UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 30, 2018

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

001-33160

 

20-2436320

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

3801 South Oliver, Wichita, Kansas 67210

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (316) 526-9000

 

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

 

Emerging growth company   o

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o

 

 

 



 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Accelerated Share Repurchase

 

On May 30, 2018, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into accelerated share repurchase agreements (each, an “ASR Agreement”) with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“Goldman Sachs”) and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”) to repurchase an aggregate of $725,000,000 of the Company’s Class A common stock (such common stock, the “common stock” and such repurchase, the “ASR”). The ASR is part of the Company’s current share repurchase program. On January 24, 2018, the Board of Directors increased the authorization remaining in the share repurchase program to approximately $1.0 billion. On May 2, 2018, the Company announced that it had approved the ASR.

 

Under the terms of the ASR Agreements, the Company will make a payment of $362,500,000 to each of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on June 1, 2018, and expects to receive from each of them on the same day an initial delivery of 3,645,587 shares of the Company’s common stock. The final number of shares to be repurchased will be based on the volume-weighted average stock price of the Company’s common stock during the term of the transaction, less a discount and subject to adjustments pursuant to the terms and conditions of the ASR Agreements. At settlement, under certain circumstances, each of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley may be required to deliver additional shares of common stock to the Company, or under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to deliver shares of common stock or to make a cash payment, at its election, to Goldman Sachs and/or Morgan Stanley. The final settlement of the transactions under the ASR Agreements is scheduled to occur prior to the end of fiscal year 2018, but the settlement may be accelerated in certain circumstances.

 

Each of the ASR Agreements contains customary terms for these types of transactions, including, but not limited to, the mechanisms to determine the number of shares or the amount of cash that will be delivered at settlement, the required timing of delivery of the shares, the specific circumstances under which adjustments may be made to the transactions, the specific circumstances under which settlement of the transactions may be accelerated and various agreements and acknowledgements, representations and warranties by the Company and Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, as applicable, to one another.

 

From time to time, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and/or their affiliates have directly and indirectly engaged, and may engage in the future, in investment and/or commercial banking transactions with the Company for which they have received, or may receive, customary compensation, fees and expense reimbursements.

 

The foregoing description of the ASR Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the ASR Agreements, copies of which are attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 and are incorporated herein by reference, in each case subject to certain omissions of confidential portions pursuant to a request for confidential treatment which we intend to file separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Indenture

 

On May 30, 2018, Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (“Spirit”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an Indenture (the “Indenture”) by and among Spirit, the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Trustee”), as trustee in connection with Spirit’s offering of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021 (the “Floating Rate Notes”), $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”) and $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes” and, together with the Floating Rate Notes and the 2023 Notes, the “Notes”).  The Notes were issued pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement.

 

The Company will guarantee (the “Guarantees”) Spirit’s obligations under the Notes on a senior unsecured basis.

 

The Notes and the Guarantees have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-211423) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Act.

 

The Indenture contains covenants that limit Spirit’s, the Company’s and certain of the Company’s subsidiaries’ ability, subject to certain exceptions and qualifications, to create liens without granting equal and ratable liens to the holders of the Notes and enter into sale and leaseback transactions. These covenants are subject to a number of qualifications and limitations.  In addition, the Indenture provides for customary events of default.

 

The description of the Indenture in this Current Report on Form 8-K does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Indenture, which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 8.01. Other Events.

 

The Notes were sold pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated May 22, 2018 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among Spirit, the Company and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as the representatives of the several Underwriters named therein.

 

Copies of the Underwriting Agreement, the form of the Floating Rate Note, the form of the 2023 Note, the form of the 2028 Note and the opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as to the validity of the Notes and the Guarantees are filed as exhibits hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit 
Number

 

Description of Exhibit

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated May 22, 2018, among Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as the representatives of the several Underwriters named therein.

 

 

 

4.1

 

Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018, among Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.

 

 

 

4.2

 

Form of Senior Floating Rate Note due 2021.

 

 

 

4.3

 

Form of 3.950% Senior Note due 2023.

 

 

 

4.4

 

Form of 4.600% Senior Note due 2028.

 

 

 

5.1

 

Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, dated May 30, 2018, as to the validity of the Notes and the Guarantees.

 

 

 

10.1

 

Confirmation —  Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement, dated May 30, 2018, between Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC.*

 

 

 

10.2

 

Confirmation —  Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement, dated May 30, 2018, between Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC.*

 

    *          The registrant has requested confidential treatment with respect to certain portions of this exhibit pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the Exchange Act. Such portions have been omitted from this exhibit and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: May 30, 2018

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

Name:

Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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Exhibit 1.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

May 22, 2018

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

As Representatives of the several Underwriters

 

c/o Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Introductory .  Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Guarantor ”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule A (the “ Underwriters ”), acting severally and not jointly and for whom you (the “ Representatives ”) are acting as representatives, (i) $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021 (the “ Floating Rate Notes ”), (ii) $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “ 2023 Notes ”) and (iii) $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “ 2028 Notes ” and, together with the Floating Rate Notes and the 2023 Notes, the “ Notes ”), in each case in the respective amounts set forth on Schedule A.

 

The Securities (as defined below) will be issued pursuant to an indenture (the “ Indenture ”) to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).  Certain terms of the Securities will be established pursuant to the Indenture.  The Notes will be issued only in book-entry form in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company (the “ Depositary ”), pursuant to a letter of representations, dated September 29, 2009, among the Company, the Trustee and the Depositary.

 

The payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Guarantor, pursuant to its guarantees (the “ Guarantees ”).  The Notes and the Guarantees attached thereto are herein collectively referred to as the “ Securities .”

 

In connection with the offering of the Securities, the Company will conduct a cash tender offer (the “ Tender Offer ”) for any and all of the Company’s 5¼% Senior Notes due 2022 (the

 



 

2022 Notes ”)  upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in that certain Offer to Purchase dated May 22, 2018 (the “ Offer to Purchase ”).

 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering, together with the proceeds of the delayed draw term loan and borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility, to (i) repurchase the 2022 Notes (whether pursuant to the Tender Offer, redemption or otherwise), (ii) repay approximately $250.0 million of the senior term loan A facility under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2016, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement, dated September 22, 2017 (the “ Credit Facility ”), by and among the Company, the Guarantor, the other guarantors party thereto, Bank of America, N.A. and the other agents and lenders party thereto credit agreement, in connection with the refinancing of the Credit Facility, (iii) fund a $725 million accelerated share repurchase, (iv) pay the purchase price for the acquisition of the issued and outstanding equity of S.R.I.F. N.V., the parent company of Asco Industries N.V., and (v) pay accrued interest, fees and expenses (including acquisition related costs) related to the foregoing.

 

This Agreement, the Securities and the Indenture are referred to herein as the “ Transaction Documents .” The issuance and sale of the Notes, the issuance of the Guarantees, the transactions described in the foregoing paragraph, as described in the Disclosure Package, and the payment of transaction costs are referred to herein collectively, as the “ Transactions .”

 

The Company and the Guarantor hereby confirm their agreements with the Underwriters as follows:

 

SECTION 1.                                  Representations and Warranties .  Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby represents, warrants and covenants to each Underwriter that, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:

 

(a)                                  The Company and the Guarantor have prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-211423), which contains a base prospectus (the “ Base Prospectus ”), to be used in connection with the public offering and sale of the Securities.  Such registration statement, as amended, including the financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto, at each time of effectiveness under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), including any required information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430B or 430C under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), is called the “ Registration Statement .”  Any preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, together with the Base Prospectus, is hereafter called a “ Preliminary Prospectus .”  The term “ Prospectus ” shall mean the final prospectus relating to the Securities, including the Base Prospectus and the final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities as filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act.  Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act; any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after the date of such Preliminary

 

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Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be, under the Exchange Act, and incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Guarantor filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

 

(b)                                  Compliance with Registration Requirements .  The Commission has not issued any order or notice preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus and no proceedings for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or relating to the offering have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, are threatened by the Commission.

 

The most recent Preliminary Prospectus (as defined below) on the date hereof conforms and the Prospectus when filed with the Commission will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.  Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at each time of effectiveness, conforms and will conform in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

The Registration Statement did not and will not, at each time of effectiveness, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading.  The Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, as of its date and at the Closing Date, did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The representations and warranties set forth in the two immediately preceding sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, or the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements thereto, made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company in writing by the Representatives expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Representatives consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

The documents incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, when the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as applicable, was filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.  Any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the most recent Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus or any further amendment or supplement thereto, when the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as applicable, is filed with the Commission will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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(c)                                Well-Known Seasoned Issuer .  (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement and (ii) at the Applicable Time (with such date and time being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Guarantor was and is a “well-known seasoned issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) and was and is eligible to use Form S-3 for the offering of the Securities, including not being an “ineligible issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act).

 

(d)                                  Disclosure Package .  The term “ Disclosure Package ” shall mean (i) the most recent Preliminary Prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act prior to or on the date hereof (including any amendment thereto and any documents incorporated by reference therein prior to or on the date of this Agreement) (the “ most recent Preliminary Prospectus ”), (ii) the issuer free writing prospectuses as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (each, an “ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ”), if any, identified in Schedule B-1 hereto, (iii) any other free writing prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package and (iv) the Final Term Sheet (as defined herein), which also shall be identified in Schedule B-1 hereto.  As of 3:45 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement (the “ Applicable Time ”), the Disclosure Package did not contain any 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.  The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company 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 7(b) hereof.

 

(e)                                   Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses .  Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date, will not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that has not been superseded or modified.  If at any time following the date hereof there occurs an event or development as a result of which any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict.  Any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus not identified on Schedule B-1, when taken together with the Disclosure Package, did not, as of the Applicable Time and at the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The foregoing three sentences do not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed

 

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that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

(f)                                    Distribution of Offering Material by the Company and the Guarantor .  Neither the Company nor the Guarantor has distributed or will distribute, prior to the later of the Closing Date and the completion of the Underwriters’ distribution of the Securities, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities other than the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus reviewed and consented to by the Representatives, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld and being deemed to have been given with respect to the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified on Schedule B-1 hereto.

 

(g)                                   The Underwriting Agreement .  This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Company and the Guarantor.

 

(h)                                  Authorization of the Notes and the Guarantees .  The Notes to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company will on the Closing Date be in the form contemplated by the Indenture, have been duly authorized for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or to general equitable principles and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.  The Guarantees of the Notes on the Closing Date will be in the form contemplated by the Indenture and have been duly authorized for issuance pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture; the Guarantees of the Notes, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Guarantor and, when the Notes have been authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and issued and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, the Guarantees will constitute valid and binding agreements of the Guarantor, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or to general equitable principles and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

(i)                                      Indenture.   The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.  The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or to general equitable principles.

 

(j)                                     Description of the Securities and the Indenture.   The Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the respective statements relating

 

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thereto contained in the Disclosure Package under the captions “Description of Senior Notes” and “Description of Debt Securities.”

 

(k)                                  No Material Adverse Change.   Except as otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there has been no material adverse change, or any development that would reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business, or operations, of the Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries, considered as one entity (any such change is called a “ Material Adverse Change ”).

 

(l)                                      Independent Accountants.   Ernst & Young LLP, which expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package is an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

 

(m)                              Preparation of the Financial Statements.   The financial statements, together with the related schedules and notes, incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the entities to which they relate as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified.  Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“ GAAP ”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto.  The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Disclosure Package fairly present the information called for, in all material respects, and have been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

 

(n)                                  Incorporation and Good Standing of the Guarantor, the Company and their Subsidiaries.   Each of the Guarantor and the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and to enter into and perform its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.  Each of the Guarantor and the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing or equivalent status in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.  Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized, is validly existing and, to the extent applicable, is in good standing under the laws of the state or jurisdiction of its organization, and each has the power and authority under such laws to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business, and is duly qualified as a foreign entity to transact business and, to the extent applicable, is in

 

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good standing or equivalent status in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to be so organized, existing, in good standing or qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(o)                                  Capitalization and Other Capital Stock Matters.   At March 29, 2018, on a consolidated basis, on an actual basis and on an “as adjusted” basis as set forth therein, the Guarantor would have a capitalization as set forth in the Disclosure Package under the caption “Capitalization.”

 

(p)                                  Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals Required.  None of the Guarantor, the Company and their “significant subsidiaries” (as defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act (each, a “ Significant Subsidiary ”)) is (i) in violation of its charter, bylaws or other constitutive document or (ii) in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would be in default) (“ Default ”) under any indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, franchise, lease or other instrument to which the Guarantor, the Company or any of their significant subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound (including, without limitation, the Credit Facility, the Company’s capital leases, the 2022 Notes, the Company’s 3.850% Senior Notes due 2026, or to which any of the property or assets of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their significant subsidiaries is subject (each, an “ Existing Instrument ”), except, in the case of clause (ii) above, for such Defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.  The Company’s and the Guarantor’s (to the extent party thereto) execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Indenture, and the issuance and delivery of the Securities, and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and by the Disclosure Package (including, without limitation, the Transactions) (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and will not result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, bylaws or other constitutive document of the Guarantor or the Company, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Guarantor or the Company pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any Existing Instrument and (iii) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such conflicts, breaches, Defaults, liens, charges, encumbrances or violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.  No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency is required for the Company’s and the Guarantor’s (to the extent party thereto) execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the Indenture, or the issuance and delivery of the Securities, or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and by the Disclosure Package (including, without limitation, the Transactions), except such that have been, or will have been by the Closing Date, obtained or made or as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws in

 

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connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters.  As used herein, a “ Debt Repayment Triggering Event ” means any event or condition which gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their significant subsidiaries.

 

(q)                                  No Material Actions or Proceedings.   Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package, there are no legal or governmental actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the Guarantor’s or the Company’s knowledge, threatened (i) against or affecting the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries or (ii) which has as the subject thereof any property owned or leased by, the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries, in each case of (i) and (ii) which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Transactions).

 

(r)                                     Intellectual Property Rights.   The Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries own, possess, can acquire on reasonable terms or otherwise have the right to use sufficient trademarks, trade names, patent rights, copyrights, licenses, approvals, trade secrets and other similar rights (collectively, “ Intellectual Property Rights ”) reasonably necessary to conduct their businesses substantially as now conducted, other than any failures to own, possess, acquire or use that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.   Neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any of their subsidiaries has received any notice of infringement or conflict with asserted Intellectual Property Rights of others, which infringement or conflict would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(s)                                    All Necessary Permits, etc.   (i) The Guarantor, the Company and each of their subsidiaries possess such valid and current material certificates, authorizations or permits issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to own, lease and operate their properties and to conduct their respective businesses, and (ii) neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any of their subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such certificate, authorization or permit, in each case of (i) and (ii) which, singly or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(t)                                     Title to Properties.   The Guarantor, the Company and each of their subsidiaries has good and marketable title to all the properties and assets reflected as owned in the financial statements referred to in Section 1(m) hereof (or elsewhere in the Disclosure Package), except for any tooling owned by customers which is required by GAAP to be shown as owned by the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of any security interests, mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, claims and other defects, except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package and except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.  Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package, the real property, improvements, equipment and personal

 

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property held under lease by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries are held under valid and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(u)                                  Tax Law Compliance.   The Guarantor, the Company and their respective subsidiaries have filed or caused to be filed all tax returns required to be filed by them, and have paid all taxes (including any related penalties, additions to tax and interest) that are due and payable (whether or not shown on a tax return), including in the capacity of a withholding agent, except (i) taxes (or any requirement to file tax returns with respect thereto) that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP or (ii) to the extent that the failure to pay taxes or file tax returns, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. There is no tax deficiency, assessment or claim that has been asserted against the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to, have a Material Adverse Change.

 

(v)                                  Company and Guarantor Not an “Investment Company.”   Neither the Company nor the Guarantor is, or upon receipt of payment for the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof in the manner contemplated in the Disclosure Package, will be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act, as amended (“ Investment Company Act ”).

 

(w)                                Insurance .  Each of the Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries are insured with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as the Guarantor and the Company generally deem reasonably adequate for their businesses.  The Guarantor and the Company have no reason to believe that they or any of their subsidiaries will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(x)                                  No Price Stabilization or Manipulation.   Neither the Company nor the Guarantor has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities in violation of the Exchange Act or other applicable law, it being understood and agreed that any action of the Representatives, the Underwriters or their Affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D under the Act) or any person acting on their behalf shall not constitute an action by the Company or the Guarantor.

 

(y)                                  Accounting System.   The Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries maintain a system of accounting controls that is in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (the “ Sarbanes Oxley Act ”) and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, that are applicable to them and are expected to

 

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comply with Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act at the time such compliance is required.

 

(z)                                   Disclosure Controls and Procedures.   The Guarantor has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act), and such disclosure controls and procedures are reasonably effective to perform the functions for which they were established subject to the limitations of any such control system.

 

(aa)                           Regulations T, U, X.  None of the Company or the Guarantor nor any of their respective subsidiaries nor anyone authorized to act on their behalf has taken, and none of them will take, any action that causes this Agreement or the issuance or sale of the Securities to violate Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

(bb)                           Compliance with and Liability Under Environmental Laws.   Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package or as would not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change (after giving effect to existing agreements with third parties), none of the Guarantor nor any of its subsidiaries: (i) is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign under any Environmental Laws, (ii) owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any Environmental Laws, (iii) is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any Environmental Laws, (iv) is conducting or paying for, in whole or in part, any investigation, response or other corrective action pursuant to any Environmental Law at any site or facility or (v) is subject to any claim, action or cause of action relating to any Environmental Laws or is aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a claim.

 

For purposes of this Agreement, “ Environment ” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface and subsurface strata, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.  “ Environmental Laws ” means the common law and all federal, state, local and foreign laws or regulations, ordinances, codes, orders, decrees, judgments and injunctions issued, promulgated or entered thereunder, relating to pollution or protection of the Environment or human health to the extent related to exposure to Materials of Environmental Concern, including without limitation, those relating to (i) the Release or threatened Release of Materials of Environmental Concern; and (ii) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, generation, treatment, storage, transport, handling or recycling of Materials of Environmental Concern.  “ Materials of Environmental Concern ” means any substance, material, pollutant, contaminant, chemical, waste, compound, or constituent, in any form, including without limitation, petroleum and petroleum products, subject to regulation or which can give rise to liability under any Environmental Law.  “ Release ” means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection or leaching into the Environment, or into, from or through any building, structure or facility.

 

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(cc)                             ERISA Compliance.   The Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (as amended, “ ERISA, ” which term, as used herein, includes the regulations and published interpretations thereunder) established or maintained by the Guarantor, the Company, their subsidiaries or their ERISA Affiliates (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA.  “ ERISA Affiliate ” means, with respect to the Guarantor, the Company or one of their subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as amended, the “ Code, ” which term, as used herein, includes the regulations and published interpretations thereunder) of which the Guarantor, the Company or such subsidiary is a member.  No “single employer plan” (as defined in Section 4001 of ERISA) established or maintained by the Guarantor, the Company, their subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA) which would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.  Neither the Guarantor, the Company, their subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code which, in each case of (i) and (ii) would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

(dd)                           Compliance with Labor Laws.   Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, (i) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements pending, against the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries, and to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, no such complaint, grievance or arbitration proceeding, as the case may be, is threatened, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending against the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries and to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, no such strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage is threatened; and (C) to the Company’s knowledge, no union representation petition or proceeding existing with respect to the employees of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries and, to the Guarantor’s or the Company’s knowledge, no union organizing activities taking place and (ii) there has been no violation of any federal, state or local law relating to discrimination in hiring, promotion or pay of employees or of any applicable wage or hour laws.

 

(ee)                             No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments.   Neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any of their subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or controlled affiliate of the Guarantor or the Company or any of their subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended(the “ FCPA ”) or any other similar anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws applicable to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries as a result of their business activities, including, without limitation, making use of the mails or

 

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any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA or any other similar anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws applicable to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries as a result of their business activities; since January 1, 2013 and the Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries and to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, its controlled affiliates (other than Taikoo Spirit AeroSystems Composite Co., Ltd., which the Company is in the process of disposing its ownership of), have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA or any other similar anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws applicable to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries as a result of their business activities and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to provide for, and which are reasonably expected to provide for, compliance therewith.

 

(ff)                               No Conflict with Money Laundering Laws.   The operations of the Guarantor, the Company and their subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any applicable governmental agency (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Guarantor, the Company or any of their subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(gg)                             No Conflict with Sanctions Laws.   Neither the Guarantor, the Company nor any of their subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or controlled affiliate of the Guarantor or the Company or any of their subsidiaries is an individual or entity (“ Person ”) currently targeted by any sanctions administered by or enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “ Sanctions ”), nor is the Guarantor or the Company located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the target of Sanctions; and the Guarantor and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, (i) to fund any activities of or business with any Person that, at the time of such funding, is the target of Sanctions, or is in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Crimea and Syria or in any other country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the target of Sanctions, or (ii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.

 

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(hh)                           Cybersecurity.   Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i)(x) , there has been no security breach or other compromise of or relating to any of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of them), equipment or technology (collectively, “ IT Systems and Data ”) and (y) the Company and its subsidiaries have not been notified of, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach or other compromise to their IT Systems and Data; and (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.  The Company and its subsidiaries have implemented backup and disaster recovery technology as the Company generally deems reasonably adequate for their businesses.

 

Any certificate signed by an officer of the Company or the Guarantor and delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company or the Guarantor to each Underwriter as to the matters set forth therein.

 

SECTION 2.                                  Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Securities.

 

(a)                                  The Securities.   The Company agrees to issue and sell to the Underwriters all of the Securities, and, subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names on Schedule A, at a purchase price of  (i) 99.550% of the principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes, (ii) 99.380% of the principal amount of the 2023 Notes, and (iii) 99.196% of the principal amount of the 2028 Notes, in each case, payable on the Closing Date and on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms, herein set forth.

 

(b)                                  The Closing Date.   Delivery of certificates for the Securities in definitive form to be purchased by the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, 80 Pine Street, New York, New York 10005 (or such other place as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) at 9:00 a.m. New York City time, on May 30, 2018, or such other time and date as the Representatives shall designate by notice to the Company (the time and date of such closing are called the “ Closing Date ”).

 

(c)                                   Public Offering of the Notes .  The Representatives hereby advise the Company that the Underwriters intend to offer for sale to the public, as described in the Disclosure Package, their respective portions of the Notes as soon after this Agreement has been executed by the Representatives, in their sole judgment, have determined is advisable and practicable.

 

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(d)                                  Delivery of the Securities.   The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters certificates for the Notes at the Closing Date against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor.  The certificates for the Notes shall be in such denominations and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depositary, and shall be made available for inspection on the business day preceding the Closing Date at a location in New York City, as the Representatives may designate.  Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified in this Agreement is a further condition to the obligations of the Underwriters.

 

(e)                                   Delivery of Prospectus to the Underwriters .  Not later than 10:00 a.m. on the second business day following the date the Notes are first released by the Underwriters for sale to the public, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered, copies of the Prospectus in such quantities and at such places as the Representatives shall reasonably request.

 

SECTION 3.                                  Additional Covenants.   Each of the Company and the Guarantor further covenants and agrees with each Underwriter as follows:

 

(a)                                  Representatives’ Review of Proposed Amendments and Supplements Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement by the Underwriters, including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act (the “ Prospectus Delivery Period ”), prior to amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, the Company shall furnish to the Representatives for review a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement, and the Company shall not file or use any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object.

 

(b)                                  Securities Act Compliance .   After the date of this Agreement and during the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company shall promptly advise the Representatives, (i) of the receipt of any comments of, or requests for additional or supplemental information from, the Commission, (ii) of the time and date of any filing of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, (iii) of the time and date that any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order or notice preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, the most recent Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or of any receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any jurisdiction or of the threatening or initiation of any proceedings for any of such purposes (including any notice or order pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act or Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act) or if the Company ceases to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form.  If the Commission shall enter any such stop order or issue any such notice at any time, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the lifting or reversal of such order or notice as soon as practicable, or, subject to Section 4(a), will file an amendment to the Registration Statement or will file a new registration statement and use its reasonable best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared

 

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effective as soon as practicable.  Additionally, the Company agrees that it shall comply with the provisions of Rules 424(b) and 430B under the Securities Act, as applicable, including with respect to the timely filing of documents thereunder, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under such Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act were received in a timely manner by the Commission.

 

(c)                                   Exchange Act Compliance During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Guarantor will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15 of the Exchange Act in the manner and within the time periods required by the Exchange Act.

 

(d)                                  Final Term Sheet The Company will prepare a final term sheet in a form approved by the Representatives, and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act within the time required by such rule (such term sheet, the “ Final Term Sheet ”).

 

(e)                                   Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses .   The Company represents that it has not made, and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not make, any offer relating to the Notes that constitutes or would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that otherwise constitutes or would constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) or a portion thereof required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 under the Securities Act; provided that the prior written consent of the Representatives hereto shall not be unreasonably withheld and will be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule B-1 hereto and any electronic road show including the investor presentation listed on Schedule B-2 hereto (the “ investor presentation ”).  Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “ Permitted Free Writing Prospectus .”  The Company agrees that (i) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and (ii) has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.  The Company consents to the use by any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that (a) is not an “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act, or (b) contains only (1) information describing the preliminary terms of the Securities or their offering, (2) information that describes the final terms of the Securities or their offering and that is included in the Final Term Sheet of the Company contemplated in Section 3(d) or (3) information permitted under Rule 134 under the Securities Act; provided that each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action without the Company’s consent which consent shall be confirmed in writing that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.

 

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(f)                                    Amendments and Supplements to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and Prospectus and Other Securities Act Matters.   If, during the Prospectus Delivery Period, any event or development shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any 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 existing when such Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading the Company agrees to (i) notify the Representatives of any such event or condition and (ii) promptly prepare (subject to Section 3(a) and 3(e) hereof), file with the Commission (and use its reasonable best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or any new registration statement to be declared effective) and furnish at its own expense to the Underwriters, amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, or any new registration statement, necessary in order to make the statements in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made or existing when such Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or so that the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with law.

 

(g)                                   Copies of the Prospectus and any Amendments and Supplements to the Prospectus During the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company will furnish to the Representatives as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any supplement thereto and the Disclosure Package (including any documents incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference therein) as the Representatives may reasonably request.

 

(h)                                  Blue Sky Compliance.   Each of the Company and the Guarantor shall cooperate with the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters to qualify or register (or to obtain exemptions from qualifying or registering) all or any part of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities laws of the several states of the United States, the provinces of Canada or any other jurisdictions designated by the Representatives, and shall comply with such laws and shall continue such qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so long as required to complete the distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters.  None of the Company or the Guarantor shall be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently qualified or where it would be subject to taxation as a foreign corporation.  The Company will advise the Representatives promptly of the suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption relating to) the Securities for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any initiation or, threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or exemption, each of the Company and the Guarantor shall use its best efforts to promptly obtain the withdrawal thereof.

 

(i)                                      Use of Proceeds.   The Company shall apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities sold by it in the manner described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package.

 

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(j)                                     The Depositary .  The Company will cooperate with the Underwriters and use its reasonable best efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of the Depositary.

 

(k)                                  Agreement Not To Offer or Sell Additional Securities.   During the period following the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date, neither the Guarantor nor the Company will, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act, or otherwise dispose of or transfer, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of, any debt securities of the Company or the Guarantor similar to the Notes or securities exchangeable for or convertible into debt securities of the Company or the Guarantor similar to the Notes (other than as contemplated by this Agreement and other than pursuant to the refinancing as described in the Disclosure Package).

 

(l)                                      Filing Fees The Company agrees to pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act.

 

(m)                              No Manipulation of Price The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or result in, or that might reasonably be expected to constitute, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any securities of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities in violation of the Exchange Act or other applicable law.

 

(n)                                  Investment Limitation The Company shall not invest, or otherwise use the proceeds received by the Company from its sale of the Notes in such a manner as would require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

 

The Representatives on behalf of the several Underwriters, may, in their sole discretion, waive in writing the performance by the Company or the Guarantor of any one or more of the foregoing covenants or extend the deadline for performance of any covenant required to be performed by a certain time.

 

SECTION 4.                                  Payment of Expenses.   Each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees to pay all costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder and in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, (i) all expenses incident to the issuance and delivery of the Securities (including all printing and engraving costs), but not including the fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters, (ii) all necessary issue, transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Underwriters, (iii) all fees and expenses of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s counsel, independent public or certified public accountants and other advisors, (iv) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, printing,

 

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filing, shipping and distribution of the Registration Statement (including financial statements, exhibits, schedules, consents and certificates of experts), each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, and all amendments and supplements thereto, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers, and the Transaction Documents, but not including the fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters, (v) all filing fees, attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Company, the Guarantor or the Underwriters in connection with qualifying or registering (or obtaining exemptions from the qualification or registration of) all or any part of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities laws of the several states of the United States, the provinces of Canada or other jurisdictions designated by the Underwriters (including, without limitation, the cost of preparing, printing and mailing preliminary and final blue sky or legal investment memoranda) and any related supplements to the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities, (vii) any fees payable in connection with the rating of the Securities with the ratings agencies, (viii) any filing fees incident to, and any reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with the review by FINRA, if any, of the terms of the sale of the Securities (provided that the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters incurred in connection with this subsection (viii) and subsection (v) to be paid or caused to be paid by the Company shall not exceed $20,000), (ix) all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of the Company and the Guarantor in connection with approval of the Securities by the Depositary for “book-entry” transfer, and the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their respective other obligations under this Agreement and (x) all expenses of the Guarantor, the Company and their representatives  incident to the “road show” for the offering of the Securities and the investor presentation.  Except as provided in this Section 4 and Sections 6, 7, 8 and 9 hereof, the Underwriters shall pay their own expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their counsel.

 

SECTION 5.                                  Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriters.   The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Securities as provided herein on the Closing Date shall be subject to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Guarantor set forth in Section 1 hereof as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though then made and to the timely performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional conditions:

 

(a)                                  Accountants’ Comfort Letter.  On the date hereof, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, a “comfort letter” dated the date hereof addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, covering the financial information included and incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and other customary matters.  In addition, on the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, a “bring-down comfort letter” dated the Closing Date addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, covering the financial information included and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and other customary matters.

 

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(b)                                  No Stop Order.  No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities (including, without limitation, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, shall be in effect); and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities.

 

(c)                                   No Material Adverse Change or Ratings Agency Change.   For the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:

 

(i)                   in the judgment of the Representatives there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Change; and

 

(ii)                there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or any public announcement of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded the Guarantor or the Company or any of their debt securities or indebtedness by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” registered under Section 15E of the Exchange Act.

 

(d)                                  Opinion of Counsel for the Company.   On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received the opinion and letter of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Company, dated as of such Closing Date, the form of which is attached as Exhibit A.

 

(e)                                   Opinion of Counsel for the Underwriters.   On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received the opinion and negative assurance letter of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated as of such Closing Date, with respect to such matters as may be reasonably requested by the Underwriters.

 

(f)                                    Officers’ Certificate.   On the Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received a written certificate executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Guarantor and the principal financial officer of the Guarantor, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Section 5(c)(ii) hereof, and further to the effect that, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation:

 

(i)                   for the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date there has not occurred any Material Adverse Change;

 

(ii)                the representations, warranties and covenants of the Company and the Guarantor set forth in Section 1 hereof were true and correct as of the date hereof and are true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though expressly made on and as of the Closing Date; and

 

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(iii)             the Company and the Guarantor have complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date.

 

(g)                                   Indenture .   The Company and the Guarantor shall have executed and delivered the Indenture and the Underwriters shall have received executed counterparts thereof.

 

(h)                               Additional Documents.   On or before the Closing Date, the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters shall have received such information, documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purposes of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated herein, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the satisfaction of any of the conditions or agreements, herein contained.

 

If any condition specified in this Section 5 is not satisfied when and as required to be satisfied, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company at any time on or prior to the Closing Date, which termination shall be without liability on the part of any party to any other party, except that Sections 4, 6, 7 and 8 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

 

SECTION 6.                                  Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses.   If this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives because any of the conditions in Section 5 are not satisfied or pursuant to clause (i) or (v) of Section 9 hereof, including if the sale to the Underwriters of the Securities on the Closing Date is not consummated because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to comply with any provision hereof, the Company agrees to reimburse the Underwriters, severally, upon demand for all out-of-pocket expenses that shall have been reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the proposed purchase and the offering and sale of the Securities, including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel, printing expenses, travel expenses, postage, facsimile and telephone charges.

 

SECTION 7.                                  Indemnification.

 

(a)                                  Indemnification of the Underwriters.   Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors, officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which such Underwriter, affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary

 

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in order to make the statements therein (with respect to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made) not misleading, and to reimburse each Underwriter and each such affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person for any and all expenses (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representatives) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by such Underwriter or such affiliate, director, officer, employee or controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action; provided , however , that the foregoing indemnity agreement shall not apply, with respect to an Underwriter, to any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense to the extent, but only to the extent, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).  The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 7(a) shall be in addition to any liabilities that the Company and the Guarantor may otherwise have.

 

(b)                                  Indemnification of the Company and the Guarantor.   Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor, each of their respective directors, officers, employees and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which the Company, the Guarantor or any such director, officer, employee or controlling person may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or any other federal or state statutory law or regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of such Underwriter), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein (with respect to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and to reimburse the Company, the Guarantor and each such director, officer, employee or controlling person for any and all expenses (including the fees and disbursements of counsel) as such expenses are reasonably incurred by the Company, the Guarantor or such director, officer, employees or controlling person in connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action.  Each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby acknowledges that the only information that the Underwriters through the Representatives have furnished to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) are (i)

 

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each Underwriter’s name, as set forth on the cover page, the back cover page and in the “Underwriting” section and (ii) the statements set forth in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph and the third sentence of the seventh paragraph within the “Underwriting” section in the Prospectus.  The indemnity agreement set forth in this Section 7(b) shall be in addition to any liabilities that each Underwriter may otherwise have.

 

(c)                                   Notifications and Other Indemnification Procedures.  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 7 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 7, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that the failure to so notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party under this Section 7 or Section 8 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced by such failure (through the forfeiture of substantive rights and defenses) and shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that the indemnifying party may have to an indemnified party other than under this Section 7 and Section 8.  In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and such indemnified party seeks or intends to seek indemnity from an indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in and, to the extent that it shall elect, jointly with all other indemnifying parties similarly notified, by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided , however , if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that a conflict may arise between the positions of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party in conducting the defense of any such action or 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, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and to otherwise participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties.  Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of such indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 7 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence, which shall be selected by the Representatives (in the case of counsel representing the Underwriters or other related persons), representing the indemnified parties who are parties to such action) or (ii) 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 commencement of the action, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying party (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (together with local counsel (in each jurisdiction)).

 

(d)                                  Settlements.   The indemnifying party under this Section 7 shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld, but if settled with such consent, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason

 

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of such settlement.  No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement in any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and (ii) does not include any statements as to or any findings of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

SECTION 8.                                  Contribution.   If the indemnification provided for in Section 7 hereof is for any reason held to be unavailable to or otherwise insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount paid or payable by such indemnified party, as incurred, as a result of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company, and the total underwriting discount received by the Underwriters bear to the aggregate initial offering price of the Securities.  The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, or the Underwriters, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7 hereof, any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim.  The provisions set forth in Section 7 hereof with respect to notice of commencement of any action shall apply if a claim for contribution is to be made under this Section 8; provided , however , that no additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice has been given under Section 7 hereof for purposes of indemnification.

 

The Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of

 

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allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 8.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities purchased by it were resold exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several, and not joint, in proportion to their respective commitments as set forth opposite their names in Schedule A.  For purposes of this Section 8, each director, officer and employee of an Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director, officer and employee of the Company or the Guarantor, and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company and the Guarantor.

 

SECTION 9.                                  Termination of this Agreement.   Prior to the Closing Date, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice given to the Company if at any time:  (i) trading or quotation in any of the Guarantor’s securities shall have been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or by the New York Stock Exchange, (ii) trading in securities generally on either the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices shall have been generally established on any of such quotation system or stock exchange by the Commission or FINRA; (iii) a general banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or New York authorities; (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of national or international hostilities or any crisis or calamity, or any change in the United States or international financial markets, or any substantial change or development involving a prospective substantial change in United States’ or international political, financial or economic conditions, as in the judgment of the Representatives is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering sale or delivery of the Securities in the manner and on the terms described in the Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or to enforce contracts for the sale of Securities; or (v) for the period from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, in the judgment of the Representatives there shall have occurred any Material Adverse Change.  Any termination pursuant to this Section 9 shall be without liability on the part of (1) the Company or the Guarantor to any Underwriter, except that in the event of a termination pursuant to clause (i) or (v) above, the Company and the Guarantor shall be obligated to reimburse the expenses of the Underwriters pursuant to Sections 4 and 6 hereof, (2) any Underwriter to the Company, or (3) any party hereto to any other party, except that the provisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.

 

SECTION 10.                           Representations and Indemnities to Survive Delivery.   The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company, the Guarantor, their respective officers and the several Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to

 

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this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, the Company, the Guarantor or any of their partners, officers or directors or any controlling person, as the case may be, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities sold hereunder.

 

SECTION 11.                           Notices.   All communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed, hand delivered, couriered or facsimiled and confirmed to the parties hereto as follows:

 

If to the Representatives:

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

                 Incorporated

50 Rockefeller Plaza

NY1-050-12-02
New York, New York 10020
Facsimile: (646) 855-5958
Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal

 

and

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Facsimile: (646) 291-1469

Attention: General Counsel

 

and

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Facsimile: (212) 507-8999

Attention: Investment Banking Division

 

and

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

Attention:  Registration Department

 

with a copy to:

 

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
80 Pine Street
New York, New York  10005
Facsimile:  (212) 269-5420
Attention:  James J. Clark

 

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Brian Kelleher

 

If to the Company or the Guarantor:

 

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
3801 South Oliver
Wichita, KS 67210

Facsimile: (316) 523-4492
Attention: Rhonda Harkins, Treasurer

 

With a copy to:

 

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

125 Broad Street 
New York, New York 10004

Facsimile: (212) 558-3588
Attention: Robert W. Downes

 

Any party hereto may change the address or facsimile number for receipt of communications by giving written notice to the others.

 

SECTION 12.                           Successors.   This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, and to the benefit of the indemnified parties referred to in Sections 7 and 8 hereof, and in each case their respective successors, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

SECTION 13.                           Authority of the Representatives.   Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.

 

SECTION 14.                           Partial Unenforceability.   The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph or provision hereof.  If any section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

 

SECTION 15.                           Governing Law Provisions.   (a) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

 

(b)                                  Consent to Jurisdiction.   Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“ Related Proceedings ”) may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City and

 

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County of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City and County of New York (collectively, the “ Specified Courts ”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for suits, actions, or proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any Specified Court in a Related Proceeding, as to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of the Specified Courts in any Related Proceeding.  Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any Related Proceeding brought in any Specified Court.  The parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any Related Proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim in any Specified Court that any Related Proceeding brought in any Specified Court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

 

SECTION 16.                           Default of One or More of the Several Underwriters.   If any one or more of the several Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on the Closing Date, and the aggregate number of Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase does not exceed 10% of the aggregate number of the Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally, in the proportions that the number of Securities set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule A bears to the aggregate number of Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as may be specified by the Underwriters with the consent of the non-defaulting Underwriters, to purchase the Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on the Closing Date.  If any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities and the aggregate number of Securities with respect to which such default occurs exceeds 10% of the aggregate number of Securities to be purchased on the Closing Date, and arrangements satisfactory to the Underwriters and the Company for the purchase of such Securities are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability of any party to any other party except (i) as provided in the immediately succeeding paragraph and (ii) that the provisions of Sections 4, 6, 7 and 8 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination.  In any such case either the Underwriters or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, as the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven days in order that the required changes, if any, to the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected.

 

As used in this Agreement, the term “ Underwriter ” shall be deemed to include any person substituted for a defaulting Underwriter under this Section 16.  Nothing in this Section 16, and no action taken under this Section 16, shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

 

SECTION 17.                           No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.   Each of the Company and the Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that:  (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the offering price of the Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, and the Company and the Guarantor are capable of evaluating and understanding and understand and accept the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

 

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(ii) in connection with each transaction contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, the Guarantor or their respective affiliates, stockholders, creditors or employees or any other party; (iii) no Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company or the Guarantor with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company or the Guarantor on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company and the Guarantor except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement; (iv) the several Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Guarantor and that the several Underwriters have no obligation to disclose any of such interests by virtue of any fiduciary or advisory relationship; and (v) the Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering contemplated hereby and the Company and the Guarantor have consulted their own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent they deemed appropriate.

 

The Company and the Guarantor hereby waive and release, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company and the Guarantor may have against the several Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of fiduciary duty.

 

SECTION 18.                           General Provisions.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof.  This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each one of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier, facsimile or other electronic transmission (i.e., a “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.  This Agreement may not be amended or modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein (express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom the condition is meant to benefit.  The section headings herein are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Guarantor and the Company the enclosed copies hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts hereof, shall become a binding agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Name: Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

as Guarantor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Name: Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted by the Underwriters as of the date first above written.

 

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC
   Acting as Representatives of the several
   Underwriters named in Schedule A

 

By:

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

 

 

Incorporated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Happy H. Daily

 

 

Name: Happy Daily

 

 

Managing Director

 

 



 

By:

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Adam Bordner

 

 

Name: Adam D. Bordner

 

 

Title: Director

 

 



 

By:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Yurij Slyz

 

 

Name: Yurij Slyz

 

 

Title: Executive Director

 

 



 

By:

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Adam Greene

 

 

Name: Adam Greene

 

 

Title: Managing Director

 

 



 

SCHEDULE A

 

Underwriter

 

Principal
Amount of
Floating Rate
Notes

 

Principal
Amount of
2023 Notes

 

Principal
Amount of
2028 Notes

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated

 

$

84,000,000

 

$

84,000,000

 

$

196,000,000

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

54,000,000

 

54,000,000

 

126,000,000

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

36,000,000

 

36,000,000

 

84,000,000

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

 

33,000,000

 

33,000,000

 

77,000,000

 

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

 

30,000,000

 

30,000,000

 

70,000,000

 

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

 

24,000,000

 

24,000,000

 

56,000,000

 

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

 

24,000,000

 

24,000,000

 

56,000,000

 

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

 

6,000,000

 

6,000,000

 

14,000,000

 

BBVA Securities, Inc.

 

3,000,000

 

3,000,000

 

7,000,000

 

PNC Capital Markets LLC

 

3,000,000

 

3,000,000

 

7,000,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

3,000,000

 

3,000,000

 

7,000,000

 

Total

 

$

300,000,000

 

$

300,000,000

 

$

700,000,000

 

 



 

SCHEDULE B-1

 

Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses

 

Final Term Sheet, dated May 22, 2018, relating to the Notes, as filed pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

 



 

SCHEDULE B-2

 

Investor Presentation

 

Electronic (NetRoadshow) investor presentation of the Company made available on May 22, 2018.

 



 

Exhibit A

 

Form Sullivan & Cromwell Opinion and Disclosure Letter

 

[see attached]

 


Exhibit 4.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.,
as Issuer

 

and

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC.,

as Guarantor

 

$300,000,000 Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021
$300,000,000 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023
$700,000,000 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of May 30, 2018

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK
MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Trustee

 



 

CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE *

 

Trust Indenture Act Section

 

Indenture Section

 

 

 

310 (a)(1)

 

7.10

(a)(2)

 

7.10

(a)(3)

 

N.A.

(a)(4)

 

N.A.

(a)(5)

 

7.10

(b)

 

7.10

(c)

 

N.A.

311 (a)

 

7.11

(b)

 

7.11

(c)

 

N.A.

312 (a)

 

2.07

(b)

 

12.03

(c)

 

12.03

313 (a)

 

7.06

(b)(2)

 

7.06; 7.07

(c)

 

7.06; 12.02

(d)

 

7.06

314 (a)

 

4.03; 4.04; 12.05

(b)

 

N.A.

(c)(l)

 

12.04

(c)(2)

 

12.04

(c)(3)

 

N.A.

(d)

 

N.A.

(e)

 

12.05

(f)

 

N.A.

315 (a)

 

7.01

(b)

 

7.05

(c)

 

7.01

(d)

 

7.01

(e)

 

6.11

316 (a) (last sentence)

 

2.11

(a)(l)(A)

 

6.05

(a)(l)(B)

 

6.04

(a)(2)

 

N.A.

(b)

 

6.07

(c)

 

2.17

317 (a)(l)

 

6.08

(a)(2)

 

6.09

(b)

 

2.06

318 (a)

 

12.01

(b)

 

N.A.

(c)

 

12.01

 


N.A. means not applicable.

 

*                  This Cross Reference Table is not part of this Indenture.

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

 

 

Section 1.01

Definitions

1

Section 1.02

Other Definitions

8

Section 1.03

Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act

8

Section 1.04

Rules of Construction

8

 

 

 

ARTICLE II

 

THE NOTES

 

 

 

Section 2.01

Form Generally

9

Section 2.02

Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating

9

Section 2.03

Notes in Global Form

10

Section 2.04

Amount of Notes

10

Section 2.05

Registrar and Paying Agent

11

Section 2.06

Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust

11

Section 2.07

Holder Lists

11

Section 2.08

Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange

11

Section 2.09

Replacement Notes

13

Section 2.10

Outstanding Notes

13

Section 2.11

Treasury Notes

14

Section 2.12

Temporary Notes

14

Section 2.13

Cancellation

14

Section 2.14

Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest

14

Section 2.15

CUSIP or ISIN Numbers

15

Section 2.16

Additional Notes

15

Section 2.17

Record Date

15

Section 2.18

Persons Deemed Owners

15

Section 2.19

Computation of Interest

16

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

 

REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

 

 

 

Section 3.01

Notice to Trustee

16

Section 3.02

Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed

16

Section 3.03

Notice of Redemption

16

Section 3.04

Effect of Notice of Redemption

17

Section 3.05

Deposit of Redemption Price

17

Section 3.06

Notes Redeemed in Part

17

Section 3.07

Optional Redemption

17

 

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Page

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV

 

COVENANTS

 

 

 

Section 4.01

Payment of Principal and Interest

18

Section 4.02

Maintenance of Office or Agency

18

Section 4.03

Reports

19

Section 4.04

Compliance Certificate

19

Section 4.05

Taxes

19

Section 4.06

Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

19

Section 4.07

Corporate Existence

19

Section 4.08

Limitation on Liens

20

Section 4.09

Limitation on Sale and Leasebacks

21

Section 4.10

Purchase of Notes Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event

22

 

 

 

ARTICLE V

 

SUCCESSORS

 

 

 

Section 5.01

Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets

22

Section 5.02

Successor Corporation Substituted

23

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI

 

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

 

 

Section 6.01

Events of Default

23

Section 6.02

Acceleration

24

Section 6.03

Other Remedies

25

Section 6.04

Waiver of Past Defaults

25

Section 6.05

Control by Majority

25

Section 6.06

Limitation on Suits

26

Section 6.07

Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment

26

Section 6.08

Collection Suit by Trustee

26

Section 6.09

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

26

Section 6.10

Priorities

27

Section 6.11

Undertaking for Costs

27

Section 6.12

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

27

Section 6.13

Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws

27

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII

 

TRUSTEE

 

 

 

Section 7.01

Duties of Trustee

28

Section 7.02

Rights of Trustee

28

Section 7.03

Individual Rights of Trustee

30

Section 7.04

Trustee’s Disclaimer

30

Section 7.05

Notice of Defaults

30

Section 7.06

Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes

31

Section 7.07

Compensation and Indemnity

31

 

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Page

 

 

 

Section 7.08

Replacement of Trustee

32

Section 7.09

Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

33

Section 7.10

Eligibility; Disqualification

33

Section 7.11

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

33

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

 

 

Section 8.01

Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

33

Section 8.02

Legal Defeasance and Discharge

33

Section 8.03

Covenant Defeasance

34

Section 8.04

Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance

34

Section 8.05

Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

35

Section 8.06

Repayment to Company

35

Section 8.07

Reinstatement

36

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX

 

AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

 

 

 

Section 9.01

Without Consent of Holders of Notes

36

Section 9.02

With Consent of Holders of Notes

37

Section 9.03

Compliance with Trust Indenture Act

38

Section 9.04

Revocation and Effect of Consents

38

Section 9.05

Notation on or Exchange of Notes

38

Section 9.06

Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.

38

 

 

 

ARTICLE X

 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

 

 

Section 10.01

Satisfaction and Discharge

38

Section 10.02

Application of Trust Money

39

 

 

 

ARTICLE XI

 

NOTE GUARANTEES

 

 

 

Section 11.01

Note Guarantees

40

Section 11.02

Execution and Delivery of Note Guarantee

41

Section 11.03

Severability

41

Section 11.04

Limitation of Guarantor’s Liability

41

Section 11.05

Benefits Acknowledged

42

 

 

 

ARTICLE XII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

Section 12.01

Trust Indenture Act Controls

42

 

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Page

 

 

 

Section 12.02

Notices

42

Section 12.03

Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes

43

Section 12.04

Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent

43

Section 12.05

Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion

44

Section 12.06

Rules by Trustee and Agents

44

Section 12.07

Calculation of Foreign Currency Amounts

44

Section 12.08

No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Shareholders

44

Section 12.09

Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction

44

Section 12.10

No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements

45

Section 12.11

Successors

45

Section 12.12

Severability

45

Section 12.13

Counterpart Originals

45

Section 12.14

Table of Contents, Headings, etc.

45

Section 12.15

Waiver of Jury Trial

45

Section 12.16

Patriot Act Compliance

45

 

EXHIBIT A-1 — Form of Senior Floating Rate Note Due 2021

EXHIBIT A-2 — Form of 3.950% Senior Note due 2023

EXHIBIT A-3 — Form of 4.600% Senior Note due 2028

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of May 30, 2018, by and among Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Holdings ”), as Guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

 

The Company, Holdings and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes (as defined below) issued under this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.01             Definitions .

 

2023 Notes ” means the Company’s 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023.

 

2028 Notes ” means the Company’s 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028.

 

Additional 2023 Notes ” means additional 2023 Notes (other than Initial 2023 Notes) issued under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.16.

 

Additional 2028 Notes ” means additional 2028 Notes (other than Initial 2028 Notes) issued under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.16.

 

Additional Floating Rate Notes ” means additional Floating Rate Notes (other than Initial Floating Rate Notes) issued under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.16.

 

Additional Notes ” means, collectively, Additional Floating Rate Notes, Additional 2023 Notes and Additional 2028 Notes.

 

Adjusted Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

 

Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person.  For purposes of this definition, “ control ,” as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise.  For purposes of this definition, the terms “ controlling ,” “ controlled by ” and “ under common control with ” have correlative meanings.

 

Agent ” means any Registrar, co-registrar, Custodian, Paying Agent or additional paying agent.

 

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any payment, tender, redemption, transfer, exchange, or conversion of or for beneficial interests in any Global Note, the rules and procedures of the Depositary that apply to such payment, tender, redemption, transfer, exchange, or conversion.

 

Attributable Debt ” means, when used in connection with a sale and leaseback transaction, the total net amount of rent (discounted at the weighted average yield to maturity of the Company’s outstanding senior debt securities) required to be paid during the remaining term of the applicable lease.

 



 

Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

 

Below Investment Grade Rating Event ” with respect to the Notes means that such Notes become rated below Investment Grade by each Rating Agency on any date from the date of the public notice by Holdings or the Company of an arrangement that results in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following the earlier of (i) the occurrence of a Change of Control and (ii) such public notice by Holdings or the Company of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control (which period will be extended so long as the rating of such Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies).

 

Board of Directors ” means:

 

(1)           with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board;

 

(2)           with respect to a partnership, the board of directors of the general partner of the partnership;

 

(3)           with respect to a limited liability company, the managing member or members or any controlling committee of managing members thereof; and

 

(4)           with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function.

 

Board Resolution ” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been adopted by the Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Business Day ” means, except as set forth in the Form of Floating Rate Note applicable to Floating Rate Notes, any day other than a Legal Holiday.  If a payment date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the related payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date the payment is due, and no interest shall accrue on such payment for the intervening period. In the case of the Floating Rate Notes, if any Interest Payment Date (other than the maturity date) is postponed as described above, the amount of interest for the relevant Interest Period will be adjusted accordingly.

 

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any one of the following:

 

(1)           the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, or the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries;

 

(2)           the consummation of any transaction (including without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of Holdings or the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares provided that a merger shall not constitute a “change of control”

 

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under this definition if (i) the sole purpose of the merger is the reincorporation of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in another state and (ii) the shareholders of Holdings or such Subsidiary, as applicable, and the number of shares of its Voting Stock, measured by voting power and number of shares, owned by each of them immediately before and immediately following such merger are identical;

 

(3)           the adoption by the holders of Voting Stock of Holdings of a plan relating to the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of Holdings; or

 

(4)           Holdings ceases to own 100% of the equity interests of the Company.

 

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.10(a).

 

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.10(b).

 

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control Triggering Event will be deemed to have occurred in connection with any particular Change of Control unless and until such Change of Control has actually been consummated.

 

Company ” means Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., and, subject to Article V , any and all successors thereto.

 

Company Order ” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer.  A Company Order shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means, with respect to any redemption date, the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed (assuming that such Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Fixed Rate Notes to be redeemed.

 

Comparable Treasury Price ” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average as determined by the Company of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average as determined by the Company of all such quotations.

 

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets ” means the total amount of assets minus (i) all applicable reserves; (ii) all current liabilities (excluding any liabilities which are by their terms extendible or renewable at the option of the obligor to a time more than 12 months after the time as of which the amount thereof is being computed and excluding current maturities of long-term indebtedness); and (iii) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like intangible assets, all as shown in Holdings’ audited consolidated balance sheet contained in Holdings then most recent annual report to stockholders, except that assets will include an amount equal to the Attributable Debt in respect of any sale and leaseback transaction not capitalized on such balance sheet.

 

Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee ” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business in respect of this Indenture shall be administered, which office at the

 

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date hereof is located at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, Attention:  Corporate Finance Unit, except that with respect to presentation of the Notes for payment or for registration of transfer or exchange, such term shall mean the office or agency of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate agency business shall be conducted, which office at the date of this instrument is located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286; Attention:  Corporate Trust Division - Corporate Finance Unit, or, in the case of any of such offices or agency, such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

Custodian ” means the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary with respect to any Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.

 

Default ” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

Definitive Note ” means a certificated Note of a Series registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.08 or 2.12 hereof, in substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 , A-2 or A-3 hereto, as applicable, except that such Note shall not bear the Global Note legend set forth in Exhibit A-1 , A-2 or A-3 , as applicable.

 

Depositary ” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.05 hereof as the Depositary with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as Depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

 

Dollars ” and “ $ ” means the currency of The United States of America.

 

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

Fixed Rate Notes ” shall mean, collectively, the 2023 Notes and the 2028 Notes.

 

Floating Rate Notes ” means the Company’s Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021.

 

Foreign Currency ” means any currency or currency unit issued by a government other than the government of The United States of America.

 

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the Financial Accounting Standards Board codification (or by agencies or entities with similar functions of comparable stature and authority within the U.S. accounting profession) or in rules or interpretative releases of the SEC applicable to SEC registrants; provided that (a) if at any time the SEC permits or requires U.S. domiciled companies subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act to use IFRS in lieu of GAAP for financial reporting purposes, Holdings or the Company may irrevocably elect by written notice to the Trustee to so use IFRS in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such notice, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean (i) IFRS for periods beginning on and after the date of such notice or a later date as specified in such notice as in effect on such date and (ii) for prior periods, GAAP as defined in the first sentence of this definition and (b) GAAP is determined as of the date of any calculation or determination required hereunder; provided that the Company, on any date, may, by providing notice thereof to the Trustee, elect to establish that GAAP shall mean GAAP as in effect on such date.

 

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Global Note ” or “ Global Notes ” means the Notes in the form established pursuant to Section 2.03 hereof, evidencing all or part of a Series of Notes issued to the Depositary for such Series or its nominee and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

 

Government Securities ” means direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, The United States of America, and the payment for which the United States pledges its full faith and credit.

 

Guarantee ” means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business) direct or indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any indebtedness.

 

Guarantor ” means Holdings and its successors and assigns.

 

Holder ” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered.

 

Holdings ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

 

IFRS ” means International Financial Reporting Standards and applicable accounting requirements set by the International Accounting Standards Board or any successor thereto (or the Financial Accounting Standards Board or any successor to such Board, or the SEC, as the case may be), as in effect from time to time

 

Indenture ” means this Indenture, as amended, supplemented or restated from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

Initial 2023 Notes ” means the $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes issued on the Issue Date.

 

Initial 2028 Notes ” means the $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2028 Notes issued on the Issue Date.

 

Initial Floating Rate Notes ” means the $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes issued on the Issue Date.

 

Initial Notes ” means, collectively, the Initial Floating Rate Notes, the Initial 2023 Notes and the Initial 2028 Notes.

 

Investment Grade ” means a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P) and a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s).

 

Issue Date ” means May 30, 2018.

 

Legal Holiday ” means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York, the city of Wichita, Kansas or the city where the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located at such time are required or authorized by law, regulation or executive order to close or be closed.

 

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.

 

Note Guarantee ” means each Guarantee of the obligations with respect to the Notes issued by Holdings pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

 

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Notes ” means the Initial Notes and any Additional Notes.  Each of the Floating Rate Notes, the 2023 Notes and the 2028 Notes is referred to herein as a “Series” of notes.

 

Officer ” means, with respect to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary or any Vice-President of such Person.

 

Officer’s Certificate ” means a certificate signed by an Officer of the Company that meets the requirements of Section 12.05 hereof, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Opinion of Counsel ” means an opinion from legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 12.05 hereof.

 

Par Call Date ” means (i) with respect to the 2023 Notes, May 15, 2023 and (ii) with respect to the 2028 Notes, March 15, 2028.

 

Person ” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or government or other entity.

 

Principal Property ” means any building, structure or other facility located within the United States (other than its territories and possessions) and owned by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, the book value of which is not less than the greater of (i) 2% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of Holdings and its consolidated Subsidiaries measured as of the date of the incurrence of any such indebtedness or (b) $75 million; provided that the term “Principal Property” does not include any such property or asset that is financed through the issuance of tax exempt governmental obligations or an industrial revenue bond, pollution control bond or similar financing arrangement with any U.S. federal, state or municipal government or other governmental body or agency.

 

Quotation Agent ” means the Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company.

 

Rating Agency ” means (1) each of S&P and Moody’s; and (2) if either S&P or Moody’s ceases to rate the Notes of each Series or fails to make a rating of the Notes of each Series publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Board of Directors of Holdings and reasonably acceptable to the Trustee) as a replacement agency for S&P or Moody’s, or all of them, as the case may be.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer ” means (i) each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and their respective successors; provided , however , that if any of the foregoing ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “ Primary Treasury Dealer ”), the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, 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 Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

 

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Registered Note ” means any Note in the form (to the extent applicable thereto) established pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof which is registered on the books of the Registrar.

 

Regular Record Date ” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date means the applicable date specified as a “Record Date” on the face of the applicable Note.

 

Responsible Officer ,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Division - Corporate Finance Unit (or any successor division or unit) of the Trustee located at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and for the purposes of Section 7.01(c)(2) and the second sentence of Section 7.05 shall also include any other Officer of the Trustee to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such Officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary (a) substantially all the property of which is located within the United States (other than its territories and possessions) and (b) that owns any Principal Property; provided that the term “Restricted Subsidiary” shall include the Company and shall not include any Subsidiary that is principally engaged in leasing or in financing receivables or that is principally engaged in financing Holdings’ operations outside the United States (including its territories and possessions), and shall not include Kansas Industrial Energy Supply Company.

 

S&P ” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.

 

SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Series ” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Notes.”

 

Special Record Date ” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered Notes means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.14 hereof.

 

Stated Maturity ” means, with respect to any installment indebtedness, the date specified as the fixed date on which the final payment of principal was scheduled to be paid in the documentation governing such indebtedness, and will not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.

 

Subsidiary ” means a Person more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by Holdings or by one or more other Subsidiaries.

 

TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb).

 

Trustee ” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.

 

Voting Stock ” of any specified Person as of any date means any and all shares or equity interests (however designated) of such Person that are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote generally in the election of the Board of Directors, managers or trustees of such Person (or Persons performing similar functions), as applicable, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of a contingency.

 

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Section 1.02             Other Definitions .

 

Term

 

Defined in Section

 

 

 

Acceleration Event

 

6.01

Applicable Law

 

7.02(m)

Covenant Defeasance

 

8.03

Defaulted Interest

 

2.14

DTC

 

2.05

Event of Default

 

6.01

Legal Defeasance

 

8.02

Liens

 

4.08

Note Register

 

2.05

Paying Agent

 

2.05

Payment Default

 

6.01

Registrar

 

2.05

 

Section 1.03             Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act .  Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.

 

The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

 

indenture trustee ” means the Trustee; and

 

obligor ” on the indenture securities means the Company, and any other obligor upon the Notes.

 

All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them.

 

Section 1.04             Rules of Construction .  Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

(1)           a term has the meaning assigned to it;

 

(2)           an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

 

(3)           “or” is not exclusive;

 

(4)           words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;

 

(5)           “will” and “shall” be interpreted to express a command;

 

(6)           provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and

 

(7)           references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act will be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time.

 

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ARTICLE II

 

THE NOTES

 

Section 2.01             Form Generally .  The Floating Rate Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 attached hereto, the 2023 Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 attached hereto and the 2028 Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3 attached hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Officer executing such Notes as evidenced by such Officer’s execution of the Notes.

 

The certificated Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other manner, provided that such method is permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which such Notes may be listed, all as determined by the Officer executing such Notes as evidenced by such Officer’s execution of such Notes.

 

Section 2.02             Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating .  One Officer shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual, facsimile or electronic signature.  If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note shall nevertheless be valid.

 

A Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual, facsimile or electronic signature of the Trustee.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes; and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes.

 

No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual, facsimile or electronic signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.  The Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

 

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

 

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.,

 

 

as Trustee

Date:

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

With respect to Notes that are not to be originally issued at one time, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the authorization by the Company of any of such Notes, on the forms and terms thereof and the legality, validity, binding effect and enforceability thereof, upon the Opinion of Counsel and the other

 

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documents delivered pursuant to this Section, as applicable, in connection with the first authentication of Notes.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Note shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Note to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 2.13 hereof together with a written statement stating that such Note has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Note shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

 

Section 2.03             Notes in Global Form .  Notes issued as a Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon or otherwise notated on the books and records of the Registrar and that the aggregate principal 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 a Global Note to reflect the aggregate principal amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder thereof.

 

Global Notes may be issued in either registered or bearer form and in either temporary or permanent form.  Permanent Global Notes will be issued in definitive form.

 

The provisions of the last sentence of Section 2.02 hereof shall apply to any Note represented by a Global Note if such Note was never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Note in global form together with written instructions with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Notes represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 2.02 hereof.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.03 and Section 2.14 hereof, payment of principal of and any interest on any Global Note shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

 

None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

 

Section 2.04             Amount of Notes .  On the Issue Date, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021, $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023 and $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028 and, at any time and from time to time thereafter, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes of a Series for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in a Company Order.  Such order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the original issue of such Notes is to be authenticated.  The aggregate principal amount of Notes of any Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.  The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rules or usage.  The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

All Notes of a Series shall be substantially identical except as to the date from which interest shall accrue and except as may otherwise be provided in any indenture supplemental hereto.

 

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If any of the terms of the Notes of a Series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of any appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officer’s Certificate setting forth the terms of such Notes.

 

Section 2.05             Registrar and Paying Agent .  The Company shall maintain, with respect to the Notes, an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (“ Registrar ”) and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment (“ Paying Agent ”).  The Registrar shall keep a register (the “ Note Register ”) of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.  The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents.  The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar and the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this Indenture.  If the Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar of Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such.  The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

 

The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.

 

The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Registrar and Paying Agent and to act as Custodian with respect to the Global Notes, and the Trustee hereby agrees so to initially act.

 

Section 2.06             Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust .  The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all funds held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment.  While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all funds held by it relating to the Notes to the Trustee.  The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all funds held by it to the Trustee.  Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary) shall have no further liability for such funds.  If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all funds held by it as Paying Agent.  Upon any Event of Default under Sections 6.01(d) and (e) hereof relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.

 

Section 2.07             Holder Lists .  The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of all Holders of each Series of Notes and shall otherwise comply with TIA §312(a).  If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee at least two Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders and the Company shall otherwise comply with TIA §312(a).

 

Section 2.08             Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange .  Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Notes of a Series at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of such Series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.  The Company shall not charge a service charge for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with the transfer or exchange of the Notes of a Series from the Holder requesting such transfer or

 

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exchange (other than any exchange of a temporary Note for a permanent Note not involving any change in ownership or any exchange pursuant to Section 2.12, 3.06 or 9.05 hereof, not involving any transfer).

 

Notwithstanding any other provisions (other than the provisions set forth in the fourth paragraph) of this Section 2.08, a Global Note representing all or a portion of the Notes of a Series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

Each Global Note is exchangeable for Notes of the same Series in certificated form only if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Notes or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and the Company fails within 90 days thereafter to appoint a successor Depositary or (ii) the Company in its sole discretion determines that such Global Note shall be exchangeable and notify the Trustee.  In any such event the Company will issue, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of certificated Notes, will authenticate and deliver Notes in certificated form of the same Series in exchange for such Global Note.  In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in either Global Note will be entitled to physical delivery in certificated form of Notes of the same Series equal in principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have such Notes registered in its name.  Notes so issued in certificated form will be issued in denominations of $2,000 or any larger amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000, and will be issued in registered form only, without coupons.

 

Upon the exchange of a Global Note for Notes of the same Series in certificated form, such Global Note shall be cancelled by the Trustee.  All cancelled Notes held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee and, upon written request by the Company, a certificate of their disposal delivered to the Company.  Definitive Notes issued in exchange for a Global Note of the same Series pursuant to this Section 2.08 hereof shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Note in global form, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee in writing.  The Trustee shall deliver such Notes as instructed in writing by the Depositary.

 

At the option of the Holders of certificated Notes, certificated Notes may be exchanged for other certificated Notes of the same Series of any authorized denomination or denominations of like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the certificated Notes of such Series to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any certificated Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the certificated Notes of the same Series which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes of the same Series surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes during a period beginning fifteen Business Days before any selection of Notes of such Series to be redeemed and ending at the close of business on the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

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Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a Depositary participant or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any Depositary participant, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any Depositary participant, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes.  All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes and this Indenture shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note).  The rights of a beneficial owner in a Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the Applicable Procedures.  The Trustee and the Agents shall be entitled to rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.  The Trustee and the Agents shall be entitled to deal with the Depositary, and any nominee thereof, that is the Holder of any Global Note for all purposes of this Indenture relating to such Global Note (including the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest and additional amounts, if any, and the giving of instructions or directions by or to the owner or holder of a beneficial ownership interest in such Global Note) as the sole Holder of such Global Note and shall have no obligations to the beneficial owners thereof.  Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any acts or omissions of the Depositary with respect to such Global Note, for the records of any such Depositary, including records in respect of beneficial ownership interests in respect of any such Global Note, for any transactions between the Depositary and any Depositary participant or between or among the Depositary, any such Depositary participant and/or any holder or owner of a beneficial interest in such Global Note, or for any transfers of beneficial interests in any such Global Note.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Note, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any Agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Depositary (or its nominee), as a Holder, with respect to such Global Note or shall impair, as between such Depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Note, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Note.

 

Section 2.09             Replacement Notes .  If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note of the same Series.  If required by the Trustee or the Company, the Holder of such Note shall provide indemnity that is sufficient, in the judgment of the Trustee and the Company, to protect the Company, the Trustee, any Agent and any authenticating agent from any loss that any of them may suffer in connection with such replacement.  If required by the Company, such Holder shall reimburse the Company for its reasonable expenses in connection with such replacement Note.

 

Every replacement Note issued in accordance with this Section 2.09 shall be the valid obligation of the Company, evidencing the same debt as the destroyed, lost or stolen Note of the same Series, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with all other Notes of the same Series duly issued hereunder.

 

Section 2.10             Outstanding Notes .  The Notes of a Series outstanding at any time shall be the entire principal amount of Notes of such Series represented by all of the Global Notes of such Series and Definitive Notes of such Series authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those subject to reductions in beneficial interests effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section 2.10 as not outstanding.  Except

 

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as set forth in Section 2.11 hereof, a Note shall not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Note.

 

If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, it shall cease to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser.

 

If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01 hereof, it shall cease to be outstanding and interest on it shall cease to accrue.

 

If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any thereof) holds, on a redemption date, a Change of Control Payment Date or a maturity date, funds sufficient to pay Notes of a Series payable on that date, then on and after that date such Notes shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding and shall cease to accrue interest.

 

Section 2.11             Treasury Notes .  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes of a Series have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes of such Series owned by the Company, or by any Affiliate of the Company, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes of such Series that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

 

Section 2.12             Temporary Notes .  Until certificates representing Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and, upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate, temporary Notes.  Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Notes of the same Series but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.  Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Global Notes or Definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes of the same Series, as applicable.  After preparation of Definitive Notes, the Temporary Note will be exchangeable for Definitive Notes of the same Series upon surrender of the temporary Notes.

 

Holders of temporary Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture as permanent Notes of the same Series.

 

Section 2.13             Cancellation .  The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar and Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment.  The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of cancelled Notes (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act or other applicable laws) unless by written order, signed by an Officer of the Company, the Company directs them to be returned to it.

 

Certification of the disposal of all canceled Notes shall be delivered to the Company from time to time upon request.  The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

Section 2.14             Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest .  Interest on any Note that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

 

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If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes of a Series which is payable (“ Defaulted Interest ”), it shall pay the Defaulted Interest in any lawful manner plus , to the extent lawful, interest payable on the Defaulted Interest, to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent Special Record Date, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes of such Series.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on such Notes and the date of the proposed payment.  The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed each such Special Record Date and payment date, provided that no such Special Record Date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related payment date for such Defaulted Interest.  At least 15 days before the Special Record Date, the Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed to Holders of Notes of such Series a notice that states the Special Record Date, the related payment date and the amount of such interest to be paid.

 

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.14 and Section 2.08 hereof, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

 

Section 2.15             CUSIP or ISIN Numbers .  The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption or Offers to Purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided , however , that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or notice of an Change of Control Offer and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or Change of Control Offer shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers.

 

Section 2.16             Additional Notes .  The Company shall be entitled, from time to time, without notice to, or the consent of the Holders, to issue Additional Notes of any Series under this Indenture that shall have identical terms as the Initial Notes of such Series issued on the date hereof, other than with respect to the date of issuance, first interest payment date and issue price; provided that if such Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes of such Series for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such Additional Notes of that Series will have a separate CUSIP and ISIN number.  The Initial Notes of a Series issued on the date hereof and any Additional Notes of such Series shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including directions, waivers, amendments, consents, redemptions and Change of Control Offers.  No Additional Notes may be issued if an Event of Default has occurred.

 

With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in a Board Resolution and an Officer’s Certificate, a copy of each of which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

 

(1)           the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture; and

 

(2)           the issue price, the Issue Date and the CUSIP and/or ISIN number of such Additional Notes.

 

Section 2.17             Record Date .  The record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of Notes entitled to vote or consent to any action by vote or consent or permitted under this Indenture shall be determined as provided for in TIA §316(c).

 

Section 2.18             Persons Deemed Owners .  Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any Agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in

 

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whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date as the owner of such Note, for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by the first paragraph of Section 2.04 hereof and subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.13 hereof) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any Agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Note in global form or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

 

Section 2.19             Computation of Interest .  Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.  Interest on the Floating Rate Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a 360-day year.  Interest on the Initial Notes will accrue from May 30, 2018.

 

ARTICLE III

 

REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

 

Section 3.01             Notice to Trustee .  If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 3.07, it shall furnish to the Trustee, at least 10 days (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the Trustee) but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth (a) the applicable section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (b) the redemption date, (c) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and (d) the redemption price.

 

Section 3.02             Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed .  If less than all of the Notes of a Series are to be redeemed or purchased in an offer to purchase at any time, the Trustee (subject to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary) shall select the Notes of a Series to be redeemed or purchased among the Holders of the Notes on a pro rata basis, by lot or in accordance with any other method the Trustee deems fair and appropriate and the Depositary will then select beneficial interests in the Notes to be redeemed in accordance with Applicable Procedures of the Depositary.

 

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes of a Series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.  Notes and portions of Notes selected shall be in amounts of $2,000 or whole multiples of $1,000.

 

Section 3.03             Notice of Redemption .  At least 10 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered, by first class mail, or, in the case of the Depositary with respect to any Global Note, sent electronically, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address.

 

The notice shall identify the Series of Notes to be redeemed and shall state:

 

(1)           the redemption date;

 

(2)           the redemption price (or manner of calculation if not then known);

 

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(3)           the name and address of the Paying Agent;

 

(4)           that Notes of such Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

 

(5)           that interest on Notes of such Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

 

(6)           the CUSIP number, if any, provided that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes of such Series; and

 

(7)           the conditions precedent, if any, to the redemption.

 

At the Company’s request, and upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 12.04 hereof at least five days prior to the date notice is to be given (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), together with the notice to be given setting forth the information to be stated therein as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense.

 

Section 3.04             Effect of Notice of Redemption .  Once notice of redemption is sent in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof, Notes of a Series called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price.  A notice of redemption may be conditioned upon the satisfaction of conditions precedent set forth in such notice of redemption.

 

Section 3.05             Deposit of Redemption Price .  At least one Business Day prior to the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on all Notes of a Series to be redeemed on that date.  The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption price of, and accrued interest on, all Notes of such Series to be redeemed.

 

If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption.  If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes of such Series and in Section 4.01 hereof.

 

Section 3.06             Notes Redeemed in Part .  Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall issue and, upon the Company’s written request, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder, or transfer by book-entry at the expense of the Company, a new Note of the same Series equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.  No Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part.

 

Section 3.07             Optional Redemption .

 

(a)           Floating Rate Note Redemption .  The Company may redeem, at its option, the Floating Rate Notes, in whole or in part, on May 31, 2019 or at any time or from time to time thereafter at a price

 

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equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Floating Rate Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.

 

(b)           Fixed Rate Notes Make Whole Redemption .  Prior to the applicable Par Call Date, the Fixed Rate Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to the greater of:

 

(1)           100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Fixed Rates Notes to be redeemed, and

 

(2)           as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on such Series of Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of interest accrued on such Notes as of the date of redemption) assuming that such Fixed Rate Notes would mature on the applicable Par Call Date but for the redemption, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus (i) in the case of the 2023 Notes, 20 basis points and (iii) in the case of the 2025 Notes, 25 basis points.

 

In the case of each of clauses (1) and (2), accrued and unpaid interest will be payable to, but excluding, the date of redemption, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest on the aggregate principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(c)           Fixed Rate Notes Par Call Redemption .  On and after the applicable Par Call Date, the Fixed Rate Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Fixed Rate Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the aggregate principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(d)           Redemption Price . The Trustee shall have no responsibility for any calculation or determination in respect of the establishment of the redemption price and shall be entitled to receive and rely conclusively upon an Officer’s Certificate that states the redemption price.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

COVENANTS

 

Section 4.01             Payment of Principal and Interest .  The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Notes that it will pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes of such Series on the dates and in the manner provided in such Notes.  Principal, premium, if any, and interest on any Notes will be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 10:00 a.m.  Eastern Time on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due.

 

Section 4.02             Maintenance of Office or Agency .  The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Notes that it will maintain an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee for such Notes or an Affiliate of the Trustee, Registrar for such Notes or co-registrar) where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of such Notes and this Indenture may be served.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee for such Notes of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company fails to maintain any such required office or

 

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agency or fails to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

 

The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as one such office or agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.05 .

 

Section 4.03             Reports .  The Company will at all times comply with TIA § 314(a).  Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such will not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

 

Section 4.04             Compliance Certificate .  The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, an Officer’s Certificate signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal accounting officer, stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to the Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default will have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto) and that to the best of his or her knowledge no event has occurred and remains in existence by reason of which payments on account of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Notes is prohibited or if such event has occurred, a description of the event and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

 

Section 4.05             Taxes .  The Company will pay, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes.

 

Section 4.06             Stay, Extension and Usury Laws .  Each of Holdings and the Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of Holdings and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so), as applicable, hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee for such Notes, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

 

Section 4.07             Corporate Existence .  Subject to Articles V hereof, Holdings and the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect:

 

(a)           its corporate existence, in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of Holdings or the Company; and

 

(b)           the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of Holdings and the Company.

 

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Section 4.08             Limitation on Liens .

 

(a)           Holdings will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist any mortgage, security interest, pledge, lien or other encumbrance (“ Liens ”) upon (i) any Principal Property or (ii) upon any shares of stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case to secure debt for money borrowed, without equally and ratably securing the Notes of each Series.  This restriction, however, will not apply to:

 

(1)           Liens on property, shares of stock or indebtedness of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(2)           Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of such property directly or indirectly by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Liens to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price of such property upon the acquisition of such property or to secure indebtedness incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 180 days after, the acquisition of such property for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof;

 

(3)           Liens on Principal Property being constructed or improved securing loans to finance such construction or improvements;

 

(4)           Liens to secure indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to Holdings or another Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(5)           Liens existing at the date of this Indenture;

 

(6)           statutory Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and other Liens imposed by law or created in the ordinary course of business which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith;

 

(7)           Liens securing (i) the non-delinquent performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money) or statutory obligations, (ii) surety bonds (excluding appeal bonds and other bonds posted in connection with court proceedings or judgments) and (iii) other non-delinquent obligations of a like nature (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations), in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(8)           Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such Person, or the parent entity of such Person, is merged into or consolidated with Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of the properties of a Person, or the parent entity of such Person, as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(9)           Liens in favor of governmental entities or other special purpose entities established by governmental entities (including without limitation for industrial revenue bonds, new market tax credits, pollution control bonds or any other issuance of tax-exempt governmental obligations);

 

(10)         Liens securing obligations in respect of capital leases on assets subject to such leases;

 

(11)         Liens arising by reason of any judgment, decree or other of any court, so long as any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been initiated for the review of such judgment, decree or order will not have been finally terminated or so long as the period within which

 

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such proceedings may be initiated will not have expired; any deposit or pledge with any surety company or clerk of any court, or in escrow, as collateral in connection with, or in lieu of, any bond on appeal from any judgment or decree against Holdings or any Subsidiary, or in connection with other proceedings or actions at law or in equity by or against Holdings or any Subsidiary;

 

(12)         Liens created in connection with a transaction financed with, and created to secure indebtedness that is not recourse to, our assets or those of any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(13)         zoning restrictions, easements, rights-of-way, restrictions on use of real property and other similar encumbrances or Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and do not materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries; and

 

(14)         extensions, renewals or replacements of any Lien referred to in the preceding clauses (1) through (13).

 

(b)           Notwithstanding the restrictions set forth in clause (a) above, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary will be permitted to issue, assume, guarantee or permit to exist any debt for money borrowed secured by a Lien in addition to those permitted, above, without equally and ratably securing each Series of the Notes, provided that, after giving effect to such Lien, the aggregate amount of all debt for money borrowed so secured by Liens (not including permitted Liens as described in clause (a) above) does not exceed the greater of (i) 15% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of Holdings and its consolidated subsidiaries measured as of the date of the incurrence of any such debt (giving pro forma effect to the application of the proceeds therefrom and any transaction in connection with which such debt is being incurred) or (ii) $600 million.

 

Section 4.09             Limitation on Sale and Leasebacks .  Holdings will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any sale and leaseback transaction with respect to any Principal Property other than any such transaction involving a lease for a term of not more than three years or any lease between Holdings and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries, unless either:

 

(a)           Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled to incur debt for money borrowed secured by a Lien on such Principal Property at least equal in amount to the Attributable Debt with respect to such sale and leaseback transaction, without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or

 

(b)           Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary will apply an amount in cash equal to the greater of the net proceeds of such sale and the Attributable Debt with respect to such sale and leaseback transaction to:

 

(1)           the retirement of senior indebtedness that matures more than twelve months after the creation of such senior indebtedness; or

 

(2)           the acquisition, construction, development or improvement of properties, facilities or equipment that are, or upon such acquisition, construction, development or improvement will be, or will be a part of, a Principal Property.

 

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Section 4.10             Purchase of Notes Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event

 

(a)           .If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes in full pursuant to Section 3.07, Holders of each Series of Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of such Holders’ Notes pursuant to the offer described in Section 4.10(b) below (such offer, the “ Change of Control Offer ”).  In the Change of Control Offer, the Company will offer payment, in cash, equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of each Series repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased up to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.

 

(b)           Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of such pending Change of Control, the Company will be required to send, by first class mail, a notice to Holders of Notes, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice will govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer.  Such notice will state, among other things, the repurchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”).  The notice, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, may state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.  Holders of Notes electing to have their Notes repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Notes, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Notes completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Notes to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

(c)           The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for such an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

 

(d)           The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.  To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the provisions in this Indenture governing the Change of Control Offer by virtue of any such conflict.

 

ARTICLE V

 

SUCCESSORS

 

Section 5.01             Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets .  Neither the Company nor Holdings shall consolidate or merge with or into, or sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of its property and assets substantially as an entirety to another entity unless:

 

(a)           (1) The Company or Holdings is the surviving entity, as applicable, or (2) the successor entity, if other than the Company or Holdings, is a U.S. corporation, partnership, limited liability company or trust and assumes by supplemental indenture all of the Company’s or Holdings’ obligations, as applicable, under the Notes or the Notes Guarantees, respectively, and this Indenture;

 

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(b)           immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Event of Default, and no event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, has occurred and is continuing;

 

(c)           as a result of any consolidation, merger, sale or lease, conveyance or transfer or other disposition described in this Section 5.01, properties or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary would become subject to any Lien that would not be permitted by Section 4.08 without equally and ratably securing the Notes, the Company or Holdings or such successor entity, as the case may be, will take the steps as are necessary to secure effectively the Notes equally and ratably with, or prior to, all debt for borrowed money secured by those Liens as described above, such Lien securing the Notes to be effective only for so long as such properties or assets shall remain subject to such additional Lien; and

 

(d)           the Company or the surviving entity shall have delivered to the Trustee (x) an Officer’s Certificate stating that the conditions in (a), (b) and (c) above have been complied with and any other conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied and (y) an Opinion of Counsel stating that the conditions in (a) above have been satisfied and any other conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

 

Section 5.02             Successor Corporation Substituted .  Upon any merger or consolidation, or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of Holdings or the Company in a transaction that is subject to, and that complies with the provisions of, Section 5.01 hereof, the successor Person into which Holdings or the Company, as applicable, is merged or formed by such consolidation or to which such sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such merger, consolidation, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the provisions of this Indenture referring to “Holdings” or the “Company”, as applicable, shall refer instead to the successor Person and not to Holdings or the Company, as applicable), and may exercise every right and power of Holdings or the Company, as applicable, under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as Holdings or the Company, as applicable, herein, and Holdings or the Company, as applicable, will be released from its obligations under the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as applicable, and this Indenture; provided , however , that, in the case of a lease of all of the assets of Holdings or the Company, as applicable, the predecessor shall not be relieved from its obligations under the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as applicable.

 

ARTICLE VI

 

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

Section 6.01             Events of Default .  “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Notes of each Series, means any one of the following events:

 

(a)           default in any payment of interest on the Notes of such Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days;

 

(b)           default in payment when due of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) the Notes of such Series when the same becomes due and payable at maturity, upon acceleration, by declaration or redemption or otherwise;

 

(c)           default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company or Holdings in this Indenture or in the Notes of such Series, which default continues uncured for a period of 90 days after (i) the Company receives written notice from the Trustee or (ii) the

 

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Company and the Trustee receive written notice from Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes of such Series;

 

(d)           the Company or Holdings commences a voluntary case under applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law; consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary bankruptcy case; applies for or consents to the appointment of any custodian, receiver, trustee, sequestrator, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer of it or for all or substantially all of its property and assets; makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or generally is unable to pay its debts as they become due;

 

(e)           an involuntary case or other proceeding is commenced against the Company with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding remains undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or an order for relief is entered against the Company under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect;

 

(f)            the Note Guarantees cease to be in full force and effect in all material respects or is declared null and void in a judicial proceeding or Holdings denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Note Guarantees (except, in any case, as contemplated by the terms of this Indenture) and such default continues for 30 days after notice that Holdings denies or disavows its obligations under the Note Guarantees; or

 

(g)           default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for money borrowed by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries), whether such indebtedness or guarantee now exists, or is created after the date of the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Initial Notes, if that default (i) is caused by a failure to pay principal on such indebtedness at its stated final maturity (after giving effect to any applicable grace periods provided in such indebtedness) (a “ Payment Default ”) or (ii) results in the acceleration of such indebtedness prior to its express maturity (an “ Acceleration Event ”) and (A) in each case, the principal amount of any such indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or an Acceleration Event, aggregates $100 million or more and (B) in the case of a Payment Default, such indebtedness is not discharged and, in the case of an Acceleration Event, such acceleration is not rescinded or annulled, within 10 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes of such Series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder.

 

Section 6.02             Acceleration .  If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.01(d ) or (e)) occurs and is continuing with respect to the Notes of a Series then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of all of the outstanding Notes of such Series may declare the principal amount of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes of such Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(d)  or (e)  shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Notes shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made with respect to the Notes of a Series, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes of such Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration or acceleration and its consequences with respect to the Notes of such Series if (i) the rescission and annulment would not conflict with any judgment or decree already rendered, (ii) if all existing Events of Default with respect to the Notes of such Series (except nonpayment of principal, interest or premium that has become due solely because of the acceleration) have been cured or waived and all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation expenses and disbursements of the Trustee and its agents and counsel have been paid and (iii) if the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay (a) any overdue interest on the Notes of such Series, (b) the principal amount of the Notes of such Series (except the principal, interest or premium that has become due solely because of the acceleration) and (c) to the extent lawful and applicable, interest on overdue installments of interest at the rate specified in the Notes of such Series.

 

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

Section 6.03             Other Remedies .  If an Event of Default with respect to a Series of Notes occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of such Notes or this Indenture.

 

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.  All remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

 

Section 6.04             Waiver of Past Defaults .  Prior to the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes of a Series as provided in Section 6.02 , the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of each Series affected thereby then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of the Notes of such Series waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under this Indenture with respect to the Notes of such Series except (i) a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of premium or interest on, or the principal of, the Notes of such Series (including in connection with an offer to purchase) or (ii) a Default or Event of Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the consent of each Holder affected thereby.  Upon any such waiver, such Default or Event of Default shall cease to exist with respect to the Notes of such Series, and any Event of Default with respect to the Notes of such Series arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

Section 6.05             Control by Majority .  Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes of a Series may in writing direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on it, subject to Section 7.02(f) .  However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Notes of a Series (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether any such directions are unduly prejudicial to such Holders) or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability.  The Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

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Section 6.06             Limitation on Suits .  A Holder of Notes of a Series may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or such Notes only if:

 

(a)           the Holder of a Note gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to such Series;

 

(b)           the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes of such Series make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

 

(c)           such Holder of a Note or Holders of Notes offer and, if requested, provide to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense;

 

(d)           the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of security or indemnity; and

 

(e)           during such 60-day period the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes of such Series do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request.

 

A Holder of Notes may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder of Notes or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder of Notes.

 

Section 6.07             Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment .  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note (including in connection with an offer to purchase), or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

Section 6.08             Collection Suit by Trustee .  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)  or (b)  hereof with respect to Notes of any Series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal of, premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid on, such Notes and interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful, interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

 

Section 6.09             Trustee May File Proofs of Claim .  The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), its creditors or its property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof.  To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive

 

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in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

 

Section 6.10             Priorities .  If the Trustee collects any money or property with respect to the Notes pursuant to this Article VI , or, after an Event of Default, any money or other property distributable in respect of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

 

First:  to the Trustee (including any predecessor trustee), its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.07 hereof applicable to the Notes, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

 

Second:  to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

 

Third:  to the Company or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

 

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10 .

 

Section 6.11             Undertaking for Costs .  In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.  This Section does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder of a Note pursuant to Section 6.07 hereof, or a suit by Holders or group of Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.

 

Section 6.12             Restoration of Rights and Remedies .  If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee, and the Holders will be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders will continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

Section 6.13             Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws .  The Company covenants, to the extent that it may lawfully do so, that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest (including additional interest, if any) on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of the Indenture.  The Company hereby expressly waives, to the extent that it may lawfully do so, all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any

 

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power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as if no such law had been enacted.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

TRUSTEE

 

Section 7.01             Duties of Trustee .

 

(a)           If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

 

(b)           Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the duties of the Trustee will be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.

 

(c)           Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture.  However, the Trustee will examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts, statements, opinions or conclusions stated thereon).

 

(d)           The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:  this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01 ; the Trustee will not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; the Trustee will not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05 hereof; and no provision of this Indenture will require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or incur any liability.  The Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights and powers under this Indenture at the request of any Holders, unless such Holder has offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense.

 

(e)           Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to this Section 7.01 .

 

(f)            The Trustee will not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.  Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers or duties hereunder.  The permissive rights or powers of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty of the Trustee.

 

Section 7.02             Rights of Trustee .

 

(a)           Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,

 

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opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person or Persons.  The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

 

(b)           Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting or as specifically called for in this Indenture, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both.  The Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.  The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel will be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

 

(c)           The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and will not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent appointed with due care.

 

(d)           The Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.

 

(e)           Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company will be sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company.  Any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

 

(f)            The Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against the losses, liabilities and expenses that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

 

(g)           In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services, or other unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or facsimile or other wire or communication facility; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

(h)           In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

 

(i)            The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be compensated, reimbursed, and indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

 

(j)            The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of such Default or Event of Default from the Company or by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.

 

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(k)           The Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

 

(l)            The Trustee will not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness, or other paper or document, or inquire as to the performance by the Company or Holdings of any of their covenants in this Indenture, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it will be entitled to examine the books, records, and premises of the Company or Holdings, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

 

(m)          In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (“A pplicable Law ”) related to this Indenture, the Company agrees (i) to provide to the Trustee sufficient information about holders or other applicable parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions) as the Trustee may reasonably request so the Trustee can determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Law, (ii) that the Trustee shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law for which the Trustee shall not have any liability, and (iii) to indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee for any losses it may suffer due to the actions it takes in good faith to comply with such Applicable Law.  The terms of this section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

 

Section 7.03             Individual Rights of Trustee .  The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest as defined in the TIA it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply to the SEC for permission to continue as Trustee (if this Indenture has been qualified under the TIA) or resign.  Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties.  The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11 hereof.

 

Section 7.04             Trustee’s Disclaimer .  The Trustee will not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity, sufficiency or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money paid to the Company or upon the Company’s direction under any provision of this Indenture, it will not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it will not be responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in the Notes or any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this Indenture other than its certificate of authentication.  Under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by any Notes.  The Trustee shall not be responsible to make any calculation with respect to any matter under this Indenture.  The Trustee shall have no duty to monitor or investigate the Company’s compliance with or the breach of, or cause to be performed or observed, any representation, warranty, or covenant, or agreement of any Person, other than the Trustee, made in this Indenture.

 

Section 7.05             Notice of Defaults .  If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee will mail to Holders of Notes a notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs.  Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice from Holders

 

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of the Notes if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Notes.

 

Section 7.06             Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes .

 

(a)           Within 60 days after each April 15 beginning with the April 15 following the date of this Indenture, and for so long as Notes remain outstanding, the Trustee will mail to the Holders of the Notes a brief report dated as of such reporting date that complies with TIA § 313(a) (but if no event described in TIA § 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months preceding the reporting date, no report need be transmitted).  The Trustee also will comply with TIA § 313(b)(2).  The Trustee will also transmit by mail all reports as required by TIA § 313(c).

 

(b)           A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders of Notes will be mailed by the Trustee to the Company and filed by the Trustee with the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Notes are listed in accordance with TIA § 313(d).  The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange or delisted therefrom.

 

Section 7.07             Compensation and Indemnity .

 

(a)           The Company and Holdings will pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder as the Trustee, the Company and Holdings may agree from time to time in writing.  The Trustee’s compensation will not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Company and Holdings will reimburse the Trustee promptly upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its services.  Such expenses will include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

 

(b)           The Company and Holdings, jointly and severally, will indemnify the Trustee (including any predecessor Trustee), its officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses, including fees and expenses of counsel incurred by it arising out of or in connection with this Indenture, the Notes, the acceptance or administration of the trusts or its duties under this Indenture, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Company or Holdings (including this Section 7.07 ) and defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, Holdings, any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent any such loss, liability, damage, claim or expense may be attributable to its negligence or willful misconduct.  The Trustee will notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.  Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company will not relieve the Company or Holdings of its obligations hereunder.  The Company and Holdings will defend the claim and the Trustee will cooperate in the defense.  The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company and Holdings will pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel.  The Company and Holdings need not pay for any settlement made without their consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.

 

(c)           The obligations of the Company and Holdings under this Section 7.07 will survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee, the termination for any reason of this Indenture, and the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes.

 

(d)           To secure the Company’s and Holdings’ payment obligations in this Section 7.07 , the Trustee will have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money and properly held or collected by the Trustee.  Such Lien will survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

 

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(e)           When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(d ) or (e) hereof occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of its agents and counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

(f)            The Trustee will comply with the provisions of TIA § 313(b)(2) to the extent applicable.

 

(g)           “Trustee” for the purposes of this Section 7.07 shall include any predecessor Trustee and the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder; provided , however , that the negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee hereunder.

 

Section 7.08             Replacement of Trustee .

 

(a)           A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee will become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 7.08 .

 

(b)           The Trustee may resign in writing at any time and be discharged from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company with 30 days prior notice.

 

(c)           The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company with 30 days prior notice in writing.

 

(d)           The Company may remove the Trustee with 30 days prior written notice if:  the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof; the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law; a custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

 

(e)           If the Trustee has been removed by the Holders, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount outstanding of Notes may appoint a successor Trustee with the consent of the Company.  Otherwise, if the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company will promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company, or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction, at the expense of the Company, for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(f)            If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder who has been a Holder for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof, such Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(g)           A successor Trustee will deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company.  Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee will become effective, and the successor Trustee will have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.  The successor Trustee will mail a notice of its succession to Holders.  The retiring Trustee will promptly transfer all properly held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee; provided all sums owing to the Trustee hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07 hereof.  Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08 , the Company’s obligations under Section 7.07 hereof will continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

 

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Section 7.09             Successor Trustee by Merger, etc .   If the Trustee consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another Person, the successor Person without any further act will be the successor Trustee.

 

Section 7.10             Eligibility; Disqualification .  There will at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $100.0 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.

 

This Indenture will always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA § 310(a)(l), (2) and (5).  The Trustee is subject to TIA § 310(b).

 

Section 7.11             Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .  The Trustee is subject to TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b).  A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated therein.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

Section 8.01             Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .  The Company may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, elect to have either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes of any Series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article VIII .

 

Section 8.02             Legal Defeasance and Discharge .  Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.02 , the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes of such Series on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Legal Defeasance ”).  For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes of such Series, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 8.05 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (a) and (b) below, and to have satisfied all their other obligations under such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on written demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

 

(a)           the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes of such Series to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes of such Series when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 8.04 hereof;

 

(b)           the Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article II and Sections 4.01 and  4.02 hereof;

 

(c)           the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith; and

 

(d)           this Article VIII.

 

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Subject to compliance with this Article VIII , the Company may exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.03 hereof.

 

Section 8.03             Covenant Defeasance .  Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.03 , the Company and Holdings will, subject to the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be released from their obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.03 , 4.08 , 4.09 , 4.10 and Article V in each case, with respect to the outstanding Notes of such Series on and after the date the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes of such Series shall thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders of such Notes (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes).  For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes of a Series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01 hereof, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby.  In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.03 , subject to the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, the failure to comply with any such covenant shall not constitute an Event of Default pursuant to Section 6.01(c) .

 

Section 8.04             Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance .  In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof with respect to Notes of any Series:

 

(a)           the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment, in the written opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm, or firm of independent public accountants delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the outstanding Notes of such Series on the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes of such Series are being defeased to such stated date for payment or to a particular redemption date;

 

(b)           in the case of an election under Section 8.02 hereof, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law,

 

in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the beneficial owners of the outstanding Notes of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;

 

(c)           in the case of an election under Section 8.03 hereof, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that the beneficial owners of the outstanding Notes of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a

 

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result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

 

(d)           no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound;

 

(e)           such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound;

 

(f)            the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of Notes of such Series over the other creditors of the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any creditors of the Company or others; and

 

(g)           the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

 

Section 8.05             Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions .  Subject to Section 8.06 hereof, all money and non-callable Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 8.05 , the “ Trustee ”) pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes of any Series will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes of the applicable Series.

 

Notwithstanding anything in this Article VIII to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the request of the Company any money or non-callable Government Securities held by it as provided in Section 8.04 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 8.04(a)  hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

Section 8.06             Repayment to Company .  Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Series of Notes and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable shall, subject to applicable abandoned property law, be paid

 

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to the Company on its request or (if then held by the Company) will be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note will thereafter be permitted to look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, will thereupon cease; provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which will not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

 

Section 8.07             Reinstatement .  If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s and Holdings’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes of such Series and related Note Guarantee will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes of such Series following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

 

Section 9.01             Without Consent of Holders of Notes .  Notwithstanding Section 9.02 of this Indenture, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without the consent of any Holder of Notes of any Series affected by the modification or amendments in order to:

 

(a)           cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;

 

(b)           conform to the text of this Indenture, including any supplemental indenture, or the Notes to any corresponding provision of the “Description of the Notes” contained in the prospectus supplement relating to the Initial Notes or the “Description of Debt Securities” found in the accompanying prospectus;

 

(c)           provide for the issuance of Additional Notes of any Series;

 

(d)           provide for the assumption of the Company’s obligations in the case of either a merger or consolidation and the Company’s discharge upon such assumption provided that Article V hereof is complied with;

 

(e)           add covenants or make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes of such Series;

 

(f)            add guarantees with respect to the Notes or release Holdings as a Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture;

 

(g)           provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;

 

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(h)           secure the Notes;

 

(i)            add or appoint a successor or separate trustee;

 

(j)            obtain to or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA; or

 

(k)           make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of Notes.

 

Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board Resolution authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 7.02 hereof, the Trustee will join with the Company in the execution of any amended or supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee will not be obligated to enter into such amended or supplemental indenture that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

Section 9.02             With Consent of Holders of Notes .  The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Notes of such Series.  Except as otherwise provided herein, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes of each Series affected thereby, by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes of each affected Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes of such Series.

 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Notes of any Series under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.  Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes of such Series as aforesaid, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 7.02 hereof, the Trustee will join with the Company in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture unless such amended or supplemental indenture directly affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but will not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental Indenture.

 

After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Notes of each Series affected thereby a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver.  Any failure by the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.  However, without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver under this Section 9.02 may not, with respect to any Notes of such Series held by a non-consenting Holder of each Series affected thereby:

 

(a)           reduce the principal amount, any premium or change the Stated Maturity of the Notes of such Series or alter or waive any of the provisions with respect to the redemption or repurchase of the Notes of such Series;

 

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(b)           change the place of payment or currency in which principal, any premium or interest is paid;

 

(c)           impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on the Notes of such Series;

 

(d)           reduce the interest rate or extend the time for payment of interest on the Notes of such Series;

 

(e)           make any change to this Article IX ; or

 

(f)            reduce the amount payable upon the repurchase of any Notes of such Series or change the time at which any Note of such Series may be repurchased as described in Section 4.10 whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in Article I , Article IV or otherwise.

 

Section 9.03             Compliance with Trust Indenture Act .  Every amendment to this Indenture or the Notes will be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

 

Section 9.04             Revocation and Effect of Consents .  Until an amendment or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note.  However, any such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke the consent as to its Note if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the date the amendment or waiver becomes effective.  An amendment or waiver becomes effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder.

 

Section 9.05             Notation on or Exchange of Notes .  The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on the Notes thereafter authenticated.  The Company in exchange for Notes may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Notes of the same Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

 

Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note will not affect the validity and effect of such amendment or waiver.

 

Section 9.06             Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc .   In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.01 ) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and an Opinion of Counsel stating that it will be the legal, valid and binding upon the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions.  The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights.

 

ARTICLE X

 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

Section 10.01           Satisfaction and Discharge .  This Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to the Notes of a Series issued hereunder, when:

 

(a)           either:

 

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(1)           the Company delivers to the Trustee all outstanding Notes of such Series issued under this Indenture (other than Notes replaced because of mutilation, loss, destruction or wrongful taking) for cancellation; or

 

(2)           all Notes of such Series outstanding under this Indenture and not previously delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable, whether at maturity or as a result of the mailing or sending of a notice of redemption or will become due and payable within one year (including as result of the mailing or sending of a notice of redemption), and the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee as funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of such Series, cash in U.S. dollars, noncallable United States Government Securities, or a combination thereof, sufficient, in the written opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants without consideration of any reinvestment, to pay at maturity or upon redemption all Notes of such Series outstanding under this Indenture and not previously delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including interest thereon to the date of maturity or redemption, as applicable;

 

(b)           no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material instrument to which the Company or Holdings, as applicable, is a party or by which the Company or Holdings, as applicable, is bound;

 

(c)           the Company or Holdings of has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture with respect to such Notes; and

 

(d)           the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of such Notes at maturity or on the redemption date, as the case may be.

 

In addition, the Company must deliver an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been complied with.

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, if money has been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (2)  of clause (a)  of this Section 10.01 , the provisions of Sections 10.02 and 8.06 hereof will survive.  In addition, nothing in this Section 10.01 will be deemed to discharge those provisions of Section 7.07 hereof, that, by their terms, survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.  After the conditions to discharge contained in this Article X have been satisfied, and the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, and delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been complied with, the Trustee upon Company request shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of the obligations of the Company (except for those surviving obligations specified in this Section 10.01 and the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith).

 

Section 10.02           Application of Trust Money .  Subject to the provisions of Section 8.06 hereof, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes with respect to which such deposit was made and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal

 

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(and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or Government Securities in accordance with Section 10.01 hereof by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s and Holdings’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof; provided that if the Company has made any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of the Notes to receive such payment from the money or Government Securities held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

NOTE GUARANTEES

 

Section 11.01           Note Guarantee s .

 

(a)           Holdings hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the Notes and obligations of the Company hereunder and thereunder, and guarantees to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee on behalf of such Holder, that:  (i) the principal of and premium, if any and interest on the Notes shall be paid in full when due, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise (including, without limitation, the amount that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), together with interest on the overdue principal, if any, and interest on any overdue interest, to the extent lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder shall be paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of the Notes or of any such other obligations, the same shall be paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise.  The Note Guarantees shall be guarantees of payment and not of collection.

 

(b)           Holdings hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of Holdings.

 

(c)           Holdings hereby waives the benefits of diligence, presentment, demand for payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company or any other Person, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that the Note Guarantees shall not be discharged as to any Note except by complete performance of the obligations contained in such Note and such Note Guarantees or as provided for in this Indenture.  Holdings hereby agrees that, in the event of a default in payment of principal or premium, if any or interest on such Note, whether at its Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of, or by, the Holder of such Note, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against Holdings to enforce Holdings’ Note Guarantee without first proceeding against the Company.  Holdings agrees that if, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee or any of the Holders are prevented by applicable law from exercising their respective rights to accelerate the maturity of the Notes, to collect interest on the Notes, or to enforce or exercise any other right or remedy with respect to the Notes,

 

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Holdings shall pay to the Trustee for the account of the Holders, upon demand therefor, the amount that would otherwise have been due and payable had such rights and remedies been permitted to be exercised by the Trustee or any of the Holders.

 

(d)           If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or Holdings, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or Holdings, any amount paid by any of them to the Trustee or such Holder, the Note Guarantees of Holdings, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.  This paragraph (d) shall remain effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may be taken by the Trustee or any Holder in reliance upon such amount required to be returned.  This paragraph (d) shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

 

(e)           Holdings further agrees that, as between Holdings, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 6.02 for the purposes of the Note Guarantees of Holdings, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in Section 6.02, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by Holdings for the purpose of the Note Guarantees of Holdings.

 

Section 11.02           Execution and Delivery of Note Guarantee s .  To evidence its Note Guarantees set forth in Section 11.01, Holdings agrees that this Indenture shall be signed on behalf of Holdings by an Officer of Holdings (or, if an Officer is not available, by a board member or director or another authorized Person) on behalf of Holdings by manual or facsimile signature.  In case the Officer, board member or director of Holdings who shall have signed this Indenture shall cease to be such Officer, board member or director before the Note shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, such Note nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered as though the Person who signed this Indenture had not ceased to be such Officer, board member or director.

 

Holdings agrees that except as otherwise provided in this Indenture its Note Guarantees set forth in Section 11.01 shall remain in full force and effect and shall apply to all the Notes notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.  The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of any Note Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of Holdings.

 

The failure to endorse a Note Guarantee shall not affect or impair the validity thereof.

 

Section 11.03           Severability .  In case any provision of any Note Guarantee shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

Section 11.04           Limitation of Guarantor’s Liability .  Holdings and by its acceptance of Notes, each Holder, confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Note Guarantees of Holdings not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law relating to fraudulent transfer or conveyance.  To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustee, the Holders and Holdings hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of Holdings under its Note Guarantees shall be limited to the maximum amount that will not, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of Holdings, result in the obligations of Holdings under its Note Guarantees constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

 

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Section 11.05           Benefits Acknowledged .  Holdings acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that its guarantee and waivers pursuant to its Note Guarantees are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

 

ARTICLE XII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 12.01           Trust Indenture Act Controls .  If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture that is required to be included in this Indenture by any of TIA § 310 to 318, inclusive, such required provisions will control.

 

Section 12.02           Notices .  Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the others is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address:

 

If to the Company:

 

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
Attention:  Rhonda Harkins, Treasurer
3801 South Oliver
Wichita, KS 67210
Facsimile No.:  (316) 529-4539

 

With a copy to (which copy shall be delivered as an accommodation and shall not be required to be delivered in satisfaction of any requirement hereof):

 

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
125 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
Facsimile:  (212) 558-3588
Attention:  Robert W. Downes

 

If to the Trustee:
 
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration
2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 700
Chicago, Illinois  60602
Facsimile No.:  (312) 827-8542

 

The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the others, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

 

All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) will be deemed to have been duly given:  at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt acknowledged, if transmitted by facsimile; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.

 

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Any notice or communication to a Holder will be mailed by first class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery to its address shown on the register kept by the Registrar.  Any notice or communication will also be so mailed to any Person described in TIA § 313(c), to the extent required by the TIA.  Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it will not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Global Note, where this Indenture or any Global Note provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the Applicable Procedures, including by electronic mail in accordance with the standing instructions from the Depositary.

 

If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

 

If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it will mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

 

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, pdf, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods; provided , however , that (a) the party providing such written instructions, subsequent to such transmission of written instructions, shall provide the originally executed instructions or directions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (b) such originally executed instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized representative of the party providing such instructions or directions.  If the party elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Trustee’s understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling.  The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction.  The party providing electronic instructions agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by third parties.

 

Section 12.03           Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes .  Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes.  The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

 

Section 12.04           Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent .  Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee (except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished):

 

(a)           an Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers (who may rely upon an Opinion of Counsel as to matters of law), all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

 

(b)           an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel (who may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate as to matters of fact), all such conditions precedent and covenants have been complied with.

 

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Section 12.05           Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion .  Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA § 314(a)(4)) must comply with the provisions of TIA § 314(e) and must include:

 

(a)           a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

 

(b)           a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

 

(c)           a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

 

(d)           a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

Section 12.06           Rules by Trustee and Agents .  Holders may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of Holders.  The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

 

Section 12.07           Calculation of Foreign Currency Amounts .  The calculation of the U.S. dollar equivalent amount for any amount denominated in a Foreign Currency shall be the noon buying rate in the City of New York as certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the date on which such determination is required to be made or, if such day is not a day on which such rate is published, the rate most recently published prior to such day.

 

Section 12.08           No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Shareholders .  No past, present or future director, Officer, employee, incorporator, affiliate or shareholder of the Company or Holdings, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Guarantor under the Note Guarantees, this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.  The waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws.

 

Section 12.09           Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction .  THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES, AND THE NOTES GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.  Each of the parties hereto agrees that any legal action or proceeding with respect to or arising out of this Indenture may be brought in or removed to the courts of the State of New York or of the United States of America, in each case located in the borough of Manhattan, the City of New York.  By execution and delivery of this Indenture, each of the parties hereto accepts, for themselves and in respect of their property, generally and unconditionally, the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts.  Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the service of process out of any of the aforementioned courts in any manner permitted by law.  Nothing herein shall affect the right of any party to bring legal action or proceedings in any other competent jurisdiction.  Each of the parties hereto hereby waives any right to stay or dismiss any action or proceeding under or in connection with this Indenture brought before the foregoing courts on the basis of forum non-conveniens.

 

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Section 12.10           No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements .  This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person.  Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

 

Section 12.11           Successors .  All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes will bind its successors.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture will bind its successors.

 

Section 12.12           Severability .  In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

Section 12.13           Counterpart Originals .  The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy will be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.  The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes.  Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

Section 12.14           Table of Contents, Headings, etc .   The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

Section 12.15           Waiver of Jury Trial .  EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

Section 12.16           Patriot Act Compliance .  The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account, which information includes the name, address, tax identification number and formation documents and other information that will allow Trustee to identify the person or legal entity in accordance with the USA Patriot Act.  The parties to this Agreement agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA Patriot Act.

 

[Signatures on following page]

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Dated as of May 30, 2018

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Name:     Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Title:       Executive Vice President and

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 



 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC. ,

 

as Guarantor

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Name:     Sanjay Kapoor

 

 

Title:       Executive Vice President and

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 



 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Richard Tarnas

 

 

Name:     Richard Tarnas

 

 

Title:       Vice President

 

[Signature Page to the Indenture]

 



 

EXHIBIT A-1

 

FORM OF FLOATING RATE NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
Senior Floating Rate Notes Due 2021

 

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AH3

No.

 

ISIN No.: US 85205TAH32

 

 

$

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2021.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on September 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated: May 30, 2018

 

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
Senior Floating Rate Note Due 2021

 

1.                                       Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at a floating rate per annum to be calculated as set forth below The Company will pay interest quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing September 15, 2018(1).  The interest rate on the Notes will be reset on each Interest Payment Date (each such date, an “ Interest Reset Date ”).

 

The initial Interest Period (the “ Initial Interest Period ”) means the period from and including the Issue Date to but excluding the first Interest Reset Date. Thereafter, each interest period (an “ Interest Period ”) means the period from and including an Interest Reset Date to but excluding the immediately succeeding Interest Reset Date; provided that the final Initial Interest Period for the Notes will be the period from and including the Interest Reset Date immediately preceding the maturity date of the Notes to but excluding the maturity date. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a 360-day year.

 

The interest rate for the Initial Interest Period means the three-month LIBOR, as determined on May 25, 2018, plus 80 basis points. Thereafter, the interest rate for any Interest Period will be the three-month LIBOR, as determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (as defined below), plus 80 basis points. The interest rate will be reset quarterly on each Interest Reset Date (unless notice of redemption has been mailed for the Notes, in which case the interest rate thereon in effect on the date of such notice will be the interest rate thereon through the redemption date). The interest rate applicable to each Interest Period commencing on the related Interest Reset Date, or the Issue Date in the case of the Initial Interest Period, will be the rate determined as of the applicable Interest Determination Date.

 

The amount of interest for each day that the Notes are outstanding (the “ Daily Interest Amount ”) will be calculated by dividing the interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on such day. The amount of interest to be paid on the Notes for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding such Daily Interest Amounts for each day in such Interest Period.

 

If any Interest Payment Date for the Notes would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, then the Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the following date that is a Business Day. If the maturity date of the Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest and principal will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the maturity date. If any Interest Payment Date (other than the maturity date) is postponed as described above, the amount of interest for the relevant Interest Period will be adjusted accordingly.

 

Three-month LIBOR will be determined by the Calculation Agent as of the applicable Interest Determination Date in accordance with the following provisions:

 

(i)                                      Three-month LIBOR is the rate for deposits in U.S. dollars for the three-month period that appears on the Designated LIBOR Page (as defined below) at approximately

 


(1)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

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11:00 a.m., London time, on the applicable Interest Determination Date. If no rate appears on the Designated LIBOR Page, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be determined in accordance with the immediately following provisions.

 

(ii)                                   With respect to an Interest Determination Date on which no rate appears on the Designated LIBOR Page as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date, the Calculation Agent shall request the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks (which may include affiliates of the underwriters with respect to the Initial Floating Rate Notes) in the London interbank market selected by the Company to provide the Calculation Agent with a quotation of the rate at which deposits of U.S. dollars having a three-month maturity, commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such Interest Determination Date, are offered by it to prime banks in the London interbank market as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations as calculated by the Calculation Agent. If fewer than two quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Interest Determination Date by three major banks (which may include affiliates of the underwriters with respect to the Initial Floating Rate Notes) selected by the Company for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks having a three-month maturity commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time; provided , however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Company are not quoting such rates as mentioned in this sentence, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be three-month LIBOR determined with respect to the immediately preceding Interest Determination Date.

 

Promptly upon calculation, the Calculation Agent will inform the Company of the interest rate for the next Interest Period. Upon request from any Holder of Notes, the Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect for the Notes for the then-current Interest Period and, if it has been determined, the interest rate to be in effect for the next Interest Period.

 

All percentages resulting from any calculation of the interest rate on the Notes will be rounded to the nearest one millionth of a percentage point with five ten millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.8765445% (or .098765445) would be rounded to 9.876545% (or .09876545)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on the Notes will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the interest rate on the Notes will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law of general application. Additionally, the interest rate on the notes will in no event be lower than zero.

 

Set forth below are certain of the defined terms used for purposes of determining the interest rate payable on the Notes.

 

Business Day ” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, executive order or regulation to close in The City of New York.

 

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Designated LIBOR Page ” means Bloomberg L.P. page “BBAM” on that service or any successor service for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar deposits of major banks.

 

Interest Determination Date ” means the second London Business Day immediately preceding the Issue Date, in the case of the Initial Interest Period, or thereafter the second London Business Day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Reset Date.

 

LIBOR ” means the U.S. dollar London Interbank Offered Rate.

 

London Business Day ” means a day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.

 

2.                                       Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.                                       Paying Agent; Calculation Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.  The Trustee will initially act as calculation agent (the “ Calculation Agent ”).  The Company may change the Calculation Agent without prior notice to or consent of the Holders.

 

4.                                       Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a

 

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statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.                                       Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.                                       Optional Redemption .

 

The Company may redeem, at its option, the Notes, in whole or in part, on May 31, 2019 or at any time or from time to time thereafter at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.

 

7.                                       Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

8.                                       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.                                       Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.                                Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

11.                                Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

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12.                                Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.                                Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.                                Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.                                No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.                                Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

17.                                Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

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18.                                CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.                                Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

$                  

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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EXHIBIT A-2

 

FORM OF 2023 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
3.950% Senior Note Due 2023

 

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AJ9

No.

 

ISIN No.: US85205TAJ97

 

 

$

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2023.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  June 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on December 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  June 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated: May 30, 2018

 

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
3.950% Senior Note Due 2023

 

1.                                       Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Cash interest on the Note will accrue from May 30, 2018(2).  The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing December 15, 2018(3).  Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  If any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the related payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no further interest shall accrue as a result of such delay.

 

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.

 

2.                                       Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.                                       Paying Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 


(2)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

(3)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

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4.                                       Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “3.950% Senior Notes due 2023” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.                                       Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.                                       Optional Redemption .

 

(a)                                  Prior to the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to the greater of:

 

(1)                                  100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and

 

(2)                                  as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of interest accrued on such Notes as of the date of redemption) assuming that such Notes matured on the Par Call Date but for the redemption, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points,

 

plus , in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(b)                                  On and after the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

7.                                       Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

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8.                                       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.                                       Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.                                Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

11.                                Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

12.                                Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.                                Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate

 

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principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.                                Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.                                No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.                                Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

17.                                Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

18.                                CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.                                Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

$                  

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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EXHIBIT A-3

 

FORM OF 2028 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
4.600% Senior Note Due 2028

 

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AK6

No.

 

ISIN No.: US85205TAK60

 

 

$             

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2028.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  June 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on December 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  June 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:  May 30, 2018

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
4.600% Senior Note Due 2028

 

1.                                       Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Cash interest on the Note will accrue from May 30, 2018(4).  The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing December 15, 2018(5).  Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  If any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the related payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no further interest shall accrue as a result of such delay.

 

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.

 

2.                                       Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.                                       Paying Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 


(4)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

(5)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

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4.                                       Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “4.600% Senior Notes due 2028” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.                                       Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.                                       Optional Redemption .

 

(a)                                  Prior to the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to the greater of:

 

(1)                                  100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and

 

(2)                                  as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of interest accrued on such Notes as of the date of redemption) assuming that such Notes matured on the Par Call Date but for the redemption, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points,

 

plus , in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(b)                                  On and after the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

7.                                       Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

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8.                                       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.                                       Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.                                Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

11.                                Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

12.                                Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.                                Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate

 

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principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.                                Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.                                No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.                                Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

17.                                Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

18.                                CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.                                Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

 

$

 

Dated:

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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Exhibit 4.2

 

FORM OF FLOATING RATE NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 



 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
Senior Floating Rate Notes Due 2021

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AH3

No.

ISIN No.: US 85205TAH32

 

$           

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2021.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on September 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 



 

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:  May 30, 2018

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 



 

(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
Senior Floating Rate Note Due 2021

 

1.             Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at a floating rate per annum to be calculated as set forth below  The Company will pay interest quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing September 15, 2018(1).  The interest rate on the Notes will be reset on each Interest Payment Date (each such date, an “ Interest Reset Date ”).

 

The initial Interest Period (the “ Initial Interest Period ”) means the period from and including the Issue Date to but excluding the first Interest Reset Date. Thereafter, each interest period (an “ Interest Period ”) means the period from and including an Interest Reset Date to but excluding the immediately succeeding Interest Reset Date; provided that the final Initial Interest Period for the Notes will be the period from and including the Interest Reset Date immediately preceding the maturity date of the Notes to but excluding the maturity date. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a 360-day year.

 

The interest rate for the Initial Interest Period means the three-month LIBOR, as determined on May 25, 2018, plus 80 basis points. Thereafter, the interest rate for any Interest Period will be the three-month LIBOR, as determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (as defined below), plus 80 basis points. The interest rate will be reset quarterly on each Interest Reset Date (unless notice of redemption has been mailed for the Notes, in which case the interest rate thereon in effect on the date of such notice will be the interest rate thereon through the redemption date). The interest rate applicable to each Interest Period commencing on the related Interest Reset Date, or the Issue Date in the case of the Initial Interest Period, will be the rate determined as of the applicable Interest Determination Date.

 

The amount of interest for each day that the Notes are outstanding (the “ Daily Interest Amount ”) will be calculated by dividing the interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on such day. The amount of interest to be paid on the Notes for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding such Daily Interest Amounts for each day in such Interest Period.

 

If any Interest Payment Date for the Notes would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, then the Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the following date that is a Business Day. If the maturity date of the Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest and principal will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the maturity date. If any Interest Payment Date (other than the maturity date) is postponed as described above, the amount of interest for the relevant Interest Period will be adjusted accordingly.

 

Three-month LIBOR will be determined by the Calculation Agent as of the applicable Interest Determination Date in accordance with the following provisions:

 


(1)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 



 

(i)            Three-month LIBOR is the rate for deposits in U.S. dollars for the three-month period that appears on the Designated LIBOR Page (as defined below) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the applicable Interest Determination Date. If no rate appears on the Designated LIBOR Page, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be determined in accordance with the immediately following provisions.

 

(ii)           With respect to an Interest Determination Date on which no rate appears on the Designated LIBOR Page as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date, the Calculation Agent shall request the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks (which may include affiliates of the underwriters with respect to the Initial Floating Rate Notes) in the London interbank market selected by the Company to provide the Calculation Agent with a quotation of the rate at which deposits of U.S. dollars having a three-month maturity, commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such Interest Determination Date, are offered by it to prime banks in the London interbank market as of approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Determination Date in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time. If at least two such quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations as calculated by the Calculation Agent. If fewer than two quotations are provided, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Interest Determination Date by three major banks (which may include affiliates of the underwriters with respect to the Initial Floating Rate Notes) selected by the Company for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks having a three-month maturity commencing on the second London Business Day immediately following such Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount equal to an amount of not less than $1,000,000 that is representative for a single transaction in such market at such time; provided , however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Company are not quoting such rates as mentioned in this sentence, three-month LIBOR for such Interest Determination Date will be three-month LIBOR determined with respect to the immediately preceding Interest Determination Date.

 

Promptly upon calculation, the Calculation Agent will inform the Company of the interest rate for the next Interest Period. Upon request from any Holder of Notes, the Calculation Agent will provide the interest rate then in effect for the Notes for the then-current Interest Period and, if it has been determined, the interest rate to be in effect for the next Interest Period.

 

All percentages resulting from any calculation of the interest rate on the Notes will be rounded to the nearest one millionth of a percentage point with five ten millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.8765445% (or .098765445) would be rounded to 9.876545% (or .09876545)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation on the Notes will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the interest rate on the Notes will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law of general application. Additionally, the interest rate on the notes will in no event be lower than zero.

 

Set forth below are certain of the defined terms used for purposes of determining the interest rate payable on the Notes.

 



 

Business Day ” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, executive order or regulation to close in The City of New York.

 

Designated LIBOR Page ” means Bloomberg L.P. page “BBAM” on that service or any successor service for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar deposits of major banks.

 

Interest Determination Date ” means the second London Business Day immediately preceding the Issue Date, in the case of the Initial Interest Period, or thereafter the second London Business Day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Reset Date.

 

LIBOR ” means the U.S. dollar London Interbank Offered Rate.

 

London Business Day ” means a day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.

 

2.             Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.             Paying Agent; Calculation Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.  The Trustee will initially act as calculation agent (the “ Calculation Agent ”).  The Company may change the Calculation Agent without prior notice to or consent of the Holders.

 

4.             Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless

 



 

otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.             Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.             Optional Redemption .

 

The Company may redeem, at its option, the Notes, in whole or in part, on May 31, 2019 or at any time or from time to time thereafter at a price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.

 

7.             Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

8.             Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.             Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.          Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 



 

11.          Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

12.          Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.          Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.          Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.          No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.          Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 



 

17.          Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

18.          CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.          Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 



 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 



 

OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

 

$

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 


Exhibit 4.3

 

FORM OF 2023 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 



 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
3.950% Senior Note Due 2023

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AJ9

No.

ISIN No.: US85205TAJ97

 

$          

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2023.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  June 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on December 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  June 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 



 

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:  May 30, 2018

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 



 

(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
3.950% Senior Note Due 2023

 

1.                                       Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Cash interest on the Note will accrue from May 30, 2018(1).  The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing December 15, 2018(2).  Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  If any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the related payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no further interest shall accrue as a result of such delay.

 

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.

 

2.                                       Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.                                       Paying Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 


(1)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

(2)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 



 

4.                                       Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “3.950% Senior Notes due 2023” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.                                       Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.                                       Optional Redemption .

 

(a)                                  Prior to the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to the greater of:

 

(1)                                  100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and

 

(2)                                  as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of interest accrued on such Notes as of the date of redemption) assuming that such Notes matured on the Par Call Date but for the redemption, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points,

 

plus , in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(b)                                  On and after the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

7.                                       Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 



 

8.                                       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.                                       Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.                                Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

11.                                Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

12.                                Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.                                Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided,

 



 

Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.                                Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.                                No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.                                Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

17.                                Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

18.                                CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.                                Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 



 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 



 

OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

 

$

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 


Exhibit 4.4

 

FORM OF 2028 NOTE

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“ DTC ”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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 SUCCESSOR’S 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 ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
4.600% Senior Note Due 2028

 

 

CUSIP No.: 85205T AK6

No.

ISIN No.: US85205TAK60

 

$           

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $         (the “ Principal ”) on June 15, 2028.

 

Interest Payment Dates:  June 15 and December 15 (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on December 15, 2018.

 

Interest Record Dates:  June 1 and December 1 (each, an “ Interest Record Date ”).

 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer under its seal.

 

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:  May 30, 2018

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. , Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC.
4.600% Senior Note Due 2028

 

1.                                       Interest .

 

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.  Cash interest on the Note will accrue from May 30, 2018(1).  The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing December 15, 2018(2).  Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.  If any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the related payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no further interest shall accrue as a result of such delay.

 

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.

 

2.                                       Method of Payment .

 

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 Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Note subsequent to such Interest Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date.  Holders must surrender their Note(s) to the Trustee to collect principal payments.  The Company shall pay principal and interest in Dollars.  Payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Note will be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in Chicago, Illinois or at any other office or agency designated by the Company for such purpose; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address appears in the Note Register.  However, the payments of interest, and any portion of the principal (other than interest payable at maturity or on any redemption or repayment date or the final payment of principal) shall be made by the Paying Agent, upon receipt from the Company of immediately available funds by 12:30 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed to between the Company and the Paying Agent or the Company), directly to a Holder (by Federal funds wire transfer or otherwise) if the Holder has delivered written instructions to the Trustee 15 days prior to such payment date requesting that such payment will be so made and designating the bank account to which such payments shall be so made and in the case of payments of principal surrenders the same to the Trustee in exchange for a Note or Notes aggregating the same principal amount as the unredeemed principal amount of the Notes surrendered.

 

3.                                       Paying Agent .

 

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent without notice to the Holders.

 


(1)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

(2)                                  In the case of Initial Notes.

 

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4.                                       Indenture .

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized Series of Notes of the Company, designated as “4.600% Senior Notes due 2028” (collectively, the “ Notes ”) issued by the Company under an Indenture, dated as of May 30, 2018 (the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and the Trustee.  Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.  Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.  To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

5.                                       Guarantee .

 

The payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior basis by Holdings.

 

6.                                       Optional Redemption .

 

(a)                                  Prior to the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to the greater of:

 

(1)                                  100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, and

 

(2)                                  as determined by the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (not including any portion of interest accrued on such Notes as of the date of redemption) assuming that such Notes matured on the Par Call Date but for the redemption, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points,

 

plus , in either case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

(b)                                  On and after the Par Call Date, the Notes shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time and from time to time, for cash, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed up to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

7.                                       Change of Control Offer to Repurchase .

 

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes, Holders of the Notes will have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Notes pursuant to the offer described in the Indenture at a purchase price, in cash, equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of Notes on the relevant Interest Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

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8.                                       Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

 

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.  A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture.  The Company may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not issue, authenticate, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof for a period of 15 days before such Notes are selected for redemption, nor need the Company register the transfer or exchange of any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part.

 

9.                                       Persons Deemed Owners .

 

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

10.                                Unclaimed Funds .

 

If funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company or Holdings at its written request.  After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

11.                                Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

 

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Notes and in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

12.                                Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

 

Subject to certain exceptions, the Notes and the provisions of the Indenture relating to the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding affected by such amendment or supplement, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with certain provisions may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Notes then outstanding.  Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture and the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Note.

 

13.                                Defaults and Remedies .

 

If an Event of Default (other than certain bankruptcy Events of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all of the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.  If a bankruptcy Event of Default with respect to the Company or Holdings occurs and is continuing, the entire principal amount of the Notes then outstanding and interest accrued thereon, if any, shall immediately become due and payable.  Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.  The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it.  The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided,

 

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Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power.  The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of certain continuing Defaults or Events of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

14.                                Trustee Dealings with Company .

 

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company as if it were not the Trustee.

 

15.                                No Recourse Against Others .

 

No stockholder, director, officer, employee, member or incorporator, as such, of the Company, of Holdings or any successor Person thereof shall have any liability for any obligation under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

16.                                Authentication .

 

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

17.                                Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as:  TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

 

18.                                CUSIP Numbers .

 

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security 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 numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

 

19.                                Governing Law .

 

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WILL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE, AND THE NOTE GUARANTEES, IF ANY, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                          agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box o .

 

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 11 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased (must be integral multiples of $1,000):

 

 

$

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

Signed:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signed exactly as name appears on the

 

other side of this Note)

 

Signature

 

Guarantee:

 

 

Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other

 

signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

[Letterhead of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP]

 

May 30, 2018

 

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.,

3801 South Oliver,

Wichita, Kansas 67210.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Floating Rate Notes due 2021, $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.950% Senior Notes due 2023 and $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.600% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Securities”) of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and of the related guarantees (the “Guarantees”) thereof by Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), we, as your counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion.

 

Upon the basis of such examination, it is our opinion that the Securities constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantees constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Guarantor, in each case subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we are expressing no opinion as to Federal or state laws relating to fraudulent transfers and we are not passing upon, and assume no responsibility for, any disclosure in any registration statement or any related prospectus or other offering material relating to the offer and sale of the Securities.

 

The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States, the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

 



 

We have relied as to certain factual matters on information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and the Guarantor and other sources believed by us to be responsible, and we have assumed that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee thereunder, that the Securities conform to the specimens thereof examined by us, that the Trustee’s certificates of authentication of the Securities have been manually signed by one of the Trustee’s authorized officers, and that the signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, assumptions which we have not independently verified.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement relating to the Securities and the Guarantees and to the reference to us under the heading “Validity of the Notes” in the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Securities and the Guarantees.  In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

/s/ Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

Confidential portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Omissions are designated by the symbol [*]

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

Tel:  212-902-1000

 

May 30, 2018

 

Fixed Dollar Accelerated Share Repurchase Transaction (Ref. No. [        ])

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.
3801 South Oliver
Wichita, Kansas 67210

Dear Sir/Madam:

 

The purpose of this letter agreement (this “ Confirmation ”) is to confirm the terms and conditions of the Transaction entered into between Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“ Dealer ”) and Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Issuer ”) on the Trade Date specified below (the “ Transaction ”).  This confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.

 

The definitions and provisions contained in the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ ISDA ”)) (the “ Equity Definitions ”) are incorporated into this Confirmation.  The Transaction is a Share Forward Transaction for purposes of the Equity Definitions.  Any reference to a currency shall have the meaning contained in Section 1.7 of the 2006 ISDA Definitions, as published by ISDA.

 

1.                                       This Confirmation evidences a complete and binding agreement between Dealer and Issuer as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates and shall supersede all prior or contemporaneous written or oral communications with respect thereto.  This Confirmation shall be subject to an agreement (the “ Agreement ”) in the form of the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement as if Dealer and Issuer had executed an agreement in such form without any Schedule but with the following elections: (i) the “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement shall apply to Dealer, with a “Threshold Amount” of 3% of shareholders’ equity of Dealer’s ultimate parent as of the Trade Date ( provided that (a) the phrase “, or becoming capable at such time of being declared,” shall be deleted from clause (1) of such Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement, (b) “Specified Indebtedness” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14 of the Agreement and (c) the following sentence shall be added to the end of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement: “Notwithstanding the foregoing, a default under subsection (2) hereof shall not constitute an Event of Default if (x) the default was caused solely by error or omission of an administrative or operational nature; (y) funds were available to enable the relevant party to make the payment when due; and (z) the payment is made within two Local Business Days of such party’s receipt of written notice of its failure to pay.”); and (ii) the Termination Currency shall be USD.

 

The Transaction shall be the only transaction under the Agreement.  If there exists any ISDA Master Agreement between Dealer and Issuer or any confirmation or other agreement between Dealer and Issuer pursuant to which an ISDA Master Agreement is deemed to exist between Dealer and Issuer, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in such ISDA Master Agreement, such confirmation or agreement or any other agreement to which Dealer and Issuer are parties, the Transaction shall not be considered a transaction under, or otherwise governed by, such existing or deemed to be existing ISDA Master Agreement and the occurrence of any Event of Default or Termination Event

 



 

under the Agreement with respect to either party or the Transaction shall not, by itself, give rise to any right or obligation under any such other agreement or deemed agreement.

 

If there is any inconsistency between the Agreement, this Confirmation and the Equity Definitions, the following will prevail for purposes of the Transaction in the order of precedence indicated: (i) this Confirmation; (ii) the Equity Definitions; and (iii) the Agreement.

 

2.                                       The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 

GENERAL TERMS:

 

Trade Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Buyer:

 

Issuer

 

 

 

Seller:

 

Dealer

 

 

 

Shares:

 

Class A Common Stock, par value USD 0.01 per share, of Issuer (Ticker: SPR)

 

 

 

Forward Price:

 

A price equal to (A) the greater of (i) the arithmetic mean (not a weighted average, subject to “Market Disruption Event” below) of the 10b-18 VWAP on each Calculation Date during the Calculation Period and (ii) the Floor Price minus (B) the Discount.

 

 

 

Discount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Floor Price:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

10b-18 VWAP:

 

On any Exchange Business Day, a price per Share equal to the volume-weighted average price of the Rule 10b-18 eligible trades in the Shares for the entirety of such Exchange Business Day as reported on the Bloomberg screen entitled “SPR <Equity> AQR SEC” or any successor page (without regard to pre-open or after-hours trading outside of any regular trading session for such Exchange Business Day or block trades (as defined in Rule 10b-18(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”)) on such Exchange Business Day), or, if the price displayed on such screen is unavailable or clearly erroneous, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Calculation Period:

 

The period from, and including, the Calculation Period Start Date to, and including, the relevant Valuation Date.

 

 

 

Calculation Period Start Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Calculation Dates:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Initial Shares:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

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Initial Share Delivery Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I. On the Initial Share Delivery Date, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a number of Shares equal to the Initial Shares in accordance with Section 9.4 of the Equity Definitions, with the Initial Share Delivery Date being deemed to be a “Settlement Date” for purposes of such Section 9.4.

 

 

 

Prepayment:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Prepayment Amount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Prepayment Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Exchange:

 

New York Stock Exchange

 

 

 

Related Exchange:

 

All Exchanges

 

 

 

Market Disruption Event:

 

The definition of “Market Disruption Event” in Section 6.3(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “at any time during the one hour period that ends at the relevant Valuation Time, Latest Exercise Time, Knock-in Valuation Time or Knock-out Valuation Time, as the case may be,” starting in the third line thereof.

 

 

 

 

 

Section 6.3(d) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the remainder of the provision following the term “Scheduled Closing Time” in the fourth line thereof.

 

 

 

 

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, if any scheduled Calculation Date in the Calculation Period or the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period (each such scheduled Calculation Date, an “ Observation Day ”) is a Disrupted Day, the Calculation Agent may elect to take one or more of the following actions: (i) determine that such Observation Day is a Disrupted Day in whole, in which case the Calculation Agent shall exclude the 10b-18 VWAP on such Observation Day in determining the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable, (ii) determine that such Observation Day is a Disrupted Day in part, in which case the Calculation Agent shall (x) determine the 10b-18 VWAP on such Observation Day based on Rule 10b-18 eligible trades in the Shares on such day taking into account the nature and duration of the relevant Market Disruption Event and (y) determine the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable, using an appropriately weighted average of 10b-18 VWAPs instead of an arithmetic mean, and/or (iii) elect to (x) postpone the Scheduled Valuation Date (in the case of a Disrupted Day during the Calculation Period) or (y) extend the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period (in the case of a Disrupted Day during the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period) by up to one Calculation Date for every Observation Day that is a Disrupted Day during the Calculation Period or Buyer

 

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Settlement Valuation Period, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Calculation Agent takes the action described in clause (ii) above, then such Disrupted Day shall be an Observation Day for purposes of calculating the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable.

 

 

 

 

 

Any Exchange Business Day on which, as of the date hereof, the Exchange is scheduled to close prior to its normal close of trading shall be deemed not to be an Exchange Business Day. If a closure of the Exchange prior to its normal close of trading on any Exchange Business Day is scheduled following the date hereof, then such Exchange Business Day shall be deemed to be a Disrupted Day in full.

 

 

 

 

 

If a Disrupted Day occurs (or is deemed to occur) on an Observation Day during the Calculation Period or the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, as the case may be, and each of the five immediately following Observation Days is a Disrupted Day (a “ Disruption Event ”), then the Calculation Agent, in its good faith and commercially reasonable discretion, may (x) deem the day such Disruption Event occurs and each consecutive Observation Day that is a Disrupted Day thereafter to be an Observation Day that is not a Disrupted Day and determine the 10b-18 VWAP for each such Observation Day using its good faith and commercially reasonable estimate of the value of the Shares on such day based on the volume, historical volatility and price of the Shares and such other factors as it deems appropriate and commercially reasonable to take into account or (y) treat such Disruption Event as an Additional Termination Event in respect of the Transaction, with Issuer as the sole Affected Party and the Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction.

 

 

 

VALUATION:

 

 

 

 

 

Valuation Date(s):

 

The earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (ii) any earlier accelerated Valuation Date as a result of Dealer’s election in accordance with the immediately succeeding paragraph.

 

 

 

 

 

Dealer shall have the right, in its discretion, to accelerate the Valuation Date, for the whole Transaction or only a part thereof, to any Calculation Date that is on or after the Lock-Out Date and prior to the Scheduled Valuation Date by notice (each such notice, an “ Acceleration Notice ”) to Issuer by 9:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date immediately following the accelerated Valuation Date (the “ Acceleration Date ”). Dealer shall specify in each Acceleration Notice the portion of the Prepayment Amount that is subject to acceleration. If the portion of the Prepayment Amount that is subject to

 

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acceleration is less than the full remaining Prepayment Amount, then the Calculation Agent shall make such mechanical or administrative adjustments to the terms of the Transaction as appropriate in order to take into account the occurrence of such Acceleration Date (including cumulative adjustments to take into account all prior Acceleration Dates).

 

 

 

Scheduled Valuation Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I, subject to postponement in accordance with “Market Disruption Event” above.

 

 

 

Lock-Out Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

SETTLEMENT TERMS:

 

 

 

 

 

Physical Settlement:

 

Applicable. On any Valuation Date (including any Acceleration Date, if applicable), the Calculation Agent shall calculate the Settlement Amount for the relevant portion of the Transaction. The “ Settlement Amount ” for the Transaction is a number of Shares equal to (a) (i) the Prepayment Amount divided by (ii) the Forward Price minus (b) the Initial Shares, rounded to the nearest whole number of Shares.

 

 

 

 

 

If the Settlement Amount is positive, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a number of Shares equal to the Settlement Amount on the Settlement Date. If the Settlement Amount is negative, then the Buyer Settlement Provisions in Annex A hereto shall apply.

 

 

 

Settlement Currency:

 

USD

 

 

 

Settlement Date:

 

The date that falls one Settlement Cycle after the relevant Valuation Date or Acceleration Date if prior to the Scheduled Valuation Date for the relevant portion of the Transaction.

 

 

 

Other Applicable Provisions:

 

The last sentence of Section 9.2 and Sections 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11 (except that the Representation and Agreement contained in Section 9.11 of the Equity Definitions shall be modified by excluding any representations therein relating to restrictions, obligations, limitations or requirements under applicable securities laws arising as a result of the fact that Buyer is the issuer of the Shares) and Section 9.12 of the Equity Definitions will be applicable to the Transaction.

 

 

 

SHARE ADJUSTMENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Potential Adjustment Event:

 

In addition to the events described in Section 11.2(e) of the Equity Definitions, the occurrence of a Disrupted Day (including due to the occurrence of a Regulatory Disruption) shall constitute a Potential Adjustment Event. In the case of any event described in the preceding sentence, the Calculation Agent may adjust any relevant terms of the Transaction as the

 

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Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event.

 

 

 

Different Dividend:

 

For any calendar quarter, any dividend or distribution on the Shares with an ex-dividend date occurring during such calendar quarter (other than any dividend or distribution of the type described in Section 11.2(e)(i) or Section 11.2(e)(ii)(A) of the Equity Definitions) (a “ Dividend ”) the amount or value of which (as determined by the Calculation Agent), when aggregated with the amount or value (as determined by the Calculation Agent) of any and all previous Dividends with ex-dividend dates occurring in the same calendar quarter, differs from the Ordinary Dividend Amount.

 

 

 

Ordinary Dividend Amount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Extraordinary Dividend:

 

The per Share cash dividend or distribution, or a portion thereof, declared by Issuer on the Shares that is classified by the board of directors of Issuer as an “extraordinary” dividend.

 

 

 

Consequences of Different Dividend:

 

The declaration by the Issuer of any Different Dividend, the ex-dividend date for which occurs or is scheduled to occur during the Relevant Dividend Period (as defined below) for the Transaction, shall, at the Calculation Agent’s election, either (x) constitute an Additional Termination Event in respect of such Transaction, with Buyer as the sole Affected Party and such Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction (and any amount payable in respect of such Additional Termination Event shall be determined without regard to the difference between actual dividends declared and expected dividends as of the Trade Date) or (y) result in an adjustment, by the Calculation Agent, to the Floor Price as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such Different Dividend. Any election to apply clause (x) with respect to a Different Dividend shall be made within ten (10) Local Business Days of the declaration of such Different Dividend.

 

 

 

Early/Late Ordinary Dividend Payment:

 

If an ex-dividend date for any Dividend that is neither (x) a dividend or distribution of the type described in Section 11.2(e)(i) or Section 11.2(e)(ii)(A) of the Equity Definitions nor (y) an Extraordinary Dividend, occurs during any calendar quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Relevant Dividend Period and such ex-dividend date is not on the Scheduled Ex-Dividend Date for such calendar quarter, the Calculation Agent shall make such adjustment to the exercise, settlement, payment or any other terms of the Transaction as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event. For the avoidance of doubt, any such adjustments shall account for the

 

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economic effect on the Transaction of the timing of any such Dividend.

 

 

 

Scheduled Ex-Dividend Dates:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Relevant Dividend Period:

 

The period from, and including, the Trade Date for the Transaction to, and including, the last day of the Potential Purchase Period (as defined below).

 

 

 

Method of Adjustment:

 

Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Consequences of Merger Events:

 

 

 

 

 

Share-for-Share:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Other:

 

Cancellation and Payment

 

 

 

Share-for-Combined:

 

Component Adjustment

 

 

 

Tender Offer:

 

Applicable; provided that (x) Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares of the Issuer” in the fourth line thereof with “Shares”, (y) Section 12.1(e) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares” in the first line thereof with “Shares” and (z) Section 12.1(l) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares” in the fifth line thereof with “Shares”.

 

 

 

Consequences of Tender Offers:

 

 

 

 

 

Share-for-Share:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Other:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Combined:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

New Shares:

 

In the definition of New Shares in Section 12.1(i) of the Equity Definitions, the text in clause (i) thereof shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with “publicly quoted, traded or listed on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or their respective successors)”.

 

 

 

Composition of Combined Consideration:

 

Not Applicable

 

 

 

Nationalization, Insolvency or Delisting:

 

Cancellation and Payment; provided that, in addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it shall constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or their respective successors); if the Shares are

 

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immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL DISRUPTION EVENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Change in Law:

 

Applicable; provided that Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) replacing the phrase “the interpretation” in the third line thereof with the phrase “, or announcement or statement of, the formal or informal interpretation”, (ii) replacing the word “Shares” where it appears in clause (X) thereof with the words “Hedge Position” and (iii) adding the words “, or holding, acquiring or disposing of Shares or any Hedge Position relating to,” after the word “under” in clause (Y) thereof; provided further that (i) any determination as to whether (A) the adoption of or any change in any applicable law or regulation (including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, (x) any tax law or (y) adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute) or (B) the promulgation of or any change in the interpretation by any court, tribunal or regulatory authority with competent jurisdiction of any applicable law or regulation (including any action taken by a taxing authority), in each case, constitutes a “Change in Law” shall be made without regard to Section 739 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 or any similar legal certainty provision in any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation promulgated, on or after the Trade Date, and (ii) Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the parenthetical beginning after the word “regulation” in the second line thereof with the words “(including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, (x) any tax law or (y) adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute)”. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, a Change in Law described in clause (Y) of Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions shall not constitute a Change in Law and instead shall constitute an Increased Cost of Hedging as described in Section 12.9(a)(vi) of the Equity Definitions.

 

 

 

Failure to Deliver:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Insolvency Filing:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Hedging Disruption:

 

Applicable; provided that any Hedging Disruption that would occur solely due to the deterioration of the creditworthiness of the Hedging Party relative to other comparable financial institutions shall not be deemed a Hedging Disruption.

 

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Increased Cost of Hedging:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Loss of Stock Borrow:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Maximum Stock Loan Rate:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:

 

Applicable; provided that any Increased Cost of Stock Borrow that would occur solely due to the deterioration of the creditworthiness of the Hedging Party relative to other comparable financial institutions shall not be deemed an Increased Cost of Stock Borrow.

 

 

 

Initial Stock Loan Rate:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Determining Party:

 

For all applicable events, Dealer. When making any determination or calculation as “Determining Party,” Dealer shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if the Determining Party were the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Hedging Party:

 

For all applicable events, Dealer. When making any determination or calculation as “Hedging Party,” Dealer shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if the Hedging Party were the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Non-Reliance:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Agreements and Acknowledgments

 

 

Regarding Hedging Activities:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Additional Acknowledgments:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Hedging Adjustments:

 

Whenever the Calculation Agent is called upon to make a determination, calculation or adjustment pursuant to the terms of this Confirmation or the Equity Definitions to take into account the effect of an event, the Calculation Agent shall make such determination, calculation or adjustment by reference to the effect of such event on Dealer with the Calculation Agent assuming that Dealer maintains a commercially reasonable Hedge Position in respect of the Transaction.

 

 

 

3.                                       Calculation Agent:

 

Dealer; provided that following the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 5(a)(vii) of the Agreement with respect to which Dealer is the Defaulting Party, Issuer may appoint a third-party independent, nationally recognized dealer in over-the-counter corporate equity derivatives to act as Calculation Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, all calculations and determinations of the Calculation Agent shall be made in

 

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good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner. Following any determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent hereunder, upon a written request by Issuer, the Calculation Agent shall promptly (but in any event no later than five (5) Exchange Business Days following Dealer’s receipt of such written request) provide to Issuer by e-mail to the e-mail address provided by Issuer in such written request a report (in a commonly used file format for the storage and manipulation of financial data) displaying in reasonable detail the basis for such determination or calculation, as the case may be, it being understood and agreed that the Calculation Agent shall not be obligated to disclose any proprietary or confidential models or any other confidential or proprietary information, in each case, used by it for such determination or calculation.

 

4.                                       Account Details and Notices:

 

(a)                      Account for delivery of Shares to Issuer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(b)                      Account for payments to Issuer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(c)                       Account for payments to Dealer:

 

Chase Manhattan Bank New York

For A/C Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

A/C #930-1-011483

ABA: 021-000021

 

(d)                      Account for delivery of Shares to Dealer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(e)                       For purposes of this Confirmation:

 

(i)              Address for notices or communications to Issuer:

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.

3801 South Oliver

Wichita, Kansas 67210

Attention: Rhonda Harkins

Telephone: [*]

Email: [*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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(ii)           Address for notices or communications to Dealer:

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, NY 10282-2198

Attention: Simon Watson, Equity Capital Markets

Telephone: 212-902-2317

Facsimile: 212-256-5738

Email: simon.watson@ny.ibd.email.gs.com

 

With a copy to:

 

Attention: Daniel Josephs, Equity Capital Markets

Telephone: +1-212-902-8193

Facsimile: +1-917-977-3943

Email: daniel.josephs@gs.com

 

And email notification to the following address:

Eq-derivs-notifications@am.ibd.gs.com

 

5.                                       Amendments to the Equity Definitions.

 

(a)                                  Section 11.2(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the relevant Shares” and replacing them with the words “an economic effect on the Shares or the relevant Transaction”.

 

(b)                                  The first sentence of Section 11.2(c) of the Equity Definitions, prior to clause (A) thereof, is hereby amended to read as follows: ‘(c) If “Calculation Agent Adjustment” is specified as the Method of Adjustment in the related Confirmation of a Share Option Transaction or Share Forward Transaction, then, following the announcement or occurrence of any Potential Adjustment Event, the Calculation Agent will determine whether such Potential Adjustment Event has an economic effect on the Transaction and, if so, will (i) make appropriate adjustment(s), if any, to any one or more of:’ and the portion of such sentence immediately preceding clause (ii) thereof is hereby amended by deleting the words “diluting or concentrative” and the words “(provided that no adjustments will be made to account solely for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate or liquidity relative to the relevant Share)” and replacing such latter phrase with the words “(including adjustments to account for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate or liquidity relevant to the Shares)”.

 

(c)                                   Section 11.2(e)(vii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “any other event that may have a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the relevant Shares” and replacing them with the words “any other event related to the Issuer, the Shares or the Transaction that has a material economic effect on the Shares or the relevant Transaction”.

 

(d)                                  Section 12.6(c)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the words “the Transaction will be cancelled,” in the first line with the words “Dealer will have the right to cancel the Transaction,”.

 

(e)                                   Section 12.9(b)(iv) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (A) deleting (1) subsection (A) in its entirety, (2) the phrase “or (B)” following subsection (A) and (3) the phrase “in each case” in subsection (B); and (B) replacing the phrase “neither the Non-Hedging Party nor the Lending Party lends Shares” with the phrase “such Lending Party does not lend Shares” in the penultimate sentence.

 

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(f)                                    Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (A) adding the phrase “; provided that the Non-Hedging Party may not elect to terminate the Transaction unless the Non-Hedging Party represents and warrants to the Hedging Party in writing on the date it notifies the Hedging Party of such election that, as of such date, the Non-Hedging Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares and is making such election in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws” immediately prior to the period at the end of subsection (C); and (B) deleting clause (X) in the final sentence.

 

(g)                                   Section 12.9(b)(vi) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by adding the phrase “; provided that the Non-Hedging Party may not elect to terminate the Transaction unless the Non-Hedging Party represents and warrants to the Hedging Party in writing on the date it notifies the Hedging Party of such election that, as of such date, the Non-Hedging Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares and is making such election in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws” immediately prior to the period at the end of subsection (C).

 

6.                                       Alternative Termination Settlement.

 

In the event that (a) an Early Termination Date (whether as a result of an Event of Default or a Termination Event) occurs or is designated with respect to the Transaction or (b) the Transaction is cancelled or terminated upon the occurrence of an Extraordinary Event (except as a result of (i) a Nationalization, Insolvency or Merger Event in which the consideration to be paid to holders of Shares consists solely of cash, (ii) a Merger Event or Tender Offer that is within Issuer’s control, or (iii) an Event of Default in which Issuer is the Defaulting Party or a Termination Event in which Issuer is the Affected Party other than an Event of Default of the type described in Section 5(a)(iii), (v), (vi), (vii) or (viii) of the Agreement or a Termination Event of the type described in Section 5(b) of the Agreement, in each case, that resulted from an event or events outside Issuer’s control), if either party would owe any amount to the other party pursuant to Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement or any Cancellation Amount pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions (any such amount, a “ Payment Amount ”), then such payment shall be paid as set forth under the Agreement or Equity Definitions, as the case may be, unless Issuer makes an election to the contrary no later than the Early Termination Date or the date on which such Transaction is terminated or cancelled (which election by Issuer shall be deemed to be a representation to Dealer that, as of the date of such election, Issuer is not in possession or otherwise aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares), in which case Issuer or Dealer, as the case may be, shall deliver to the other party a number of Shares (or a number of units, each comprising the number or amount of the securities or property that a hypothetical holder of one Share would receive in the case of a Nationalization, Insolvency or Merger Event, as the case may be (each such unit, an “ Alternative Delivery Unit ”)), with a value equal to the Payment Amount, as determined by the Calculation Agent.  In determining the number of Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) required to be delivered under this provision, the Calculation Agent may take into account a number of factors, including, without limitation, the market price of the Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) on the Early Termination Date or the date of early cancellation or termination, as the case may be.  Additionally, if such delivery is made by Dealer, the Calculation Agent shall take into account the prices at which Dealer purchases Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) to fulfill its delivery obligations under this Section 6; provided that the parties hereby agree that such purchases shall be made solely on Calculation Dates; provided further that in determining the composition of any Alternative Delivery Unit, if the relevant Merger Event involves a choice of consideration to be received by holders, such holder shall be deemed to have elected to receive the maximum possible amount of cash. If delivery of Shares or Alternative Delivery Units, as the case may be, pursuant to this Section 6 is to be made by Issuer, paragraphs 2 through 8 of Annex A hereto shall apply as if (A) such delivery were a settlement of the Transaction to which Net Share Settlement applied, (B) the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date were the Early Termination Date or the date of early cancellation or termination, as the case may

 

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be, and (C) the Forward Cash Settlement Amount were equal to (x) zero minus (y) the Payment Amount owed by Issuer.

 

7.             Special Provisions for Acquisition Transaction Announcements.

 

(a)                                  If an Acquisition Transaction Announcement occurs on or prior to the final Valuation Date, then the Calculation Agent shall make such adjustments to the exercise, settlement, payment or any other terms of the Transaction as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate (including, without limitation and for the avoidance of doubt, adjustments that would allow the Settlement Amount to be less than zero), at such time or at multiple times as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate, to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event (which adjustments shall be limited to adjustments to account for changes in prices of the Shares, value of any commercially reasonable Hedge Positions, volatility, interest rates, stock loan rate, liquidity and/or any other commercially reasonable option pricing inputs relevant to the Shares or such Transaction). If an Acquisition Transaction Announcement occurs after the Trade Date but prior to the Lock-Out Date, the Lock-Out Date shall be deemed to be the date of such Acquisition Transaction Announcement.

 

(b)          Acquisition Transaction Announcement ” means (i) the announcement of an Acquisition Transaction, (ii) an announcement that Issuer or any of its subsidiaries has entered into an agreement, a letter of intent or an understanding designed to result in an Acquisition Transaction, (iii) the announcement of the intention to solicit or enter into, or to explore strategic alternatives or other similar undertaking that may include, an Acquisition Transaction, (iv) any other announcement that in the judgment of the Calculation Agent is reasonably likely to result in an Acquisition Transaction (it being understood and agreed that in determining whether such announcement is reasonably likely to result in an Acquisition Transaction, the Calculation Agent may take into consideration the effect of such announcement on the Shares and/or options relating to the Shares) or (v) any announcement subsequent to an Acquisition Transaction Announcement relating to a material amendment, extension, withdrawal or other change to the subject matter of a prior Acquisition Transaction Announcement. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “announcement” as used in the definition of Acquisition Transaction Announcement refers to any public statement and/or any announcement related to an Acquisition Transaction, whether made by Issuer or a third party.

 

(c)                                   Acquisition Transaction ” means (i) any Merger Event (for purposes of this definition, the definition of Merger Event shall be read with the references therein to “100%” being replaced by “15%” and to “50%” by “75%” and without reference to the clause beginning immediately following the definition of Reverse Merger therein to the end of such definition), Tender Offer or Merger Transaction (as defined below) or any other transaction involving the merger of Issuer with or into any third party, (ii) the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or liabilities of Issuer, (iii) a recapitalization, reclassification, binding share exchange or other similar transaction, (iv) any acquisition, lease, exchange, transfer, disposition (including by way of spin-off or distribution) of assets or liabilities (including any capital stock or other ownership interests in subsidiaries) or other similar event by Issuer or any of its subsidiaries where the aggregate consideration transferable or receivable by or to Issuer or its subsidiaries exceeds 15% of the market capitalization of Issuer and (v) any transaction with respect to which Issuer or its board of directors has a legal obligation to make a recommendation to its shareholders in respect of such transaction (whether pursuant to Rule 14e-2 under the Exchange Act or otherwise).

 

8.                                       Dealer Adjustments.

 

In the event that Dealer reasonably determines, based on the advice of counsel, that it is appropriate with regard to any legal, regulatory or self-regulatory requirements or related policies and procedures, whether or not such

 

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requirements, policies or procedures are imposed by law or have been voluntarily adopted by Dealer, and including, without limitation, Rule 10b-18, Rule 10b-5, Regulations 13D-G and Regulations 14D-E, each under the Exchange Act (but provided that any such policies and procedures are related to legal, regulatory or self-regulatory issues and are generally applicable hereunder and in similar situations and applied to the Transaction in a non-discriminatory manner), for Dealer to refrain from purchasing Shares or engaging in other market activity or to purchase fewer than the number of Shares or to engage in fewer or smaller other market transactions than Dealer would otherwise purchase or engage in in order to maintain, establish or unwind a commercially reasonable hedge position (such determination, a “ Regulatory Disruption ”) on any Calculation Date(s) on or prior to the conclusion of the Potential Purchase Period, then Dealer may, in its discretion, elect that a Market Disruption Event shall be deemed to have occurred and will be continuing on any such Calculation Date(s) and each such Calculation Date shall be a Disrupted Day (subject to “Market Disruption Event” above).

 

9.                                       Covenants.

 

Issuer covenants and agrees that:

 

(a)                                  Until the end of the Potential Purchase Period (as defined below), neither it nor any of its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act, “ Rule 10b-18 ”) shall directly or indirectly (which shall be deemed to include the writing or purchase of any cash-settled or other derivative transaction which references Shares or structured Share repurchase or other derivative with a hedging period, calculation period or settlement valuation period or similar period that overlaps with the Transaction) purchase, offer to purchase, place any bid or limit order relating to a purchase of or commence any tender offer relating to Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Shares) without the prior written approval of Dealer, except pursuant to any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement (as defined below), or take any other action that would cause the purchase by Dealer of any Shares in connection with this Confirmation not to qualify for the safe harbor provided in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act (assuming for the purposes of this paragraph that such safe harbor were otherwise available for such purchases).  “ Potential Purchase Period ” means the period from, and including, the Trade Date to, and including, the latest of (i) the last day of any Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, (ii) the earlier of (A) the date five Calculation Dates immediately following the last day of the Calculation Period and (B) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (iii) if an Early Termination Date occurs or the Transaction is cancelled pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions, a date determined by Dealer in its commercially reasonable discretion and communicated to Issuer no later than the Exchange Business Day immediately following such date (or, in the absence of such communication, the date that is five Calculation Dates immediately following such date). “ Other Specified Repurchase Agreement ” means any other fixed dollar accelerated share repurchase transaction entered into on the Trade Date that is intended to comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act and with calculation dates (however defined) that do not overlap with the Calculation Dates hereunder.

 

(b)                                  It will comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to it (including, without limitation, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”) and the Exchange Act) in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Confirmation.

 

(c)                                   Without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, it is not relying, and has not relied, upon Dealer or any of its representatives or advisors with respect to the legal, accounting, tax or other implications of this Confirmation and that it has conducted its own analyses of the legal, accounting, tax and other implications of this Confirmation, and that Dealer and its affiliates may from time to time effect transactions for their own account or the account of customers and hold positions in securities or options on securities of Issuer and that Dealer and its affiliates may continue to conduct

 

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such transactions during the term of this Confirmation.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Issuer acknowledges that Dealer is not making any representations or warranties or taking any position or expressing any view with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under any accounting standards including ASC Topic 260, Earnings Per Share , ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging , or ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity and ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project.

 

(d)                                  Neither it nor any affiliates shall take any action that would cause a restricted period (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act (“ Regulation M ”)) to be applicable to any purchases of Shares, or of any security for which Shares are a reference security (as defined in Regulation M), by Issuer or any affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M) of Issuer during the Potential Purchase Period.

 

(e)                                   It will not during the term of the Transaction make, or, to the extent within its control, permit to be made, any public announcement (as defined in Rule 165(f) under the Securities Act) of any Merger Transaction or potential Merger Transaction unless such public announcement is made prior to the open or after the close of the regular trading session on the Exchange for the Shares.  “ Merger Transaction ” means any merger, acquisition or similar transaction involving a recapitalization of Issuer as contemplated by Rule 10b-18(a)(13)(iv) under the Exchange Act.  Issuer acknowledges that any such public announcement may trigger the provision set forth in Section 8 above.

 

(f)                                    Promptly following the announcement of a Merger Transaction (but in any event not later than 7:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day following such announcement (or, if such announcement is made prior to the open of the regular trading session on the Exchange for the Shares on a Scheduled Trading Day, not later than such open of the regular trading session)), Issuer shall provide Dealer with written notice, which notice shall specify (i) the nature of such announcement; (ii) Issuer’s average daily “Rule 10b-18 purchases” as defined in Rule 10b-18 during the three full calendar months immediately preceding such announcement and (iii) the number of Shares purchased pursuant to the block purchase proviso in Rule 10b-18(b)(4) under the Exchange Act for the three full calendar months preceding the date of such announcement.  Such written notice shall be deemed to be a certification by Issuer to Dealer that such information is true and correct.  Issuer understands that Dealer will use this information in calculating the trading volume for purposes of Rule 10b-18.  In addition, Issuer shall promptly provide written notice to Dealer of the occurrence of the completion of such transaction or the completion of the vote by target shareholders related to such transaction.  Issuer acknowledges that its delivery of such notices must comply with the standards set forth in Section 10(c) below.

 

(g)                                   Any Shares or Alternative Delivery Units delivered to Dealer may be transferred by and among Dealer and its affiliates and Issuer shall effect such transfer without any further action by Dealer.

 

10.                                Representations, Warranties, Acknowledgments, and Agreements.

 

(a)                                  Issuer hereby represents and warrants to Dealer on the date hereof and on and as of the Initial Share Delivery Date that:

 

(i)                                      None of Issuer and its officers and directors is aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares, and is entering into the Transaction in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions of federal securities laws, including, without limitation, Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act and (B) Issuer agrees not to alter or deviate from the terms of this Confirmation or enter into or alter a corresponding or hedging transaction or position with respect to the Shares (including, without limitation, with respect to any securities convertible or exchangeable into the Shares) during the term of this Confirmation. For the avoidance of doubt, the

 

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parties hereto acknowledge that the entry into any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement shall not fall within the ambit of the previous sentence.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all reports and other documents filed by Issuer with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act when considered as a whole (with the more recent such reports and documents deemed to amend inconsistent statements contained in any earlier such reports and documents) do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

 

(ii)                                   The transactions contemplated by this Confirmation have been authorized under Issuer’s publicly announced program to repurchase Shares prior to the Trade Date.

 

(iii)                                Issuer is not entering into the Transaction or making any election hereunder to facilitate a distribution of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or in connection with a future issuance of securities.

 

(iv)                               Issuer is not entering into the Transaction or making any election hereunder to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) in violation of the federal securities laws.

 

(v)                                  There have been no purchases of Shares in Rule 10b-18 purchases of blocks pursuant to the once-a-week block exception contained in Rule 10b-18(b)(4) by or for Issuer or any of its affiliated purchasers during each of the four calendar weeks preceding the Trade Date and during the calendar week in which the Trade Date occurs (“Rule 10b-18 purchase”, “blocks” and “affiliated purchaser” each as defined in Rule 10b-18).

 

(vi)                               Issuer is, as of the date hereof and the Prepayment Date, and after giving effect to the Transaction will be, Solvent.  As used in this paragraph, the term “ Solvent ” means, with respect to a particular date, that on such date (A) the present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of the assets of Issuer is not less than the total amount required to pay the liabilities of Issuer on its total existing debts and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and matured, (B) Issuer is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments as they mature and become due in the normal course of business, (C) assuming consummation of the transactions as contemplated by this Confirmation, Issuer is not incurring debts or liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature, (D) Issuer is not engaged in any business or transaction, and does not propose to engage in any business or transaction, for which its property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which Issuer is engaged, (E) Issuer is not a defendant in any civil action that could reasonably be expected to result in a judgment that Issuer is or would become unable to satisfy, (F) Issuer is not “insolvent” (as such term is defined under Section 101(32) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”)) and (G) Issuer would be able to purchase Shares with an aggregate purchase price equal to the Prepayment Amount in compliance with the corporate laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation.

 

(vii)                            Issuer is not, and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby will not be, required to register as an “investment company,” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

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(viii)                         No state or local (including non-U.S. jurisdictions) law, rule, regulation or regulatory order applicable to the Shares would give rise to any reporting, consent, registration or other requirement (including without limitation a requirement to obtain prior approval from any person or entity) as a result of Dealer or its affiliates owning or holding (however defined) Shares.

 

(ix)                               Issuer (A) is capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities; (B) will exercise independent judgment in evaluating the recommendations of any broker-dealer or its associated persons, unless it has otherwise notified the broker-dealer in writing; and (C) has total assets of at least USD 50,000,000 as of the date hereof. Issuer will notify Dealer if any of the statements in the preceding sentence ceases to be true.

 

(b)                                  Issuer acknowledges and agrees that the Initial Shares may be sold short to Issuer. Issuer further acknowledges and agrees that Dealer may purchase Shares in connection with the Transaction, which Shares may be used to cover all or a portion of such short sale or may be delivered to Issuer.  Such purchases and any other market activity by Dealer will be conducted independently of Issuer by Dealer as principal for its own account.  All of the actions to be taken by Dealer in connection with the Transaction shall be taken by Dealer independently and without any advance or subsequent consultation with Issuer.

 

(c)                                   It is the intent of the parties that the Transaction comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c)(1)(i)(A) and (B) of the Exchange Act, and the parties agree that this Confirmation shall be interpreted to comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act, and Issuer shall not take any action that results in the Transaction not so complying with such requirements.  Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, Issuer acknowledges and agrees that (A) Issuer does not have, and shall not attempt to exercise, any influence over how, when or whether Dealer effects any market transactions in connection with the Transaction and (B) neither Issuer nor its officers or employees shall, directly or indirectly, communicate any information regarding Issuer or the Shares to any employee of Dealer or its affiliates, other than employees identified by Dealer to Issuer in writing as employees not responsible for executing market transactions in connection with the Transaction.  Issuer also acknowledges and agrees that any amendment, modification, waiver or termination of this Confirmation must be effected in accordance with the requirements for the amendment or termination of a “plan” as defined in Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions of Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act, and no such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made at any time at which Issuer or any officer or director of Issuer is aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares.

 

(d)                                  Dealer covenants and agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts, during the Calculation Period and any Buyer Settlement Valuation Period for the Transaction, to make all purchases of Shares in connection with the Transaction in a manner that would comply with the limitations set forth in clauses (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4) and (c) of Rule 10b-18, as if such rule were applicable to such purchases and taking into account any applicable Securities and Exchange Commission no-action letters as appropriate, and subject to any delays between the execution and reporting of a trade of the Shares on the Exchange and other circumstances beyond Dealer’s control; provided that, during the Calculation Period, the foregoing agreement shall not apply to purchases made to dynamically hedge for Dealer’s own account or the account of its affiliate(s) the optionality arising under the Transaction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, timing optionality).

 

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(e)                                   Each of Issuer and Dealer represents and warrants to the other that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1a(18) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended.

 

(f)                                    Each of Issuer and Dealer acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof.  Accordingly, each party represents and warrants to the other party that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act, (iii) it is entering into the Transaction for its own account and without a view to the distribution or resale thereof and (iv) the assignment, transfer or other disposition of the Transaction has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.

 

11.                                Acknowledgements of Issuer Regarding Hedging and Market Activity.

 

Issuer agrees, understands and acknowledges that:

 

(a)                                  During the term of the Transaction, Dealer and its affiliates may buy or sell Shares or other securities or buy or sell options or futures contracts or enter into swaps or other derivative transactions in order to establish, maintain, adjust or unwind its Hedge Position with respect to the Transaction.

 

(b)                                  Dealer and its affiliates also may be active in the market for the Shares or options, futures contracts, swaps or other derivative transactions relating to the Shares other than in connection with hedging activities in relation to the Transaction, including acting as agent or as principal and for its own account or on behalf of customers.

 

(c)                                   Dealer shall make its own determination as to whether, when and in what manner any hedging or market activities in Issuer’s securities or other securities or transactions shall be conducted and shall do so in a manner that it deems appropriate to hedge its price and market risk with respect to the Transaction.

 

(d)                                  Any such market activities of Dealer and its affiliates may affect the market price and volatility of the Shares, including the 10b-18 VWAP, the Forward Price, and the Buyer Settlement Price, each in a manner that may be adverse to Issuer.

 

(e)                                   The Transaction is a derivatives transaction in which it has granted Dealer an option; Dealer may purchase shares for its own account at an average price that may be greater than, or less than, the price paid by Issuer under the terms of the Transaction.

 

12.                                [ Reserved ].

 

13.                                Other Provisions.

 

(a)                                  Issuer agrees and acknowledges that Dealer is a “financial institution,” “financial participant” and “swap participant” within the meaning of Sections 101(22), 101(22A) and 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code.  The parties hereto further agree and acknowledge that it is the intent of the parties that (A) this Confirmation is a “securities contract,” as such term is defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in connection herewith is a “termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “settlement payment,” within the meaning of Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code, (B) this Confirmation is a “swap agreement,” as such term is defined in Section 101(53B) of the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in

 

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connection herewith is a “transfer” within the meaning of Section 546(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, and a “forward contract” as defined in Section 101(25) of the Bankruptcy Code, (C) the rights given to Dealer under this Confirmation and under the Agreement upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or Termination Event with respect Issuer or any Extraordinary Event that results in the termination or cancellation of the Transaction, in each case, constitute “contractual rights” to cause the liquidation, termination or acceleration of or in connection with a “securities contract” and a “swap agreement” and (D) Dealer is entitled to the protections afforded by, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362(b)(17), 362(b)(27), 362(o), 546(e), 546(g), 546(j), 548(d)(2), 555, 556, 560, and 561 of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

(b)                                  Dealer acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement or this Confirmation, this Confirmation is not intended to convey to Dealer rights against Issuer with respect to the Transaction that are senior to the claims of common stockholders of Issuer in any United States bankruptcy proceedings of Issuer; provided that nothing herein shall limit or shall be deemed to limit Dealer’s right to pursue remedies in the event of a breach by Issuer of its obligations and agreements with respect to the Transaction; provided further that nothing herein shall limit or shall be deemed to limit Dealer’s rights in respect of any transactions other than this Transaction.

 

(c)                                   Notwithstanding any provision of this Confirmation or any other agreement between the parties to the contrary, neither the obligations of Issuer nor the obligations of Dealer hereunder are secured by any collateral, security interest, pledge or lien.

 

(d)                                  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set off obligations arising under the Agreement and the Transaction against other obligations between the parties, whether arising under any other agreement, applicable law or otherwise.

 

(e)                                   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Dealer may, other than with respect to the Initial Share Delivery Date, by prior notice to Issuer, satisfy its obligation to deliver any Shares or other securities on any date due (an “ Original Delivery Date ”) by making separate deliveries of Shares or such securities, as the case may be, at more than one time on or prior to such Original Delivery Date, so long as the aggregate number of Shares and other securities so delivered on or prior to such Original Delivery Date is equal to the number required to be delivered on such Original Delivery Date.  Any Shares delivered pursuant to this provision shall be included in the calculation of the Settlement Amount.

 

(f)                                    It shall constitute an Additional Termination Event with respect to which the Transaction is the sole Affected Transaction and Issuer is the sole Affected Party if, at any time on or prior to the final Valuation Date, the price per Share on the Exchange, as determined by the Calculation Agent, is at or below the Threshold Price (as specified in Schedule I).

 

(g)                                   For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Confirmation shall be interpreted as requiring Issuer to deliver cash in respect of the settlement of the Transaction following payment by Issuer of the Prepayment Amount, except in circumstances where the required cash settlement thereof is permitted for classification of the contract as equity by ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity , as in effect on the Trade Date (including, without limitation, where Issuer so elects to deliver cash or fails timely to elect to deliver Shares or Alternative Delivery Units in respect of the settlement of the Transaction or in those circumstances in which holders of the Shares would also receive cash).

 

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14.                                Maximum Number of Shares.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Confirmation, in no event shall Dealer be required to deliver any Shares, or any Shares or other securities comprising Alternative Delivery Units, in excess of the Maximum Number of Shares (as specified in Schedule I).

 

15.                                Calculations and Payments upon Early Termination.

 

The parties acknowledge and agree that in calculating (a) the Close-Out Amount pursuant to Section 6 of the Agreement and (b) the amount due upon cancellation or termination of the Transaction (whether in whole or in part) pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions as a result of an Extraordinary Event, Dealer may (but need not) determine such amount based on expected losses assuming a commercially reasonable (including without limitation with regard to reasonable legal and regulatory guidelines and taking into account the existence of any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement) risk bid were used to determine loss to avoid awaiting the delay associated with closing out any hedge or related trading position in a commercially reasonable manner prior to or promptly following the designation of an Early Termination Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement or in the Equity Definitions, all amounts calculated as being due in respect of an Early Termination Date under Section 6(e) of the Agreement or other termination or cancellation of the Transaction will be payable on the day that notice of the amount payable is effective; provided that if Issuer elects to receive Shares or Alternative Delivery Units in accordance with Section 6, such Shares or Alternative Delivery Units shall be delivered on a date selected by Dealer as promptly as practicable.

 

16.                                Transfer and Assignment.

 

Dealer may transfer or assign its rights and obligations hereunder and under the Agreement, in whole or in part, to any of its affiliates whose obligations are guaranteed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. without the consent of Issuer.

 

17.                                Dealer Purchases.

 

During the Potential Purchase Period, Dealer shall not purchase any Shares or enter into any transactions that, in whole or in part, have the effect of giving Dealer “long” economic exposure to the Shares in connection with the Transaction on any Exchange Business Day that is not a Calculation Date; provided that (i) Dealer shall be permitted on any day to exercise options relating to Shares or deliver or receive Shares upon exercise of options relating to Shares, in either case so long as such options were purchased or written (x) in compliance with this sentence and (y) to hedge volatility risk with respect to the Transaction and (ii) during the period (if any) from and including the Trade Date to and including the Exchange Business Day immediately following the Trade Date, Dealer shall be permitted to enter into delta-neutral volatility hedging transactions so long as such transactions (with such transactions entered into with the same counterparty viewed in the aggregate) do not result in an immediate increase in Dealer’s net “long” exposure to the Shares.

 

18.                                Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver.

 

THIS CONFIRMATION AND THE AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS CONFIRMATION OR THE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THIS CONFIRMATION AND THE AGREEMENT AND WAIVE ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE IN, AND ANY CLAIM OF INCONVENIENT FORUM WITH RESPECT TO, THESE COURTS.  NOTHING IN THIS PROVISION SHALL PROHIBIT A PARTY

 

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FROM BRINGING AN ACTION TO ENFORCE A MONEY JUDGMENT IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES (ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ON BEHALF OF ITS STOCKHOLDERS) ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TRANSACTION OR THE ACTIONS OF THE OTHER PARTY OR THE OTHER PARTY’S AFFILIATES IN THE NEGOTIATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.

 

19.                                Counterparts.

 

This Confirmation may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument, and any party hereto may execute this Confirmation by signing and delivering one or more counterparts.

 

20.                                Offices.

 

(a)                                  The Office of Dealer for the Transaction is:  200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198.

 

(b)                                  The Office of Issuer for the Transaction is:  Inapplicable, Issuer is not a Multibranch Party.

 

Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank

 

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Issuer hereby agrees (a) to check this Confirmation carefully and immediately upon receipt so that errors or discrepancies can be promptly identified and rectified and (b) to confirm that the foregoing (in the exact form provided by Dealer) correctly sets forth the terms of the agreement between Dealer and Issuer with respect to the Transaction, by manually signing this Confirmation or this page hereof as evidence of agreement to such terms and providing the other information requested herein and immediately returning an executed copy to Equity Derivatives Documentation Department, Facsimile No. 212-428-1980/83.

 

Confirmed as of the date first written above:

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

By:

/s/ Gianfranco Bartellino

Name: Sanjay Kapoor

Name: Gianfranco Bartellino

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Title: Vice President

 

[ Signature Page to ASR Confirmation (GS) ]

 



 

SCHEDULE I

 

For the purposes of the Transaction, the following terms shall have the following values or meanings:

 

Trade Date:

 

May 30, 2018

 

 

 

Prepayment Date:

 

June 1, 2018

 

 

 

Initial Share Delivery Date:

 

June 1, 2018

 

 

 

Calculation Period Start Date:

 

June 1, 2018

 

 

 

Calculation Dates:

 

Each day that is both an Exchange Business Day and is set forth as a Specified Date in Schedule II. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Confirmation, the Equity Definitions or the Agreement, the Calculation Agent shall not adjust the dates identified as Specified Dates in Schedule II.

 

 

 

Scheduled Valuation Date:

 

[*]

 

 

 

Lock-Out Date:

 

[*]

 

 

 

Prepayment Amount:

 

USD 362,500,000

 

 

 

 

Discount:

 

USD [*]

 

 

 

Initial Shares:

 

3,645,587 Shares; provided that if, in connection with the Transaction, Dealer is unable, after using commercially reasonable efforts, to borrow or otherwise acquire a number of Shares equal to the Initial Shares for delivery to Issuer on the Initial Share Delivery Date, the Initial Shares delivered on the Initial Share Delivery Date shall be reduced to such number of Shares that Dealer is able to so borrow or otherwise acquire, and thereafter Dealer shall continue to use commercially reasonable efforts to borrow or otherwise acquire a number of Shares, at a stock borrow cost no greater than the Initial Stock Loan Rate, equal to the shortfall in the Initial Share Delivery and to deliver such additional Shares as soon as reasonably practicable. All Shares delivered to Issuer in respect of the Transaction pursuant to this paragraph shall be the “Initial Shares” for purposes of “Settlement Amount.”

 

 

 

Ordinary Dividend Amount:

 

USD 0.12

 

 

 

 

 

For any Dividend with an ex-dividend date occurring on or after the Scheduled Valuation Date: USD 0.00

 

 

 

Scheduled Ex-Dividend Dates:

 

Each of June 15, 2018; September 14, 2018; and December 14, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The occurrence of a Buyer Election Date, if any, shall be a Scheduled Ex-Dividend Date.

 

 

 

Threshold Price:

 

USD [*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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Floor Price:

 

USD [*]

 

 

 

Initial Stock Loan Rate:

 

[*] bps.

 

 

 

Maximum Stock Loan Rate:

 

[*] bps.

 

 

 

Share Cap:

 

8,577,851

 

 

 

Maximum Number of Shares:

 

56,892,818

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

Specified Dates

 

Each of the following shall be a Specified Date for purposes of the Transaction:

 

1.

 

[*]

 

2.

 

[*]

 

3.

 

[*]

4.

 

[*]

 

5.

 

[*]

 

6.

 

[*]

7.

 

[*]

 

8.

 

[*]

 

9.

 

[*]

10.

 

[*]

 

11.

 

[*]

 

12.

 

[*]

13.

 

[*]

 

14.

 

[*]

 

15.

 

[*]

16.

 

[*]

 

17.

 

[*]

 

18.

 

[*]

19.

 

[*]

 

20.

 

[*]

 

21.

 

[*]

22.

 

[*]

 

23.

 

[*]

 

24.

 

[*]

25.

 

[*]

 

26.

 

[*]

 

27.

 

[*]

28.

 

[*]

 

29.

 

[*]

 

30.

 

[*]

31.

 

[*]

 

32.

 

[*]

 

33.

 

[*]

34.

 

[*]

 

35.

 

[*]

 

36.

 

[*]

37.

 

[*]

 

38.

 

[*]

 

39.

 

[*]

40.

 

[*]

 

41.

 

[*]

 

42.

 

[*]

43.

 

[*]

 

44.

 

[*]

 

45.

 

[*]

46.

 

[*]

 

47.

 

[*]

 

48.

 

[*]

49.

 

[*]

 

50.

 

[*]

 

51.

 

[*]

52.

 

[*]

 

53.

 

[*]

 

54.

 

[*]

55.

 

[*]

 

56.

 

[*]

 

57.

 

[*]

58.

 

[*]

 

59.

 

[*]

 

60.

 

[*]

61.

 

[*]

 

62.

 

[*]

 

63.

 

[*]

64.

 

[*]

 

65.

 

[*]

 

66.

 

[*]

67.

 

[*]

 

68.

 

[*]

 

69.

 

[*]

70.

 

[*]

 

71.

 

[*]

 

72.

 

[*]

73.

 

[*]

 

74.

 

[*]

 

75.

 

[*]

76.

 

[*]

 

77.

 

[*]

 

78.

 

[*]

79.

 

[*]

 

80.

 

[*]

 

81.

 

[*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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82.

 

[*]

 

83.

 

[*]

 

84.

 

[*]

85.

 

[*]

 

86.

 

[*]

 

87.

 

[*]

88.

 

[*]

 

89.

 

[*]

 

90.

 

[*]

91.

 

[*]

 

92.

 

[*]

 

93.

 

[*]

 

If necessary, the Calculation Agent may add additional Specified Dates beginning with [*] and continuing with every other Scheduled Trading Day thereafter.

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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ANNEX A

 

BUYER SETTLEMENT PROVISIONS

 

1.                                       The following Buyer Settlement Provisions shall apply to the Transaction to the extent indicated under the Confirmation:

 

Settlement Currency:

 

USD

 

 

 

Settlement Method Election:

 

Applicable; provided that (i) Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the word “ Physical ” in the sixth line thereof and replacing it with the words “ Net Share ” and (ii) the Electing Party may make a settlement method election only if the Electing Party represents and warrants to Dealer in writing on the date it notifies Dealer of its election that, as of such date, the Electing Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information concerning Issuer or the Shares and is electing the settlement method in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws.

 

 

 

Electing Party:

 

Buyer

 

 

 

Buyer Election Date:

 

In respect of any Valuation Date, the earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (ii) the second Exchange Business Day immediately following the relevant Acceleration Date (if any) (in which case the election under Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions shall be made no later than 10 minutes prior to the open of trading on the Exchange on such second Exchange Business Day), as the case may be.

 

 

 

Default Settlement Method:

 

Cash Settlement

 

 

 

Forward Cash Settlement Amount:

 

The Settlement Amount multiplied by the Buyer Settlement Price.

 

 

 

Buyer Settlement Price:

 

The average of the 10b-18 VWAPs for the Calculation Dates in the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, subject to the provisions opposite the caption “Market Disruption Event” in the Confirmation.

 

 

 

Buyer Settlement Valuation Period:

 

A number of Scheduled Trading Days selected by Dealer in a commercially reasonable manner to unwind a commercially reasonable Hedge Position, beginning on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date or (ii) the Exchange Business Day immediately following the Valuation Date.

 

 

 

Cash Settlement:

 

If Cash Settlement is applicable, then Buyer shall pay to Seller the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date.

 

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Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date:

 

The date one Settlement Cycle following the last day of the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period.

 

 

 

Net Share Settlement Procedures:

 

If Net Share Settlement is applicable, Net Share Settlement shall be made in accordance with paragraphs 2 through 8 below.

 

2.                                       Net Share Settlement shall be made by delivery on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date of a number of Shares satisfying the conditions set forth in paragraph 3 below (the “ Registered Settlement Shares ”), or a number of Shares not satisfying such conditions (the “ Unregistered Settlement Shares ”), in either case with a value equal to the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount, with such Shares’ value based on the value thereof to Dealer (which value shall, in the case of Unregistered Settlement Shares, take into account a commercially reasonable illiquidity discount), in each case, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

 

3.                                       Buyer may deliver Registered Settlement Shares pursuant to paragraph 2 above only if:

 

(a)                                  a registration statement covering public resale of the Registered Settlement Shares by Dealer (the “ Registration Statement ”) shall have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act and been declared or otherwise become effective on or prior to the date of delivery, and no stop order shall be in effect with respect to the Registration Statement; and a printed prospectus relating to the Registered Settlement Shares (including any prospectus supplement thereto, the “ Prospectus ”) shall have been delivered to Dealer, in such quantities as Dealer shall reasonably have requested, on or prior to the date of delivery;

 

(b)                                  the form and content of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (including, without limitation, any sections describing the plan of distribution) shall be satisfactory to Dealer;

 

(c)                                   as of or prior to the date of delivery, Dealer and its agents shall have been afforded a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Buyer customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities and the results of such investigation are satisfactory to Dealer, in its discretion; and

 

(d)                                  as of the date of delivery, an agreement (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”) shall have been entered into with Dealer in connection with the public resale of the Registered Settlement Shares by Dealer substantially similar to underwriting agreements customary for underwritten offerings of equity securities, in form and substance satisfactory to Dealer, which Underwriting Agreement shall include, without limitation, provisions substantially similar to those contained in such underwriting agreements relating, without limitation, to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates and the provision of customary opinions, accountants’ comfort letters and lawyers’ negative assurance letters.

 

4.                                       If Buyer delivers Unregistered Settlement Shares pursuant to paragraph 2 above:

 

(a)                                  all Unregistered Settlement Shares shall be delivered to Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof;

 

(b)                                  as of or prior to the date of delivery, Dealer and any potential purchaser of any such shares from Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) identified by Dealer shall be afforded a commercially reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Buyer customary in scope for private placements of equity securities (including, without limitation, the right to have made available to them for inspection all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and other information reasonably requested by them);

 

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(c)                                   as of the date of delivery, Buyer shall enter into an agreement (a “ Private Placement Agreement ”) with Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) in connection with the private placement of such shares by Buyer to Dealer (or any such affiliate) and the private resale of such shares by Dealer (or any such affiliate), substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance commercially reasonably satisfactory to Dealer, which Private Placement Agreement shall include, without limitation, provisions substantially similar to those contained in such private placement purchase agreements relating, without limitation, to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates and the provision of customary opinions, accountants’ comfort letters and lawyers’ negative assurance letters, and shall provide for the payment by Buyer of all fees and expenses in connection with such resale, including all fees and expenses of counsel for Dealer, and shall contain representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Buyer reasonably necessary or advisable to establish and maintain the availability of an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act for such resales; and

 

(d)                                  in connection with the private placement of such shares by Buyer to Dealer (or any such affiliate) and the private resale of such shares by Dealer (or any such affiliate), Buyer shall, if so requested by Dealer, prepare, in cooperation with Dealer, a private placement memorandum in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Dealer.

 

5.                                       Dealer, itself or through an affiliate (the “ Selling Agent ”) or any underwriter(s), will sell all, or such lesser portion as may be required hereunder, of the Registered Settlement Shares or Unregistered Settlement Shares and any Makewhole Shares (as defined below) (together, the “ Settlement Shares ”) delivered by Buyer to Dealer pursuant to paragraph 6 below commencing on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date and continuing until the date on which the aggregate Net Proceeds (as such term is defined below) of such sales, as determined by Dealer, is equal to the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount (such date, the “ Final Resale Date ”).  If the proceeds of any sale(s) made by Dealer, the Selling Agent or any underwriter(s), net of any fees and commissions (including, without limitation, underwriting or placement fees) customary for similar transactions under the circumstances at the time of the offering, together with carrying charges and expenses incurred in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares (including, but without limitation to, the covering of any over-allotment or short position (syndicate or otherwise)) (the “ Net Proceeds ”) exceed the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount, Dealer will refund, in USD, such excess to Buyer on the date that is two (2) Currency Business Days following the Final Resale Date, and, if any portion of the Settlement Shares remains unsold, Dealer shall return to Buyer on that date such unsold Shares.

 

6.                                       If the Calculation Agent determines that the Net Proceeds received from the sale of the Registered Settlement Shares or Unregistered Settlement Shares or any Makewhole Shares, if any, pursuant to this paragraph 6 are less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount (the amount in USD by which the Net Proceeds are less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount being the “ Shortfall ” and the date on which such determination is made, the “ Deficiency Determination Date ”), Buyer shall, on the Exchange Business Day next succeeding the Deficiency Determination Date (the “ Makewhole Notice Date ”), deliver to Dealer, through the Selling Agent, a notice of Buyer’s election that Buyer shall either (i) pay an amount in cash equal to the Shortfall on the day that is one (1) Currency Business Day after the Makewhole Notice Date, or (ii) deliver additional Shares.  If Buyer elects to deliver to Dealer additional Shares, then Buyer shall deliver additional Shares in compliance with the terms and conditions of paragraph 3 or paragraph 4 above, as the case may be (the “ Makewhole Shares ”), on the first Clearance System Business Day that is also an Exchange Business Day following the Makewhole Notice Date in such number as the Calculation Agent reasonably believes would have a market value on that Exchange Business Day equal to the Shortfall.  Such Makewhole Shares shall be sold by Dealer in accordance with the provisions above; provided that if the sum of the Net Proceeds from the sale of the originally delivered Shares and the Net Proceeds from the sale of any Makewhole Shares is less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount then Buyer shall, at its election, either make such cash payment or deliver to Dealer further Makewhole Shares until such Shortfall has been reduced to zero.

 

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7.                                       Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the aggregate number of Settlement Shares for the Transaction be greater than the Share Cap (as specified in Schedule I).  Buyer represents and warrants (which shall be deemed to be repeated on each day that the Transaction is outstanding) that the Share Cap is equal to or less than the number of Shares determined according to the following formula:

 

A – B

 

Where              A = the number of authorized but unissued shares of Buyer that are not reserved for future issuance on the date hereof; and

 

B = the maximum number of Shares required to be delivered to third parties if Buyer elected Net Share Settlement of all transactions in the Shares (other than the Transaction) with all third parties that are then currently outstanding and unexercised.

 

8.                                       Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Confirmation, Issuer acknowledges and agrees that, on any day, Dealer shall not be obligated or entitled to receive from Issuer any Shares, and Issuer shall not be entitled to deliver to Dealer any Shares, to the extent (but only to the extent) that, after such receipt of any Shares hereunder, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would exceed 8.0%, or (ii) the Share Amount would exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  Any purported delivery hereunder shall be void and have no effect to the extent (but only to the extent) that, after such delivery, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would exceed 8.0%, or (ii) the Share Amount would exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  If any delivery owed to Dealer hereunder is not made, in whole or in part, as a result of this provision, Issuer’s obligation to make such delivery shall not be extinguished and Issuer shall make such delivery as promptly as practicable after, but in no event later than one Exchange Business Day after, Dealer gives notice to Issuer that, after such delivery, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would not exceed 8.0%, and (ii) the Share Amount would not exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  The “ Section 16 Percentage ” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, (A) the numerator of which is the number of Shares that Dealer and any of its affiliates or any other person subject to aggregation with Dealer for purposes of the “beneficial ownership” test under Section 13 of the Exchange Act, or any “group” (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act) of which Dealer is or may be deemed to be a part beneficially owns (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act), without duplication, on such day (or, to the extent that for any reason the equivalent calculation under Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder results in a higher number, such higher number) and (B) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding on such day.  The “ Share Amount ” as of any day is the number of Shares that Dealer and any person whose ownership position would be aggregated with that of Dealer (Dealer or any such person, a “ Dealer Person ”) under any law, rule, regulation, regulatory order or organizational documents or contracts of Issuer that are, in each case, applicable to ownership of Shares (“ Applicable Restrictions ”), owns, beneficially owns, constructively owns, controls, holds the power to vote or otherwise meets a relevant definition of ownership under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Dealer in its reasonable discretion.  The “ Applicable Share Limit ” means a number of Shares equal to (A) the minimum number of Shares that could give rise to reporting or registration obligations or other requirements (including obtaining prior approval from any person or entity) of a Dealer Person, or could result in an adverse effect on a Dealer Person, under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Dealer in its reasonable discretion, minus (B) 1% of the number of Shares outstanding.

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

Confidential portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Omissions are designated by the symbol [*]

 

 

 

 

 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

 

 

1585 BROADWAY

 

 

NEW YORK, NY 10036-8293

 

 

(212) 761-4000

 

May 30, 2018

 

Fixed Dollar Accelerated Share Repurchase Transaction

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.
3801 South Oliver
Wichita, Kansas 67210

Dear Sir/Madam:

 

The purpose of this letter agreement (this “ Confirmation ”) is to confirm the terms and conditions of the Transaction entered into between Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“ Dealer ”) and Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (“ Issuer ”) on the Trade Date specified below (the “ Transaction ”).  This confirmation constitutes a “Confirmation” as referred to in the Agreement specified below.

 

The definitions and provisions contained in the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (as published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ ISDA ”)) (the “ Equity Definitions ”) are incorporated into this Confirmation.  The Transaction is a Share Forward Transaction for purposes of the Equity Definitions.  Any reference to a currency shall have the meaning contained in Section 1.7 of the 2006 ISDA Definitions, as published by ISDA.

 

1.                                       This Confirmation evidences a complete and binding agreement between Dealer and Issuer as to the terms of the Transaction to which this Confirmation relates and shall supersede all prior or contemporaneous written or oral communications with respect thereto.  This Confirmation shall be subject to an agreement (the “ Agreement ”) in the form of the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement as if Dealer and Issuer had executed an agreement in such form without any Schedule but with the following elections: (i) the “Cross Default” provisions of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement shall apply to Dealer, with a “Threshold Amount” of 3% of shareholders’ equity of Dealer’s ultimate parent as of the Trade Date ( provided that (a) the phrase “, or becoming capable at such time of being declared,” shall be deleted from clause (1) of such Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement, (b) “Specified Indebtedness” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14 of the Agreement and (c) the following sentence shall be added to the end of Section 5(a)(vi) of the Agreement: “Notwithstanding the foregoing, a default under subsection (2) hereof shall not constitute an Event of Default if (x) the default was caused solely by error or omission of an administrative or operational nature; (y) funds were available to enable the relevant party to make the payment when due; and (z) the payment is made within two Local Business Days of such party’s receipt of written notice of its failure to pay.”); and (ii) the Termination Currency shall be USD.

 

The Transaction shall be the only transaction under the Agreement.  If there exists any ISDA Master Agreement between Dealer and Issuer or any confirmation or other agreement between Dealer and Issuer pursuant to which an ISDA Master Agreement is deemed to exist between Dealer and Issuer, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in such ISDA Master Agreement, such confirmation or agreement or any other agreement to which Dealer and Issuer are parties, the Transaction shall not be considered a transaction under, or otherwise governed by, such existing or deemed to be existing ISDA Master Agreement and the occurrence of any Event of Default or Termination Event

 



 

under the Agreement with respect to either party or the Transaction shall not, by itself, give rise to any right or obligation under any such other agreement or deemed agreement.

 

If there is any inconsistency between the Agreement, this Confirmation and the Equity Definitions, the following will prevail for purposes of the Transaction in the order of precedence indicated: (i) this Confirmation; (ii) the Equity Definitions; and (iii) the Agreement.

 

2.             The terms of the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates are as follows:

 

GENERAL TERMS:

 

Trade Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Buyer:

 

Issuer

 

 

 

Seller:

 

Dealer

 

 

 

Shares:

 

Class A Common Stock, par value USD 0.01 per share, of Issuer (Ticker: SPR)

 

 

 

Forward Price:

 

A price equal to (A) the greater of (i) the arithmetic mean (not a weighted average, subject to “Market Disruption Event” below) of the 10b-18 VWAP on each Calculation Date during the Calculation Period and (ii) the Floor Price minus (B) the Discount.

 

 

 

Discount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Floor Price:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

10b-18 VWAP:

 

On any Exchange Business Day, a price per Share equal to the volume-weighted average price of the Rule 10b-18 eligible trades in the Shares for the entirety of such Exchange Business Day as reported on the Bloomberg screen entitled “SPR <Equity> AQR SEC” or any successor page (without regard to pre-open or after-hours trading outside of any regular trading session for such Exchange Business Day or block trades (as defined in Rule 10b-18(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”)) on such Exchange Business Day), or, if the price displayed on such screen is unavailable or clearly erroneous, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Calculation Period:

 

The period from, and including, the Calculation Period Start Date to, and including, the relevant Valuation Date.

 

 

 

Calculation Period Start Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Calculation Dates:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Initial Shares:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

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Initial Share Delivery Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I. On the Initial Share Delivery Date, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a number of Shares equal to the Initial Shares in accordance with Section 9.4 of the Equity Definitions, with the Initial Share Delivery Date being deemed to be a “Settlement Date” for purposes of such Section 9.4.

 

 

 

Prepayment:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Prepayment Amount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Prepayment Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Exchange:

 

New York Stock Exchange

 

 

 

Related Exchange:

 

All Exchanges

 

 

 

Market Disruption Event:

 

The definition of “Market Disruption Event” in Section 6.3(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “at any time during the one hour period that ends at the relevant Valuation Time, Latest Exercise Time, Knock-in Valuation Time or Knock-out Valuation Time, as the case may be,” starting in the third line thereof.

 

 

 

 

 

Section 6.3(d) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the remainder of the provision following the term “Scheduled Closing Time” in the fourth line thereof.

 

 

 

 

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, if any scheduled Calculation Date in the Calculation Period or the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period (each such scheduled Calculation Date, an “ Observation Day ”) is a Disrupted Day, the Calculation Agent may elect to take one or more of the following actions: (i) determine that such Observation Day is a Disrupted Day in whole, in which case the Calculation Agent shall exclude the 10b-18 VWAP on such Observation Day in determining the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable, (ii) determine that such Observation Day is a Disrupted Day in part, in which case the Calculation Agent shall (x) determine the 10b-18 VWAP on such Observation Day based on Rule 10b-18 eligible trades in the Shares on such day taking into account the nature and duration of the relevant Market Disruption Event and (y) determine the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable, using an appropriately weighted average of 10b-18 VWAPs instead of an arithmetic mean, and/or (iii) elect to (x) postpone the Scheduled Valuation Date (in the case of a Disrupted Day during the Calculation Period) or (y) extend the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period (in the case of a Disrupted Day during the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period) by up to one Calculation Date for every Observation Day that is a

 

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Disrupted Day during the Calculation Period or Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Calculation Agent takes the action described in clause (ii) above, then such Disrupted Day shall be an Observation Day for purposes of calculating the Forward Price or Buyer Settlement Price, as applicable.

 

 

 

 

 

Any Exchange Business Day on which, as of the date hereof, the Exchange is scheduled to close prior to its normal close of trading shall be deemed not to be an Exchange Business Day. If a closure of the Exchange prior to its normal close of trading on any Exchange Business Day is scheduled following the date hereof, then such Exchange Business Day shall be deemed to be a Disrupted Day in full.

 

 

 

 

 

If a Disrupted Day occurs (or is deemed to occur) on an Observation Day during the Calculation Period or the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, as the case may be, and each of the five immediately following Observation Days is a Disrupted Day (a “ Disruption Event ”), then the Calculation Agent, in its good faith and commercially reasonable discretion, may (x) deem the day such Disruption Event occurs and each consecutive Observation Day that is a Disrupted Day thereafter to be an Observation Day that is not a Disrupted Day and determine the 10b-18 VWAP for each such Observation Day using its good faith and commercially reasonable estimate of the value of the Shares on such day based on the volume, historical volatility and price of the Shares and such other factors as it deems appropriate and commercially reasonable to take into account or (y) treat such Disruption Event as an Additional Termination Event in respect of the Transaction, with Issuer as the sole Affected Party and the Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction.

 

 

 

VALUATION:

 

 

 

 

 

Valuation Date(s):

 

The earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (ii) any earlier accelerated Valuation Date as a result of Dealer’s election in accordance with the immediately succeeding paragraph.

 

 

 

 

 

Dealer shall have the right, in its discretion, to accelerate the Valuation Date, for the whole Transaction or only a part thereof, to any Calculation Date that is on or after the Lock-Out Date and prior to the Scheduled Valuation Date by notice (each such notice, an “ Acceleration Notice ”) to Issuer by 9:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Calculation Date immediately following the accelerated Valuation Date (the “ Acceleration Date ”). Dealer shall specify in each Acceleration Notice the portion of

 

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the Prepayment Amount that is subject to acceleration. If the portion of the Prepayment Amount that is subject to acceleration is less than the full remaining Prepayment Amount, then the Calculation Agent shall make such mechanical or administrative adjustments to the terms of the Transaction as appropriate in order to take into account the occurrence of such Acceleration Date (including cumulative adjustments to take into account all prior Acceleration Dates).

 

 

 

Scheduled Valuation Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I, subject to postponement in accordance with “Market Disruption Event” above.

 

 

 

Lock-Out Date:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

SETTLEMENT TERMS:

 

 

 

 

 

Physical Settlement:

 

Applicable. On any Valuation Date (including any Acceleration Date, if applicable), the Calculation Agent shall calculate the Settlement Amount for the relevant portion of the Transaction. The “ Settlement Amount ” for the Transaction is a number of Shares equal to (a) (i) the Prepayment Amount divided by (ii) the Forward Price minus (b) the Initial Shares, rounded to the nearest whole number of Shares.

 

 

 

 

 

If the Settlement Amount is positive, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a number of Shares equal to the Settlement Amount on the Settlement Date. If the Settlement Amount is negative, then the Buyer Settlement Provisions in Annex A hereto shall apply.

 

 

 

Settlement Currency:

 

USD

 

 

 

Settlement Date:

 

The date that falls one Settlement Cycle after the relevant Valuation Date or Acceleration Date if prior to the Scheduled Valuation Date for the relevant portion of the Transaction.

 

 

 

Other Applicable Provisions:

 

The last sentence of Section 9.2 and Sections 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11 (except that the Representation and Agreement contained in Section 9.11 of the Equity Definitions shall be modified by excluding any representations therein relating to restrictions, obligations, limitations or requirements under applicable securities laws arising as a result of the fact that Buyer is the issuer of the Shares) and Section 9.12 of the Equity Definitions will be applicable to the Transaction.

 

 

 

SHARE ADJUSTMENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Potential Adjustment Event:

 

In addition to the events described in Section 11.2(e) of the Equity Definitions, the occurrence of a Disrupted Day (including due to the occurrence of a Regulatory Disruption) shall constitute a Potential Adjustment Event. In the case of

 

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any event described in the preceding sentence, the Calculation Agent may adjust any relevant terms of the Transaction as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event.

 

 

 

Different Dividend:

 

For any calendar quarter, any dividend or distribution on the Shares with an ex-dividend date occurring during such calendar quarter (other than any dividend or distribution of the type described in Section 11.2(e)(i) or Section 11.2(e)(ii)(A) of the Equity Definitions) (a “ Dividend ”) the amount or value of which (as determined by the Calculation Agent), when aggregated with the amount or value (as determined by the Calculation Agent) of any and all previous Dividends with ex-dividend dates occurring in the same calendar quarter, differs from the Ordinary Dividend Amount.

 

 

 

Ordinary Dividend Amount:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Extraordinary Dividend:

 

The per Share cash dividend or distribution, or a portion thereof, declared by Issuer on the Shares that is classified by the board of directors of Issuer as an “extraordinary” dividend.

 

 

 

Consequences of Different Dividend:

 

The declaration by the Issuer of any Different Dividend, the ex-dividend date for which occurs or is scheduled to occur during the Relevant Dividend Period (as defined below) for the Transaction, shall, at the Calculation Agent’s election, either (x) constitute an Additional Termination Event in respect of such Transaction, with Buyer as the sole Affected Party and such Transaction as the sole Affected Transaction (and any amount payable in respect of such Additional Termination Event shall be determined without regard to the difference between actual dividends declared and expected dividends as of the Trade Date) or (y) result in an adjustment, by the Calculation Agent, to the Floor Price as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such Different Dividend. Any election to apply clause (x) with respect to a Different Dividend shall be made within ten (10) Local Business Days of the declaration of such Different Dividend.

 

 

 

Early/Late Ordinary Dividend Payment:

 

If an ex-dividend date for any Dividend that is neither (x) a dividend or distribution of the type described in Section 11.2(e)(i) or Section 11.2(e)(ii)(A) of the Equity Definitions nor (y) an Extraordinary Dividend, occurs during any calendar quarter occurring (in whole or in part) during the Relevant Dividend Period and such ex-dividend date is not on the Scheduled Ex-Dividend Date for such calendar quarter, the Calculation Agent shall make such adjustment to the exercise, settlement, payment or any other terms of the Transaction as the

 

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Calculation Agent determines appropriate to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event. For the avoidance of doubt, any such adjustments shall account for the economic effect on the Transaction of the timing of any such Dividend.

 

 

 

Scheduled Ex-Dividend Dates:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Relevant Dividend Period:

 

The period from, and including, the Trade Date for the Transaction to, and including, the last day of the Potential Purchase Period (as defined below).

 

 

 

Method of Adjustment:

 

Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Consequences of Merger Events:

 

 

 

 

 

Share-for-Share:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Other:

 

Cancellation and Payment

 

 

 

Share-for-Combined:

 

Component Adjustment

 

 

 

Tender Offer:

 

Applicable; provided that (x) Section 12.1(d) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares of the Issuer” in the fourth line thereof with “Shares”, (y) Section 12.1(e) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares” in the first line thereof with “Shares” and (z) Section 12.1(l) of the Equity Definitions shall be amended by replacing “voting shares” in the fifth line thereof with “Shares”.

 

 

 

Consequences of Tender Offers:

 

 

 

 

 

Share-for-Share:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Other:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

Share-for-Combined:

 

Modified Calculation Agent Adjustment

 

 

 

New Shares:

 

In the definition of New Shares in Section 12.1(i) of the Equity Definitions, the text in clause (i) thereof shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with “publicly quoted, traded or listed on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or their respective successors)”.

 

 

 

Composition of Combined Consideration:

 

Not Applicable

 

 

 

Nationalization, Insolvency or Delisting:

 

Cancellation and Payment; provided that, in addition to the provisions of Section 12.6(a)(iii) of the Equity Definitions, it shall constitute a Delisting if the Exchange is located in the

 

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United States and the Shares are not immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any of the New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or their respective successors); if the Shares are immediately re-listed, re-traded or re-quoted on any such exchange or quotation system, such exchange or quotation system shall thereafter be deemed to be the Exchange.

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL DISRUPTION EVENTS:

 

 

 

 

 

Change in Law:

 

Applicable; provided that Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (i) replacing the phrase “the interpretation” in the third line thereof with the phrase “, or announcement or statement of, the formal or informal interpretation”, (ii) replacing the word “Shares” where it appears in clause (X) thereof with the words “Hedge Position” and (iii) adding the words “, or holding, acquiring or disposing of Shares or any Hedge Position relating to,” after the word “under” in clause (Y) thereof; provided further that (i) any determination as to whether (A) the adoption of or any change in any applicable law or regulation (including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, (x) any tax law or (y) adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute) or (B) the promulgation of or any change in the interpretation by any court, tribunal or regulatory authority with competent jurisdiction of any applicable law or regulation (including any action taken by a taxing authority), in each case, constitutes a “Change in Law” shall be made without regard to Section 739 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 or any similar legal certainty provision in any legislation enacted, or rule or regulation promulgated, on or after the Trade Date, and (ii) Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the parenthetical beginning after the word “regulation” in the second line thereof with the words “(including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, (x) any tax law or (y) adoption or promulgation of new regulations authorized or mandated by existing statute)”. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Equity Definitions, a Change in Law described in clause (Y) of Section 12.9(a)(ii) of the Equity Definitions shall not constitute a Change in Law and instead shall constitute an Increased Cost of Hedging as described in Section 12.9(a)(vi) of the Equity Definitions.

 

 

 

Failure to Deliver:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Insolvency Filing:

 

Applicable

 

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Hedging Disruption:

 

Applicable; provided that any Hedging Disruption that would occur solely due to the deterioration of the creditworthiness of the Hedging Party relative to other comparable financial institutions shall not be deemed a Hedging Disruption.

 

 

 

Increased Cost of Hedging:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Loss of Stock Borrow:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Maximum Stock Loan Rate:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Increased Cost of Stock Borrow:

 

Applicable; provided that any Increased Cost of Stock Borrow that would occur solely due to the deterioration of the creditworthiness of the Hedging Party relative to other comparable financial institutions shall not be deemed an Increased Cost of Stock Borrow.

 

 

 

Initial Stock Loan Rate:

 

As specified in Schedule I

 

 

 

Determining Party:

 

For all applicable events, Dealer. When making any determination or calculation as “Determining Party,” Dealer shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if the Determining Party were the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Hedging Party:

 

For all applicable events, Dealer. When making any determination or calculation as “Hedging Party,” Dealer shall be bound by the same obligations relating to required acts of the Calculation Agent as set forth in Section 1.40 of the Equity Definitions and this Confirmation as if the Hedging Party were the Calculation Agent.

 

 

 

Non-Reliance:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Agreements and Acknowledgments

 

 

Regarding Hedging Activities:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Additional Acknowledgments:

 

Applicable

 

 

 

Hedging Adjustments:

 

Whenever the Calculation Agent is called upon to make a determination, calculation or adjustment pursuant to the terms of this Confirmation or the Equity Definitions to take into account the effect of an event, the Calculation Agent shall make such determination, calculation or adjustment by reference to the effect of such event on Dealer with the Calculation Agent assuming that Dealer maintains a commercially reasonable Hedge Position in respect of the Transaction.

 

 

 

3.                                       Calculation Agent:

 

Dealer; provided that following the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 5(a)(vii) of the Agreement with

 

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respect to which Dealer is the Defaulting Party, Issuer may appoint a third-party independent, nationally recognized dealer in over-the-counter corporate equity derivatives to act as Calculation Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, all calculations and determinations of the Calculation Agent shall be made in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner. Following any determination or calculation by the Calculation Agent hereunder, upon a written request by Issuer, the Calculation Agent shall promptly (but in any event no later than five (5) Exchange Business Days following Dealer’s receipt of such written request) provide to Issuer by e-mail to the e-mail address provided by Issuer in such written request a report (in a commonly used file format for the storage and manipulation of financial data) displaying in reasonable detail the basis for such determination or calculation, as the case may be, it being understood and agreed that the Calculation Agent shall not be obligated to disclose any proprietary or confidential models or any other confidential or proprietary information, in each case, used by it for such determination or calculation.

 

4.                                       Account Details and Notices:

 

(a)                      Account for delivery of Shares to Issuer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(b)                      Account for payments to Issuer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(c)                       Account for payments to Dealer:

 

Citibank, NY

ABA #: 021000089

Morgan Stanley & Co.

Account #: 38890774

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS INC.

# 023-05334

 

(d)                      Account for delivery of Shares to Dealer:

 

To be provided separately.

 

(e)                       For purposes of this Confirmation:

 

(i)              Address for notices or communications to Issuer:

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.

3801 South Oliver

Wichita, Kansas 67210

Attention: Rhonda Harkins

 

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Telephone: [*]

Email: [*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(ii)           Address for notices or communications to Dealer:

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-8293
Attention: Joel Carter
Email: Joel.Carter@morganstanley.com

 

With a copy to:

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-8293
Attention: Steven Seltzer
Email: Steven.Seltzer1@morganstanley.com

 

5.                                       Amendments to the Equity Definitions.

 

(a)                                  Section 11.2(a) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the relevant Shares” and replacing them with the words “an economic effect on the Shares or the relevant Transaction”.

 

(b)                                  The first sentence of Section 11.2(c) of the Equity Definitions, prior to clause (A) thereof, is hereby amended to read as follows: ‘(c) If “Calculation Agent Adjustment” is specified as the Method of Adjustment in the related Confirmation of a Share Option Transaction or Share Forward Transaction, then, following the announcement or occurrence of any Potential Adjustment Event, the Calculation Agent will determine whether such Potential Adjustment Event has an economic effect on the Transaction and, if so, will (i) make appropriate adjustment(s), if any, to any one or more of:’ and the portion of such sentence immediately preceding clause (ii) thereof is hereby amended by deleting the words “diluting or concentrative” and the words “(provided that no adjustments will be made to account solely for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate or liquidity relative to the relevant Share)” and replacing such latter phrase with the words “(including adjustments to account for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate or liquidity relevant to the Shares)”.

 

(c)                                   Section 11.2(e)(vii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the words “any other event that may have a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the relevant Shares” and replacing them with the words “any other event related to the Issuer, the Shares or the Transaction that has a material economic effect on the Shares or the relevant Transaction”.

 

(d)                                  Section 12.6(c)(ii) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by replacing the words “the Transaction will be cancelled,” in the first line with the words “Dealer will have the right to cancel the Transaction,”.

 

(e)                                   Section 12.9(b)(iv) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (A) deleting (1) subsection (A) in its entirety, (2) the phrase “or (B)” following subsection (A) and (3) the phrase “in each case” in subsection

 

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(B); and (B) replacing the phrase “neither the Non-Hedging Party nor the Lending Party lends Shares” with the phrase “such Lending Party does not lend Shares” in the penultimate sentence.

 

(f)                                    Section 12.9(b)(v) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by (A) adding the phrase “; provided that the Non-Hedging Party may not elect to terminate the Transaction unless the Non-Hedging Party represents and warrants to the Hedging Party in writing on the date it notifies the Hedging Party of such election that, as of such date, the Non-Hedging Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares and is making such election in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws” immediately prior to the period at the end of subsection (C); and (B) deleting clause (X) in the final sentence.

 

(g)                                   Section 12.9(b)(vi) of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by adding the phrase “; provided that the Non-Hedging Party may not elect to terminate the Transaction unless the Non-Hedging Party represents and warrants to the Hedging Party in writing on the date it notifies the Hedging Party of such election that, as of such date, the Non-Hedging Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares and is making such election in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws” immediately prior to the period at the end of subsection (C).

 

6.                                       Alternative Termination Settlement.

 

In the event that (a) an Early Termination Date (whether as a result of an Event of Default or a Termination Event) occurs or is designated with respect to the Transaction or (b) the Transaction is cancelled or terminated upon the occurrence of an Extraordinary Event (except as a result of (i) a Nationalization, Insolvency or Merger Event in which the consideration to be paid to holders of Shares consists solely of cash, (ii) a Merger Event or Tender Offer that is within Issuer’s control, or (iii) an Event of Default in which Issuer is the Defaulting Party or a Termination Event in which Issuer is the Affected Party other than an Event of Default of the type described in Section 5(a)(iii), (v), (vi), (vii) or (viii) of the Agreement or a Termination Event of the type described in Section 5(b) of the Agreement, in each case, that resulted from an event or events outside Issuer’s control), if either party would owe any amount to the other party pursuant to Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement or any Cancellation Amount pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions (any such amount, a “ Payment Amount ”), then such payment shall be paid as set forth under the Agreement or Equity Definitions, as the case may be, unless Issuer makes an election to the contrary no later than the Early Termination Date or the date on which such Transaction is terminated or cancelled (which election by Issuer shall be deemed to be a representation to Dealer that, as of the date of such election, Issuer is not in possession or otherwise aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares), in which case Issuer or Dealer, as the case may be, shall deliver to the other party a number of Shares (or a number of units, each comprising the number or amount of the securities or property that a hypothetical holder of one Share would receive in the case of a Nationalization, Insolvency or Merger Event, as the case may be (each such unit, an “ Alternative Delivery Unit ”)), with a value equal to the Payment Amount, as determined by the Calculation Agent.  In determining the number of Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) required to be delivered under this provision, the Calculation Agent may take into account a number of factors, including, without limitation, the market price of the Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) on the Early Termination Date or the date of early cancellation or termination, as the case may be.  Additionally, if such delivery is made by Dealer, the Calculation Agent shall take into account the prices at which Dealer purchases Shares (or Alternative Delivery Units) to fulfill its delivery obligations under this Section 6; provided that the parties hereby agree that such purchases shall be made solely on Calculation Dates; provided further that in determining the composition of any Alternative Delivery Unit, if the relevant Merger Event involves a choice of consideration to be received by holders, such holder shall be deemed to have elected to receive the maximum possible amount of cash. If delivery of Shares or Alternative Delivery Units, as the case may be, pursuant to this

 

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Section 6 is to be made by Issuer, paragraphs 2 through 8 of Annex A hereto shall apply as if (A) such delivery were a settlement of the Transaction to which Net Share Settlement applied, (B) the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date were the Early Termination Date or the date of early cancellation or termination, as the case may be, and (C) the Forward Cash Settlement Amount were equal to (x) zero minus (y) the Payment Amount owed by Issuer.

 

7.                                       Special Provisions for Acquisition Transaction Announcements.

 

(a)                                  If an Acquisition Transaction Announcement occurs on or prior to the final Valuation Date, then the Calculation Agent shall make such adjustments to the exercise, settlement, payment or any other terms of the Transaction as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate (including, without limitation and for the avoidance of doubt, adjustments that would allow the Settlement Amount to be less than zero), at such time or at multiple times as the Calculation Agent determines appropriate, to account for the economic effect on the Transaction of such event (which adjustments shall be limited to adjustments to account for changes in prices of the Shares, value of any commercially reasonable Hedge Positions, volatility, interest rates, stock loan rate, liquidity and/or any other commercially reasonable option pricing inputs relevant to the Shares or such Transaction). If an Acquisition Transaction Announcement occurs after the Trade Date but prior to the Lock-Out Date, the Lock-Out Date shall be deemed to be the date of such Acquisition Transaction Announcement.

 

(b)          Acquisition Transaction Announcement ” means (i) the announcement of an Acquisition Transaction, (ii) an announcement that Issuer or any of its subsidiaries has entered into an agreement, a letter of intent or an understanding designed to result in an Acquisition Transaction, (iii) the announcement of the intention to solicit or enter into, or to explore strategic alternatives or other similar undertaking that may include, an Acquisition Transaction, (iv) any other announcement that in the judgment of the Calculation Agent is reasonably likely to result in an Acquisition Transaction (it being understood and agreed that in determining whether such announcement is reasonably likely to result in an Acquisition Transaction, the Calculation Agent may take into consideration the effect of such announcement on the Shares and/or options relating to the Shares) or (v) any announcement subsequent to an Acquisition Transaction Announcement relating to a material amendment, extension, withdrawal or other change to the subject matter of a prior Acquisition Transaction Announcement. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “announcement” as used in the definition of Acquisition Transaction Announcement refers to any public statement and/or any announcement related to an Acquisition Transaction, whether made by Issuer or a third party.

 

(c)                                   Acquisition Transaction ” means (i) any Merger Event (for purposes of this definition, the definition of Merger Event shall be read with the references therein to “100%” being replaced by “15%” and to “50%” by “75%” and without reference to the clause beginning immediately following the definition of Reverse Merger therein to the end of such definition), Tender Offer or Merger Transaction (as defined below) or any other transaction involving the merger of Issuer with or into any third party, (ii) the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or liabilities of Issuer, (iii) a recapitalization, reclassification, binding share exchange or other similar transaction, (iv) any acquisition, lease, exchange, transfer, disposition (including by way of spin-off or distribution) of assets or liabilities (including any capital stock or other ownership interests in subsidiaries) or other similar event by Issuer or any of its subsidiaries where the aggregate consideration transferable or receivable by or to Issuer or its subsidiaries exceeds 15% of the market capitalization of Issuer and (v) any transaction with respect to which Issuer or its board of directors has a legal obligation to make a recommendation to its shareholders in respect of such transaction (whether pursuant to Rule 14e-2 under the Exchange Act or otherwise).

 

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8.                                       Dealer Adjustments.

 

In the event that Dealer reasonably determines, based on the advice of counsel, that it is appropriate with regard to any legal, regulatory or self-regulatory requirements or related policies and procedures, whether or not such requirements, policies or procedures are imposed by law or have been voluntarily adopted by Dealer, and including, without limitation, Rule 10b-18, Rule 10b-5, Regulations 13D-G and Regulations 14D-E, each under the Exchange Act (but provided that any such policies and procedures are related to legal, regulatory or self-regulatory issues and are generally applicable hereunder and in similar situations and applied to the Transaction in a non-discriminatory manner), for Dealer to refrain from purchasing Shares or engaging in other market activity or to purchase fewer than the number of Shares or to engage in fewer or smaller other market transactions than Dealer would otherwise purchase or engage in in order to maintain, establish or unwind a commercially reasonable hedge position (such determination, a “ Regulatory Disruption ”) on any Calculation Date(s) on or prior to the conclusion of the Potential Purchase Period, then Dealer may, in its discretion, elect that a Market Disruption Event shall be deemed to have occurred and will be continuing on any such Calculation Date(s) and each such Calculation Date shall be a Disrupted Day (subject to “Market Disruption Event” above).

 

9.                                       Covenants.

 

Issuer covenants and agrees that:

 

(a)                                  Until the end of the Potential Purchase Period (as defined below), neither it nor any of its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act, “ Rule 10b-18 ”) shall directly or indirectly (which shall be deemed to include the writing or purchase of any cash-settled or other derivative transaction which references Shares or structured Share repurchase or other derivative with a hedging period, calculation period or settlement valuation period or similar period that overlaps with the Transaction) purchase, offer to purchase, place any bid or limit order relating to a purchase of or commence any tender offer relating to Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Shares) without the prior written approval of Dealer, except pursuant to any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement (as defined below), or take any other action that would cause the purchase by Dealer of any Shares in connection with this Confirmation not to qualify for the safe harbor provided in Rule 10b-18 under the Exchange Act (assuming for the purposes of this paragraph that such safe harbor were otherwise available for such purchases).  “ Potential Purchase Period ” means the period from, and including, the Trade Date to, and including, the latest of (i) the last day of any Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, (ii) the earlier of (A) the date five Calculation Dates immediately following the last day of the Calculation Period and (B) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (iii) if an Early Termination Date occurs or the Transaction is cancelled pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions, a date determined by Dealer in its commercially reasonable discretion and communicated to Issuer no later than the Exchange Business Day immediately following such date (or, in the absence of such communication, the date that is five Calculation Dates immediately following such date). “ Other Specified Repurchase Agreement ” means any other fixed dollar accelerated share repurchase transaction entered into on the Trade Date that is intended to comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act and with calculation dates (however defined) that do not overlap with the Calculation Dates hereunder.

 

(b)                                  It will comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to it (including, without limitation, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”) and the Exchange Act) in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Confirmation.

 

(c)                                   Without limiting the generality of Section 13.1 of the Equity Definitions, it is not relying, and has not relied, upon Dealer or any of its representatives or advisors with respect to the legal, accounting, tax or

 

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other implications of this Confirmation and that it has conducted its own analyses of the legal, accounting, tax and other implications of this Confirmation, and that Dealer and its affiliates may from time to time effect transactions for their own account or the account of customers and hold positions in securities or options on securities of Issuer and that Dealer and its affiliates may continue to conduct such transactions during the term of this Confirmation.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Issuer acknowledges that Dealer is not making any representations or warranties or taking any position or expressing any view with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under any accounting standards including ASC Topic 260, Earnings Per Share , ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging , or ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity and ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (or any successor issue statements) or under FASB’s Liabilities & Equity Project.

 

(d)                                  Neither it nor any affiliates shall take any action that would cause a restricted period (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act (“ Regulation M ”)) to be applicable to any purchases of Shares, or of any security for which Shares are a reference security (as defined in Regulation M), by Issuer or any affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M) of Issuer during the Potential Purchase Period.

 

(e)                                   It will not during the term of the Transaction make, or, to the extent within its control, permit to be made, any public announcement (as defined in Rule 165(f) under the Securities Act) of any Merger Transaction or potential Merger Transaction unless such public announcement is made prior to the open or after the close of the regular trading session on the Exchange for the Shares.  “ Merger Transaction ” means any merger, acquisition or similar transaction involving a recapitalization of Issuer as contemplated by Rule 10b-18(a)(13)(iv) under the Exchange Act.  Issuer acknowledges that any such public announcement may trigger the provision set forth in Section 8 above.

 

(f)                                    Promptly following the announcement of a Merger Transaction (but in any event not later than 7:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day following such announcement (or, if such announcement is made prior to the open of the regular trading session on the Exchange for the Shares on a Scheduled Trading Day, not later than such open of the regular trading session)), Issuer shall provide Dealer with written notice, which notice shall specify (i) the nature of such announcement; (ii) Issuer’s average daily “Rule 10b-18 purchases” as defined in Rule 10b-18 during the three full calendar months immediately preceding such announcement and (iii) the number of Shares purchased pursuant to the block purchase proviso in Rule 10b-18(b)(4) under the Exchange Act for the three full calendar months preceding the date of such announcement.  Such written notice shall be deemed to be a certification by Issuer to Dealer that such information is true and correct.  Issuer understands that Dealer will use this information in calculating the trading volume for purposes of Rule 10b-18.  In addition, Issuer shall promptly provide written notice to Dealer of the occurrence of the completion of such transaction or the completion of the vote by target shareholders related to such transaction.  Issuer acknowledges that its delivery of such notices must comply with the standards set forth in Section 10(c) below.

 

(g)                                   Any Shares or Alternative Delivery Units delivered to Dealer may be transferred by and among Dealer and its affiliates and Issuer shall effect such transfer without any further action by Dealer.

 

10.                                Representations, Warranties, Acknowledgments, and Agreements.

 

(a)                                  Issuer hereby represents and warrants to Dealer on the date hereof and on and as of the Initial Share Delivery Date that:

 

(i)                                      None of Issuer and its officers and directors is aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares, and is entering into the Transaction in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions of federal securities laws, including, without limitation,

 

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Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act and (B) Issuer agrees not to alter or deviate from the terms of this Confirmation or enter into or alter a corresponding or hedging transaction or position with respect to the Shares (including, without limitation, with respect to any securities convertible or exchangeable into the Shares) during the term of this Confirmation. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties hereto acknowledge that the entry into any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement shall not fall within the ambit of the previous sentence.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all reports and other documents filed by Issuer with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act when considered as a whole (with the more recent such reports and documents deemed to amend inconsistent statements contained in any earlier such reports and documents) do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

 

(ii)                                   The transactions contemplated by this Confirmation have been authorized under Issuer’s publicly announced program to repurchase Shares prior to the Trade Date.

 

(iii)                                Issuer is not entering into the Transaction or making any election hereunder to facilitate a distribution of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or in connection with a future issuance of securities.

 

(iv)                               Issuer is not entering into the Transaction or making any election hereunder to create actual or apparent trading activity in the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) or to raise or depress the price of the Shares (or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Shares) in violation of the federal securities laws.

 

(v)                                  There have been no purchases of Shares in Rule 10b-18 purchases of blocks pursuant to the once-a-week block exception contained in Rule 10b-18(b)(4) by or for Issuer or any of its affiliated purchasers during each of the four calendar weeks preceding the Trade Date and during the calendar week in which the Trade Date occurs (“Rule 10b-18 purchase”, “blocks” and “affiliated purchaser” each as defined in Rule 10b-18).

 

(vi)                               Issuer is, as of the date hereof and the Prepayment Date, and after giving effect to the Transaction will be, Solvent.  As used in this paragraph, the term “ Solvent ” means, with respect to a particular date, that on such date (A) the present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of the assets of Issuer is not less than the total amount required to pay the liabilities of Issuer on its total existing debts and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and matured, (B) Issuer is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments as they mature and become due in the normal course of business, (C) assuming consummation of the transactions as contemplated by this Confirmation, Issuer is not incurring debts or liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature, (D) Issuer is not engaged in any business or transaction, and does not propose to engage in any business or transaction, for which its property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which Issuer is engaged, (E) Issuer is not a defendant in any civil action that could reasonably be expected to result in a judgment that Issuer is or would become unable to satisfy, (F) Issuer is not “insolvent” (as such term is defined under Section 101(32) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”)) and (G) Issuer would be able to purchase Shares with an aggregate purchase price equal to the Prepayment Amount in compliance with the corporate laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation.

 

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(vii)                            Issuer is not, and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby will not be, required to register as an “investment company,” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(viii)                         No state or local (including non-U.S. jurisdictions) law, rule, regulation or regulatory order applicable to the Shares would give rise to any reporting, consent, registration or other requirement (including without limitation a requirement to obtain prior approval from any person or entity) as a result of Dealer or its affiliates owning or holding (however defined) Shares.

 

(ix)                               Issuer (A) is capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities; (B) will exercise independent judgment in evaluating the recommendations of any broker-dealer or its associated persons, unless it has otherwise notified the broker-dealer in writing; and (C) has total assets of at least USD 50,000,000 as of the date hereof. Issuer will notify Dealer if any of the statements in the preceding sentence ceases to be true.

 

(b)                                  Issuer acknowledges and agrees that the Initial Shares may be sold short to Issuer. Issuer further acknowledges and agrees that Dealer may purchase Shares in connection with the Transaction, which Shares may be used to cover all or a portion of such short sale or may be delivered to Issuer.  Such purchases and any other market activity by Dealer will be conducted independently of Issuer by Dealer as principal for its own account.  All of the actions to be taken by Dealer in connection with the Transaction shall be taken by Dealer independently and without any advance or subsequent consultation with Issuer.

 

(c)                                   It is the intent of the parties that the Transaction comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c)(1)(i)(A) and (B) of the Exchange Act, and the parties agree that this Confirmation shall be interpreted to comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act, and Issuer shall not take any action that results in the Transaction not so complying with such requirements.  Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, Issuer acknowledges and agrees that (A) Issuer does not have, and shall not attempt to exercise, any influence over how, when or whether Dealer effects any market transactions in connection with the Transaction and (B) neither Issuer nor its officers or employees shall, directly or indirectly, communicate any information regarding Issuer or the Shares to any employee of Dealer or its affiliates, other than employees identified by Dealer to Issuer in writing as employees not responsible for executing market transactions in connection with the Transaction.  Issuer also acknowledges and agrees that any amendment, modification, waiver or termination of this Confirmation must be effected in accordance with the requirements for the amendment or termination of a “plan” as defined in Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions of Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act, and no such amendment, modification, waiver or termination shall be made at any time at which Issuer or any officer or director of Issuer is aware of any material nonpublic information regarding Issuer or the Shares.

 

(d)                                  Dealer covenants and agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts, during the Calculation Period and any Buyer Settlement Valuation Period for the Transaction, to make all purchases of Shares in connection with the Transaction in a manner that would comply with the limitations set forth in clauses (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4) and (c) of Rule 10b-18, as if such rule were applicable to such purchases and taking into account any applicable Securities and Exchange Commission no-action letters as appropriate, and subject to any delays between the execution and reporting of a trade of the Shares on the Exchange and other circumstances beyond Dealer’s control; provided that, during the Calculation Period, the foregoing

 

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agreement shall not apply to purchases made to dynamically hedge for Dealer’s own account or the account of its affiliate(s) the optionality arising under the Transaction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, timing optionality).

 

(e)                                   Each of Issuer and Dealer represents and warrants to the other that it is an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1a(18) of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended.

 

(f)                                    Each of Issuer and Dealer acknowledges that the offer and sale of the Transaction is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof.  Accordingly, each party represents and warrants to the other party that (i) it has the financial ability to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Transaction and is able to bear a total loss of its investment, (ii) it is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act, (iii) it is entering into the Transaction for its own account and without a view to the distribution or resale thereof and (iv) the assignment, transfer or other disposition of the Transaction has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and is restricted under this Confirmation, the Securities Act and state securities laws.

 

11.                                Acknowledgements of Issuer Regarding Hedging and Market Activity.

 

Issuer agrees, understands and acknowledges that:

 

(a)                                  During the term of the Transaction, Dealer and its affiliates may buy or sell Shares or other securities or buy or sell options or futures contracts or enter into swaps or other derivative transactions in order to establish, maintain, adjust or unwind its Hedge Position with respect to the Transaction.

 

(b)                                  Dealer and its affiliates also may be active in the market for the Shares or options, futures contracts, swaps or other derivative transactions relating to the Shares other than in connection with hedging activities in relation to the Transaction, including acting as agent or as principal and for its own account or on behalf of customers.

 

(c)                                   Dealer shall make its own determination as to whether, when and in what manner any hedging or market activities in Issuer’s securities or other securities or transactions shall be conducted and shall do so in a manner that it deems appropriate to hedge its price and market risk with respect to the Transaction.

 

(d)                                  Any such market activities of Dealer and its affiliates may affect the market price and volatility of the Shares, including the 10b-18 VWAP, the Forward Price, and the Buyer Settlement Price, each in a manner that may be adverse to Issuer.

 

(e)                                   The Transaction is a derivatives transaction in which it has granted Dealer an option; Dealer may purchase shares for its own account at an average price that may be greater than, or less than, the price paid by Issuer under the terms of the Transaction.

 

12.                                [ Reserved ].

 

13.                                Other Provisions.

 

(a)                                  Issuer agrees and acknowledges that Dealer is a “financial institution,” “financial participant” and “swap participant” within the meaning of Sections 101(22), 101(22A) and 101(53C) of the Bankruptcy Code.  The parties hereto further agree and acknowledge that it is the intent of the parties that (A) this Confirmation is a “securities contract,” as such term is defined in Section 741(7) of the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in connection herewith is a

 

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“termination value,” “payment amount” or “other transfer obligation” within the meaning of Section 362(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and a “settlement payment,” within the meaning of Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code, (B) this Confirmation is a “swap agreement,” as such term is defined in Section 101(53B) of the Bankruptcy Code, with respect to which each payment and delivery hereunder or in connection herewith is a “transfer” within the meaning of Section 546(g) of the Bankruptcy Code, and a “forward contract” as defined in Section 101(25) of the Bankruptcy Code, (C) the rights given to Dealer under this Confirmation and under the Agreement upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or Termination Event with respect Issuer or any Extraordinary Event that results in the termination or cancellation of the Transaction, in each case, constitute “contractual rights” to cause the liquidation, termination or acceleration of or in connection with a “securities contract” and a “swap agreement” and (D) Dealer is entitled to the protections afforded by, among other sections, Sections 362(b)(6), 362(b)(17), 362(b)(27), 362(o), 546(e), 546(g), 546(j), 548(d)(2), 555, 556, 560, and 561 of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

(b)                                  Dealer acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement or this Confirmation, this Confirmation is not intended to convey to Dealer rights against Issuer with respect to the Transaction that are senior to the claims of common stockholders of Issuer in any United States bankruptcy proceedings of Issuer; provided that nothing herein shall limit or shall be deemed to limit Dealer’s right to pursue remedies in the event of a breach by Issuer of its obligations and agreements with respect to the Transaction; provided further that nothing herein shall limit or shall be deemed to limit Dealer’s rights in respect of any transactions other than this Transaction.

 

(c)                                   Notwithstanding any provision of this Confirmation or any other agreement between the parties to the contrary, neither the obligations of Issuer nor the obligations of Dealer hereunder are secured by any collateral, security interest, pledge or lien.

 

(d)                                  Each party waives any and all rights it may have to set off obligations arising under the Agreement and the Transaction against other obligations between the parties, whether arising under any other agreement, applicable law or otherwise.

 

(e)                                   Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Dealer may, other than with respect to the Initial Share Delivery Date, by prior notice to Issuer, satisfy its obligation to deliver any Shares or other securities on any date due (an “ Original Delivery Date ”) by making separate deliveries of Shares or such securities, as the case may be, at more than one time on or prior to such Original Delivery Date, so long as the aggregate number of Shares and other securities so delivered on or prior to such Original Delivery Date is equal to the number required to be delivered on such Original Delivery Date.  Any Shares delivered pursuant to this provision shall be included in the calculation of the Settlement Amount.

 

(f)                                    It shall constitute an Additional Termination Event with respect to which the Transaction is the sole Affected Transaction and Issuer is the sole Affected Party if, at any time on or prior to the final Valuation Date, the price per Share on the Exchange, as determined by the Calculation Agent, is at or below the Threshold Price (as specified in Schedule I).

 

(g)                                   For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Confirmation shall be interpreted as requiring Issuer to deliver cash in respect of the settlement of the Transaction following payment by Issuer of the Prepayment Amount, except in circumstances where the required cash settlement thereof is permitted for classification of the contract as equity by ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging — Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity , as in effect on the Trade Date (including, without limitation, where Issuer so elects to deliver cash or fails timely to elect to deliver Shares or Alternative Delivery Units in respect of the settlement of the Transaction or in those circumstances in which holders of the Shares would also receive cash).

 

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14.                                Maximum Number of Shares.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Confirmation, in no event shall Dealer be required to deliver any Shares, or any Shares or other securities comprising Alternative Delivery Units, in excess of the Maximum Number of Shares (as specified in Schedule I).

 

15.                                Calculations and Payments upon Early Termination.

 

The parties acknowledge and agree that in calculating (a) the Close-Out Amount pursuant to Section 6 of the Agreement and (b) the amount due upon cancellation or termination of the Transaction (whether in whole or in part) pursuant to Article 12 of the Equity Definitions as a result of an Extraordinary Event, Dealer may (but need not) determine such amount based on expected losses assuming a commercially reasonable (including without limitation with regard to reasonable legal and regulatory guidelines and taking into account the existence of any Other Specified Repurchase Agreement) risk bid were used to determine loss to avoid awaiting the delay associated with closing out any hedge or related trading position in a commercially reasonable manner prior to or promptly following the designation of an Early Termination Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in Section 6(d)(ii) of the Agreement or in the Equity Definitions, all amounts calculated as being due in respect of an Early Termination Date under Section 6(e) of the Agreement or other termination or cancellation of the Transaction will be payable on the day that notice of the amount payable is effective; provided that if Issuer elects to receive Shares or Alternative Delivery Units in accordance with Section 6, such Shares or Alternative Delivery Units shall be delivered on a date selected by Dealer as promptly as practicable.

 

16.                                Transfer and Assignment.

 

Dealer may transfer or assign its rights and obligations hereunder and under the Agreement, in whole or in part, to any of its affiliates of equivalent credit quality (or whose obligations are guaranteed by an entity of equivalent credit quality) without the consent of Issuer.

 

17.                                Dealer Purchases.

 

During the Potential Purchase Period, Dealer shall not purchase any Shares or enter into any transactions that, in whole or in part, have the effect of giving Dealer “long” economic exposure to the Shares in connection with the Transaction on any Exchange Business Day that is not a Calculation Date; provided that (i) Dealer shall be permitted on any day to exercise options relating to Shares or deliver or receive Shares upon exercise of options relating to Shares, in either case so long as such options were purchased or written (x) in compliance with this sentence and (y) to hedge volatility risk with respect to the Transaction and (ii) during the period (if any) from and including the Trade Date to and including the Exchange Business Day immediately following the Trade Date, Dealer shall be permitted to enter into delta-neutral volatility hedging transactions so long as such transactions (with such transactions entered into with the same counterparty viewed in the aggregate) do not result in an immediate increase in Dealer’s net “long” exposure to the Shares.

 

18.                                Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver.

 

THIS CONFIRMATION AND THE AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS CONFIRMATION OR THE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK IN CONNECTION WITH ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THIS CONFIRMATION AND THE AGREEMENT AND WAIVE ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE IN, AND ANY CLAIM OF INCONVENIENT FORUM

 

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WITH RESPECT TO, THESE COURTS.  NOTHING IN THIS PROVISION SHALL PROHIBIT A PARTY FROM BRINGING AN ACTION TO ENFORCE A MONEY JUDGMENT IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES (ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ON BEHALF OF ITS STOCKHOLDERS) ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TRANSACTION OR THE ACTIONS OF THE OTHER PARTY OR THE OTHER PARTY’S AFFILIATES IN THE NEGOTIATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.

 

19.                                Counterparts.

 

This Confirmation may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument, and any party hereto may execute this Confirmation by signing and delivering one or more counterparts.

 

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Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of our agreement by executing this Confirmation and returning it to us.

 

Confirmed as of the date first written above:

 

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sanjay Kapoor

 

By:

/s/ Darren McCarley

Name: Sanjay Kapoor

Name: Darren McCarley

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Title: Managing  Director

 

[ Signature Page to ASR Confirmation (MS) ]

 



 

SCHEDULE I

 

For the purposes of the Transaction, the following terms shall have the following values or meanings:

 

Trade Date:

 

May 30, 2018

 

 

 

Prepayment Date:

 

June 1, 2018

 

 

 

Initial Share Delivery Date:

 

June 1, 2018

 

 

 

Calculation Period Start Date:

 

June 4, 2018

 

 

 

Calculation Dates:

 

Each day that is both an Exchange Business Day and is set forth as a Specified Date in Schedule II. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Confirmation, the Equity Definitions or the Agreement, the Calculation Agent shall not adjust the dates identified as Specified Dates in Schedule II.

 

 

 

Scheduled Valuation Date:

 

[*]

 

 

 

Lock-Out Date:

 

[*]

 

 

 

Prepayment Amount:

 

USD 362,500,000

 

 

 

 

Discount:

 

USD [*]

 

 

 

Initial Shares:

 

3,645,587 Shares; provided that if, in connection with the Transaction, Dealer is unable, after using commercially reasonable efforts, to borrow or otherwise acquire a number of Shares equal to the Initial Shares for delivery to Issuer on the Initial Share Delivery Date, the Initial Shares delivered on the Initial Share Delivery Date shall be reduced to such number of Shares that Dealer is able to so borrow or otherwise acquire, and thereafter Dealer shall continue to use commercially reasonable efforts to borrow or otherwise acquire a number of Shares, at a stock borrow cost no greater than the Initial Stock Loan Rate, equal to the shortfall in the Initial Share Delivery and to deliver such additional Shares as soon as reasonably practicable. All Shares delivered to Issuer in respect of the Transaction pursuant to this paragraph shall be the “Initial Shares” for purposes of “Settlement Amount.”

 

 

 

Ordinary Dividend Amount:

 

USD 0.12

 

 

 

 

 

For any Dividend with an ex-dividend date occurring on or after the Scheduled Valuation Date: USD 0.00

 

 

 

Scheduled Ex-Dividend Dates:

 

Each of June 15, 2018; September 14, 2018; and December 14, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

The occurrence of a Buyer Election Date, if any, shall be a Scheduled Ex-Dividend Date.

 

 

 

Threshold Price:

 

USD [*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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Floor Price:

 

USD [*]

 

 

 

Initial Stock Loan Rate:

 

[*] bps.

 

 

 

Maximum Stock Loan Rate:

 

[*] bps.

 

 

 

Share Cap:

 

8,577,851

 

 

 

Maximum Number of Shares:

 

56,892,818

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

Specified Dates

 

Each of the following shall be a Specified Date for purposes of the Transaction:

 

1.

 

[*]

 

2.

 

[*]

 

3.

 

[*]

4.

 

[*]

 

5.

 

[*]

 

6.

 

[*]

7.

 

[*]

 

8.

 

[*]

 

9.

 

[*]

10.

 

[*]

 

11.

 

[*]

 

12.

 

[*]

13.

 

[*]

 

14.

 

[*]

 

15.

 

[*]

16.

 

[*]

 

17.

 

[*]

 

18.

 

[*]

19.

 

[*]

 

20.

 

[*]

 

21.

 

[*]

22.

 

[*]

 

23.

 

[*]

 

24.

 

[*]

25.

 

[*]

 

26.

 

[*]

 

27.

 

[*]

28.

 

[*]

 

29.

 

[*]

 

30.

 

[*]

31.

 

[*]

 

32.

 

[*]

 

33.

 

[*]

34.

 

[*]

 

35.

 

[*]

 

36.

 

[*]

37.

 

[*]

 

38.

 

[*]

 

39.

 

[*]

40.

 

[*]

 

41.

 

[*]

 

42.

 

[*]

43.

 

[*]

 

44.

 

[*]

 

45.

 

[*]

46.

 

[*]

 

47.

 

[*]

 

48.

 

[*]

49.

 

[*]

 

50.

 

[*]

 

51.

 

[*]

52.

 

[*]

 

53.

 

[*]

 

54.

 

[*]

55.

 

[*]

 

56.

 

[*]

 

57.

 

[*]

58.

 

[*]

 

59.

 

[*]

 

60.

 

[*]

61.

 

[*]

 

62.

 

[*]

 

63.

 

[*]

64.

 

[*]

 

65.

 

[*]

 

66.

 

[*]

67.

 

[*]

 

68.

 

[*]

 

69.

 

[*]

70.

 

[*]

 

71.

 

[*]

 

72.

 

[*]

73.

 

[*]

 

74.

 

[*]

 

75.

 

[*]

76.

 

[*]

 

77.

 

[*]

 

78.

 

[*]

79.

 

[*]

 

80.

 

[*]

 

81.

 

[*]

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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82.

 

[*]

 

83.

 

[*]

 

84.

 

[*]

85.

 

[*]

 

86.

 

[*]

 

87.

 

[*]

88.

 

[*]

 

89.

 

[*]

 

90.

 

[*]

91.

 

[*]

 

92.

 

[*]

 

93.

 

[*]

 

If necessary, the Calculation Agent may add additional Specified Dates beginning with [*] and continuing with every other Scheduled Trading Day thereafter.

 


*This information has been omitted based on a request for confidential treatment. The omitted portions have been separately filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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ANNEX A

 

BUYER SETTLEMENT PROVISIONS

 

1.                                       The following Buyer Settlement Provisions shall apply to the Transaction to the extent indicated under the Confirmation:

 

Settlement Currency:

 

USD

 

 

 

Settlement Method Election:

 

Applicable; provided that (i) Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions is hereby amended by deleting the word “ Physical ” in the sixth line thereof and replacing it with the words “ Net Share ” and (ii) the Electing Party may make a settlement method election only if the Electing Party represents and warrants to Dealer in writing on the date it notifies Dealer of its election that, as of such date, the Electing Party is not aware of any material nonpublic information concerning Issuer or the Shares and is electing the settlement method in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade compliance with the federal securities laws.

 

 

 

Electing Party:

 

Buyer

 

 

 

Buyer Election Date:

 

In respect of any Valuation Date, the earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date and (ii) the second Exchange Business Day immediately following the relevant Acceleration Date (if any) (in which case the election under Section 7.1 of the Equity Definitions shall be made no later than 10 minutes prior to the open of trading on the Exchange on such second Exchange Business Day), as the case may be.

 

 

 

Default Settlement Method:

 

Cash Settlement

 

 

 

Forward Cash Settlement Amount:

 

The Settlement Amount multiplied by the Buyer Settlement Price.

 

 

 

Buyer Settlement Price:

 

The average of the 10b-18 VWAPs for the Calculation Dates in the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period, subject to the provisions opposite the caption “Market Disruption Event” in the Confirmation.

 

 

 

Buyer Settlement Valuation Period:

 

A number of Scheduled Trading Days selected by Dealer in a commercially reasonable manner to unwind a commercially reasonable Hedge Position, beginning on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the earlier of (i) the Scheduled Valuation Date or (ii) the Exchange Business Day immediately following the Valuation Date.

 

 

 

Cash Settlement:

 

If Cash Settlement is applicable, then Buyer shall pay to Seller the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date.

 

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Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date:

 

The date one Settlement Cycle following the last day of the Buyer Settlement Valuation Period.

 

 

 

Net Share Settlement Procedures:

 

If Net Share Settlement is applicable, Net Share Settlement shall be made in accordance with paragraphs 2 through 8 below.

 

2.                                       Net Share Settlement shall be made by delivery on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date of a number of Shares satisfying the conditions set forth in paragraph 3 below (the “ Registered Settlement Shares ”), or a number of Shares not satisfying such conditions (the “ Unregistered Settlement Shares ”), in either case with a value equal to the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount, with such Shares’ value based on the value thereof to Dealer (which value shall, in the case of Unregistered Settlement Shares, take into account a commercially reasonable illiquidity discount), in each case, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

 

3.                                       Buyer may deliver Registered Settlement Shares pursuant to paragraph 2 above only if:

 

(a)                                  a registration statement covering public resale of the Registered Settlement Shares by Dealer (the “ Registration Statement ”) shall have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act and been declared or otherwise become effective on or prior to the date of delivery, and no stop order shall be in effect with respect to the Registration Statement; and a printed prospectus relating to the Registered Settlement Shares (including any prospectus supplement thereto, the “ Prospectus ”) shall have been delivered to Dealer, in such quantities as Dealer shall reasonably have requested, on or prior to the date of delivery;

 

(b)                                  the form and content of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (including, without limitation, any sections describing the plan of distribution) shall be satisfactory to Dealer;

 

(c)                                   as of or prior to the date of delivery, Dealer and its agents shall have been afforded a reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Buyer customary in scope for underwritten offerings of equity securities and the results of such investigation are satisfactory to Dealer, in its discretion; and

 

(d)                                  as of the date of delivery, an agreement (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”) shall have been entered into with Dealer in connection with the public resale of the Registered Settlement Shares by Dealer substantially similar to underwriting agreements customary for underwritten offerings of equity securities, in form and substance satisfactory to Dealer, which Underwriting Agreement shall include, without limitation, provisions substantially similar to those contained in such underwriting agreements relating, without limitation, to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates and the provision of customary opinions, accountants’ comfort letters and lawyers’ negative assurance letters.

 

4.                                       If Buyer delivers Unregistered Settlement Shares pursuant to paragraph 2 above:

 

(a)                                  all Unregistered Settlement Shares shall be delivered to Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof;

 

(b)                                  as of or prior to the date of delivery, Dealer and any potential purchaser of any such shares from Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) identified by Dealer shall be afforded a commercially reasonable opportunity to conduct a due diligence investigation with respect to Buyer customary in scope for private placements of equity securities (including, without limitation, the right to have made available to them for inspection all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and other information reasonably requested by them);

 

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(c)                                   as of the date of delivery, Buyer shall enter into an agreement (a “ Private Placement Agreement ”) with Dealer (or any affiliate of Dealer designated by Dealer) in connection with the private placement of such shares by Buyer to Dealer (or any such affiliate) and the private resale of such shares by Dealer (or any such affiliate), substantially similar to private placement purchase agreements customary for private placements of equity securities, in form and substance commercially reasonably satisfactory to Dealer, which Private Placement Agreement shall include, without limitation, provisions substantially similar to those contained in such private placement purchase agreements relating, without limitation, to the indemnification of, and contribution in connection with the liability of, Dealer and its affiliates and the provision of customary opinions, accountants’ comfort letters and lawyers’ negative assurance letters, and shall provide for the payment by Buyer of all fees and expenses in connection with such resale, including all fees and expenses of counsel for Dealer, and shall contain representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Buyer reasonably necessary or advisable to establish and maintain the availability of an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act for such resales; and

 

(d)                                  in connection with the private placement of such shares by Buyer to Dealer (or any such affiliate) and the private resale of such shares by Dealer (or any such affiliate), Buyer shall, if so requested by Dealer, prepare, in cooperation with Dealer, a private placement memorandum in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Dealer.

 

5.                                       Dealer, itself or through an affiliate (the “ Selling Agent ”) or any underwriter(s), will sell all, or such lesser portion as may be required hereunder, of the Registered Settlement Shares or Unregistered Settlement Shares and any Makewhole Shares (as defined below) (together, the “ Settlement Shares ”) delivered by Buyer to Dealer pursuant to paragraph 6 below commencing on the Buyer Cash Settlement Payment Date and continuing until the date on which the aggregate Net Proceeds (as such term is defined below) of such sales, as determined by Dealer, is equal to the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount (such date, the “ Final Resale Date ”).  If the proceeds of any sale(s) made by Dealer, the Selling Agent or any underwriter(s), net of any fees and commissions (including, without limitation, underwriting or placement fees) customary for similar transactions under the circumstances at the time of the offering, together with carrying charges and expenses incurred in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares (including, but without limitation to, the covering of any over-allotment or short position (syndicate or otherwise)) (the “ Net Proceeds ”) exceed the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount, Dealer will refund, in USD, such excess to Buyer on the date that is two (2) Currency Business Days following the Final Resale Date, and, if any portion of the Settlement Shares remains unsold, Dealer shall return to Buyer on that date such unsold Shares.

 

6.                                       If the Calculation Agent determines that the Net Proceeds received from the sale of the Registered Settlement Shares or Unregistered Settlement Shares or any Makewhole Shares, if any, pursuant to this paragraph 6 are less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount (the amount in USD by which the Net Proceeds are less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount being the “ Shortfall ” and the date on which such determination is made, the “ Deficiency Determination Date ”), Buyer shall, on the Exchange Business Day next succeeding the Deficiency Determination Date (the “ Makewhole Notice Date ”), deliver to Dealer, through the Selling Agent, a notice of Buyer’s election that Buyer shall either (i) pay an amount in cash equal to the Shortfall on the day that is one (1) Currency Business Day after the Makewhole Notice Date, or (ii) deliver additional Shares.  If Buyer elects to deliver to Dealer additional Shares, then Buyer shall deliver additional Shares in compliance with the terms and conditions of paragraph 3 or paragraph 4 above, as the case may be (the “ Makewhole Shares ”), on the first Clearance System Business Day that is also an Exchange Business Day following the Makewhole Notice Date in such number as the Calculation Agent reasonably believes would have a market value on that Exchange Business Day equal to the Shortfall.  Such Makewhole Shares shall be sold by Dealer in accordance with the provisions above; provided that if the sum of the Net Proceeds from the sale of the originally delivered Shares and the Net Proceeds from the sale of any Makewhole Shares is less than the absolute value of the Forward Cash Settlement Amount then Buyer shall, at its election, either make such cash payment or deliver to Dealer further Makewhole Shares until such Shortfall has been reduced to zero.

 

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7.                                       Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the aggregate number of Settlement Shares for the Transaction be greater than the Share Cap (as specified in Schedule I).  Buyer represents and warrants (which shall be deemed to be repeated on each day that the Transaction is outstanding) that the Share Cap is equal to or less than the number of Shares determined according to the following formula:

 

A – B

 

Where              A = the number of authorized but unissued shares of Buyer that are not reserved for future issuance on the date hereof; and

 

B = the maximum number of Shares required to be delivered to third parties if Buyer elected Net Share Settlement of all transactions in the Shares (other than the Transaction) with all third parties that are then currently outstanding and unexercised.

 

8.                                       Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Confirmation, Issuer acknowledges and agrees that, on any day, Dealer shall not be obligated or entitled to receive from Issuer any Shares, and Issuer shall not be entitled to deliver to Dealer any Shares, to the extent (but only to the extent) that, after such receipt of any Shares hereunder, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would exceed 8.0%, or (ii) the Share Amount would exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  Any purported delivery hereunder shall be void and have no effect to the extent (but only to the extent) that, after such delivery, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would exceed 8.0%, or (ii) the Share Amount would exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  If any delivery owed to Dealer hereunder is not made, in whole or in part, as a result of this provision, Issuer’s obligation to make such delivery shall not be extinguished and Issuer shall make such delivery as promptly as practicable after, but in no event later than one Exchange Business Day after, Dealer gives notice to Issuer that, after such delivery, (i) the Section 16 Percentage would not exceed 8.0%, and (ii) the Share Amount would not exceed the Applicable Share Limit.  The “ Section 16 Percentage ” as of any day is the fraction, expressed as a percentage, (A) the numerator of which is the number of Shares that Dealer and any of its affiliates or any other person subject to aggregation with Dealer for purposes of the “beneficial ownership” test under Section 13 of the Exchange Act, or any “group” (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act) of which Dealer is or may be deemed to be a part beneficially owns (within the meaning of Section 13 of the Exchange Act), without duplication, on such day (or, to the extent that for any reason the equivalent calculation under Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder results in a higher number, such higher number) and (B) the denominator of which is the number of Shares outstanding on such day.  The “ Share Amount ” as of any day is the number of Shares that Dealer and any person whose ownership position would be aggregated with that of Dealer (Dealer or any such person, a “ Dealer Person ”) under any law, rule, regulation, regulatory order or organizational documents or contracts of Issuer that are, in each case, applicable to ownership of Shares (“ Applicable Restrictions ”), owns, beneficially owns, constructively owns, controls, holds the power to vote or otherwise meets a relevant definition of ownership under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Dealer in its reasonable discretion.  The “ Applicable Share Limit ” means a number of Shares equal to (A) the minimum number of Shares that could give rise to reporting or registration obligations or other requirements (including obtaining prior approval from any person or entity) of a Dealer Person, or could result in an adverse effect on a Dealer Person, under any Applicable Restriction, as determined by Dealer in its reasonable discretion, minus (B) 1% of the number of Shares outstanding.

 

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