As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 11, 2007

Registration Nos. 333-135919    333-135919-01    333-135919-03
   333-135919-02    333-135919-04

 


UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

MELLON FUNDING CORPORATION   MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of each registrant as specified in its articles of incorporation)

 

Pennsylvania   Pennsylvania
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
25-1387025   25-1233834
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

MELLON CAPITAL III   MELLON CAPITAL IV   MELLON CAPITAL V
(Exact name of each registrant as specified in its certificate of trust)

 

Delaware   Delaware   Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation

or organization)

 

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation

or organization)

 

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

20-0101293   20-0101356   20-0101391
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

One Mellon Center

500 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258

(412) 234-5000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of each registrant’s principal executive offices)

 


Carl Krasik, Esq.

General Counsel and Secretary

Mellon Financial Corporation

One Mellon Center

500 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258

(412) 234-5222

(Name and address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service of process for each registrant)

With a copy to:

 

Robert K. Morris, Esq.

Reed Smith LLP

2500 One Liberty Place, 1650 Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-7301

(215) 851-8176

 

Mark J. Welshimer, Esq.

Sullivan & Cromwell

125 Broad Street

New York, New York 10004

(212) 558-4000

 


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement as determined by market conditions.

 


If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.   ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.   þ

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.   ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   þ

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.   ¨

 


 

 



Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.  

Description

1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement.*
3.1   Restated Articles of Incorporation of Mellon Financial Corporation, as amended and restated as of September 17, 1998, and as amended October 18, 1999.**
3.2   By-laws of Mellon Financial Corporation, as amended effective October 19, 1999.**
4.1   The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock is included in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 15, 1996, as updated by Form 8-A/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 1999 and October 19, 1999.**
4.2   Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement dated as of October 15, 1996, between Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent, and as amended and restated as of October 19, 1999.**
4.3   Indenture dated as of May 2, 1988 (the “Senior Indenture”) among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.**
4.4   First Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 29, 1990 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.**
4.5   Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 12, 2000 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.**
4.6   Subordinated Indenture dated as of June 12, 2000 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A. as Trustee.**
4.7   First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 30, 2001 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.**
4.8   Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 5, 2004 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A.**
4.9   Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of December 3, 1996 between Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Debenture Trustee.**
  4.10   Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture between Mellon Funding Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.**
  4.11   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital III, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on December 3, 1996.**
  4.12   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital IV, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 8, 2003.**
  4.13   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital V, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 8, 2003.**
  4.14   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital III among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.**
  4.15   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.**
  4.16   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital V among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.**
  4.17   Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.**
  4.18   Form of Preferred Security Certificate for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V.**
  4.19   Form of Guarantee Agreement for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V between Mellon Financial Corporation, as guarantor, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Guarantee Trustee.**
  4.20   Form of Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, including form of Security Certificate.*

 

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4.21    Form of Stock Purchase Unit Agreement, including form of Unit Certificate.*
4.22    Form of Pledge Agreement.*
4.23    Form of Warrant Agreement.*
4.24    Alternate Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture between Mellon Funding Corporation and J.P.Morgan Chase Bank.**
4.25    Form of Supplemental Indenture for Remarketable Junior Subordinated Debentures between Mellon Financial Corporation and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company.***
4.26    Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for Mellon Capital IV among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein and the several Holders of the Trust Securities 3.***
4.27    Form of Guarantee Agreement relating to Mellon Capital IV between Mellon Financial Corporation, as guarantor, and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee.***
4.28    Forms of Capital PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV, Normal PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV and Stripped PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV (included as Exhibit A, Exhibit C and Exhibit D of Exhibit 4.26 herein).***
4.29    Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital IV, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on June 11, 2007.***
5.1    Opinion of Carl Krasik counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation, as to the validity of the Debt Securities, Guarantees on Debt Securities, the Preferred Stock, the Common Stock, the Warrants, the Depositary Shares, the Stock Purchase Contracts, the Stock Purchase Units, the Junior Subordinated Debentures and the Trust Preferred Securities Guarantees to be issued by Mellon Financial Corporation or Mellon Funding Corporation.**
5.2    Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital III, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital III.*
5.3    Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital IV, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital IV.*
5.4    Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital V, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital V.*
12.1    Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges (Parent corporation).**
12.2    Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges (Mellon Financial Corporation).**
23.1    Consent of KPMG LLP.***
23.2    Consent of Carl Krasik (included in Exhibit 5.1).**
23.3    Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included in Exhibits 5.2 and 5.4).*
23.4    Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included in Exhibit 5.3).*
24.1    Powers of Attorney.**
25.1    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Senior Indenture.**
25.2    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Union Bank of California, National Association to act as trustee under the Subordinated Indenture. **
25.3    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Junior Subordinated Indenture and Guarantee Agreements. **
25.4    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Junior Subordinated Indenture with Mellon Funding Corporation. **
25.5    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Guarantees of the Junior Subordinated Debentures of Mellon Funding Corporation and Guarantees of Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V. **
25.6    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital III.**
25.7    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV.**
25.8    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital V.**
25.9    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Supplemental Indenture for Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes.***
25.10    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV for Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV.***
25.11    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Guarantee Agreement for Mellon Capital IV for Guarantees of Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV.***

 

* To be filed by amendment or as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K incorporated by reference into the registration statement.

 

** Previously filed.

 

*** Filed herewith.

 

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SIGNATURES

MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Pittsburgh, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on June 11, 2007.

 

MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Robert P. Kelly
  Robert P. Kelly
  Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of June 11, 2007.

 

Signature

 

Title

By:   /s/ Robert P. Kelly     Director and Principal Executive Officer
  Robert P. Kelly    

 

By:   /s/ Michael A. Bryson     Principal Financial Officer
  Michael A. Bryson    

 

By:   /s/ Michael K. Hughey     Principal Accounting Officer
  Michael K. Hughey    

 

By: Ruth E. Bruch; Paul L. Cejas;

Jared L. Cohon; Steven G. Elliott;

Ira J. Gumberg; Edmund F. Kelly;

Seward Prosser Mellon;Mark A. Nordenberg;

David S. Shapira; William E. Strickland, Jr.;

John P. Surma; and Wesley W. Von Schack

   
    Directors

 

By:   /s/ Carl Krasik
  Carl Krasik
  (Attorney-in-Fact)

 

By:   /s/ Robert Mehrabian     Director
  Robert Mehrabian    

 

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SIGNATURES

MELLON FUNDING CORPORATION

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Mellon Funding Corporation certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Pittsburgh, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 11, 2007.

 

MELLON FUNDING CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Michael A. Bryson
  Michael A. Bryson
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of June 11, 2007.

 

Title

      

Signature

By:   /s/ Michael A. Bryson      Director and Principal Executive Officer
  Michael A. Bryson       
By:   /s/ Michael K. Hughey      Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
  Michael K. Hughey       
By:   /s/ Steven G. Elliott      Director
  Steven G. Elliott       

 

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SIGNATURE

MELLON CAPITAL III

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Mellon Capital III certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Pittsburgh, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 11, 2007.

 

MELLON CAPITAL III
By:   Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor
By:   /s/ Robert P. Kelly
  Robert P. Kelly

 

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SIGNATURE

MELLON CAPITAL IV

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Mellon Capital IV certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Pittsburgh, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 11, 2007.

 

MELLON CAPITAL IV
By:   Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor
By:   /s/ Robert P. Kelly
  Robert P. Kelly

 

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SIGNATURE

MELLON CAPITAL V

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Mellon Capital V certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Pittsburgh, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on June 11, 2007.

 

MELLON CAPITAL V
By:   Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor
By:   /s/ Robert P. Kelly
  Robert P. Kelly

 

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Exhibit No.  

Description

 

Method of Filing

1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement.   To be filed by amendment or as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference.
3.1   Restated Articles of Incorporation of Mellon Financial Corporation, as amended and restated as of September 17, 1998, and as amended October 18, 1999.   Previously filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File No. 1-7410) for the quarter ended September 30, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference. *
3.2   By-laws of Mellon Financial Corporation, as amended effective October 19, 1999.   Previously filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (File No. 1-7410) for the quarter ended September 30, 1999, and incorporated herein by reference. *
4.1   The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock is included in the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 15, 1996, as updated by Form 8-A/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 1999 and October 19, 1999.   Previously filed on Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 1-7410) dated October 15, 1996, as updated by Form 8-A/A dated May 17, 1999 and October 19, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference. *
4.2   Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement dated as of October 15, 1996, between Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent, and as amended and restated as of October 19, 1999.   Previously filed as Exhibit 1 to Form 8-A/A Registration Statement (File No. 1-7410) dated October 19, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference. *
4.3   Indenture dated as of May 2, 1988 (the “Senior Indenture”) among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 33-55226) and incorporated herein by reference. *
4.4   First Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 29, 1990 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit 4.2 to Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 33-55226) and incorporated herein by reference. *


Exhibit No.  

Description

  Method of Filing
4.5   Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 12, 2000 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.5 to Current Report on
Form 8-K (File No. 1-
7410) dated June 20, 2000
and incorporated herein
by reference. *
4.6   Subordinated Indenture dated as of June 12, 2000 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A. as Trustee.   Previously field as Exhibit
4.7 to Current Report on
Form 8-K (File No. 1-
7410) dated July 21, 2000
and incorporated herein
by reference. *
4.7   First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 30, 2001 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.8 to Current Report on
Form 8-K (File No. 1-
7410) dated April 30,
2001 and incorporated
herein by reference. *
4.8   Second supplemental Indenture dated as of March 5, 2004 among Mellon Funding Corporation, Mellon Financial Corporation and Union Bank of California, National Association, as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, N.A. formerly known as Bank One Trust Company, N.A.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.26 to Current Report on
Form 8-K (File No. 1-
7410) dated March 5,
2004 and incorporated
herein by reference. *
4.9   Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of December 3, 1996 between Mellon Financial Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank as Debenture Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.1 to Current Report on
Form 8-K (File No. 1-
7410) dated December 3,
1996 and incorporated
herein by reference. *
4.10   Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture between Mellon Funding Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.9 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.11   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital III, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on December 3, 1996.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.6 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-17993) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.12   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital IV, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 8, 2003.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.11 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *


Exhibit No.  

Description

  Method of Filing
4.13   Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital V, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 8, 2003.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.12 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.14   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital III among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.7 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-17993) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.15   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.14 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.16   Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital V among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.15 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.17   Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.16 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.18   Form of Preferred Security Certificate for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.17 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.19   Form of Guarantee Agreement for each of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V between Mellon Financial Corporation, as guarantor, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Guarantee Trustee.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.18 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.20   Form of Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, including form of Security Certificate.   To be filed by amendment
or as an exhibit to a
Current Report on Form
8-K and incorporated by
reference.


Exhibit No.  

Description

  Method of Filing
4.21   Form of Stock Purchase Unit Agreement, including form of Unit Certificate.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
4.22   Form of Pledge Agreement.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
4.23   Form of Warrant Agreement.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
4.24   Alternate Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture between Mellon Funding Corporation and J.P.Morgan Chase Bank.   Previously filed as Exhibit
4.23 to Registration
Statement on Form S-3
(No. 333-107400) and
incorporated herein by
reference. *
4.25   Form of Supplemental Indenture for Remarketable Junior Subordinated Debentures between Mellon Financial Corporation and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company.   Filed herewith.
4.26   Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for Mellon Capital IV among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein and the several Holders of the Trust Securities 3.   Filed herewith.
4.27   Form of Guarantee Agreement relating to Mellon Capital IV between Mellon Financial Corporation, as guarantor, and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee.   Filed herewith.
4.28   Forms of Capital PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV, Normal PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV and Stripped PCS Certificate of Mellon Capital IV (included as Exhibit A, Exhibit C and Exhibit D of Exhibit 4.26 herein).   Filed herewith.
4.29   Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital IV, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on June 11, 2007.   Filed herewith.
5.1   Opinion of Carl Krasik counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation, as to the validity of the Debt Securities, Guarantees of Debt Securities, the Preferred Stock, the Common Stock, the Warrants, the Depositary Shares, the Stock Purchase Contracts, the Stock Purchase Units and Trust Preferred Securities Guarantees to be issued by Mellon Financial Corporation or Mellon Funding Corporation.   *
5.2   Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital III, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital III.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
5.3   Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital IV, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital IV.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.


Exhibit No.  

Description

  Method of Filing
5.4   Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, special Delaware counsel to Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Capital V, as to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities to be issued by Mellon Capital V.   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
12.1   Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges, Mellon Financial Corporation (Parent corporation).   *
12.2   Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed charges, Mellon Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries.   *
23.1   Consent of KPMG LLP.   Filed herewith.
23.2   Consent of Carl Krasik (included in Exhibit 5.1).   *
23.3   Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included in Exhibits 5.2 and 5.4).   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
23.4   Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included in Exhibit 5.3).   To be filed by amendment or
as an exhibit to a Current
Report on Form 8-K and
incorporated by reference.
24.1   Powers of Attorney.   *
25.1   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Senior Indenture.   *
25.2   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Union Bank of California, National Association to act as trustee under the Subordinated Indenture.   *
25.3   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Junior Subordinated Indenture and Guarantee Agreements.   *
25.4   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Junior Subordinated Indenture with Mellon Funding Corporation.   *
25.5   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Guarantees of the Junior Subordinated Debentures of Mellon Funding Corporation and Guarantees of Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital III, Mellon Capital IV and Mellon Capital V.   *
25.6   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital III.   *
25.7   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV.   *
25.8   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Agreement of Mellon Capital V.   *
25.9   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Supplemental Indenture for Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes.   Filed herewith.
25.10   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Mellon Capital IV for Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV.   Filed herewith.


Exhibit No.  

Description

  Method of Filing
25.11   Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to act as trustee under the Guarantee Agreement for Mellon Capital IV for Guarantees of Trust Prefferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV.   Filed herewith.

 

* Previously filed.

Exhibit 4.25

 


F ORM OF S UPPLEMENTAL I NDENTURE

among

MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION

THE BANK OF NEW YORK

(as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank)

as Original Trustee

and

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

as Series Trustee

Dated as of June •, 2007

Supplement to Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of December 3, 1996

 



T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I
Definitions

Section 1.1

   Definitions    2

ARTICLE II

Appointment of and Acceptance by Series Trustee

Section 2.1

   Appointment of Series Trustee    7

Section 2.2

   Acceptance of Appointment    7

ARTICLE III

Amendment of Section 3.5 of Indenture

Section 3.1

   Amendment of Section 3.5    8

ARTICLE IV

General Terms and Conditions of the Notes

Section 4.1

   Designation, Principal Amount and Authorized Denomination    8

Section 4.2

   Maturity    8

Section 4.3

   Form and Payment    8

Section 4.4

   Notes Held by Collateral Agent and Custodial Agent; Global Notes; Adjustment of Global Notes    9

Section 4.5

   Interest    10

Section 4.6

   Redemption of the Notes    11

Section 4.7

   Events of Default    11

Section 4.8

   Securities Registrar; Paying Agent; Delegation of Trustee Duties    12

Section 4.9

   Amendment; Supplemental Indenture    12
ARTICLE V
Remarketing and Rate Reset Procedures

Section 5.1

   Obligation to Conduct Remarketing and Related Requirements    13

Section 5.2

   Company Decisions in Connection with Remarketing    13

Section 5.3

   Reset of Interest Rate in Connection with Remarketings and Related Changes in Terms    14

Section 5.4

   Early Remarketing    16

Section 5.5

   Company Announcements    16

Section 5.6

   Supplemental Indenture    17

 

    
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ARTICLE VI

Expenses

Section 6.1

   Expenses    17

ARTICLE VII

Form of Note

Section 7.1

   Form of Notes    18

ARTICLE VIII

Original Issue of Notes

Section 8.1

   Original Issue of Notes    25

Section 8.2

   Calculation of Original Issue Discount    25

ARTICLE IX

Subordination

Section 9.1

   Subordinated    25

Section 9.2

   Company Election to End Subordination    26

Section 9.3

   Compliance with Federal Reserve Rules    26

Section 9.4

   Extension of Rights, Privileges, etc.    26

ARTICLE X

Miscellaneous

Section 10.1

   Effectiveness    26

Section 10.2

   Successors and Assigns    27

Section 10.3

   Further Assurances    27

Section 10.4

   Effect of Recitals    27

Section 10.5

   Ratification of Indenture    27

Section 10.6

   Governing Law    27

 

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This S UPPLEMENTAL I NDENTURE , dated as of June •, 2007, between M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION (formerly known as “Mellon Bank Corporation”), a Pennsylvania corporation (the “ Company ”), having its principal office at One Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258, and M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY , a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Series Trustee ”), having its principal office at · , and T HE B ANK OF N EW Y ORK (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), as Original Trustee (the “ Original Trustee ”).

R ECITALS OF THE C OMPANY

The Company and the Original Trustee are parties to that certain Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of December 3, 1996, as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 19, 2006, among the Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., as original trustee, and U.S. Bank National Association, as series trustee (as so supplemented, the “ Indenture ”).

Section 9.1(8) of the Indenture provides that the Indenture may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment by a Series Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series under the Indenture.

Section 9.1(6) of the Indenture provides that the Indenture may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of the Indenture, provided that any such addition, change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision.

Section 9.1(3) of the Indenture provides that the Indenture may be amended or supplemented without the consent of any Holder to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as provided by Sections 2.1 and 3.1 of the Indenture.

The Company has delivered to the Series Trustee and the Original Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Section 9.3 of the Indenture to the effect that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture have been complied with.

Mellon Capital IV, a Delaware statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), has offered to the public its trust preferred securities known as •% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal Preferred Capital Securities (the “ Normal PCS ”), which are beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust, and proposes to invest the proceeds from such offering, together with the proceeds of the issuance and sale by the Issuer Trust to the Company of its Common Securities (the “ Trust Common Securities ” and together with the Normal PCS, the Stripped PCS and the Capital PCS, each as defined in the Trust Agreement referred to herein, the “ Trust Securities ”), in the Notes (as defined herein).

The Notes will be subject to Remarketing, in connection with which certain terms of the Notes may be changed, all in accordance with the procedures to be set forth in a Remarketing Agreement, to be entered into prior to the first Remarketing (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the “ Remarketing Agreement ”), among the Company, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as property trustee of the Issuer Trust, and the remarketing agent named in the Remarketing Agreement (including any successor or replacement, the “ Remarketing Agent ”).

 

    
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The Company has requested that the Original Trustee enter into this Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of appointing the Series Trustee with all the rights, privileges, powers, trusts and duties of the Original Trustee with respect to, and only with respect to, the Company’s Remarketable •% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2043 to be established hereby.

The Company has requested that the Series Trustee and the Original Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture and has satisfied (or caused to be satisfied) all requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Series Trustee, the valid obligations of the Company and all acts and things necessary have been done and performed to make this Supplemental Indenture enforceable in accordance with its terms, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized in all respects.

N OW , THEREFORE , THIS S UPPLEMENTAL I NDENTURE WITNESSETH : For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:

ARTICLE I

D EFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions.

For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) Terms defined in the Indenture, the Trust Agreement or the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise specified herein.

(b) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular.

(c) The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision, and any reference to an Article, Section or other subdivision refers to an Article, Section or other subdivision of this Supplemental Indenture.

Capital Treatment Event ” means the reasonable determination by the Company that, as a result of:

(a) the occurrence of any amendment to, or change, including any announced prospective change, in the laws or regulations of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein or any rules, guidelines or policies of the Federal Reserve, or

(b) any official or administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or applying United States laws or regulations, that is effective or is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Normal PCS,

there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the liquidation amount of the Normal PCS at any time prior to the Stock Purchase Date as Tier 1 capital under the risk-based capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve.

 

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Creditor ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.1(b).

Early Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.

Early Settlement Event ” means the occurrence of: (i) the Company’s “total risk-based capital ratio” is less than 10%, (ii) the Company’s “Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio” is less than 6%, (iii) the Company’s “leverage capital ratio” is less than 4%; (iv) the Federal Reserve, in its discretion, anticipates that the Company may fail one or more of the capital tests referred to above in the near term and delivers a notice to the Company so stating; or (v) the Issuer Trust is dissolved pursuant to Section 9.2(c) of the Trust Agreement, where the related Early Settlement Event in the case of the tests described in each of (i), (ii) and (iii) above will be deemed to occur on the date the Company files a Form FR Y-9 showing in Schedule HC-R (or successor form) that the related capital measure has been failed and each such ratio will be determined as required pursuant to Appendix A to Regulation Y of the Federal Reserve Board, 12 C.F.R. Part 225.

Early Termination Event ” means the dissolution of the Issuer Trust and the distribution of the Notes held by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust to the holders of the Trust Securities in accordance with Section 9.4 of the Trust Agreement.

Failed Remarketing ” means a Final Remarketing that is not Successful.

Final Remarketing ” means (i) a Remarketing for a settlement date on May 21, 2013 (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately succeeding Business Day), (ii) in the case of an Early Remarketing, the fifth scheduled Remarketing or (iii) in the case of an Early Remarketing in connection with clause (v) of the definition of Early Settlement Event, the first Remarketing.

Fixed Rate Reset Cap ”, as of any Remarketing Settlement Date, means the prevailing market yield, as determined by the Remarketing Agent, of the benchmark U.S. treasury security having a remaining maturity that most closely corresponds to the period from such date until the earliest date on which the Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company in the event of a Successful Remarketing, plus • basis points, or • %, per annum .

Floating Rate Reset Cap ” means • basis points, or • %, per annum .

Global Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.4.

Guarantee Agreement ” means the Guarantee Agreement between the Company, as Guarantor and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee named thereunder, dated as of June •, 2007.

Interest Payment Date ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 7.1.

Interest Period ” means the period from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly made available for payment (or June •, 2007 if no interest has been paid or been duly made available for payment) to, but excluding, the next succeeding Interest Payment Date or, if earlier, then the Stated Maturity Date of the Notes.

Investment Company Event ” means the Company’s receipt of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a written change, including any announced prospective change, in interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative

 

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body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Issuer Trust is or will be considered an investment company that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act at any time prior to the Stock Purchase Date, and this change becomes effective or would become effective on or after the date hereof (or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of trust preferred securities, that the issuer of such trust preferred securities is or will be considered an investment company that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act and this change becomes effective or would become effective on or after the Remarketing Settlement Date).

Make-Whole Amount ” means the sum of the present values of the principal amount of the Notes and each interest payment thereon that would have been payable to and including the Relevant Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted from the Relevant Date or the applicable interest payment date to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus •%.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1.

Paying Agent ”, when used with respect to the Notes, means The Bank of New York or any other Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

Paying Agent Office ” means the office of the applicable Paying Agent at which at any particular time its corporate agency business shall principally be administered in a Place of Payment, which office at the date hereof in the case of The Bank of New York, in its capacity as Paying Agent with respect to the Notes under the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, is located at 101 Barclay Street, 8W, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit.

PCS ” means each of the Normal PCS, the Stripped PCS and the Capital PCS.

Preferred Stock ” means the Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series L, $100,000 liquidation preference per share, of the Company.

qualified floating rate ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.3(a)(iii).

Rating Agency ” means any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act that currently publishes a rating for the Company.

Rating Agency Event ” means any Rating Agency amends, clarifies or changes the criteria it uses to assign equity credit to securities such as the PCS, which amendment, clarification or change results in:

(a) the shortening of the length of time prior to the Stock Purchase Date that the PCS are assigned a particular level of equity credit by that Rating Agency as compared to the length of time they would have been assigned that level of equity credit by that Rating Agency or its predecessor on the date hereof; or

(b) the lowering of the equity credit (including up to a lesser amount) assigned to the PCS prior to the Stock Purchase Date by that Rating Agency as compared to the equity credit assigned by that Rating Agency or its predecessor on the date hereof.

Released Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.4(d).

 

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Relevant Date ” means June 20, 2012 in the case of any redemption prior to such date, June 20, 2013 in the case of any redemption on or after June 20, 2012 and prior to June 20, 2013 if the Stock Purchase Date shall not have occurred on or prior to June 20, 2012, and otherwise June 20, 2016.

Remarketed Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.4(c).

Remarketing ” means a remarketing of Notes pursuant to ARTICLE V and the Remarketing Agreement.

Remarketing Disruption Event ” means there shall have occurred an event that, if not disclosed in the offering document for the Remarketing, could cause such offering document to contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and either (i) in the Company’s judgment, such event is not required by law to be disclosed at such time and its disclosure might have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, or (ii) the disclosure of such event relates to a previously undisclosed proposed or pending material business transaction, the disclosure of which would impede the Company’s ability to consummate such transaction.

Remarketing Period ” means the five Business Day Period beginning on the seventh Business Day preceding each of May 21, 2012, August 21, 2012, November 20, 2012, February 18, 2013 and May 21, 2013 (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business Day) until the settlement of a Successful Remarketing or, if an Early Settlement Event shall have occurred, each of the periods determined in accordance with Section 5.4.

Remarketing Settlement Date ” means the February 18, May 21, August 21 or November 20 following a Successful Remarketing (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business Day).

Remarketing Value ” means with respect to each Note, the present value on the Remarketing Settlement Date of an amount equal to the principal amount of such Note, plus the interest payable on such Note on the next Regular Distribution Date, including any deferred interest, assuming for this purpose, even if not true, that the interest rate on the Notes remains at the rate in effect immediately prior to the Remarketing and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes is paid in cash on such date, determined using a discount rate of •% per annum .

Reset Rate ” means, if the Notes are remarked as fixed rate notes, the rate of interest on the Notes, if any, set in a Remarketing, as specified in Section 5.3(a).

Reset Spread ” means, if the Notes are remarked as floating rate notes, the spread, if any, set in a Remarketing, as specified in Section 5.3(a).

Responsible Officer ” means, when used with respect to The Bank of New York in its capacity as Paying Agent with respect to the Notes, any officer within the Corporate Trust Division—Corporate Trust Unit (or any successor department, unit or division of The Bank of New York) assigned to the Paying Agent Office of The Bank of New York, in its capacity as Paying Agent, who has direct responsibility for the administration of the Paying Agent functions of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture.

Securities Registrar Office ” means the office of the applicable Securities Registrar at which at any particular time its corporate agency business shall principally be administered, which office at the date hereof in the case of The Bank of New York, in its capacity as Securities Registrar under the Indenture, is located at 101 Barclay Street, 8W, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Division—Corporate Finance Unit.

 

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Stated Maturity Date ” means June 20, 2043 or such earlier date as may be specified by the Company following a Remarketing in accordance with ARTICLE V.

Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ” means the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, between the Company and the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee).

Subjected Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.4(e).

Successful ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.5(a).

Supplemental Indenture ” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may form time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.

Tax Event ” means the Company has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, as a result of:

(a) an amendment to or change (including any announced prospective change) in the laws or regulations of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States that is enacted or becomes effective after the date hereof;

(b) a proposed change in those laws or regulations that is announced after the date hereof;

(c) an official administrative decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying those laws or regulations that is announced after the date hereof; or

(d) a threatened challenge asserted in connection with an audit of the Trust, the Company or the Company’s subsidiaries, or a threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the Notes or the PCS;

there is more than an insubstantial increase in risk that:

(i) the Issuer Trust (or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of trust preferred securities, the trust issuing such securities) is, or will be, subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income received or accrued on the Notes;

(ii) interest payable by the Company on the Notes is not, or will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes; or

(iii) the Issuer Trust (or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of trust preferred securities, the trust issuing such securities) is, or will be, subject to more than an insignificant amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges at any time it is the holder of the Notes.

 

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Treasury Dealer ” means Goldman, Sachs & Co. (or its successor) or, if Goldman, Sachs & Co. (or its successor) refuses to act as treasury dealer for this purpose or ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer specified by the Company for these purposes.

Treasury Price ” means the bid-side price for the Treasury Security as of the third trading day preceding the Redemption Date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Wall Street Journal, except that: (i) if that release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain that price information on that trading day; or (ii) if the Treasury Dealer determines that the price information is not reasonably reflective of the actual bid-side price of the Treasury Security prevailing at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on that trading day, then Treasury Price will instead mean the bid-side price for the Treasury Security at or around 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on that trading day (expressed on a next trading day settlement basis) as determined by the Treasury Dealer through such alternative means as the Treasury Dealer considers to be appropriate under the circumstances.

Treasury Rate ” means the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Treasury Security that corresponds to the Treasury Price (calculated in accordance with standard market practice and computed as of the second trading day immediately preceding the Redemption Date).

Treasury Security ” means the United States Treasury security that the Treasury Dealer determines would be appropriate to use, at the time of determination and in accordance with standard market practice, in pricing the Notes being redeemed in a tender offer based on a spread to United States Treasury yields.

Trust Agreement ” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, among the Company, as Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (each as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities.

Unsuccessful ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.5(b).

Underwriting Agreement ” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated June •, 2007, among the Issuer Trust, the Company, and the underwriters named therein.

ARTICLE II

A PPOINTMENT OF AND A CCEPTANCE BY S ERIES T RUSTEE

Section 2.1 Appointment of Series Trustee.

Pursuant to Section 3.1(t) of the Indenture, the Company hereby appoints the Series Trustee as a Trustee under the Indenture with respect to, and only with respect to, the Notes. Pursuant to Section 6.15 of the Indenture, the Company vests all the rights, privileges, powers, trusts and duties of a Trustee under the Indenture to the Series Trustee with respect to the Notes and there shall continue to be vested in the Original Trustee all of its rights, powers, trusts and duties as a Trustee under the Indenture with respect to all of the series of Securities to which it has served and continues to serve as a Trustee under the Indenture.

Section 2.2 Acceptance of Appointment.

The Series Trustee hereby represents that it is qualified and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.9 of the Indenture and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, to accept its appointment as a Trustee with respect to the Notes under the Indenture and hereby accepts the appointment

 

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as such Trustee. The parties hereto agree that the Series Trustee’s execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture to the other parties hereto constitutes an instrument accepting such appointment within the meaning of Section 6.15 of the Indenture, as amended hereby. For purposes of the Notes, as used in the Indenture, the term “ Corporate Trust Office ” shall mean the Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee located at 25 South Charles Street-16th floor; Mail Code: MD2-CS58, Baltimore, MD 21201.

ARTICLE III

A MENDMENT OF S ECTION  3.5 OF I NDENTURE

Section 3.1 Amendment of Section 3.5.

The last sentence of the first paragraph of Section 3.5 of the Indenture is hereby amended to read as follows:

“Except as may be set forth in any indenture supplemental hereto with respect to any series of Securities, the Trustee is hereby appointed “Securities Registrar” for the purposes of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.”

ARTICLE IV

G ENERAL T ERMS AND C ONDITIONS OF THE N OTES

Section 4.1 Designation, Principal Amount and Authorized Denomination.

There is hereby authorized a series of Securities designated the Remarketable •% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2043 (the “ Notes ”), limited in aggregate principal amount to $500,100,000, which amount to be issued shall be as set forth in any Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes pursuant to the Indenture. The denominations in which Notes shall be issuable is $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.

Section 4.2 Maturity.

The Stated Maturity of the Notes will be June 20, 2043, subject to change as provided in ARTICLE V.

Section 4.3 Form and Payment.

Except as provided in Section 4.4, the Notes shall be issued in fully registered definitive form without interest coupons. Principal of and interest on the Notes issued in definitive form will be payable, the transfer of such Notes will be registrable and such Notes will be exchangeable for Notes bearing identical terms and provisions and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and the Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, may be served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee, and the Company appoints the Series Trustee as its agent for the foregoing purposes; provided that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Holder at such address as shall appear in the Securities Register or by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the bank account number of the Holder specified in writing by the Holder and entered in the Securities Register by the Securities Registrar. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Holder of any Note is the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent, the payment of the principal of and interest (including expenses and taxes of the Issuer Trust set forth in Section 6.1, if any) on such Notes held by the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent will be made at the Paying Agent Office or such place and to such account as may be designated in writing by the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent, as the case may be. The Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange at the Securities Registrar Office.

 

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Section 4.4 Notes Held by Collateral Agent and Custodial Agent; Global Notes; Adjustment of Global Notes.

(a) The Notes shall be issued initially in fully registered form in the name of the Securities Intermediary and the Custodial Agent, in their respective capacities as such. For so long as such Notes are held by the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent, each such Note shall represent the principal amount so indicated in the Securities Register, provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such Notes shall at all times equal the principal amount issued in accordance with Section 4.1.

(b) At any time on or after the first to occur of the Remarketing Settlement Date, an Early Termination Event or the redemption of the Capital PCS by the Issuer Trust in exchange for Notes, the Notes in definitive form may be presented to the Securities Registrar for exchange for one or more global Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes so presented (a “ Global Note ”), to be registered in the name of the Depositary, or its nominee, and delivered to the Depositary for crediting to the accounts of its participants pursuant to the instructions of the Administrative Trustees; provided, however, that any Notes subject to a Remarketing in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities shall, upon a Remarketing Settlement Event, be transferred to the Property Trustee. The Company upon any such presentation shall execute one or more Global Notes in such aggregate principal amount and deliver the same to the Series Trustee for authentication and delivery in accordance with the Indenture. The Series Trustee, upon receipt of such Global Notes, together with an Officers’ Certificate and an order to the Trustee requesting authentication, will authenticate such Global Notes and deliver them to the Securities Registrar, as custodian for the Depositary. Payments on the Notes issued as Global Notes will be made to the Depositary.

(c) In the event that (i) any Pledged Notes for which no election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.02(a) of the Collateral Agreement are to be released from the Pledge and transferred to the Remarketing Agent (or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities pursuant to Section 5.2, the property trustee of the New Trust) pursuant to Section 8.02(b) of the Collateral Agreement or (ii) any Pledged Notes for which an election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.03(a) of the Collateral Agreement are to be delivered to the Remarketing Agent (or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities pursuant to Section 5.2, the property trustee of the New Trust) pursuant to Section 8.03(b) of the Collateral Agreement (collectively, the “ Remarketed Notes ”), such transfers shall be evidenced by an endorsement by the Securities Registrar on the Notes held by the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent, respectively, reflecting a reduction in the principal amount of such Notes equal in amount to the principal amount of the Remarketed Notes. The Securities Registrar shall confirm any such reduced principal amount by faxing or otherwise delivering a photocopy of such endorsement made on the Notes evidencing such reduced or increased principal amount to the Series Trustee at the facsimile number or address of the Property Trustee provided for notices to the Property Trustee in the Collateral Agreement (or at such other facsimile number or address as the Series Trustee shall provide to the Securities Registrar). Upon receipt of such confirmation, the Series Trustee shall instruct the Securities Registrar to increase the principal amount of a Global Note in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Remarketed Notes by an endorsement made by the Securities Registrar on such Global Note to reflect such increase.

(d) In the event that any Pledged Note is to be released from the Pledge and transferred to the Custodial Account pursuant to Section 6.02(a) of the Collateral Agreement (a “ Released Note ”), as a result of the exchange of Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PCS and Capital

 

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PCS as provided in Section 6.02(a) of the Collateral Agreement, such transfer shall be evidenced by an endorsement by the Collateral Agent or the Securities Registrar on the Note held by the Collateral Agent reflecting a reduction in the principal amount of such Note equal in amount to the principal amount of the Released Note. The Collateral Agent shall confirm any such reduced principal amount by faxing or otherwise delivering a photocopy of such endorsement made on the Note evidencing such reduced principal amount to the Series Trustee at the facsimile number or address of the Series Trustee provided for notices to the Property Trustee in the Collateral Agreement (or at such other facsimile number or address as the Property Trustee shall provide to the Collateral Agent). Upon receipt of such confirmation, the Series Trustee shall instruct the Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar to increase the principal amount of the Note held by the Custodial Agent in an amount equal to the reduced principal amount by an endorsement made by the Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar on such Note to reflect such increase.

(e) In the event that a Note is transferred to the Collateral Account pursuant to Section 6.03(b)(i) of the Collateral Agreement (a “ Subjected Note ”) in connection with the exchange of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities as provided in Section 6.03 of the Collateral Agreement, such transfer shall be evidenced by an endorsement by the Collateral Agent or the Securities Registrar on the Note held by the Collateral Agent reflecting an increase in the principal amount of such Note equal in amount to the principal amount of such Subjected Note. The Collateral Agent shall confirm any such increased principal amount by faxing or otherwise delivering a photocopy of such endorsement made on the Note evidencing such increased principal amount to the Series Trustee at the facsimile number or address of the Series Trustee provided for notices to the Series Trustee in the Collateral Agreement (or at such other facsimile number or address as the Trustee shall provide to the Collateral Agent). Upon receipt of such confirmation, the Series Trustee shall instruct the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar to decrease the principal amount of the Note held by the Custodial Agent in an amount equal to the increased principal amount by an endorsement made by the Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar on such Note to reflect such decrease.

Section 4.5 Interest.

(a) Each Note will bear interest as provided in the form of Notes set forth in Section 7.1.

(b) The Company shall have the right to (and shall, if so directed by the Federal Reserve) defer the payment of interest on the Notes, as provided in Section 3.11 of the Indenture, for one or more Extension Periods extending to not later than 14 consecutive Interest Payment Dates (or the equivalent if interest periods are not at the time semi-annual) after the commencement of such Extension Period. The Series Trustee shall give notice of the Company’s election to begin or extend any Extension Period to the Holders of the Outstanding Notes in the form of a notice thereof as shall have been prepared by the Company and furnished to the Series Trustee. The restrictions on the Company’s rights to declare or pay dividends or distribution on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to any shares of its capital stock, to make payments on Parity Securities and on any of its debt securities that rank junior to the Notes or guarantees that rank junior to the Guarantee set forth in Section 3.11 or 10.7 of the Indenture shall be subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 7.1.

(c) If on the Stock Purchase Date the Company has not paid in cash all interest accrued on the Notes and there is a Failed Remarketing, the Company will pay the Issuer Trust such deferred interest on the Stock Purchase Date in subordinated notes that have a principal amount equal to the aggregate amount of deferred interest as of the Stock Purchase Date, mature on the later of June 20, 2016 and five years after commencement of the related Extension Period, bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest originally in effect on the Notes (subject to deferral on the same basis as the Notes) are

 

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subordinate and rank junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to the Company’s obligations to the holders of Senior Debt of the Company on the same basis as the Notes and are redeemable by the Company at any time or from time to time prior to their stated maturity at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof plus any accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption; provided that the Company shall register such subordinated notes under the Securities Act prior to the delivery thereof to the Property Trustee unless they may be so delivered pursuant to an exemption from registration thereunder.

Section 4.6 Redemption of the Notes.

(a) The Notes shall not be subject to the right of redemption specified in Section 11.7 of the Indenture.

(b) The Company may from time to time redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at any date on or after June 20, 2016, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, including deferred interest (if any), to the date of redemption, in accordance with Article XI of the Indenture; provided that the Company may not redeem the Notes in part if the principal amount has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded or unless all accrued and unpaid interest has been paid in full on all outstanding Notes for all Interest Periods terminating on or before the Redemption Date. In connection with a Remarketing, the Company may change the date after which it may redeem Notes to a later date or change the redemption price in accordance with ARTICLE V.

(c) Prior to the Stock Purchase Date, the Company may redeem all, but not less than all, of the Notes upon the occurrence of a Capital Treatment Event, Investment Company Event, Rating Agency Event or Tax Event. After the Stock Purchase Date and prior to June 20, 2016, the Company may also redeem all, but not less than all of the Notes upon the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or Tax Event. The redemption price for the Notes redeemed pursuant to this Section 4.6(c) will be 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through the date of redemption, in the case of any redemption in connection with a Capital Treatment Event or Investment Company Event, and the greater of 100% of the principal amount Notes to be redeemed and the applicable Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through the date of redemption, in the case of any redemption in connection with a Rating Agency Event or Tax Event.

(d) The Notes are not entitled to any sinking fund payments.

Section 4.7 Events of Default.

(a) Clauses (1) through (3) of Section 5.1 of the Indenture shall not apply to the Notes. The following events are hereby designated as Events of Default with respect to the Notes pursuant to clause (6) of Section 5.1 of the Indenture:

(i) a default in the payment of interest, including Additional Interest, in full on any Notes for a period of 30 days after deferral for 14 consecutive semi-annual Interest Periods (or the equivalent thereof);

(ii) termination of the Issuer Trust at any time it is holding the Notes, unless the Trust Preferred Securities are redeemed and the Notes are distributed to holders of Capital PCS and, if such termination occurs prior to the Stock Purchase Date or, if earlier, the Remarketing Settlement Date, the holders of the Normal PCS; and

 

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(iii) receivership of a major subsidiary depository institution of the Company within the meaning of the Federal Reserve’s risk-based capital guidelines applicable to bank holding companies.

(b) For the avoidance of doubt, and without prejudice to any other remedies that may be available to the Series Trustee, the Holders of the Notes or the holders of the Preferred Securities under the Indenture, no breach by the Company of any other covenant or obligation under the Indenture or the terms of the Notes shall be an Event of Default with respect to the Notes.

(c) So long as any Notes are held by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Series Trustee shall provide to the holders of the Normal PCS, Trust Common Securities and Capital PCS such notices as it shall from time to time provide under Section 6.2 of the Indenture. In addition, the Series Trustee shall provide to the holders of the Normal PCS, Trust Common Securities and Capital PCS notice of any Event of Default or event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to the Notes within 30 days after the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Series Trustee of such Event of Default or other event.

Section 4.8 Securities Registrar; Paying Agent; Delegation of Trustee Duties.

(a) The Company appoints The Bank of New York, as Securities Registrar and Paying Agent with respect to the Notes for so long as it shall act as Collateral Agent and Custodial Agent and is the Holder of the Notes in any of such capacities.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision contained herein, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Series Trustee may delegate its duty to provide such notices and to perform such other duties as may be required to be provided or performed by the Series Trustee under the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, and, to the extent such obligation has been so delegated, the Series Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance of, nor be liable for the default or misconduct of, any such designee.

(c) For purposes of the Notes, Section 13.12 of the Indenture is amended by adding the following clause at the end thereof:

provided, however, that no Paying Agent (other than the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent) shall be liable to any such holder if it shall pay over or distribute to or on behalf of Holders of Securities or the Company or any other Person moneys or assets to which any holder of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise shall be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt. No Paying Agent shall be deemed to have received any Officers’ Certificate or notice required pursuant to or referred to in this Article (whether or not actually received) until the second Business Day after any such notice shall have been delivered to a Responsible Office of such Paying Agent at the Paying Agent Office of such Paying Agent, as such Responsible Office and Paying Agent Office shall be specified with respect to such series in accordance with Section 3.1; and furthermore, Section 6.1 (as referred to in Section 13.10 and 13.11) and Section 13.8 are not applicable to any Paying Agent.”

Section 4.9 Amendment; Supplemental Indenture

(a) Clauses (2) and (5) of Section 9.1 of the Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.

(b) Solely for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, Section 9.1 of the Indenture is hereby amended to add the following subsection (10):

 

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(10) to add to or change any terms of the Indenture or the Notes to conform the terms of this Indenture or the Notes to the description of the Notes in the Prospectus (as defined in the Trust Agreement).

ARTICLE V

R EMARKETING AND R ATE R ESET P ROCEDURES

Section 5.1 Obligation to Conduct Remarketing and Related Requirements.

(a) The Company and the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall appoint the Remarketing Agent and enter into a Remarketing Agreement prior to the first Remarketing to effect the Remarketing of the Notes upon the terms, conditions and other provisions provided therein and in the Trust Agreement and the Collateral Agreement.

(b) The Remarketing Agreement shall provide that the Company and the Remarketing Agent agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to effect the Remarketing of the Notes (including, at the Company’s election, the Remarketing of the Notes in the form of trust preferred securities) as described in this ARTICLE V, and in connection therewith, the Remarketing Agent will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a price for all the Remarketed Notes that results in proceeds, net of any remarketing fee, of at least 100% of their aggregate Remarketing Value. If in the judgment of counsel to the Company or the Remarketing Agent it is necessary for a registration statement covering the Notes to have been filed and have become effective under the Securities Act in order to effect the Remarketing, then the Company shall (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that a registration statement covering the full principal amount of Notes to be remarketed shall have become effective in a form that will enable the Remarketing Agent to rely on it in connection with the Remarketing or (ii) effect such Remarketing pursuant to Rule 144A (if available) under the Securities Act or another available exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act.

(c) On any day other than the last day of a Remarketing Period, the Company shall have the right, in its absolute discretion and without prior notice to the Holders, to postpone the Remarketing until the following Business Day.

(d) If a Remarketing Disruption Event has occurred and is continuing as of the last day of a Remarketing Period for a proposed Remarketing Settlement Date in May 2012, August 2012, November 2012, or February 2013 and no Early Settlement Event has occurred, the Company may elect not to attempt a Remarketing on that day. The consequence of that election will be that the Remarketing for the related Remarketing Period will not be Successful and the Company will be obligated to use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the Remarketing Period in the next succeeding May, August, November or February, as applicable.

Section 5.2 Company Decisions in Connection with Remarketing.

In connection with Remarketings, the Company shall have the right hereunder, subject to Section 5.3(a), without the consent of any Holder of the Notes, to change certain terms of the Notes as provided below in this Section 5.2. By not later than the 21 st day prior to the first day of each Remarketing Period, the Company will specify the following information or decisions in a notice to the Remarketing Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) and the Series Trustee (clauses (a) through (f) applying only if the Remarketing is Successful and clause (g) applying only in the case of a Failed Remarketing):

 

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(a) whether the Stated Maturity Date will remain at June 20, 2043 or will be changed to an earlier date (specifying such date if applicable); provided that the Stated Maturity Date may not be changed to a date earlier than the earlier of (i) June 20, 2016 and (ii) if the Remarketing Settlement Date occurs during an Extension Period, the seventh anniversary of the first day of such Extension Period;

(b) whether to change the date after which the Notes will be redeemable at the Company’s option and the redemption price or prices; provided that no redemption date for the Notes may be earlier than the earlier of (i) June 20, 2016 and (ii) if the Remarketing Settlement Date occurs during an Extension Period, the seventh anniversary of the first day of such Extension Period; provided, further, that no redemption price may be less than the principal plus accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest) on the Notes;

(c) whether, in connection with an Early Remarketing that is not the first scheduled Remarketing, the Company is exercising its right under Section 9.2 to cause the subordination provisions in the Indenture to cease to apply to the Notes, if the Remarketing is Successful, from and after the Remarketing Settlement Date and if so, whether it also elects that the Notes shall no longer be subject to the interest deferral provisions of Section 3.11 of the Indenture;

(d) whether the Notes will be remarketed in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities;

(e) whether the Notes will be remarketed as fixed rate notes or floating rate notes;

(f) if the Notes will be remarketed as floating rate notes, the applicable index (which must be a qualified floating rate) and the interest payment dates and manner of calculation of interest on the Notes, which the Company may change to correspond with the market conventions applicable to notes bearing interest at rates based on the applicable index; and

(g) whether following a Failed Remarketing:

(i) the Stated Maturity Date will remain at June 20, 2043 or will be changed to an earlier date, which date shall not be earlier than June 20, 2016 (specifying such date if applicable); and

(ii) the date after which the Notes will be redeemable at the Company’s option will be changed (which date shall not be earlier than June 20, 2016) and the redemption price or prices;

provided that if the Failed Remarketing occurs during an Extension Period any changed Stated Maturity Date of the Notes determined pursuant to clause (i) or early redemption date determined pursuant to clause (ii) may not be earlier than the seventh anniversary of the first day of such Extension Period.

Any such elections made by the Company pursuant to clauses (a) through (f) shall, upon successful completion of a Remarketing, automatically apply and come into effect in respect of the Notes as of the Remarketing Settlement Date and any such elections made by the Company pursuant to clause (g) in connection with a Failed Remarketing shall come into effect in respect of the Notes upon the announcement by the Company that the Final Remarketing is a Failed Remarketing.

Section 5.3 Reset of Interest Rate in Connection with Remarketings and Related Changes in Terms.

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Remarketing Agreement and in accordance with the other provisions of this ARTICLE V, that will apply to all Notes (whether or not sold in the Remarketing) if such Remarketing is Successful for each Interest Period or portion thereof commencing on or after such Remarketing Settlement Date, subject to the following provisions and limitations:

(i) in connection with a Remarketing that is not a Final Remarketing, (A) if the Notes are remarketed as fixed rate notes, the Reset Rate may not exceed the Fixed Rate Reset Cap and (B) if the Notes are remarketed as floating rate notes, the Reset Spread may not exceed the Floating Rate Reset Cap;

(ii) the interest rate on the Notes may not at any time be less than 0% per annum; and

(iii) if (A) the interest rate on the Notes is not a fixed rate or a “qualified floating rate” (as defined in U.S. Treasury regulations section 1.1275-5(b)), (B) interest on the Notes is not unconditionally payable at intervals of no more than one year through the remaining term of the Notes, or (C) the redemption price of the Notes is not their principal amount (disregarding a customary call premium that is fixed or objectively determinable based on a qualified floating rate), then the Company shall have received a written opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP or other nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the discussion contained in the Prospectus under the heading “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” is materially correct, taking into account all of the terms of the Notes following the Remarketing.

(b) If the Remarketing has been determined to be Successful in accordance with Section 5.5(a), by approximately 4:30 P.M., New York City time, on the date of such Successful Remarketing, the Remarketing Agent shall notify the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) and the Series Trustee that the Remarketing was Successful and the Reset Rate or Reset Spread determined as part of such Remarketing in accordance with this ARTICLE V.

(c) If a Remarketing is Successful, then commencing with the related Remarketing Settlement Date the interest rate on the Notes shall be reset to the rate, determined in accordance with this ARTICLE V pursuant to such Remarketing and the other changes, if any, in the terms of the Notes as notified by the Company pursuant to Section 5.2, shall become effective in accordance with this ARTICLE V.

(d) If a Remarketing other than the Final Remarketing is not Successful:

(i) no Notes will be sold in such Remarketing;

(ii) the interest rate will remain unchanged unless and until it is reset pursuant to a subsequent Remarketing in accordance with this ARTICLE V;

(iii) the other changes, if any, in the terms of the Notes, as notified by the Company pursuant to Section 5.2, shall not become effective; and

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(e) Upon the occurrence of a Failed Remarketing:

(i) no Notes will be sold in such Remarketing and no further attempts at Remarketing shall be made;

(ii) the interest rate will remain unchanged and the Notes will continue to bear interest at the interest rate otherwise in effect, payable on the dates set forth in the Notes, subject to Section 4.5(b);

(iii) the other changes, if any, in the terms of the Notes as notified by the Company pursuant to clauses (a) through (f) of the second sentence of Section 5.2, shall not become effective;

(iv) the Stated Maturity Date and early redemption date for the Notes will change in accordance with clause (g) of the second sentence of Section 5.2, as applicable;

(v) in the case of Notes corresponding to Normal PCS and Trust Common Securities, such Notes will be applied in satisfaction of the Issuer Trust’s obligations under Stock Purchase Contracts in accordance with the Collateral Agreement; and

(vi) in the case of Notes corresponding to Capital PCS, such Notes will be returned to the Custodial Agent in accordance with the Collateral Agreement.

Section 5.4 Early Remarketing.

If an Early Settlement Event occurs prior to the Stock Purchase Date, the Remarketing Periods shall be the five Business Day periods commencing on the seventh Business Day prior to the next Remarketing Settlement Date that is at least 30 days after the occurrence of such Early Settlement Event, and concluding with the earlier to occur of the fifth such date and a Successful Remarketing; provided that in the case of an Early Settlement Event of the type described in clause (v) of the definition of such term, there shall be only one Remarketing Period and the Reset Rate or Reset Spread shall not be subject to the Fixed Rate Reset Cap or Floating Rate Reset Cap, as the case may be, and if the Remarketing conducted on such date is not Successful, it shall be a Failed Remarketing and the Stock Purchase Date shall be the next succeeding March 20, June 20, September 20 or December 20 (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day).

Section 5.5 Company Announcements.

(a) If by 4:00 P.M., New York City time, on any Business Day during a Remarketing Period the Remarketing Agent has found buyers for all of the Notes offered in the Remarketing in accordance with this ARTICLE V, a “Successful” Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred. In the event of a Successful Remarketing, the Company shall issue a press release through Bloomberg Business News or other reasonable means of distribution stating that such Remarketing was Successful and specifying the Reset Rate or Reset Spread and shall post such information on its website on the World Wide Web.

(b) If, by 4:00 P.M., New York City time, on the last day of any Remarketing Period the Remarketing Agent is unable to find buyers for all of the Notes offered in such Remarketing, including any Remarketing that would qualify as a Final Remarketing, in accordance with this ARTICLE V, an “Unsuccessful” Remarketing shall be deemed to have occurred. In the event of an Unsuccessful Remarketing, the Company shall issue a press release through Bloomberg Business News or other reasonable means of distribution stating that such Remarketing was an Unsuccessful Remarketing, and publish such information on its website on the World Wide Web.

 

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(c) If on any Business Day during a Remarketing Period other than the last day thereof the Company has determined to postpone the Remarketing until the next Business Day, the Company shall issue a press release through Bloomberg Business News or other reasonable means of distribution stating that such Remarketing has been postponed and shall post such information on its website on the World Wide Web.

Section 5.6 Supplemental Indenture.

Notwithstanding any provision of the Indenture to the contrary, the Company and the Series Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture without the consent of any Holder of the Notes to reflect any modifications to the terms of the Notes pursuant to the terms of this ARTICLE V and to provide for the exchange of the Notes for Notes in the form reflecting such modifications and adopted pursuant to such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE VI

E XPENSES

Section 6.1 Expenses.

In connection with the offering, sale and issuance of the Notes to the Issuer Trust on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in connection with the sale of the Trust Securities by the Issuer Trust, the Company, in its capacity as borrower with respect to the Notes, shall:

(a) pay all costs and expenses relating to the offering, sale and issuance of the Notes, including commissions to the underwriters payable pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and compensation of the Series Trustee under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture; and

(b) be responsible for and shall pay all debts and obligations (except for any amounts owed to Holders of the PCS in their respective capacities as Holders) and all costs and expenses of the Issuer Trust (including, but not limited to, costs and expenses relating to the organization, maintenance and dissolution of the Issuer Trust), the offering, sale and issuance of the Trust Securities (including commissions to the underwriters in connection therewith), the fees and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) of the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees, the Securities Registrar, and the Paying Agent, the costs and expenses relating to the operation of the Issuer Trust, including, without limitation, costs and expenses of accountants, attorneys, statistical or bookkeeping services, expenses for printing and engraving and computing or accounting equipment, paying agent(s), registrar(s), transfer agent(s), duplicating, travel and telephone and other telecommunications expenses and costs and expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition, financing, and disposition of Issuer Trust assets and the enforcement by the Property Trustee of the rights of the Holders of the Notes.

The Company’s obligations under this Section 6.1 shall be for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, any person to whom such debts, obligations and costs are owed (a “ Creditor ”) whether or not such Creditor has received notice hereof. Any such Creditor may enforce the Company’s obligations under this Section 6.1 directly against the Company and the Company irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Creditor take any action against the Issuer Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Company. The Company agrees to execute such additional agreements as may be necessary or desirable in order to give full effect to the provisions of this Section 6.1.

 

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ARTICLE VII

F ORM OF N OTE

Section 7.1 Form of Notes.

The Notes are to be substantially in the following form and shall bear any legend required by Section 2.4 of the Indenture:

 

No.                 Principal Amount: $             
Issue Date:                 CUSIP No.:             

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION

R EMARKETABLE •% J UNIOR S UBORDINATED N OTE D UE 2043

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION , a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Pennsylvania (hereinafter called the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to              , or registered assigns, the principal sum of              Dollars on June 20, 2043 or such earlier date as may be specified by the Company following a Remarketing (such date is hereinafter referred to as the “ Stated Maturity Date ”). The Company further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from June •, 2007, or from the most recent interest payment date (each such date, an “ Interest Payment Date ”) on which interest has been paid or duly provided for (subject to deferral as set forth herein), semi-annually in arrears on June 20 and December 20 of each year, commencing December 20, 2007, and on the Stock Purchase Date in the event of a Failed Remarketing if not otherwise an Interest Payment Date, at the rate of •% per annum (or after the Remarketing Settlement Date at such rate per annum as may be established in the Remarketing), until the principal hereof shall have become due and payable, plus Additional Interest, if any, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made available for payment. The amount of interest payable for any period less than a full Interest Period shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. In the event that any date on which interest is payable on this Note is not a Business Day, then a payment of the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable. A “ Business Day ” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in New York, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Wilmington, Delaware, are permitted or required by any applicable law to close. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment, which shall be the date that is the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which such Interest Payment Date falls (whether or not a Business Day). Any such interest installment not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

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If the principal amount hereof or any portion of such principal amount is not paid when due (whether upon acceleration, upon the date set for payment of the Redemption Price or upon the Stated Maturity Date) or if interest due hereon (or any portion of such interest), is not paid when due, then in each such case the overdue amount shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear interest at the rate then borne by this Note for the applicable Interest Period, compounded at the end of such Interest Period, which interest shall accrue from the date such overdue amount was originally due to the date payment of such amount, including interest thereon, has been made or duly provided for. All such interest shall be payable as set forth in the Indenture.

The Company shall have the right at any time during the term of this Note to defer payment of interest on this Note, at any time or from time to time, for up to 14 consecutive semi-annual Interest Periods (or the equivalent thereof, if the Interest Periods are not then semi-annual) with respect to each deferral period (each, an “ Extension Period ”), during which Extension Periods the Company shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date, and at the end of which the Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid (together with Additional Interest thereon to the extent permitted by applicable law); provided that no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Note; provided, further , that during any such Extension Period, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company’s capital stock, (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt security of the Company that ranks or make any payments under any guarantee that ranks, upon liquidation, pari passu in all respects with the Note (including this Note, “ Parity Securities ”) or any debt security of the Company that ranks junior to the Note or (iii) make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Company that by their terms rank junior in interest to this Note (other than (a) any repurchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares of the Company’s capital stock in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or independent contractors, (2) the satisfaction of the Company’s obligations pursuant to any contract entered into in the ordinary course prior to the beginning of the Extension Period, (3) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder purchase plan, or (4) the issuance of the Company’s capital stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock, as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period; (b) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or the capital stock of one of its subsidiaries, for any other class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of its capital stock; (c) any purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the securities being converted or exchanged; (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto; (e) payments under any the Guarantee Agreement; (f) payments of interest on Parity Securities (including the Notes) in additional Parity Securities (including any Additional Subordinated Notes) and any repurchase of Parity Securities (including the Notes) in exchange for preferred stock (including the Preferred Stock), in each case in connection with a Failed Remarketing or similar event; (g) any payment of current or deferred interest on Parity Securities that is made pro rata to the amounts due on such Parity Securities (including the Notes) and any payments of principal of or deferred interest on Parity Securities that, if not made, would cause the Company to breach the terms of the instrument governing such Parity Securities; or (h) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other

 

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rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks equally with or junior to such stock). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend the interest payment period, provided that no Extension Period shall exceed 14 consecutive semi-annual Interest Periods or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Note. Upon the termination of any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest then due, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements. Subject to the last sentence of this paragraph, no interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period except at the end thereof. The Company shall give the Trustee and the Paying Agent notice of its election to begin or extend any Extension Period at least ten Business Days prior to the date on which interest on the Notes would be payable but for the election to begin or extend such Extension Period. The Trustee or its designee shall give notice of the Company’s election to begin or extend any Extension Period to the Holders of the Notes to the Administrative Trustees and to the holders of the Capital PCS, and if such election is made prior to the Stock Purchase Date or, if earlier, the Remarketing Settlement Date, to the holders of the Normal PCS. If an Extension Period is in effect on the Stock Purchase Date and there is a Failed Remarketing, then the Company will pay the Holder the deferred interest on the Stock Purchase Date in subordinated notes (“ Additional Subordinated Notes ”) that (i) have a principal amount equal to the aggregate amount of deferred interest as of the Stock Purchase Date, (ii) mature on the later of June 20, 2016 and five years after the commencement of such Extension Period, (iii) bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate of interest originally in effect on the Notes, (iv) are subordinate and rank junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to all of the Company’s senior debt on the same basis as the Notes and (v) are redeemable by the Company at any time prior to their stated maturity and the restrictions set forth in the first sentence of this paragraph shall remain in effect until the Company has paid in full all amounts outstanding under such notes.

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, 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; provided that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities Register in writing not less than 10 days before the date of the interest payment.

The indebtedness evidenced by this Note is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and this Note is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto; provided that the Company may elect in connection with an Early Remarketing that is not the first scheduled Remarketing (as described on the reverse hereof) at any time effective on or after the Remarketing Settlement Date, that the indebtedness evidenced by this Note shall cease to be subordinate and junior in right of payments to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt. Each Holder of this Note, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his acceptance hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

 

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION
By:      
 

CHAIRMAN, VICE CHAIRMAN,

PRESIDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT

Attest:                     

SECRETARY OR ASSISTANT SECRETARY

C ERTIFICATE OF A UTHENTICATION

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

Dated:

 

M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY ,

as Trustee

By:      
  Authorized Officer

 

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(FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE)

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Notes ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of December 3, 1996 (herein called the “ Base Indenture ”), between the Company and The Chase Manhattan Bank (the “ Original Trustee ”), as amended and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “ Supplemental Indenture ,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, The Bank of New York (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), as original trustee, and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as series trustee (the “ Trustee ”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes, and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. By terms of the Indenture, the Securities are issuable in series that may vary as to amount, date of maturity, rate of interest, rank and in other respects provided in the Indenture.

All terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture or in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “ Trust Agreement ”), for Mellon Capital IV among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Sponsor, the Trustees named therein and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the case may be.

The Company may at any time, at its option, on or after June 20, 2016, and subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Base Indenture and Section 4.6 of the Supplemental Indenture, redeem this Note in whole at any time or in part from time to time, without premium or penalty, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount hereof plus accrued and unpaid interest including Additional Interest, if any to the Redemption Date.

Prior to the Stock Purchase Date, the Company may redeem all, but not less than all, of the Notes upon the occurrence of a Capital Treatment Event, Investment Company Event, Rating Agency Event or Tax Event. After the Stock Purchase Date and prior to June 20, 2016, the Company may also redeem all, but not less than all of the Notes upon the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or Tax Event. The redemption price for the Notes redeemed pursuant to this paragraph will be 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through the date of redemption, in the case of any redemption in connection with a Capital Treatment Event or Investment Company Event, and the greater of 100% of the principal amount Notes to be redeemed and the applicable Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through the date of redemption, in the case of any redemption in connection with a Rating Agency Event or Tax Event.

No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.

This Note shall be remarketed as provided in the Indenture. In connection therewith, the Company may change the Stated Maturity Date, the date after which this Note may be redeemed in whole or in part prior to the Stated Maturity Date at the option of the Company, the rate of interest payable on this Note, the Interest Payment Dates, the manner of calculating interest on this Note and certain other provisions of the Notes, all as set forth in the Indenture and without the consent of any Holder of this Note.

The Indenture contains provisions for satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness of this Note upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the Notes, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect to the Notes at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may declare the entire principal amount and all accrued but unpaid interest of all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided that, in the case of Notes issued to and held by Mellon Capital IV, or any trustee thereof or agent therefor, if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes fails to declare the entire principal and all accrued but unpaid interest of all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital PCS and, if such declaration occurs prior to the Stock Purchase Date or, if earlier, the Remarketing Settlement Date, the holders of the Normal PCS then outstanding, acting together as a single class, shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee. Upon any such declaration, such amount of the principal of and the accrued but unpaid interest on all the Notes shall become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal and interest on the Notes shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Base Indenture except to the extent otherwise determined in connection with an Early Remarketing. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest (including Additional Interest), if any, on this Note shall terminate.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained under Section 10.2 of the Base Indenture duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

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Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

The Company and, by its acceptance of this Note or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, this Note agree to treat for United States Federal income tax purposes (i) the Notes as indebtedness of the company, and (ii) the stated interest on the Notes as ordinary interest income that is includible in the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s gross income at the time the interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s regular method of tax accounting, and otherwise to treat the Notes as described in the Prospectus.

The Indenture and this Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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

A SSIGNMENT

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Note to:

 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(Insert address and zip code of assignee)

agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Securities Registrar. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

 

Dated:

   Signature:
  

                                         Signature Guarantee:

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “ eligible guarantor institution ” meeting the requirements of the Securities 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 Securities 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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ARTICLE VIII

O RIGINAL I SSUE OF N OTES

Section 8.1 Original Issue of Notes.

Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $500,100,000 may, upon execution of this Supplemental Indenture, be executed by the Company and delivered to the Series Trustee or an Authenticating Agent for authentication, and the Series Trustee or an Authenticating Agent shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Notes in accordance with a Company Order.

Section 8.2 Calculation of Original Issue Discount.

If during any calendar year any original issue discount shall have accrued on the Notes, the Company shall file with each Paying Agent (including the Series Trustee if it is a Paying Agent) promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

ARTICLE IX

S UBORDINATION

Section 9.1 Subordination.

The subordination provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture shall apply; provided that for the purpose of the Notes (but not for the purposes of any other Securities unless specifically set forth in the terms of such Securities), the term “ Senior Debt ” shall mean the principal of and premium and interest, if any, including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company, whether or not such claim for post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding, on Debt, whether incurred on or prior to the date of the Indenture; unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are not superior in right of payment to the Notes or the Guarantee, or to other Debt that is equal or subordinated to the Notes or the Guarantee, other than: (A) any Debt of the Company which when incurred and without respect to any election under Section 1111(b) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended, was without recourse to the Company; (B) any Debt which by its terms is subordinated to trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business to the extent that payments made to the holders of such Debt by the holders of the Notes and the Guarantee, as a result of the subordination provisions of the Indenture would be greater than such payments otherwise would have been as a result of any obligation of such holders of such Debt to pay amounts over to the obligees on such trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business as a result of subordination provisions to which such Debt is subject; and (C) any Debt or guarantee that is by its terms subordinated to, or ranks equally with, the Notes and the Guarantee and the issuance of which, in the case of this clause (C) only, (x) has received the concurrence or approval of the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the staff of the Federal Reserve or (y) does not at the time of issuance prevent the Preferred Securities or the Notes from qualifying for Tier 1 Capital treatment (irrespective of any limits on the amount of the Company’s Tier 1 Capital) under the applicable capital adequacy guidelines, regulations, policies or published interpretations of the Federal Reserve.

 

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For the purposes of this definition, “ Debt ” shall mean, with respect to the Company, whether recourse is to all or a portion of the assets of the Company and whether or not contingent: (1) the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of (a) indebtedness for money borrowed and (b) indebtedness evidenced by securities, notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments issued by the Company, including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses; (2) all of the Company’s capital lease obligations; (3) all of the Company’s obligations issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services other than trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business; (4) all of the Company’s reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise, in respect of any letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities for the account of the Company; (5) all of the Company’s obligations in respect of interest rate swap, cap or other agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts, hedging arrangements and other similar agreements; (6) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (5) above of other persons for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise; and (7) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (6) above of other persons secured by any lien on any of the Company’s property or assets, whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company.

Section 9.2 Company Election to End Subordination.

The Company may elect, at any time effective on or after the Remarketing Settlement Date in connection with an Early Remarketing of the Notes that is not the first scheduled Remarketing, that its obligations under the Notes shall cease to be subordinated obligations, in which case the provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture and, if the Company so elects, Section 3.11 of the Indenture, shall thereafter no longer apply to the Notes. The Company shall give the Series Trustee and each Paying Agent notice of any such election not later than the effective time, and shall promptly issue a press release through Bloomberg Business News or other reasonable means of distribution.

Section 9.3 Compliance with Federal Reserve Rules.

The Company shall not incur any additional indebtedness for borrowed money that ranks pari passu with or junior to the Notes (if then subject to Article XIII of the Indenture), except in compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines of the Federal Reserve.

Section 9.4 Extension of Rights, Privileges, etc.

Anything contained herein or in the Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Series Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Series Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

ARTICLE X

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 10.1 Effectiveness.

This Supplemental Indenture will become effective upon its execution and delivery.

 

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Section 10.2 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in the Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 10.3 Further Assurances.

The Company will, at its own cost and expense, execute and deliver any documents or agreements, and take any other actions that the Series Trustee or its counsel may from time to time request in order to assure the Series Trustee of the benefits of the rights granted to the Series Trustee under the Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture.

Section 10.4 Effect of Recitals.

The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Series Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Series Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. Neither the Original Trustee nor the Series Trustee makes any representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes. Neither the Original Trustee, the Series Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof.

Section 10.5 Ratification of Indenture.

The Indenture as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

Section 10.6 Governing Law.

This Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

* * * *

This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION
By:      
 

Name:

Title:

 

T HE B ANK OF N EW Y ORK ,

as Original Trustee

By:      
 

Name:

Title:

 

M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY ,

as Series Trustee

By:      
 

Name:

Title:

 

    
     S UPPLEMENTAL I NDENTURE

Exhibit 4.26

 


F ORM OF A MENDED AND R ESTATED T RUST A GREEMENT

of

Mellon Capital IV

among

Mellon Financial Corporation,

as Depositor,

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company,

as Property Trustee,

M&T Trust Company of Delaware,

as Delaware Trustee,

the Administrative Trustees (as named herein),

and the several Holders of the Trust Securities

Dated as of June · , 2007

 



Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to Section 310 through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

Trust Indenture

Act Section

  

Trust Agreement

Section

§ 310(a)(1)

   8.7

(a)(2)

   8.7

(a)(3)

   8.9

(a)(4)

   2.7(a)(ii)

(b)

   8.8

(c)

   Not applicable

§ 311(a)

   8.13

(b)

   8.13

§ 312(a)

   5.7

(b)

   5.7

(c)

   5.7

§ 313(a)

   8.14(a), 8.14(b)

(b)

   8.14(b)

(c)

   12.8

(d)

   8.14(c)

§ 314(a)

   8.15

(b)

   Not applicable

(c)(1)

   8.16

(c)(2)

   8.16

(c)(3)

   Not applicable

(d)

   Not applicable

(e)

   1.1, 8.16

§ 315(a)

   8.1(a), 8.3(a)

(b)

   8.2, 12.8

(c)

   8.1(d)

(d)

   8.1(e), 8.3

(e)

   Not applicable

§ 316(a)

   Not applicable

(a)(1)(A)

   Not applicable

(a)(1)(B)

   5.16(e)

(a)(2)

   Not applicable

(b)

   5.16

(c)

   6.7

§ 317(a)(1)

   Not applicable

(a)(2)

   Not applicable

(b)

   5.9

§ 318(a)

   12.11

(b)

   12.11

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

 

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T ABLE O F C ONTENTS

 

            Page
   ARTICLE I   
   Defined Terms   

Section 1.1

   Definitions    1
   ARTICLE II   
   Continuation of the Issuer Trust; Issuance of Trust Preferred Securities; and Related Matters   

Section 2.1

   Name.    18

Section 2.2

   Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business    18

Section 2.3

   Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses    18

Section 2.4

   Issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities    19

Section 2.5

   Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes    19

Section 2.6

   Declaration of Trust    19

Section 2.7

   Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions    20

Section 2.8

   Assets of Issuer Trust    24

Section 2.9

   Title to Trust Property    24
   ARTICLE III   
   Payment Account   

Section 3.1

   Payment Account    24
   ARTICLE IV   
   Distributions; Redemption, Etc.   

Section 4.1

   Distributions    24

Section 4.2

   Redemption    26

Section 4.3

   Subordination of Common Securities    29

Section 4.4

   Payment Procedures    30

Section 4.5

   Tax Returns and Reports    31

Section 4.6

   Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust    31

Section 4.7

   Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions    31

Section 4.8

   Combination of Stripped PCS and Normal PCS after Stock Purchase Date    31

 

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   ARTICLE V   
   Trust Securities Certificates   

Section 5.1

   Initial Ownership    32

Section 5.2

   The Trust Securities Certificates    32

Section 5.3

   Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates    33

Section 5.4

   Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates    33

Section 5.5

   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates    34

Section 5.6

   Persons Deemed Securityholders    34

Section 5.7

   Access to List of Securityholders’ Names and Addresses    34

Section 5.8

   Maintenance of Office or Agency    34

Section 5.9

   Appointment of Paying Agent    35

Section 5.10

   Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor    35

Section 5.11

   Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities Certificate    35

Section 5.12

   Notices to Clearing Agency    38

Section 5.13

   Exchanges    38

Section 5.14

   Remarketing Elections    40

Section 5.15

   Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates    42

Section 5.16

   Rights of Securityholders; Waivers of Past Defaults    42

Section 5.17

   CUSIP Numbers    45

Section 5.18

   Remarketing Procedures    45
   ARTICLE VI   
   Acts of Holders; Meetings; Voting   

Section 6.1

   Limitations on Voting Rights    46

Section 6.2

   Notice of Meetings    48

Section 6.3

   Meetings of Securityholders of the Trust Preferred Securities    48

Section 6.4

   Voting Rights    48

Section 6.5

   Proxies, Etc.    48

Section 6.6

   Holder Action by Written Consent    49

Section 6.7

   Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes    49

Section 6.8

   Acts of Holders    49

Section 6.9

   Inspection of Records    50

Section 6.10

   All Votes Must Be Made by a United States Person    50
   ARTICLE VII   
   Representations and Warranties   

Section 7.1

   Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee    50

Section 7.2

   Representations and Warranties of Depositor    51

 

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   ARTICLE VIII   
   The Issuer Trustees   

Section 8.1

   Certain Duties and Responsibilities    51

Section 8.2

   Certain Notices    53

Section 8.3

   Certain Rights of Property Trustee    54

Section 8.4

   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities    56

Section 8.5

   May Hold Securities    56

Section 8.6

   Compensation; Indemnity; Fees    56

Section 8.7

   Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and Administrative Trustees    57

Section 8.8

   Conflicting Interests    57

Section 8.9

   Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee    57

Section 8.10

   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor    59

Section 8.11

   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor    60

Section 8.12

   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business    61

Section 8.13

   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust    61

Section 8.14

   Reports by Property Trustee    61

Section 8.15

   Reports to the Property Trustee    62

Section 8.16

   Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent    62

Section 8.17

   Number of Issuer Trustees    62

Section 8.18

   Delegation of Power    63
   ARTICLE IX   
   Dissolution, Liquidation and Merger   

Section 9.1

   Perpetual Existence    63

Section 9.2

   Early Termination    63

Section 9.3

   Dissolution    63

Section 9.4

   Liquidation    64

Section 9.5

   Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust    65
   ARTICLE X   
   Qualifying Treasury Securities   

Section 10.1

   Qualifying Treasury Securities    66
   ARTICLE XI   
   Other PCS Related Provisions   

Section 11.1

   Agreed Tax Treatment    67

 

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   ARTICLE XII   
   Miscellaneous Provisions   

Section 12.1

   Limitation of Rights of Holders    67

Section 12.2

   Amendment    67

Section 12.3

   Separability Clause    69

Section 12.4

   Governing Law    69

Section 12.5

   Payments Due on Non-Business Day    70

Section 12.6

   Successors and Assigns    70

Section 12.7

   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents    70

Section 12.8

   Reports, Notices and Demands    70

Section 12.9

   Agreement Not to Petition    71

Section 12.10

   Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act    71

Section 12.11

   Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture    71

EXHIBITS:

Exhibit A – Form of Capital PCS Certificate

Exhibit B – Form of Common Securities Certificate

Exhibit C – Form of Normal PCS Certificate

Exhibit D – Form of Stripped PCS Certificate

 

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This A MENDED AND R ESTATED T RUST A GREEMENT , dated as of June  · , 2007, among (i)  M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION , a Pennsylvania corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “ Depositor ”), (ii)  M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY , a New York banking corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “ Property Trustee ”), (iii)  M&T T RUST C OMPANY OF D ELAWARE , a Delaware limited purpose trust company, as successor to The Bank of New York (Delaware) (the “ Delaware Trustee ”), (iv) Steven G. Elliott, an individual, and Michael K. Hughey, an individual, each of whose address is c/o Mellon Financial Corporation, One Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258 (each, an “ Administrative Trustee, ” and together, the “ Administrative Trustees ”) (the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees being referred to collectively as the “ Issuer Trustees ”), and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.

R ECITALS OF THE D EPOSITOR

W HEREAS , the Depositor and the predecessor to the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”) pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (as hereinafter defined) by entering into that certain Trust Agreement, dated July 8, 2003 (the “ Original Trust Agreement ”), and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware the Certificate of Trust, filed on July 8, 2003 (the “ Initial Certificate of Trust ”);

W HEREAS , pursuant to an instrument of appointment and removal, dated June 11, 2007, (i) the Depositor removed The Bank of New York (Delaware) as Trustee and appointed the Delaware Trustee as Trustee and (ii) the Delaware Trustee filed an Amendment to the Certificate of Trust on June 11, 2007, (collectively with the Initial Certificate of Trust, the “ Certificate of Trust ”);

W HEREAS , the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance of Normal PCS by the Issuer Trust and their issuance and sale pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (iii) the issuance of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS in Exchange for Normal PCS as provided in Section 5.13, (iv) the acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in and to the Notes, (v) the entering into by the Issuer Trust with the Depositor of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement and, pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts evidenced by that Agreement, the purchase by the Issuer Trust of shares of Preferred Stock on the Stock Purchase Date, and (vi) the appointment of the Property Trustee and Administrative Trustees;

N OW , THEREFORE , in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Securityholders, hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:

ARTICLE I

D EFINED T ERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions.

For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;

 

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(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement; and

(d) the words “hereby”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

Act ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.

Actual/360 Basis ” means, for purposes of calculating the rate of Distributions, such rate calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the number of days actually elapsed.

Additional Amount ” means, with respect to Normal PCS and Capital PCS of a given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of Notes for such period.

Additional Distribution Date ” means each March 20, June 20, September 20 and December 20 commencing on the later of the first such date on which Stripped PCS are Outstanding and September 20, 2007.

Additional Interest ” has the meaning specified in the Base Indenture.

Additional Subordinated Notes ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

Administrative Trustee ” means each of the Persons identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in such Person’s capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Issuer Trust heretofore formed and continued hereunder and not in such Person’s individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee’s successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.

Affected Series ” means, (i) if a proposed action or inaction or Event of Default or other relevant circumstance relates solely and specifically to Trust Property, each Series for which such Trust Property is a Corresponding Asset, (ii) if a proposed action or inaction or Event of Default or other relevant circumstance does not relate specifically and solely to Trust Property, then each Series that could reasonably be expected to be affected by the action proposed or inaction or Event of Default, and (iii) for purposes of Section 5.16 at any time, the Series of Trust Preferred Securities for which Notes at such time are Corresponding Assets (that is, (A) for purposes of Section 5.16(b) and Section 5.16(c), the Capital PCS and, until the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Normal PCS, (B) for purposes of Section 5.16(d), the Normal PCS and the Stripped PCS, and (C) for purposes of Section 5.16(e), (I) if the Event of Default is of the type referred to in clause (a) of the definition of that term, the Capital PCS and, until the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Normal PCS, (II) if the Event of Default is of the type described in paragraph (b) of the definition of that term, the Normal PCS and Stripped PCS, (III) if the Event of Default is of the type described in clause (d) of the definition of that term, the Series of Trust Preferred Securities that were to have been redeemed and (IV) if the Event of Default is of the type described in any of clause (c), (e) or (f) of the definition of that term, each Series of Trust Preferred Securities then outstanding).

 

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

Agent Agreement ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.

Bankruptcy Event ” means, with respect to any Person:

(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.

Bankruptcy Laws ” has the meaning specified in Section 12.9.

Base Indenture ” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of December 3, 1996, between the Depositor and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Board of Directors ” means either the board of directors of any Person or any committee of that board of directors duly authorized to act.

Book-Entry Transfer ” means:

(a) as to Trust Preferred Securities represented by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and as to Notes represented by global certificates that settle and clear through a Clearing Agency’s system, transfer or delivery in accordance with the rules and procedures of the applicable Clearing Agency (including, in the case of DTC if it is the Clearing Agency, book-entry deliveries through DTC’s Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian DWAC system); and

(b) as to treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities), transfer or delivery in accordance with the regulations of the United States Department of the Treasury governing book-entry treasury securities, including those currently at 12 C.F.R. Part 357.

 

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Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities ” means Trust Preferred Securities, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as provided in Section 5.11.

Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate ” means a Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing ownership of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities.

Business Day ” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in New York, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Wilmington, Delaware are permitted or required by any applicable law to close.

Capital PCS ” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 per Capital PCS and having the rights provided for Capital PCS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

Capital PCS Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Capital PCS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A.

Capital PCS Distribution Date ” means (i) each June 20 and December 20, commencing on the later of the first such date on which Capital PCS are Outstanding and December 20, 2007, continuing through and including the last such date to occur prior to the Remarketing Date for a Successful Remarketing, and (ii) thereafter for so long as Capital PCS remain outstanding, each day on which interest is payable on the Notes.

Capital PCS Distribution Rate ” means (i) from the Closing Date to but not including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing, •% per annum (calculated on a 30/360 Basis), and (ii) thereafter, the rate per annum, whether a fixed rate or a rate determined pursuant to a formula, determined pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement in connection with the Remarketing (it being understood and agreed that, if there is not a Successful Remarketing of the Notes, the Capital PCS Distribution Rate pursuant to clause (i) shall remain in effect for so long as Capital PCS are outstanding).

Capital PCS Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any Capital PCS to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided, however, that (i) each Note Redemption Date shall be a Capital PCS Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Capital PCS and (ii) if a Successful Remarketing occurs, the first Business Day after the Stock Purchase Date shall be a Capital PCS Redemption Date for a redemption in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(d).

Capital PCS Redemption Price ” means, with respect to a redemption of Capital PCS for a Redemption Price payable in cash pursuant to Section 4.2(c) and the related Capital PCS Redemption Date, the redemption price for a Like Amount of Notes redeemed on such date in accordance with the Indenture.

Capital Treatment Event ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Certificate ” means a Capital PCS Certificate, a Normal PCS Certificate, a Stripped PCS Certificate or a Common Securities Certificate.

Certificate Custodian ” means, with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities of a Series, the Securities Registrar, as custodian with respect to the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates representing the Trust Preferred Securities of such Series, or any successor entity thereto.

 

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Certificate Depositary Agreement ” means the agreement among the Issuer Trust, the Paying Agent and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date.

Certificate of Trust ” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereof, as amended from time to time.

Clearing Agency ” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC will be the initial Clearing Agency.

Clearing Agency Participant ” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

Closing Date ” means the First Time of Delivery, as defined in the Underwriting Agreement.

Collateral Account ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Collateral Agent ” means The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have been appointed and qualified pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral Agent thereunder.

Collateral Agreement ” means the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) and the Securities Registrar for the PCS, as amended from time to time.

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

Common Securities Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B.

Common Securities Subscription Agreement ” means the subscription agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor and the Issuer Trust contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, pursuant to which the Depositor will agree to buy and the Issuer Trust will agree to sell the Common Securities.

Common Security ” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

Contingent Disposition Election ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(a)(ii).

Contingent Exchange Election ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(a)(i).

Contract Payments ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

Corporate Trust Office ” means (i) when used with respect to the Property Trustee, the Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee located at 25 South Charles Street-16th Floor, Mail Code: MD2-

 

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CS58, Baltimore, MD 21201, (ii) when used with respect to the Note Trustee, the Global Trust Services Office of the Note Trustee located in New York, New York, and (iii) when used with respect to the Securities Registrar, its Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit located at 101 Barclay Street, 8W, New York, New York 10286.

Corresponding Assets ” means, with respect to each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities:

(a) in the case of Normal PCS and Common Securities:

(i) from the Time of Delivery to but not including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes and a 1/100 th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract;

(ii) from and including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, the portion of the Mellon Bank Deposit made with the net proceeds of each $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes sold in such Successful Remarketing on such Remarketing Settlement Date and a 1/100 th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract;

(iii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Normal PCS are outstanding, 1/100 th of a share of Preferred Stock and an amount of Additional Subordinated Notes initially equal to 1/100 th of the amount of deferred an unpaid Contract Payments, if any, on a Stock Purchase Contract as of the Stock Purchase Date; and

(iv) from and including the Stock Purchase Date if there shall have been a Failed Remarketing, an amount of Additional Subordinated Notes equal to the accrued and unpaid interest on $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes as of the Stock Purchase Date;

(b) in the case of Stripped PCS:

(i) from the date of issuance for each Stripped PCS to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Treasury Securities and a 1/100 th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract; and

(ii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Stripped PCS are outstanding, 1/100 th of a share of Preferred Stock, subject to Section 4.8, and an amount of Additional Subordinated Notes initially equal to 1/100 th of the amount of deferred an unpaid Contract Payments, if any, on a Stock Purchase Contract as of the Stock Purchase Date; and

(c) in the case of Capital PCS:

(i) from the date of issuance for each Capital PCS, $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to Section 5.14; and

(ii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date if there shall have been a Failed Remarketing, an amount of Additional Subordinated Notes initially equal to the accrued and unpaid interest on $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes as of the Stock Purchase Date.

 

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Custodial Agent ” means The Bank of New York, as Custodial Agent under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Custodial Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Custodial Agent” shall mean the Person who is then the Custodial Agent thereunder.

Custody Account ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Deferred Contract Payment Amount ” means, at any time for each $100,000 stated amount of Stock Purchase Contracts, the amount of the Contract Payments accrued on such stated amount that has been deferred and not paid by reason of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer payment of Contract Payments pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, together with interest accrued on such amount in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, including after the Stock Purchase Date any Additional Subordinated Notes issued in respect thereof.

Deferred Note Interest Amount ” means, at any time for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, the amount of interest accrued on such principal amount that has been deferred and not paid by reason of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer payment of interest pursuant to Section 3.11 of the Base Indenture or Section 2.5 of the Indenture Supplement, together with interest accrued on such amount in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, including after the Stock Purchase Date following a Failed Remarketing any Additional Subordinated Notes issued in respect thereof.

Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates ” means either or both (as the context requires) of (i) Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued as Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.11, and (ii) Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.15.

Delaware Statutory Trust Act ” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. § 3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.

Delaware Trustee ” means the Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor Delaware trustee appointed as herein provided.

Depositor ” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

Depositor order ” means the written order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

Direct Action ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.16(c) and Section 5.16(d).

Distribution Date ” means an Additional Distribution Date, a Capital PCS Distribution Date or a Regular Distribution Date.

Distribution Period ” means:

(i) with respect to Normal PCS, Stripped PCS and Common Securities, each period of time beginning on a Regular Distribution Date (or the Closing Date in the case of the Distribution Period ending in December 2007) and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Regular Distribution Date for such Series; and

(ii) with respect to Capital PCS, each period of time beginning on a Capital PCS Distribution Date (or the Closing Date in the case of the Distribution Period ending in December 2007) and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Capital PCS Distribution Date.

 

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Distributions ” means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section 4.1.

Dividend Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in the Statement of Designation.

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company.

Early Settlement Event ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Early Termination Event ” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.

Event of Default ” means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) the occurrence of a Note Event of Default; or

(b) the occurrence of a Preferred Stock Default; or

(c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(d) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or

(e) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than those specified in clause (c) or (d) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities 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

(f) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor Property Trustee within 60 days thereof.

Excess Proceeds Distribution ” means the Distribution that each Holder of Stripped PCS shall receive on each Additional Distribution Date on a pro rata basis from the Issuer Trust of the amount by which the proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities pledged by the Issuer Trust in respect of Stock Purchase Contracts maturing at least one Business Day prior to such date exceed the amount required to purchase replacement Qualifying Treasury Securities.

Exchange ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(a).

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Exchange Period ” means the Collateral Agent’s and the Securities Registrar’s normal business hours on any Business Day other than (i) any day in March, June, September or December that is on or after the fifth day of such month through the 20th day of such month (or the next Business Day if the

 

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20th day is not a Business Day) and (ii) the period from 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day before the first day of any Remarketing Period to but not including the Business Day after the last day of that Remarketing Period.

Failed Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Federal Reserve Board ” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as from time to time constituted, or if at any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement the Federal Reserve is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then the bodies performing such duties at such time, or the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, or any successor Federal reserve bank having primary jurisdiction over the Depositor.

Final Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

First Step Merger ” has the meaning set forth in the Agreement and Plan of Merger between Mellon Financial Corporation, The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, dated December 3, 2006, as amended and restated as of February 23, 2007, as further amended and restated as of March 30, 2007.

Guarantee Agreement ” means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, as amended from time to time.

Indemnified Person ” has the meaning specified in Section 8.6(c).

Indenture ” means the Base Indenture and the Indenture Supplement, taken together.

Indenture Supplement ” means the Supplemental Indenture to the Base Indenture, dated as of June •, 2007, among the Depositor, The Bank of New York (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), as original trustee, and the Note Trustee, as series trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Investment Company Event ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Issuer Trust ” means the Delaware statutory trust known as “Mellon Capital IV”, which was created under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued pursuant to this Trust Agreement.

Issuer Trustees ” means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees.

Lien ” means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.

Like Amount ” means:

(a) with respect to a distribution of Notes to Holders of Normal PCS, Capital PCS or Common Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust or a redemption in kind of Capital PCS pursuant to Section 4.2(d), Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Notes are

 

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distributed; provided , however , that if the Company elects pursuant to Section 5.3(b) of the Indenture Supplement to remarket the Notes in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities, “Like Amount” means New Trust Preferred Securities having a liquidation amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such New Trust Preferred Securities are distributed;

(b) with respect to a distribution of Pledged Treasury Securities to Holders of Stripped PCS in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust or termination of the Stock Purchase Contracts, Pledged Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Stripped PCS to whom such Pledged Treasury Securities are distributed;

(c) with respect to a distribution of Preferred Stock or fractional interests in Preferred Stock to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Trust, Preferred Stock or a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock (which may be effected by the Issuer Trust through the creation of depositary shares) having a liquidation preference equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such shares of Preferred Stock or a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock (including through a depositary share) are distributed;

(d) with respect to any distribution of Additional Amounts to Holders of Normal PCS, Capital PCS or Common Securities, Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Normal PCS, Capital PCS or Common Securities in respect of which such distribution is made;

(e) with respect to a redemption of Preferred Stock, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock for each Normal PCS or Common Security;

(f) with respect to an Exchange of Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS pursuant to Section 5.13(b), a number of Stripped PCS and a number of Capital PCS in each case equal to the number of Normal PCS included in such Exchange (e.g., if 1,000 Normal PCS are being Exchanged, the Holder will receive 1,000 Stripped PCS and 1,000 Capital PCS in accordance with and subject to Section 5.13);

(g) with respect to an Exchange of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities, a number of Normal PCS equal to the number of Stripped PCS and the number of Capital PCS being Exchanged (e.g., if 1,000 Stripped PCS and 1,000 Capital PCS are being Exchanged, the Holder will receive upon the Exchange 1,000 Normal PCS together with $1,000,000 principal amount of Qualifying Treasury Securities released from the Pledge, in accordance with and subject to Section 5.13(e));

(h) with respect to Notes (including Pledged Notes as applicable) being deposited or delivered in connection with an Exchange, Notes having a principal amount equal to $1,000 for each Normal PCS involved in the Exchange;

(i) with respect to Section 5.13(c), $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Series; and

(j) with respect to Section 5.13(d), 1/100th of a Stock Purchase Contract with a stated amount of $100,000 for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series.

 

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Liquidation Amount ” means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.

Liquidation Date ” means the date on which the assets of the Issuer Trust are distributed to Holders pursuant to Section 9.4.

Liquidation Distribution ” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).

Majority in Liquidation Amount ” means as to one or more Series of Trust Securities, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Trust Securities of one or more Series representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Trust Securities of one or more Series.

Make-Whole Amount ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Mellon Bank Deposit ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

1940 Act ” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

New Trust Preferred Securities ” means, in the event the Depositor elects to remarket the Notes in the form of trust preferred securities pursuant to Section 5.2(d) of the Indenture Supplement, trust preferred securities issued by a Delaware statutory trust, all of the common securities of which are directly or indirectly owned by the Depositor.

Normal PCS ” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided for Normal PCS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

Normal PCS Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Normal PCS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.

Normal PCS Distribution Rate ” means (i) from the Closing Date to but not including the later of the Regular Distribution Date of June 20, 2012 and the Stock Purchase Date (and for each related Distribution Period), •% per annum (calculated on a 30/360 Basis) and (ii) thereafter, for each Distribution Period and related Regular Distribution Date, the greater of (A) Three-Month LIBOR for such Distribution Period plus •% and (B) •% (calculated on an Actual/360 Basis).

Normal PCS Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any Normal PCS to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided , however , that each Preferred Stock Redemption Date shall be a Redemption Date for a like amount of Normal PCS.

Normal PCS Redemption Price ” means, with respect to any Normal PCS and Common Securities and the related Normal PCS Redemption Date, the redemption price for a Like Amount of Preferred Stock redeemed in accordance with the Statement of Designation.

Note Event of Default ” means any “Event of Default” specified in Section 5.1 of the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the Indenture Supplement.

Note Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such Notes under the Indenture.

 

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Note Redemption Price ” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the Redemption Price for such redemption and related Note Redemption Date determined in accordance with the Indenture.

Note Trustee ” means Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, solely in its capacity as series trustee pursuant to the Indenture Supplement and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.

Notes ” means the $500,100,000 initial aggregate principal amount of the Depositor’s Remarketable •% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2043 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Notice of Contingent Disposition Election ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(f).

Notice of Contingent Exchange Election ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(d)(i).

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, President and Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Depositor, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officer’s Certificate given pursuant to Section 8.16 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Depositor. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:

(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or the Depositor, but not an employee of the Trust or the Property Trustee, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee.

Original Trust Agreement ” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.

Outstanding ,” when used with respect to Trust Securities of a Series, means, as of the date of determination, all Trust Securities of such Series theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:

(a) Trust Securities of such Series theretofore canceled by the Securities Registrar or delivered to the Securities Registrar for cancellation;

(b) Trust Securities of such Series for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent;

 

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provided , however , that if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and

(c) Trust Securities of such Series that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Trust Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and 5.13;

provided , however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of a Series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Trust Preferred Securities of such Series owned by the Depositor, any Trustee, or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Trust Preferred Securities of such Series that a Responsible Officer of such Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded, and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Series are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees, and/or any such Affiliate. Trust Preferred Securities of a Series so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Trust Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.

Owner ” means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).

Paying Agent ” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.9 and shall initially be The Bank of New York.

Payment Account ” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by the Property Trustee initially with The Bank of New York (in its corporate capacity and not as Paying Agent), in its trust department for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all amounts paid in respect of the Notes will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Securityholders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2. After the Stock Purchase Date, the Payment Account may at any time be established with any commercial bank by the Property Trustee.

PCS ” means each of the Normal PCS, the Stripped PCS and the Capital PCS.

Person ” means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership association, joint venture, trust, limited liability company, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of a similar nature.

Pledge” means the pledge under the Collateral Agreement of Notes or Qualifying Treasury Securities, as the case may be.

Pledged Notes ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Pledged Treasury Securities ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Predecessor Capital PCS Certificate ” of any particular Capital PCS Certificate means every previous Capital PCS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Issuer

 

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Trust and the Holder under the Capital PCS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Capital PCS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Capital PCS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Capital PCS Certificate.

Predecessor Certificate ” means a Predecessor Normal PCS Certificate, a Predecessor Stripped PCS Certificate or a Predecessor Capital PCS Certificate, as applicable.

Predecessor Normal PCS Certificate ” of any particular Normal PCS Certificate means every previous Normal PCS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Issuer Trust and the Holder under the Normal PCS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Normal PCS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Normal PCS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Normal PCS Certificate.

Predecessor Stripped PCS Certificate ” of any particular Stripped PCS Certificate means every previous Stripped PCS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder under the Stripped PCS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Stripped PCS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped PCS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped PCS Certificate.

Preferred Stock ” means the Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series L, $100,000 liquidation preference per share, of the Depositor.

Preferred Stock Default ” means the failure of the Depositor to comply in any material respect with any of its obligations (i) under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or (ii) as issuer of the Preferred Stock, including in the Statement of Designation, the Depositor’s articles of incorporation, or arising under applicable law.

Preferred Stock Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any shares of Preferred Stock to be redeemed under the Statement of Designation, the date fixed for redemption of such shares under the Statement of Designation.

Proceeds ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Property Trustee ” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust heretofore formed and continued hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.

Prospectus ” means the prospectus, dated June •, 2007, of the Depositor relating to the offering of the Normal PCS, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement, dated June •, 2007.

Qualifying Treasury Securities ” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1.

Rating Agency Event ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

 

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Recombination Notice and Request ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(d)(ii).

Redemption Date ” means a Normal PCS Redemption Date or a Capital PCS Redemption Date, as applicable.

Redemption Price ” means, (i) with respect to a redemption of Normal PCS, the Normal PCS Redemption Price, and (ii) with respect to a redemption of Capital PCS, the Capital PCS Redemption Price.

Reference Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1.

Regular Distribution Date ” means:

(a) each June 20 and December 20 occurring prior to and including the later of June 20, 2012 and the Stock Purchase Date, commencing December 20, 2007 (or, in the case of Stripped PCS, the first such date on which Stripped PCS are outstanding);

(b) after the later of June 20, 2012 and the Stock Purchase Date, each March 20, June 20, September 20 and December 20; and

(c) the Stock Purchase Date if not otherwise a Regular Distribution Date;

provided , however , that the last Regular Distribution Date for the Stripped PCS shall be the Stock Purchase Date or, if later, the date on which no Additional Subordinated Notes issued in respect of any Deferred Contract Payment Amount are outstanding.

Relevant Trustee ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.

Remarketable Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement ” means the note purchase agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor and the Issuer Trust contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, pursuant to which the Depositor will agree to issue and the Issuer Trust will agree to purchase the Notes.

Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Remarketing Agent ” means, as to a Remarketing and Remarketing Agreement, the remarketing agent and any successor or replacement remarketing agent appointed by the Depositor.

Remarketing Agent’s Fee ” means, as to the Remarketing Agent and a Remarketing, the fee provided for in the Remarketing Agreement.

Remarketing Agreement ” means the Remarketing Agreement to be entered into prior to the first Remarketing among the Depositor, the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) and the Remarketing Agent, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Remarketing Period ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Remarketing Settlement Date ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Reset Rate ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement (and is the interest rate applicable to the Notes and the Capital PCS Distribution Rate commencing on the Remarketing Settlement Date).

 

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Responsible Officer ” means, with respect to any Issuer Trustee other than an Administrative Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Issuer Trustee, including any Vice President, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Issuer Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Trust Agreement.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Securities Intermediary ” means The Bank of New York, as Securities Intermediary under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Securities Intermediary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Securities Intermediary” shall mean such successor or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to the Collateral Agreement.

Securities Register ” and “ Securities Registrar ” have the meanings specified in Section 5.4.

Securityholder” or “Holder ” means the Person in whose name the Trust Security or Trust Securities are registered in the Security Register; and any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act; provided , however , that solely for the purpose of determining whether the Holders of the requisite number of PCS have voted on any matter provided for in this Trust Agreement, then for the purpose of any such determination, so long as Definitive Trust Preferred Securities have not been issued, the term Securityholders or Holders as used herein shall refer to the Owner.

Series ” means each of the Normal PCS, the Stripped PCS, the Capital PCS and the Common Securities, each as a series of beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust.

Special Event ” means any of a Capital Treatment Event, an Investment Company Event, a Rating Agency Event or a Tax Event.

Statement of Designation ” means the “Statement of Designation of the Series L Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock $1.00 Par Value of Mellon Financial Corporation”, dated June •, 2007, fixing the designations, voting powers, preferences and relative, participating and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof of the shares of the Preferred Stock as a new series of the Depositor’s preferred stock.

Stock Purchase Contract ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ” means the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Depositor and the Property Trustee (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust).

Stock Purchase Date ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

Stripped PCS ” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided for Stripped PCS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

Stripped PCS Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Stripped PCS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.

Stripped PCS Distribution Rate ” means •% per annum, calculated on a 30/360 Basis.

 

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Stripping Notice and Request ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(b)(iii).

Successful ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

Successor Securities ” has the meaning specified in Section 9.5.

Tax Event ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

30/360 Basis ” means, for purposes of calculating a rate for Distributions, such rate calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

Three-Month LIBOR ” means, for any Distribution Period commencing on or after the Stock Purchase Date, “Three-Month LIBOR” for the corresponding Dividend Period as defined in and determined pursuant to the Statement of Designation.

Time of Delivery ” means June •, 2007.

Transaction Agreements ” means each of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes, the Certificate Depositary Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement, the Guarantee Agreement, the Indenture, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the Agent Agreement, the Remarketable Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement and any other agreement determined by any Issuer Trustee to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement.

Trust Agreement ” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including (i) all exhibits hereto, and (ii) for all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.

Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.

Trust Preferred Securities ” means the Normal PCS, the Stripped PCS and the Capital PCS.

Trust Preferred Securities Certificate ” means a Normal PCS Certificate, a Stripped PCS Certificate or a Capital PCS Certificate.

Trust Property ” means (a) the Notes for so long as they are owned by the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement, (b) the Stock Purchase Contracts, (c) the Preferred Stock once acquired by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts, (d) treasury securities (that are required to be Qualifying Treasury Securities when delivered) delivered to the Property Trustee (or the Collateral Agent) pursuant to Section 5.13 or Section 5.14, (e) Additional Subordinated Notes, if any, issued on the Stock Purchase Date in respect of Deferred Contract Payment Amounts or Deferred Note Interest Amounts, (f) the rights of the Issuer Trust under the Transaction Agreements, and (g) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

 

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Trust Security ” means any one of the Common Securities or the Trust Preferred Securities.

Trust Securities Certificate ” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

Underwriting Agreement ” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated June •, 2007, among the Issuer Trust, the Depositor, and the underwriters named therein.

United States Person ” means, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a citizen or resident of the United States, a domestic partnership, a domestic corporation, an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source, and a trust if (i) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust, and (ii) one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.

ARTICLE II

C ONTINUATION OF THE I SSUER T RUST ; I SSUANCE OF T RUST P REFERRED

S ECURITIES ; AND R ELATED M ATTERS

Section 2.1 Name.

The trust continued hereby shall be known as “Mellon Capital IV,” as such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders and the other Issuer Trustees, in which name the Issuer Trustees may conduct the business of the Issuer Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and sue and be sued.

Section 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.

The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is M&T Trust Company of Delaware, 1220 North Market Street, Suite 202, Wilmington, DE 19801, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is c/o Mellon Financial Corporation, One Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258.

Section 2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.

The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt from the Depositor in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Issuer Trustee. The Depositor shall not make any claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.

Section 2.4 Issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities.

(a) On June •, 2007, the Depositor, on behalf of the Issuer Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement. On the Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, in connection with the delivery on such date of 500,000 Normal PCS to the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Clearing Agency a Normal PCS Certificate or Certificates that are Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Clearing Agency (or its nominee) representing 500,000 Normal PCS, against payment of $1,000 per Normal PCS or

 

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$500,000,000 in the aggregate, net of the applicable underwriting discount determined in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, as the purchase price therefor in immediately available funds, which amount the Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee or its designee.

(b) On the date on which an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, executes and delivers a Normal PCS Certificate pursuant to Section 2.4(a), such Administrative Trustee shall also execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Clearing Agency or the Certificate Custodian two additional Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, one of which shall be a Capital PCS Certificate and the other of which shall be a Stripped PCS Certificate, each representing up to a maximum number of Capital PCS or Stripped PCS, as applicable, that is the same as the number of Normal PCS evidenced by the Certificate contemporaneously issued as a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate pursuant to Section 2.4(a).

(c) In order to give effect to Exchanges, the Securities Registrar may, as provided in Section 5.11, endorse Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to reduce or increase the number of Normal PCS, Stripped PCS or Capital PCS evidenced by each such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate, provided, however, that no such endorsement shall result in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing a number of Normal PCS, Stripped PCS or Capital PCS exceeding the maximum number set forth on the face of such Certificate.

Section 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes.

On the Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Depositor a Common Securities Certificate, registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing 100 Common Securities, each having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $100,000, against payment by the Depositor of such amount, which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee or its designee. Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall (x) subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor the Notes registered in the name of the Issuer Trust or, upon order of an Administrative Trustee, in the name of the Collateral Agent, and having an aggregate initial principal amount equal to $500,100,000, (y) shall deliver to the Depositor the purchase price therefor (being the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee pursuant to (i) the second sentence of Section 2.4(a) and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5), and (z) shall instruct the Depositor to deliver the Notes to the Collateral Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account.

Section 2.6 Declaration of Trust.

The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Notes, (b) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Agreements (including, on the Stock Purchase Date, to acquire Preferred Stock pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts), (c) to hold the Notes and certain treasury securities and the Mellon Bank Deposit and pledge them to secure the Issuer Trust’s obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts, and (d) to engage in those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Issuer Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Issuer Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Securityholders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities of the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, or any of the duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees generally, set forth

 

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herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

Section 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.

(a) The Issuer Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.7(b) and Article VIII and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Issuer Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the Issuer Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including the following:

(i) As among the Issuer Trustees, the Administrative Trustees, and each of them, shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:

(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;

(B) causing the Issuer Trust to enter into, execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Depositary Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the Agent Agreement, the Remarketable Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement and such other agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Issuer Trust;

(C) assisting in the registration of the Trust Preferred Securities under the Securities Act and under state securities or blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust Agreement under the Trust Indenture Act;

(D) assisting in the listing of the Trust Preferred Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges or automated system or systems, if any, as shall be determined by the Depositor, and the registration of the Trust Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act, and the preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;

(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information regarding the Trust Securities, the Notes and the Preferred Stock to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;

(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating agent and a Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust Agreement, in addition to The Bank of New York as initial Paying Agent and Securities Registrar;

(G) registering transfer of the Trust Securities in accordance with this Trust Agreement;

(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;

 

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(I) execution and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and any Remarketing Agreement and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust;

(J) unless otherwise determined by the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, or as otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, the Trust Indenture Act or other applicable law, to execute on behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone or together with any or all of the Administrative Trustees) of any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement;

(K) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Issuer Trustees may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any particular Securityholders); and

(L) the taking of any action required to be taken by the Administrative Trustees under any of the Transaction Agreements.

(ii) As among the Issuer Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:

(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;

(B) the execution and delivery on behalf of the Issuer Trust of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement, and any other Transaction Agreement other than the Underwriting Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the Agent Agreement, the Remarketable Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement and the Certificate Depositary Agreement and the performance by the Issuer Trust of its obligations and the exercise by the Issuer Trust of its rights thereunder;

(C) the receipt of the Notes and, in connection with an Exchange, Notice of Contingent Exchange Election or Remarketing, the receipt of Qualifying Treasury Securities;

(D) the pledge of Notes and Qualifying Treasury Securities pursuant to the Collateral Agreement;

(E) the receipt of the Preferred Stock on the Stock Purchase Date;

(F) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under or with respect to the Notes) made in respect of the Notes in the Payment Account;

(G) the collection of the Contract Payments and any other payments or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or with respect to the Contract Payments) and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

 

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(H) the collection of payment of dividends, redemption price and other payments made in respect of the Preferred Stock and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

(I) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts or property or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under or with respect to the Notes or the Stock Purchase Contracts) owed to the Securityholders in respect of the Trust Securities;

(J) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Notes for so long as the Issuer Trust holds Notes, subject to Articles V and VI of this Trust Agreement;

(K) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of Preferred Stock for so long as the Issuer Trust holds Preferred Stock, subject to Articles V and VI of this Trust Agreement;

(L) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust Securities, the Notes, the Preferred Stock and the Transaction Agreements to the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;

(M) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;

(N) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and

(O) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (c), (d), (e) or (f) of the definition of such term if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the Property Trustee), the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and to protect and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any particular Securityholder); and

(P) except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 2.7(a)(i).

(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transactions except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Issuer Trustees (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Issuer Trust to become an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt, or (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of

 

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the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Issuer Trust or the Securityholders in their capacity as Securityholders (other than the Lien created by the Collateral Agreement, which is a permitted Lien).

(c) In connection with the issuance and sale of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Issuer Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):

(i) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Trust Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto;

(ii) the determination of the states in which to take appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part of the Trust Preferred Securities and the determination of any and all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the advice to the Issuer Trust of actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such states;

(iii) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of an application to the New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or any automated quotation system for listing upon notice of issuance of any Trust Preferred Securities and filing with such exchange or self-regulatory organization such notification and documents as may be necessary from time to time to maintain such listing;

(iv) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the registration of the Trust Preferred Securities under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments thereto;

(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale of the Trust Preferred Securities;

(vi) the appointment of the Securities Registrar in accordance with Section 5.4;

(vii) the setting of any special record date in accordance with Section 4.1(g); and

(viii) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the foregoing activities.

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the 1940 Act, or to be classified as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes and so that the Notes will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States Federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that each of the Depositor and any Administrative Trustee determines in its discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities.

 

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Section 2.8 Assets of Issuer Trust.

The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.

Section 2.9 Title to Trust Property.

Subject to the terms and provisions of the collateral agreement, legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such), on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Securityholders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE III

P AYMENT A CCOUNT

Section 3.1 Payment Account.

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish or cause to be established the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agents of the Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for herein.

(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, (i) all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Notes, (ii) all Contract Payments, (iii) all Excess Proceeds Distributions, (iv) all payments of dividends or the redemption price on, and other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Preferred Stock or the Stock Purchase Contracts and (v) all other cash amounts received as payments on or with respect to the Trust Property. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.

ARTICLE IV

D ISTRIBUTIONS ; R EDEMPTION , E TC .

Section 4.1 Distributions.

(a) The Trust Securities represent beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust, and Distributions will be made on the Trust Securities of a Series on applicable Distribution Dates in amounts that correspond to amounts of interest, dividends or Contract Payments, as applicable (and (i) in the case of the Normal PCS, Capital PCS and Common Securities, Additional Amounts and Deferred Note Interest Amounts, and (ii) in the case of the Normal PCS, Stripped PCS and Common Securities, Deferred Contract Payment Amounts) that are received by the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent on or in connection with each applicable Distribution Date on the Trust Property that is the Corresponding Assets for such Series, as provided in Sections 4.1(b), (c) and (d).

 

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(b) In the case of the Normal PCS and the Common Securities, subject to Section 4.1(e):

(i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Regular Distribution Date;

(ii) the Distributions payable on each Regular Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Normal PCS and Common Security equal to the Normal PCS Distribution Rate for such Distribution Period (with the consequence that the amount of the Distribution for each $1,000 of Normal PCS or Common Securities payable on each Regular Distribution Date being equal to (x) the sum of the amount of interest payable on such Regular Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Notes (without giving effect to any change in the interest rate on the Notes in connection with a Remarketing) plus 1/100th of the Contract Payment payable on a Stock Purchase Contract having a stated amount of $100,000 for each Distribution Period ending on or before the Stock Purchase Date and (y) the amount of dividends payable on such Regular Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Preferred Stock for each Distribution Period thereafter);

(iii) Distributions shall be cumulative for each Regular Distribution Date to and including the Stock Purchase Date and non-cumulative thereafter; and

(iv) the amount of Distributions payable for any Distribution Period ending on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date shall include the Additional Amounts received by the Issuer Trust, if any.

(c) In the case of Capital PCS, subject to Section 4.1(e):

(i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Capital PCS Distribution Date;

(ii) the Distributions payable on each Capital PCS Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Capital PCS equal to the Capital PCS Distribution Rate for such Distribution Period, with the consequence that the amount of the Distribution for each $1,000 of Capital PCS payable on each Capital PCS Distribution Date is equal to the amount of interest payable on or accrued to (as applicable) such Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Notes;

(iii) Distributions shall be cumulative; and

(iv) the amount of Distributions payable for any Distribution Period shall include the Additional Amounts received by the Issuer Trust, if any.

(d) In the case of Stripped PCS, subject to Section 4.1(e):

(i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Regular Distribution Date;

(ii) the Distributions payable on each Regular Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Stripped PCS equal to 1/100th of the Contract Payment payable on a Stock Purchase Contract having a stated amount of $100,000 on such Stripped PCS Distribution Date (expressed as a percentage);

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(iv) additionally, on each Additional Distribution Date on which Stripped PCS are Outstanding (or as promptly thereafter as the Collateral Agent and the Paying Agent determine to be practicable), the Property Trustee shall distribute or cause to be distributed through the Paying Agent an amount per $1,000 of Stripped PCS equal to, the Excess Proceeds Distributions for such Additional Distribution Date.

(e) Distributions on the Trust Securities of a Series shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account from the Corresponding Assets of such Series for the payment of such Distributions. The Issuer Trust will have amounts to make full Distributions on the relevant Series of Trust Securities in accordance with Sections 4.1(b), (c) and (d) on an applicable Distribution Date only if the Depositor has not (i) defaulted in paying interest on the Notes or Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts or (ii) exercised its right to defer payment of interest on the Notes and Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts and, accordingly, there is no outstanding Deferred Note Interest Amount or Deferred Contract Payment Amount. Deferred Note Interest Amounts and Deferred Contract Payment Amounts will be paid to Holders of the relevant Series of Trust Securities on a pro rata basis on the applicable Distribution Dates on which such amounts are received by the Issuer Trust (or as soon thereafter as the Property Trustee determines to be practicable).

(f) In the event the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent receives any other cash or non-cash payments or distributions with respect to Corresponding Assets for any Series of Trust Preferred Securities (including promissory notes of the Depositor delivered pursuant to (i) Section 2.7(c) of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement if there are any Deferred Contract Payment Amounts outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date or (ii) Section 2.5(c) of the Indenture Supplement if there are any Deferred Note Interest Amounts outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date), the Property Trustee shall distribute or cause to be distributed through the Paying Agent such cash amounts to the Holders of the related Series of Trust Preferred Securities on a pro rata basis promptly after receipt and may, in its discretion, distribute non-cash amounts on a pro rata basis (or on a basis that is as close as possible to a pro rata basis as it determines to be reasonably practicable).

(g) Distributions in cash on the Trust Securities of a Series with respect to an applicable Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the close of business on the relevant record date for such Distribution Date, which shall be the fifth day of the month in which the relevant Distribution Date falls. Distributions payable on any Trust Securities of a Series that are not punctually paid on an applicable Distribution Date will cease to be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the relevant record date, and such defaulted Distribution will instead be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the special record date or other specified date for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted Distributions.

Section 4.2 Redemption.

(a) On each Preferred Stock Redemption Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Normal PCS and Common Securities at the Preferred Stock Redemption Price.

(b) On any Note Redemption Date prior to the Stock Purchase Date or, if earlier, the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem (i) a Like Amount of Normal PCS and Common Securities at the Note Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid Contract Payments through the date of redemption, (ii) a Like Amount of Capital PCS at the Note Redemption Price and (iii) a Like Amount of Stripped PCS in exchange for the Qualifying Treasury Securities that are Corresponding Assets of the Stripped PCS and a payment equal to accrued and unpaid Contract Payments through the date of redemption.

 

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(c) On each Note Redemption Date following the Stock Purchase Date or, if earlier, the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Capital PCS at the Note Redemption Price.

(d) If a Successful Remarketing occurs, then promptly after the Remarketing Settlement Date the Issuer Trust shall redeem the Capital PCS, in whole but not in part (including Capital PCS issued in connection with a Contingent Exchange Election), in kind by exchanging for each Capital PCS a Like Amount of Notes. If a Failed Remarketing occurs but on the Stock Purchase Date there is no Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding, then promptly after the Stock Purchase Date the Issuer Trust shall redeem the Capital PCS, in whole but not in part, in kind by exchanging for each Capital PCS a Like Amount of Notes. If a Failed Remarketing occurs and there is a Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date, or if the Stock Purchase Contracts terminate in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement prior to a Stock Purchase Date occurring, then the Depositor may instruct the Issuer Trust at any time thereafter when no Deferred Note Interest Amount is outstanding to redeem the Capital PCS, in whole but not in part, in kind by exchanging for each Capital PCS a Like Amount of Notes. Any such redemption will be effected by Book-Entry Transfer of Notes in global form if the Notes then settle and clear through the Clearing Agency, and if the Notes do not then settle and clear through the Clearing Agency by delivery of definitive certificates evidencing the Notes to the Holders of Capital PCS.

(e) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 (or not less than 20 in the case of a redemption in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(d) after a Successful Remarketing) nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. The Depositor shall provide a completed form of notice of redemption not later than five Business Days prior to the date of mailing. All notices of redemption shall state:

(i) the Redemption Date;

(ii) unless the redemption is a redemption of Capital PCS in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(d), the Redemption Price or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption Price is calculated);

(iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Trust Preferred Securities affected;

(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification and the total Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities of the relevant Series to be redeemed;

(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in Section 4.2(e)(ii) below; and

(vi) if the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are not Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates on the Redemption Date, the place or places where the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are to be surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price.

 

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(f) In the case of a redemption of Normal PCS and Common Securities pursuant to Section 4.2(a) or Capital PCS pursuant to Section 4.2(e), in each case for payment of a cash Redemption Price:

(i) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of a Like Amount of Preferred Stock or Notes, as applicable. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account from the Depositor’s redemption of Preferred Stock or Notes, as applicable, for the payment of such Redemption Price.

(ii) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Trust Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(f)(i), the Property Trustee or Paying Agent will, with respect to Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders thereof. With respect to Trust Preferred Securities that are not Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(f)(i), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities upon surrender of their Trust Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right of such Securityholders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

(iii) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Normal PCS and Common Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Normal PCS and Common Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated pro rata to the Common Securities and the Normal PCS being redeemed based upon the relative Liquidation Amounts of such series. The particular Normal PCS to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Normal PCS not previously called for redemption or, if that is not practical, by lot or any other method the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided , however , that so long as the Normal PCS are in book-entry form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Normal PCS. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Normal PCS selected for redemption and, in the case of any Normal PCS selected for partial redemption, the

 

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Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Normal PCS shall relate, in the case of any Normal PCS redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Normal PCS that has been or is to be redeemed.

(iv) If less than all the Outstanding Capital PCS are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the particular Capital PCS to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Capital PCS not previously called for redemption or, if that is not practical, by lot or any other method the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided , however , that so long as the Capital PCS are in book-entry form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Capital PCS. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Capital PCS selected for redemption and, in the case of any Capital PCS selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Capital PCS shall relate, in the case of any Capital PCS redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Capital PCS that has been or is to be redeemed.

(v) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be made to the recordholders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be one Business Day prior to the relevant Redemption Date; provided , however , that in the event that the Trust Preferred Securities do not remain in book-entry-only form, the relevant record date shall be the date fifteen days prior to the relevant Redemption Date.

Section 4.3 Subordination of Common Securities.

(a) If on any Distribution Date the Paying Agent lacks funds available from payments of interest, dividends or Contract Payments (as applicable) to make full Distributions then due on all of the outstanding Trust Securities in accordance with Section 4.1 (other than because of the Depositor’s proper exercise of its right to defer payment of Contract Payments or interest on the Notes), then:

(i) if the deficiency in funds results from the Depositor’s failure to make a full payment of interest on the Notes on an interest payment date for the Notes, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of interest on the Notes shall be applied first to make the Distributions then due on the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to interest payments on the Notes (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal PCS and Capital PCS had the Depositor made a full payment of interest on the Notes) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date;

(ii) if the deficiency in funds results from the Depositor’s failure to make a full payment of Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts on a payment date for Contract Payments, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of Contract Payments shall be applied first to make Distributions then due on the Normal PCS and the Stripped PCS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to the Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal PCS and the Stripped PCS had the Depositor made a full payment of Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date; and

 

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(iii) if the deficiency in funds results from the Depositor’s failure to pay a full dividend on shares of Preferred Stock on a dividend payment date for the Preferred Stock, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of dividends on the Preferred Stock shall be applied first to make Distributions then due on the Normal PCS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to dividends on the Preferred Stock (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal PCS had the Depositor paid a full dividend on the Preferred Stock) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date.

(b) If on any Redemption Date for a redemption pursuant to Section 4.2(a) the Paying Agent lacks funds available from the Depositor’s redemption of shares of Preferred Stock to pay the full Redemption Price then due on all of the outstanding Trust Securities to be redeemed in accordance with Section 4.2, then (i) the available funds shall be applied first to pay the Redemption Price on the Trust Preferred Securities to be redeemed on such Redemption Date and (ii) Common Securities shall be redeemed only to the extent funds are available for such purpose after the payment of the full Redemption Price on the Trust Preferred Securities to be redeemed, as aforesaid.

(c) If an Early Termination Event occurs, no Liquidation Distributions shall be made on the Common Securities until full Liquidation Distributions have been made on each Series of Trust Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.4(d).

(d) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from any Note Event of Default or Preferred Stock Default, the Holders of the Common Securities will be deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of Default with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities and not on behalf of the Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.

Section 4.4 Payment Procedures.

Payments of cash Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities shall, subject to the next succeeding sentence, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if the Trust Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency in immediately available funds, which shall credit the relevant Persons’ accounts at such Clearing Agency on the applicable Distribution Dates. A Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities may receive payments of cash Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon written request to the Property Trustee not later than the 15th calendar day, whether or not a Business Day, before the relevant Distribution Date. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Common Securities.

 

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Section 4.5 Tax Returns and Reports.

The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at the Depositor’s expense, and file all United States Federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports required to be filed by or in respect of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal Revenue Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in each taxable year of the Issuer Trust, and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each Securityholder the appropriate Internal Revenue Service forms required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Issuer Trustees shall comply with United States Federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities.

Section 4.6 Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust.

The Depositor shall pay to the Trust, and reimburse the Trust for, the full amount of any costs, expenses or liabilities of the Trust (other than obligations of the Trust to pay the Holders of any Trust Preferred Securities or other similar interests in the Trust the amounts due such Holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities or such other similar interests, as the case may be), including, without limitation, any taxes, duties or other governmental charges of whatever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority. Such payment obligation includes any such costs, expenses or liabilities of the Trust that are required by applicable law to be satisfied in connection with a dissolution of the Trust.

Section 4.7 Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.

Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities (or any Owner with respect thereto) shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or Owner) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, Section 3.1 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or Section 5.16 of this Trust Agreement.

Section 4.8 Combination of Stripped PCS and Normal PCS after Stock Purchase Date.

If either (x) there has been a Successful Remarketing or (y) there has been a Failed Remarketing but on the Stock Purchase Date there is no Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding (but in the case of each of clause (x) and (y) only if the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement is fully performed on the Stock Purchase Date), at the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on the Business Day next succeeding the Stock Purchase Date each Stripped PCS with its $1,000 Liquidation Amount shall automatically be and become a Normal PCS with a $1,000 Liquidation Amount, and each Stripped PCS Certificate (whether or not a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be deemed to represent a number of Normal PCS equal to the number of Stripped PCS represented by such Stripped PCS Certificate immediately prior to the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on such date. If there has been a Failed Remarketing and on the Stock Purchase Date there is a Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding, then Stripped PCS will continue to remain outstanding after the Stock Purchase Date until the first date on which no Deferred Note Interest Amount is outstanding (including because any notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.5(c) of the Indenture Supplement have been fully paid) and, on the Business Day after all Deferred Note Interest Amounts have been fully paid, each Stripped PCS with its $1,000 Liquidation Amount shall automatically be and become a Normal PCS with a $1,000 Liquidation Amount, and each Stripped PCS Certificate (whether or not a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be deemed to represent a number of Normal PCS equal to the number of Stripped PCS represented by such Stripped

 

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PCS Certificate immediately prior to the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on such date. On or after such date determined pursuant to either of the two preceding sentences, (a) upon surrender by a Holder of a Stripped PCS Certificate to the Securities Registrar, an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Securities Registrar (who shall then deliver to such Holder) a Normal PCS Certificate representing the appropriate number of Normal PCS, and the Securities Registrar shall enter such Holder as appropriate in the Securities Register for the Normal PCS, and (b) as to Normal PCS and Stripped PCS represented by Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee, the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent shall cooperate in an effort to cause the Stripped PCS to become Normal PCS in accordance with the rules and procedures of the applicable Clearing Agency (including, in the case of DTC if it is the Clearing Agency, adjustment if necessary or appropriate through DTC’s Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian (DWAC) system).

ARTICLE V

T RUST S ECURITIES C ERTIFICATES

Section 5.1 Initial Ownership.

Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer Trust.

Section 5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates.

The Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of one Trust Preferred Security and integral multiples thereof (corresponding to $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof), and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of one Common Security and integral multiples thereof (corresponding to $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof). Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates shall not be issued in denominations representing fractions of a Trust Preferred Security or Common Security, as applicable. The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust by manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, Administrative Trustees shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be Administrative Trustees prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 5.4, 5.11 or 5.13.

Section 5.3 Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.

On the Closing Date, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities Certificates representing the number of Trust Securities of the applicable Series provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5 to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president, any executive vice president or any vice president, treasurer or assistant treasurer or controller, without further corporate action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations.

 

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Section 5.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates (the “ Securities Register ”) in which the registrar designated by the Depositor (the “ Securities Registrar ”), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.10 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. The provisions of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d)(i), (d)(iii) and (d)(iv) thereof), 8.3 (other than (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 shall apply to the Securities Registrar in the same manner that by their terms they apply to the Property Trustee, mutatis mutandis, as modified by the terms of the letter agreement, dated June •, 2007 (the “ Agent Agreement ”), by and among the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof, and subject to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Securities Registrar under the Collateral Agreement. The Depositor shall take such action as shall be necessary to ensure that at all times there is a Securities Registrar and that, through the Stock Purchase Date, the same commercial bank or trust company is both Securities Registrar and Collateral Agent. By executing this Trust Agreement, the Depositor appoints The Bank of New York as the initial Securities Registrar. Subject to the second preceding sentence, the Depositor may dismiss the Securities Registrar and appoint a commercial bank or trust company to act as successor Securities Registrar. Any Person acting as Securities Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Securities Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Preferred Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute on behalf of the Issuer Trust and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees. At the option of a Holder, Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same Series and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8. Neither the Issuer Trust nor the Securities Registrar shall be required, pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.4, (a) to register the transfer of or exchange any Trust Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Trust Preferred Securities and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of notice of redemption or (b) to transfer or exchange any Trust Preferred Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Trust Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.

Every Trust Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative Trustee and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by an Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar in accordance with such Person’s customary practice.

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

 

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Section 5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.

If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like series, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.

Section 5.6 Persons Deemed Securityholders.

The Issuer Trustees or the Securities Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrative Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.

Section 5.7 Access to List of Securityholders’ Names and Addresses.

Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the Issuer Trustees or the Securities Registrar accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

Section 5.8 Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Administrative Trustees shall maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and for payment, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate the Securities Registrar’s Corporate Trust Office as its principal corporate trust office for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and to the Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.

Section 5.9 Appointment of Paying Agent.

The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Securityholders from the Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if such Trustees determine in their sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement in any material respect. The Administrative Trustees hereby appoint The Bank of New York as the initial Paying Agent,

 

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and authorize The Bank of New York to designate any co-paying agent that is acceptable to the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the event that The Bank of New York shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor that is reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee and the Depositor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Administrative Trustees shall cause such successor Paying Agent, any co-paying agent designated by The Bank of New York or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees to execute and deliver to the Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent, co-paying agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent, co-paying agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d)(i), (d)(iii) and (d)(iv) thereof), 8.3 (other than (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 shall apply also to the Paying Agent for so long as it shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder, in the same manner that by their terms they apply to the Property Trustee, mutatis mutandis , as modified by the terms of the Agent Agreement. Any reference in this Trust Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

Section 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.

At the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire and retain beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, other than a transfer in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Base Indenture, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than to a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Depositor shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend stating “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE”.

Section 5.11 Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities Certificate.

(a) Except where Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates have been issued to Owners pursuant to Section 5.15:

(i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall apply and be in full force and effect;

(ii) the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Issuer Trustees shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency, or its nominee, for all purposes of this Declaration of Trust relating to the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates (including the payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and the giving of instructions or directions to Owners of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates) as the sole Holder of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof, and neither any Clearing Agency Participants nor any other Persons on whose behalf Clearing Agency Participants may act shall have any rights under this Declaration of Trust with respect to any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of the Clearing Agency or any nominee thereof or otherwise;

 

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(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 5.11 conflict with any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the provisions of this Section 5.11 shall control; and

(iv) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depositary Agreement, unless and until Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 5.15, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Trust Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency Participants. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) the Holder of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including the Clearing Agency Participants and other Persons that are Owners, to take any action that a Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the relevant Series is entitled to take under this Trust Agreement or the Trust Preferred Securities of the relevant Series, and (y) nothing herein shall prevent the Securities Registrar or the Issuer Trustees from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Clearing Agency or shall impair, as between the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency Participants, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of an Owner of any Trust Preferred Security.

(b) Any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate shall represent such number of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate number of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate number of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect transfers, redemptions or exchanges (including the Exchanges pursuant to Section 5.13). Any endorsement of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to reflect the number, or any increase or decrease in the number, of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series represented thereby shall be made by the Securities Registrar (i) in such a manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified in such Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series or in a Depositor Order to be delivered to the Securities Registrar pursuant to Section 5.3 or (ii) otherwise in accordance with written instructions or such other written form or instructions as is customary for the Clearing Agency for such Trust Preferred Securities, from such Clearing Agency or its nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate. Subject to the provisions of Section 5.4, the Securities Registrar shall deliver and redeliver any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified in such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate or in the applicable Depositor Order (and an Administrative Trustee shall execute such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate as shall be necessary in order to give effect to the foregoing).

(c) Any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may be deposited with the Clearing Agency or its nominee, or may remain in the custody of the Certificate Custodian.

(d) Notwithstanding Section 5.4, transfers of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Clearing Agency, its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of Owners in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency. Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be transferred to Owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in

 

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a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate if, and only if, either (1) the Clearing Agency notifies the Depositor and the Securities Registrar that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Clearing Agency for the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities or if at any time the Clearing Agency ceases to be a Clearing Agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, a successor Clearing Agency is not appointed by the Depositor within 90 days of such notice, (2) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Securities Registrar has received a request from the Clearing Agency to issue Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of each Series in lieu of all or a portion of the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities (in which case an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates within 30 days of such request), or (3) the Depositor determines not to have the Trust Preferred Securities represented by the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

(e) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interests in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to Owners pursuant to this Section 5.11, the Securities Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the number of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series in an amount equal to the number of such Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series to be transferred, and an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver one or more Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the same Series representing the appropriate number of Trust Preferred Securities of such Series.

(f) In connection with the transfer of all the beneficial interests in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to Owners pursuant to this Section 5.11, the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Securities Registrar for cancellation, and an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver to each Owner identified by the Clearing Agency in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate being canceled, a Definitive Trust Preferred Security Certificate representing an equal number of Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Series.

(g) None of the Issuer Trustees, the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent or the Depositor will have any responsibility or liability for any acts or omissions of any Clearing Agency with respect to any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, or any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of, Trust Preferred Securities by the Clearing Agency, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records of the Clearing Agency relating to the Trust Preferred Securities, or for any transactions between or among a Clearing Agency and a Clearing Agency Participant and/or an Owner of a beneficial interest in any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities for transfers of beneficial interests in any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities. None of the Issuer Trustees, the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent or the Depositor shall be liable for any delay by the Clearing Agency in identifying Owners, and each such Person may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, instructions from the Clearing Agency for all purposes (including with respect to the registration and delivery, in the respective amounts, of Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to be issued).

(h) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.

Section 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency.

To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Owners is required under this Trust Agreement, for so long as Trust Preferred Securities are represented by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, the Issuer Trustees shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Owners to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to give such notice or other communication to the Owners.

 

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Section 5.13 Exchanges.

(a) This Section 5.13 provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders:

(i) of Normal PCS may exchange Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS; and

(ii) of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS may exchange Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for Normal PCS and Pledged Treasury Securities

(each, an “ Exchange ”, and the terms “ Exchanged ”, “ Exchanging ” and “ Exchanges ” having correlative meanings). All deposits, deliveries or transfers by a Holder pursuant to this Section 5.13 of Normal PCS, Capital PCS and treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities) shall be made by Book-Entry Transfer unless the recipient of such deposit, delivery or transfer expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

(b) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, during any Exchange Period a Holder of Normal PCS may effect an Exchange of Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Normal PCS for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS, each having a Liquidation Amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Normal PCS to be Exchanged, by:

(i) depositing with the Collateral Agent the treasury security that is the Qualifying Treasury Security on the date of deposit, in the principal amount of $1,000 for each Normal PCS being Exchanged;

(ii) transferring the Normal PCS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar; and

(iii) delivering to the Collateral Agent and the Securities Registrar, together with the deposit of Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited pursuant to clause (i) and the transfer of Normal PCS pursuant to clause (ii), a duly executed and completed “ Stripping Notice and Request ” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Normal PCS Certificate (x) stating that the Holder is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account, (y) stating that the Holder is transferring the related Normal PCS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS, and (z) requesting the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS.

(c) Upon the deposit and transfer pursuant to Section 5.13(b) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in Section 5.13(b)(iii):

(i) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge, transfer such Pledged Notes to the Custody Account free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, and confirm to the Property Trustee in writing that such release and transfer has occurred;

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(iii) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Normal PCS transferred pursuant to Section 5.13(b)(ii) and deliver a Like Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Series.

(d) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, during any Exchange Period a Holder of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS may effect an Exchange of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for Normal PCS and Pledged Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of each of the Stripped PCS and Capital PCS being Exchanged, by:

(i) transferring the Stripped PCS and the Capital PCS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar; and

(ii) delivering to the Securities Registrar, together with the transfer of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS pursuant to clause (i), and concurrently delivering to the Collateral Agent a duly executed and completed “ Recombination Notice and Request ” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Capital PCS Certificate and Stripped PCS Certificate, (x) stating that the Holder is transferring the related Stripped PCS and Capital PCS to the Securities Registrar in connection with the Exchange of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for a Like Amount of each of Normal PCS and Pledged Treasury Securities, (y) requesting the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of each of the Stripped PCS and Capital PCS being exchanged, and (z) requesting the Securities Registrar to deliver to the Holder Normal PCS of a Like Amount.

(e) Upon the transfer pursuant to Section 5.13(d) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in Section 5.13(d):

(i) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Treasury Securities of a Like Amount from the Pledge and deliver such formerly Pledged Treasury Securities to the Holder free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, and confirm in writing to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees that such release and transfer has occurred;

(ii) the Collateral Agent will transfer a Like Amount of Notes from the Custody Account to the Collateral Account, re-subjecting such Notes to the Pledge; and

(iii) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS delivered pursuant to Section 5.13(d) and deliver a Like Amount of Normal PCS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Series.

Section 5.14 Remarketing Elections.

(a) This Section 5.14 provides for the procedures pursuant to which a Holder:

(i) of Normal PCS may elect (a “ Contingent Exchange Election ”) to cause the Pledged Notes that are Corresponding Assets for such Holder’s Normal PCS not to be offered in a Remarketing, with the consequence that such Holder will receive in exchange Stripped PCS and Capital PCS in a Like Amount if the Remarketing is Successful; and

 

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(ii) of Capital PCS may elect (a “ Contingent Disposition Election ”) to cause the Notes that are Corresponding Assets for such Holder’s Capital PCS to be offered in the Remarketing, with the consequence that such Holder will receive the cash proceeds, net of the allocable portion of the Remarketing Agent’s fee, of the Remarketing of such Notes.

(b) Upon the written instruction of the Depositor, the Property Trustee shall give appropriate instructions to the Collateral Agent and the Remarketing Agent in accordance with the Remarketing Agreement to offer for sale in each Remarketing, and if the Remarketing is Successful sell as part of such Remarketing, a principal amount of Notes (or, if the Depositor shall have elected to remarket the Notes in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities, a liquidation amount of New Trust Preferred Securities) equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes included in the Trust Property minus the sum of (x) the Liquidation Amount of Normal PCS as to which a Contingent Exchange Election has been made and (y) the Liquidation Amount of Capital PCS other than Capital PCS as to which a Contingent Disposition Election has been made.

(c) All deposits, deliveries or transfers by a Holder pursuant to this Section 5.14 of Normal PCS, Capital PCS and treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities) shall be made by Book-Entry Transfer unless the recipient of such deposit, delivery or transfer expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

(d) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, a Holder of Normal PCS may make a Contingent Exchange Election by:

(i) during the period that commences with the Collateral Agent’s and the Securities Registrar’s opening of normal business hours on the tenth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of a Remarketing Period and ending at 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of such Remarketing Period, transferring the Normal PCS that are the subject of such Contingent Exchange Election to the Securities Registrar, accompanied by a duly executed and completed “ Notice of Contingent Exchange Election ” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Normal PCS Certificate; and

(ii) by not later than 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of such Remarketing Period, depositing with the Collateral Agent, the treasury security that is the Qualifying Treasury Security on the date of deposit, in the amount of $1,000 for each Normal PCS that is subject to the Contingent Exchange Election.

(e) If a Holder has made an effective Contingent Exchange Election in accordance with the foregoing provisions:

(i) if the related Remarketing is Successful:

(x) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge, transfer such Notes to the Custody Account free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, deposit in the Collateral Account as Pledged Treasury Securities the Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(ii) and confirm to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees in writing that such release of transfers has occurred;

 

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(y) the Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such Notes in the Custody Account as Custodial Agent for the Issuer Trust in connection with Capital PCS for which such Notes are Corresponding Assets; and

(z) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Normal PCS transferred pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(i) and deliver a Like Amount of Capital PCS and Stripped PCS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Series; and

(ii) if the related Remarketing is not Successful:

(x) promptly after the last day of the Remarketing Period, the Collateral Agent will deliver back to such Holder the Qualifying Treasury Securities delivered by such Holder to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Section 5.14(d)(ii); and

(y) the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Normal PCS pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(i), with the consequence that such Holder shall be deemed continued to hold such Normal PCS.

(f) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, a Holder of Capital PCS may make a Contingent Disposition Election by, during the period that commences with the Securities Registrar’s opening of normal business hours on the tenth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of a Remarketing Period and ending at 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of such Remarketing Period, transferring the Capital PCS that are the subject of such Contingent Disposition Election to the Securities Registrar, accompanied by a duly completed “ Notice of Contingent Disposition Election ” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Capital PCS Certificate.

(g) If a Holder has made an effective Contingent Disposition Election in accordance with the foregoing provisions:

(i) if the related Remarketing is Successful:

(x) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Capital PCS transferred pursuant to Section 5.14(f); and

(y) on or promptly after the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent will pay to the Property Trustee or its designee, and the Property Trustee through the Paying Agent will pay to such Holder, an amount in cash for each Capital PCS subject to such Contingent Disposition Election equal to the proceeds of sale of $1,000 principal amount of Notes, net of a pro rata portion of the Remarketing Agent’s fee, in the Remarketing; and

(ii) if the Remarketing is not Successful, the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Capital PCS pursuant to Section 5.14(f), with the consequence that such Holder shall continue to hold such Capital PCS.

 

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Section 5.15 Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

The Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery shall be issued as Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with Section 2.4. Additionally, if (a) the Depositor advises the Issuer Trustees in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its duties with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and the Depositor is unable locate a qualified successor, (b) the Depositor at its option advises the Issuer Trustees in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (c) after the occurrence of a Note Event of Default, Owners of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Series, considered together as a single Series, advise the Administrative Trustees in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the Owners of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, then the Administrative Trustees shall notify the other Issuer Trustees and the Clearing Agency, and the Clearing Agency shall notify all Owners of Trust Preferred Securities of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of such series, as applicable, requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Administrative Trustees of the Trust Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar nor the Issuer Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, the Issuer Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as holders of Trust Securities. The Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees that meets the requirements of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the Trust Preferred Securities are then listed or approved for trading, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them.

Section 5.16 Rights of Securityholders; Waivers of Past Defaults.

(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such), on behalf of the Issuer Trust, subject to and in accordance with Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Preferred Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to shareholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

(b) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series remain Outstanding, if, upon a Note Event of Default, the Note Trustee fails or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes fail to declare the principal of all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the Property Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series then Outstanding, considered together as a single class, shall have the right to make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Depositor, the Note Trustee and the Property Trustee, in the case of notice by the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series, or to

 

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the Depositor, the Note Trustee and the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series, in the case of notice by the Property Trustee, and upon any such declaration such principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Notes shall become immediately due and payable as provided in the Indenture, provided, however , that the payment of principal and interest on such Notes shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in the Indenture.

At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Note Trustee as provided in the Indenture, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series, considered together as a single class, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

(A) all overdue installments of interest (including any Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture)) on all of the Notes,

(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Notes that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest (including any Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture)) thereon at the rate borne by the Notes, and

(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Notes, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture.

The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series, considered together as a single class, may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series, waive any past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of principal or interest (unless such default has been cured or annulled as provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture and the Company has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all overdue installments of interest (including any Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture)) on the Notes, the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Notes which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the Notes, and all sums paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee and the Property Trustee, their agents and counsel) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision which under the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Note. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series a record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, however , that unless such declaration of

 

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acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day that is 90 days after such record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.16(b).

(c) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, upon a Note Event of Default specified in the Indenture Supplement, any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of a Like Amount of Notes (a “ Direct Action ”). Except as set forth in Section 5.16(b) and this Section 5.16(c), the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Notes.

(d) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, if the Depositor fails to pay when due any Contract Payments under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement (after giving effect to the Depositor’s deferral right under Section 2.7 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement), any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of a Like Amount of Stock Purchase Contracts (also a “ Direct Action ”). Except as set forth in this Section 5.16(d), the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Series shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement available to the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) as a party thereto.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5.16(a), (b), (c) and (d), the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising there from shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 5.17 CUSIP Numbers.

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

 

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Section 5.18 Remarketing Procedures.

(a) The Depositor will give notice to the Property Trustee of a Remarketing at least 28 days prior to the first day of the related Remarketing Period. Upon written instruction of the Depositor (accompanied by a notice prepared in accordance with the requirements of this Section 5.18), the Property Trustee will give holders of Normal PCS and Capital PCS, and will request that the Clearing Agency give to its participants holding Normal PCS or Capital PCS, notice of a Remarketing at least 21 days prior to the first day of the related Remarketing Period. Such notices will set forth:

(i) the beginning and ending dates of the Remarketing Period and the applicable Remarketing Settlement Date and Stock Purchase Date in the event the Remarketing is successful;

(ii) for interest periods for the Notes commencing on or after the Remarketing Settlement Date, the applicable interest payment dates and related record dates;

(iii) any change in the stated maturity date of the Notes and, if applicable, the date on and after which the Depositor will have the right to redeem the Notes other than pursuant to a Special Event (which is subject to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement);

(iv) whether, in connection with an Early Remarketing that is not the first scheduled Remarketing, the Depositor’s obligations under the Notes will no longer be subordinated to Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture) and no longer be subject to deferral after the Remarketing Settlement Date;

(v) any other changes in the terms of the Notes notified by the Depositor in connection with such Remarketing pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement (including on a Final Remarketing that is a Failed Remarketing, any change in the Stated Maturity Date (as defined in the Indenture) and, if applicable, the date on or after which the Issuer Trust will have the right to redeem the Notes other than pursuant to a Special Event (which is subject to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement));

(vi) the procedures a Holder of Normal PCS must follow to elect to exchange its Normal PCS for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS if the Remarketing is Successful, and the date by which such election must be made; and

(vii) the procedures a Holder of Capital PCS must follow to elect to dispose of its Capital PCS in connection with a Remarketing and the date by which such election must be made.

ARTICLE VI

A CTS OF H OLDERS ; M EETINGS ; V OTING

Section 6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights.

(a) Except as expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of Trust Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management of the Issuer Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as partners or members of an association.

 

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(b) So long as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or execute any trust or power conferred on the Note Trustee with respect to the Notes, (ii) waive any past default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Notes shall be due and payable, or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where such consent shall be required by the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS then Outstanding, considered together as a single class; provided, however , that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Notes affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal PCS and Capital PCS. The Issuer Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS. The Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS of any notice of default received with respect to the Notes. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes.

(c) For so long as any Stock Purchase Contracts are outstanding, at the request of the Depositor, the Property Trustee may consent to any amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, without having obtained the prior approval of the Holders of any Trust Preferred Securities to such amendment or modification, for the purposes of (i) evidencing the succession of another person to the Issuer Trust’s or the Property Trustee’s obligations thereunder, (ii) adding to the covenants therein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee or to surrender any of the Depositor’s rights or powers thereunder, (iii) evidencing and providing for the acceptance of appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary under the Collateral Agreement, (iv) curing any ambiguity, or correcting or supplementing any provisions that may be inconsistent, (v) conforming the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, to the descriptions thereof in the Prospectus, or (vi) making any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions, provided , however , that such action pursuant to this clause (vi) shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of any Series in any material respect. At the request of the Depositor, the Property Trustee may, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal PCS and Stripped PCS then Outstanding, considered together as a single class, agree to any other amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, except that, without obtaining the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal PCS and Capital PCS then Outstanding, the Issuer Trustees may not agree to any amendment or modification that would (A) change any payment dates for Contract Payments, (B) change the amount or type of Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities required to be pledged under the Collateral Agreement, impair the right of the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) to receive distributions on Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights in or to the Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, (C) change the place or currency or reduce any Contract Payments, (D) impair the Property Trustee’s right (or any Holder’s right pursuant to Section 5.16(d)) to institute suit for the enforcement of the Stock Purchase Contracts or payment of any Contract Payments, or (E) reduce the number of shares of Preferred Stock purchasable under the Stock Purchase Contracts, increase the price to purchase Preferred Stock upon settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts, change the Stock Purchase Date or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights under the Stock Purchase Contracts.

 

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(d) So long as any shares of Preferred Stock are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trustees shall not waive any Preferred Stock Default without obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal PCS and the Stripped PCS then Outstanding, considered together as a single class. Additionally, in addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer Trustees shall not consent to any amendment to the Statement of Designation or the Depositor’s articles of incorporation that would change the dates on which dividends are payable on the Preferred Stock or the amount of such dividends, without the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal PCS and Stripped PCS. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of Normal PCS and Stripped PCS, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Property Trustee shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes.

(e) If any proposed amendment to or modification of the Trust Agreement, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement provides for, or any of the Issuer Trustees otherwise proposes to effect, any action that would adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series in a manner that is different from the manner in which it would affect the Trust Preferred Securities of other Series, whether by way of amendment to or modification of the Trust Agreement, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement or otherwise, then the Holders of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Series will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of such Series. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes.

(f) No amendment to or modification of any Transaction Document that adversely affects the rights, duties or immunities of the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary or the Custodial Agent shall be effective as against any such affected party without its consent.

(g) The Property Trustee may request a vote or seek the consent of the Holders of the applicable series of PCS in connection with any matters on which it is permitted to exercise voting or other consensual rights with respect to the Notes pursuant to Section 7.01 of the Collateral Agreement.

Section 6.2 Notice of Meetings.

Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any one or more Series, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 12.9 to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Series entitled to attend such meeting, at such Holder’s registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.

Section 6.3 Meetings of Securityholders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

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on any matter upon the written request of the Securityholders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Series; the Administrative Trustees shall call a meeting of the Securityholders of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Series to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Securityholders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of all Series, considered together; and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series to vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.

The Holders of record of 50% of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Applicable Series entitled to attend a meeting, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Securityholders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Securityholders present, in person or by proxy, holding Trust Preferred Securities representing at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Applicable Series entitled to attend such meeting held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Applicable Series invited to attend such meeting, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.

Section 6.4 Voting Rights.

Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of Liquidation Amount represented by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.

Section 6.5 Proxies, Etc.

At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided, however , that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Property Trustee, or with such other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Property Trustee may direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.

Section 6.6 Holder Action by Written Consent.

Any action that may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting and without prior notice if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Trust Preferred Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any other provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing.

Section 6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.

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which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such purposes.

Section 6.8 Acts of Holders.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Administrative Trustees. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “ Act ” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Issuer Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

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

The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust 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 Issuer Trustees, or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.

Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.

If any dispute shall arise between the Holders and the Issuer Trustees or among the Holders or the Issuer Trustees with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.

A Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Depositor under the Guarantee Agreement to enforce its rights under the Guarantee Agreement without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Issuer Trust or any person or entity.

 

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Section 6.9 Inspection of Records.

Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of the Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s interest as a Holder.

Section 6.10 All Votes Must Be Made by a United States Person.

Voting and consensual rights available to or in favor of Holders or Owners under this Trust Agreement may be exercised only by a United States Person that is a beneficial owner of a Trust Security or by a United States Person acting as irrevocable agent with discretionary powers for the beneficial owner of a Trust Security that is not a United States Person. Holders that are not United States Persons must irrevocably appoint a United States Person with discretionary powers to act as their agent with respect to such voting and consensual rights.

ARTICLE VII

R EPRESENTATIONS AND W ARRANTIES

Section 7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.

The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the Holders that:

(a) the Property Trustee is a banking corporation, duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of New York;

(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;

(c) the Delaware Trustee is a limited purpose trust company, duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware;

(d) the Delaware Trustee has full limited purpose trust company power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;

(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and

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does not require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and such execution, delivery and performance will not violate the charter or by-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee.

Section 7.2 Representations and Warranties of Depositor.

The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders that:

(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement, and the Holders will be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and

(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by any Issuer Trustee of this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

T HE I SSUER T RUSTEES

Section 8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees shall be as provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require any of the Issuer Trustees to expend or risk its or their own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its or their duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its or their rights or powers, if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Issuer Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such Issuer Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for such Issuer Trustee’s good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. Except as otherwise required by the Trust Indenture Act and the Commission’s rules thereunder applicable to indentures qualified under such Act, the provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees.

(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Issuer Trustees are not personally liable to such Holder for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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(c) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.11), and no implied covenants shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee.

(d) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

(A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.11), and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.11); and

(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Trust Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform on their face to the requirements of this Trust Agreement;

(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the written direction (and the Property Trustee shall be entitled in writing to request, and upon such request, to receive such written direction) of the Depositor or the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Affected Series considered together as a single Series, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;

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undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture Act, and (B) in case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant hereto), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs, subject to the protections and limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture Act;

(v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law; and

(vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees, the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Registrar, the Custodial Agent, the Paying Agent, the Remarketing Agent or any other Person, with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement or any Transaction Document, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee, the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Registrar, the Custodial Agent, the Paying Agent, the Remarketing Agent or any other Person.

Section 8.2 Certain Notices.

Within 30 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.9, notice of such Event of Default to the Holders of each Affected Series, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

For so long as Notes are included within the Trust Property, within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.9, notice of such exercise to the Holders of the Normal PCS and the Capital PCS, unless by like notice such exercise shall have been revoked.

If during any calendar year any original issue discount shall have accrued on the Notes, the Depositor shall file with each Paying Agent (including the Property Trustee if it is a Paying Agent) promptly at the end of such calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on outstanding Notes as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

For so long as Stock Purchase Contracts are included within the Trust Property, within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer Contract Payments, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.9, notice of such exercise to the Holders of the Normal PCS and the Stripped PCS, unless such exercise shall have been revoked.

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dividend payment date, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.9, notice of such decision to the Holders of the Normal PCS and Stripped PCS, unless such notice shall have been revoked.

The Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Property Trustee shall have received written notice or a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee having direct responsibility for the administration of this Trust Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge of such Event of Default.

Section 8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:

(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, judgment, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document (including e-mail, facsimile or other electronic transmission) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person or Persons (without being required to determine the correctness of any fact stated therein);

(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor requesting the Depositor’s opinion as to the course of action to be taken; provided, however , that if the Depositor fails to deliver such opinion, the Property Trustee may take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall deem advisable and in the interests of the Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;

(c) any direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate;

(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trust (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Depositor;

(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any rerecording, refiling or re-registration thereof;

(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection (which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance

 

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with such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;

(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

(h) the Property 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, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;

(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions; and

(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement.

No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on any Issuer Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to any Issuer Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.

Section 8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer Trust and the Depositor, and the Issuer Trustees do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Issuer Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Notes.

 

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Section 8.5 May Hold Securities.

Except as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article I, any Issuer Trustee or any other agent of any Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13, may otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not Issuer Trustee or such other agent.

Section 8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

The Depositor agrees:

(a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by them hereunder as may be separately agreed by the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Issuer Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Issuer Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by their own negligence or bad faith; and

(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Issuer Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee, (iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Issuer Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Issuer Trust (referred to herein as an “ Indemnified Person ”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, action, suit, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation, operation or dissolution of the Issuer Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.

The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and the removal or resignation of any Issuer Trustee. No Issuer Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.

Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, the Depositor or any Issuer Trustee in its individual capacity may engage in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, neither the Depositor nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the Depositor and any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a

 

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partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, any Issuer Trustee in its individual capacity may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as Depositary for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.

Section 8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and Administrative Trustees.

(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank and eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity.

(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law and that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.

Section 8.8 Conflicting Interests.

(a) If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Trust Agreement.

(b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.

Unless and until a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Holder of Common Securities and the Administrative Trustees, by agreed action of the majority of such Issuer Trustees, shall have power to appoint, and upon the written request of the Administrative Trustees, the Depositor shall for such purpose join with the Administrative Trustees in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, one or more Persons either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property,

 

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title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. If the Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request to do so, or in case a Note Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the sole power to make such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity. Any co-trustee or separate trustee shall not be required to meet the other qualifications in Section 8.7(a).

Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Depositor.

Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms, namely:

(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered, and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Issuer Trustees specified hereunder shall be exercised solely by the Issuer Trustees and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.

(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.

(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this Section, and, in case a Note Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigning or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.

(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.

(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co-trustee or separate trustee.

(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.

 

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Section 8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the “ Relevant Trustee ”) and no appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Issuer Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11.

Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders. If the instrument of acceptance by the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Issuer Trust, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

Unless a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any Issuer Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Common Securityholder. If a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at such time by Act of the Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may be removed by Act of the Common Securityholder at any time.

If any Issuer Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Issuer Trustee for any cause, at a time when no Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to the retiring Issuer Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Issuer Trustee or Issuer Trustees, and the retiring Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trust Preferred Securityholders, by Act of the Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee with a copy to the Property Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If an Administrative Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a time when a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Common Securityholder by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to the Administrative Trustee, with a copy to the Property Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees and such successor Administrative Trustee or Trustees shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Capital Securityholders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, the retiring Relevant Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer Trust, or any Securityholder who has been a Securityholder of Trust Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of an Issuer Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 12.9 and shall give notice to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.

Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee or any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or

 

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incapacity may be filled by (a) the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees if there are at least two of them or (b) otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for the Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, set forth in Section 8.7).

Section 8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Issuer Trustee, such successor Issuer Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the retiring Issuer Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Issuer Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Issuer Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Depositor or any successor Issuer Trustee such retiring Issuer Trustee shall upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Issuer Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Issuer Trustee and if the Property Trustee is the resigning Issuer Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to the successor Issuer Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Property Trustee hereunder.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, the retiring Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust and (b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust.

Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Issuer Trust shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph as the case may be.

No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

Section 8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person, succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided, however , that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.

 

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Section 8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust.

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any other obligor upon the Issuer Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property 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;

(c) 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 Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.

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

Section 8.14 Reports by Property Trustee.

(a) Not later than May 15 of each year commencing with May 15, 2008, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 12.9, and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as of the immediately preceding December 31 with respect to:

(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge it has continued to be eligible under said Section, a written statement to such effect;

(ii) a statement that the Property Trustee has complied with all of its obligations under this Trust Agreement during the twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period since the Closing Date) ending with such December 31 or, if the Property Trustee has not complied in any material respect with such obligations, a description of such noncompliance; and

(iii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects the Trust Securities.

 

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(b) In addition, the Property Trustee shall, at the expense of the Depositor, transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with each national stock exchange or interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Preferred Securities are listed or quoted, if any, and with the Commission and the Depositor.

Section 8.15 Reports to the Property Trustee.

The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 8.16 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

Section 8.17 Number of Issuer Trustees.

(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be four, provided, however , that the Holder of all of the Common Securities by written instrument may increase or decrease the number of Administrative Trustees. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.

(b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 8.17(a), or if the number of Issuer Trustees is increased pursuant to clause (a), a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.

(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 8.10, the Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.

Section 8.18 Delegation of Power.

(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a), including any registration statement or amendment thereto filed with the Commission, or making any governmental filing.

 

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(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number the doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement, as set forth herein.

ARTICLE IX

D ISSOLUTION , L IQUIDATION AND M ERGER

Section 9.1 Perpetual Existence.

The Issuer Trust shall have perpetual existence and shall be dissolved only in accordance with this Article IX.

Section 9.2 Early Termination.

The first to occur of any of the following events is an “ Early Termination Event ”:

(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of, the Holder of the Common Securities;

(b) at any time after the Stock Purchase Date or earlier termination of the Stock Purchase Contracts, the written direction of the Property Trustee from the Depositor as the holder of the Common Securities at any time to terminate the Issuer Trust and distribute Corresponding Assets as to Securityholders in exchange for the Trust Preferred Securities (which direction is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Depositor);

(c) the redemption of all of the Trust Preferred Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Trust Agreement; and

(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction.

If an Early Termination Event occurs, Section 9.4 shall apply.

Section 9.3 Dissolution.

The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders.

Section 9.4 Liquidation.

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the requirements of Section 3808(e) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Series a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, subject to Section 9.4(d). If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (d) of Section 9.2 occurs, because such Early Termination Event is also an Early Settlement Event, unless otherwise required by applicable law the Issuer Trust will not be liquidated until after the Stock Purchase Date but, commencing promptly after the Stock Purchase Date, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees as expeditiously as the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Series a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Series at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of liquidation shall:

(i) state the CUSIP Number of the Trust Securities of each Series;

(ii) state the Liquidation Date;

(iii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities of such Series will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, a right to receive a Liquidation Distribution; and

(iv) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates of such Series for Corresponding Assets, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees shall deem appropriate.

(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Corresponding Assets to Holders, the Administrative Trustees through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be not more than 30 days prior to the Liquidation Date) and, establish such procedures as they shall deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Corresponding Assets in exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates of the related Series.

(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) if the Corresponding Assets for a Series of Trust Preferred Securities are Notes or shares of Preferred Stock, certificates representing a Like Amount of Notes or Preferred Stock (or fractional interests in or depositary shares for Preferred Stock) will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates of the relevant Series, upon surrender of such certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, and where Pledged Treasury Securities are Corresponding Assets, Pledged Treasury Securities will be delivered by Book-Entry Transfer to Holders upon surrender of such certificates, (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets of the applicable Series until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest, principal, dividends, redemption price or otherwise will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Corresponding Assets) and (iv) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Corresponding Assets upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.

 

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(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Corresponding Assets in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be practical, or if an Early Termination Event specified in clause (c) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust’s affairs wound-up, by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Administrative Trustees determine. In such event, upon the winding-up of the Issuer Trust except with respect to an Early Termination Event specified in clause (c) of Section 9.2, Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the “ Liquidation Distribution ”). If, upon any such winding-up, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). Holders of the Common Securities to receive Liquidation Distributions will be subordinated to the right of Holders of Trust Preferred Securities to receive Liquidation Distributions as provided in Section 4.3(c).

Section 9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust.

The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other body, except pursuant to Section 9.4 or this Section 9.5. At the request of the Holders of the Common Securities, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, but without the consent of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the Issuer Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided, however , that (i) such successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities, or (b) substitutes for the Trust Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Trust Preferred Securities (the “Successor Securities”) so long as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Trust Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Successor Securities of any Series are listed, or any Successor Securities of any Series will be listed upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange or other organization on which the Trust Preferred Securities of such Series are listed, (iii) a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Trust Property, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, (vi) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (vii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, there has been delivered to the Property Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, (viii) there has been delivered to the Issuer Trustees an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters that such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, conveyance, transfer or lease will not cause the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to be classified as an

 

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association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for United States Federal income tax purposes, (ix) the Depositor or its permitted transferee owns all of the Common Securities of such successor entity and the Depositor guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement and (x) all amounts payable to the Issuer Trustees under Section 8.6 have been paid. The Issuer Trust may with the consent of Holders of all of the Trust Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it even if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would otherwise not be permitted under (viii) of the preceding sentence.

ARTICLE X

Q UALIFYING T REASURY S ECURITIES

Section 10.1 Qualifying Treasury Securities.

(a) The Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall, for each March 20, June 20, September 20 and December 20, commencing on September 20, 2007 and ending on the Stock Purchase Date or the earlier termination of the Stock Purchase Contracts, or if any such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day (each, a “ Reference Date ”) identify:

(i) the 13-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date, or

(ii) if no 13-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date is or is scheduled to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, the 26-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date, or

(iii) if neither of such treasury bills is or is scheduled to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, any other treasury security (which may be a zero coupon treasury security) that is outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, is highly liquid and matures at least one Business Day prior to such Reference Date; provided, however , that any treasury security identified pursuant to this clause (iii) shall be selected in a manner intended to minimize the cash value of the security selected.

(b) The Administrative Trustees shall use commercially reasonable efforts to identify the security meeting the foregoing criteria for each Reference Date promptly after the Department of the Treasury makes the schedule for upcoming auctions of treasury securities publicly available and shall, to the extent that a security previously identified with respect to any Reference Date is no longer expected to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, identify another security meeting the foregoing criteria for such Reference Date. The security most recently identified by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them with respect to any Reference Date shall be the “ Qualifying Treasury Security ” with respect to the period from and including its date of issuance (or if later, the date of maturity of the Qualifying Treasury Security with respect to the immediately preceding Reference Date) to but excluding its date of maturity, and the Administrative Trustees’ identification of a security as a Qualifying Treasury Security for such period shall be final and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall give (or cause to be given) prompt written notice to the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Property Trustee of each determination made pursuant to this Section 10.1. The Qualifying Treasury Security for the period from and including the date hereof to but excluding its date of maturity will be the US Treasury bill issued • and due on •, CUSIP No. •.

 

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ARTICLE XI

O THER PCS R ELATED P ROVISIONS

Section 11.1 Agreed Tax Treatment.

Each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities agrees, by acceptance of Trust Preferred Securities, and each Owner agrees, by acceptance of a beneficial interest in Trust Preferred Securities, to treat for all United States Federal income tax purposes (i) the Issuer Trust as one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements, (ii) itself as the owner of the Corresponding Assets for the related Series of Trust Preferred Securities, (iii) in the case of Normal PCS the fair market value of the $1,000 principal amount of Notes corresponding to one Normal PCS as $1,000 and the fair market value of 1/100th fractional interest in a Stock Purchase Contract corresponding to one Normal PCS as $0 at the time of initial purchase, (iv) the Notes as indebtedness of the Depositor, and (v) the stated interest on the Notes as ordinary interest income that is includible in the Holder’s or Owner’s gross income at the time the interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the Holder’s or Owner’s regular method of tax accounting, and otherwise to treat the Notes as described in the Prospectus.

ARTICLE XII

M ISCELLANEOUS P ROVISIONS

Section 12.1 Limitation of Rights of Holders.

The death, dissolution, bankruptcy or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement nor dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust, nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such person or any Holder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

Section 12.2 Amendment.

(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as a partnership for United States Federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding, to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act or to ensure the treatment of the Trust Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to provide that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature instead of manual signature, in which case such amendment(s) shall also provide for the appointment by the Depositor of an authentication agent, the fees and expenses of which will be paid by the Depositor, a form of authentication certificate, and provisions

 

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to the effect that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates that have been executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless the certificate of authentication thereon has been executed by the authentication agent by manual signature, (iv) require that holders that are not United States Persons for U.S. federal income tax purposes irrevocably appoint a United States Person to exercise any voting rights to ensure that the Trust will not be treated as a foreign trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (v) to conform the terms of this Trust Agreement to the description of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus; provided, however , that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; provided, further , that in the case of clause (iv), the Depositor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to the Depositor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Trust Agreement to the descriptions of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective when notice is given to the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

(b) Prior to the issuance of Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees shall enter into such amendments or supplements to this Agreement as are necessary to give effect to Section 5.13 and 5.14.

(c) Except as provided in Section 12.3(d), any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities and with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Series, and (ii) receipt by the Administrative Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees or the Administrative Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not affect the Issuer Trust’s status as one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for United States Federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act.

(d) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Holder (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6), this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date, or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; and notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Holders, this Section 12.3(d) may not be amended.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act or to be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than as one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements for United States Federal income tax purposes. In particular, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for United States Federal income tax purposes.

(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the prior written consent of the Property Trustee, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Property Trustee or that adversely affects the Property Trustee.

 

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(g) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the prior written consent of the Delaware Trustee, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Delaware Trustee or that adversely affects the Delaware Trustee.

(h) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent or that adversely affects the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent.

(i) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee a copy of such amendment.

(j) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor.

(k) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement.

Section 12.3 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates 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 12.4 Governing Law.

THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE SECURITYHOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST AND THE ISSUER TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES. THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 3540 AND 3561 OF TITLE 12 THE DELAWARE CODE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE ISSUER TRUST.

Section 12.5 Payments Due on Non-Business Day.

If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such date.

Section 12.6 Successors and Assigns.

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Article VIII of the Base Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor’s obligations hereunder or (ii) the First Step Merger, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.

Section 12.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.

Section 12.8 Reports, Notices and Demands.

Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder, the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class, postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holder of Trust Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of the Common Securities or the Depositor, to Mellon Financial Corporation, One Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258, Attention: Secretary, facsimile no.: (412) 234-1813. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission.

Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, or hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed to such Person as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee, to Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company; 25 South Charles Street-16th Floor, Mail Code: MD2-CS58, Baltimore, MD 21201, facsimile No. (410)244-4236; (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to M&T Trust Company of Delaware; 1220 North Market Street, Suite 202, Mail Code: MD1-WD22, Wilmington, DE 19801, facsimile No. 302-661-2266; and (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees of Mellon Capital IV”. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Delaware Trust or the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made for all purposes upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission.

Section 12.9 Agreement Not to Petition.

Each of the Issuer Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust has been dissolved in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “ Bankruptcy Laws ”) or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event that the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 12.10, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against the Issuer Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be stopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust may assert. The provisions of this Section 12.9 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.

 

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Section 12.10 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required or deemed to be part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Issuer Trustee that is a trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.

(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust.

Section 12.11 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture.

THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , the parties hereto have executed this Trust Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION ,
By:      
  Name:
  Title:

 

M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY , as Property Trustee
By:      
  Name:
  Title:

 

M&T T RUST C OMPANY OF D ELAWARE , as Delaware Trustee
By:      
  Name:
  Title:

 

   
 

Steven G. Elliott

      as Administrative Trustee

 

   
 

Michael K. Hughey

      as Administrative Trustee

 

     
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EXHIBIT A

[CERTIFICATE OF TRUST]

 

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Exhibit A

(FORM OF FACE OF CAPITAL PCS CERTIFICATE)

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No. _________    Number of Capital PCS: ______________
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M ELLON C APITAL IV

C APITAL PCS

This Capital PCS Certificate certifies that {                    } is the registered Holder of the number of Capital PCS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Capital PCS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Capital PCS represents a beneficial interest in Mellon Capital IV (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Capital PCS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital PCS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital PCS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June •, 2007, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Trust Agreemen t ”), including the designation of the terms of the Capital PCS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

 

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Section 5.13(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PCS and Stripped PCS may exchange them for Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities and Section 5.14(f) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PCS may elect to dispose of Capital PCS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Recombination Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Disposition Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Capital PCS Certificate.

 

Mellon Capital IV, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees
By:      
  Name:

Date:

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:    ______________ Custodian _____________ (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of ---------------------------------------
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Capital PCS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                              , to transfer said Capital PCS Certificates on the books of Mellon Capital IV, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:    Signature
   NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Capital PCS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

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FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

The Bank of New York,

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

101 Barclay Street, 8W

New York, New York 10286

 

Re: Stripped PCS and Capital PCS of Mellon Capital IV

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, of Mellon Capital IV (the “Trust Agreement”), among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03(a) of the Collateral Agreement that the Holder:

(i) is transferring $                      Liquidation Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for a Like Amount of Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

(ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal PCS of a Like Amount.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:     Signature Guarantee:

Please print name and address of

Registered Holder:

   

Name

 

   

Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification

Number, if any

Address    

 

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FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT DISPOSITION ELECTION

The Bank of New York,

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

101 Barclay Street, 8W

New York, New York 10286

Attention : Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit

 

Re: Normal PCS of Mellon Capital IV

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(f) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, of Mellon Capital IV (the “ Trust Agreement ”), among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is transferring                      Capital PCS to the Securities Registrar, and

(ii) hereby requests the payment to the Holder, if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, of an amount in cash for each such Capital PCS equal to the proceeds of the sale of $1,000 principal amount of Notes, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

 

Date:     Signature Guarantee:

Please print name and address of

Registered Holder:

   
Name     Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address    

 

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in

Number of Capital PCS

evidenced by this

Global Certificate

  

Amount of decrease in

Number of Capital PCS

evidenced by this

Global Certificate

  

Number of Capital PCS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate following such

decrease or increase

  

Signature of authorized

signatory of Securities

Registrar

 

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Exhibit B

(FORM OF TRUST COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE)

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OTHER THAN A TRANSFER IN CONNECTION WITH A CONSOLIDATION OR MERGER OF MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION INTO ANOTHER PERSON, OR ANY CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE BY MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION OF ITS PROPERTIES AND ASSETS SUBSTANTIALLY AS AN ENTIRETY TO ANY PERSON PURSUANT TO SECTION 8.1 OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, DATED AS OF DECEMBER 3, 1996, BETWEEN MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION AND THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, DATED AS OF JUNE •, 2007, AMONG MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION, THE BANK OF NEW YORK (AS SUCCESSOR TO THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK), AS ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, AND MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY, AS SERIES TRUSTEE, AS AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTED FROM TIME TO TIME, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THE COMMON TRUST SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY OTHER THAN TO A DIRECT OR INDIRECT SUBSIDIARY OF MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION SHALL BE VOID.

100 T RUST C OMMON S ECURITIES

This Trust Common Securities Certificate certifies that {                    } is the registered Holder of 100 Common Trust Securities. Each Common Trust Security represents a beneficial interest in Mellon Capital IV (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common Trust Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Trust Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June •, 2007, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Trust Agreement ”), including the designation of the terms of the Common Trust Securities as set forth therein. All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Common Trust Securities Certificate.

 

Mellon Capital IV, acting through one of its

Administrative Trustees

By:      
  Name:

Date:

 

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Exhibit C

(FORM OF FACE OF NORMAL PCS CERTIFICATE)

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No. _________    Number of Normal PCS: ______________
   CUSIP No. •

M ELLON C APITAL IV

N ORMAL PCS

This Normal PCS Certificate certifies that {                    } is the registered Holder of the number of Normal PCS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Normal PCS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Normal PCS represents a beneficial interest in Mellon Capital IV (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Normal PCS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Normal PCS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Normal PCS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June •, 2007, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Trust Agreement ”), including the designation of the terms of the Normal PCS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

Section 5.13(b) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Normal PCS may exchange Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS and Section 5.14(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which

 

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Holders of Normal PCS may elect to exchange Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PCS and Capital PCS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Stripping Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Exchange Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Normal PCS Certificate.

 

Mellon Capital IV, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees

By:

     
  Name:

Date:

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:    ______________ Custodian _____________ (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of ---------------------------------------
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Normal PCS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney __________________, to transfer said Normal PCS Certificates on the books of Mellon Capital IV, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:     Signature
     

NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must

correspond with the name as it appears upon the

face of the within Normal PCS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

Signature Guarantee:

   

 

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FORM OF STRIPPING NOTICE AND REQUEST

The Bank of New York,

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

101 Barclay Street, 8W

New York, New York 10286

Attention : Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit

 

Re: Normal PCS of Mellon Capital IV

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, of Mellon Capital IV (the “Trust Agreement”), among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

(ii) is transferring the related Normal PCS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:    
    Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:      
Name     Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address    

 

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FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT EXCHANGE ELECTION

The Bank of New York,

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

101 Barclay Street, 8W

New York, New York 10286

Attention : Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit

 

Re: Normal PCS of Mellon Capital IV

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June  · , 2007, of Mellon Capital IV (the “ Trust Agreement ”), among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

(ii) is transferring the related Normal PCS to the Securities Registrar in connection with a Contingent Exchange Election of such Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded and the Collateral Agent shall return such Qualifying Treasury Securities to the Holder promptly after the Remarketing.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

 

Date:    
    Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:      
Name     Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address    

 

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in
Number of Normal PCS
evidenced by this
Global Certificate

   Amount of decrease in
Number of Normal PCS
evidenced by this Global
Certificate
   Number of Normal PCS
evidenced by this Global
Certificate following such
decrease or increase
   Signature of authorized
signatory of Securities
Registrar

 

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Exhibit D

(FORM OF FACE OF STRIPPED PCS CERTIFICATE)

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No. _________   

Number of Stripped PCS: ______________

CUSIP No. ·

M ELLON C APITAL IV

S TRIPPED PCS

This Stripped PCS Certificate certifies that {                    } is the registered Holder of the number of Stripped PCS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Stripped PCS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Stripped PCS represents a beneficial interest in Mellon Capital IV (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Stripped PCS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Stripped PCS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Stripped PCS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June •, 2007, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Trust Agreement ”), including the designation of the terms of the Stripped PCS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

Section 5.13(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PCS and Stripped PCS may exchange them for Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities.

 

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The form of Recombination Notice required to be delivered in connection therewith is printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Stripped PCS Certificate.

 

Mellon Capital IV, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees
By:      
  Name:

Date:

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:    ______________ Custodian _____________ (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of ---------------------------------------
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Stripped PCS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                              , to transfer said Stripped PCS Certificates on the books of Mellon Capital IV, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:    Signature
   NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Stripped PCS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Signature Guarantee:   

 

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FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

The Bank of New York,

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

101 Barclay Street, 8W

New York, New York 10286

Attention : Corporate Trust Division — Corporate Finance Unit

 

Re: Stripped PCS and Capital PCS of Mellon Capital IV

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007, of Mellon Capital IV (the “ Trust Agreement ”), among Mellon Financial Corporation, as Depositor, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee, M&T Trust Company of Delaware, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is transferring $                      Liquidation Amount of Stripped PCS and Capital PCS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped PCS and Capital PCS for a Like Amount of Normal PCS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

(ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal PCS of a Like Amount.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:     Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:    
Name     Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address    

 

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in

Number of Stripped

PCS evidenced by this

Global Certificate

  

Amount of decrease in

Number of Stripped PCS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate

  

Number of Stripped PCS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate following such

decrease or increase

  

Signature of authorized

signatory of Securities

Registrar

 

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Exhibit 4.27

 


F ORM OF G UARANTEE A GREEMENT

by and between

MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION

as Guarantor

and

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

as Guarantee Trustee

relating to

MELLON CAPITAL IV

Dated as of June •, 2007

 



CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*

 

Section of Trust

Indenture Act of

1939, as amended

   Section of
Guarantee
Agreement

310(a)

     4.1(a)

(b)

     2.8, 4.1(c)

(c)

     Inapplicable

311(a)

     2.2(b)

(b)

     2.2(b)

(c)

     Inapplicable

312(a)

     2.2(a)

(b)

     2.2(b)

313

     2.3

314(a)

     2.4

(b)

     Inapplicable

(c)

     2.5

(d)

     Inapplicable

(e)

     1.1, 2.5, 3.2

(f)

     2.1, 3.2

315(a)

     3.1(d)

(b)

     2.7

(c)

     3.1

(d)

     3.1(d)

(e)

     2.1(a)

316(a)

     1.1, 2.6, 5.4

(b)

     5.3

(c)

     8.2

317(a)

     Inapplicable

(b)

     Inapplicable

318(a)

     2.1(b)

* This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of the Guarantee Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
    
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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

 

            Page
ARTICLE I   
Definitions   
     

Section 1.1

   Definitions    1
ARTICLE II   
Trust Indenture Act   

Section 2.1

   Trust Indenture Act; Application    4

Section 2.2

   List of Holders    4

Section 2.3

   Reports by the Guarantee Trustee    4

Section 2.4

   Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee    4

Section 2.5

   Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent    4

Section 2.6

   Events of Default; Waiver    5

Section 2.7

   Events of Default; Notice    5

Section 2.8

   Conflicting Interests    5
ARTICLE III   
Powers, Duties and Rights of the Guarantee Trustee   

Section 3.1

   Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee    5

Section 3.2

   Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee    6

Section 3.3

   Indemnity    8
ARTICLE IV   
Guarantee Trustee   

Section 4.1

   Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility    8

Section 4.2

   Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee    9
ARTICLE V   
Guarantee   

Section 5.1

   Guarantee    9

Section 5.2

   Waiver of Notice and Demand    9

Section 5.3

   Obligations Not Affected    10

Section 5.4

   Rights of Holders    10

Section 5.5

   Guarantee of Payment    11

Section 5.6

   Subrogation    11

Section 5.7

   Independent Obligations    11
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ARTICLE VI   
Covenants and Subordination   

Section 6.1

   Subordination    11

Section 6.2

   Pari Passu Guarantees    11
ARTICLE VII   
Termination   

Section 7.1

   Termination    12
ARTICLE VIII   
Miscellaneous   

Section 8.1

   Successors and Assigns    12

Section 8.2

   Amendments    12

Section 8.3

   Notices    12

Section 8.4

   Benefit    13

Section 8.5

   Governing Law    13
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This G UARANTEE A GREEMENT , dated as of June •, 2007, is executed and delivered by M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION , a Pennsylvania corporation (the “ Guarantor ”), having its principal office at One Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258, and M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY , a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Guarantee Trustee ”), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV, a Delaware statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”).

WHEREAS , pursuant to an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June •, 2007 (the “Trust Agreement”), among the Guarantor, as Depositor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees and the Holders from time to time of the Trust Securities, the Issuer Trust is issuing $500,000,000 aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of Trust Preferred Securities having the terms set forth in the Trust Agreement;

WHEREAS , the proceeds of the Trust Preferred Securities will be used to purchase the Notes (as defined herein), which initially will be pledged by the Issuer Trust, acting through Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Property Trustee for the Issuer Trust (the “ Property Trustee ”), to The Bank of New York, as collateral agent for the Guarantor, pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Guarantor, The Bank of New York, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee).

WHEREAS , as an incentive for the Holders to purchase the Trust Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth herein, to pay to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein) and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase of Trust Preferred Securities by each Holder, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders from time to time.

ARTICLE I

Definitions

Section 1.1 Definitions.

As used in this Guarantee Agreement, the terms set forth below shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings. Capitalized or otherwise defined terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.

Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person; provided, however, that an Affiliate of the Guarantor shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Issuer Trust. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of the Guarantor or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.

 

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Event of Default ” means a default by the Guarantor on any of its payment or other obligations under this Guarantee Agreement; provided, however, that, except with respect to a default in payment of any Guarantee Payments, the Guarantor shall have received notice of default and shall not have cured such default within 30 days after receipt of such notice.

Guarantee Agreement ” means this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.

Guarantee Payments ” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities of any Series, to the extent not paid or made by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust: (i) any accumulated and unpaid Distributions required to be paid on the Trust Preferred Securities of such Series, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; (ii) the Redemption Price with respect to any Trust Preferred Securities called for redemption by the Issuer Trust (other than in connection with the redemption of Capital PCS in exchange for Notes or, if the Company elects to remarket the Notes in the form of New Trust Preferred Securities pursuant to Section 5.2(d) of the Indenture Supplement, such New Trust Preferred Securities), to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary termination, winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, other than in connection with the distribution of a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets (as defined in the Trust Agreement) to the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities and Trust Common Securities, the lesser of (a) the Liquidation Distribution with respect to each Series of the Trust Preferred Securities, to the extent that the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time and (b) the amount of assets of the Issuer Trust remaining available for distribution to Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities on liquidation of the Issuer Trust.

Guarantee Trustee ” means Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Guarantee Trustee and not in its individual capacity, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement, and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

Guarantor ” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement.

Holder ” means any Holder (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of any Trust Preferred Securities; provided , however , that in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Trust Preferred Securities of any Series have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, “Holder” shall not include the Guarantor, the Guarantee Trustee, or any Affiliate of the Guarantor or the Guarantee Trustee.

Issuer Trust ” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement.

List of Holders ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a).

Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities ” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, a vote by the Holder(s), voting separately as a class, of more than 50% of the Liquidation Amount of all then outstanding Securities issued by the Issuer Trust.

Officers’ Certificate ” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of such Person,

 

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and delivered to the Guarantee Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officer’s Certificate given pursuant to Section 2.5 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Guarantor. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall include:

(i) a statement that each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

(ii) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by each such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

(iii) a statement that each officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Responsible Officer ” means, with respect to the Guarantee Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Guarantee Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Guarantee Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Guarantee Agreement.

Senior Debt ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

Stock Purchase Date ” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Guarantor and the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee).

Successor Guarantee Trustee ” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.

Trust Agreement ” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust referred to in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.

Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

ARTICLE II

Trust Indenture Act

Section 2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application.

(a) This Guarantee Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Guarantee Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

 

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(b) If and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.

Section 2.2 List of Holders.

(a) The Guarantor will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee: (i) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after April 15 and October 15 in each year, a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such April 15 and October 15, and (ii) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Guarantor of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Guarantee Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.

(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations under Section 311(a), Section 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.3 Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.

Not later than May 31 of each year, commencing May 31, 2008, the Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.4 Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee.

The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee, the Commission and the Holders such documents reports and information, if any, as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with such conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer of the Guarantor pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

Section 2.6 Events of Default; Waiver.

The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided that each Series of Trust Preferred Securities shall be entitled, in the case of any default or Event of Default that affects such Series differently from the other Series, to vote separately as a Series with respect thereto. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent therefrom.

 

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Section 2.7 Events of Default; Notice.

(a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders, notice of any such Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless such defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice, provided that, except in the case of a default in the payment of a Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a committee of Responsible Officers of the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.

(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer charged with the administration of this Guarantee Agreement shall have obtained written notice of such Event of Default.

Section 2.8 Conflicting Interests.

The Trust Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

ARTICLE III

Powers, Duties and Rights of the Guarantee Trustee

Section 3.1 Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee.

(a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee Agreement to any Person except a Holder exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(iv) or to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Guarantee Trustee. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment hereunder, and such vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders.

(c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6), the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

 

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(d) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

(A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement; and

(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement (but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform on their face to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement);

(ii) the Guarantee Trustee, its officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made;

(iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the relevant Series of Trust Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and

(iv) no provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require the Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

Section 3.2 Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee.

(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:

(i) The Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document (including e-mail, facsimile or other electronic transmission) reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper Person or Persons (without being required to determine the correctness of any fact stated therein).

(ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise prescribed herein.

 

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(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request from the Guarantee Trustee, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor.

(iv) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with legal counsel of its own section, and the advice or opinion of such legal counsel, in writing or subsequently confirmed in writing, with respect to legal matters shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such legal counsel may be legal counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may be one of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction.

(v) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such adequate security and indemnity satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee against the costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided that nothing contained in this Section 3.2(a)(v) shall be taken to relieve the Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement.

(vi) The Guarantee 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 Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

(vii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.

(viii) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A) may request instructions from the Holders, (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (C) shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with such instructions.

(b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in accordance with such power and authority.

 

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Section 3.3 Indemnity.

The Guarantor agrees to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee, its officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Guarantee Trustee will not claim or exact any lien or charge on any Guarantee Payments as a result of any amount due to it under this Guarantee Agreement. This indemnity shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement or the earlier resignation or removal of the Guarantee Trustee.

ARTICLE IV

Guarantee Trustee

Section 4.1 Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.

(a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee that shall:

(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and

(ii) be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and shall be a corporation meeting the requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.

(b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2 (c).

(c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 4.2 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee.

(a) Subject to Section 4.2(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be removed by the Guarantor (i) without cause at any time when an Event of Default has not occurred and is not continuing and (ii) at any time when the Guarantee Trustee ceases to be eligible to act as the Guarantee Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof or becomes incapable of acting or is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Guarantee Trustee or of its property is appointed or any public officer takes charge or control of the Guarantee Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation.

(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed until a Successor Guarantee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor.

 

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(c) The Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument in writing executed by the Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by instrument in writing executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Guarantee Trustee.

(d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60 days after delivery to the Guarantor of an instrument of resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

ARTICLE V

Guarantee

Section 5.1 Guarantee.

The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as and when due, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim which the Issuer Trust may have or assert. The Guarantor’s obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders.

Section 5.2 Waiver of Notice and Demand.

The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.

Section 5.3 Obligations Not Affected.

The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following:

(a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer Trust of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Trust Preferred Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer Trust;

(b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of all or any portion of the Distributions (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions that results from the extension of any interest payment period on the Notes as provided in the Indenture), Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Trust Preferred Securities;

 

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(c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind;

(d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust;

(e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Trust Preferred Securities;

(f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or

(g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.

There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.

Section 5.4 Rights of Holders.

The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (i) this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with the Guarantee Trustee to be held for the benefit of the Holders; (ii) the Guarantee Trustee has the right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders; (iii) the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the affected Series have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and (iv) any Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee Agreement, without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Issuer Trust or any other Person.

Section 5.5 Guarantee of Payment.

This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee Agreement will not be discharged except by payment of the Guarantee Payments in full (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer Trust) or upon the distribution of Notes to Holders as provided in the Trust Agreement.

Section 5.6 Subrogation.

The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all (if any) rights of the Holders against the Issuer Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement and shall have the right to waive payment by the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 5.1; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity,

 

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reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount to the Holders.

Section 5.7 Independent Obligations.

The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities and that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3 hereof.

ARTICLE VI

Covenants and Subordination

Section 6.1 Subordination.

The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement will constitute unsecured obligations of the Guarantor and at all times prior to the Stock Purchase Date will rank subordinate and junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to all Senior Debt of the Guarantor to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Notes, and the provisions of the Indenture will apply, mutatis mutandis , to the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder do not constitute Senior Debt of the Guarantor.

Section 6.2 Pari Passu Guarantees.

At all times prior to the Stock Purchase Date, the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under (i) any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or capital securities issued by any statutory trust the assets of which consist of debt securities that are pari passu to the Notes and the proceeds thereof, (ii) any expense agreements entered into by the Guarantor in connection with the offering of preferred or capital securities by any statutory trust the assets of which consists of debt securities that are pari passu to the Notes and the proceeds thereof, and (iii) any other security, guarantee or other agreement or obligation that is expressly stated to rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement or with any obligation that ranks pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement. At all times after the Stock Purchase Date, the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under (i) any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or capital securities issued by any statutory trust the assets of which consist of preferred stock issued by Guarantor that is pari passu to the Preferred Stock and the proceeds thereof, and (ii) any security, guarantee or other agreement or obligation with regard to preferred stock issued by the Guarantor that, by its express terms, is pari passu to the Preferred Stock and the proceeds thereof.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Termination

Section 7.1 Termination.

This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon (i) full payment of the Redemption Price of all Trust Preferred Securities or (ii) full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with the Trust Agreement upon liquidation of the Issuer Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder must restore payment of any sums paid with respect to Trust Preferred Securities or this Guarantee Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.1 Successors and Assigns.

All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with (i) a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under the Indenture and pursuant to which the successor or assignee agrees in writing to perform the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder or (ii) the First Step Merger, the Guarantor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.

Section 8.2 Amendments.

This Guarantee Agreement may be amended by a written instrument executed by the Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee.

Except with respect to any changes which do not adversely affect the rights of the Holders in any material respect (in which case no consent of the Holders will be required), this Guarantee Agreement may only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities. The holders of each Series of Trust Preferred Securities will also be entitled to vote separately as a class to the extent that any proposed amendment would not affect them in the same or substantially the same manner. The provisions of Article VI of the Trust Agreement concerning meetings of the Holders shall apply to the giving of such approval.

Section 8.3 Notices.

Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and delivered, telecopied or mailed by first-class mail as follows:

(a) if given to the Guarantor, to the address set forth below or such other address, facsimile number or to the attention of such other Person as the Guarantor may give notice to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders:

Mellon Financial Corporation One Mellon Center

500 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258

Attention: Secretary

Facsimile: (412) 234-1813

 

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(b) if given to the Issuer Trust, in care of the Guarantee Trustee, at the Issuer Trust’s (and the guarantee Trustee’s) address set forth below or such other address as the Guarantee Trustee on behalf of the Issuer may give notice to the Guarantor and Holders:

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

25 South Charles Street-16th Floor

Mail Code: MD2-CS58

Baltimore, MD 21201

with a copy to:

Mellon Capital IV

c/o Mellon Financial Corporation

One Mellon Center

500 Grant Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15258

Attention: Secretary

Facsimile: (412) 234-1813

(c) if given to any Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer Trust.

All notices hereunder shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.

Section 8.4 Benefit.

This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders and is not separately transferable from the Trust Preferred Securities.

Section 8.5 Interpretation.

In this Guarantee Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee Agreement but not defined in the preamble hereto have the respective meanings assigned to them in Section 1.1;

(b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee Agreement has the same meaning throughout;

(c) all references to “the Guarantee Agreement” or “this Guarantee Agreement” are to this Guarantee Agreement as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;

(d) all references in this Guarantee Agreement to Articles and Sections are to Articles and Sections of this Guarantee Agreement unless otherwise specified;

 

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(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning when used in this Guarantee Agreement unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee Agreement or unless the context otherwise requires;

(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

(g) the masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

Section 8.6 Governing Law.

THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

* * * *

This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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THIS GUARANTEE AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

M ELLON F INANCIAL C ORPORATION

as Guarantor

By:      
  Name:
  Title:

 

M ANUFACTURERS AND T RADERS T RUST C OMPANY

individually and as Guarantee Trustee

By:      
  Name:
  Title:

 

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Exhibit 4.29

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

TO

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST

OF

MELLON CAPITAL IV

THIS Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Trust of Mellon Capital IV (the “Trust”) is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned trustee to amend the Certificate of Trust of the Trust which was filed on July 8, 2003 (the “Certificate of Trust”), with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. C. § 3801 et seq .) (the “Act”).

1. Name . The name of the statutory trust is Mellon Capital IV.

2. Amendment of Trust . The Certificate of Trust of the Trust is hereby amended by changing the name and business address of the trustee of the Trust with a principal place of business in Delaware to: M&T Trust Company of Delaware, 1220 North Market Street, Suite 202, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.

3. Effective Date . This Certificate of Amendment shall be effective upon filing.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, a trustee of the Trust, has executed this Certificate of Amendment in accordance with Section 3811 of the Act.

 

M&T TRUST COMPANY OF

DELAWARE, not in its individual

capacity but solely as trustee

By:   /s/ Rita Marie Ritrovato
Name:   Rita Marie Ritrovato
Title:   Assistant Vice President

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

The Board of Directors

    of Mellon Financial Corporation:

 

We consent to the use of our reports dated February 22, 2007, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of Mellon Financial Corporation as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, incorporated herein by reference and to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in this registration statement on Form S-3 of Mellon Financial Corporation. Our report with respect to the consolidated financial statements refers to a change, in 2006, in Mellon Financial Corporation’s method of accounting for employer defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

June 11, 2007

Exhibit 25.9

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

Statement of eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act

of 1939 of a Corporation designated to act as Trustee

Check if an application to determine eligibility of a Trustee

pursuant to Section 305(b)(2)             

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

 

New York   16-0538020

(Jurisdiction of incorporation

or organization if not a national bank)

 

(I.R.S. employer

identification No.)

 

One M&T Plaza

Buffalo, New York

  14240-2399
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

25 South Charles Street, 16 th Floor

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

(410) 244—4238

(Name, address and telephone number of agent of service)

Mellon Financial Corporation

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   __________________

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. employer

identification No.)

 

__________________   __________________
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes

(Title of indenture securities)

 



Item 1. General Information

Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:

 

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, 2 Rector Street, New York, New York 10006 and Corning Tower, Albany, New York 12203

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. 20429

 

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

 

Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None.

[Items 3 through 15 omitted pursuant to General Instruction B to Form T-1]

 

Item 16. List of Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.

   Organization Certificate of the Trustee as now in effect. *

Exhibit 2.

   Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to commence business (contained in Exhibit 1).

Exhibit 3.

   Authorization of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers (contained in Exhibit 1).

Exhibit 4.

   Existing By-Laws of the Trustee.*

Exhibit 5.

   Not Applicable.

Exhibit 6.

   Consent of the Trustee.*

Exhibit 7.

   Report of Condition of the Trustee.*

Exhibit 8.

   Not Applicable.
Exhibit 9.    Not Applicable.

* Filed Herewith

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the Trustee, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility and qualification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, on the 8th day of June, 2007.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
  Robert D. Brown
  Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 1

Organization Certificate of the Trustee

RESTATED ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

UNDER SECTION 8007 OF THE BANKING LAW

The undersigned, being respectively, a Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary, of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, pursuant to Section 8007 of the Banking Law of the State of New York, do hereby restate, certify and set forth as follows:

(1) The name of the corporation is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. The name under which the corporation was originally incorporated was The Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company of Buffalo.

(2) The organization certificate of the corporation was filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on September 13, 1892, and in the Office of the Clerk of Erie County, New York on September 14, 1892, and the certificate of authorization of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York was issued on June 27, 1893.

A first restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on August 6, 1954. Such restated organization certificate was amended from time to time thereafter. A second restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on February 26, 1991. A third restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on May 22, 1992. A fourth restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on April 1, 2003.

(3) The restated organization certificate is hereby further amended by revising Article 1 to read as follows:

“1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.”

(4) The text of the corporation’s organization certificate, as amended heretofore, is hereby restated without further change to read as hereinafter set forth in full:

 

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“ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

 


1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.

2. The place where the principal office of the corporation is to be located is the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York.

3. The amount of the corporation’s capital stock is $200,000,000. The number of shares into which such capital stock shall be divided is 5,000,000 common shares of the par value of $40 per share.

4. The number of directors which the corporation shall have shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30).

5. The term of existence of the corporation shall be perpetual.

6. The corporation shall exercise the fiduciary powers conferred by Section 100 of the Banking Law, as amended from time to time, in addition to the other powers conferred upon banks and trust companies pursuant to the Banking Law or other applicable law.

7. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Bylaws to the contrary, each of the following provisions of the Bylaws may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, without the unanimous approval of the entire board of directors:

 

   

the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b),

 

   

the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article IX, Section 2, and

 

   

the entirety of Article X.

The provisions of this Article 7 shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of the corporation, the board of directors or the stockholders upon the termination of the foregoing provisions of the Bylaws in accordance with Article IX, Section 2 of the Bylaws.”

 


(5) This restatement of the organization certificate was authorized pursuant to Section 6015 of the Banking Law by the written consent, setting forth the action taken, of the holder of all of the outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed, signed and verified this certificate this 6 th day of July, 2004.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
  Michael P. Pinto
  Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer

 

By:   /s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
  Brian R. Yoshida
  Vice President and Assistant Secretary

 

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STATE OF NEW YORK

   )
   )    SS.:

COUNTY OF ERIE

   )

Michael P. Pinto and Brian R. Yoshida, being first duly sworn, depose and say that they are respectively, an Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, that they have read the foregoing certificate and know the contents thereof and that the statements therein contained are true.

 

/s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
Michael P. Pinto

 

/s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
Brian R. Yoshida

Sworn to before me

this 6th day of July, 2004.

 

/s/ TIMOTHY G. MCEVOY
Notary Public

 

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EXHIBIT 4

Existing By-Laws of the Trustee

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

BYLAWS

(effective as of February 20, 2007)

 

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BYLAWS

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

ARTICLE I

Meetings of Stockholders

Section 1. Annual Meeting: The Annual Meeting of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (“M&T Bank”), for the election of directors and for transaction of such other business as may be set forth in the notice of meeting, shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or at such other place in the City of Buffalo, New York on the third Tuesday of April in each year, or on such date and at such time as the Board of Directors shall determine.

Section 2. Special Meetings: Special meetings of the stockholders may be called to be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or elsewhere within the State of New York at any time by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary at the request in writing of five or more members of the Board of Directors, or at the request in writing of the holders of record of at least 25% of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be called.

Section 3. Notice of Meetings: Written notice of each meeting of the stockholders shall be given by depositing in the United States mail, postage prepaid, not less than 10 nor more than 50 days before such meeting, a copy of the notice of such meeting directed to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting, at the address as it appears on the record of stockholders for each such stockholder, or, if such stockholder shall have filed with the Corporate Secretary of M&T Bank a written request that notices be mailed to some other address, then directed to such other address. The notice shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called and, unless it is the annual meeting, indicate that the notice is being issued by or at the direction of the person or persons calling the meeting. If action is proposed to be taken at any meeting which would, if taken, entitle dissenting stockholders to receive payment for their shares, the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. At each meeting of stockholders only such business may be transacted which is related to the purpose or purposes set forth in the notice of meeting.

Section 4. Waiver of Notice: Whenever under any provisions of these bylaws, the organization certificate, the terms of any agreement or instrument, or law, M&T Bank or the Board of Directors or any committee thereof is authorized to take any action after notice to any person or persons or after the lapse of a prescribed period of time, such action may be taken without notice and without the lapse of such period of time, if at any time before or after such action is completed the person or persons entitled to such notice or entitled to participate in the action to be taken or, in the case of a stockholder, by such stockholder’s attorney-in-fact, submit a signed waiver of notice of such requirements. The attendance of any stockholder at any meeting, in person or by proxy, without protesting prior to the conclusion the lack of notice of such meeting, shall constitute a waiver of notice by such stockholder.

 

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Section 5. Procedure: At every meeting of stockholders the order of business and all other matters of procedure may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 6. List of Stockholders: A list of stockholders as of the record date, certified by the officer of M&T Bank responsible for its preparation or by a transfer agent, shall be produced at any meeting of stockholders upon the request thereat or prior thereto of any stockholder. If the right to vote at any meeting is challenged, the inspectors of election, or person presiding thereat, shall require such list of stockholders to be produced as evidence of the right of the persons challenged to vote at such meeting, and all persons who appear from such list to be stockholders entitled to vote thereat may vote at such meeting.

Section 7. Quorum: At all meetings of the stockholders of M&T Bank a quorum must be present for the transaction of business and, except as otherwise provided by law, a quorum shall consist of the holders of record of not less than a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote thereat, present either in person or by proxy. When a quorum is once present to organize a meeting of the stockholders, it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.

Section 8. Adjournments: The stockholders entitled to vote who are present in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders, whether or not a quorum shall be present or represented at the meeting, shall have power by a majority vote to adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice other than announcement at the meeting. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present in person or by proxy any business may be transacted that might have been transacted on the original date of the meeting, and the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting on the original date (whether or not they were present thereat), and no others, shall be entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting.

Section 9. Voting; Proxies: Each stockholder of record entitled to vote shall be entitled at every meeting of stockholders of M&T Bank to one vote for each share of stock having voting power standing in each such stockholder’s name on the record of stockholders on the record date fixed pursuant to Section 3 of Article VI of these bylaws. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent without a meeting may do so either in person or by proxy appointed by instrument executed in writing by such stockholder or such stockholder’s duly authorized attorney-in-fact and delivered to the secretary of the meeting. No director, officer, clerk, teller or bookkeeper of M&T Bank shall act as proxy at any meeting. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration of 11 months from the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Every proxy shall be revocable at the pleasure of the stockholder executing it except as otherwise provided by law. Directors elected at any meeting of the stockholders shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast. All other corporate action to be taken by vote of the stockholders shall, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, be authorized by a majority of the votes cast. The vote for directors shall be by ballot, but otherwise the vote upon any question before a meeting shall not be by ballot unless the person presiding at such meeting shall so direct or any stockholder, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, shall so demand.

Section 10. Appointment of Inspectors of Election: The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of the stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If inspectors are not so appointed in advance of the meeting, the

 

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person presiding at such meeting may, and on the request of any stockholder entitled to vote thereat shall, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any inspector appointed fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the Board of Directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. No director, officer or candidate for the office of director of M&T Bank shall be eligible to act as an inspector of an election of directors of M&T Bank. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability.

Section 11. Duties of Inspectors of Election: The inspectors of election shall determine the number of shares outstanding and entitled to vote, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders.

ARTICLE II

Directors

Section 1. Number and Qualifications: Unless otherwise permitted by law, the number of directors of M&T Bank shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30), with the exact number to be fixed from time to time by resolution of a majority of the directors, provided that the number of directors shall not be reduced so as to shorten the term of any director at the time in office; and provided, further, that, until the Sunset Date (as defined in Article X hereof), without the consent of the Significant Stockholder (as defined in Article X hereof), the number of directors shall not exceed twenty eight (28). If the number of directors be increased at any time, within the limits above set forth, the vacancy or vacancies in the Board arising from such increase shall be filled as provided in Section 4 of this Article II. Each such vacancy, and each reduction in the number of directors, shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner prescribed by law. All of the directors shall be of full age, and at least one-half of them shall be citizens of the United States at the time of their election and during their continuance in office, unless otherwise permitted by law. No more than one-third of the directors shall be active officers or employees of M&T Bank.

Section 2. Election and Tenure of Office:

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, each director of M&T Bank shall be elected at an annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the stockholders held in lieu of such annual meeting, which meeting, for the purposes of these bylaws, shall be deemed the annual meeting, and shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified. Each person who shall be elected a director of M&T Bank shall, before participating in any manner as a director of M&T Bank, qualify in the manner prescribed by law and take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law.

(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary:

 

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(i) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank four (4) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(ii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least ten percent (10%), but less than fifteen percent (15%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank two (2) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(iii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least five percent (5%), but less than ten percent (10%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as a director of M&T Bank one (1) person designated by the Significant Stockholder, who is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank.

(iv) For purposes of determining the number of outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation for purposes of this Article II, Section 2(b), there shall be used the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation disclosed as outstanding on the cover page of M&T Bank Corporation’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K or Report on Form 10-Q, as the case may be, or the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation actually outstanding as of a later date, if requested by M&T Bank or the Significant Stockholder, determined on the same basis as the number of shares disclosed on such Reports. Any share held by any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Significant Stockholder of which the Significant Stockholder holds 80% or more of the outstanding equity capital or voting shares shall be deemed held by the Significant Stockholder. In the event that the transaction that would result in the Significant Stockholder’s holdings being below any threshold set forth herein is a transaction that gives rise to an Issuance Event (as defined in Article X hereof), no diminution in the percentage of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred until the earlier of such time as the Significant Stockholder gives written notice that it shall not exercise its Maintenance Rights (as defined in Article X hereof) or the deadline for exercise of such Maintenance Rights has passed without the Significant Stockholder having provided notice that it shall exercise the same. No diminution in the percentage of outstanding shares of common stock held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of any issuance of shares that is subject to the Corporation’s repurchase obligations under Section 7.2(c) or Section 7.2(e) of the Reorganization Agreement. In the event that the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decrease to less than fifteen percent (15%), but not less than twelve percent (12%), of the outstanding common stock, the Significant Stockholder’s holdings shall be deemed to be equal to fifteen percent (15%) for all purposes of the definition of Sunset Date and of this Article II, Section 2(b), unless, not later than one year from the date on which the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decreased to less than fifteen percent (15%), the Significant Stockholder’s holdings have not been restored to at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation.

(v) In the event that M&T Bank objects to any designee for Board service on the grounds that such designee is not “reasonably acceptable” under any provision of this Article II, Section 2(b), M&T Bank shall fully cooperate and shall use best efforts to work with the

 

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Significant Stockholder to promptly resolve any such objection so that such designee may as promptly as practicable serve in the capacity for which he or she has been designated or, in the alternative, to promptly identify a substitute candidate that is reasonably acceptable, in order to give effect to the intention of the M&T Bank and the Significant Stockholder regarding Board representation contemplated by this Article II, Section 2(b).

Section 3. Resignation: Any director of M&T Bank may resign at any time by giving his or her resignation to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Corporate Secretary. Such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein; and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

Section 4. Vacancies: Except as set forth in Article II, Section 2(b) or as hereinafter provided, all vacancies in the office of director shall be filled by election by the stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed election. Subject to Article II, Section 2(b), vacancies not exceeding one-third of the entire Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, and the directors so elected shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term; or two vacancies may, with the consent of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, be left unfilled until the next annual election. Each vacancy in the office of director and each election by the Board of Directors to fill any such vacancy shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner provided by law.

Section 5. Directors’ Fees: Directors, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are directors, may receive a fee for their services as directors and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of the Board. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each meeting of the Board of Directors or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

Section 6. Meetings of Directors: A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held at least six times each year, provided that during any three consecutive calendar months the Board shall meet at least once. The first meeting of the Board of Directors after each annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held immediately after the adjournment of such annual meeting and shall constitute the regular meeting of the Board of Directors for the month in which such first meeting is held. The Board of Directors shall, from time to time, designate the place, date and hour for the holding of regular meetings but, in the absence of any such designation, regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank in the City of Buffalo, New York, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., on the third Tuesday of each January, February, April, July, September and October. No notice need be given of such regular meetings except such notice as these bylaws or the Board of Directors by resolution may require. Special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times and at such places as the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall also be held upon the request of any 4 directors made in writing to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

 

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Section 7. Notice of Special Meetings of the Board of Directors: Notice of each special meeting of the Board of Directors stating the time and place thereof, shall be given by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, or by any member of the Board to each member of the Board not less than 3 days before the meeting by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to each member of the Board at his or her residence or usual place of business, or not less than 1 day before the meeting by telephoning or by delivering the same to each member of the Board personally, or by sending the same by facsimile or electronic mail to his or her residence or usual place of business. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him or her. The notice of any special meeting of the Board of Directors need not specify the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, except as provided in Article IX of these bylaws.

Section 8. Quorum: At all meetings of the Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, a quorum shall be required for the transaction of business and shall consist of not less than one-third of the entire Board, and the vote of a majority of the directors present shall decide any question which may come before the meeting. A majority of the directors present at any meeting, although less than a quorum, may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

Section 9. Meetings by Conference Telephone: Any one or more members of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

Section 10. Procedure: The order of business and all other matters of procedure at every meeting of directors may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 11. The Chairman of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the first meeting (the “Annual Reorganization Meeting”) of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number a Chairman of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Chairman of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected or appointed and qualified.

Section 12. The Vice Chairmen of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number one or more Vice Chairmen of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Vice Chairmen of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been elected or appointed and qualified. The Board of Directors shall elect a non-executive Vice Chairman of the Board who will perform the duties of “lead outside director.”

 

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ARTICLE III

Committees

Section 1. Executive Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee consisting of five or more directors. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of the Executive Committee, who may replace any absent member or members of the Executive Committee at any meeting thereof. In the interim between meetings of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee shall have all the authority of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided by law. All acts done and powers and authority conferred by the Executive Committee from time to time within the scope of its authority shall be, and may be deemed to be, and may be certified as being, the act and under the authority of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer, or the Chairman of the Board in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, shall preside at all meetings of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall elect from its members a chairman to preside at any meeting of the Executive Committee at which the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board shall be absent. Four members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Section 2. Examining Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Examining Committee consisting of not less than 3 directors to examine fully the books, papers and affairs of M&T Bank, and the loans and discounts thereof, as provided by law. The Examining Committee shall have the power to employ such assistants as it may deem necessary to enable it to perform its duties.

Section 3. Other Committees: The Board of Directors may from time to time, by resolution or resolutions, appoint or provide for one or more other committees consisting of such directors, officers, or other persons as the Board may determine. Each committee, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, shall have such powers and functions in the management of M&T Bank as may be lawfully delegated by the Board of Directors in the interim between meetings of the Board. Each committee shall have such name as may be provided from time to time in said resolution or resolutions, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

Section 4. Minutes of Meetings of Committees: The Executive Committee, the Examining Committee, and each other committee shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors at the next meeting thereof, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable under the circumstances.

Section 5. Fees to Members of Committees: Members of committees, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are members of committees, may receive a fee for their services as members of committees and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of a committee. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each committee meeting or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Officers

Section 1. Officers: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, elect from its own number a Chief Executive Officer and a President, and appoint or elect one or more Vice Presidents, a Corporate Secretary, a Treasurer, a General Auditor, and such other officers as it deems necessary and appropriate. At the Annual Reorganization Meeting, the Board of Directors shall also reelect all of the then officers of M&T Bank until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting. In the interim between Annual Reorganization Meetings, the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may also from time to time elect or appoint a Chief Executive Officer, a President or such additional officers to the rank of Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Administrative Vice Presidents, Group Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Executive Vice Presidents, and any other officer positions as they deems necessary and appropriate; and, the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, may appoint officers below the rank of Administrative Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, Assistant Auditors and Banking Officers. Each such person elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, in between Annual Reorganization Meetings shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board or Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, hold office until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting.

Section 2. Term of Office: The Chief Executive Officer, the President, each Vice President, the Corporate Secretary, the Treasurer, and the General Auditor shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Each additional officer appointed or elected by the Board of Directors, or by the Executive Committee, shall hold office for such term as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee. Any officer, however, may be removed at any time by the Board of Directors, or his or her authority suspended by the Board of Directors, with or without cause. If the office of any officer becomes vacant for any reason, the Board of Directors shall have the power to fill such vacancy.

Section 3. The Chief Executive Officer: Unless such authority is prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee for the Chairman of the Board or a Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall, under control of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, have the general management of M&T Bank’s affairs and shall exercise general supervision over all activities of M&T Bank. The Chief Executive Officer shall have the power to appoint or hire, to remove, and to determine the compensation of, all employees of M&T Bank who are not officers.

 

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Section 4. The President: The President, subject to the control and direction of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, shall have immediate supervision over the business, affairs, and properties of M&T Bank, shall have and exercise general authority with respect thereto, shall perform all duties and exercise all powers generally incident to this office and shall perform such additional duties and be vested with such additional powers as shall be assigned from time to time by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and if he is not the Chief Executive Officer, by such officer. In the absence or incapacity of the Chairman of the Board, the President shall have the powers and exercise the duties of the Chairman of the Board, including the powers of Chief Executive Officer if the Chairman of the Board is the Chief Executive Officer.

Section 5. The Vice Presidents: The Vice Presidents shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them respectively by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President. Any one or more individuals may be designated by the Board of Directors as “Executive Vice President,” “Senior Vice President,” “Group Vice President,” “Administrative Vice President” or “Vice President,” or by such other title or titles as the Board of Directors may determine. In the absence or incapacity of both the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President, the Vice Presidents shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of those officers in such order of precedence as shall be determined by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

Section 6. The Corporate Secretary and Assistant Secretaries: The Corporate Secretary shall issue notices of all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, where notices of such meetings are required by law or these bylaws. He or she shall attend all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and keep the minutes thereof in proper books provided for that purpose. He or she shall affix the corporate seal to and sign such instruments as require the seal and his or her signature and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

The Assistant Secretaries may, in the absence or disability of the Corporate Secretary or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Corporate Secretary, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 7. The Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers: The Treasurer shall keep permanent records of the assets and liabilities and of all matters and transactions bearing upon the financial affairs of M&T Bank. He or she shall, whenever required by the Board of Directors, present a statement of the business of M&T Bank, a balance sheet thereof as of the end of the last preceding month or such other date as may be so required. He or she shall make and sign such reports, statements and instruments as may be required by the Board of Directors or the President or by law and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

The Assistant Treasurers may, in the absence or disability of the Treasurer or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

 

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Section 8. The General Auditor: The General Auditor shall be responsible to the Chair of the Examining Committee and, through the Examining Committee, to the Board of Directors for the safety of all operations and for the systems of internal audits and protective controls; he or she shall perform such other duties as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may prescribe and shall make such examinations and reports as may be required by the directors’ Examining Committee. He or she shall have the duty to report to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank which he or she deems advisable or which the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may request. In addition, the General Auditor shall have the duty of reporting independently of all officers of M&T Bank to the directors’ Examining Committee whenever he or she deems it necessary or desirable to do so, but in any event not less often than annually on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank.

The Assistant Auditors may, in the absence or disability of the General Auditor, or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the General Auditor, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 9. Other Officers: All other officers that may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe, except as the law may otherwise require.

Section 10. Officers Holding Two or More Offices: Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of President and Corporate Secretary. No officer shall execute or verify any instrument in more than one capacity if such instrument be required by law or otherwise to be executed or verified by any two or more officers.

Section 11. Duties of Officers May be Delegated: In case of the absence or disability of any officer of M&T Bank, or in case of a vacancy in any office or for any other reason that the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, may delegate, for the time being, the powers or duties of any officer to any other officer or to any director.

Section 12. Compensation of Officers: The Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of M&T Bank Corporation shall, through appropriate consultation with the Board of Directors, determine the compensation and benefits of the Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers of M&T Bank. In the event and to the extent that the Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee shall not hereafter exercise its discretionary power in respect of all other officers, the compensation to be paid to all other officers shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Section 13. Special Powers: The Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairmen of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, any Banking Officer, the Corporate Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, and the Treasurer shall each have power and authority:

To sign, countersign, certify, issue, assign, endorse, transfer and/or deliver notes, checks, drafts, bills of exchange, certificates of deposit, acceptances, letters of credit, advices for the transfer or payment of funds, orders for the sale and for delivery of securities, guarantees of signatures, and all other instruments, documents and writings in connection with the business of M&T Bank in its corporate or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To sign the name of M&T Bank and affix its seal, or cause the same to be affixed, to deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, assignments, releases, proxies, powers of attorney, trust agreements, and all other instruments, documents or papers necessary for the conduct of the business of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To endorse, sell, assign, transfer and deliver any stocks, bonds, mortgages, notes, certificates of interest, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of deposit and any evidences of indebtedness or of any rights or privileges which now are or may hereafter be held by or stand in the name of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity, or in any fiduciary or trust capacity, and to execute proxies, powers of attorney or other authority with respect thereto;

To accept on behalf of M&T Bank any guardianship, receivership, executorship or any general or special trust specified in the Banking Law of the State of New York;

To authenticate or certificate any bonds, debentures, notes, or other instruments issued under or in connection with any mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument under which M&T Bank is acting as trustee or in any other fiduciary capacity;

To sign, execute and deliver certificates, reports, checks, orders, receipts, certificates of deposit, interim certificates, and other documents in connection with its duties and activities as registrar, transfer agent, disbursing agent, fiscal agent, depositary, or in any other corporate fiduciary capacity.

The powers and authority above conferred may at any time be modified, changed, extended or revoked, and may be conferred in whole or in part on other officers and employees by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.

Section 14. Bonds: The Board of Directors may require any officer, agent or employee of M&T Bank to give a bond to M&T Bank, conditional upon the faithful performance of his or her duties, with one or more sureties and in such amount as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE V

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Section 1. Right of Indemnification: Each director and officer of M&T Bank, whether or not then in office, each director and officer of a subsidiary that M&T Bank directly or indirectly owns more than 50% of the voting securities of, whether or not then in office, and any person whose testator or intestate was such a director or officer, shall be indemnified by M&T Bank for the defense of, or in connection with, any threatened, pending or completed actions or proceedings and appeals therein, whether civil, criminal, governmental, administrative or investigative, in accordance with and to the fullest extent permitted by the Banking Law of the State of New York or other applicable law, as such law now exists or may hereafter be amended; provided, however, that M&T Bank shall provide indemnification in connection with an action or proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such a director or officer only if such action or proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

Section 2. Advancement of Expenses: Expenses incurred by a director or officer in connection with any action or proceeding as to which indemnification may be given under Section 1 of this Article V may be paid by M&T Bank in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon (a) receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such advancement in the event that such director or officer is ultimately found not to be entitled to indemnification as authorized by this Article V and (b) approval by the Board of Directors acting by a quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to such action or proceeding or, if such a quorum is not obtainable, then approval by stockholders. To the extent permitted by law, the Board of Directors or, if applicable, the stockholders, shall not be required under this Section 2, to find that the director or officer has met the applicable standard of conduct provided by law for indemnification in connection with such action or proceeding.

Section 3. Availability and Interpretation: To the extent permitted under applicable law, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V (a) shall be available with respect to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article V, (b) shall continue to exist after any recision or restrictive amendment of this Article V with respect to events occurring prior to such recision or amendment, (c) may be interpreted on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time of the occurrence of the event or events giving rise to the action or proceeding, or on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time such rights are claimed, and (d) are in the nature of contract rights which may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction as if M&T Bank and the director or officer for whom such rights are sought were parties to a separate written agreement.

Section 4. Other Rights: The rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which any such director, officer or other person may now or hereafter be otherwise entitled whether contained in the organization certificate, these bylaws, a resolution of stockholders, a resolution of the Board of Directors, or an agreement providing such indemnification, the creation of such other rights being hereby expressly authorized. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights, pursuant to statute or otherwise, of any such director, officer or other person in any such action or proceeding to have assessed or allowed in his or her favor, against M&T Bank or otherwise, his or her costs and expenses incurred therein or in connection therewith or any part thereof.

 

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Section 5. Severability: If this Article V or any part hereof shall be held unenforceable in any respect by a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remainder of this Article V shall remain fully enforceable.

ARTICLE VI

Capital Stock

Section 1. Certificates of Stock: The shares of stock of M&T Bank shall be represented by certificates which shall be numbered and shall be entered in the books of M&T Bank as they are issued. Each stock certificate shall when issued state the name of the person or persons to whom issued and the number of shares and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President and by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and shall be sealed with the seal of M&T Bank or a facsimile thereof. The signatures of the officers upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by M&T Bank with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue. No certificate of stock shall be valid until countersigned by a transfer agent if M&T Bank has a transfer agent, or until registered by a registrar, if M&T Bank has a registrar.

Section 2. Transfers of Shares: Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of M&T Bank by the holder thereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon the surrender of the certificate representing the shares to be transferred, properly endorsed. M&T Bank shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the owner thereof and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, save as specifically provided by the laws of the State of New York. The Board of Directors, to the extent permitted by law, shall have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates of stock and may appoint one or more transfer agents and registrars of the stock of M&T Bank.

Section 3. Fixing of Record Date: The Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a day and hour not more than 50 days nor less than 10 days before the date on which any meeting of stockholders is to be held, as the time as of which stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting and at all adjournments thereof shall be determined; and, in the event such record date and time is fixed by the Board of Directors, no one other than the holders of record on such date and time of stock entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If a record date and time shall not be fixed by the Board of Directors for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of stockholders, stockholders of record at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice of such meeting is given, and no others, shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. The Board of Directors may

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fix, in advance, a day and hour, not exceeding 50 days preceding the date fixed for the payment of a dividend of any kind or the allotment of any rights, as the record time for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive any such dividend or rights, and in such case only stockholders of record at the time so fixed shall be entitled to receive such dividend or rights.

Section 4. Record of Stockholders: M&T Bank shall keep at its office in the State of New York, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar in this state, a record containing the names and addresses of all stockholders, the number and class of shares held by each and the dates when they respectively became the owner of record thereof.

Section 5. Lost Stock Certificates: The holder of any certificate representing shares of stock of M&T Bank shall immediately notify M&T Bank of any mutilation, loss or destruction thereof, and the Board of Directors may in its discretion cause one or more new certificates for the same number of shares in the aggregate to be issued to such holder upon the surrender of the mutilated certificate, or, in case of loss or destruction of the certificate, upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction and the deposit of indemnity by way of bond or otherwise in such form and amount and with such sureties or security as the Board of Directors may require to protect M&T Bank against loss or liability by reason of the issuance of such new certificates; but the Board of Directors may in its discretion refuse to issue such new certificates save upon the order of the court having jurisdiction in such matters.

ARTICLE VII

Corporate Seal

Section 1. Form of Seal: The seal of M&T Bank shall be circular in form, with the words “Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company” in the margin thereof, and the numerals “1856” and the word “seal” and the numerals “1892” in the center thereof. The seal on any corporate obligation for the payment of money may be facsimile.

ARTICLE VIII

Emergency Operations

Whenever the provisions of Article 7 of the New York State Defense Emergency Act (L. 1961, c. 654) become operative by reason of an “acute emergency,” as defined in said Act, the following provision shall also become operative:

1. If the Chief Executive Officer of M&T Bank shall not be available, his or her powers and authority shall vest in and may be exercised by other officers of M&T Bank in the following order:

 

  a. The Chairman of the Board;

 

  b. Any Vice Chairman of the Board;

 

  c. The President;

 

  d. The Executive Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

  e. The Senior Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

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  f. A Vice President selected from and by those Vice Presidents who shall be available.

2. The directors and acting directors present at any meeting held as provided by statute may by resolution alter the foregoing order of succession or designate the person from among the foregoing group who shall act as Chief Executive Officer; provided, however, that the directors and acting directors shall have no power to remove any officer or to fill any vacancy on a permanent basis or to cause M&T Bank to enter into any contract of employment for a term of over one year.

3. The directors and acting directors shall take such action as counsel may advise in order that the normal operations of M&T Bank shall be restored as promptly as practicable.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments; Termination

Section 1. Procedure for Amending Bylaws: These bylaws may be added to, amended or repealed at any meeting of stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of the holders of record of a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote, or at any meeting of the Board of Directors notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of a majority of the Board of Directors; provided, however, that if any bylaw regulating an impending election of directors is adopted or amended or repealed by the Board of Directors, there shall be set forth in the notice of the next meeting of stockholders for the election of directors the bylaw so adopted or amended or repealed, together with a concise statement of the changes made; and provided further that the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1, the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b), the entirety of Article X and this proviso may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, in each case, without the unanimous approval of the entire Board of Directors.

Section 2. Termination of Certain Provisions: Each of the provisions of these Bylaws set forth in the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1 hereof shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of M&T Bank, the Board of Directors or the stockholders on the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Holding Company.

ARTICLE X

Certain Definitions

Section 1. Definitions: For purposes of Article II of these Bylaws:

(a) “ Issuance Event ” shall mean an “Issuance Event” defined in Section 1.42 of the Reorganization Agreement.

(b) “ Maintenance Rights ” shall mean the “Seller Maintenance Rights” defined in Section 1.75 of the Reorganization Agreement.

 

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(c) “ Reorganization Agreement ” shall mean the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated September 26, 2002, by and among the Significant Stockholder, Allfirst Financial Inc. and M&T Bank Corporation, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

(d) “ Significant Stockholder ” shall mean Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Ireland having its registered office at Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland, and any successor thereto.

(e) “ Sunset Date ” shall mean the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least 15% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation, determined in accordance with, and subject to, paragraph (iv) of Article II, Section 2(b) hereof.

 

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EXHIBIT 6

Consent Of Trustee

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company hereby consents, in accordance with the provisions of Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, that reports of examinations by federal, state, territorial and district authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
 

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 7

Report of Condition of the Trustee

 

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REPORT OF CONDITION

Consolidating domestic and foreign subsidiaries of the

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

in the state of NY at the close of business on December 31, 2006

published in response to call made by (Enter additional information below)

Statement of Resources and Liabilities

 

Dollar Amounts in Thousands

 

ASSETS:

     

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:

     

Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin

      1,605,507  

Interest-bearing balances

      3,768  

Securities:

     

Held-to-maturity securities

      64,899  

Available-for-sale securities

      6,469,246  

Federal funds sold in domestic offices

      19,458  

Securities purchased under agreements to resell

      100,000  

Loans and lease financing receivables:

     

Loans and leases held for sale

      2,000,821  

Loans and leases, net of unearned income

   40,745,996   

LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses

   647,492   

Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance

      40,098,504  

Trading assets

      91,701  

Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)

      328,593  

Other real estate owned

      11,978  

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies

      140,711  

Intangible assets:

     

Goodwill

      2,908,849  

Other intangible assets

      423,696  

Other assets

      2,114,657  

Total assets

      56,382,388  

LIABILITIES

     

Dollar Amounts in Thousands

 

Deposits:

     

In domestic offices

      34,509,353  

Noninterest-bearing

   7,897,655   

Interest-bearing

   26,611,698   

In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs

      5,429,668  

Noninterest-bearing

   0   

Interest-bearing

   5,429,668   

Federal funds purchased in domestic offices

      2,356,969  

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

      1,218,216  

Trading liabilities

      65,265  

Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)

      4,002,125  

Subordinated notes and debentures

      1,576,781  

Other liabilities

      749,571  

Total liabilities

      49,907,948  

Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries

      0  

EQUITY CAPITAL

     

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus

      0  

Common stock

      120,635  

Surplus

      4,489,092  

Retained earnings

      1,924,612  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

      (59,899 )

Other equity capital components

      0  

Total equity capital

      6,474,440  

Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital

      56,382,388  

Exhibit 25.10

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

Statement of eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act

of 1939 of a Corporation designated to act as Trustee

Check if an application to determine eligibility of a Trustee

pursuant to Section 305(b)(2)             

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

 

New York   16-0538020

(Jurisdiction of incorporation

or organization if not a national bank)

 

(I.R.S. employer

identification No.)

 

One M&T Plaza

Buffalo, New York

  14240-2399
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

25 South Charles Street, 16 th Floor

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

(410) 244—4238

(Name, address and telephone number of agent of service)

Mellon Capital IV

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   ______________

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. employer

identification No.)

 

______________   ______________
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV

(Title of indenture securities)

 



Item 1. General Information

Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:

 

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, 2 Rector Street, New York, New York 10006 and Corning Tower, Albany, New York 12203

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. 20429

 

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None.

[Items 3 through 15 omitted pursuant to General Instruction B to Form T-1]

Item 16. List of Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.    Organization Certificate of the Trustee as now in effect. *
Exhibit 2.    Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to commence business (contained in Exhibit 1).
Exhibit 3.    Authorization of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers (contained in Exhibit 1).
Exhibit 4.    Existing By-Laws of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 5.    Not Applicable.
Exhibit 6.    Consent of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 7.    Report of Condition of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 8.    Not Applicable.
Exhibit 9.    Not Applicable.

* Filed Herewith

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the Trustee, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility and qualification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, on the 8th day of June, 2007.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
  Robert D. Brown
  Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 1

Organization Certificate of the Trustee

RESTATED ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

UNDER SECTION 8007 OF THE BANKING LAW

The undersigned, being respectively, a Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary, of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, pursuant to Section 8007 of the Banking Law of the State of New York, do hereby restate, certify and set forth as follows:

(1) The name of the corporation is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. The name under which the corporation was originally incorporated was The Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company of Buffalo.

(2) The organization certificate of the corporation was filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on September 13, 1892, and in the Office of the Clerk of Erie County, New York on September 14, 1892, and the certificate of authorization of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York was issued on June 27, 1893.

A first restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on August 6, 1954. Such restated organization certificate was amended from time to time thereafter. A second restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on February 26, 1991. A third restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on May 22, 1992. A fourth restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on April 1, 2003.

(3) The restated organization certificate is hereby further amended by revising Article 1 to read as follows:

“1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.”

(4) The text of the corporation’s organization certificate, as amended heretofore, is hereby restated without further change to read as hereinafter set forth in full:

 

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“ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

 


1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.

2. The place where the principal office of the corporation is to be located is the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York.

3. The amount of the corporation’s capital stock is $200,000,000. The number of shares into which such capital stock shall be divided is 5,000,000 common shares of the par value of $40 per share.

4. The number of directors which the corporation shall have shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30).

5. The term of existence of the corporation shall be perpetual.

6. The corporation shall exercise the fiduciary powers conferred by Section 100 of the Banking Law, as amended from time to time, in addition to the other powers conferred upon banks and trust companies pursuant to the Banking Law or other applicable law.

7. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Bylaws to the contrary, each of the following provisions of the Bylaws may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, without the unanimous approval of the entire board of directors:

 

   

the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b),

 

   

the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article IX, Section 2, and

 

   

the entirety of Article X.

The provisions of this Article 7 shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of the corporation, the board of directors or the stockholders upon the termination of the foregoing provisions of the Bylaws in accordance with Article IX, Section 2 of the Bylaws.”

 


(5) This restatement of the organization certificate was authorized pursuant to Section 6015 of the Banking Law by the written consent, setting forth the action taken, of the holder of all of the outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed, signed and verified this certificate this 6 th day of July, 2004.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
  Michael P. Pinto
  Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer

 

By:   /s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
  Brian R. Yoshida
  Vice President and Assistant Secretary

 

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STATE OF NEW YORK

   )
   )        SS.:

COUNTY OF ERIE

   )

Michael P. Pinto and Brian R. Yoshida, being first duly sworn, depose and say that they are respectively, an Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, that they have read the foregoing certificate and know the contents thereof and that the statements therein contained are true.

 

/s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
Michael P. Pinto

 

/s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
Brian R. Yoshida

Sworn to before me

this 6th day of July, 2004.

 

/s/ TIMOTHY G. MCEVOY
Notary Public

 

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EXHIBIT 4

Existing By-Laws of the Trustee

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

BYLAWS

(effective as of February 20, 2007)

 

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BYLAWS

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

ARTICLE I

Meetings of Stockholders

Section 1. Annual Meeting: The Annual Meeting of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (“M&T Bank”), for the election of directors and for transaction of such other business as may be set forth in the notice of meeting, shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or at such other place in the City of Buffalo, New York on the third Tuesday of April in each year, or on such date and at such time as the Board of Directors shall determine.

Section 2. Special Meetings: Special meetings of the stockholders may be called to be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or elsewhere within the State of New York at any time by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary at the request in writing of five or more members of the Board of Directors, or at the request in writing of the holders of record of at least 25% of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be called.

Section 3. Notice of Meetings: Written notice of each meeting of the stockholders shall be given by depositing in the United States mail, postage prepaid, not less than 10 nor more than 50 days before such meeting, a copy of the notice of such meeting directed to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting, at the address as it appears on the record of stockholders for each such stockholder, or, if such stockholder shall have filed with the Corporate Secretary of M&T Bank a written request that notices be mailed to some other address, then directed to such other address. The notice shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called and, unless it is the annual meeting, indicate that the notice is being issued by or at the direction of the person or persons calling the meeting. If action is proposed to be taken at any meeting which would, if taken, entitle dissenting stockholders to receive payment for their shares, the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. At each meeting of stockholders only such business may be transacted which is related to the purpose or purposes set forth in the notice of meeting.

Section 4. Waiver of Notice: Whenever under any provisions of these bylaws, the organization certificate, the terms of any agreement or instrument, or law, M&T Bank or the Board of Directors or any committee thereof is authorized to take any action after notice to any person or persons or after the lapse of a prescribed period of time, such action may be taken without notice and without the lapse of such period of time, if at any time before or after such action is completed the person or persons entitled to such notice or entitled to participate in the action to be taken or, in the case of a stockholder, by such stockholder’s attorney-in-fact, submit a signed waiver of notice of such requirements. The attendance of any stockholder at any meeting, in person or by proxy, without protesting prior to the conclusion the lack of notice of such meeting, shall constitute a waiver of notice by such stockholder.

 

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Section 5. Procedure: At every meeting of stockholders the order of business and all other matters of procedure may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 6. List of Stockholders: A list of stockholders as of the record date, certified by the officer of M&T Bank responsible for its preparation or by a transfer agent, shall be produced at any meeting of stockholders upon the request thereat or prior thereto of any stockholder. If the right to vote at any meeting is challenged, the inspectors of election, or person presiding thereat, shall require such list of stockholders to be produced as evidence of the right of the persons challenged to vote at such meeting, and all persons who appear from such list to be stockholders entitled to vote thereat may vote at such meeting.

Section 7. Quorum: At all meetings of the stockholders of M&T Bank a quorum must be present for the transaction of business and, except as otherwise provided by law, a quorum shall consist of the holders of record of not less than a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote thereat, present either in person or by proxy. When a quorum is once present to organize a meeting of the stockholders, it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.

Section 8. Adjournments: The stockholders entitled to vote who are present in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders, whether or not a quorum shall be present or represented at the meeting, shall have power by a majority vote to adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice other than announcement at the meeting. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present in person or by proxy any business may be transacted that might have been transacted on the original date of the meeting, and the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting on the original date (whether or not they were present thereat), and no others, shall be entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting.

Section 9. Voting; Proxies: Each stockholder of record entitled to vote shall be entitled at every meeting of stockholders of M&T Bank to one vote for each share of stock having voting power standing in each such stockholder’s name on the record of stockholders on the record date fixed pursuant to Section 3 of Article VI of these bylaws. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent without a meeting may do so either in person or by proxy appointed by instrument executed in writing by such stockholder or such stockholder’s duly authorized attorney-in-fact and delivered to the secretary of the meeting. No director, officer, clerk, teller or bookkeeper of M&T Bank shall act as proxy at any meeting. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration of 11 months from the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Every proxy shall be revocable at the pleasure of the stockholder executing it except as otherwise provided by law. Directors elected at any meeting of the stockholders shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast. All other corporate action to be taken by vote of the stockholders shall, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, be authorized by a majority of the votes cast. The vote for directors shall be by ballot, but otherwise the vote upon any question before a meeting shall not be by ballot unless the person presiding at such meeting shall so direct or any stockholder, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, shall so demand.

Section 10. Appointment of Inspectors of Election: The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of the stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If inspectors are not so appointed in advance of the meeting, the

 

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person presiding at such meeting may, and on the request of any stockholder entitled to vote thereat shall, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any inspector appointed fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the Board of Directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. No director, officer or candidate for the office of director of M&T Bank shall be eligible to act as an inspector of an election of directors of M&T Bank. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability.

Section 11. Duties of Inspectors of Election: The inspectors of election shall determine the number of shares outstanding and entitled to vote, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders.

ARTICLE II

Directors

Section 1. Number and Qualifications: Unless otherwise permitted by law, the number of directors of M&T Bank shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30), with the exact number to be fixed from time to time by resolution of a majority of the directors, provided that the number of directors shall not be reduced so as to shorten the term of any director at the time in office; and provided, further, that, until the Sunset Date (as defined in Article X hereof), without the consent of the Significant Stockholder (as defined in Article X hereof), the number of directors shall not exceed twenty eight (28). If the number of directors be increased at any time, within the limits above set forth, the vacancy or vacancies in the Board arising from such increase shall be filled as provided in Section 4 of this Article II. Each such vacancy, and each reduction in the number of directors, shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner prescribed by law. All of the directors shall be of full age, and at least one-half of them shall be citizens of the United States at the time of their election and during their continuance in office, unless otherwise permitted by law. No more than one-third of the directors shall be active officers or employees of M&T Bank.

Section 2. Election and Tenure of Office:

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, each director of M&T Bank shall be elected at an annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the stockholders held in lieu of such annual meeting, which meeting, for the purposes of these bylaws, shall be deemed the annual meeting, and shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified. Each person who shall be elected a director of M&T Bank shall, before participating in any manner as a director of M&T Bank, qualify in the manner prescribed by law and take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law.

(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary:

(i) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of

 

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Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank four (4) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(ii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least ten percent (10%), but less than fifteen percent (15%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank two (2) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(iii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least five percent (5%), but less than ten percent (10%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as a director of M&T Bank one (1) person designated by the Significant Stockholder, who is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank.

(iv) For purposes of determining the number of outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation for purposes of this Article II, Section 2(b), there shall be used the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation disclosed as outstanding on the cover page of M&T Bank Corporation’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K or Report on Form 10-Q, as the case may be, or the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation actually outstanding as of a later date, if requested by M&T Bank or the Significant Stockholder, determined on the same basis as the number of shares disclosed on such Reports. Any share held by any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Significant Stockholder of which the Significant Stockholder holds 80% or more of the outstanding equity capital or voting shares shall be deemed held by the Significant Stockholder. In the event that the transaction that would result in the Significant Stockholder’s holdings being below any threshold set forth herein is a transaction that gives rise to an Issuance Event (as defined in Article X hereof), no diminution in the percentage of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred until the earlier of such time as the Significant Stockholder gives written notice that it shall not exercise its Maintenance Rights (as defined in Article X hereof) or the deadline for exercise of such Maintenance Rights has passed without the Significant Stockholder having provided notice that it shall exercise the same. No diminution in the percentage of outstanding shares of common stock held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of any issuance of shares that is subject to the Corporation’s repurchase obligations under Section 7.2(c) or Section 7.2(e) of the Reorganization Agreement. In the event that the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decrease to less than fifteen percent (15%), but not less than twelve percent (12%), of the outstanding common stock, the Significant Stockholder’s holdings shall be deemed to be equal to fifteen percent (15%) for all purposes of the definition of Sunset Date and of this Article II, Section 2(b), unless, not later than one year from the date on which the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decreased to less than fifteen percent (15%), the Significant Stockholder’s holdings have not been restored to at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation.

(v) In the event that M&T Bank objects to any designee for Board service on the grounds that such designee is not “reasonably acceptable” under any provision of this Article II, Section 2(b), M&T Bank shall fully cooperate and shall use best efforts to work with the

 

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Significant Stockholder to promptly resolve any such objection so that such designee may as promptly as practicable serve in the capacity for which he or she has been designated or, in the alternative, to promptly identify a substitute candidate that is reasonably acceptable, in order to give effect to the intention of the M&T Bank and the Significant Stockholder regarding Board representation contemplated by this Article II, Section 2(b).

Section 3. Resignation: Any director of M&T Bank may resign at any time by giving his or her resignation to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Corporate Secretary. Such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein; and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

Section 4. Vacancies: Except as set forth in Article II, Section 2(b) or as hereinafter provided, all vacancies in the office of director shall be filled by election by the stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed election. Subject to Article II, Section 2(b), vacancies not exceeding one-third of the entire Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, and the directors so elected shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term; or two vacancies may, with the consent of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, be left unfilled until the next annual election. Each vacancy in the office of director and each election by the Board of Directors to fill any such vacancy shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner provided by law.

Section 5. Directors’ Fees: Directors, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are directors, may receive a fee for their services as directors and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of the Board. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each meeting of the Board of Directors or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

Section 6. Meetings of Directors: A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held at least six times each year, provided that during any three consecutive calendar months the Board shall meet at least once. The first meeting of the Board of Directors after each annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held immediately after the adjournment of such annual meeting and shall constitute the regular meeting of the Board of Directors for the month in which such first meeting is held. The Board of Directors shall, from time to time, designate the place, date and hour for the holding of regular meetings but, in the absence of any such designation, regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank in the City of Buffalo, New York, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., on the third Tuesday of each January, February, April, July, September and October. No notice need be given of such regular meetings except such notice as these bylaws or the Board of Directors by resolution may require. Special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times and at such places as the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall also be held upon the request of any 4 directors made in writing to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

 

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Section 7. Notice of Special Meetings of the Board of Directors: Notice of each special meeting of the Board of Directors stating the time and place thereof, shall be given by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, or by any member of the Board to each member of the Board not less than 3 days before the meeting by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to each member of the Board at his or her residence or usual place of business, or not less than 1 day before the meeting by telephoning or by delivering the same to each member of the Board personally, or by sending the same by facsimile or electronic mail to his or her residence or usual place of business. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him or her. The notice of any special meeting of the Board of Directors need not specify the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, except as provided in Article IX of these bylaws.

Section 8. Quorum: At all meetings of the Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, a quorum shall be required for the transaction of business and shall consist of not less than one-third of the entire Board, and the vote of a majority of the directors present shall decide any question which may come before the meeting. A majority of the directors present at any meeting, although less than a quorum, may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

Section 9. Meetings by Conference Telephone: Any one or more members of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

Section 10. Procedure: The order of business and all other matters of procedure at every meeting of directors may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 11. The Chairman of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the first meeting (the “Annual Reorganization Meeting”) of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number a Chairman of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Chairman of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected or appointed and qualified.

Section 12. The Vice Chairmen of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number one or more Vice Chairmen of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Vice Chairmen of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been elected or appointed and qualified. The Board of Directors shall elect a non-executive Vice Chairman of the Board who will perform the duties of “lead outside director.”

 

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ARTICLE III

Committees

Section 1. Executive Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee consisting of five or more directors. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of the Executive Committee, who may replace any absent member or members of the Executive Committee at any meeting thereof. In the interim between meetings of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee shall have all the authority of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided by law. All acts done and powers and authority conferred by the Executive Committee from time to time within the scope of its authority shall be, and may be deemed to be, and may be certified as being, the act and under the authority of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer, or the Chairman of the Board in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, shall preside at all meetings of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall elect from its members a chairman to preside at any meeting of the Executive Committee at which the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board shall be absent. Four members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Section 2. Examining Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Examining Committee consisting of not less than 3 directors to examine fully the books, papers and affairs of M&T Bank, and the loans and discounts thereof, as provided by law. The Examining Committee shall have the power to employ such assistants as it may deem necessary to enable it to perform its duties.

Section 3. Other Committees: The Board of Directors may from time to time, by resolution or resolutions, appoint or provide for one or more other committees consisting of such directors, officers, or other persons as the Board may determine. Each committee, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, shall have such powers and functions in the management of M&T Bank as may be lawfully delegated by the Board of Directors in the interim between meetings of the Board. Each committee shall have such name as may be provided from time to time in said resolution or resolutions, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

Section 4. Minutes of Meetings of Committees: The Executive Committee, the Examining Committee, and each other committee shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors at the next meeting thereof, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable under the circumstances.

Section 5. Fees to Members of Committees: Members of committees, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are members of committees, may receive a fee for their services as members of committees and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of a committee. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each committee meeting or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Officers

Section 1. Officers: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, elect from its own number a Chief Executive Officer and a President, and appoint or elect one or more Vice Presidents, a Corporate Secretary, a Treasurer, a General Auditor, and such other officers as it deems necessary and appropriate. At the Annual Reorganization Meeting, the Board of Directors shall also reelect all of the then officers of M&T Bank until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting. In the interim between Annual Reorganization Meetings, the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may also from time to time elect or appoint a Chief Executive Officer, a President or such additional officers to the rank of Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Administrative Vice Presidents, Group Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Executive Vice Presidents, and any other officer positions as they deems necessary and appropriate; and, the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, may appoint officers below the rank of Administrative Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, Assistant Auditors and Banking Officers. Each such person elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, in between Annual Reorganization Meetings shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board or Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, hold office until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting.

Section 2. Term of Office: The Chief Executive Officer, the President, each Vice President, the Corporate Secretary, the Treasurer, and the General Auditor shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Each additional officer appointed or elected by the Board of Directors, or by the Executive Committee, shall hold office for such term as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee. Any officer, however, may be removed at any time by the Board of Directors, or his or her authority suspended by the Board of Directors, with or without cause. If the office of any officer becomes vacant for any reason, the Board of Directors shall have the power to fill such vacancy.

Section 3. The Chief Executive Officer: Unless such authority is prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee for the Chairman of the Board or a Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall, under control of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, have the general management of M&T Bank’s affairs and shall exercise general supervision over all activities of M&T Bank. The Chief Executive Officer shall have the power to appoint or hire, to remove, and to determine the compensation of, all employees of M&T Bank who are not officers.

 

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Section 4. The President: The President, subject to the control and direction of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, shall have immediate supervision over the business, affairs, and properties of M&T Bank, shall have and exercise general authority with respect thereto, shall perform all duties and exercise all powers generally incident to this office and shall perform such additional duties and be vested with such additional powers as shall be assigned from time to time by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and if he is not the Chief Executive Officer, by such officer. In the absence or incapacity of the Chairman of the Board, the President shall have the powers and exercise the duties of the Chairman of the Board, including the powers of Chief Executive Officer if the Chairman of the Board is the Chief Executive Officer.

Section 5. The Vice Presidents: The Vice Presidents shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them respectively by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President. Any one or more individuals may be designated by the Board of Directors as “Executive Vice President,” “Senior Vice President,” “Group Vice President,” “Administrative Vice President” or “Vice President,” or by such other title or titles as the Board of Directors may determine. In the absence or incapacity of both the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President, the Vice Presidents shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of those officers in such order of precedence as shall be determined by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

Section 6. The Corporate Secretary and Assistant Secretaries: The Corporate Secretary shall issue notices of all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, where notices of such meetings are required by law or these bylaws. He or she shall attend all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and keep the minutes thereof in proper books provided for that purpose. He or she shall affix the corporate seal to and sign such instruments as require the seal and his or her signature and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

The Assistant Secretaries may, in the absence or disability of the Corporate Secretary or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Corporate Secretary, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 7. The Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers: The Treasurer shall keep permanent records of the assets and liabilities and of all matters and transactions bearing upon the financial affairs of M&T Bank. He or she shall, whenever required by the Board of Directors, present a statement of the business of M&T Bank, a balance sheet thereof as of the end of the last preceding month or such other date as may be so required. He or she shall make and sign such reports, statements and instruments as may be required by the Board of Directors or the President or by law and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

 

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The Assistant Treasurers may, in the absence or disability of the Treasurer or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 8. The General Auditor: The General Auditor shall be responsible to the Chair of the Examining Committee and, through the Examining Committee, to the Board of Directors for the safety of all operations and for the systems of internal audits and protective controls; he or she shall perform such other duties as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may prescribe and shall make such examinations and reports as may be required by the directors’ Examining Committee. He or she shall have the duty to report to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank which he or she deems advisable or which the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may request. In addition, the General Auditor shall have the duty of reporting independently of all officers of M&T Bank to the directors’ Examining Committee whenever he or she deems it necessary or desirable to do so, but in any event not less often than annually on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank.

The Assistant Auditors may, in the absence or disability of the General Auditor, or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the General Auditor, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 9. Other Officers: All other officers that may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe, except as the law may otherwise require.

Section 10. Officers Holding Two or More Offices: Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of President and Corporate Secretary. No officer shall execute or verify any instrument in more than one capacity if such instrument be required by law or otherwise to be executed or verified by any two or more officers.

Section 11. Duties of Officers May be Delegated: In case of the absence or disability of any officer of M&T Bank, or in case of a vacancy in any office or for any other reason that the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, may delegate, for the time being, the powers or duties of any officer to any other officer or to any director.

Section 12. Compensation of Officers: The Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of M&T Bank Corporation shall, through appropriate consultation with the Board of Directors, determine the compensation and benefits of the Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers of M&T Bank. In the event and to the extent that the Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee shall not hereafter exercise its discretionary power in respect of all other officers, the compensation to be paid to all other officers shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Section 13. Special Powers: The Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairmen of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, any Banking Officer, the Corporate Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, and the Treasurer shall each have power and authority:

To sign, countersign, certify, issue, assign, endorse, transfer and/or deliver notes, checks, drafts, bills of exchange, certificates of deposit, acceptances, letters of credit, advices for the transfer or payment of funds, orders for the sale and for delivery of securities, guarantees of signatures, and all other instruments, documents and writings in connection with the business of M&T Bank in its corporate or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To sign the name of M&T Bank and affix its seal, or cause the same to be affixed, to deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, assignments, releases, proxies, powers of attorney, trust agreements, and all other instruments, documents or papers necessary for the conduct of the business of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To endorse, sell, assign, transfer and deliver any stocks, bonds, mortgages, notes, certificates of interest, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of deposit and any evidences of indebtedness or of any rights or privileges which now are or may hereafter be held by or stand in the name of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity, or in any fiduciary or trust capacity, and to execute proxies, powers of attorney or other authority with respect thereto;

To accept on behalf of M&T Bank any guardianship, receivership, executorship or any general or special trust specified in the Banking Law of the State of New York;

To authenticate or certificate any bonds, debentures, notes, or other instruments issued under or in connection with any mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument under which M&T Bank is acting as trustee or in any other fiduciary capacity;

To sign, execute and deliver certificates, reports, checks, orders, receipts, certificates of deposit, interim certificates, and other documents in connection with its duties and activities as registrar, transfer agent, disbursing agent, fiscal agent, depositary, or in any other corporate fiduciary capacity.

The powers and authority above conferred may at any time be modified, changed, extended or revoked, and may be conferred in whole or in part on other officers and employees by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.

Section 14. Bonds: The Board of Directors may require any officer, agent or employee of M&T Bank to give a bond to M&T Bank, conditional upon the faithful performance of his or her duties, with one or more sureties and in such amount as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE V

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Section 1. Right of Indemnification: Each director and officer of M&T Bank, whether or not then in office, each director and officer of a subsidiary that M&T Bank directly or indirectly owns more than 50% of the voting securities of, whether or not then in office, and any person whose testator or intestate was such a director or officer, shall be indemnified by M&T Bank for the defense of, or in connection with, any threatened, pending or completed actions or proceedings and appeals therein, whether civil, criminal, governmental, administrative or investigative, in accordance with and to the fullest extent permitted by the Banking Law of the State of New York or other applicable law, as such law now exists or may hereafter be amended; provided, however, that M&T Bank shall provide indemnification in connection with an action or proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such a director or officer only if such action or proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

Section 2. Advancement of Expenses: Expenses incurred by a director or officer in connection with any action or proceeding as to which indemnification may be given under Section 1 of this Article V may be paid by M&T Bank in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon (a) receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such advancement in the event that such director or officer is ultimately found not to be entitled to indemnification as authorized by this Article V and (b) approval by the Board of Directors acting by a quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to such action or proceeding or, if such a quorum is not obtainable, then approval by stockholders. To the extent permitted by law, the Board of Directors or, if applicable, the stockholders, shall not be required under this Section 2, to find that the director or officer has met the applicable standard of conduct provided by law for indemnification in connection with such action or proceeding.

Section 3. Availability and Interpretation: To the extent permitted under applicable law, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V (a) shall be available with respect to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article V, (b) shall continue to exist after any recision or restrictive amendment of this Article V with respect to events occurring prior to such recision or amendment, (c) may be interpreted on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time of the occurrence of the event or events giving rise to the action or proceeding, or on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time such rights are claimed, and (d) are in the nature of contract rights which may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction as if M&T Bank and the director or officer for whom such rights are sought were parties to a separate written agreement.

Section 4. Other Rights: The rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which any such director, officer or other person may now or hereafter be otherwise entitled whether contained in the organization certificate, these bylaws, a resolution of stockholders, a resolution of the Board of Directors, or an agreement providing such indemnification, the creation of such other rights being hereby expressly authorized. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights, pursuant to statute or otherwise, of any such director, officer or other person in any such action or proceeding to have assessed or allowed in his or her favor, against M&T Bank or otherwise, his or her costs and expenses incurred therein or in connection therewith or any part thereof.

 

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Section 5. Severability: If this Article V or any part hereof shall be held unenforceable in any respect by a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remainder of this Article V shall remain fully enforceable.

ARTICLE VI

Capital Stock

Section 1. Certificates of Stock: The shares of stock of M&T Bank shall be represented by certificates which shall be numbered and shall be entered in the books of M&T Bank as they are issued. Each stock certificate shall when issued state the name of the person or persons to whom issued and the number of shares and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President and by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and shall be sealed with the seal of M&T Bank or a facsimile thereof. The signatures of the officers upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by M&T Bank with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue. No certificate of stock shall be valid until countersigned by a transfer agent if M&T Bank has a transfer agent, or until registered by a registrar, if M&T Bank has a registrar.

Section 2. Transfers of Shares: Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of M&T Bank by the holder thereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon the surrender of the certificate representing the shares to be transferred, properly endorsed. M&T Bank shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the owner thereof and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, save as specifically provided by the laws of the State of New York. The Board of Directors, to the extent permitted by law, shall have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates of stock and may appoint one or more transfer agents and registrars of the stock of M&T Bank.

Section 3. Fixing of Record Date: The Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a day and hour not more than 50 days nor less than 10 days before the date on which any meeting of stockholders is to be held, as the time as of which stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting and at all adjournments thereof shall be determined; and, in the event such record date and time is fixed by the Board of Directors, no one other than the holders of record on such date and time of stock entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If a record date and time shall not be fixed by the Board of Directors for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of stockholders, stockholders of record at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice of such meeting is given, and no others, shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. The Board of Directors may

 

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fix, in advance, a day and hour, not exceeding 50 days preceding the date fixed for the payment of a dividend of any kind or the allotment of any rights, as the record time for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive any such dividend or rights, and in such case only stockholders of record at the time so fixed shall be entitled to receive such dividend or rights.

Section 4. Record of Stockholders: M&T Bank shall keep at its office in the State of New York, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar in this state, a record containing the names and addresses of all stockholders, the number and class of shares held by each and the dates when they respectively became the owner of record thereof.

Section 5. Lost Stock Certificates: The holder of any certificate representing shares of stock of M&T Bank shall immediately notify M&T Bank of any mutilation, loss or destruction thereof, and the Board of Directors may in its discretion cause one or more new certificates for the same number of shares in the aggregate to be issued to such holder upon the surrender of the mutilated certificate, or, in case of loss or destruction of the certificate, upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction and the deposit of indemnity by way of bond or otherwise in such form and amount and with such sureties or security as the Board of Directors may require to protect M&T Bank against loss or liability by reason of the issuance of such new certificates; but the Board of Directors may in its discretion refuse to issue such new certificates save upon the order of the court having jurisdiction in such matters.

ARTICLE VII

Corporate Seal

Section 1. Form of Seal: The seal of M&T Bank shall be circular in form, with the words “Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company” in the margin thereof, and the numerals “1856” and the word “seal” and the numerals “1892” in the center thereof. The seal on any corporate obligation for the payment of money may be facsimile.

ARTICLE VIII

Emergency Operations

Whenever the provisions of Article 7 of the New York State Defense Emergency Act (L. 1961, c. 654) become operative by reason of an “acute emergency,” as defined in said Act, the following provision shall also become operative:

1. If the Chief Executive Officer of M&T Bank shall not be available, his or her powers and authority shall vest in and may be exercised by other officers of M&T Bank in the following order:

 

  a. The Chairman of the Board;

 

  b. Any Vice Chairman of the Board;

 

  c. The President;

 

  d. The Executive Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

  e. The Senior Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

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  f. A Vice President selected from and by those Vice Presidents who shall be available.

2. The directors and acting directors present at any meeting held as provided by statute may by resolution alter the foregoing order of succession or designate the person from among the foregoing group who shall act as Chief Executive Officer; provided, however, that the directors and acting directors shall have no power to remove any officer or to fill any vacancy on a permanent basis or to cause M&T Bank to enter into any contract of employment for a term of over one year.

3. The directors and acting directors shall take such action as counsel may advise in order that the normal operations of M&T Bank shall be restored as promptly as practicable.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments; Termination

Section 1. Procedure for Amending Bylaws: These bylaws may be added to, amended or repealed at any meeting of stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of the holders of record of a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote, or at any meeting of the Board of Directors notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of a majority of the Board of Directors; provided, however, that if any bylaw regulating an impending election of directors is adopted or amended or repealed by the Board of Directors, there shall be set forth in the notice of the next meeting of stockholders for the election of directors the bylaw so adopted or amended or repealed, together with a concise statement of the changes made; and provided further that the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1, the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b), the entirety of Article X and this proviso may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, in each case, without the unanimous approval of the entire Board of Directors.

Section 2. Termination of Certain Provisions: Each of the provisions of these Bylaws set forth in the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1 hereof shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of M&T Bank, the Board of Directors or the stockholders on the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Holding Company.

ARTICLE X

Certain Definitions

Section 1. Definitions: For purposes of Article II of these Bylaws:

(a) “ Issuance Event ” shall mean an “Issuance Event” defined in Section 1.42 of the Reorganization Agreement.

(b) “ Maintenance Rights ” shall mean the “Seller Maintenance Rights” defined in Section 1.75 of the Reorganization Agreement.

 

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(c) “ Reorganization Agreement ” shall mean the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated September 26, 2002, by and among the Significant Stockholder, Allfirst Financial Inc. and M&T Bank Corporation, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

(d) “ Significant Stockholder ” shall mean Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Ireland having its registered office at Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland, and any successor thereto.

(e) “ Sunset Date ” shall mean the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least 15% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation, determined in accordance with, and subject to, paragraph (iv) of Article II, Section 2(b) hereof.

 

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EXHIBIT 6

Consent Of Trustee

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company hereby consents, in accordance with the provisions of Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, that reports of examinations by federal, state, territorial and district authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
 

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 7

Report of Condition of the Trustee

 

1


REPORT OF CONDITION

Consolidating domestic and foreign subsidiaries of the

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

in the state of NY at the close of business on December 31, 2006

published in response to call made by (Enter additional information below)

Statement of Resources and Liabilities

 

 

     
     Dollar Amounts in Thousands  

ASSETS:

     

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:

     

Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin

      1,605,507  

Interest-bearing balances

      3,768  

Securities:

     

Held-to-maturity securities

      64,899  

Available-for-sale securities

      6,469,246  

Federal funds sold in domestic offices

      19,458  

Securities purchased under agreements to resell

      100,000  

Loans and lease financing receivables:

     

Loans and leases held for sale

      2,000,821  

Loans and leases, net of unearned income

   40,745,996   

LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses

   647,492   

Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance

      40,098,504  

Trading assets

      91,701  

Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)

      328,593  

Other real estate owned

      11,978  

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies

      140,711  

Intangible assets:

     

Goodwill

      2,908,849  

Other intangible assets

      423,696  

Other assets

      2,114,657  

Total assets

      56,382,388  

LIABILITIES

     
     Dollar Amounts in Thousands  

Deposits:

     

In domestic offices

      34,509,353  

Noninterest-bearing

   7,897,655   

Interest-bearing

   26,611,698   

In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs

      5,429,668  

Noninterest-bearing

   0   

Interest-bearing

   5,429,668   

Federal funds purchased in domestic offices

      2,356,969  

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

      1,218,216  

Trading liabilities

      65,265  

Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)

      4,002,125  

Subordinated notes and debentures

      1,576,781  

Other liabilities

      749,571  

Total liabilities

      49,907,948  

Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries

      0  

EQUITY CAPITAL

     

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus

      0  

Common stock

      120,635  

Surplus

      4,489,092  

Retained earnings

      1,924,612  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

      (59,899 )

Other equity capital components

      0  

Total equity capital

      6,474,440  

Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital

      56,382,388  

Exhibit 25.11

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

Statement of eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act

of 1939 of a Corporation designated to act as Trustee

Check if an application to determine eligibility of a Trustee

pursuant to Section 305(b)(2) ______

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

 

New York   16-0538020

(Jurisdiction of incorporation

or organization if not a national bank)

 

(I.R.S. employer

identification No.)

 

One M&T Plaza

Buffalo, New York

  14240-2399
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

25 South Charles Street, 16 th Floor

Baltimore, Maryland 21201

(410) 244—4238

(Name, address and telephone number of agent of service)

Mellon Financial Corporation

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   _____________________

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

  (I.R.S. employer identification No.)

 

__________________________   ____________________
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Guarantees of Trust Preferred Securities of Mellon Capital IV

(Title of indenture securities)

 



Item 1. General Information

Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:

 

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, 2 Rector Street, New York, New York 10006 and Corning Tower, Albany, New York 12203

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. 20429

 

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

 

Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None.

[Items 3 through 15 omitted pursuant to General Instruction B to Form T-1]

 

Item 16. List of Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.   Organization Certificate of the Trustee as now in effect. *
Exhibit 2.   Certificate of Authority of the Trustee to commence business (contained in Exhibit 1).
Exhibit 3.  

Authorization of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers (contained in Exhibit 1).

Exhibit 4.   Existing By-Laws of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 5.   Not Applicable.
Exhibit 6.   Consent of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 7.   Report of Condition of the Trustee.*
Exhibit 8.   Not Applicable.
Exhibit 9.   Not Applicable.

* Filed Herewith

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 the Trustee, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, has duly caused this statement of eligibility and qualification to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, on the 8th day of June, 2007.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
 

Robert D. Brown

Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 1

Organization Certificate of the Trustee

RESTATED ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

UNDER SECTION 8007 OF THE BANKING LAW

The undersigned, being respectively, a Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary, of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, pursuant to Section 8007 of the Banking Law of the State of New York, do hereby restate, certify and set forth as follows:

(1) The name of the corporation is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company. The name under which the corporation was originally incorporated was The Fidelity Trust and Guaranty Company of Buffalo.

(2) The organization certificate of the corporation was filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on September 13, 1892, and in the Office of the Clerk of Erie County, New York on September 14, 1892, and the certificate of authorization of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York was issued on June 27, 1893.

A first restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on August 6, 1954. Such restated organization certificate was amended from time to time thereafter. A second restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on February 26, 1991. A third restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on May 22, 1992. A fourth restated organization certificate of the corporation was approved and filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York on April 1, 2003.

(3) The restated organization certificate is hereby further amended by revising Article 1 to read as follows:

“1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.”

(4) The text of the corporation’s organization certificate, as amended heretofore, is hereby restated without further change to read as hereinafter set forth in full:

 

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“ORGANIZATION CERTIFICATE

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

 


1. The name by which the said corporation shall be known is Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company or M&T Bank.

2. The place where the principal office of the corporation is to be located is the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York.

3. The amount of the corporation’s capital stock is $200,000,000. The number of shares into which such capital stock shall be divided is 5,000,000 common shares of the par value of $40 per share.

4. The number of directors which the corporation shall have shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30).

5. The term of existence of the corporation shall be perpetual.

6. The corporation shall exercise the fiduciary powers conferred by Section 100 of the Banking Law, as amended from time to time, in addition to the other powers conferred upon banks and trust companies pursuant to the Banking Law or other applicable law.

7. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Bylaws to the contrary, each of the following provisions of the Bylaws may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, without the unanimous approval of the entire board of directors:

 

   

the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b),

 

   

the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1,

 

   

the entirety of Article IX, Section 2, and

 

   

the entirety of Article X.

The provisions of this Article 7 shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of the corporation, the board of directors or the stockholders upon the termination of the foregoing provisions of the Bylaws in accordance with Article IX, Section 2 of the Bylaws.”

 


(5) This restatement of the organization certificate was authorized pursuant to Section 6015 of the Banking Law by the written consent, setting forth the action taken, of the holder of all of the outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed, signed and verified this certificate this 6 th day of July, 2004.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
 

Michael P. Pinto

Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer

 

By:   /s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
 

Brian R. Yoshida

Vice President and Assistant Secretary

 

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STATE OF NEW YORK    )
   )        SS.:
COUNTY OF ERIE    )

Michael P. Pinto and Brian R. Yoshida, being first duly sworn, depose and say that they are respectively, an Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer and a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, that they have read the foregoing certificate and know the contents thereof and that the statements therein contained are true.

 

/s/ MICHAEL P. PINTO
Michael P. Pinto

 

/s/ BRIAN R. YOSHIDA
Brian R. Yoshida

Sworn to before me

this 6th day of July, 2004.

 

/s/ TIMOTHY G. MCEVOY
Notary Public

 

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EXHIBIT 4

Existing By-Laws of the Trustee

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

BYLAWS

(effective as of February 20, 2007)

 

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BYLAWS

OF

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY

ARTICLE I

Meetings of Stockholders

Section 1. Annual Meeting: The Annual Meeting of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (“M&T Bank”), for the election of directors and for transaction of such other business as may be set forth in the notice of meeting, shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or at such other place in the City of Buffalo, New York on the third Tuesday of April in each year, or on such date and at such time as the Board of Directors shall determine.

Section 2. Special Meetings: Special meetings of the stockholders may be called to be held at the principal office of M&T Bank or elsewhere within the State of New York at any time by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary at the request in writing of five or more members of the Board of Directors, or at the request in writing of the holders of record of at least 25% of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be called.

Section 3. Notice of Meetings: Written notice of each meeting of the stockholders shall be given by depositing in the United States mail, postage prepaid, not less than 10 nor more than 50 days before such meeting, a copy of the notice of such meeting directed to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting, at the address as it appears on the record of stockholders for each such stockholder, or, if such stockholder shall have filed with the Corporate Secretary of M&T Bank a written request that notices be mailed to some other address, then directed to such other address. The notice shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called and, unless it is the annual meeting, indicate that the notice is being issued by or at the direction of the person or persons calling the meeting. If action is proposed to be taken at any meeting which would, if taken, entitle dissenting stockholders to receive payment for their shares, the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. At each meeting of stockholders only such business may be transacted which is related to the purpose or purposes set forth in the notice of meeting.

Section 4. Waiver of Notice: Whenever under any provisions of these bylaws, the organization certificate, the terms of any agreement or instrument, or law, M&T Bank or the Board of Directors or any committee thereof is authorized to take any action after notice to any person or persons or after the lapse of a prescribed period of time, such action may be taken without notice and without the lapse of such period of time, if at any time before or after such action is completed the person or persons entitled to such notice or entitled to participate in the action to be taken or, in the case of a stockholder, by such stockholder’s attorney-in-fact, submit a signed waiver of notice of such requirements. The attendance of any stockholder at any meeting, in person or by proxy, without protesting prior to the conclusion the lack of notice of such meeting, shall constitute a waiver of notice by such stockholder.

 

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Section 5. Procedure: At every meeting of stockholders the order of business and all other matters of procedure may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 6. List of Stockholders: A list of stockholders as of the record date, certified by the officer of M&T Bank responsible for its preparation or by a transfer agent, shall be produced at any meeting of stockholders upon the request thereat or prior thereto of any stockholder. If the right to vote at any meeting is challenged, the inspectors of election, or person presiding thereat, shall require such list of stockholders to be produced as evidence of the right of the persons challenged to vote at such meeting, and all persons who appear from such list to be stockholders entitled to vote thereat may vote at such meeting.

Section 7. Quorum: At all meetings of the stockholders of M&T Bank a quorum must be present for the transaction of business and, except as otherwise provided by law, a quorum shall consist of the holders of record of not less than a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote thereat, present either in person or by proxy. When a quorum is once present to organize a meeting of the stockholders, it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.

Section 8. Adjournments: The stockholders entitled to vote who are present in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders, whether or not a quorum shall be present or represented at the meeting, shall have power by a majority vote to adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice other than announcement at the meeting. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present in person or by proxy any business may be transacted that might have been transacted on the original date of the meeting, and the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting on the original date (whether or not they were present thereat), and no others, shall be entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting.

Section 9. Voting; Proxies: Each stockholder of record entitled to vote shall be entitled at every meeting of stockholders of M&T Bank to one vote for each share of stock having voting power standing in each such stockholder’s name on the record of stockholders on the record date fixed pursuant to Section 3 of Article VI of these bylaws. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent without a meeting may do so either in person or by proxy appointed by instrument executed in writing by such stockholder or such stockholder’s duly authorized attorney-in-fact and delivered to the secretary of the meeting. No director, officer, clerk, teller or bookkeeper of M&T Bank shall act as proxy at any meeting. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration of 11 months from the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Every proxy shall be revocable at the pleasure of the stockholder executing it except as otherwise provided by law. Directors elected at any meeting of the stockholders shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast. All other corporate action to be taken by vote of the stockholders shall, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, be authorized by a majority of the votes cast. The vote for directors shall be by ballot, but otherwise the vote upon any question before a meeting shall not be by ballot unless the person presiding at such meeting shall so direct or any stockholder, present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, shall so demand.

Section 10. Appointment of Inspectors of Election: The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of the stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If inspectors are not so appointed in advance of the meeting, the

 

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person presiding at such meeting may, and on the request of any stockholder entitled to vote thereat shall, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any inspector appointed fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the Board of Directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. No director, officer or candidate for the office of director of M&T Bank shall be eligible to act as an inspector of an election of directors of M&T Bank. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability.

Section 11. Duties of Inspectors of Election: The inspectors of election shall determine the number of shares outstanding and entitled to vote, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders.

ARTICLE II

Directors

Section 1. Number and Qualifications: Unless otherwise permitted by law, the number of directors of M&T Bank shall be not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30), with the exact number to be fixed from time to time by resolution of a majority of the directors, provided that the number of directors shall not be reduced so as to shorten the term of any director at the time in office; and provided, further, that, until the Sunset Date (as defined in Article X hereof), without the consent of the Significant Stockholder (as defined in Article X hereof), the number of directors shall not exceed twenty eight (28). If the number of directors be increased at any time, within the limits above set forth, the vacancy or vacancies in the Board arising from such increase shall be filled as provided in Section 4 of this Article II. Each such vacancy, and each reduction in the number of directors, shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner prescribed by law. All of the directors shall be of full age, and at least one-half of them shall be citizens of the United States at the time of their election and during their continuance in office, unless otherwise permitted by law. No more than one-third of the directors shall be active officers or employees of M&T Bank.

Section 2. Election and Tenure of Office:

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, each director of M&T Bank shall be elected at an annual meeting of the stockholders or at any meeting of the stockholders held in lieu of such annual meeting, which meeting, for the purposes of these bylaws, shall be deemed the annual meeting, and shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified. Each person who shall be elected a director of M&T Bank shall, before participating in any manner as a director of M&T Bank, qualify in the manner prescribed by law and take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law.

 

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(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary:

(i) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank four (4) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(ii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least ten percent (10%), but less than fifteen percent (15%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as directors of M&T Bank two (2) persons designated by the Significant Stockholder, each of whom is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank;

(iii) for so long as the Significant Stockholder holds at least five percent (5%), but less than ten percent (10%), of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation, the Board of Directors shall nominate and recommend for election as a director of M&T Bank one (1) person designated by the Significant Stockholder, who is reasonably acceptable to M&T Bank.

(iv) For purposes of determining the number of outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation for purposes of this Article II, Section 2(b), there shall be used the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation disclosed as outstanding on the cover page of M&T Bank Corporation’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K or Report on Form 10-Q, as the case may be, or the number of shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation actually outstanding as of a later date, if requested by M&T Bank or the Significant Stockholder, determined on the same basis as the number of shares disclosed on such Reports. Any share held by any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Significant Stockholder of which the Significant Stockholder holds 80% or more of the outstanding equity capital or voting shares shall be deemed held by the Significant Stockholder. In the event that the transaction that would result in the Significant Stockholder’s holdings being below any threshold set forth herein is a transaction that gives rise to an Issuance Event (as defined in Article X hereof), no diminution in the percentage of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred until the earlier of such time as the Significant Stockholder gives written notice that it shall not exercise its Maintenance Rights (as defined in Article X hereof) or the deadline for exercise of such Maintenance Rights has passed without the Significant Stockholder having provided notice that it shall exercise the same. No diminution in the percentage of outstanding shares of common stock held by the Significant Stockholder shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of any issuance of shares that is subject to the Corporation’s repurchase obligations under Section 7.2(c) or Section 7.2(e) of the Reorganization Agreement. In the event that the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decrease to less than fifteen percent (15%), but not less than twelve percent (12%), of the outstanding common stock, the Significant Stockholder’s holdings shall be deemed to be equal to fifteen percent (15%) for all purposes of the definition of Sunset Date and of this Article II, Section 2(b), unless, not later than one year from the date on which the Significant Stockholder’s holdings decreased to less than fifteen percent (15%), the Significant Stockholder’s holdings have not been restored to at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of M&T Bank Corporation.

(v) In the event that M&T Bank objects to any designee for Board service on the grounds that such designee is not “reasonably acceptable” under any provision of this Article II, Section 2(b), M&T Bank shall fully cooperate and shall use best efforts to work with the

 

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Significant Stockholder to promptly resolve any such objection so that such designee may as promptly as practicable serve in the capacity for which he or she has been designated or, in the alternative, to promptly identify a substitute candidate that is reasonably acceptable, in order to give effect to the intention of the M&T Bank and the Significant Stockholder regarding Board representation contemplated by this Article II, Section 2(b).

Section 3. Resignation: Any director of M&T Bank may resign at any time by giving his or her resignation to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Corporate Secretary. Such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein; and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

Section 4. Vacancies: Except as set forth in Article II, Section 2(b) or as hereinafter provided, all vacancies in the office of director shall be filled by election by the stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of the stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed election. Subject to Article II, Section 2(b), vacancies not exceeding one-third of the entire Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, and the directors so elected shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term; or two vacancies may, with the consent of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, be left unfilled until the next annual election. Each vacancy in the office of director and each election by the Board of Directors to fill any such vacancy shall be reported to the Superintendent of Banks in the manner provided by law.

Section 5. Directors’ Fees: Directors, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are directors, may receive a fee for their services as directors and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of the Board. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each meeting of the Board of Directors or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

Section 6. Meetings of Directors: A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held at least six times each year, provided that during any three consecutive calendar months the Board shall meet at least once. The first meeting of the Board of Directors after each annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held immediately after the adjournment of such annual meeting and shall constitute the regular meeting of the Board of Directors for the month in which such first meeting is held. The Board of Directors shall, from time to time, designate the place, date and hour for the holding of regular meetings but, in the absence of any such designation, regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at the principal office of M&T Bank in the City of Buffalo, New York, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., on the third Tuesday of each January, February, April, July, September and October. No notice need be given of such regular meetings except such notice as these bylaws or the Board of Directors by resolution may require. Special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times and at such places as the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall also be held upon the request of any 4 directors made in writing to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

 

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Section 7. Notice of Special Meetings of the Board of Directors: Notice of each special meeting of the Board of Directors stating the time and place thereof, shall be given by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Corporate Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, or by any member of the Board to each member of the Board not less than 3 days before the meeting by depositing the same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to each member of the Board at his or her residence or usual place of business, or not less than 1 day before the meeting by telephoning or by delivering the same to each member of the Board personally, or by sending the same by facsimile or electronic mail to his or her residence or usual place of business. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director who submits a signed waiver of notice whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting, prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to him or her. The notice of any special meeting of the Board of Directors need not specify the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, except as provided in Article IX of these bylaws.

Section 8. Quorum: At all meetings of the Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, a quorum shall be required for the transaction of business and shall consist of not less than one-third of the entire Board, and the vote of a majority of the directors present shall decide any question which may come before the meeting. A majority of the directors present at any meeting, although less than a quorum, may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

Section 9. Meetings by Conference Telephone: Any one or more members of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

Section 10. Procedure: The order of business and all other matters of procedure at every meeting of directors may be determined by the person presiding at the meeting.

Section 11. The Chairman of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the first meeting (the “Annual Reorganization Meeting”) of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number a Chairman of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Chairman of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his or her successor has been elected or appointed and qualified.

Section 12. The Vice Chairmen of the Board: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, appoint or elect from its own number one or more Vice Chairmen of the Board who shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may from time to time prescribe. The Vice Chairmen of the Board shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been elected or appointed and qualified. The Board of Directors shall elect a non-executive Vice Chairman of the Board who will perform the duties of “lead outside director.”

 

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ARTICLE III

Committees

Section 1. Executive Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Executive Committee consisting of five or more directors. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of the Executive Committee, who may replace any absent member or members of the Executive Committee at any meeting thereof. In the interim between meetings of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee shall have all the authority of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided by law. All acts done and powers and authority conferred by the Executive Committee from time to time within the scope of its authority shall be, and may be deemed to be, and may be certified as being, the act and under the authority of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer, or the Chairman of the Board in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, shall preside at all meetings of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall elect from its members a chairman to preside at any meeting of the Executive Committee at which the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board shall be absent. Four members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Section 2. Examining Committee: The Board of Directors shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate from among its members an Examining Committee consisting of not less than 3 directors to examine fully the books, papers and affairs of M&T Bank, and the loans and discounts thereof, as provided by law. The Examining Committee shall have the power to employ such assistants as it may deem necessary to enable it to perform its duties.

Section 3. Other Committees: The Board of Directors may from time to time, by resolution or resolutions, appoint or provide for one or more other committees consisting of such directors, officers, or other persons as the Board may determine. Each committee, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions, shall have such powers and functions in the management of M&T Bank as may be lawfully delegated by the Board of Directors in the interim between meetings of the Board. Each committee shall have such name as may be provided from time to time in said resolution or resolutions, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

Section 4. Minutes of Meetings of Committees: The Executive Committee, the Examining Committee, and each other committee shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors at the next meeting thereof, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable under the circumstances.

Section 5. Fees to Members of Committees: Members of committees, except salaried officers of M&T Bank who are members of committees, may receive a fee for their services as members of committees and traveling and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending any regular or special meeting of a committee. The fee may be a fixed sum for attending each committee meeting or a fixed sum paid monthly, quarterly, or semiannually, irrespective of the number of meetings attended or not attended. The amount of the fee and the basis on which it shall be paid shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Officers

Section 1. Officers: The Board of Directors shall annually, at the Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, elect from its own number a Chief Executive Officer and a President, and appoint or elect one or more Vice Presidents, a Corporate Secretary, a Treasurer, a General Auditor, and such other officers as it deems necessary and appropriate. At the Annual Reorganization Meeting, the Board of Directors shall also reelect all of the then officers of M&T Bank until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting. In the interim between Annual Reorganization Meetings, the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee may also from time to time elect or appoint a Chief Executive Officer, a President or such additional officers to the rank of Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Administrative Vice Presidents, Group Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Executive Vice Presidents, and any other officer positions as they deems necessary and appropriate; and, the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, may appoint officers below the rank of Administrative Vice President, including (without limitation as to title or number) one or more Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, Assistant Auditors and Banking Officers. Each such person elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, in between Annual Reorganization Meetings shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board or Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees, hold office until the next Annual Reorganization Meeting.

Section 2. Term of Office: The Chief Executive Officer, the President, each Vice President, the Corporate Secretary, the Treasurer, and the General Auditor shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. Each additional officer appointed or elected by the Board of Directors, or by the Executive Committee, shall hold office for such term as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee. Any officer, however, may be removed at any time by the Board of Directors, or his or her authority suspended by the Board of Directors, with or without cause. If the office of any officer becomes vacant for any reason, the Board of Directors shall have the power to fill such vacancy.

Section 3. The Chief Executive Officer: Unless such authority is prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee for the Chairman of the Board or a Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall, under control of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, have the general management of M&T Bank’s affairs and shall exercise general supervision over all activities of M&T Bank. The Chief Executive Officer shall have the power to appoint or hire, to remove, and to determine the compensation of, all employees of M&T Bank who are not officers.

Section 4. The President: The President, subject to the control and direction of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer, shall have immediate supervision over the

 

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business, affairs, and properties of M&T Bank, shall have and exercise general authority with respect thereto, shall perform all duties and exercise all powers generally incident to this office and shall perform such additional duties and be vested with such additional powers as shall be assigned from time to time by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and if he is not the Chief Executive Officer, by such officer. In the absence or incapacity of the Chairman of the Board, the President shall have the powers and exercise the duties of the Chairman of the Board, including the powers of Chief Executive Officer if the Chairman of the Board is the Chief Executive Officer.

Section 5. The Vice Presidents: The Vice Presidents shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them respectively by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President. Any one or more individuals may be designated by the Board of Directors as “Executive Vice President,” “Senior Vice President,” “Group Vice President,” “Administrative Vice President” or “Vice President,” or by such other title or titles as the Board of Directors may determine. In the absence or incapacity of both the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President, the Vice Presidents shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of those officers in such order of precedence as shall be determined by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

Section 6. The Corporate Secretary and Assistant Secretaries: The Corporate Secretary shall issue notices of all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, where notices of such meetings are required by law or these bylaws. He or she shall attend all meetings of stockholders, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and keep the minutes thereof in proper books provided for that purpose. He or she shall affix the corporate seal to and sign such instruments as require the seal and his or her signature and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

The Assistant Secretaries may, in the absence or disability of the Corporate Secretary or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Corporate Secretary, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 7. The Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers: The Treasurer shall keep permanent records of the assets and liabilities and of all matters and transactions bearing upon the financial affairs of M&T Bank. He or she shall, whenever required by the Board of Directors, present a statement of the business of M&T Bank, a balance sheet thereof as of the end of the last preceding month or such other date as may be so required. He or she shall make and sign such reports, statements and instruments as may be required by the Board of Directors or the President or by law and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to this office or as are properly required by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

The Assistant Treasurers may, in the absence or disability of the Treasurer or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

 

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Section 8. The General Auditor: The General Auditor shall be responsible to the Chair of the Examining Committee and, through the Examining Committee, to the Board of Directors for the safety of all operations and for the systems of internal audits and protective controls; he or she shall perform such other duties as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may prescribe and shall make such examinations and reports as may be required by the directors’ Examining Committee. He or she shall have the duty to report to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank which he or she deems advisable or which the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may request. In addition, the General Auditor shall have the duty of reporting independently of all officers of M&T Bank to the directors’ Examining Committee whenever he or she deems it necessary or desirable to do so, but in any event not less often than annually on all matters concerning the safety of the operations of M&T Bank.

The Assistant Auditors may, in the absence or disability of the General Auditor, or at his or her request, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the General Auditor, and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe.

Section 9. Other Officers: All other officers that may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee or the head of the Human Resources Department of M&T Bank or his or her designee or designees shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall prescribe, except as the law may otherwise require.

Section 10. Officers Holding Two or More Offices: Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, except the offices of President and Corporate Secretary. No officer shall execute or verify any instrument in more than one capacity if such instrument be required by law or otherwise to be executed or verified by any two or more officers.

Section 11. Duties of Officers May be Delegated: In case of the absence or disability of any officer of M&T Bank, or in case of a vacancy in any office or for any other reason that the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, except as otherwise provided by law or these bylaws, may delegate, for the time being, the powers or duties of any officer to any other officer or to any director.

Section 12. Compensation of Officers: The Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of M&T Bank Corporation shall, through appropriate consultation with the Board of Directors, determine the compensation and benefits of the Chief Executive Officer and other executive officers of M&T Bank. In the event and to the extent that the Nomination, Compensation and Governance Committee shall not hereafter exercise its discretionary power in respect of all other officers, the compensation to be paid to all other officers shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer.

 

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Section 13. Special Powers: The Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairmen of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, any Banking Officer, the Corporate Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, and the Treasurer shall each have power and authority:

To sign, countersign, certify, issue, assign, endorse, transfer and/or deliver notes, checks, drafts, bills of exchange, certificates of deposit, acceptances, letters of credit, advices for the transfer or payment of funds, orders for the sale and for delivery of securities, guarantees of signatures, and all other instruments, documents and writings in connection with the business of M&T Bank in its corporate or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To sign the name of M&T Bank and affix its seal, or cause the same to be affixed, to deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, assignments, releases, proxies, powers of attorney, trust agreements, and all other instruments, documents or papers necessary for the conduct of the business of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity or in any trust or fiduciary capacity;

To endorse, sell, assign, transfer and deliver any stocks, bonds, mortgages, notes, certificates of interest, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of deposit and any evidences of indebtedness or of any rights or privileges which now are or may hereafter be held by or stand in the name of M&T Bank, either in its corporate capacity, or in any fiduciary or trust capacity, and to execute proxies, powers of attorney or other authority with respect thereto;

To accept on behalf of M&T Bank any guardianship, receivership, executorship or any general or special trust specified in the Banking Law of the State of New York;

To authenticate or certificate any bonds, debentures, notes, or other instruments issued under or in connection with any mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument under which M&T Bank is acting as trustee or in any other fiduciary capacity;

To sign, execute and deliver certificates, reports, checks, orders, receipts, certificates of deposit, interim certificates, and other documents in connection with its duties and activities as registrar, transfer agent, disbursing agent, fiscal agent, depositary, or in any other corporate fiduciary capacity.

The powers and authority above conferred may at any time be modified, changed, extended or revoked, and may be conferred in whole or in part on other officers and employees by the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.

Section 14. Bonds: The Board of Directors may require any officer, agent or employee of M&T Bank to give a bond to M&T Bank, conditional upon the faithful performance of his or her duties, with one or more sureties and in such amount as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors.

 

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ARTICLE V

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Section 1. Right of Indemnification: Each director and officer of M&T Bank, whether or not then in office, each director and officer of a subsidiary that M&T Bank directly or indirectly owns more than 50% of the voting securities of, whether or not then in office, and any person whose testator or intestate was such a director or officer, shall be indemnified by M&T Bank for the defense of, or in connection with, any threatened, pending or completed actions or proceedings and appeals therein, whether civil, criminal, governmental, administrative or investigative, in accordance with and to the fullest extent permitted by the Banking Law of the State of New York or other applicable law, as such law now exists or may hereafter be amended; provided, however, that M&T Bank shall provide indemnification in connection with an action or proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such a director or officer only if such action or proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

Section 2. Advancement of Expenses: Expenses incurred by a director or officer in connection with any action or proceeding as to which indemnification may be given under Section 1 of this Article V may be paid by M&T Bank in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon (a) receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such advancement in the event that such director or officer is ultimately found not to be entitled to indemnification as authorized by this Article V and (b) approval by the Board of Directors acting by a quorum consisting of directors who are not parties to such action or proceeding or, if such a quorum is not obtainable, then approval by stockholders. To the extent permitted by law, the Board of Directors or, if applicable, the stockholders, shall not be required under this Section 2, to find that the director or officer has met the applicable standard of conduct provided by law for indemnification in connection with such action or proceeding.

Section 3. Availability and Interpretation: To the extent permitted under applicable law, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V (a) shall be available with respect to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article V, (b) shall continue to exist after any recision or restrictive amendment of this Article V with respect to events occurring prior to such recision or amendment, (c) may be interpreted on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time of the occurrence of the event or events giving rise to the action or proceeding, or on the basis of applicable law in effect at the time such rights are claimed, and (d) are in the nature of contract rights which may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction as if M&T Bank and the director or officer for whom such rights are sought were parties to a separate written agreement.

Section 4. Other Rights: The rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which any such director, officer or other person may now or hereafter be otherwise entitled whether contained in the organization certificate, these bylaws, a resolution of stockholders, a resolution of the Board of Directors, or an agreement providing such indemnification, the creation of such other rights being hereby expressly authorized. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the rights of indemnification and to the advancement of expenses provided in this Article V shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights, pursuant to statute or otherwise, of any such director, officer or other person in any such action or proceeding to have assessed or allowed in his or her favor, against M&T Bank or otherwise, his or her costs and expenses incurred therein or in connection therewith or any part thereof.

 

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Section 5. Severability: If this Article V or any part hereof shall be held unenforceable in any respect by a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remainder of this Article V shall remain fully enforceable.

ARTICLE VI

Capital Stock

Section 1. Certificates of Stock: The shares of stock of M&T Bank shall be represented by certificates which shall be numbered and shall be entered in the books of M&T Bank as they are issued. Each stock certificate shall when issued state the name of the person or persons to whom issued and the number of shares and shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President and by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer, and shall be sealed with the seal of M&T Bank or a facsimile thereof. The signatures of the officers upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by M&T Bank with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue. No certificate of stock shall be valid until countersigned by a transfer agent if M&T Bank has a transfer agent, or until registered by a registrar, if M&T Bank has a registrar.

Section 2. Transfers of Shares: Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of M&T Bank by the holder thereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon the surrender of the certificate representing the shares to be transferred, properly endorsed. M&T Bank shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the owner thereof and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, save as specifically provided by the laws of the State of New York. The Board of Directors, to the extent permitted by law, shall have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates of stock and may appoint one or more transfer agents and registrars of the stock of M&T Bank.

Section 3. Fixing of Record Date: The Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a day and hour not more than 50 days nor less than 10 days before the date on which any meeting of stockholders is to be held, as the time as of which stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting and at all adjournments thereof shall be determined; and, in the event such record date and time is fixed by the Board of Directors, no one other than the holders of record on such date and time of stock entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to notice of or to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If a record date and time shall not be fixed by the Board of Directors for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of stockholders, stockholders of record at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice of such meeting is given, and no others, shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof. The Board of Directors may

 

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fix, in advance, a day and hour, not exceeding 50 days preceding the date fixed for the payment of a dividend of any kind or the allotment of any rights, as the record time for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive any such dividend or rights, and in such case only stockholders of record at the time so fixed shall be entitled to receive such dividend or rights.

Section 4. Record of Stockholders: M&T Bank shall keep at its office in the State of New York, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar in this state, a record containing the names and addresses of all stockholders, the number and class of shares held by each and the dates when they respectively became the owner of record thereof.

Section 5. Lost Stock Certificates: The holder of any certificate representing shares of stock of M&T Bank shall immediately notify M&T Bank of any mutilation, loss or destruction thereof, and the Board of Directors may in its discretion cause one or more new certificates for the same number of shares in the aggregate to be issued to such holder upon the surrender of the mutilated certificate, or, in case of loss or destruction of the certificate, upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction and the deposit of indemnity by way of bond or otherwise in such form and amount and with such sureties or security as the Board of Directors may require to protect M&T Bank against loss or liability by reason of the issuance of such new certificates; but the Board of Directors may in its discretion refuse to issue such new certificates save upon the order of the court having jurisdiction in such matters.

ARTICLE VII

Corporate Seal

Section 1. Form of Seal: The seal of M&T Bank shall be circular in form, with the words “Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company” in the margin thereof, and the numerals “1856” and the word “seal” and the numerals “1892” in the center thereof. The seal on any corporate obligation for the payment of money may be facsimile.

ARTICLE VIII

Emergency Operations

Whenever the provisions of Article 7 of the New York State Defense Emergency Act (L. 1961, c. 654) become operative by reason of an “acute emergency,” as defined in said Act, the following provision shall also become operative:

1. If the Chief Executive Officer of M&T Bank shall not be available, his or her powers and authority shall vest in and may be exercised by other officers of M&T Bank in the following order:

 

  a. The Chairman of the Board;

 

  b. Any Vice Chairman of the Board;

 

  c. The President;

 

  d. The Executive Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

  e. The Senior Vice Presidents in the order of seniority determined by length of service;

 

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  f. A Vice President selected from and by those Vice Presidents who shall be available.

2. The directors and acting directors present at any meeting held as provided by statute may by resolution alter the foregoing order of succession or designate the person from among the foregoing group who shall act as Chief Executive Officer; provided, however, that the directors and acting directors shall have no power to remove any officer or to fill any vacancy on a permanent basis or to cause M&T Bank to enter into any contract of employment for a term of over one year.

3. The directors and acting directors shall take such action as counsel may advise in order that the normal operations of M&T Bank shall be restored as promptly as practicable.

ARTICLE IX

Amendments; Termination

Section 1. Procedure for Amending Bylaws: These bylaws may be added to, amended or repealed at any meeting of stockholders notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of the holders of record of a majority of the outstanding shares of M&T Bank entitled to vote, or at any meeting of the Board of Directors notice of which shall have referred to the proposed action, by the vote of a majority of the Board of Directors; provided, however, that if any bylaw regulating an impending election of directors is adopted or amended or repealed by the Board of Directors, there shall be set forth in the notice of the next meeting of stockholders for the election of directors the bylaw so adopted or amended or repealed, together with a concise statement of the changes made; and provided further that the last proviso of the first sentence of Article II, Section 1, the entirety of Article II, Section 2(b), the entirety of Article X and this proviso may not be amended, modified or repealed, nor may any Bylaw provisions be adopted that are inconsistent with such provisions, in each case, without the unanimous approval of the entire Board of Directors.

Section 2. Termination of Certain Provisions: Each of the provisions of these Bylaws set forth in the last proviso of Article IX, Section 1 hereof shall automatically terminate without any action on the part of M&T Bank, the Board of Directors or the stockholders on the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Holding Company.

ARTICLE X

Certain Definitions

Section 1. Definitions: For purposes of Article II of these Bylaws:

(a) “ Issuance Event ” shall mean an “Issuance Event” defined in Section 1.42 of the Reorganization Agreement.

(b) “ Maintenance Rights ” shall mean the “Seller Maintenance Rights” defined in Section 1.75 of the Reorganization Agreement.

 

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(c) “ Reorganization Agreement ” shall mean the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, dated September 26, 2002, by and among the Significant Stockholder, Allfirst Financial Inc. and M&T Bank Corporation, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

(d) “ Significant Stockholder ” shall mean Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Ireland having its registered office at Bankcentre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland, and any successor thereto.

(e) “ Sunset Date ” shall mean the first date following the date upon which the Significant Stockholder ceases to be the beneficial owner of at least 15% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Corporation, determined in accordance with, and subject to, paragraph (iv) of Article II, Section 2(b) hereof.

 

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EXHIBIT 6

Consent Of Trustee

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company hereby consents, in accordance with the provisions of Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, that reports of examinations by federal, state, territorial and district authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon its request therefor.

 

MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY
By:   /s/ Robert D. Brown
  Robert D. Brown
  Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT 7

Report of Condition of the Trustee

 

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REPORT OF CONDITION

Consolidating domestic and foreign subsidiaries of the

Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company

in the state of NY at the close of business on December 31, 2006

published in response to call made by (Enter additional information below)

Statement of Resources and Liabilities

 

Dollar Amounts in Thousands

 

ASSETS:

     

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:

     

Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin

      1,605,507  

Interest-bearing balances

      3,768  

Securities:

     

Held-to-maturity securities

      64,899  

Available-for-sale securities

      6,469,246  

Federal funds sold in domestic offices

      19,458  

Securities purchased under agreements to resell

      100,000  

Loans and lease financing receivables:

     

Loans and leases held for sale

      2,000,821  

Loans and leases, net of unearned income

   40,745,996   

LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses

   647,492   

Loans and leases, net of unearned income and allowance

      40,098,504  

Trading assets

      91,701  

Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)

      328,593  

Other real estate owned

      11,978  

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies

      140,711  

Intangible assets:

     

Goodwill

      2,908,849  

Other intangible assets

      423,696  

Other assets

      2,114,657  

Total assets

      56,382,388  
LIABILITIES      

Dollar Amounts in Thousands

 

Deposits:

     

In domestic offices

      34,509,353  

Noninterest-bearing

   7,897,655   

Interest-bearing

   26,611,698   

In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs

      5,429,668  

Noninterest-bearing

   0   

Interest-bearing

   5,429,668   

Federal funds purchased in domestic offices

      2,356,969  

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

      1,218,216  

Trading liabilities

      65,265  

Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases)

      4,002,125  

Subordinated notes and debentures

      1,576,781  

Other liabilities

      749,571  

Total liabilities

      49,907,948  

Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries

      0  
     

EQUITY CAPITAL

     

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus

      0  

Common stock

      120,635  

Surplus

      4,489,092  

Retained earnings

      1,924,612  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

      (59,899 )

Other equity capital components

      0  

Total equity capital

      6,474,440  

Total liabilities, minority interest, and equity capital

      56,382,388