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)

February 4, 2019

 


 

Micron Technology, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware

 

1-10658

 

75-1618004

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

(208) 368-4000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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 Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On February 4, 2019, Micron Technology, Inc. (“Micron”) entered into an underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale by the Company of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.640% senior unsecured notes due February 6, 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.975% senior unsecured notes due February 6, 2026 (the “2026 Notes”) and $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.327% senior unsecured notes due February 6, 2029 (the “2029 Notes” and, together with the 2024 Notes and the 2026 Notes, the “Notes”).  The Notes were issued and sold in a public offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-220882), including the prospectus contained therein, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a preliminary prospectus supplement dated February 4, 2019 and a related final prospectus supplement dated February 4, 2019.  The transaction closed on February 6, 2019.

 

Underwriting Agreement

 

The Underwriting Agreement includes customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company has agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities.

 

The description of the Underwriting Agreement contained herein is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Indenture and Supplemental Indenture

 

Each series of Notes was issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and referred to together with the Base Indenture as the “Indenture”), between Micron and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee. The Indenture contains certain covenants, events of default and other customary provisions.

 

The 2024 Notes bear interest at a rate of 4.640% per year and will mature on February 6, 2024.  The 2026 Notes bear interest at a rate of 4.975% per year and will mature on February 6, 2026.  The 2029 Notes bear interest at a rate of 5.327% per year and will mature on February 6, 2029.  Interest on the 2024 Notes is payable on February 6 and August 6 of each year, beginning on August 6, 2019.  Interest on the 2026 Notes is payable on February 6 and August 6 of each year, beginning on August 6, 2019.  Interest on the 2029 Notes is payable on February 6 and August 6 of each year, beginning on August 6, 2019.

 

Micron may redeem some or all of the applicable series of Notes, at any time or from time to time, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon that would be due if the Notes of such series matured on the applicable Par Call Date (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of 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 then current Treasury Rate plus 35 basis points for the 2024 Notes, 40 basis points for the 2026 Notes and 40 basis points for the 2029 Notes, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

In addition, Micron may redeem any 2024 Notes, 2026 Notes or 2029 Notes on or the applicable Par Call Date at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.  The Notes are unsecured and rank equally in right of payment with all of Micron’s other unsecured senior indebtedness.

 

If Micron experiences specified change of control triggering events, Micron must offer to repurchase the Notes of each series at a price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.

 

“Par Call Date” means (i) January 6, 2024 with respect to any 2024 Notes (one month prior to the maturity date of the 2024 Notes), (ii) December 6, 2025 with respect to any 2026 Notes (two months prior to the maturity date of the 2026 Notes) and (iii) November 6, 2028 with respect to any 2029 Notes (three months prior to the maturity date of the 2029 Notes).

 

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The Indenture contains limited affirmative and negative covenants of Micron; each of which are subject to a number of limitations and exceptions in the Indenture. The negative covenants restrict the ability of Micron and certain of its subsidiaries to incur liens on principal property (as defined in the Indenture); to engage in sale and lease-back transactions with respect to any principal property; and the ability of Micron to consolidate, merge or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets.

 

Events of default under the Indenture include a failure to make payments, non-performance of affirmative and negative covenants, and the occurrence of bankruptcy and insolvency-related events. Micron’s obligations may be accelerated upon an event of default, in which case the entire principal amount of the Notes would become immediately due and payable.

 

Micron intends to use the net proceeds of the offering of the notes primarily for the extinguishment of its obligations with respect to its 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2043, which may include payments in settlement of conversion or redemption. Micron intends to use the remaining net proceeds of the offering of the notes for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, working capital and the repayment, repurchase, redemption or other retirement of our existing indebtedness.

 

The foregoing description of certain terms of the Indenture does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture, the form of the 2024 Notes, the form of the 2026 Notes and the form of the 2029 Notes which are filed with this report as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5, respectively.

 

Item 8.01   Other Events.

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, counsel to Micron, has issued an opinion to Micron dated February 6, 2019 regarding the legality of the Notes. A copy of the opinion is filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.

 

Item 9.01   Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated February 4, 2019, by and among Micron Technology, Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters on Schedule I attached thereto

4.1

 

Indenture, dated February 6, 2019, by and between Micron Technology, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee

4.2

 

Supplemental Indenture, dated February 6, 2019, by and between Micron Technology, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee

4.3

 

Form of Note for Micron Technology, Inc.’s 4.640% Notes due 2024 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 hereto)

4.4

 

Form of Note for Micron Technology, Inc.’s 4.975% Notes due 2026 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 hereto)

4.5

 

Form of Note for Micron Technology, Inc.’s 5.327% Notes due 2029 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 4.2 hereto)

5.1

 

Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation

23.1

 

Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation (included in Exhibit 5.1)

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ David A. Zinsner

 

 

David A. Zinsner
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

Date:  February 6, 2019

 

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Exhibit 1.1

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

$600,000,000 4.64% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2024

 

$500,000,000 4.975% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2026

 

$700,000,000 5.327% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029

 

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

 

February 4, 2019

 


 

February 4, 2019

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

As Representatives of the

several Underwriters listed

in Schedule I hereto

 

c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

 

c/o BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10019

 

c/o Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010-3629

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters listed in Schedule I hereto (the “ Underwriters ”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “ Representatives ”), $600,000,000 principal amount of its 4.64% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “ 2024 Notes ”), $500,000,000 principal amount of its 4.975% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “ 2026 Notes ”) and $700,000,000 principal amount of its 5.327% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “ 2029 Notes ” and, together with the 2024 Notes and the 2026 Notes, the “ Securities ”).  The Securities will be issued pursuant to a base indenture, as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture to such base indenture (collectively, the “ Indenture ”), each to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

 

In connection with the sale of the Securities, the Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Securities Act ”), a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-220882) including a prospectus, relating to the securities identified therein that may be issued by the Company from time to time. Such registration statement, as amended at the time it became effective, including the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C

 


 

under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its effectiveness (“ Rule 430 Information ”), is referred to herein as the “ Registration Statement ”; and as used herein, the term “ Preliminary Prospectus ” means the preliminary prospectus supplement of the Company, dated February 4, 2019, relating to the Securities, and filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act together with the prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time of its effectiveness that omitted Rule 430 Information, and the term “ Prospectus ” means the final prospectus relating to the Securities in the form first furnished to the Underwriters (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) for use in connection with confirmation of sales of the Securities.  Any reference in this underwriting agreement (this “ Agreement ”) 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, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be and any reference to “ amend ”, “ amendment ” or “ supplement ” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Exchange Act ”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

 

At or prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below), the Company had prepared the following information (collectively, the “ Time of Sale Information ”): a Preliminary Prospectus dated February 4, 2019, and each “ free-writing prospectus ” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Schedule II hereto. “ Applicable Time ” means 8:55 p.m., New York City time, on February 4, 2019.

 

1.                                       Representations and Warranties .  The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, you that:

 

(a)                                  No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and the Preliminary Prospectus included in the Time of Sale Information, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and the Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, did 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use

 

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in any Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.

 

(b)                                  The Time of Sale Information, at the Applicable Time, did not, 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in such Time of Sale Information, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.  No statement of material fact included in the Prospectus has been omitted from the Time of Sale Information and no statement of material fact included in the Time of Sale Information that is required to be included in the Prospectus has been omitted therefrom.

 

(c)                                   Other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) has not prepared, made, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “ written communication ” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities (each such communication by the Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clause (i) below) an “ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ”) other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act or (ii) the documents listed on Schedule II hereto, each electronic road show and any other written communications approved in writing in advance by the Representatives.  Each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complies in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby) and does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Time of Sale Information and, when taken together with any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus accompanying or delivered prior to the first delivery of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not, 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such

 

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Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.

 

(d)                                  The Registration Statement is an “ automatic shelf registration statement ” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that has been filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Securities has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; as of the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Trust Indenture Act ”), and did not and will not 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; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date the Prospectus does 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; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act or (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.

 

(e)                                   The documents incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the

 

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case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(f)                                    The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own its property and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (as defined below).  The Company is in good standing in each jurisdiction identified on Schedule III hereto.

 

(g)                                   This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(h)                                  The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, and all of the shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.10 per share (“ Common Stock ”) outstanding prior to the issuance of the Securities have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(i)                                      The Securities have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (assuming due authentication by the Trustee in the manner described in the Indenture), will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally and equitable principles of general applicability, including principles of commercial reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a

 

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proceeding at law or in equity) (collectively, the “ Enforceability Exceptions ”), and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

(j)                                     The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and has been duly authorized and, when executed and delivered by the Company, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the other parties thereto, is a valid and binding agreement of, the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions; and the Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus. The Indenture will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.

 

(k)                                  The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities will not conflict with or result in a breach of or violation of any of the terms or provisions of or constitute a default under any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its “significant subsidiaries” (as defined in Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act; each a “ Significant Subsidiary ” and collectively, the “ Significant Subsidiaries ”), except where such breach, violation or default would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Securities, nor will such action result in any violation of (i) the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or (ii) any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or, to the Company’s knowledge, any applicable statute, except in the case of (ii) above, where such violation would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Securities; and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities, except for those (1) that have been, or will have been prior to the Closing Date, obtained and (2) as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities, except, in each case, where the failure to obtain such consents, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the offering of the Securities.

 

(l)                                      There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development that could reasonably be expected to cause a prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken

 

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as a whole, from that set forth in the Registration Statement and Time of Sale Information.

 

(m)                              Other than as set forth in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus, (i) there are no legal or governmental proceedings (“ Actions ”) pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject which would individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial condition or results of operation of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (“ Material Adverse Effect ”); and (ii) to the Company’s knowledge, no such Actions are threatened by governmental authorities or by others.

 

(n)                                  The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries have obtained any permits, consents and authorizations required to be obtained by them under laws or regulations relating to the protection of the environment or concerning the handling, storage, disposal or discharge of toxic materials (collectively “ Environmental Laws ”), and any such permits, consents and authorizations remain in full force and effect.  The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries are in compliance with the Environmental Laws in all material respects, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, action or proceeding against the Company and its subsidiaries alleging violations of the Environmental Laws.

 

(o)                                  The statements set forth in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Prospectus under the caption “Description of Notes,” insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Indenture and the Securities, fairly summarize such terms in all material respects.

 

(p)                                  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who have audited certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, and have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, are the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company as required by the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

(q)                                  The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of

 

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America.  The Company maintains internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of November 29, 2018 and the Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting.

 

(r)                                     The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the quarter ended November 29, 2018.

 

(s)                                    The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus is accurate.

 

(t)                                     Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director or officer, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any affiliate, employee, agent or representative of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, (i) has taken any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any “ government official ” (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office) to influence official action or secure an improper advantage or (ii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law in any jurisdiction in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business; and the Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and

 

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have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance with such laws.

 

(u)                                  The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “ Anti-Money Laundering Laws ”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(v)                                  (i)  Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, or employee thereof, is an individual or entity (“ Person ”) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is:

 

(A)                                the subject of any sanctions (“ Sanctions ”) administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of State (including without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority, nor

 

(B)                                located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) (each, a “ Sanctioned Country ”).

 

(ii)                                   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:

 

(A)                                to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or

 

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(B)                                in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).

 

(iii)                                The Company and its subsidiaries are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions.

 

(w)                                The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

 

(x)                                  The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, without giving effect to activities by any Underwriter, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.

 

(y)                                  At the time of filing the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or any offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Securities and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” and is a well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.  The Company has paid the registration fee for this offering pursuant to Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act or will pay such fees within the time period required by such rule (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.

 

2.                                       Agreements to Sell and Purchase .  The Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the respective principal amounts of 2024 Notes, 2026 Notes and 2029 Notes, as applicable, set forth in Schedule I hereto opposite its name at a purchase price of (a) in the case of the 2024 Notes, 99.650% of the principal amount thereof (the “ 2024 Purchase Price ”) (b) in the case of the 2026 Notes, 99.600% of the principal amount thereof (the “ 2026 Purchase Price ”) and (c) in the case of the 2029 Notes, 99.550% of the principal amount thereof (the “ 2029 Purchase Price ” and, each of the 2024 Purchase Price, 2026 Purchase Price and the 2029 Purchase Price, as applicable, the “ Purchase Price ”), plus accrued interest, if any, from February 6, 2019 to the Closing Date.

 

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3.                                       Terms of Offering .  You have advised the Company that the Underwriters intend to make a public offering of the Securities as soon after the Registration Statement and this Agreement have become effective as in the judgment of the Representatives is advisable, and initially to offer the Securities on the terms set forth in the Time of Sale Information.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Securities to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Underwriter.

 

4.                                       Payment and Delivery .  Payment for the Securities shall be made to the Company in Federal or other funds immediately available to the account specified by the Company to you at the office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, 650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California, at approximately 7:00 a.m., California time, on February 6, 2019, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as may be mutually agreed in writing by you and the Company.  The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the “ Closing Date.

 

The Securities shall be in definitive form or global form, as specified by you, and registered in such names and in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than one full business day prior to the Closing Date.  The Securities shall be delivered to you on the Closing Date for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Securities to the Underwriters duly paid, against payment of the Purchase Price therefor.

 

5.                                       Conditions to the Underwriters’ Obligations .  The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Securities on the Closing Date is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a)                                  No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives.

 

(b)                                  The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (x) if qualified as to materiality or Material Adverse Effect, shall be true and correct and (y) in all other cases are true and correct in all material respects on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in

 

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any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties qualified by materiality, in which case such representations shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the Closing Date.

 

(c)                                   Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:

 

(i)                                      there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any of the debt securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act; and

 

(ii)                                   there shall not have occurred any material change, or any development involving a prospective Material Adverse Effect, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Information (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

 

(d)                                  The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Section  5(c)(i) and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are (i) true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties qualified by materiality, in which case such representations shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on such delivery date, (ii) that the Company has complied in all material respects with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date, and (iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Registration Statement and Time of Sale Information, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement and Time of Sale Information.

 

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The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.

 

(e)                                   The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A.  Such opinion shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.

 

(f)                                    The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Joel L. Poppen, the Company’s General Counsel, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Exhibit B.

 

(g)                                   The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.

 

(h)                                  The Underwriters shall have received on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date a letter, dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “ comfort letters ” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than February 4, 2019.

 

(i)                                      Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have received all waivers or consents under any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries, including any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, stockholder agreement or other agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that are necessary for the issuance of the Securities and the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities.

 

6.                                       Covenants of the Company .  The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:

 

(a)                                  The Company will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act, will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (including the term sheet substantially in the form of Annex A hereto) to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; and will file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or

 

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information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities; and the Company will furnish copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters in New York City prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement , or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request.  The Company will pay the registration fees for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.

 

(b)                                  The Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representatives, a signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference); and (ii) to each Underwriter (A) a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as many copies of the Prospectus (including all amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein) and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as the Representatives may reasonably request.  As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Securities as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Securities is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Securities by any Underwriter or dealer.

 

(c)                                   Before making, preparing, using, authorizing, approving, referring to or filing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, whether before or after the time that the Registration Statement becomes effective, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for review and will not make, prepare, use, authorize, approve, refer to or file any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably objects, except as may be required by applicable law.

 

(d)                                  The Company will not take any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriters that the Underwriters otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

 

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(e)                                   Prior to the completion of the distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters contemplated hereby, the Company will advise the Representatives promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective, (ii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (iii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus has been filed or distributed; (iv) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional information; (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (vi) of the occurrence of any event or development within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include 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 existing when the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (viii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

 

(f)                                    If during the Prospectus Delivery Period (i) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which 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 the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with

 

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the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with applicable law and (2) if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Time of Sale Information 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 the Time of Sale Information is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Information to comply with applicable law, the Company will promptly notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Information (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Time of Sale Information as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances, be misleading or so that the Time of Sale Information will comply with applicable law.

 

(g)                                   The Company will endeavor to qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States and Canada as the Underwriters shall reasonably request in writing prior to the Closing Date, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in which it is otherwise not so subject.

 

(h)                                  The Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives as soon as practicable an earning statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder; provided that the Company will be deemed to have furnished such statements to its security holders and the Representatives to the extent they are filed on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gather, Analysis and Retrieval System.

 

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(i)                                      Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including:  (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s accountants in connection with the registration and sale of the Securities under the Securities Act and all other fees or expenses in connection with the preparation and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and any exhibits, amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including all filing fees payable to the Commission relating to the Securities (within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1), if applicable), all printing costs associated therewith, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters, in the quantities herein above specified, (ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Securities to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other similar taxes payable thereon, (iii) the cost of printing or producing any Blue Sky or legal investment memorandum in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities under state securities laws and all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 6(f), including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky or legal investment memorandum, (iv) any fees charged by rating agencies for the rating of the Securities, (v) the fees and expenses, if any, incurred in connection with the admission of the Securities for trading on any appropriate market system, (vi) the costs and charges of the Trustee and any transfer agent, registrar or depositary, (vii) the cost of the preparation, issuance and delivery of the Securities, (viii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the preparation or dissemination of any electronic road show, expenses associated with production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Company, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company and any such consultants and the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with the road show, (ix) the document production charges and expenses associated with printing this Agreement and (x) all other cost and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section.  It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section, Section 8, and the last paragraph of Section 9, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses,

 

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including fees and disbursements of their counsel, transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Securities by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

 

(j)                                     The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds.”

 

(k)                                  The Company shall not, without giving effect to the activities by the Underwriters, take any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any prohibited stabilization or any manipulation of the price of the Securities and will not take any action prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act in connection with the distribution of the Securities contemplated hereby.

 

(l)                                      The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

 

(m)                              The Company agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not, during the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing to and including the Closing Date, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company or warrants to purchase debt securities of the Company (other than the sale of the Securities under this Agreement).

 

(n)                                  The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make the Securities eligible for clearance and settlement through The Depository Trust Company.

 

7.                                       Certain Agreements of the Underwriters . Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees that:

 

(a)                                  It has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a free writing prospectus that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2) under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Preliminary Prospectus or a previously filed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule II or prepared pursuant to Section 1(c) or Section 6(c) above (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such underwriter and approved by the Company in

 

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advance in writing (each such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (iii), an “ Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus ”).

 

(b)                                  It has not and will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, use any free writing prospectus that contains the final terms of the Securities unless such terms have previously been included in a free writing prospectus filed with the Commission; provided that Underwriters may use a term sheet substantially in the form of that referred to in Schedule II hereto without the consent of the Company; provided further that any Underwriter using such term sheet shall notify the Company, and provide a copy of such term sheet to the Company, prior to, or substantially concurrently with, the first use of such term sheet.

 

(c)                                   It is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act with respect to the offering (and will promptly notify the Company if any such proceeding against it is initiated during the Prospectus Delivery Period).

 

8.                                       Indemnity and Contribution .  (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Underwriters and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) caused by (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, not misleading, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d), any “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act (a “ road show ”) or any Time of Sale Information (including any Time of Sale Information that has subsequently been amended), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.

 

(b)          Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company

 

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within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that are caused by any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon any information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any road show or any Time of Sale Information (including any Time of Sale Information that has subsequently been amended), it being understood and agreed upon that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the fourth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” and the information contained in the third sentence of the seventh paragraph, the eighth paragraph and the ninth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting.”

 

(c)           In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 8(a) or 8(b), such person (the “ indemnified party ”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “ indemnifying party ”) in writing, but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection, and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel, (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them or (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Such firm shall be designated in writing by the Representatives, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 8(a), and by the Company, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 8(b). The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its

 

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written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

(d)          To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 8(a) or 8(b) is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 8(d)(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 8(d)(i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering of the Securities (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities.  The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.  The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several in proportion to the respective principal amount of Securities they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.

 

(e)           The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to 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 allocation that does not take account of the equitable

 

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considerations referred to in Section 8(d).  The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 8(d) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8(d) or this Section 8(e), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that 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(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The remedies provided for in this Section 8 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

 

The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 8 and the representations, warranties and other statements of the Company contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter or any affiliate of any Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, the officers or directors of the Company or any person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Securities. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several in proportion to the respective principal amount of Securities they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.

 

9.                                       Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolutions Regimes : (a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. (b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

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(c)            “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).

 

“Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b)

 

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

 

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

10.                                Termination .  The Underwriters may terminate this Agreement by notice given by you to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on, or by, as the case may be, any of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Global Market, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange or the Chicago Board of Trade, (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange, (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred, (iv) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by Federal or New York State or Idaho State authorities or (v) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in the Representatives’ judgment, is material and adverse and that, singly or together with any other event specified in this Section 10, makes it, in the Representatives’ judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offer, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

 

If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, (i) because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, (ii) for any reason set forth in the first paragraph of this Section 10, or (iii) if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out of pocket expenses (including the fees and disbursements of their counsel)

 

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reasonably incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.

 

11.                                Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters .  This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

 

If, on the Closing Date, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate principal amount of Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one tenth of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase the Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the principal amount of Securities that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 11 by an amount in excess of one ninth of such principal amount of Securities without the written consent of such Underwriter.  If, on the Closing Date any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities which it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date and the aggregate principal amount of Securities with respect to which such default occurs is more than one tenth of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to you and the Company for the purchase of such Securities are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or of the Company.  In any such case either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Information, in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected.  Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

 

Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.

 

12.                                Entire Agreement .  (a) This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Securities, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the Underwriters with respect to the preparation of the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and Prospectus, the conduct of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Securities.

 

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(b)                                  The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Securities:  (i) the Underwriters have acted at arms’ length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company.  The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Securities.

 

13.                                Counterparts .  This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

 

14.                                Applicable Law .  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

 

15.                                Headings .  The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.

 

16.                                Notices .  All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt (a) if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to you at (i) c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal Department; (ii) c/o BNP Paribas Securities Corp., 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Attention: Syndicate Desk; and (iii) c/o Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Eleven Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-3629, Attention: IBCM-Legal; with a copy to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, California 94304, Attention: Daniel Webb, Fax: (650) 251-5002; and (b) if to the Company shall be delivered, mailed or sent to Micron Technology, Inc., 8000 South Federal Way, Boise, Idaho 83716, Attention: General Counsel, Fax: (208) 368-4540, with a copy to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, 650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, Attention: John A. Fore, Fax: (650) 493-6811.

 

17.                                Certain Defined Terms .  For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; and (c) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

18.                                Compliance with USA Patriot Act .  In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record

 

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information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

 

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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Very truly yours,

 

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Greg Routin

 

 

Name: Greg Routin

 

 

Title: Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]

 


 

Accepted as of the date hereof

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of themselves and the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Ian Brewe

 

 

Name: Ian Brewe

 

 

Title: Executive Director

 

 

 

 

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of themselves and the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Rafael Ribeiro

 

 

Name: Rafael Ribeiro

 

 

Title: Director

 

 

 

 

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

 

 

Acting on behalf of themselves and the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher Murphy

 

 

Name:  Christopher Murphy

 

 

Title: Managing Director

 

 

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]

 


 

SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriter

 

Principal
Amount of 2024
Notes to be
Purchased

 

Principal
Amount of 2026
Notes to be
Purchased

 

Principal
Amount of 2029
Notes to be
Purchased

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

$

120,000,000.00

 

$

100,000,000.00

 

$

140,000,000.00

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

$

84,000,000.00

 

$

70,000,000.00

 

$

98,000,000.00

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

$

84,000,000.00

 

$

70,000,000.00

 

$

98,000,000.00

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

$

36,000,000.00

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

42,000,000.00

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

$

36,000,000.00

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

42,000,000.00

 

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

 

$

36,000,000.00

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

42,000,000.00

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

$

24,000,000.00

 

$

20,000,000.00

 

$

28,000,000.00

 

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

25,000,000.00

 

$

35,000,000.00

 

ICBC Standard Bank Plc

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

25,000,000.00

 

$

35,000,000.00

 

The Williams Capital Group, L.P.

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

25,000,000.00

 

$

35,000,000.00

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

$

30,000,000.00

 

$

25,000,000.00

 

$

35,000,000.00

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

 

$

24,000,000.00

 

$

20,000,000.00

 

$

28,000,000.00

 

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

 

$

24,000,000.00

 

$

20,000,000.00

 

$

28,000,000.00

 

ANZ Securities, Inc.

 

$

12,000,000.00

 

$

10,000,000.00

 

$

14,000,000.00

 

Total:

 

$

600,000,000

 

$

500,000,000

 

$

700,000,000

 

 

I- 1


 

SCHEDULE II

 

Time of Sale Information

 

1.                                       Term Sheet containing the terms of the Securities, substantially in the form set forth in Annex A

 

II- 1


 

SCHEDULE III

 

Jurisdictions of Qualification of Company

 

Delaware

Idaho

 

III- 1


 

EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF OPINION OF WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, OUTSIDE COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY

 

Circulated separately.

 

A- 1


 

EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF OPINION OF JOEL L. POPPEN, GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE COMPANY

 

Circulated separately.

 

B- 1


 

ANNEX A

 

Circulated separately.

 

C- 2


Exhibit 4.1

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 


 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of February 6, 2019

 


 

U.S. Bank National Association

 

Trustee

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Page

 

 

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

1

 

 

Section 1.1

Definitions

1

Section 1.2

Other Definitions

4

Section 1.3

Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act

5

Section 1.4

Rules of Construction

5

 

 

ARTICLE II THE SECURITIES

6

 

 

Section 2.1

Issuable in Series

6

Section 2.2

Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities

6

Section 2.3

Execution and Authentication

8

Section 2.4

Registrar and Paying Agent

9

Section 2.5

Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust

10

Section 2.6

Securityholder Lists

10

Section 2.7

Transfer and Exchange

11

Section 2.8

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

11

Section 2.9

Outstanding Securities

12

Section 2.10

Treasury Securities

12

Section 2.11

Temporary Securities

12

Section 2.12

Cancellation

13

Section 2.13

Defaulted Interest

13

Section 2.14

Global Securities

13

Section 2.15

CUSIP Numbers

16

 

 

ARTICLE III REDEMPTION

16

 

 

Section 3.1

Notice to Trustee

16

Section 3.2

Selection of Securities to be Redeemed

16

Section 3.3

Notice of Redemption

17

Section 3.4

Effect of Notice of Redemption

18

Section 3.5

Deposit of Redemption Price

18

Section 3.6

Securities Redeemed in Part

18

 

 

ARTICLE IV COVENANTS

18

 

 

Section 4.1

Payment of Principal and Interest

18

Section 4.2

SEC Reports

18

Section 4.3

Compliance Certificate

19

Section 4.4

Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

19

 

 

ARTICLE V SUCCESSORS

19

 

 

Section 5.1

When Company May Merge, Etc.

19

Section 5.2

Successor Corporation Substituted

20

 

 

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Page

 

 

ARTICLE VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

20

 

 

Section 6.1

Events of Default

20

Section 6.2

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

21

Section 6.3

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

22

Section 6.4

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

23

Section 6.5

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

24

Section 6.6

Application of Money Collected

24

Section 6.7

Limitation on Suits

24

Section 6.8

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest

25

Section 6.9

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

25

Section 6.10

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

25

Section 6.11

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

25

Section 6.12

Control by Holders

26

Section 6.13

Waiver of Past Defaults

26

Section 6.14

Undertaking for Costs

26

 

 

ARTICLE VII TRUSTEE

27

 

 

Section 7.1

Duties of Trustee

27

Section 7.2

Rights of Trustee

28

Section 7.3

Individual Rights of Trustee

30

Section 7.4

Trustee’s Disclaimer

30

Section 7.5

Notice of Defaults

30

Section 7.6

Reports by Trustee to Holders

30

Section 7.7

Compensation and Indemnity

30

Section 7.8

Replacement of Trustee

31

Section 7.9

Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.

32

Section 7.10

Eligibility; Disqualification

32

Section 7.11

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

33

 

 

ARTICLE VIII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

33

 

 

Section 8.1

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

33

Section 8.2

Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification

34

Section 8.3

Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series

34

Section 8.4

Covenant Defeasance

36

Section 8.5

Repayment to Company

37

Section 8.6

Reinstatement

37

 

 

ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

37

 

 

Section 9.1

Without Consent of Holders

37

Section 9.2

With Consent of Holders

38

Section 9.3

Limitations

39

Section 9.4

Compliance with Trust Indenture Act

40

Section 9.5

Revocation and Effect of Consents

40

 

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Section 9.6

Notation on or Exchange of Securities

40

Section 9.7

Trustee Protected

41

 

 

ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS

41

 

 

Section 10.1

Trust Indenture Act Controls

41

Section 10.2

Notices

41

Section 10.3

Communication by Holders with Other Holders

42

Section 10.4

Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent

43

Section 10.5

Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion

43

Section 10.6

Rules by Trustee and Agents

43

Section 10.7

Legal Holidays

43

Section 10.8

No Recourse Against Others

43

Section 10.9

Counterparts

44

Section 10.10

Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial; Consent to Jurisdiction

44

Section 10.11

No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements

44

Section 10.12

Successors

45

Section 10.13

Severability

45

Section 10.14

Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

45

Section 10.15

Securities in a Foreign Currency

45

Section 10.16

Judgment Currency

45

Section 10.17

Force Majeure

46

 

 

ARTICLE XI SINKING FUNDS

46

 

 

Section 11.1

Applicability of Article

46

Section 11.2

Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

47

Section 11.3

Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

47

 

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MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and Indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019

 

§ 310(a)(1)

 

7.10

(a)(2)

 

7.10

(a)(3)

 

Not Applicable

(a)(4)

 

Not Applicable

(a)(5)

 

7.10

(b)

 

7.10

§ 311(a)

 

7.11

(b)

 

7.11

(c)

 

Not Applicable

§ 312(a)

 

2.6

(b)

 

10.3

(c)

 

10.3

§ 313(a)

 

7.6

(b)(1)

 

7.6

(b)(2)

 

7.6

(c)(1)

 

7.6

(d)

 

7.6

§ 314(a)

 

4.2, 10.5

(b)

 

Not Applicable

(c)(1)

 

10.4

(c)(2)

 

10.4

(c)(3)

 

Not Applicable

(d)

 

Not Applicable

(e)

 

10.5

(f)

 

Not Applicable

§ 315(a)

 

7.1

(b)

 

7.5

(c)

 

7.1

(d)

 

7.1

(e)

 

6.14

§ 316(a)

 

2.10

(a)(1)(A)

 

6.12

(a)(1)(B)

 

6.13

(b)

 

6.8

§ 317(a)(1)

 

6.3

(a)(2)

 

6.4

(b)

 

2.5

§ 318(a)

 

10.1

 

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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of the Indenture.

 

 

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Indenture dated as of February 6, 2019 between MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., a company incorporated under the laws of Delaware (“ Company ”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as trustee (“ Trustee ”).

 

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.1                                     Definitions .

 

Additional Amounts ” means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified herein or therein and which are owing to such Holders.

 

Affiliate ” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified person.  For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean 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 or by agreement or otherwise.

 

Agent ” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent.

 

Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of the Company or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board.

 

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 each day that is not a Legal Holiday.

 

Capital Stock ” means, with respect to any person, any and all shares of stock of a corporation, partnership interests or other equivalent interests (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in such person’s equity, entitling the holder to receive a share of the profits and losses, and a distribution of assets, after liabilities, of such person.

 

Company ” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

 

Company Order ” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer.

 


 

Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time this Indenture shall be administered, which office as of the date hereof is located at the address specified in Section 10.2.  With respect to presentation for transfer or exchange, conversions or principal payment, such address shall be at the address specified in Section 10.2, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by written 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 written notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

Default ” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

Depositary ” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as Depositary for such Series by the Company, which Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of such Series.

 

Discount Security ” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Foreign Government Obligations ” means, with respect to Securities of any Series that are denominated in a Foreign Currency, direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the government that issued or caused to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.

 

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination.

 

Global Security ” or “ Global Securities ” means a Security or Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

 

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Holder ” or “ Securityholder ” means a person in whose name a Security is registered on the books of the Registrar.

 

Indenture ” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

 

interest ” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

 

Legal Holiday ” means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banking institutions or the corporate trust office are not required to be open in the State of New York or the place of payment.

 

Maturity ,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

 

Officer ” means the Chief Executive Officer, President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and any Vice President of the Company.

 

Officer’s Certificate ” means a certificate signed by any Officer that meets the requirements of Section 10.5.

 

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee.  The opinion may contain customary limitations, qualifications, conditions and exceptions.  The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

 

person ” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

principal ” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security.

 

Responsible Officer ” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject.

 

SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Securities ” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

 

Series ” or “ Series of Securities ” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.

 

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Stated Maturity ” when used with respect to any Security, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or interest is due and payable.

 

Subsidiary ” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof.

 

TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.

 

Trustee ” means the person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series.

 

U.S. Government Obligations ” means securities which are direct obligations of, or guaranteed by, The United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

Section 1.2                                     Other Definitions .

 

TERM

 

DEFINED IN SECTION

Bankruptcy Law

 

6.1

Custodian

 

6.1

Event of Default

 

6.1

Judgment Currency

 

10.16

Legal Holiday

 

10.7

mandatory sinking fund payment

 

11.1

New York Banking Day

 

10.16

Notice Agent

 

2.4

optional sinking fund payment

 

11.1

Paying Agent

 

2.4

Registrar

 

2.4

“Required Currency”

 

10.16

“Specified Courts”

 

10.10

 

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TERM

 

DEFINED IN SECTION

“successor person”

 

5.1

 

Section 1.3                                     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:

 

Commission ” means the SEC.

 

indenture securities ” means the Securities.

 

indenture security holder ” means a Securityholder.

 

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

 

indenture trustee ” or “ institutional trustee ” means the Trustee.

 

obligor ” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.

 

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 and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.

 

Section 1.4                                     Rules of Construction .

 

Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

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

 

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

 

(c)                                   or ” is not exclusive;

 

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

 

(e)                                   provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

 

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ARTICLE II
THE SECURITIES

 

Section 2.1                                     Issuable in Series .

 

The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.  The Securities may be issued in one or more Series.  All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution.  In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined.  Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

Section 2.2                                     Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities .

 

At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through 2.2.23) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate:

 

2.2.1.                                                  the title (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series) and ranking (including the terms of any subordination provisions) of the Series;

 

2.2.2.                                                  the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

 

2.2.3.                                                  any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6);

 

2.2.4.                                                  the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;

 

2.2.5.                                                  the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

 

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2.2.6.                                                  the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be delivered, and the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other means;

 

2.2.7.                                                  if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

 

2.2.8.                                                  the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

 

2.2.9.                                                  the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations;

 

2.2.10.                                           if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;

 

2.2.11.                                           the forms of the Securities of the Series and whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities;

 

2.2.12.                                           if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2;

 

2.2.13.                                           the currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may be Dollars or any Foreign Currency, and if such currency of denomination is a composite currency, the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite currency;

 

2.2.14.                                           the designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be made;

 

2.2.15.                                           if payments of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are denominated, the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments will be determined;

 

2.2.16.                                           the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index;

 

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2.2.17.                                           the provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series;

 

2.2.18.                                           any addition to, deletion of or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2;

 

2.2.19.                                           any addition to, deletion of or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or V which applies to Securities of the Series;

 

2.2.20.                                           any Depositaries, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents, conversion agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein;

 

2.2.21.                                           the provisions, if any, relating to conversion or exchange of any Securities of such Series, including if applicable, the conversion or exchange price, the conversion or exchange period, provisions as to whether conversion or exchange will be mandatory, at the option of the Holders thereof or at the option of the Company, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price or exchange price and provisions affecting conversion or exchange if such Series of Securities are redeemed;

 

2.2.22.                                           any other terms of the Series (which may supplement, modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series), including any terms that may be required under applicable law or regulations or advisable in connection with the marketing of Securities of that Series; and

 

2.2.23.                                           whether any of the Company’s direct or indirect Subsidiaries will guarantee the Securities of that Series, including the terms of subordination, if any, of such guarantees.

 

All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate referred to above.  No Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate may affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise with respect to any Series of Securities except as the Trustee may agree in writing.

 

Section 2.3                                     Execution and Authentication .

 

An Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

 

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.

 

A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

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The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order.  Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.

 

Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 10.4, (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4 and (d) an Opinion of Counsel (which may be the same Opinion of Counsel referred to in the preceding clause (c)) that such Securities, when they have been duly executed, issued, and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered against payment therefor in the circumstances described in such Opinion of Counsel, will be legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then-outstanding Series of Securities.

 

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities.  An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so.  Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent.  An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

 

Section 2.4                                     Registrar and Paying Agent .

 

The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“ Paying Agent ”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“ Registrar ”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be delivered (“ Notice Agent ”).  The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may

 

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be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands; provided , however , that any appointment of the Trustee as the Notice Agent shall exclude the appointment of the Trustee or any office of the Trustee as an agent to receive the service of legal process on the Company.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional notice agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided , however , that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent in each place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such purposes.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional notice agent.  The term “ Registrar ” includes any co-registrar; the term “ Paying Agent ” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “ Notice Agent ” includes any additional notice agent.  The Company or any of its Affiliates may serve as Registrar or Paying Agent.

 

The Company hereby appoints the Trustee the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued.

 

Section 2.5                                     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 Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee in writing 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 money held by it to the Trustee.  The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee.  Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have no further liability for the money.  If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent.  Upon any bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding with respect to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Securities.

 

Section 2.6                                     Securityholder 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 Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA § 312(a).  If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten 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 Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

 

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Section 2.7                                     Transfer and Exchange .

 

Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met.  To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request.  No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6).

 

Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the sending of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day such notice is sent, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

 

Section 2.8                                     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities .

 

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity bond as may be required by each of them to hold itself and any of its agents harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

 

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company,

 

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whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that Series duly issued hereunder.

 

The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

 

Section 2.9                                     Outstanding Securities .

 

The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding.

 

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

 

If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

 

The Company may purchase or otherwise acquire the Securities, whether by open market purchases, negotiated transactions or otherwise.  A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security (but see Section 2.10 below).

 

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

 

Section 2.10                              Treasury Securities .

 

In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver only Securities of a Series that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

 

Section 2.11                              Temporary Securities .

 

Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order.  Temporary Securities shall

 

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be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities.  Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon receipt of a Company Order shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary Securities.  Until so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.

 

Section 2.12                              Cancellation .

 

The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment.  The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation in accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act and the Trustee) and deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Company upon written request of the Company.  The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

Section 2.13                              Defaulted Interest .

 

If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date.  The Company shall fix the record date and payment date.  At least 10 days before the special record date, the Company shall send to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid.  The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner.

 

Section 2.14                              Global Securities .

 

2.14.1.                                           Terms of Securities .  A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities.

 

2.14.2.                                           Transfer and Exchange .  Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depositary for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that such

 

Global Security shall be so exchangeable.  Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as

 

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the Depositary shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms.

 

Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depositary, by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such a successor Depositary.

 

Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

 

2.14.3.                                           Legends .  Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

“THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY.  THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”

 

In addition, so long as the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) is the Depositary, each Global Note registered in the name of DTC or its nominee shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

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

 

2.14.4.                                           Acts of Holders .  The Depositary, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture.

 

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(a)                                  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company.  Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of Holders signing such instrument or instruments.  Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

 

(b)                                  The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to such officer the execution thereof.  Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than such signer’s individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such signer’s authority.  The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

 

(c)                                   The ownership of Global Securities or any Securities issued in certificated form shall be proved by the Registrar.

 

(d)                                  Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

 

(e)                                   If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.  If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.

 

2.14.5.                                           Payments .  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof.

 

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2.14.6.                                           Consents, Declaration and Directions .  The Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depositary or by the applicable procedures of such Depositary with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this Indenture.

 

Section 2.15                              CUSIP Numbers .

 

The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall as promptly as practicable notify the Trustee of any change that the Company is aware of in the CUSIP numbers.

 

ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION

 

Section 3.1                                     Notice to Trustee .

 

The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities.  If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed.  The Company shall give the notice at least 5 days before the notice is delivered to the Holders, unless a shorter period is satisfactory to the Trustee.

 

Section 3.2                                     Selection of Securities to be Redeemed .

 

Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, if less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Securities of the Series to be redeemed will be selected as follows: (a) if the Securities are in the form of Global Securities, in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary, (b) if the Securities are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Securities are listed, or (c) if not otherwise provided for under clause (a) or (b) in the manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, including pro rata , by lot or other method, unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange requirements, subject, in the case of Global Securities, to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary.  The Securities to be redeemed shall be selected from Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption.  Portions of the principal of

 

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Securities of the Series that have denominations larger than $1,000 may be selected for redemption.  Securities of the Series and portions of them it selected for redemption shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination for each Series and the authorized integral multiples thereof.  Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption.

 

Section 3.3                                     Notice of Redemption .

 

Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall send or cause to be sent by first-class mail or electronically, in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed.

 

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

 

(a)                                  the redemption date;

 

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

 

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

 

(d)                                  if any Securities are being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Securities to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the original Security shall be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Security;

 

(e)                                   that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

 

(f)                                    that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date unless the Company defaults in the deposit of the redemption price;

 

(g)                                   the CUSIP number, if any; and

 

(h)                                  any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

 

At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense, provided, however, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee, at least 5 days (unless a shorter time shall be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the notice date, an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice.

 

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Section 3.4                                     Effect of Notice of Redemption .

 

Once notice of redemption is sent as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price.  Except as otherwise provided in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate for a Series, a notice of redemption may not be conditional.  Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

 

Section 3.5                                     Deposit of Redemption Price .

 

On or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Company shall irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient (as determined by the Company) to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.

 

Section 3.6                                     Securities Redeemed in Part .

 

Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

 

ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS

 

Section 4.1                                     Payment of Principal and Interest .

 

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.  On or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the applicable payment date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of each Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.

 

Section 4.2                                     SEC Reports .

 

To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than confidential filings, documents subject to confidential treatment and correspondence with the SEC).  The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a).  Reports, information and documents filed with the SEC via the EDGAR system (or any successor system thereto) will be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee as of the time of such filing via EDGAR for purposes of this Section 4.2, it being understood that the Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever to determine if such filings have been made, and that the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of the information contained therein.

 

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Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section 4.2 are for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive or actual notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of their covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

 

Section 4.3                                     Compliance Certificate .

 

To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, an Officer’s Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/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 hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which the Officer may have knowledge).

 

Section 4.4                                     Stay, Extension and Usury Laws .

 

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, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

 

ARTICLE V
SUCCESSORS

 

Section 5.1                                     When Company May Merge, Etc .

 

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “ successor person ”) unless:

 

(a)                                  the Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if other than the Company) is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, the Company’s obligations on the Securities and under this Indenture; and

 

(b)                                  immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

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Where the Company is not the surviving corporation, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.

 

Notwithstanding the above, any Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties to the Company.  Neither an Officer’s Certificate nor an Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection therewith.

 

Section 5.2                                     Successor Corporation Substituted .

 

Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company herein; provided , however , that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

 

ARTICLE VI
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

Section 6.1                                     Events of Default .

 

Event of Default ,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:

 

(a)                                  default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the 30 th  day of such period); or

 

(b)                                  default in the payment of principal of or premium on any Security of that Series at its Maturity; or

 

(c)                                   failure by the Company to comply with a requirement to make an offer to purchase any Security of that Series if required to do so pursuant to this Indenture or the Securities of such Series for 30 days; or

 

(d)                                  default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than defaults pursuant to paragraphs (a) or (b) above or pursuant to a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other than that Series), which default continues uncured for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company

 

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and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

 

(e)                                   the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

 

(i)                                      commences a voluntary case,

 

(ii)                                   consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

 

(iii)                                consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

 

(iv)                               makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

 

(v)                                  generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or

 

(f)                                    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

 

(i)                                      is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case,

 

(ii)                                   appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or

 

(iii)                                orders the liquidation of the Company, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

 

(g)                                   any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.18.

 

The term “ Bankruptcy Law ” means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar U.S. Federal or State law for the relief of debtors.  The term “ Custodian ” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

The Company will provide the Trustee written notice of any Default or Event of Default within 30 days of becoming aware of the occurrence of such Default or Event of Default, which notice will describe in reasonable detail the status of such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take in respect thereof; provided that the Company is not required to deliver such notice if such Default or Event of Default has been cured.

 

Section 6.2                                     Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment .

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(d) or (e)) then in

 

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every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that 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 6.1(d) or (e) shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities 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.

 

At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest, if any, of Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.

 

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

 

Section 6.3                                     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee .

 

The Company covenants that if

 

(a)                                  default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

 

(b)                                  default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or

 

(c)                                   default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, if any, when and as due by the terms of a Security,

 

then , the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

 

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If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any Series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

 

Section 6.4                                     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim .

 

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,

 

(a)                                  to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

 

(b)                                  to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.  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. 7 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 of such Series may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.

 

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

 

Section 6.5                                     Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities .

 

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

 

Section 6.6                                     Application of Money Collected .

 

Any money or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

 

First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and

 

Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and

 

Third: To the Company.

 

Section 6.7                                     Limitation on Suits .

 

No Holder of any Security of any Series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless

 

(a)                                  such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that Series;

 

(b)                                  the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

 

(c)                                   such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by the Trustee in compliance with such request;

 

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(d)                                  the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

 

(e)                                   no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series;

 

it being understood, intended and expressly covenanted by the Holder of every Security with every other Holder and the Trustee that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders of the applicable Series.

 

Section 6.8                                     Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest .

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, any premium and interest, if any, on such Security on the Maturity of such Security, including the Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

Section 6.9                                     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 shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

Section 6.10                              Rights and Remedies Cumulative .

 

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

Section 6.11                              Delay or Omission Not Waiver .

 

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constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.  Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

Section 6.12                              Control by Holders .

 

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that

 

(a)                                  such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,

 

(b)                                  the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction,

 

(c)                                   subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability, and

 

(d)                                  prior to taking any action as directed under this Section 6.12, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnity satisfactory to it against the losses, costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

 

Section 6.13                              Waiver of Past Defaults .

 

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series, by written notice to the Trustee and the Company, waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration).  Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

Section 6.14                              Undertaking for Costs .

 

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having

 

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due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Maturity of such Security, including the Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date).

 

ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE

 

Section 7.1                                     Duties of Trustee .

 

(a)                                  If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent 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:

 

(i)                                      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.

 

(ii)                                   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 Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however , in the case of any such Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the form requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

(c)                                   The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

(i)                                      This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.

 

(ii)                                   The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved in a court of competent jurisdiction that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.

 

(iii)                                The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any

 

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remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series in accordance with Section 6.12.

 

(d)                                  Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.

 

(e)                                   The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against the losses, costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in performing such duty or exercising such right or power.

 

(f)                                    The Trustee shall not be liable for interest or investment 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.

 

(g)                                   No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

 

(h)                                  The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be entitled to the protections and immunities as are set forth in paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of this Section and in Section 7.2, each with respect to the Trustee.

 

Section 7.2                                     Rights of Trustee .

 

(a)                                  The Trustee may conclusively rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any 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.  The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

 

(b)                                  Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both.  The Trustee shall 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.

 

(c)                                   The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent appointed with due care.  No Depositary shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depositary.

 

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

 

(e)                                   The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in reliance thereon.

 

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

 

(g)                                   The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

 

(h)                                  The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the existence of a Default or Event of Default, the Securities generally or the Securities of a particular Series and this Indenture.

 

(i)                                      In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable to any person for special, punitive, indirect, consequential or incidental loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

 

(j)                                     The permissive right of the Trustee to take the actions permitted by this Indenture shall not be construed as an obligation or duty to do so.

 

(k)                                  No bond or surety shall be required with respect to performance of Trustee’s duties and powers.

 

(l)                                      Under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Securities.

 

(m)                              Any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

 

(n)                                  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.

 

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

 

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Section 7.3                                     Individual Rights of Trustee .

 

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.  Any Agent may do the same with like rights.  The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

 

Section 7.4                                     Trustee’s Disclaimer .

 

The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities or any money paid to the Company or upon the Company’s direction under any provision of this Indenture, it shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it shall not be responsible for any statement herein or in the Securities or any other document in connection with the sale of the Securities other than its certificate of authentication.  The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness.

 

Section 7.5                                     Notice of Defaults .

 

If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall send to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default.  Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.

 

Section 7.6                                     Reports by Trustee to Holders .

 

Within 60 days after each February 15, commencing February 15, 2019, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar, a brief report dated as of such anniversary date, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA § 313.

 

A copy of each report at the time of its sending to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each national securities exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing when Securities of any Series are listed on any national securities exchange or delisted from any national securities exchange.

 

Section 7.7                                     Compensation and Indemnity .

 

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compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust.  The Company shall reimburse the Trustee promptly upon request for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by it.  Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

 

The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (including for the cost of defending itself) against any cost, damages, losses, expense or liability, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture or in connection with its acceptance of its obligations hereunder, as Trustee or Agent.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.  Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder, unless and to the extent that the Company is materially prejudiced thereby.  The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense.  The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel.  The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.  This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee.

 

The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer, director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee through willful misconduct or negligence, as finally adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities of that Series.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or (e) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

 

Section 7.8                                     Replacement of Trustee .

 

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

 

The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of the proposed resignation.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing at least 30 days prior to such removal.  The Company may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series with at least 30 days written notice if:

 

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(a)                                  the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

 

(b)                                  the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

 

(c)                                   a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

 

(d)                                  the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

 

If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.  Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then-outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

 

If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series 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 a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company.  Promptly after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture.  A successor Trustee shall send a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series.  Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it for actions taken or omitted to be taken in accordance with its rights, powers and duties under this Indenture prior to such replacement.

 

Section 7.9                                     Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc .

 

If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation or national banking association, the successor corporation or national banking association without any further act shall be the successor Trustee, subject to Section 7.10.

 

Section 7.10                              Eligibility; Disqualification .

 

This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA § 310(a)(1), (2) and (5).  The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.  The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b).

 

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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.

 

ARTICLE VIII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

 

Section 8.1                                     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

 

This Indenture shall upon Company Order be discharged with respect to the Securities of any Series and cease to be of further effect as to all Securities of such Series (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

 

(a)                                  either

 

(i)                                      all Securities of such Series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

(ii)                                   all such Securities of such Series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

 

(1)                                  have become due and payable by reason of sending a notice of redemption or otherwise, or

 

(2)                                  will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

 

(3)                                  have been called for redemption or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, or

 

(4)                                  are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable;

 

and the Company, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount of money or U.S. Government Obligations, which amount shall be sufficient (as determined and certified in writing by the Company) for the purpose of paying and discharging each installment of principal (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments) of and interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest are due;

 

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(c)                                   the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.7, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive.

 

Section 8.2                                     Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification .

 

(a)                                  Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4.

 

(b)                                  The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.

 

(c)                                   The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Order any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money were deposited or received.  This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held under this Indenture.

 

Section 8.3                                     Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series .

 

Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, execute instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

 

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(a)                                  the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series;

 

(b)                                  the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 7.7, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 8.6; and

 

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

 

provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

 

(d)                                  the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest and such sinking fund payments are due;

 

(e)                                   such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

 

(f)                                    no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date;

 

(g)                                   the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;

 

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(h)                                  the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and

 

(i)                                      the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

 

Section 8.4                                     Covenant Defeasance .

 

Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.1 and, unless otherwise specified therein, any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.18 and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities will be unaffected thereby; provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

 

(a)                                  with reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments) of and interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest are due;

 

(b)                                  such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

 

(c)                                   no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;

 

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(d)                                  the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and related covenant defeasance and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if the deposit and related covenant defeasance had not occurred;

 

(e)                                   The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and

 

(f)                                    The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

 

Section 8.5                                     Repayment to Company .

 

Subject to applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for two years.  After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person, and the Trustee shall have no further liability with respect to such money.

 

Section 8.6                                     Reinstatement .

 

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money deposited with respect to Securities of any Series in accordance with Section 8.1 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 obligations of the Company under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series and under the Securities of such Series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.1 until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.1; provided , however , that if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent after payment in full to the Holders.

 

ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

 

Section 9.1                                     Without Consent of Holders .

 

The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder:

 

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(a)                                  to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency under this Indenture or the Securities of such Series as evidenced by an Officer Certificate;

 

(b)                                  to comply with Article V;

 

(c)                                   to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;

 

(d)                                  to add guarantees with respect to Securities of any Series or secure Securities of any Series;

 

(e)                                   to surrender any of the Company’s rights or powers under this Indenture;

 

(f)                                    to add covenants or events of default for the benefit of the holders of Securities of any Series;

 

(g)                                   to comply with the applicable procedures of the applicable depositary;

 

(h)                                  to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder of Securities of such Series;

 

(i)                                      to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;

 

(j)                                     to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee;

 

(k)                                  to add to, change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture or the Securities of such Series in accordance with the TIA, or to comply with the provisions of DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream or the Trustee with respect to provisions of this Indenture or the Securities of such Series relating to transfers or exchanges of the Securities of such Series or beneficial interests in the Securities of such Series; or

 

(l)                                      to conform any provision of this Indenture, in so far as it relates to the Securities of such Series, to the description of the Securities of such Series in the prospectus supplement relation to the offering of the Securities of such Series.

 

Section 9.2                                     With Consent of Holders .

 

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 Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities 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 any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the

 

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Securityholders of each such Series.  Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.

 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.  After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall send to the Holders of Securities affected thereby, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver.  Any failure by the Company to send such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.

 

Section 9.3                                     Limitations .

 

Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not:

 

(a)                                  reduce the principal amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

 

(b)                                  reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;

 

(c)                                   reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

 

(d)                                  reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

 

(e)                                   waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

 

(f)                                    make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;

 

(g)                                   make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13 or 9.3 (this sentence);

 

(h)                                  reduce a redemption payment with respect to any Security or amend or modify any such redemption payment in an manner adverse to the Holders thereof the Company’s obligation to make such payments;

 

(i)                                      reduce the quorum requirements under this Indenture;

 

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(j)                                     reduce the principal amount of the Security whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

 

(k)                                  adversely affect the ranking of the Security; or

 

(l)                                      impair the right of Holders to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment of the Securities.

 

Section 9.4                                     Compliance with Trust Indenture Act .

 

Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

 

Section 9.5                                     Revocation and Effect of Consents .

 

Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security.  However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

 

Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (h) of Section 9.3.  In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.

 

The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture.  If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the second immediately preceding paragraph, those persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or take any such action, whether or not such persons continue to be Holders after such record date.  No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.

 

Section 9.6                                     Notation on or Exchange of Securities .

 

The Company or the Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated.  The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.3 new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

 

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Section 9.7                                     Trustee Protected .

 

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 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4 and stating that the execution and delivery of the supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and, in the case of the Opinion of Counsel, constitutes a legal valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.  The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures upon delivery of such an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 10.1                              Trust Indenture Act Controls .

 

If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

 

Section 10.2                              Notices .

 

Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission, email or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address:

 

if to the Company:

 

Micron Technology, Inc.

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632 100

Fax No.: (208)368-4540

Attention: General Counsel

 

with a copy to:

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation

650 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304-1050

Fax No.: (650)493-6811

Attention: John A. Fore

 

if to the Trustee:

 

U.S. Bank National Association

 

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Global Corporate Trust Services

633 West Fifth Street, 24 th  Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

Fax No: (213) 615-6197

Attention: Paula Oswald (Micron Technology, Inc. 2018 Base Indenture)

Telephone: (213) 615-6043

 

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. Any notice or communication delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed effective upon actual receipt thereof.

 

Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be sent electronically or by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the Registrar, in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary.  Failure to send a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.

 

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

 

If the Company sends a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall send a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security, where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a Global Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given to the Depositary for such Security (or its designee) pursuant to the customary procedures of such Depositary.

 

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon notice, instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured facsimile or electronic .pdf transmission; provided, however, that (1) the party providing such written notice, instructions or directions, subsequent to such transmission of written instructions, shall provide the originally executed instructions or directions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (2) such originally executed notice, instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized representative of the party providing such notice, instructions or directions. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reasonable reliance upon and compliance with such notice, instructions or directions notwithstanding such notice, instructions or directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent notice, instructions or directions.

 

Section 10.3                              Communication by Holders with Other Holders .

 

Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series.  The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

 

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Section 10.4                              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:

 

(a)                                  an Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, 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, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

 

Section 10.5                              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)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA § 314(e) and shall 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 has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

 

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

 

Section 10.6                              Rules by Trustee and Agents .

 

The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series.  Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

 

Section 10.7                              Legal Holidays .

 

A “ Legal Holiday ” is any day that is not a Business Day.  If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

 

Section 10.8                              No Recourse Against Others .

 

None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or stockholders, as such, will have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under the

 

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Securities of a Series or this Indenture or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities of each Series.

 

Section 10.9                              Counterparts .

 

This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.  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 10.10                       Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial; Consent to Jurisdiction .

 

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, INCLUDING ANY CLAIM OR CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE OR THE SECURITIES, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.  THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE HOLDERS (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SECURITIES) EACH HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

 

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City of New York (collectively, the “ Specified Courts ”), and each party irrevocably submits to the non exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding.  Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail (to the extent allowed under any applicable statute or rule of court) to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court.  The Company, the Trustee and the Holders (by their acceptance of the Securities) each hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim any such suit, action or other proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

 

Section 10.11                       No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements .

 

This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company.  Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

 

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Section 10.12                       Successors .

 

All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor.  All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.

 

Section 10.13                       Severability .

 

In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

Section 10.14                       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 hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

Section 10.15                       Securities in a Foreign Currency .

 

Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any Series which are denominated in more than one currency, then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be determined by converting any such other currency into a currency that is designated upon issuance of any particular Series of Securities.  Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, such conversion shall be at the spot rate for the purchase of the designated currency as published in The Financial Times in the “Currency Rates” section (or, if The Financial Times is no longer published, or if such information is no longer available in The Financial Times, such source as may be selected in good faith by the Company) on any date of determination.  The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a Series denominated in currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

 

All decisions and determinations provided for in the preceding paragraph shall, in the absence of manifest error, to the extent permitted by law, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Trustee and all Holders.

 

Section 10.16                       Judgment Currency .

 

The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest or other amount on the Securities of any Series (the

 

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Required Currency ”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “ Judgment Currency ”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture.  For purposes of the foregoing, “ New York Banking Day ” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a Legal Holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

Section 10.17                       Force Majeure .

 

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

 

Section 10.18. U.S.A. Patriot Act.

 

The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A.  Patriot Act, the Trustee is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee.  The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

 

ARTICLE XI
SINKING FUNDS

 

Section 11.1                              Applicability of Article .

 

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series if so provided by the terms of such Securities pursuant to Section 2.2 and

 

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except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

 

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a “ mandatory sinking fund payment ” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “ optional sinking fund payment .” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2.  Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such Series.

 

Section 11.2                              Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities .

 

The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited.  Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.  If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company.

 

Section 11.3                              Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund .

 

Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting

 

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of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified.  Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date will be selected in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and the Company shall send or cause to be sent a notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in and in accordance with Section 3.3.  Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ David A. Zinsner

 

 

Name: David A. Zinsner

 

 

Its: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Paula Oswald

 

 

Name: Paula Oswald

 

 

Its: Vice President

 


Exhibit 4.2

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

$600,000,000 4.640% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2024

 

$500,000,000 4.975% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2026

 

$700,000,000 5.327% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of February 6, 2019

 

To

 

INDENTURE
Dated as of February 6, 2019

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

Trustee

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

1

 

Section 1.1.

Relationship with Base Indenture

 

1

 

Section 1.2.

Definitions

 

2

ARTICLE 2. THE NOTES

 

11

 

Section 2.1.

Form and Dating

 

11

 

Section 2.2.

Transfer and Exchange

 

12

 

Section 2.3.

Issuance of Additional Notes

 

16

ARTICLE 3. REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

 

17

 

Section 3.1.

Optional Redemption

 

17

ARTICLE 4. PARTICULAR COVENANTS

 

19

 

Section 4.1.

Offer to Purchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event

 

19

 

Section 4.2.

Liens

 

22

 

Section 4.3.

Sale and Lease Back Transactions

 

23

 

Section 4.4.

Covenants

 

23

ARTICLE 5. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

 

23

 

Section 5.1.

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

 

23

 

Section 5.2.

Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series

 

24

 

Section 5.3.

Covenant Defeasance

 

24

ARTICLE 6. MISCELLANEOUS

 

24

 

Section 6.1.

Trust Indenture Act Controls

 

24

 

Section 6.2.

Governing Law

 

24

 

Section 6.3.

Successors

 

24

 

Section 6.4.

Severability

 

24

 

Section 6.5.

Counterpart Originals

 

24

 

Section 6.6.

Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

 

24

 

Section 6.7.

Waiver of Jury Trial

 

25

 

Section 6.8.

Interpretation

 

25

 

Section 6.9.

Instruction by Electronic Transmissions

 

25

 

Section 6.10.

Miscellaneous

 

25

Exhibit A

 

FORM OF 2024 NOTE

Exhibit B

 

FORM OF 2026 NOTE

Exhibit C

 

FORM OF 2029 NOTE

 


 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of February 6, 2019 by and between Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

 

The Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019 (the “ Base Indenture ”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more Series of the Company’s securities.

 

Section 9.1 of the Base Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee, without the consent of any holders of the Company’s Securities, from time to time may amend or supplement certain terms and conditions in the Base Indenture, including to provide for the issuance of and establishment of terms of a Series of Securities as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.2 thereof.

 

The Company desires and has requested the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.1 of the Base Indenture to join with it in the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture (together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) in order to supplement the Base Indenture as, and to the extent, set forth herein to provide for the issuance of and establish the forms and terms and conditions of each Series of the Notes (as defined below).

 

The execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by votes of the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof.

 

All conditions and requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal instrument in accordance with its terms have been performed and fulfilled by the parties hereto and the execution and delivery thereof have been in all respects duly authorized by the parties hereto.

 

The Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) of the 4.640% Senior Notes due 2024, 4.975% Senior Notes due 2026 and the 5.327% Senior Notes due 2029:

 

ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE

 

Section 1.1.                                  Relationship with Base Indenture .

 

The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes, as applicable, will govern and be controlling.

 

The Trustee accepts the amendment of the Base Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture and agrees to execute the trust created by the Base Indenture as hereby amended, but only upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Supplemental Indenture, including the rights, privileges and immunities of the Trustee set forth in the Base Indenture and the terms and provisions defining and limiting the liabilities and responsibilities of the Trustee in the performance of the trust created by the Base Indenture, and without

 


 

limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee will not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for, or with respect to, any of the recitals or statements contained herein, all of which recitals or statements are made solely by the Company, or for, or with respect to, (1) the proper authorization of this Supplemental Indenture by the Company, (2) the due execution hereof by the Company or (3) the consequences (direct or indirect and whether deliberate or inadvertent) of any amendment herein provided for, and the Trustee makes no representation with respect to any such matters.

 

Further, the Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; civil or military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; riots; interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority or governmental actions; it being understood that the Trustee shall use its best efforts to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

Section 1.2.                                  Definitions .

 

Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Base Indenture. The following terms have the meanings given to them in this Section 1.2:

 

2024 Notes ” means the Company’s 4.640% Senior Notes due 2024; provided that the Initial 2024 Notes and the Additional 2024 Notes, if any, will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture, and unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the 2024 Notes will include the Initial 2024 Notes and any Additional 2024 Notes.

 

2026 Notes ” means the Company’s 4.975% Senior Notes due 2026; provided that the Initial 2026 Notes and the Additional 2026 Notes, if any, will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture, and unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the 2026 Notes will include the Initial 2026 Notes and any Additional 2026 Notes.

 

2029 Notes ” means the Company’s 5.327% Senior Notes due 2029; provided that the Initial 2029 Notes and the Additional 2029 Notes, if any, will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture, and unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the 2029 Notes will include the Initial 2029 Notes and any Additional 2029 Notes.

 

Additional 2024 Notes ” means any 2024 Notes (other than the Initial 2024 Notes) issued under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof, as part of the same Series as the Initial 2024 Notes.

 

Additional 2026 Notes ” means any 2026 Notes (other than the Initial 2026 Notes) issued under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof, as part of the same Series as the Initial 2026 Notes.

 

Additional 2029 Notes ” means any 2029 Notes (other than the Initial 2029 Notes) issued under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 2.3 hereof, as part of the same Series as the Initial 2029 Notes.

 

Additional Notes ” means any Additional 2024 Notes, any Additional 2026 Notes and any Additional 2029 Notes, as applicable.

 

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Aggregate Debt ” means the sum of the following as of the date of determination: (1) the then aggregate outstanding amount of the Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, without duplication, incurred after the Issue Date and secured by Liens not otherwise permitted by Section 4.2(a) hereof; and (2) the then existing Attributable Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Sale and Lease Back Transactions, without duplication, entered into after the Issue Date pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 4.3 hereof; provided that any such Attributable Debt will be excluded from this clause (2) to the extent of Indebtedness relating thereto is included in clause (1) of this definition, provided further, in no event will the amount of any Indebtedness be required to be included in the calculation of Aggregate Debt more than once despite the fact more than one person is liable with respect to such Indebtedness and despite the fact such Indebtedness is secured by the assets of more than one person (for example, and for avoidance of doubt, in the case where there are Liens on assets of one or more of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries securing such Indebtedness, the amount of Indebtedness so secured shall only be included once in the calculation of Aggregate Debt).  Whenever a calculation is to be made with respect to creation or incurrence under revolving credit Indebtedness, such calculation may, at the Company’s election, be determined by treating the maximum committed amount of such revolving credit Indebtedness as having been incurred on the date of such calculation, whether or not such amount has actually been drawn upon, and, if such election has been made, (i) subsequent borrowings and reborrowings of such revolving credit Indebtedness (and related Liens), up to the maximum committed amount, shall not be deemed additional incurrences of Indebtedness (and related Liens) requiring calculations of the amount of Aggregate Debt (but subsequent borrowings in connection with increases in such maximum committed amount shall require calculations under this definition, or shall otherwise comply with Section 4.2 hereof), and (ii) for purposes of subsequent calculations under this definition, the maximum committed amount of such revolving credit Indebtedness on the date of any such calculation shall be deemed to be outstanding throughout such period, whether or not such amount is actually outstanding.  The Company may revoke an election pursuant to this paragraph at any time, at which time the entire drawn outstanding amount of such revolving credit Indebtedness will be deemed to be incurred and secured by any relevant Liens at such time.

 

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

 

Attributable Debt means in connection with a Sale and Lease Back Transaction the lesser of: (1) the fair value of the assets subject to such transaction, as determined in good faith by a Senior Officer of the Company; and (2) the present value of the minimum rental payments called for during the terms of the lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended), determined in accordance with GAAP, discounted at a rate that, at the inception of the lease, the lessee would have incurred to borrow over a similar term the funds necessary to purchase the leased assets.

 

Base Indenture ” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Supplemental Indenture, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

 

Below Investment Grade Rating Event ” means , with respect to each Series of Notes, the rating on the Notes of such Series is lowered by two or more of the Rating Agencies within 60 days from the earlier of (1) the date of the first public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control or (2) the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of such Series of Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided, however, that a particular reduction in rating will not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus will not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event) unless each of the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply announces or publicly confirms that the

 

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reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control has occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event); provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, a Below Investment Grade Rating Event shall not be deemed to have occurred so long as the applicable Series of Notes are rated Investment Grade by two or more of the Rating Agencies.

 

Change of Control ” means:

 

(i)                                      any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company, its Subsidiaries or any employee benefit plan of the Company or its Subsidiaries, files a Schedule 13D or Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) pursuant to the Exchange Act disclosing that such person has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner” (as such term is used in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Company, unless such beneficial ownership (a) arises solely as a result of a revocable proxy delivered in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, and (b) is not also then reportable on Schedule 13D (or any successor schedule) under the Exchange Act, except that for the purpose of this clause (1) a person will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all shares that such person has the right to acquire irrespective of whether that right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time); provided, however, that a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control under this clause (1) if (a) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, and (b)(i) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (ii) immediately following that transaction no “person” or “group”(other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company; or

 

(ii)                                   the Company sells, conveys, transfers or leases (either in one transaction or a series of related transactions) all or substantially all assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to, or merges or consolidates with, a person (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), other than any such merger or consolidation where the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person or parent entity thereof immediately after giving effect to such transaction; or

 

(iii)                                the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution.

 

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means, with respect to a Series of Notes hereunder, the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed, the United States Treasury security selected by the Reference Treasury Dealer as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to period from the redemption date to January 6, 2024, in the case of the 2024 Notes, December 6, 2025, in the case of the 2026 Notes and November 6, 2028, in the case of the 2029 Notes that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the period from the redemption date to January 6, 2024, in the case of the 2024 Notes, December 6, 2025, in the case of the 2026 Notes and November 6, 2028, in the case of the 2029 Notes.

 

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Comparable Treasury Price ” means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the arithmetic average, as determined by the Company, of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations; or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the arithmetic average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means, with respect to any person, the total amount of assets of such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries after deducting therefrom (a) all current liabilities of such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding (i) any notes or loans payable within 12 months, the current portion of long-term debt, the current portion of deferred revenue and of obligations under capital leases and, following the adoption of ASU 2016-02 — Leases, of operating and finance leases, and the portion of any convertible debt classified as “current” despite having a stated maturity more than 12 months from the date as of which the amount thereof is being computed and (ii) any liabilities which are by their terms renewable or extendible at the option of the obligor thereon to a date more than 12 months from the date as of which the amount thereof is being computed) and (b) all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and any other like intangibles of such person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, all as set forth on the consolidated balance sheet of such person for the most recently completed fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been filed with the SEC and computed in accordance with GAAP.

 

Consolidated Subsidiaries ” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to any person, those subsidiaries of that person whose financial data is, in accordance with GAAP, reflected in that person’s consolidated financial statements.

 

Definitive Note ” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto or Exhibit B hereto, except that such Note will not bear the Global Note Legend.

 

Depositary ” means, with respect to the Notes of a Series hereunder issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the person specified in Section 2.1 hereof as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as depositary hereunder.

 

Equity Interests ” means all Capital Stock and all warrants or options with respect to, or other rights to purchase, Capital Stock, but excluding Indebtedness convertible into or exchangeable for equity.

 

Existing Credit Facilities ” means (1) that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2016 (as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time), by and among the Company, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the other agents party thereto and each financial institution party from time to time thereto, and (2) that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of July 3, 2018 (as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time), by and among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the other agents party thereto and each financial institution party from time to time thereto.

 

Fitch ” means Fitch Ratings Inc. and any successor to its rating agency business.

 

Foreign Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any person, any Subsidiary of such person other than one that is organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

 

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Global Note Legend ” means the legend set forth in Section 2.2(e) hereof, which is required to be placed on all Global Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Global Notes ” means, individually and collectively, (a) with respect to the 2024 Notes, each of the Global Notes, in the form of Exhibit A hereto, (b) with respect to the 2026 Notes, each of the Global Notes, in the form of Exhibit B hereto and (c) with respect to the 2029 Notes, each of the Global Notes, in the form of Exhibit C hereto, in each case, issued in accordance with Section 2.1 hereof.

 

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

 

Indebtedness ” means indebtedness for borrowed money.  For the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness with respect to any person only includes indebtedness for the repayment of money borrowed provided to such person, and does not include any other kind of indebtedness or obligation notwithstanding that such other indebtedness or obligation may be evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or other similar instrument, may be in the nature of a financing transaction, or may be an obligation that under GAAP is classified as “debt” or another type of liability, whether required to be reflected on the balance sheet of the obligor or otherwise.

 

The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:

 

(1)                                  the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness that does not require the current payment of interest;

 

(2)                                  the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any other Indebtedness; and

 

(3)                                  in respect of Indebtedness of another person secured by a Lien on the assets of the specified person, the lesser of: (a) the fair value (as determined in good faith by a Senior Officer of the Company) of such assets at the date of determination; and (b) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien.

 

In addition, accrual of interest and accretion or amortization of original issue discount will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture.

 

Indenture ” means the Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, governing the Notes, in each case, as amended, supplemented or restated from time to time.

 

Indirect Participant ” means a person who holds a beneficial interest in a Global Note through a Participant.

 

Initial 2024 Notes ” means the $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2024 Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture on the date hereof.

 

Initial 2026 Notes ” means the $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2026 Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture on the date hereof.

 

Initial 2029 Notes ” means the $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2029 Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture on the date hereof.

 

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

 

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S&P) or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company .

 

Issue Date ” means the date hereof.

 

Joint Venture ” means, with respect to any person, any partnership, corporation or other entity in which up to and including 50% of the Equity Interests is owned, directly or indirectly, by such person and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries.

 

Lien ” means any lien, security interest, mortgage, charge or similar encumbrance, provided, however, that in no event shall either (i) any legal or equitable encumbrances deemed to exist by reason of a negative pledge or (ii) an operating lease or a non-exclusive license be deemed to constitute a Lien.

 

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor to its rating agency business .

 

Nonrecourse Obligation ” means Indebtedness substantially related to (i) the acquisition of assets not previously owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) the financing of a project involving the development or expansion of properties of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as to which the obligee with respect to such Indebtedness has no recourse to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or any assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the assets which were acquired with the proceeds of such transaction or the project financed with the proceeds of such transaction (and the proceeds thereof).

 

Notes ” means, collectively, the 2024 Notes, the 2026 Notes and the 2029 Notes.

 

Par Call Date ” means (i) January 6, 2024, with respect to any 2024 Notes, (ii) December 6, 2025, with respect to any 2026 Notes and (iii) November 6, 2028, with respect to any 2029 Notes.

 

Participant ” means, with respect to the Depositary, a person who has an account with the Depositary.

 

Permitted Liens ” means:

 

(1)          Liens existing as of the Issue Date or arising thereafter pursuant to related agreements existing as of the Issue Date, including the Existing Credit Facilities;

 

(2)          With respect to a Series of Notes, Liens granted after the Issue Date created in favor of the Holders of such Series of Notes;

 

(3)          Liens on Principal Property given to secure all or any part of the payment of or financing of all or any part of the purchase price thereof, or the cost of development, operation, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of all or any part thereof; provided that such Liens shall be given (or given pursuant to firm commitment financing arrangements obtained within such period) within 24 months after the later of (i) the acquisition of such Principal Property and/or the completion of any such development, operation, construction, alteration, repair or improvement, whichever is later and (ii) the placing into commercial operation of such Principal Property after the acquisition or completion of any such development, operation, construction, alteration, repair or improvement;

 

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(4)          Liens existing on any Principal Property at the time of acquisition of such Principal Property or Liens existing on shares of Capital Stock or assets of a person and its Subsidiaries prior to the time such person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or arising thereafter pursuant to contractual commitments entered into prior to acquiring such Principal Property or such shares of Capital Stock) (including acquisition through merger or consolidation) or at the time of such acquisition (or arising thereafter pursuant to contractual commitments entered into prior to such person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary) by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such Liens do not extend to (i) any Principal Property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) shares of Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary that, in each case, were not previously encumbered by such Liens;

 

(5)          (a) Liens on the Equity Interests of any person, including any Joint Venture of the Company, and its Subsidiaries which, when such Liens arise, concurrently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and Liens on Principal Property of such person, including any Joint Venture of the Company, and its Subsidiaries arising in connection with the purchase or acquisition thereof or of an interest therein by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, any such Liens on the Equity Interests in or the assets of IM Flash Technologies, LLC or its Subsidiaries to secure obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to all or a portion of the purchase price for the acquisition of any Equity Interests in or all or a portion of the assets of IM Flash Technologies, LLC and its Subsidiaries not owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries as of the Issue Date, and (b) Liens on Equity Interests in any Joint Venture of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or in any Subsidiary of the Company that owns an Equity Interest in a Joint Venture of the Company to secure Indebtedness contributed or advanced solely to that Joint Venture; provided that, in the case of each of the preceding clauses (a) and (b), such Liens do not extend to other Principal Property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or shares of Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary that, in each case, were not previously encumbered by such Liens;

 

(6)          Liens securing Indebtedness of up to 5.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets to any strategic partner of the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries incurred in connection with joint technology efforts between such partner and the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries and/or the financing of manufacturing of products;

 

(7)          Liens in favor of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;

 

(8)          Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanic’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business (including Liens incident in the ordinary course of the construction or maintenance of Principal Property), and Liens in connection with legal proceedings;

 

(9)          Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or subject to penalties for non-payment or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

(10)   Liens to secure the performance of bids, trade or commercial contracts, government contracts, purchase, construction, sales and servicing contracts (including utility contracts), leases, statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business, deposits as security for contested taxes, import or customs duties, liabilities to insurance carriers or for the payment of rent, and Liens to secure letters of credit, guarantees, bonds or other sureties given in connection with the

 

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foregoing obligations or in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of social security or similar laws and regulations;

 

(11)   Liens in favor of the United States or any state, territory or possession thereof (or the District of Columbia), or any department, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision of the United States or any state, territory or possession thereof (or the District of Columbia), to secure partial, progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost of constructing or improving the property subject to such Liens;

 

(12)   Liens created, incurred or assumed in connection with an industrial revenue bond, pollution control bond or similar financing between the Company or any of its Subsidiary and any federal, state or municipal government or other government body or quasi-governmental agency;

 

(13)   Liens created in connection with the acquisition of assets or a project financed with, and created to secure a Nonrecourse Obligation; and

 

(14)   any extension, renewal, substitution, reinstatement or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, substitutions, reinstatements or replacements), in whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in this or the preceding clauses (1) through (13), and any Liens that secure an extension, renewal, reinstatement, replacement, refinancing or refunding (including any successive extensions, renewals, reinstatements, replacements, refinancings or refundings) of any Indebtedness at any time prior to or within 12 months after the maturity, retirement or other repayment or prepayment of the Indebtedness (including any such repayment pursuant to amortization obligations with respect to such Indebtedness) being extended, renewed, substituted, replaced, refinanced or refunded, which Indebtedness is or was secured by a Lien referred to in this or the preceding clauses (1) through (13).

 

For the avoidance of doubt, the inclusion of specific Liens in the definition of Permitted Liens shall not create any implication that the obligations secured by such Liens constitute Indebtedness.

 

Principal Property means any single parcel (or group of contiguous parcels that comprise the same facility, office or plant) of real property or any permanent improvement thereon (1) owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries located in the United States, including its principal corporate office, any manufacturing facility or plant, any research and development facility or any portion thereof and (2) having a net book value, as of the date of determination, in excess of 1% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) Principal Property does not include any property that the Board of Directors has determined not to be of material importance to the business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole and (ii) Principal Property only includes personal property to the extent it becomes, and continues to be, a “fixture” within the meaning of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the applicable real property.

 

Prospectus Supplement ” means the Prospectus Supplement, dated as of February 4, 2019 and filed by the Company with the SEC on Form 424(b)(2) on February 4, 2019, in connection with the issuance of the Notes, as modified by the free writing prospectus filed by the Company with the SEC on February 4, 2019.

 

Rating Agency means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes or fails to make a rating of the notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, or all of them, as the case may be.

 

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Reference Treasury Dealer means at least two primary U.S. Government securities dealers selected by the Company, which may include any of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. or Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, and each of their respective successors and affiliates.  If any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation means, on any redemption date, the arithmetic average, as determined by the Company, 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 each Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding that redemption date.

 

Restricted Subsidiary ” shall mean each Subsidiary of the Company (1) that is organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia other than any such Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company, (2) that owns a Principal Property, and (3) at least 80% of the Voting Stock of which is owned by the Company or one or more Subsidiaries of which at least 80% of the Voting Stock is owned directly or indirectly by the Company, provided that, for purposes of the foregoing, any Voting Stock owned by a Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Restricted Subsidiary based on the foregoing clause (3) shall be excluded.

 

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to any Notes being redeemed, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of the principal and interest thereon that would be due if such Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of 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 then current Treasury Rate plus 35 basis points for the 2024 Notes, 40 basis points for the 2026 Notes and 40 basis points for the 2029 Notes .

 

S&P means S&P Global Ratings, and any successor to its rating agency business.

 

Sale and Lease Back Transaction means an arrangement with any lender or investor or to which such lender or investor is a party providing for the leasing by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of any Principal Property that, more than 12 months after the later of (i) the completion of the acquisition, construction, development or improvement of such Principal Property or (ii) the placing in operation of such Principal Property or of such Principal Property as so constructed, developed or improved, has been or is being sold, conveyed, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to such lender or investor or to any person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such lender on the security of such Principal Property.

 

Senior Officer ” of any specified person means the chief executive officer, any president, any vice president, the chief financial officer, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the secretary or any assistant secretary.

 

Series ” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Base Indenture; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, each of the 2024 Notes, the 2026 Notes and the 2029 Notes is a separate Series of Notes under, and for all purposes of, the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture (including with respect to payments of principal and interest, redemptions, offers to purchase, consenting to certain amendments to the Indenture and the Notes and waiving or rescinding Events of Default).

 

Subsidiary ” of a person means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other similar entity a majority of whose Voting Stock is owned by such person or one or more Subsidiaries of such person

 

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or any combination thereof.  Unless otherwise indicated, the term “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Company.

 

Supplemental Indenture ” means this First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, by and between the Company and the Trustee, governing the Notes, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the Base Indenture and the terms hereof.

 

Treasury Rate means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third business day immediately preceding that redemption date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that redemption date.

 

Voting Stock of a person means all classes of capital stock or other interests (including partnership interests) of such person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.

 

Other Definitions

 

Term

 

Defined in
Section

 

“Offer to Purchase”

 

4.1

 

“Change of Control Purchase Price”

 

4.1

 

“Change of Control Purchase Date”

 

4.1

 

“DTC”

 

2.1

 

“Expiration Date”

 

4.1

 

“Second Change of Control Purchase Date”

 

4.1

 

 

ARTICLE 2.
THE NOTES

 

Section 2.1.                                  Form and Dating .

 

(a)                                  General. The 2024 Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto. The 2026 Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto. The 2029 Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication with respect thereto will be substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note will be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes will be in minimum denominations of $2,000 with integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

The terms and provisions contained in the Notes will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will govern and be controlling.

 

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(b)                                  Global Notes.

 

(1)                                  2024 Notes issued in global form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (including the Global Note Legend thereon). 2024 Notes issued in definitive form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (but without the Global Note Legend thereon).

 

(2)                                  2026 Notes issued in global form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto (including the Global Note Legend thereon). 2026 Notes issued in definitive form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto (but without the Global Note Legend thereon).

 

(3)                                  2029 Notes issued in global form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto (including the Global Note Legend thereon). 2029 Notes issued in definitive form will be substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto (but without the Global Note Legend thereon).

 

(4)                                  Each Global Note will represent such of the outstanding Notes as will be specified therein and each will provide that it will represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon 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 amount of any increase or decrease in the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby will be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by Section 2.2 hereof. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.

 

Section 2.2.                                  Transfer and Exchange .

 

(a)                                  Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes . A Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the Depositary, or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary. All Global Notes of a Series hereunder will be exchanged by the Company for Definitive Notes of the same Series if, with respect to such Series of Notes:

 

(1)                                  the Company delivers to the Trustee notice from the Depositary that it is unwilling or unable to continue to act as Depositary or that it is no longer a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the date of such notice from the Depositary;

 

(2)                                  an Event of Default has occurred and the Trustee has received a written request from DTC that the Global Notes of such Series (in whole but not in part) should be exchanged for Definitive Notes; or

 

(3)                                  the Company in its sole discretion and subject to the procedures of the Depositary determines that the Global Notes of such Series (in whole but not in part) should be exchanged for Definitive Notes and delivers a written notice to such effect to the Trustee.

 

Upon the occurrence of either of the preceding events in (1), (2) or (3) above with respect to a Series of Notes hereunder, Definitive Notes will be issued for such Series in such names and in any approved denominations as the Depositary will instruct the Trustee. Global Notes also may be exchanged or replaced, in whole or in part, as provided in Sections 2.8 and 2.11 of the Base Indenture. Every Note authenticated and delivered in exchange for, or in lieu of, a Global Note or any portion thereof, pursuant to this Section 2.2 (subject to any contrary provision in this Section 2.2(a)) or Sections 2.8 or 2.11 of the Base Indenture, will be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and will be, a Global Note. A Global Note may not be exchanged

 

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for another Note other than as provided in this Section 2.2(a); however, beneficial interests in a Global Note may be transferred and exchanged as provided in Sections 2.2(b) or (f) hereof.

 

(b)                                  Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in the Global Notes . The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in the Global Notes will be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Applicable Procedures. Transfers of beneficial interests in the Global Notes also will require compliance with either subparagraph (1) or (2) below, as applicable, as well as one or more of the other following subparagraphs, as applicable:

 

(1)                                  Transfer of Beneficial Interests in the Same Global Note . Beneficial interests in any Global Note may be transferred to persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Note. No written orders or instructions will be required to be delivered to the Registrar to effect the transfers described in this Section 2.2(b)(1).

 

(2)                                  All Other Transfers and Exchanges of Beneficial Interests in Global Notes . In connection with all transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests with respect to a Series of Notes that are not subject to Section 2.2(b)(1) above, the transferor of such beneficial interest must deliver to the Registrar:

 

(i)                                      a written order from a Participant or an Indirect Participant given to the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures directing the Depositary to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in another Global Note in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or exchanged; and

 

(ii)                                   instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the Participant account to be credited with such increase.

 

With respect to a Series of Notes hereunder, upon satisfaction of all of the requirements for transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in Global Notes contained in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes of such Series, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, the Trustee will adjust the principal amount of the relevant Global Note(s) pursuant to Section 2.2(f) hereof.

 

(c)                                   Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Beneficial Interests .

 

A Holder of a Definitive Note may exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in a Global Note of the same Series or transfer such Definitive Notes to a person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Note of the same Series at any time. Upon receipt of a request for such an exchange or transfer, the Trustee will cancel the applicable Definitive Note and increase, or cause to be increased, the aggregate principal amount of one of the applicable Global Notes.

 

If, with respect to a Series of Notes, any such exchange or transfer from a Definitive Note to a beneficial interest is effected pursuant to the previous paragraph at a time when a Global Note of the same Series has not yet been issued, the Company will issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee will authenticate one or more Global Notes of such Series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of Definitive Notes so transferred.

 

(d)                                  Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes . A Holder of Definitive Notes may transfer such Notes to a person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Note of the same Series. Upon request by a Holder of Definitive Notes and such Holder’s compliance with the provisions of this Section 2.2(d), the Registrar will register the transfer or exchange of Definitive Notes. Prior to such registration of transfer or exchange, the requesting Holder will present or surrender to the

 

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Registrar the Definitive Notes duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or by his attorney, duly authorized in writing. In addition, the requesting Holder will provide any additional required certifications, documents and information, as applicable.

 

(e)                                   Legends . The following legends will appear on the face of all Global Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture unless specifically stated otherwise in the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

“THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2 OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2(a) OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.12 OF THE BASE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMPANY HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (“ DTC ”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.”

 

(f)                                    Cancellation and/or Adjustment of Global Notes . At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Note have been exchanged for Definitive Notes or a particular Global Note has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Note will be returned to or retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.12 of the Base Indenture. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for or transferred to a person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Note of the same Series, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note will be reduced accordingly and an endorsement will be made on such Global Note by the Trustee or by the Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a

 

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person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Note, such other Global Note will be increased accordingly and an endorsement will be made on such Global Note by the Trustee or by the Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such increase.

 

(g)                                   General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges.

 

(1)                                  To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company will execute and the Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes upon the receipt of a Company Order.

 

(2)                                  No service charge will be made to a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note or to a Holder of a Definitive Note for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 2.11, Section 3.6 and Section 9.6 of the Base Indenture).

 

(3)                                  The Registrar will not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

(4)                                  All Global Notes and Definitive Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Global Notes or Definitive Notes will be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt and entitled to the same benefits under this Supplemental Indenture, as the Global Notes or Definitive Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

(5)                                  If the Company elects to redeem or make an Offer to Purchase with respect to a Series of Notes hereunder, neither the Company nor the Trustee will be required to:

 

(i)                                      issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes of such Series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the Company sends the notice of redemption under Section 3.3 of the Base Indenture or makes an Offer to Purchase and ending at the close of business on the day the notice is sent or the Offer to Purchase is made;

 

(ii)                                   register the transfer of or to exchange any Note of such Series so selected for redemption or subject to purchase in such Offer to Purchase in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note of such Series being redeemed or purchased in part; or

 

(iii)                                in the case of a redemption or a purchase date pursuant to an Offer to Purchase occurring after a regular record date but on or before the corresponding interest payment date, register the transfer of or exchange a Note of such Series on or after the regular record date and before the date of redemption or purchase.

 

(6)                                  Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of any Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the person in whose name any Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to the record date provisions hereof) interest on such Notes and for all other purposes, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the Company will be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

(7)                                  The Trustee will authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.3 of the Base Indenture.

 

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(8)                                  [Reserved].

 

(9)                                  Any Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel required to be submitted to the Registrar pursuant to this Section 2.2 to effect a registration of transfer or exchange may be submitted by facsimile.

 

(10)                           The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Supplemental Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Supplemental Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

(11)                           Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

 

Section 2.3.                                  Issuance of Additional Notes

 

(a)                                  The Company will be entitled, upon delivery of a Company Order, Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, to issue Additional 2024 Notes under this Supplemental Indenture which will have identical terms as the Initial 2024 Notes issued on the date hereof, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price and, if applicable, the first Interest Payment Date and the initial interest accrual date. The Initial 2024 Notes issued on the date hereof and any Additional 2024 Notes issued will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

(b)                                  The Company will be entitled, upon delivery of a Company Order, Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, to issue Additional 2026 Notes under this Supplemental Indenture which will have identical terms as the Initial 2026 Notes issued on the date hereof, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price and, if applicable, the first Interest Payment Date and the initial interest accrual date. The Initial 2026 Notes issued on the date hereof and any Additional 2026 Notes issued will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

(c)                                   The Company will be entitled, upon delivery of a Company Order, Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, to issue Additional 2029 Notes under this Supplemental Indenture which will have identical terms as the Initial 2029 Notes issued on the date hereof, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price and, if applicable, the first Interest Payment Date and the initial interest accrual date. The Initial 2029 Notes issued on the date hereof and any Additional 2029 Notes issued will be treated as a single Series for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

(d)                                  With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company will set forth in a (i) supplemental indenture or (ii) in resolution of its Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof) or of a designee thereof and an Officer’s Certificate, a copy of each which will be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

 

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

 

(ii)                                   the issue price, the issue date, the CUSIP number(s), the first Interest Payment Date and the initial interest accrual date of such Additional Notes.

 

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(e)                                   For the avoidance of doubt, the issuance of Additional Notes pursuant to this Section 2.3 is subject to Section 2.3 of the Base Indenture.

 

(f)                                    Any Additional Notes of a Series issued pursuant to this Section 2.3 shall only bear the same CUSIP number as any existing Notes of such Series if they would be fungible for United States tax purposes with such existing Notes of that Series.

 

ARTICLE 3.
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

 

Section 3.1.                                  Optional Redemption

 

(a)                                  2024 Notes . Prior to the Par Call Date, the Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the 2024 Notes, at any time and from time to time, either in whole or in part, at a redemption price as calculated by the Company equal to the greater of the following amounts, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date of redemption:

 

(i)                                      100% of the principal amount of the 2024 Notes to be redeemed; and

 

(ii)                                   the Remaining Scheduled Payments of such 2024 Notes to be redeemed.

 

If the Company elects to redeem any 2024 Notes on or after the Par Call Date, the redemption price will be an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2024 Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

In connection with any redemption of the 2024 Notes, calculation of the redemption price therefor shall be made by the Company or on the Company’s behalf by such person as the Company shall designate; provided , however , that such calculation shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee or any Agent. Notwithstanding Section 3.3 of the Base Indenture, the notice of any redemption of the 2024 Notes pursuant to that Section in respect of a redemption date occurring prior to the maturity date of the 2024 Notes need not set forth the redemption price but only the manner of calculation thereof and the Company will prepare and send, or cause to be sent, such notice of redemption to each Holder of 2024 Notes to be redeemed (with a copy to the Trustee) at least 30 and not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for redemption.  Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent.

 

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 2024 Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

2024 Notes subject to a partial redemption shall be selected for redemption pro rata , by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (provided that if the 2024 Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes, the 2024 Notes shall be selected for redemption by the Depositary in accordance with its standard procedures therefor) and may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of the 2024 Notes equal to an authorized denomination.

 

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No 2024 Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part. 2024 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the 2024 Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed.

 

(b)                                  2026 Notes . Prior to the Par Call Date, the Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the 2026 Notes, at any time and from time to time, either in whole or in part, at a redemption price as calculated by the Company equal to the greater of the following amounts, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date of redemption:

 

(i)                                      100% of the principal amount of the 2026 Notes to be redeemed; and

 

(ii)                                   the Remaining Scheduled Payments of such 2026 Notes to be redeemed.

 

If the Company elects to redeem any 2026 Notes on or after the Par Call Date, the redemption price will be an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2026 Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

In connection with any redemption of the 2026 Notes, calculation of the redemption price therefor shall be made by the Company or on the Company’s behalf by such person as the Company shall designate; provided , however , that such calculation shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee or any Agent. Notwithstanding Section 3.3 of the Base Indenture, the notice of any redemption of the 2026 Notes pursuant to that Section in respect of a redemption date occurring prior to the maturity date of the 2026 Notes need not set forth the redemption price but only the manner of calculation thereof and the Company will prepare and send, or cause to be sent, such notice of redemption to each Holder of 2026 Notes to be redeemed (with a copy to the Trustee) at least 30 and not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for redemption.  Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent.

 

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 2026 Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

2026 Notes subject to a partial redemption shall be selected for redemption pro rata , by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (provided that if the 2026 Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes, the 2026 Notes shall be selected for redemption by the Depositary in accordance with its standard procedures therefor) and may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of the 2026 Notes equal to an authorized denomination.

 

No 2026 Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part. 2026 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the 2026 Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed.

 

(c)                                   2029 Notes . Prior to the Par Call Date, the Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the 2029 Notes, at any time and from time to time, either in whole or in part, at a redemption price as calculated by the Company equal to the greater of the following amounts, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date of redemption:

 

(i)                                      100% of the principal amount of the 2029 Notes to be redeemed; and

 

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(ii)                                   the Remaining Scheduled Payments of such 2029 Notes to be redeemed.

 

If the Company elects to redeem any 2029 Notes on or after the Par Call Date, the redemption price will be an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2029 Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

In connection with any redemption of the 2029 Notes, calculation of the redemption price therefor shall be made by the Company or on the Company’s behalf by such person as the Company shall designate; provided , however , that such calculation shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee or any Agent. Notwithstanding Section 3.3 of the Base Indenture, the notice of any redemption of the 2029 Notes pursuant to that Section in respect of a redemption date occurring prior to the maturity date of the 2029 Notes need not set forth the redemption price but only the manner of calculation thereof and the Company will prepare and send, or cause to be sent, such notice of redemption to each Holder of 2029 Notes to be redeemed (with a copy to the Trustee) at least 30 and not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for redemption.  Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent.

 

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 2029 Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

2029 Notes subject to a partial redemption shall be selected for redemption pro rata , by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (provided that if the 2029 Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes, the 2029 Notes shall be selected for redemption by the Depositary in accordance with its standard procedures therefor) and may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of the 2029 Notes equal to an authorized denomination.

 

No 2029 Notes of $2,000 or less can be redeemed in part. 2029 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the 2029 Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed.

 

Section 3.2                                     Mandatory Redemption.

 

The Company is not required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

 

ARTICLE 4.
PARTICULAR COVENANTS

 

Section 4.1.                                  Offer to Purchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event

 

(a)                                  If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs with respect to a Series of Notes hereunder, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem all Notes of such Series in full pursuant to Section 3.1 or has defeased such Series of Notes or satisfied and discharged such Series of Notes, the Company shall be required to make an offer (an “ Offer to Purchase ”) to each Holder of such Series of Notes to purchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes of such Series pursuant to the offer set forth below. In an Offer to Purchase, the Company shall be required to offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase of such Notes (a “ Change of Control Purchase Price ”). Not later than 60 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event with

 

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respect to a Series of Notes, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered (or if the Notes of such Series are represented by one or more Global Notes, transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s standard procedures therefor) a notice to Holders of such Series of Notes describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to purchase such Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days after the date such notice is delivered or transmitted (a “ Expiration Date ”) and a settlement date for purchase (a “ Change of Control Purchase Date ”) for such Offer to Purchase of not more than five Business Days after the Expiration Date.  The notice shall also contain instructions and materials necessary to enable Holders to tender Notes pursuant  to the offer.  The notice shall, if delivered or transmitted prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Purchase Date.

 

(b)                                  Such notice shall also state:

 

(1)                                  that the Offer to Purchase is being made pursuant to this Section 4.1 and that all Notes of such Series or portion of such Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn will be accepted for payment;

 

(2)                                  the Change of Control Purchase Price and the Change of Control Purchase Date;

 

(3)                                  that any Note of such Series not tendered will continue to accrue interest;

 

(4)                                  that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer to Purchase shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Purchase Date unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price of the Notes of such Series and the only remaining right of the Holder is to receive payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price upon surrender of the Notes of such Series to the Paying Agent;

 

(5)                                  that Holders electing to have a portion of a Note of such Series purchased pursuant to an Offer to Purchase may only elect to have such Note purchased in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the unrepurchased portion of a Note must be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000;

 

(6)                                  that if a Holder elects to have a Note of such Series purchased pursuant to the Offer to Purchase such Holder will be required to surrender such Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of such Note completed, or transfer by book-entry transfer, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Purchase Date, or, in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures;

 

(7)                                  that a Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election if the Company receives, not later than the close of business on the Expiration Date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Notes such Holder delivered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Note purchased; and

 

(8)                                  that if Notes of such Series are purchased only in part by the Company, a new Note of the same Series and type will be issued in principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered.

 

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(c)            On the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

 

(1)            accept for payment all Notes of the applicable Series or portions of such Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Offer to Purchase;

 

(2)            deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price in respect of all Notes of the applicable Series or portions of such Notes properly tendered; and

 

(3)            deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes of the applicable Series properly accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of such Notes or portions of such Notes being repurchased.

 

(d)            On the Change of Control Purchase Date the Change of Control Purchase Price will become due and payable on each Note accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, and, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Purchase Price, interest on Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the Change of Control Purchase Date.

 

(e)            The Company shall not be required to make an Offer to Purchase upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to Notes of a particular Series if (i) a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party purchases all Notes of the applicable Series validly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer or (ii) the Company as sent a notice of redemption pursuant to Section 3.1 of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

(f)             The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such securities laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes of the applicable Series 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 provisions under this Section 4.1, the Company shall comply with such securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.1 or the Notes by virtue of any such conflict.

 

(g)            Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein this Section 4.1, an Offer to Purchase may be made in advance of a Change of Control Triggering Event, conditional upon the applicable Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making of such Offer to Purchase.

 

(h)            No Notes of $2,000 or less can be repurchased in part pursuant to this Section 4.1. Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be repurchased in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be repurchased.

 

(i)             If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes of a Series validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in an Offer to Purchase and the Company, or any third party approved in writing by the Company making an Offer to Purchase in lieu of the Company pursuant to Section 4.1(e) above, purchases all of the Notes of such Series validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party will have the right, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given not more than 30 days following such purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, to redeem (with respect to the Company) or purchase (with respect to a third party) all Notes of such Series that remain outstanding following such purchase on a date (the “ Second Change of Control Purchase Date ”) at a

 

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purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Second Change of Control Purchase Date.

 

Section 4.2.            Liens

 

(a)            The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, to create or incur any Lien, except Permitted Liens, on any Principal Property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or on any shares of Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in order to secure any Indebtedness, without effectively providing that the Notes of each Series then outstanding (together with, if the Company so determines, any other Indebtedness of the Company or a Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created ranking equally with the Notes) shall be substantially concurrently equally and ratably secured (or, at the Company’s option, secured prior thereto), until such time as such Indebtedness is no longer secured by such Lien.

 

(b)            Notwithstanding Section 4.2(a) above, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company may, without equally and ratably securing the Notes of each Series then outstanding, create or incur Liens which would otherwise be subject to the restrictions set forth in the preceding paragraph, if after giving effect thereto, Aggregate Debt does not exceed an amount equal to the greater of (a) $5.6 billion, and (b) 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company immediately preceding the date of the creation or incurrence of the Lien.  The Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company also may, without equally and ratably securing the Notes, create or incur Liens that extend, renew, substitute, reinstate or replace (including successive extensions, renewals, substitutions, reinstatements or replacements), in whole or in part, any Lien permitted pursuant to this or the preceding sentence and any Liens that secure any extension, renewal, replacement, reinstatement, refinancing or refunding (including any successive extensions, renewals, replacements, reinstatements, refinancings or refundings) of any Indebtedness at any time prior to or within 12 months after the maturity, retirement or other repayment or prepayment of the Indebtedness (including any such repayment pursuant to amortization obligations with respect to such Indebtedness) being extended, renewed, substituted, replaced, refinanced or refunded, which Indebtedness is or was secured by a Lien permitted pursuant to Section 4.2(a) above or this Section 4.2(b).

 

(c)            For purposes of this Section 4.2, (i) the creation of a Lien to secure Indebtedness which existed prior to the creation of such Lien will be deemed to involve Indebtedness in an amount equal to the lesser of (x) the fair value (as determined in good faith by a Senior Officer of the Company) of the asset subjected to such Lien and (y) the principal amount secured by such Lien, and (ii) in the event that a Lien meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Permitted Liens or Liens permitted by the preceding paragraph, the Company, in its sole discretion, will classify, and may reclassify, such Lien and only be required to include the amount and type of such Lien as a Permitted Lien or a Lien permitted by Section 4.2(b) above, and a Lien may be divided and classified and reclassified into more than one of such types of Liens.  In addition, for purposes of calculating compliance with the foregoing covenant, in no event will the amount of any Indebtedness or Liens securing any Indebtedness be required to be included more than once despite the fact more than one person is or becomes liable with respect to such Indebtedness and despite the fact such Indebtedness is secured by the assets of more than one person (for example, and for avoidance of doubt, in the case where there are Liens on assets of one or more of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries securing any Indebtedness, the amount of such Indebtedness secured shall only be included once for purposes of such calculations).

 

(d)            Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes of a Series pursuant to Section 4.2(a) above may provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Lien that gave rise to the obligation to secure the Notes of such Series.

 

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Section 4.3.            Sale and Lease Back Transactions

 

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, to enter into any Sale and Lease Back Transaction with respect to any Principal Property owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, unless:

 

(a)            such transaction was entered into prior to the Issue Date;

 

(b)            such transaction was for the sale and leasing back to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary by the Company or any Subsidiary of any Principal Property;

 

(c)            such transaction involves a lease of a Principal Property executed by the time of or within 24 months after the later of (i) the acquisition or the completion of any such development, operation, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of such property, assets or equipment or (ii) the placing into commercial operation of such Principal Property after the acquisition or completion of any such development, operation, construction, alteration, repair or improvement;

 

(d)            such transaction involves a lease for not more than three years (or which may be terminated by the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary within a period of not more than three years);

 

(e)            the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled to incur Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the property to be leased in an amount equal to Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Lease Back Transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes pursuant to Section 4.2(a) above; or

 

(f)             the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary applies an amount equal to the net proceeds from the sale of the Principal Property to the purchase of other Principal Property or to the retirement, repurchase or other repayment or prepayment of Indebtedness within 365 calendar days before or after the effective date of any such Sale and Lease Back Transaction; provided that in lieu of applying such amount to such retirement, repurchase, repayment or prepayment, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation, such Notes to be credited at the cost thereof to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into any Sale and Lease Back Transaction which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions if after giving effect thereto and at the time of determination, Aggregate Debt does not exceed an amount equal to the greater of (a) $5.6 billion, and (b) 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company immediately preceding the closing date of the Sale and Lease Back Transaction.

 

Section 4.4.            Covenants .

 

The covenants set forth in Sections 4.2 and 4.3 above are and are intended solely for the benefit of the 2024 Notes, the 2026 Notes and the 2029 Notes.

 

ARTICLE 5.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

 

Section 5.1.            Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

 

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The Company may satisfy and discharge any Series of the Notes hereunder in accordance with and subject to the terms of Section 8.1 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.2.            Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series

 

Section 8.3 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to each Series of the Notes.

 

Section 5.3.            Covenant Defeasance

 

In addition to the covenants specified in Section 8.4 of the Base Indenture, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Notes of a Series with any term, provision or condition set forth in Section 4.1, Section 4.2 and Section 4.3 of this Supplemental Indenture by complying with the requirements of Section 8.4 of the Base Indenture in respect of such Series.

 

ARTICLE 6.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 6.1.            Trust Indenture Act Controls.

 

If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Supplemental Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.

 

Section 6.2.            Governing Law .

 

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK .

 

Section 6.3.            Successors

 

All agreements of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.

 

Section 6.4.            Severability .

 

In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes 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 6.5.            Counterpart Originals

 

This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

Section 6.6.            Table of Contents, Headings, Etc .

 

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

 

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Section 6.7.            Waiver of Jury Trial

 

The Company, the Trustee and the Holders (by their acceptance of the Notes) each hereby irrevocably waive, 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 or thereby .

 

Section 6.8.            Interpretation

 

The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any person shall be construed to include such person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein,” “hereof’ and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Supplemental Indenture in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections and Exhibits shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits to, this Supplemental Indenture and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

 

Section 6.9.            Instruction by Electronic Transmissions

 

In addition to the foregoing, the Trustee agrees to accept and act upon notice, instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods. 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 6.10.          Miscellaneous

 

In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect 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.

 

None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or stockholders, as such, will have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under the Notes of a Series or the Indenture or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes of each Series.

 

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[Signatures on following page]

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Dated as of February 6, 2019

 

 

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ David A. Zinsner

 

Name:

David A. Zinsner

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Paula Oswald

 

Name:

Paula Oswald

 

Title:

Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]

 


 

EXHIBIT A

 

(Face of 2024 Note)

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2 OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2(a) OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.12 OF THE BASE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMPANY HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (“ DTC ”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

CUSIP:[          ]

ISIN:[          ]

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

4.640% Senior Note due 2024

 

No. [        ]

$             

(as revised by the Schedule of Increases and
Decreases in Global Note attached hereto)

 

Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[             ] (as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto) on February 6, 2024.

 

Interest Payment Dates:

February 6 and August 6

 

 

Record Dates:

January 22 and July 22

 

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Date:

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

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

 

Dated:

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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(Back of 2024 Note)

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

4.640% Senior Note due 2024

 

Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

 

1.             INTEREST . Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this 2024 Note at 4.640% per annum from the date hereof until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on February 6 and August 6 of each year, commencing August 6, 2019, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due, and no additional interest will accrue on the amount so payable for that period (each an “ Interest Payment Date ”). Interest on the 2024 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid or provided for, from February 6, 2019; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this 2024 Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest will accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue principal at the rate equal to the then applicable interest rate on the 2024 Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

2.             METHOD OF PAYMENT . The Company will pay interest on the 2024 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the persons who are registered Holders of 2024 Notes at the close of business on the January 22 or July 22 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such 2024 Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Base Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Principal and interest on the 2024 Notes will be made by (a) check mailed to the Holders of the 2024 Notes at their respective addresses set forth in the register of Holders of 2024 Notes or (b) with respect to a Holder with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the place and account designated in writing at least 15 days prior to the interest payment date by the person entitled to the payment as specified in the security register; provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to principal of and interest on all Global Securities and all other 2024 Notes the Holders of which will have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying Agent at least 15 calendar days prior to the applicable payment date. Such payment will be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

3.             PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR . Initially, U.S. Bank National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

 

4.             INDENTURE . This 2024 Note is one of a duly authenticated Series of securities of the Company issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as

 

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of February 6, 2019 between the Company and the Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019, between the Company and the Trustee (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”). The terms of the 2024 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the TIA. The 2024 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this 2024 Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will govern and be controlling, and to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of the Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling. The Company will be entitled to issue Additional 2024 Notes pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Supplemental Indenture.

 

5.             OPTIONAL REDEMPTION . The Notes are redeemable prior to the maturity date as provided in the Indenture.  In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes in an authorized denomination for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

6.             MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the 2024 Notes.

 

7.             OFFER TO PURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL . If a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the 2024 Notes occurs, the Company may be required to make an offer to purchase the 2024 Notes in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

8.             DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE . The 2024 Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 2024 Notes may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company or the Trustee may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or transfer any 2024 Note or portion of a 2024 Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any 2024 Note being redeemed in part. Also, neither the Trustee nor the Company need exchange or register the transfer of any 2024 Notes for a period of 15 days before the day of any selection of 2024 Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

 

9.             PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS . Subject to the record date provisions hereof, the registered Holder of a 2024 Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

 

10.          AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER . Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the 2024 Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the 2024 Notes then outstanding, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2024 Notes, and any existing default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the 2024 Notes, may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding 2024 Notes, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2024 Notes.  The Indenture or the 2024 Notes may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder of a 2024 Note as described in the Indenture.

 

11.          DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES . If an Event of Default with respect to the 2024 Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, the outstanding 2024 Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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12.          TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY . The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of the 2024 Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

13.          NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS . None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or stockholders, as such, will have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under the 2024 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a 2024 Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability.  This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the 2024 Notes.

 

14.          AUTHENTICATION . This 2024 Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

 

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

 

16.          CUSIP NUMBERS . The Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the 2024 Notes and the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the 2024 Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the 2024 Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture.

 

Requests may be made to:

 

Micron Technology, Inc.

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

Attention: General Counsel

 

S CHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The following increases or decreases in this Note have been made:

 

Date of decrease or
increase

 

Amount of decrease in
principal amount of
this Note

 

Amount of increase in
principal amount of this
Note

 

Principal amount of this
Note following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Security Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

 

(I) or (we) assign and transfer

 

this Note to:

 

 

(Insert assignee’s legal name)

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 

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

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this 2024 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box below:

 

o             Section 4.1

 

If you want to elect to have only part of the 2024 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased ($2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the unrepurchased portion of a 2024 Note must be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000): $

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

(Face of 2026 Note)

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2 OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2(a) OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.12 OF THE BASE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMPANY HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (“ DTC ”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

CUSIP:[       ]

ISIN:[       ]

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

4.975% Senior Note due 2026

 

No. [        ]

$             

(as revised by the Schedule of Increases and
Decreases in Global Note attached hereto)

 

Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[             ] (as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto) on February 6, 2026.

 

Interest Payment Dates:

February 6 and August 6

 

 

Record Dates:

January 22 and July 22

 

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Date:

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

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

 

Dated:

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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(Back of 2026 Note)

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

4.975% Senior Note due 2026

 

Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

 

1.             INTEREST . Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this 2026 Note at 4.975% per annum from the date hereof until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on February 6 and August 6 of each year, commencing August 6, 2019, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due, and no additional interest will accrue on the amount so payable for that period (each an “ Interest Payment Date ”). Interest on the 2026 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid or provided for, from February 6, 2019; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this 2026 Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest will accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue principal at the rate equal to the then applicable interest rate on the 2026 Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

2.             METHOD OF PAYMENT . The Company will pay interest on the 2026 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the persons who are registered Holders of 2026 Notes at the close of business on the January 22 or July 22 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such 2026 Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Base Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Principal and interest on the 2026 Notes will be made by (a) check mailed to the Holders of the 2026 Notes at their respective addresses set forth in the register of Holders of 2026 Notes or (b) with respect to a Holder with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the place and account designated in writing at least 15 days prior to the interest payment date by the person entitled to the payment as specified in the security register; provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to principal of and interest on all Global Securities and all other 2026 Notes the Holders of which will have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying Agent at least 15 calendar days prior to the applicable payment date. Such payment will be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

3.             PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR . Initially, U.S. Bank National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

 

4.             INDENTURE . This 2026 Note is one of a duly authenticated Series of securities of the Company issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as

 

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of February 6, 2019 between the Company and the Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019, between the Company and the Trustee (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”). The terms of the 2026 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the TIA. The 2026 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this 2026 Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will govern and be controlling, and to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of the Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling. The Company will be entitled to issue Additional 2026 Notes pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Supplemental Indenture.

 

5.             OPTIONAL REDEMPTION . The Notes are redeemable prior to the maturity date as provided in the Indenture.  In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes in an authorized denomination for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

6.             MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the 2026 Notes.

 

7.             OFFER TO PURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL . If a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the 2026 Notes occurs, the Company may be required to make an offer to purchase the 2026 Notes in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

8.             DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE . The 2026 Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 2026 Notes may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company or the Trustee may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or transfer any 2026 Note or portion of a 2026 Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any 2026 Note being redeemed in part. Also, neither the Trustee nor the Company need exchange or register the transfer of any 2026 Notes for a period of 15 days before the day of any selection of 2026 Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

 

9.             PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS . Subject to the record date provisions hereof, the registered Holder of a 2026 Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

 

10.          AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER . Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the 2026 Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the 2026 Notes then outstanding, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2026 Notes, and any existing default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the 2026 Notes, may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding 2026 Notes, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2026 Notes.  The Indenture or the 2026 Notes may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder of a 2026 Note as described in the Indenture.

 

11.          DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES . If an Event of Default with respect to the 2026 Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, the outstanding 2026 Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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12.          TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY . The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of the 2026 Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

13.          NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS . None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or stockholders, as such, will have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under the 2026 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a 2026 Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability.  This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the 2026 Notes.

 

14.          AUTHENTICATION . This 2026 Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

 

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

 

16.          CUSIP NUMBERS . The Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the 2026 Notes and the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the 2026 Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the 2026 Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture.

 

Requests may be made to:

 

Micron Technology, Inc.

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

Attention: General Counsel

 

S CHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The following increases or decreases in this Note have been made:

 

Date of decrease or
increase

 

Amount of decrease in
principal amount of
this Note

 

Amount of increase in
principal amount of this
Note

 

Principal amount of this
Note following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Security Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

 

(I) or (we) assign and transfer

 

this Note to:

 

 

(Insert assignee’s legal name)

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

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

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this 2026 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box below:

 

o             Section 4.1

 

If you want to elect to have only part of the 2026 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased ($2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the unrepurchased portion of a 2026 Note must be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000): $

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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EXHIBIT C

 

(Face of 2029 Note)

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2 OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2(a) OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.12 OF THE BASE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMPANY HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.

 

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (“ DTC ”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

CUSIP:[       ]

ISIN:[       ]

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

5.327% Senior Note due 2029

 

No. [        ]

$             

(as revised by the Schedule of Increases and
Decreases in Global Note attached hereto)

 

Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[             ] (as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto) on February 6, 2029.

 

Interest Payment Dates:

February 6 and August 6

 

 

Record Dates:

January 22 and July 22

 

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Date:

 

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

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

 

Dated:

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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(Back of 2029 Note)

 

MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.

5.327% Senior Note due 2029

 

Capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

 

1.             INTEREST . Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this 2029 Note at 5.327% per annum from the date hereof until maturity. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on February 6 and August 6 of each year, commencing August 6, 2019, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due, and no additional interest will accrue on the amount so payable for that period (each an “ Interest Payment Date ”). Interest on the 2029 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid or provided for, from February 6, 2019; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment of interest, and if this 2029 Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest will accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date. The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue principal at the rate equal to the then applicable interest rate on the 2029 Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law to the extent allowable) on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

2.             METHOD OF PAYMENT . The Company will pay interest on the 2029 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the persons who are registered Holders of 2029 Notes at the close of business on the January 22 or July 22 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such 2029 Notes are canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.13 of the Base Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Principal and interest on the 2029 Notes will be made by (a) check mailed to the Holders of the 2029 Notes at their respective addresses set forth in the register of Holders of 2029 Notes or (b) with respect to a Holder with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the place and account designated in writing at least 15 days prior to the interest payment date by the person entitled to the payment as specified in the security register; provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to principal of and interest on all Global Securities and all other 2029 Notes the Holders of which will have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying Agent at least 15 calendar days prior to the applicable payment date. Such payment will be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

3.             PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR . Initially, U.S. Bank National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

 

4.             INDENTURE . This 2029 Note is one of a duly authenticated Series of securities of the Company issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as of February 6, 2019 between the Company and the Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019, between the Company and the Trustee (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”). The terms of the 2029 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the TIA. The 2029 Notes

 

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are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this 2029 Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will govern and be controlling, and to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of the Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of the Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling. The Company will be entitled to issue Additional 2029 Notes pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Supplemental Indenture.

 

5.             OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. The Notes are redeemable prior to the maturity date as provided in the Indenture.  In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes in an authorized denomination for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

6.             MANDATORY REDEMPTION. The Company is not required to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the 2029 Notes.

 

7.             OFFER TO PURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL . If a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the 2029 Notes occurs, the Company may be required to make an offer to purchase the 2029 Notes in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

8.             DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE . The 2029 Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. 2029 Notes may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the Company or the Trustee may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or transfer any 2029 Note or portion of a 2029 Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any 2029 Note being redeemed in part. Also, neither the Trustee nor the Company need exchange or register the transfer of any 2029 Notes for a period of 15 days before the day of any selection of 2029 Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

 

9.             PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS . Subject to the record date provisions hereof, the registered Holder of a 2029 Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

 

10.          AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER . Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the 2029 Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the 2029 Notes then outstanding, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2029 Notes, and any existing default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the 2029 Notes, may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding 2029 Notes, including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the 2029 Notes. The Indenture or the 2029 Notes may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder of a 2029 Note as described in the Indenture.

 

11.          DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES . If an Event of Default with respect to the 2029 Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, the outstanding 2029 Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

12.          TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY . The Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of the 2029 Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

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13.          NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS . None of the Company’s past, present or future directors, officers, employees or stockholders, as such, will have any liability for any of the Company’s obligations under the 2029 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, or in respect or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  By accepting a 2029 Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability.  This waiver and release is part of the consideration for the issue of the 2029 Notes.

 

14.          AUTHENTICATION . This 2029 Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.

 

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

 

16.          CUSIP NUMBERS . The Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the 2029 Notes and the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the 2029 Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the 2029 Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture.

 

Requests may be made to:

 

Micron Technology, Inc.

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

Attention: General Counsel

 

S CHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

 

The following increases or decreases in this Note have been made:

 

Date of decrease or
increase

 

Amount of decrease in
principal amount of
this Note

 

Amount of increase in
principal amount of this
Note

 

Principal amount of this
Note following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Security Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

 

(I) or (we) assign and transfer

 

this Note to:

 

 

(Insert assignee’s legal name)

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

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

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

If you want to elect to have this 2029 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the box below:

 

o       Section 4.1

 

If you want to elect to have only part of the 2029 Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Supplemental Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased ($2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that the unrepurchased portion of a 2029 Note must be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000): $                         

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Signature:

 

 

 

(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

Tax Identification No:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“ STAMP ”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

February 6, 2019

 

Micron Technology, Inc.

8000 South Federal Way

Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

 

Re:           Registration Statement on Form S-3

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as special counsel to Micron Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 10, 2017 of a registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), that is automatically effective under the Act pursuant to Rule 462(e) promulgated thereunder. The Registration Statement relates to, among other things, the proposed issuance and sale, from time to time, by the Company of debt securities (the “Debt Securities”), with an indeterminate amount as may at various times be issued at indeterminate prices, in reliance on Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r) under the Act.

 

Pursuant to the Registration Statement, the Company has issued $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes”)  and $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes” and, together with the 2024 Notes and the 2026 Notes, the “Notes”), all of which have been sold pursuant to that certain Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), dated as of February 4, 2019, among the Company, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule I thereto.

 

Each series of Notes has been issued in the form set forth in the Indenture, dated as of February 6, 2019 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) as supplemented by that certain First Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 6, 2019 (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.

 

We have examined the Registration Statement, together with the exhibits thereto and the documents incorporated by reference therein; the prospectus, dated October 10, 2017, together with the documents incorporated by reference therein, filed with the Registration Statement (the “Prospectus”); the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated February 4, 2019, in the form filed with the Commission

 


 

pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act relating to the offering of the Notes; the free writing prospectus, dated February 4, 2019, in the form filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the Securities Act; the final prospectus supplement, dated February 4, 2019 in the form filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act relating to the offering of the Notes (collectively with the Prospectus, the “Prospectus Supplement”); the Indenture and the Notes. In addition, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion.

 

In our examination, we have assumed: (i) the authenticity of original documents and the genuineness of all signatures; (ii) the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies; (iii) the truth, accuracy and completeness of the information, representations and warranties contained in the instruments, documents, certificates and records we have reviewed; (iv) the Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized and validly executed and delivered by the parties thereto (other than by the Company); (v) the legal capacity of all natural persons and (vi) that the Trustee has the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform its obligations under the Indenture and that the Indenture will be a valid and binding obligation on the Trustee. As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein that were not independently established or verified, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company.

 

We express no opinion herein as to the laws of any jurisdiction, other than the Federal laws of the United States of America, the laws of the State of New York, and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as such are in effect on the date hereof, and we have made no inquiry into, and we express no opinion as to, the statutes, regulations, treaties, common laws or other laws of any other nation, state or jurisdiction.

 

We express no opinion as to (i) the effect of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, (ii) rights to indemnification and contribution which may be limited by applicable law or equitable principles, or (iii) the effect of general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, the effect of judicial discretion and the possible unavailability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable relief, and the limitations on rights of acceleration, whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

Based on such examination and in reliance thereon and having regard for legal considerations which we deem relevant, and subject to the limitations and qualifications set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes have been validly issued and constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, and entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the above-referenced Registration Statement and to the use of our name wherever it appears in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement, and in any amendment or supplement thereto. In giving such consent, we do not believe that we are “experts” within the meaning of such term as used in the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission issued thereunder with respect to any part of the Registration Statement, including this opinion as an exhibit or otherwise.

 

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

/s/ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

 

 

 

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI Professional Corporation

 

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