on Senior Indebtedness
. The Company may not pay
the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the Subordinated Debt
Securities or make any deposit pursuant to Article XI and may not repurchase, redeem
or otherwise retire (except, in the case of Subordinated Debt Securities that
provide for a mandatory sinking fund pursuant to Section 3.05, by the delivery of
Subordinated Debt Securities by the Company to the Trustee pursuant to the first
paragraph of Section 3.06) any Subordinated Debt Securities (collectively, pay the
Subordinated Debt Securities) if (a) any principal, premium or interest in respect
of Senior Indebtedness of the Company is not paid when due, including any applicable
grace period (including at maturity) or (b) any other default on Senior Indebtedness
of the Company occurs and the maturity of such Senior Indebtedness is accelerated in
accordance with its terms unless, in either case, the default has been cured or
waived and any such acceleration has been rescinded or such Senior Indebtedness has
been paid in full in cash; provided, however, that the Company may pay the
Subordinated Debt Securities without regard to the foregoing if the Company and the
Trustee receive written notice approving such payment from the Representative of
each issue of Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company. During the continuance
of any default (other than a default described in clause (a) or (b) of the preceding
sentence) with respect to any Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company pursuant
to which the maturity thereof may be accelerated immediately without further notice
(except such notice as may be required to effect such acceleration) or the
expiration of any applicable grace periods, the Company may not pay the Subordinated
Debt Securities for a period (a Payment Blockage Period) commencing upon the
receipt by the Company and the Trustee of written notice of such default from the
Representative of any Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company specifying an
election to effect a Payment Blockage Period (a Blockage Notice) and ending 179
days thereafter (or earlier if such Payment Blockage Period is terminated by written
notice to the Trustee and the Company from the Person or Persons who gave such
Blockage Notice, by repayment in full in cash of such Designated Senior Indebtedness
or because the default giving rise to such Blockage Notice is no longer continuing).
Notwithstanding the provisions described in the immediately preceding sentence (but
subject to the provisions contained in the first sentence of this Section 12.03),
unless the holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness or the Representative of
such holders shall have accelerated the maturity of such Designated Senior
Indebtedness, the Company may resume payments on the Subordinated Debt Securities
after such Payment Blockage Period. Not more than one Blockage Notice may be given
in any consecutive 360-day period, irrespective of the number of defaults with
respect to any number of issues of Designated Senior Indebtedness during such
period, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.03 for the Subordinated
Debt Securities of a series; provided, however, that in no event may the total
number of days during which any Payment Blockage Period or Periods is in effect
exceed
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179 days in the aggregate during any 360 consecutive day period. For purposes of
this Section 12.03, no default or event of default which existed or was continuing
on the date of the commencement of any Payment Blockage Period with respect to the
Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company initiating such Payment Blockage
Period shall be, or be made, the basis of the commencement of a subsequent Payment
Blockage Period by the Representative of such Designated Senior Indebtedness,
whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such default or event
of default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not less than 90
consecutive days.
No Guarantor may make a payment or distribution in respect of its guarantee of
any Subordinated Debt Securities (make a guarantee payment on Subordinated Debt
Securities) if (a) any principal, premium or interest in respect of Senior
Indebtedness of such Guarantor is not paid when due, including any applicable grace
period (including at maturity) or (b) any other default on Senior Indebtedness of
such Guarantor occurs and the maturity of such Senior Indebtedness is accelerated in
accordance with its terms unless, in either case, the default has been cured or
waived and any such acceleration has been rescinded or such Senior Indebtedness has
been paid in full in cash; provided, however, that such Guarantor may make a
guarantee payment on the Subordinated Debt Securities without regard to the
foregoing if such Guarantor and the Trustee receive written notice approving such
payment from the Representative of each issue of Designated Senior Indebtedness of
such Guarantor. During the continuance of any default (other than a default
described in clause (a) or (b) of the preceding sentence) with respect to any
Designated Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor pursuant to which the maturity
thereof may be accelerated immediately without further notice (except such notice as
may be required to effect such acceleration) or the expiration of any applicable
grace periods, such Guarantor may not make a guarantee payment on Subordinated Debt
Securities for a period (a Payment Blockage Period) commencing upon the receipt by
such Guarantor and the Trustee of written notice of such default from the
Representative of any Designated Senior Indebtedness specifying an election to
effect a Payment Blockage Period (a Blockage Notice) and ending 179 days
thereafter (or earlier if such Payment Blockage Period is terminated by written
notice to the Trustee and such Guarantor from the Person or Persons who gave such
Blockage Notice, by repayment in full in cash of such Designated Senior Indebtedness
or because the default giving rise to such Blockage Notice is no longer continuing).
Notwithstanding the provisions described in the immediately preceding sentence (but
subject to the provisions contained in the first sentence of this paragraph of this
Section 12.03), unless the holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness or the
Representative of such holders shall have accelerated the maturity of such
Designated Senior Indebtedness, such Guarantor may resume payments under its
guarantee of any Subordinated Debt Securities after such Payment Blockage Period.
Not more than one Blockage Notice may be given in any consecutive 360-day period,
irrespective of the number of defaults with respect to any number of issues of
Designated Senior Indebtedness during such period, unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 2.03 for the Subordinated
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Debt Securities of a series; provided, however, that in no event may the total
number of days during which any Payment Blockage Period or Periods is in effect
exceed 179 days in the aggregate during any 360 consecutive day period. For
purposes of this Section 12.03, no default or event of default which existed or was
continuing on the date of the commencement of any Payment Blockage Period with
respect to the Designated Senior Indebtedness of such Guarantor initiating such
Payment Blockage Period shall be, or be made, the basis of the commencement of a
subsequent Payment Blockage Period by the Representative of such Designated Senior
Indebtedness, whether or not within a period of 360 consecutive days, unless such
default or event of default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not less
than 90 consecutive days.
ARTICLE VII
GUARANTEE OF THE NOTES
Section 7.1
Guarantee of the Notes
. In accordance with Article XIV of the Base
Indenture, the Notes, subject to Section 7.2, shall be fully, unconditionally and absolutely
guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor (the
Guarantee
) and are hereby designated as entitled
to the benefits of the Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor. Initially, there shall be no Subsidiary
Guarantors.
Section 7.2
Ranking of the Guarantee
.
(a) The obligations of the Parent Guarantor under the Guarantee shall be subordinated to all
Senior Indebtedness (as defined in this Ninth Supplemental Indenture) of the Parent Guarantor on
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article XII of the Base Indenture, and each
Holder of the Notes issued hereunder by such Holders acceptance thereof, acknowledges and agrees
that the Guarantee shall be issued subject to the provisions of this Section 7.2 and such Article
XII and that each Holder of Notes, whether upon original issuance or upon transfer or assignment
thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such provisions. The Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor
is a Guarantee of Subordinated Debt Securities, and, for purposes of the Notes only, and not for
purposes of any other Debt Securities, all references in the Indenture to Senior Indebtedness of
the Parent Guarantor shall mean Senior Indebtedness, as defined in this Ninth Supplemental
Indenture, of the Parent Guarantor.
(b) The Parent Guarantors obligation under the Guarantee shall be equal in rank and right of
payment in all respects and is
pari passu
with the Parent Guarantors guarantee of the Subordinated
Notes due 2066.
ARTICLE VIII
APPLICABILITY OF DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section 8.1
Applicability of Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
. The Notes will be
subject to satisfaction, defeasance and discharge pursuant to Article XI of the Base Indenture in
accordance with the provisions of such Article; provided that for purposes of the Notes only, and
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not for purposes of any other Debt Securities, (i) references in Section 11.02(b) of the Base
Indenture to Sections 6.01(d), (g) and (h) of the Base Indenture shall be deemed to be references
only to Section 6.01(d) of the Base Indenture, and that references in Section 11.02(b) of the Base
Indenture to Sections 6.01(e) and (f) of the Base Indenture shall not apply.
ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE
AND HOLDERS OF NOTES
Section 9.1
Amendment and Restatement of Section 6.01 of the Base Indenture
. For
purposes of the Notes only, and not for purposes of any other Debt Securities, Section 6.01 of the
Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
Section 6.01
Events of Default
. If any one or more of the following
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes (each of the
following an
Event of Default
):
(a) failure to pay principal on the Notes when due;
(b) failure to pay Interest on the Notes when due and such default continues
for thirty (30) days (it being understood that the deferral of Interest as permitted
by Article IV of the Ninth Supplemental Indenture is not a default in payment of
Interest on the Notes);
(c) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Company; or
(d) the Guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect or is declared null and
void in a judicial proceeding;
then, and in each and every case that an Event of Default described in clause (a),
(b), and (d) with respect to the Notes at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, unless the principal of, premium, if any, and Interest on all the Notes
shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not
less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding hereunder,
by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may,
and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare the principal of,
premium, if any, and Interest on all the Notes to be due and payable immediately,
and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and
payable, anything in the Notes, this Indenture or in the Ninth Supplemental
Indenture contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default
described in clause (c) occurs, then and in each and every such case, unless the
principal of, premium, if any, and Interest on all the Notes shall have become due
and payable, the principal of, premium, if any, and Interest on all the Notes then
Outstanding hereunder shall
ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable
without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or
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any Holders, anything in the Notes, this Indenture or in the Ninth Supplemental
Indenture contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
Outstanding by written notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration and annul
its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of
a court of competent jurisdiction already rendered and if all existing Events of
Default with respect to the Notes have been cured or waived except nonpayment of
principal, premium, if any, or Interest that has become due solely because of
acceleration. Upon any such rescission, the parties hereto shall be restored
respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights,
remedies, and powers of the parties hereto shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been taken.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.1
Ratification of Base Indenture
. The Base Indenture, as amended and
supplemented by this Ninth Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Base Indenture in the manner and to
the extent herein and therein provided;
provided
,
however
, that the provisions of
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture apply solely with respect to the Notes. The Indenture shall,
solely in respect of the Notes, be deemed a junior subordinated indenture.
Section 10.2
No Recourse to General Partner
. No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant, or agreement contained in this Ninth Supplemental Indenture or the Base
Indenture or for any claim based hereon or thereon or otherwise in respect hereof or thereof, shall
be had (a) against the General Partner or the general partner of the Parent Guarantor or any other
partner of, or any Person which owns an interest directly or indirectly in, the Company, the Parent
Guarantor or such general partners or (b) against any past, present, or future director, manager,
officer, employee, agent, member or partner, as such, of the Company, the Parent Guarantor, the
General Partner or such general partners, under any rule of law, statute, or constitutional
provision or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the execution
hereof by the Trustee and as part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
Section 10.3
Separateness
. Each Holder of Notes by its acceptance thereof
acknowledges (a) that such Holder has acquired Notes in reliance upon the separateness of the
Company, the General Partner and the Parent Guarantor from one another and from any other Persons,
including any Affiliates thereof, (b) that the Company, the General Partner and the Parent
Guarantor have assets and liabilities that are separate from those of one another and from those of
other persons, including any Affiliates thereof, (c) that the Notes and other obligations owing
under the Notes have not been guaranteed by any Person, other than the Parent Guarantor and only to
the extent explicitly set forth herein, and (d) that, except as other Persons may expressly assume
or guarantee any of the Notes or obligations thereunder, the Holders of the Notes shall look solely
to the Company and its property and assets for the payment of any
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amounts payable pursuant to the Notes and for satisfaction of any obligations owing to the
Holders of the Notes.
Section 10.4
Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals
. The recitals herein contained are
made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the
correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
Section 10.5
Governing Law
. This Ninth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes and the
Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 10.6
Time is of the Essence
. Time is of the essence in performance of the
obligations under this Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
Section 10.7
Separability
. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall for any reason be held to be invalid,
illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall
not affect any other provisions of this Ninth Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes, but this
Ninth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or
unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.
Section 10.8
Treatment of the Notes
. By its acceptance of the Notes, each Holder and
beneficial owner of the Notes agrees to treat the Notes as indebtedness for all United States
federal, state and local tax purposes.
Section 10.9
Counterparts
. This Ninth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 10.10
Withholding
. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or
this Ninth Supplemental Indenture to the contrary, each Holder and beneficial owner of the Notes
hereby authorizes the Company, if required by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or by
any other applicable legal requirement, to withhold any required amount from the amounts payable by
the Company hereunder to any Holder and/or beneficial owner of the Notes for payment to the
appropriate taxing authority. Any amount so withheld from such Person will be treated as a payment
by the Company to such Person, except as otherwise provided below. Each such Person agrees to file
timely any agreement that is required by any taxing authority in order to avoid any withholding
obligation that would otherwise be imposed on the Company. If the amount required to be withheld
with respect to such Person exceeds the amount payable to such Person, such excess will be treated
as a demand loan to such Person, payable within ten (10) days after such time that the Company
makes payment to the appropriate taxing authority and demand is made on such Person to pay same.
[Signature Page Follows.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Ninth Supplemental Indenture to be
duly executed and as of the day and year first above written.
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ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., as
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ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P., as
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
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Ninth Supplemental Indenture Signature Page
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF NOTES
(FORM OF FACE OF NOTES)
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY (
DTC
) (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10041) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
(AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO
ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.]
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[TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO
NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSORS NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET
FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN.]
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ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P.
7.034% FIXED/FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2068
CUSIP____________
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
Company
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which term includes any successor under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to [Cede & Co.]
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or its registered assigns, the principal sum of
___U.S. dollars ($___), [or such greater or lesser principal sum as is shown on
the attached Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Security]
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on January 15,
2068 in such coin and currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be
legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest as provided below.
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From May 24, 2007 to, but not including, January 15, 2018 (or, if earlier, until the principal
thereof is paid) (the
Fixed Rate Period
), the outstanding principal amount hereof and (to
the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) any Deferred Interest
or overdue installment of Interest hereon will bear interest at the per annum rate of 7.034%
payable (subject to the provisions of the Indenture more fully described on the reverse hereof that
permit the Company to elect to defer payments of Interest) semi-annually in arrears on January 15
and July 15, of each year, commencing January 15, 2008, compounded semi-annually through the end of
the Fixed Rate Period. From January 15, 2018 to, but not including, the maturity date hereof (or,
if earlier, until the principal thereof is paid) (the
Floating Rate Period
), the
outstanding principal amount hereof and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable
under applicable law) any Deferred Interest or overdue installment of Interest hereon will bear
interest during each Quarterly Interest Period at the greater of (1) the sum of the Three-Month
LIBOR Rate for such Floating Rate Period, calculated pursuant to the Indenture, plus 268 basis
points or (2) 7.034% per annum (the Floating Rate), payable (subject to the provisions of the
Indenture more fully described on the reverse hereof that permit the Company to elect to defer
payments of Interest) quarterly in arrears on each January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15,
commencing April 15, 2018, compounded quarterly at such prevailing Floating Rate through the end of
the Floating Rate Period. Payments of Interest shall be made to the person in whose name the Notes
are registered at the close of business on the record date for such Interest Payment Date, which
during the Fixed Rate Period shall be the January 1 or July 1, as the case may be, immediately
preceding each Interest Payment Date and during the Floating Rate Period shall be the January 1,
April 1, July 1 or October 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding each Interest Payment Date
(each, a
Regular Record Date
).
Reference is made to the further provisions of the Notes set forth on the reverse hereof.
Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at
this place.
The statements in the legends set forth in the Notes are an integral part of the terms of the
Notes and by acceptance hereof the Holder of the Notes agrees to be subject to, and bound by, the
terms and provisions set forth in each such legend.
The Notes are a series of Debt Securities designated as the 7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior
Subordinated Notes due 2068 of the Company and are issued under and governed by the Indenture dated
as of October 4, 2004 (as the same may be amended from time to time, the
Base Indenture
),
duly executed and delivered by the Company, as issuer, and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., as
parent guarantor (the
Parent Guarantor
), to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
trustee (the
Trustee
), as supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of
May 24, 2007, duly executed by the Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Trustee (the
Ninth
Supplemental Indenture
, and together with the Base Indenture, as the same may be amended or
supplemented from time to time, the
Indenture
). The terms of the Indenture are
incorporated herein by reference. Any term defined in the Indenture has the same meaning when used
herein.
If and to the extent any provision of the Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with any
other provision of the Indenture that is required to be included in the Indenture or is deemed
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applicable to the Indenture by virtue of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended (the
TIA
), such required provision shall control.
The Company hereby irrevocably undertakes to the Holder hereof to exchange the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture without charge.
The Notes shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the Trustees
Certificate of Authentication hereon shall have been manually signed by the Trustee under the
Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed by its sole
General Partner.
Dated: ___, 200_
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TRUSTEES CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION:
This is one of the Debt Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
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[REVERSE OF SECURITY]
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P.
7.034% FIXED/FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2068
The Notes are one of a duly authorized issue of Debt Securities of the Company issued under
and pursuant to the Indenture, to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the
rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the
Company, the Parent Guarantor and the Holders of the Debt Securities. The Debt Securities may be
issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal
amounts, may mature at different times, may bear interest (if any) at different rates, may be
subject to different sinking, purchase or analogous funds (if any) and may otherwise vary as
provided in the Indenture. The Notes are of a series designated as the 7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate
Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 of the Company (the
Notes
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1.
Interest
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During the Fixed Rate Period, the outstanding principal amount hereof and (to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) any Deferred Interest or overdue
installment of Interest hereon will bear interest at the per annum rate of 7.034% payable (subject
to the provisions of the Indenture relating to Interest deferrals more fully described below)
semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year commencing January 15, 2008,
compounded semi-annually through the end of the Fixed Rate Period. During the Floating Rate
Period, the outstanding principal amount hereof and (to the extent that payment of such interest is
enforceable under applicable law) any Deferred Interest or overdue installment of Interest hereon
will bear interest during each Quarterly Interest Period at the applicable Floating Rate for such
Quarterly Interest Period calculated pursuant to the Indenture, payable (subject to the provisions
of the Indenture relating to Interest deferrals more fully described below) quarterly in arrears on
each January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15, commencing April 15, 2018, compounded quarterly
at such prevailing Floating Rate through the end of the Floating Rate Period.
During the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date will
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. During the Floating Rate
Period, the amount of any Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date will be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed. In the event that any date on which
Interest is payable on this Note is not a Business Day, then a payment of the Interest payable on
such date will, subject to certain exceptions described in the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, be
made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment
in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment
was originally payable.
2.
Optional Deferral of Interest
.
Subject to the terms of the Indenture, the Company shall have the right, at any time and from
time to time during the term of the Notes, to elect to defer payment of all or any portion of any
Current Interest and/or Deferred Interest otherwise due on the Notes on any Interest Payment
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Date. No Interest on the Notes shall be due and payable on any Interest Payment Date during
an Optional Deferral Period; however, Interest shall accrue on the Notes during such period in
accordance with the Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
3.
Method of Payment
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The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except Defaulted Interest) to the persons who are
the registered Holders at the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding
the Interest Payment Date. The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender
for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of a Global Security (including
principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to the accounts specified by the Depositary. Payments in respect of Notes in definitive form
(including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose within The City of New York, which initially will be Wells
Fargo Corporate Trust, c/o DTC 1
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Floor, TADS Department, 55 Water Street, New York,
New York 10041, or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed
to the Holders on the relevant record date at their addresses set forth in the Debt Security
Register of Holders or at the option of the Holder, payment of interest on Notes in definitive form
will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to any account maintained in the
United States, provided such Holder has requested such method of payment and provided timely wire
transfer instructions to the paying agent. The Holder must surrender these Notes to a paying agent
to collect payment of principal.
4.
Paying Agent and Registrar
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Initially, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association will act as paying agent and Registrar. The
Company may change any paying agent or Registrar at any time upon notice to the Trustee and the
Holders. The Company may act as paying agent.
5.
Indenture
.
The Notes are one of a duly authorized issue of Debt Securities of the Company issued and to
be issued in one or more series under the Indenture.
The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture, those made part of the Indenture
by reference to the TIA, as in effect on the date of the Base Indenture, and those terms stated in
the Ninth Supplemental Indenture. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of
Securities are referred to the Indenture, the Ninth Supplemental Indenture and the TIA for a
statement of them. The Notes are junior subordinated obligations of the Company and are not
secured by any of the assets of the Company.
6.
Denominations; Transfer; Exchange
.
The Notes are to be issued in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and
integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder may register the transfer of, or
exchange, Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder,
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among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any
taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture.
7.
Person Deemed Owners
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The registered Holder of Notes may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
8.
Amendment; Supplement; Waiver
.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture may be amended or supplemented, and any existing
Event of Default or compliance with any provision may be waived, with the consent of the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes. Without consent of any Holder of Notes,
the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture to, among other things, cure any
ambiguity or omission, to correct any defect or inconsistency, or to make any other change that
does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of Notes. Any such consent or waiver by the
Holder of these Notes (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of these Notes and any Notes which may be
issued in exchange or substitution herefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation thereof is
made upon these Notes or such other Notes.
9.
Defaults and Remedies
.
Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default that will result in the
principal amount of the Notes, together with premium, if any, and Interest thereon, becoming due
and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default. If any other Event of
Default with respect to the Notes occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding may
declare the principal amount of all the Notes, together with premium, if any, and Interest thereon,
to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, at any time after such a declaration of acceleration has
been made, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by written
notice to the Trustee, may rescind such declaration and annul its consequences if the rescission
would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction already
rendered and if all Events of Default with respect to the Notes, other than the nonpayment of the
principal, premium, if any, or Interest which has become due solely by such declaration
acceleration, shall have been cured or shall have been waived. No such rescission shall affect any
subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Holders of Notes may not enforce
the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may require indemnity
or security satisfactory to it before it enforces the Indenture or the Notes. Subject to certain
limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding may
direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.
10.
Trustee Dealings with Company
.
The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to,
accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its Affiliates or any subsidiary of
the Companys Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates as if it were
not the Trustee.
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Authentication
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These Notes shall not be valid until the Trustee signs the certificate of authentication on
the other side of these Notes.
12.
Abbreviations and Defined Terms
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Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of Notes or an assignee, such as:
TEN COM (tenant in common), TEN ENT (tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (joint tenants with right
of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (Custodian), and U/G/M/A (Uniform Gifts to
Minors Act).
13.
CUSIP Numbers
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Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Note Identification
Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the
Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such number as printed on
the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.
14.
Absolute Obligation
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No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of the Notes or the Indenture shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on these Notes in the manner, at the respective times,
at the rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
15.
No Recourse
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The General Partner and the general partner of the Parent Guarantor and their respective
directors, officers, employees, and members, as such, shall have no liability for any obligations
of any Guarantor or the Company under the Notes, the Indenture, or any Guarantee or for any claim
based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by
accepting the Notes waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for issuance of the Notes.
16.
Ranking
.
The Notes rank junior and subordinate in rank and priority of payment to all of the Companys
Senior Indebtedness as more fully provided in Article XII of the Base Indenture and Article VI of
the Ninth Supplemental Indenture. The Notes are equal in rank and right of payment in all respects
and are
pari passu
with the Companys 8.375% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due
2066.
17.
Optional Redemption
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The Notes are subject to redemption prior to maturity at the redemption price and in the
manner provided in the Indenture and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture.
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Governing Law
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The Notes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New
York.
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Guarantee
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Subject to Article XII of the Base Indenture and Articles VI and VII of the Ninth Supplemental
Indenture, the Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured basis by the Parent
Guarantor. The Parent Guarantors obligations under the Guarantee rank junior and subordinate in
rank and priority of payment to all of the Parent Guarantors Senior Indebtedness. The Parent
Guarantors obligation under the Guarantee is equal in rank and right of payment in all respects
and is
pari passu
with the Parent Guarantors guarantee of the Companys 8.375% Fixed/Floating Rate
Junior Subordinated Notes due 2066.
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Reliance
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The Holder, by accepting these Notes, acknowledges (a) that such Holder has acquired Notes in
reliance upon the separateness of the Company, the General Partner and the Parent Guarantor from
one another and from any other Persons, including any Affiliates thereof, (b) that the Company, the
General Partner and the Parent Guarantor have assets and liabilities that are separate from those
of one another and from those of other persons, including any Affiliates thereof, (c) that the
Notes and other obligations owing under the Notes have not been guaranteed by any Person, other
than the Parent Guarantor and only to the extent explicitly set forth herein, and (d) that, except
as other Persons may expressly assume or guarantee any of the Notes or obligations thereunder, the
Holder shall look solely to the Company and its property and assets for the payment of any amounts
payable pursuant to the Notes and for satisfaction of any obligations owing to the Holder.
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NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
Subject to Article XII of the Base Indenture and Articles VI and VII of the Ninth Supplemental
Indenture, the Parent Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), has
fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and
subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes and all other amounts due and payable (subject to the
right of the Company to defer Interest payments on the terms and conditions set forth in Section
4.1 of the Ninth Supplemental Indenture) under the Indenture by the Company. The Parent
Guarantors obligations under such guarantee rank junior and subordinate in rank and priority of
payment to all of the Parent Guarantors Senior Indebtedness and constitute a guarantee of
Subordinated Debt Securities for all purposes under the Indenture.
The obligations of the Parent Guarantor to the Holders of Securities and to the Trustee
pursuant to its Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XIV of the Base
Indenture, and are subject to the provisions of Article XII of the Base Indenture and Section 7.2
of the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such documents for the precise
terms of the Guarantee.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument,
shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of assignee
the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES
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Exhibit 99.1
Replacement Capital Covenant
, dated as of May 24, 2007 (this
Replacement Capital
Covenant
), by and among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
(together with its successors and assigns, the
Partnership
), and Enterprise Products
Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (together with its successors and assigns, the
Guarantor
and, together with the Partnership and the respective Subsidiaries of the
Partnership and the Guarantor, the
Partnership Group
), in favor of and for the benefit of
each Covered Debtholder (as defined below).
Recitals
A. On the date hereof, the Partnership is issuing $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
its 7.034% Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2068 (the
Subordinated
Notes
), which Subordinated Notes were issued pursuant to, and fully and unconditionally
guaranteed by the Guarantor in accordance with, the Subordinated Indenture, dated as of October 4,
2004, as supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 24, 2007 (together, the
Subordinated Indenture
), among the Partnership, the Guarantor, and Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, as trustee.
B. This Replacement Capital Covenant is the
Replacement Capital Covenant
referred to
in the Prospectus Supplement, dated May 21, 2007, relating to the Subordinated Notes which
supplements the Partnerships Prospectus, dated March 23, 2005.
C. The Partnership and the Guarantor, in entering into and disclosing the content of this
Replacement Capital Covenant in the manner provided below, are doing so with the intent that the
covenants provided for in this Replacement Capital Covenant be enforceable by each Covered
Debtholder and that the Partnership and the Guarantor be estopped from breaching the covenants in
this Replacement Capital Covenant, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
D. The Partnership and the Guarantor acknowledge that reliance by each Covered Debtholder upon
the covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant is reasonable and foreseeable by the Partnership
and the Guarantor and that the breach by the Partnership or the Guarantor of such covenants could
result in injury or damages to a Covered Debtholder.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Partnership and the Guarantor hereby covenant and agree as follows in
favor of and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder.
SECTION 1.
Definitions
. Capitalized terms used in this Replacement Capital Covenant
(including the Recitals) have the meanings set forth in Schedule I hereto.
SECTION 2.
Limitations on Redemption, Repurchase, Defeasance or Purchase of Subordinated
Notes
. The Partnership and the Guarantor hereby promise and covenant to and for the benefit of
each Covered Debtholder that the Partnership shall not redeem or repurchase,
or defease or discharge through the deposit of money and/or U.S. Government Obligations as
contemplated by Article XI of the Subordinated Indenture (herein referred to as
defeasance
), any portion of the principal amount of the Subordinated Notes, and the
Partnership and the Guarantor shall not purchase and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries not
to purchase, all or any part of the Subordinated Notes, in each case, on or before the Termination
Date, except to the extent that the principal amount repaid or defeased or the applicable
repurchase, redemption or purchase price does not exceed the sum of the following amounts:
(i) the Applicable Percentage of (a) the aggregate amount of the net cash proceeds any
member of the Partnership Group has received from the sale of Common Units and Subordinated
Units and Rights to acquire Units; and (b) the Market Value of any of the Common Units or
Subordinated Units that have been issued in connection with the conversion into or exchange
for Common Units or Subordinated Units of any convertible or exchangeable securities, other
than, in the case of clause (b), where the security into or for which such Common Units or
Subordinated Units are convertible or exchangeable has received equivalent equity credit
from any NRSRO;
plus
(ii) the aggregate amount of net cash proceeds a member of the Partnership Group has
received from the sale of Replacement Capital Securities (other than the securities set
forth in clause (i) above);
in each case, to Persons other than a member of the Partnership Group within the applicable
Measurement Period (it being understood that any such net cash proceeds or Market Value shall be
applied only once to the redemption, repurchase, defeasance or purchase of Subordinated Notes, that
the earliest net cash proceeds or Market Value in any Measurement Period shall be deemed applied
first to any such redemption, repurchase, defeasance or purchase, and that any net cash proceeds or
Market Value not so applied shall continue to be available in any other Measurement Period within
which it falls);
provided
that the limitations in this Section 2 shall not restrict the
redemption, repurchase, defeasance or purchase of any Subordinated Notes that have been previously
repurchased, defeased or purchased in accordance with this Replacement Capital Covenant.
SECTION 3.
Covered Debt
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(a) The Partnership and the Guarantor represent and warrant that the Initial Covered Debt is
Eligible Debt.
(b) On or during the 30-day period immediately preceding any Redesignation Date with respect
to the Covered Debt then in effect, the Partnership shall identify the series of Eligible Debt that
will become the Covered Debt on and after such Redesignation Date in accordance with the following
procedures:
(i) the Partnership shall identify each series of then outstanding long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt of the Partnership or, if the
Partnership does not have any Eligible Debt outstanding, of the Guarantor;
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(ii) if only one series of such then outstanding long-term indebtedness for money
borrowed is Eligible Debt, such series shall become the Covered Debt commencing on such
Redesignation Date;
(iii) if the Partnership or the Guarantor, as applicable, has more than one outstanding
series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt, then the
Partnership shall identify the series that has the latest occurring final maturity date as
of the date the Partnership is applying the procedures in this Section 3(b) and such series
shall become the Covered Debt on such Redesignation Date;
(iv) the series of outstanding long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is
determined to be Covered Debt pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) above shall be the Covered
Debt for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant for the period commencing on such
Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the Redesignation Date as of which a
new series of outstanding long-term indebtedness is next determined to be the Covered Debt
pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Section 3(b); and
(v) in connection with such identification of a new series of Covered Debt, the
Partnership and the Guarantor shall give the notice provided for in Section 3(c) within the
time frame provided for in such section.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Replacement Capital Covenant, if a series of
Eligible Senior Debt of the Partnership or any Guarantor has become the Covered Debt in accordance
with this Section 3(b), on the date on which the issuer of such Covered Debt issues a new series of
Eligible Subordinated Debt, then immediately upon such issuance such new series of Eligible
Subordinated Debt shall become the Covered Debt and the applicable series of Eligible Senior Debt
shall cease to be the Covered Debt.
(c)
Notice
. In order to give effect to the intent of the Partnership and the
Guarantor described in Recital C, the Partnership and the Guarantor covenant that (i)
simultaneously with the execution of this Replacement Capital Covenant or as soon as practicable
after the date hereof (x) notice shall be given to the Holders of the Initial Covered Debt and the
trustee under the indenture or other instrument establishing such debt, in the manner provided in
the indenture or such instrument, of this Replacement Capital Covenant and the rights granted to
such Holders hereunder and (y) the Guarantor shall file a copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant
with the Commission as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K under the Securities Exchange
Act; (ii) so long as the Guarantor is a reporting issuer under the Securities Exchange Act, the
Guarantor shall include in each annual report filed after the date hereof with the Commission on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act a description of the covenant set forth in Section 2
and identify the series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Covered Debt as of the
date such Form 10-K is filed with the Commission; (iii) if a series of the long-term indebtedness
for money borrowed of the Partnership or the Guarantor (1) becomes Covered Debt or (2) ceases to be
Covered Debt, the Partnership and the Guarantor shall give notice of such occurrence within 30 days
to the Holders of such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed in the manner provided for in the
indenture or other instrument under which such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed was issued
and the
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Guarantor shall report such change in a Current Report on Form 8-K (which shall include or
incorporate by reference this Replacement Capital Covenant) and in the Guarantors next quarterly
report on Form 10-Q or annual report on Form 10-K, as applicable; (iv) if, and only if, the
Guarantor ceases to be a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act, the Guarantor shall
(A) post on its website the information otherwise required to be included in Securities Exchange
Act filings pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 3(c) and (B) cause a notice of the
existence of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be posted on the Bloomberg screen for the Covered
Debt or any successor Bloomberg screen and each similar third-party vendors screen the Guarantor
reasonably believes is appropriate (each an Investor Screen) and use its commercially reasonable
efforts to cause a hyperlink to a definitive copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be
included on the Investor Screen for each series of Covered Debt, in each case to the extent
permitted by Bloomberg or such similar third-party vendor, as the case may be; and (v) promptly
upon request by any Holder of Covered Debt, such Holder will be provided with an executed copy of
this Replacement Capital Covenant.
SECTION 4.
Termination, Amendment and Waiver
. (a) The obligations of the Partnership
and the Guarantor pursuant to this Replacement Capital Covenant shall remain in full force and
effect until the earliest date (the
Termination Date
) to occur of (i) 12:00 a.m. (New
York, New York time) on January 15, 2038, or if earlier, the date on which the Subordinated Notes
are otherwise paid, redeemed, defeased or purchased in full in accordance with this Replacement
Capital Covenant, (ii) the date, if any, on which the Holders of a majority by principal amount of
the then-effective series of Covered Debt consent or agree in writing to the termination of this
Replacement Capital Covenant and the obligations of the Partnership and the Guarantor hereunder,
(iii) the date on which none of the Partnership or the Guarantor has any series of outstanding
Eligible Senior Debt or Eligible Subordinated Debt (in each case without giving effect to the
rating requirement in clause (b) of the definition of each such term) and (iv) the date on which
the Subordinated Notes are accelerated as a result of an event of default under the Subordinated
Indenture. From and after the Termination Date, the obligations of the Partnership and the
Guarantor pursuant to this Replacement Capital Covenant shall be of no further force and effect.
(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a
written instrument signed by the Partnership and the Guarantor with the consent of the Holders of a
majority by principal amount of the then-effective series of Covered Debt,
provided
that
this Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a written
instrument signed only by the Partnership and the Guarantor (and without the consent of any Holders
of the then-effective series of Covered Debt) if any of the following apply (it being understood
that any such amendment or supplement may fall into one or more of the following):
(i) such amendment or supplement eliminates Common Units or Subordinated Units (or
Rights to acquire Units) as Replacement Capital Securities, if either (A) the Guarantor has
been advised in writing by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm that or (B)
an accounting standard or interpretive guidance of an existing accounting standard by an
organization or regulator that has responsibility for establishing or interpreting
accounting standards in the United States becomes effective such that, in each case, there
is more than an insubstantial risk that the failure to
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do so would result in a reduction in the Guarantors earnings per Common Unit or
Subordinated Unit as calculated for financial reporting purposes,
(ii) the effect of such amendment or supplement is solely to impose additional
restrictions on the ability of a member of the Partnership Group to redeem, repurchase,
defease or purchase the Subordinated Notes or to impose additional restrictions on, or to
eliminate certain of, the types of securities qualifying as Replacement Capital Securities
and the Partnership and the Guarantor has delivered to the Holders of the then-effective
series of Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the indenture or other instrument with
respect to such Covered Debt a written certificate to that effect executed on its behalf by
an officer of its general partner,
(iii) such amendment or supplement extends the date specified in Section 4 (a)(i), the
Stepdown Date or both, or
(iv) such amendment or supplement is not adverse to the rights of the Covered
Debtholders hereunder and the Partnership and the Guarantor has delivered to the Holders of
the then-effective series of Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the indenture or
other instrument with respect to such Covered Debt a written certificate executed on its
behalf by an officer of its general partner stating that the Partnership and the Guarantor
have determined that such amendment or supplement is not adverse to the Covered Debtholders.
For the avoidance of doubt, an amendment or supplement that adds new types of Replacement
Capital Securities or modifies the requirements of the Replacement Capital Securities
described herein would not be adverse to the rights of the Covered Debtholders if, following
such amendment or supplement, this Replacement Capital Covenant would satisfy clause (ii)(b)
of the definition of Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant.
(c) For purposes of Sections 4(a) and 4(b), the Holders whose consent or agreement is required
to terminate, amend or supplement this Replacement Capital Covenant or the obligations of the
Partnership hereunder shall be the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt as of a record date
established by the Partnership that is not more than 60 days prior to the date on which the
Partnership proposes that such termination, amendment or supplement becomes effective.
SECTION 5.
Miscellaneous
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This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York
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(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be binding upon the Partnership and the Guarantor
and their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the Covered
Debtholders as they exist from time-to-time (it being understood and agreed by the Partnership and
the Guarantor that any Person who is a Covered Debtholder, if such Person initiates a claim or
proceeding to enforce its rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant after the Partnership or
the Guarantor has violated its covenants in Section 2 and before the series of long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed held by such Person is no longer Covered Debt, such Persons rights
under this Replacement Capital Covenant shall not terminate by reason of such series of long-term
indebtedness for money borrowed no longer being Covered Debt until
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the termination of such claim or proceeding). If at any time the Covered Debt is held by a
trust (for example, where the Covered Debt is part of a an issuance of trust preferred securities),
a holder of the securities issued by such trust may enforce (including by instituting legal
proceedings) this Replacement Capital Covenant directly against the Partnership and the Guarantor
as if such holder owned the Covered Debt Directly, and the holders of such trust securities shall
be deemed Holders of Covered Debt for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant for so long as
the indebtedness held by such trust remains Covered Debt hereunder. Other than the Covered
Debtholders as provided in the previous two sentences, no other Person shall have any rights under
this Replacement Capital Covenant or be deemed a third party beneficiary of or entitled to rely on
this Replacement Capital Covenant. In particular, no holder of the Subordinated Notes is a third
party beneficiary of this Replacement Capital Covenant, it being understood that the rights of the
holders of the notes are set forth in the Subordinated Indenture.
(c) All demands, notices, requests and other communications to the Partnership or the
Guarantor under this Replacement Capital Covenant shall be deemed to have been duly given and made
if in writing and (i) if served by personal delivery upon the Partnership or the Guarantor, on the
day so delivered (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), (ii) if
delivered by registered post or certified mail, return receipt requested, or sent to the
Partnership or the Guarantor by a national or international courier service, on the date of receipt
by the Partnership or the Guarantor, as applicable (or, if such date of receipt is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day), or (iii) if sent by telecopier, on the day telecopied, or
if not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day,
provided
that the telecopy is
promptly confirmed by telephone confirmation thereof, and in each case to the Partnership or the
Guarantor at the address set forth below, or at such other address as the Partnership may
thereafter notify to Covered Debtholders or post on its website as the address for notices under
this Replacement Capital Covenant:
If to the Partnership, to:
Enterprise Products Operating L.P.
1100 Louisiana Street, 18th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
Telecopy No.: (713) 803-2905
Telephone: (713) 381-6500
If to the Guarantor, to:
Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
1100 Louisiana Street, 18th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
Attention: Chief Legal Officer
Telecopy No.: (713) 803-2905
Telephone: (713) 381-6500
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Partnership and the Guarantor have caused this Replacement Capital
Covenant to be executed by a duly authorized officer, as of the day and year first above written.
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Definitions
Alternative Payment Mechanism
means, with respect to any Qualifying Capital
Securities, provisions in the related transaction documents that require the issuer thereof, in its
discretion, to issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts to issue) one or more types of APM
Qualifying Securities raising eligible proceeds at least equal to the deferred Distributions on
such Qualifying Capital Securities and apply the proceeds to pay unpaid Distributions on such
Qualifying Capital Securities, commencing on the earlier of (x) the first Distribution Date after
commencement of a deferral period on which such issuer pays current Distributions on such
Qualifying Capital Securities and (y) the fifth anniversary of the commencement of such deferral
period, and that:
(a) define eligible proceeds to mean, for purposes of such Alternative Payment
Mechanism, the net proceeds (after underwriters or placement agents fees, commissions or
discounts and other expenses relating to the issuance or sale) that such issuer has received
during the 180 days prior to the related Distribution Date from the issuance of APM
Qualifying Securities to Persons other than a member of the Partnership Group, up to the
Preferred Cap (as defined in (d) below) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are
Qualifying Preferred Units;
(b) permit such issuer to pay current Distributions on any Distribution Date out of any
source of funds but (x) require such issuer to pay deferred Distributions only out of
eligible proceeds and (y) prohibit such issuer from paying deferred Distributions out of any
source of funds other than eligible proceeds;
(c) if deferral of Distributions continues for more than one year, require such issuer
or any of its Subsidiaries not to redeem, repurchase or purchase any securities that rank
pari passu
with or junior to any APM Qualifying Securities that such issuer has issued to
settle deferred Distributions in respect to that deferral period until at least one year
after all deferred Distributions have been paid (a
Repurchase Restriction
);
(d) limit the obligation of such issuer to issue (or use commercially reasonable
efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities to:
(i) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are Common Units or
Subordinated Units and Rights to acquire Units, either (i) during the first five
years of any deferral period or (ii) with respect to deferred Distributions
attributable to the first five years of any deferral period (provided that such
limitation shall not apply after the ninth anniversary of the commencement of any
deferral period), to a number of Common Units, Subordinated Units and Units
purchasable upon the exercise of any Rights to acquire Units, which does not, in the
aggregate, exceed 2% of the outstanding number of Common Units and Subordinated
Units (the
Common Cap
); and
(ii) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are Qualifying Preferred
Units, an amount from the issuance thereof pursuant to the related Alternative
Payment Mechanism (including at any point in time from all prior
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issuances thereof pursuant to such Alternative Payment Mechanism) equal to 25%
of the liquidation or principal amount of the Qualifying Capital Securities that are
the subject of the related Alternative Payment Mechanism (the
Preferred
Cap
);
(e) in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities other than Qualifying Preferred Units,
include a Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision; and
(f) permit such issuer, at its option, to provide that if such issuer is involved in a
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, binding unit exchange or conveyance, transfer or lease
of assets substantially as an entirety to any other person or a similar transaction (a
business combination
) where immediately after the consummation of the business
combination more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entitys voting securities is owned
by the equityholders of the other party to the business combination, then clauses (a), (b)
and (c) above will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next
Distribution Date following the date of consummation of the business combination;
provided
(and it being understood) that:
(a) the Alternative Payment Mechanism may at the discretion of such issuer include a
unit cap limiting the issuance of APM Qualifying Securities consisting of Common Units, or
Subordinated Units and Qualifying Warrants, in each case to a maximum issuance cap to be set
at the discretion of such issuer;
provided
that such maximum issuance cap will be
subject to such issuers agreement to use commercially reasonable efforts to increase the
maximum issuance cap when reached and (i) simultaneously satisfy their future fixed or
contingent obligations under other securities and derivative instruments that provide for
settlement or payment in Common Units or Subordinated Units or (ii) if such issuer cannot
increase the maximum issuance cap as contemplated in the preceding clause, by requesting its
Board to adopt a resolution for unitholder vote at the next occurring annual unitholders
meeting to increase the number of units of such issuers authorized Common Units or
Subordinated Units for purposes of satisfying their obligations to pay deferred
Distributions;
(b) such issuer shall not be obligated to issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts
to issue) APM Qualifying Securities for so long as a Market Disruption Event has occurred
and is continuing;
(c) if, due to a Market Disruption Event or otherwise, such issuer is able to raise and
apply some, but not all, of the eligible proceeds necessary to pay all deferred
Distributions on any Distribution Date, such issuer will apply any available eligible
proceeds to pay accrued and unpaid Distributions on the applicable Distribution Date in
chronological order subject to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap, and any maximum issuance
cap referred to above, as applicable; and
(d) if such issuer has outstanding more than one class or series of securities under
which it is obligated to sell a type of APM Qualifying Securities and apply some part of the
proceeds to the payment of deferred Distributions, then on any date and for
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any period the amount of net proceeds received by such issuer from those sales and
available for payment of deferred Distributions on such securities shall be applied to such
securities on a
pro rata
basis up to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap and any maximum
issuance cap referred to above, as applicable, in proportion to the total amounts that are
due on such securities.
APM Qualifying Securities
means, with respect to an Alternative Payment Mechanism,
any Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity or any Mandatory Trigger Provision, one or more of the
following (as designated in the transaction documents for any Qualifying Capital Securities that
include an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision or for any Debt
Exchangeable for Preferred Equity):
(a) Common Units or Subordinated Units; or
(b) Qualifying Warrants; and
(c) Qualifying Preferred Units;
provided
that if the APM Qualifying Securities for any Alternative Payment Mechanism, any
Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity or any Mandatory Trigger Provision include both Common
Units, Subordinated Units and Qualifying Warrants, such Alternative Payment Mechanism, Debt
Exchangeable for Preferred Equity or Mandatory Trigger Provision may permit, but need not require,
the issuer thereof to issue Qualifying Warrants.
Applicable Percentage
means 200% with respect to any redemption, repurchase,
purchase or defeasance of Subordinated Notes prior to the Termination Date.
Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision
means, with respect to any Qualifying Capital
Securities that have an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision, provisions
that, upon any liquidation, dissolution, winding up or reorganization or in connection with any
insolvency, receivership or proceeding under any bankruptcy law with respect to the issuer, limit
the claim of the holders of such Qualifying Capital Securities to Distributions that accumulate
during (a) any deferral period, in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities that have an
Alternative Payment Mechanism or (b) any period in which the issuer fails to satisfy one or more
financial tests set forth in the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements, in the
case of Qualifying Capital Securities having a Mandatory Trigger Provision, to:
(i) in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities having an Alternative Payment
Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision with respect to which the APM Qualifying
Securities do not include Qualifying Preferred Units, 25% of the stated or principal
amount of such securities then outstanding; and
(ii) in the case of any other Qualifying Capital Securities, an amount not in
excess of the sum of (x) the amount of accumulated and unpaid Distributions
(including compounded amounts) that relate to the earliest two years of the portion
of the deferral period for which Distributions have not been paid and (y) an amount
equal to the excess, if any, of the Preferred Cap over the
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aggregate amount of net proceeds from the sale of Qualifying Preferred Units
that the issuer has applied to pay such Distributions pursuant to the Alternative
Payment Mechanism or the Mandatory Trigger Provision,
provided
that the
holders of such securities are deemed to agree that, to the extent the remaining
claim exceeds the amount set forth in subclause (x), the amount they receive in
respect of such excess shall not exceed the amount they would have received had the
claim for such excess ranked
pari passu
with the interests of the holders, if any,
of Qualifying Preferred Units.
Board
means, with respect to a Person, the board of directors (or other comparable
governing body) of the general partner of such Person or a duly constituted committee thereof. If
such Person shall change its form of entity to other than a limited partnership, references to the
Board shall mean the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of such Person (as so
changed).
Business Day
means each day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday or (b)(i) a day on
which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive
order to remain closed or, (ii) a day on or after January 15
,
2018, that is not a London business
day. A
London business day
is any day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are
transacted in the London interbank market.
Commission
means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Common Cap
has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment
Mechanism.
Common Units
means (i) common limited partnership interests of any member of the
Partnership Group, including, without limitation, those interests described as common units in the
Partnerships or the Guarantors respective partnership agreement and interests sold pursuant to
distribution reinvestment plans, unit purchase plans and employee benefit plans, and (ii)
interests of any member of the Partnership Group possessing substantially similar characteristics,
provided
that such interests (A) are perpetual, with no prepayment obligation on the part
of the issuer thereof, whether at the election of the holder or otherwise, and (B) other than any
Subordinated Units, are (at the time of issuance and thereafter) the most junior and subordinated
securities issuable by such issuer, with liquidation rights limited to a share of such issuers
assets, if any, remaining after satisfaction in full of all creditors and of all holders of any
other equity securities of such issuer that rank senior to the Common Units..
Covered Debt
means (a) at the date of this Replacement Capital Covenant and
continuing to but not including the first Redesignation Date, the Initial Covered Debt and (b)
thereafter, commencing with each Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the next
succeeding Redesignation Date, the Eligible Debt identified pursuant to Section 3(b) as the Covered
Debt for such period.
Covered Debtholder
means each Person (whether a Holder or a beneficial owner holding
through a participant in a clearing agency) that buys, holds or sells long-term indebtedness for
money borrowed of the Partnership during the period that such long-term
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indebtedness for money borrowed is Covered Debt, for so long as such long-term indebtedness
for money borrowed remains Covered Debt (except as otherwise provided in Section 5(b)),
provided
that a Person who has sold or otherwise disposed of all of its right, title and
interest in Covered Debt shall cease to be a Covered Debtholder at the time of such sale or other
disposition if, during the time that such Person owned such Covered Debt, the Partnership did not
breach or repudiate its obligations hereunder. If the Partnership breached or repudiated its
obligations hereunder while such Person was an owner of Covered Debt, such Person shall cease to be
a Covered Debtholder on the later of (i) one year after such sale or other disposition or (ii) the
termination of any legal proceeding brought by such Person before the date in clause (i) to enforce
the obligations of the Partnership hereunder.
Debt Exchangeable for Equity
means Debt Exchangeable for Common Equity or Debt
Exchangeable for Preferred Equity.
Debt Exchangeable for Common Equity
means a security or combination of securities
(together in this definition,
such securities
) that:
(a) gives the holder a beneficial interest in (i) a fractional interest in a unit
purchase contract for a Common Unit or Subordinated Unit that will be settled in three years
or less, with the number of Common Units or Subordinated Units purchasable pursuant to such
unit purchase contract to be within a range established at the time of issuance of such
securities, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments and (ii) debt securities of any
member of the Partnership Group that are not redeemable at the option of the issuer or the
holder thereof prior to the settlement of the unit purchase contracts;
(b) provides that the investors directly or indirectly grant to the issuer of such
securities a security interest in such debt securities and their proceeds (including any
substitute collateral permitted under the transaction documents) to secure the investors
direct or indirect obligation to purchase Common Units or Subordinated Units pursuant to
such unit purchase contracts;
(c) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which such debt securities are
remarketed to new investors commencing not later than 30 days prior to the settlement date
of the purchase contract;
(d) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing to be used to purchase Common
Units or Subordinated Units under the unit purchase contracts and, if there has not been a
successful remarketing by the settlement date of the purchase contract, provides that the
unit purchase contracts will be settled by the issuer of such securities exercising its
remedies as a secured party with respect to its debt securities or other collateral directly
or indirectly pledged by investors in the Debt Exchangeable for Common Equity.
Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity
means a security or combination of securities
(together in this definition,
such securities
) that:
(a) gives the holder a beneficial interest in (i) subordinated debt securities of a
member of the Partnership Group that include a provision requiring the issuer thereof to
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issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts to issue) one or more types of APM
Qualifying Securities raising proceeds at least equal to the deferred Distributions on such
subordinated debt securities commencing not later than the second anniversary of the
commencement of such deferral period and that are the most junior subordinated debt of such
issuer (or rank
pari passu
with the most junior subordinated debt of such issuer) (in this
definition,
subordinated debt
) and (ii) a fractional interest in a unit purchase
contract for a share of Qualifying Preferred Units of such issuer that ranks
pari passu
with
or junior to all other preferred units of such issuer (in this definition,
preferred
units
);
(b) provides that the investors directly or indirectly grant to such issuer a security
interest in such subordinated debt securities and their proceeds (including any substitute
collateral permitted under the transaction documents) to secure the investors direct or
indirect obligation to purchase preferred units of such issuer pursuant to such unit
purchase contracts;
(c) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which the subordinated debt of such
issuer is remarketed to new investors commencing not later than the first Distribution Date
that is at least five years after the date of issuance of securities or earlier in the event
of an early settlement event based on: (i) the dissolution of the issuer of such debt
exchangeable for preferred equity or (ii) one or more financial tests set forth in the terms
of the instrument governing such debt exchangeable for preferred equity;
(d) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing to be used to purchase
preferred units of such issuer under the unit purchase contracts and, if there has not been
a successful remarketing by the first Distribution Date that is six years after the date of
issuance of such securities, provides that the unit purchase contracts will be settled by
such issuer exercising its remedies as a secured party with respect to its subordinated debt
securities or other collateral directly or indirectly pledged by investors in the Debt
Exchangeable for Preferred Equity;
(e) is subject to a Qualifying Capital Replacement Covenant that will apply to such
securities and preferred units, and will not include Debt Exchangeable for Equity as a
Replacement Capital Security; and
(f) after the issuance of such preferred units, provides the holders of such securities
with a beneficial interest in such preferred units.
Distribution Date
means, as to any securities or combination of securities, the
dates on which periodic Distributions on such securities are scheduled to be made.
Distribution Period
means, as to any securities or combination of securities, each
period from and including a Distribution Date for such securities to but not including the next
succeeding Distribution Date for such securities.
Distributions
means, as to a security or combination of securities, interest
payments or other income distributions to the holders thereof that are not Subsidiaries of the
issuer thereof.
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Eligible Debt
means, at any time, Eligible Subordinated Debt or, if no Eligible
Subordinated Debt is then outstanding, Eligible Senior Debt.
Eligible Senior Debt
means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series of
outstanding unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed of such issuer that (a) upon a
bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks most senior among the
issuers then outstanding classes of unsecured indebtedness for money borrowed, (b) is then
assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO (provided that this clause (b) shall apply on a
Redesignation Date only if on such date the issuer has outstanding senior long-term indebtedness
for money borrowed that satisfies the requirements of clauses (a), (c) and (d) that is then
assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO), (c) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than
$100,000,000, and (d) was issued through or with the assistance of a commercial or investment
banking firm or firms acting as underwriters, initial purchasers or placement or distribution
agents. For purposes of this definition as applied to securities with a CUSIP number, each
issuance of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that has (or, if such indebtedness is held by
a trust or other intermediate entity established directly or indirectly by the issuer, the
securities of such intermediate entity that have) a separate CUSIP number shall be deemed to be a
series of the issuers long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is separate from each other
series of such indebtedness.
Eligible Subordinated Debt
means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series
of the issuers then-outstanding unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that (a) upon
a bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks senior to the
Subordinated Notes and subordinate to the issuers then outstanding series of unsecured
indebtedness for money borrowed that ranks most senior, (b) is then assigned a rating by at least
one NRSRO (provided that this clause (b) shall apply on a Redesignation Date only if on such date
the issuer has outstanding subordinated long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that satisfies
the requirements in clauses (a), (c) and (d) that is then assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO),
(c) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than $100,000,000, and (d) was issued through
or with the assistance of a commercial or investment banking firm or firms acting as underwriters,
initial purchasers or placement or distribution agents. For purposes of this definition as applied
to securities with a CUSIP number, each issuance of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that
has (or, if such indebtedness is held by a trust or other intermediate entity established directly
or indirectly by the issuer, the securities of such intermediate entity that have) a separate CUSIP
number shall be deemed to be a series of the issuers long-term indebtedness for money borrowed
that is separate from each other series of such indebtedness.
Guarantor
has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.
Holder
means, as to the Covered Debt then in effect, each record holder of such
Covered Debt as reflected on the securities register maintained by or on behalf of the Partnership
or the applicable Guarantor with respect to such Covered Debt and each beneficial owner of such
Covered Debt holding such Covered Debt through a participant in a clearing agency.
Initial Covered Debt
means the Partnerships 6.875% Series B Senior Notes due March
1, 2033 (CUSIP No. 293791AF6).
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Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure
means, as to any security or combination of
securities, that the issuer or any of its Subsidiaries has publicly stated its intention, either in
the prospectus or other offering document under which such securities were initially offered for
sale or in filings with the Commission made by the issuer under the Securities Exchange Act prior
to or contemporaneously with the issuance of such securities, that the issuer or any of its
Subsidiaries will redeem, repurchase, purchase or defease such securities only with the proceeds
(or an applicable percentage of proceeds) or Market Value of replacement capital securities that
have terms and provisions at the time of redemption, repurchase, purchase or defeasance that
receive as much or more equity-like credit than the securities then being redeemed, repurchased,
purchased or defeased, raised within 180 days of the applicable redemption, purchase or defeasance
date.
Mandatory Trigger Provision
means, as to any Qualifying Capital Securities,
provisions in the terms thereof or of the related transaction agreements that:
(a) require, or at its option in the case of non-cumulative perpetual preferred units
permit, the issuer of such Qualifying Capital Securities to make payment of Distributions on
such securities only pursuant to the issue and sale of APM Qualifying Securities, within two
years of a failure of the issuer to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in the
terms of such Qualifying Capital Securities or related transaction agreements, in an amount
such that the net proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the amount of unpaid
Distributions on such Qualifying Capital Securities (including without limitation all
deferred and accumulated amounts), and in either case require the application of the net
proceeds of such sale to pay such unpaid Distributions,
provided
that (i) such
Mandatory Trigger Provision shall limit the issuance and sale of Common Units, Subordinated
Units and Qualifying Warrants the proceeds of which may be applied to pay such Distributions
pursuant to such provision to the Common Cap, unless the Mandatory Trigger Provision
requires such issuance and sale within one year of such failure, and (ii) the amount of
Qualifying Preferred Units the net proceeds of which the issuer may apply to pay such
Distributions pursuant to such provision may not exceed the Preferred Cap;
(b) other than in the case of non-cumulative preferred unit, if the provisions
described in clause (a) do not require such issuance and sale within one year of such
failure, prohibit the issuer and any of its Subsidiaries from repurchasing any securities
that are
pari passu
with or junior to its respective APM Qualifying Securities, the proceeds
of which were used to pay deferred Distributions since such failure before the date six
months after the issuer applies the net proceeds of the sales described in clause (a) to pay
such unpaid Distributions in full;
(c) other than in the case of non-cumulative perpetual preferred units, include a
Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision; and
(d) prohibit the issuer of such securities from redeeming or purchasing any of its
securities ranking upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer junior to
or
pari passu
with any APM Qualifying Securities the proceeds of which were used to settle
deferred interest during the relevant deferral period prior to the date six months
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after the issuer applies the net proceeds of the sales described in clause (a) above to
pay such deferred Distributions in full;
provided
(and it being understood) that:
(a) the issuer will not be obligated to issue (or use commercially reasonable efforts
to issue) any such APM Qualifying Securities for so long as a Market Disruption Event has
occurred and is continuing;
(b) if, due to a Market Disruption Event or otherwise, the issuer is able to raise and
apply some, but not all, of the eligible proceeds necessary to pay all deferred
Distributions on any Distribution Date, the issuer will apply any available eligible
proceeds to pay accrued and unpaid Distributions on the applicable Distribution Date in
chronological order subject to the Common Cap and Preferred Cap, as applicable; and
(c) if the issuer has outstanding more than one class or series of securities under
which it is obligated to sell a type of any such APM Qualifying Securities and applies some
part of the proceeds to the payment of deferred Distributions, then on any date and for any
period the amount of net proceeds received by the issuer from those sales and available for
payment of deferred Distributions on such securities shall be applied to such securities on
a
pro rata
basis up to the Common Cap and the Preferred Cap, as applicable, in proportion to
the total amounts that are due on such securities.
No remedy other than Permitted Remedies will arise by the terms of such securities or
related transaction agreements in favor of the holders of such securities as a result of the
issuers failure to pay Distributions because of the Mandatory Trigger Provision until
Distributions have been deferred for one or more Distribution Periods that total together at
least ten years.
Market Disruption Events
means the occurrence or existence of any of the following
events or sets of circumstances:
(a) the issuer would be required to obtain the consent or approval of its unitholders
or a regulatory body (including, without limitation, any securities exchange) or
governmental authority to issue or sell APM Qualifying Securities and such consent or
approval has not yet been obtained notwithstanding the issuers commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain such consent or approval, or a regulatory authority instructs the
Partnership or such Guarantor not to sell or offer for sale APM Qualifying Securities at
such time;
(b) trading in securities generally (or in the Partnerships Common Units or the
preferred units of the Partnership or the Guarantor) on the New York Stock Exchange or any
other national securities exchange or over-the-counter market on which the Common Units
and/or the Partnerships or the Guarantors preferred units are then listed or traded shall
have been suspended or the settlement of such trading generally shall have been materially
disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or market by
the Commission, by the relevant exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental
body having jurisdiction, and the establishment of such
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minimum prices materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on
trading in, or the issuance and sale of, Common Units and/or such preferred units;
(c) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by the federal or state authorities
of the United States and such moratorium materially disrupts or otherwise has a material
adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the APM Qualifying Securities;
(d) a material disruption shall have occurred in commercial banking or securities
settlement or clearance services in the United States and such disruption materially
disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale
of, the APM Qualifying Securities;
(e) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been
an escalation in hostilities involving the United States, there shall have been a
declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or there shall have occurred
any other national or international calamity or crisis and such event materially disrupts or
otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the APM
Qualifying Securities;
(f) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general domestic or
international economic, political or financial conditions, including without limitation as a
result of terrorist activities, and such change materially disrupts or otherwise has a
material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, the APM Qualifying
Securities;
(g) an event occurs and is continuing as a result of which the offering document for
such offer and sale of APM Qualifying Securities would, in the reasonable judgment of the
Partnership or the Guarantor, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading and either (a) the disclosure of that event at such time, in the
reasonable judgment of the Partnership or such Guarantor, is not otherwise required by law
and would have a material adverse effect on the business of the issuer or (b) the disclosure
relates to a previously undisclosed proposed or pending material business transaction, the
disclosure of which would impede the ability of the Partnership or such Guarantor to
consummate such transaction,
provided
that no single suspension period contemplated
by this paragraph (g) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods
contemplated by this paragraph (g) shall not exceed an aggregate of 180 days in any 360-day
period; or
(h) the issuer reasonably believes, for reasons other than those referred to in
paragraph (g) above, that the offering document for such offer and sale of APM Qualifying
Securities would not be in compliance with law or a rule or regulation of the Commission and
the issuer is unable to comply with such law or rule or regulation or such compliance is
unduly burdensome,
provided
that no single suspension period contemplated by this
paragraph (h) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple
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suspension periods contemplated by this paragraph (h) shall not exceed an aggregate of
180 days in any 360-day period.
The definition of
Market Disruption Event
as used in any Qualifying Capital
Securities may include less than all of the paragraphs outlined above, as determined by the issuer
at the time of issuance of such securities, and in the case of clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d), as
applicable to a circumstance where the issuer would otherwise endeavor to issue preferred units,
shall be limited to circumstances affecting markets where the preferred units of the Partnership or
such Guarantor trades or where a listing for its trading is being sought.
Market Value
means, on any date, the closing sale price per Common Unit (or if no
closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in
either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in
composite transactions by the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Units are not then listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal U.S. securities exchange on which the
Common Units are traded or quoted; if the Common Units are not either listed or quoted on any U.S.
securities exchange on the relevant date, the Market Value will be the average of the mid-point of
the bid and ask prices for the Common Units on the relevant date submitted by at least three
nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Partnership for this
purpose or, in the event such bid and ask prices are not available and in the case of Subordinated
Units and Rights to acquire Units, a value determined by a nationally recognized independent
investment banking firm selected by the Partnerships Board (or a duly authorized committee
thereof) for this purpose.
Measurement Period
with respect to any redemption or any repurchase, purchase or
defeasance means the period (i) beginning on the date that is 180 days prior to delivery of notice
of such redemption or the date of such repurchase, purchase or defeasance, respectively, and (ii)
ending on such notice date for redemption or the date of such repurchase, purchase or defeasance,
respectively. Measurement Periods cannot run concurrently.
Non-Cumulative
means, with respect to any securities, that the issuer thereof may
elect not to make any number of periodic Distributions without any remedy arising under the terms
of the securities or related agreements in favor of the holders, other than one or more Permitted
Remedies. Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism shall also be deemed to be
Non-Cumulative for all purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant.
NRSRO
means any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the
meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Securities Exchange Act that has assigned a credit rating to the
Subordinated Notes, as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement, dated May 21, 2007 relating to the
Subordinated Notes.
Optional Deferral Provision
means, as to any securities, a provision in the terms
thereof or of the related transaction agreements to the effect that either:
(a) (i) the issuer of such securities may, in its sole discretion, defer in whole or in
part payment of Distributions on such securities for one or more consecutive Distribution
Periods of up to five years or, if a Market Disruption Event is continuing, ten
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years, without any remedy other than Permitted Remedies and (ii) such securities are
subject to an Alternative Payment Mechanism (
provided
that such Alternative Payment
Mechanism need not apply during the first five years of any deferral period and need not
include a Common Cap, Preferred Cap, Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision or Repurchase
Restriction); or
(b) the issuer of such securities may, in its sole discretion, defer or skip in whole
or in part payment of Distributions on such securities for one or more consecutive
Distribution Periods up to at least ten years, without any remedy other than Permitted
Remedies.
Partnership
has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.
Partnership Group
has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.
Permitted Remedies
means, with respect to any securities, one or more of the
following remedies:
(a) rights in favor of the holders of such securities permitting such holders to elect
one or more directors of the issuer (including any such rights required by the listing
requirements of any securities exchange on which such securities may be listed or traded),
or
(b) complete or partial prohibitions on the issuer paying Distributions on or
repurchasing Common Units, Subordinated Units or other securities that rank
pari passu
with
or junior as to Distributions to such securities for so long as Distributions on such
securities, including unpaid Distributions, remain unpaid.
Person
means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited
liability company, corporation or other entity, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
Preferred Cap
has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment
Mechanism.
Qualifying Capital Securities
means securities (other than Common Units,
Subordinated Units or Rights to acquire Units and securities convertible into or exchangeable for
Common Units or Subordinated Units) that in the determination of the Board of the Partnership or
the Guarantor, reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of the Replacement Capital
Covenant, meet one of the following criteria:
(i) in connection with any redemption, defeasance or purchase of Subordinated
Notes prior to the Stepdown Date:
(A) junior subordinated debt securities and guarantees issued by any
member of the Partnership Group with respect to such securities if the
junior subordinated debt securities and guarantees (1) contractually
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rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or the
Guarantors guarantees thereof upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding
up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, (2) are
Non-Cumulative, (3) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and
(4) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant;
(B) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or
the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, (2) have no
maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and (3)(a) are Non Cumulative
and are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant or (b) have a
Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral Provision and are
subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(C) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or
the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, (2) have no
maturity or a maturity of at least 40 years, (3) are subject to a Qualifying
Replacement Capital Covenant and (4) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and
an Optional Deferral Provision; or
(D) Non-Cumulative Qualifying Preferred Units; or
(ii) in connection with any redemption, defeasance or purchase of Subordinated
Notes prior to the Stepdown Date:
(A) non-cumulative preferred units issued by any member of the
Partnership Group that contractually ranks junior to the Subordinated Notes
or the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, and (1) (a)
have no maturity or a final maturity of at least 60 years and (b) are
subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure; or (2) (a) have no maturity
or a final maturity of at least 40 years and (x) are subject to a Qualifying
Replacement Covenant or (y) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement
Disclosure and have a Mandatory Trigger Provision; or (3) (a) have no
maturity or a final maturity of at least 25 years, (b) are subject to a
Qualifying Replacement Covenant and (c) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision;
(B) cumulative preferred units issued by any member of the Partnership
Group that contractually rank junior to the Subordinated Notes or the
Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, and (1) have no
prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the
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election of the holders or otherwise, and (2) (a) have no maturity or a
maturity of at least 60 years, (b) have an Optional Deferral Provision and
(c) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant;
(C) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or
the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, (2) have no
maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and an Optional Deferral
Provision, and (3) either (a) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement
Capital Covenant or (b) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and are subject
to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(D) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or
the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or any of the Guarantor, respectively, (2) are
Non-Cumulative, (3) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 40 years and
(4) either (a) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant or
(b) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral Provision
and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(E) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank junior to all of the senior and subordinated debt of the
Partnership or the Guarantor other than the Subordinated Notes and
securities ranking
pari passu
with the Subordinated Notes, (2) have an
Optional Deferral Provision and a Mandatory Trigger Provision and (3) have
no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and are subject to a
Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant; or
(F) other securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that
(1) contractually rank upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the
Partnership or any of the Guarantor
pari passu
with or junior to the
Subordinated Notes or the Guarantors guarantees thereof, respectively, (2)
have no maturity or a maturity of at least 25 years and (3) are subject to a
Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and have a Mandatory Trigger
Provision and an Optional Deferral Provision; or
(iii) in connection with any redemption, defeasance or purchase of the
Subordinated Notes on or after the Stepdown Date:
(A) all securities described under clauses (i) and (ii) of this
definition;
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(B) cumulative preferred units issued by the Partnership or the
Guarantor that (1) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and
(2) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;
(C) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Subordinated Notes or
the Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, (2) either (a)
have no maturity or a maturity of at least 60 years and Intent-Based
Replacement Disclosure or (b) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 30
years and are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant and (3)
have an Optional Deferral Provision;
(D) securities issued by any member of the Partnership Group that (1)
contractually rank junior to all of the senior and subordinated debt of the
Partnership or the Guarantor other than the Subordinated Notes and
securities ranking
pari passu
with the Subordinated Notes or the Guarantors
guarantees thereof, respectively, (2) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and
an Optional Deferral Provision and (3) have no maturity or a maturity of at
least 30 years and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure; or
(E) cumulative preferred units issued by any member of the Partnership
Group that contractually rank junior to the Subordinated Notes or the
Guarantors guarantees thereof upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Partnership or the Guarantor, respectively, and have a maturity of at
least 40 years and are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant.
It is acknowledged that, as of the date hereof, securities issued by a master limited
partnership containing an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision have not
been approved as Qualifying Capital Securities by all of the NRSROs. As a result, such securities
will not be issued or considered as Qualifying Capital Securities until there is prior written
approval from all NSROs then maintaining a credit rating on such issuer.
Qualifying Preferred Units
means non-cumulative perpetual preferred units issued by
any member of the Partnership Group that (a) contractually rank
pari passu
with or junior to all
other preferred units of the issuer thereof and contains no remedies as a consequence of
non-payment of Distributions other than Permitted Remedies and (b) either (i) are subject to
Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and have a provision that prohibits the issuer from paying any
Distributions thereon upon its failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth therein or
(ii) are subject to a Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant.
Qualifying Replacement Capital Covenant
means (i) a replacement capital covenant
substantially similar to this Replacement Capital Covenant or (ii) a replacement capital covenant,
as identified by the Board of the Partnership or the Guarantor, acting in good faith and in its
reasonable discretion and reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of this
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Replacement Capital Covenant, (a) entered into by an issuer that at the time it enters into
such replacement capital covenant is a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act and (b)
that restricts the issuer from redeeming, defeasing or purchasing identified securities except to
the extent of the applicable percentage of the net proceeds (or Market Value) of specified
replacement capital securities that have terms and provisions at the time of redemption, defeasance
or purchase that receive as much or more equity-like credit than the securities then being
redeemed, defeased or purchased, raised within the six month period prior to the applicable
redemption, defeasance or purchase date.
Qualifying Warrants
means net settled warrants to purchase Common Units or
Subordinated Units that have an exercise price greater than the current Market Value of the
issuers Common Units or Subordinated Units as of their date of issuance, that do not entitle the
issuer to redeem for cash and the holders of such warrants are not entitled to require the issuer
to repurchase for cash in any circumstance.
Redesignation Date
means, as to the Covered Debt in effect at any time, the earliest
of (a) the date that is two years prior to the final maturity date of such Covered Debt, (b) such
Covered Debt is to be redeemed, repurchased, purchased or defeased by a member of the Partnership
Group either in whole or in part with the consequence that, after giving effect to such redemption,
repurchase, purchase or defeasance, the outstanding principal amount of such Covered Debt is less
than $100,000,000, the applicable redemption, purchase, repurchase or defeasance date and (c) if
such Covered Debt is not Eligible Subordinated Debt, the date on which the Partnership or the
Guarantor issues Eligible Subordinated Debt.
Replacement Capital Covenant
has the meaning specified in the introduction to this
instrument.
Replacement Capital Securities
means
(a) Common Units, Subordinated Units and Rights to acquire Units;
(b) Debt Exchangeable for Equity; and
(c) Qualifying Capital Securities.
Repurchase Restriction
has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative
Payment Mechanism.
Rights to acquire Units
includes any right to acquire Common Units or Subordinated
Units, including any option or right to acquire Common Units or Subordinated Units pursuant to a
unit purchase plan or employee benefit plan.
Securities Exchange Act
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Securities
has the meaning specified in Recital B.
Stepdown Date
means January 15, 2018.
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Subordinated Indenture
has the meaning specified in Recital A.
Subordinated Notes
has the meaning specified in Recital A.
Subordinated Units
means limited partnership interests of a member of the
Partnership Group that rank
pari passu
with or junior to the Common Units of the issuer thereof
provided that such interests are perpetual, with no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer
thereof, whether at the election of the holder or otherwise.
Subsidiary
means, at any time, any Person the units, shares of stock, or other
ownership interests of which having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of
directors or other managers of such Person are at the time owned, or the management or policies of
which are otherwise at the time controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries (including other Subsidiaries) or both, by another Person.
Supplemental Indenture
means the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 24,
2007, to the Subordinated Indenture.
Termination Date
has the meaning specified in Section 4(a).
Units
means Common Units and/or Subordinated Units, as applicable.
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