UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) June 15, 2009

 

 

Dominion Resources, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Virginia   001-08489   54-1229715

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

120 Tredegar Street Richmond, Virginia   23219
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code (804) 819-2000

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 


Item 8.01 Other Events.

On June 10, 2009, Dominion Resources, Inc. (the Company) entered into an underwriting agreement (the Underwriting Agreement) with Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, as Representatives of the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement for the sale of $625,000,000 aggregate principal amount (subject to an increase of up to $62,500,000 additional aggregate principal amount upon exercise of the over-allotment option described in the Underwriting Agreement) of the Company’s 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes. On June 15, 2009, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional $60,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes. Such Junior Subordinated Notes, which are designated the 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes and will mature on June 15, 2064, subject to extensions to no later than June 15, 2079, are Junior Subordinated Notes that were registered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3, which registration statement became effective on January 29, 2009 (File No. 333-157013). A copy of the Underwriting Agreement including schedules thereto, is filed as Exhibit 1 to this Form 8-K.

The form of the Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture to the Company’s June 1, 2006 Junior Subordinated Indenture II, pursuant to which the 2009 Series A Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued, is filed as Exhibit 4.2 to this Form 8-K.

Separately, the Company has agreed to enter into a Replacement Capital Covenant under which the Company promises and covenants to and for the benefit of designated covered debtholders (as may be designated from time to time, with the initially designated covered debt and the initial covered debtholders being the Company’s Series B 7.0% Senior Notes due 2038 issued by the Company on June 17, 2008 and the holders thereof) that the Company shall not redeem or purchase, or satisfy, discharge or defease (collectively, “defease” or “a defeasance”) all or any part of the Junior Subordinated Notes, and shall cause its majority owned subsidiaries not to purchase all or any part of the Junior Subordinated Notes, on or before June 15, 2034 (which date will be automatically extended as set forth in the Replacement Capital Covenant for additional quarterly periods to no later than June 15, 2049, if and to the extent that the maturity date of the Junior Subordinated Notes is extended), unless, subject to certain limitations, during the 180 days prior to the date of that redemption, purchase or defeasance the Company has received a specified amount of proceeds as set forth in the Replacement Capital Covenant from the sale of qualifying securities that have equity-like characteristics that are the same as, or more equity-like then, the applicable characteristics of the Junior Subordinated Notes at that time, as more fully described in the Replacement Capital Covenant. The form of the Replacement Capital Covenant, including schedules thereto, is filed as Exhibit 4.3 to this Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

Exhibit

    
1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated June 10, 2009, between the Company and Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, as Representatives of the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement.*
4.1    Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture II, dated as of June 1, 2006, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as Trustee (the Original Trustee) (Exhibit 4.1, Form S-3, Registration Statement, File No. 333-135112, incorporated by reference).
4.2    Form of Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture to the Junior Subordinated Indenture II, dated June 1, 2009, between the Company, the Original Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as series trustee (the “Series Trustee”), pursuant to which the 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued. The form of the 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes is included as Exhibit A to the form of the Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture.*
4.3    Form of Replacement Capital Covenant.*
5.1    Opinion of McGuireWoods LLP.*
8.1    Tax Opinion of McGuireWoods LLP.*

 

* Filed herewith


SIGNATURE

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

 

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

Registrant

/s/ James P. Carney

James P. Carney
Vice President and Assistant Treasurer

Date: June 15, 2009

Exhibit 1.1

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

$625,000,000

2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

June 10, 2009

Banc of America Securities LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

UBS Securities LLC

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

as Representatives for the Underwriters

listed in Schedule I hereto

 

Banc of America Securities LLC

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

 

UBS Securities LLC

677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

 

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

One Wachovia Center

301 South College Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0613

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned, Dominion Resources, Inc. (the Company), hereby confirms its agreement with the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the Agreement) with respect to the issuance and sale to the several Underwriters named in Schedule I of that certain aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the Junior Subordinated Notes) specified in Schedule II hereto (the Firm Amount), and the public offering thereof by the several Underwriters, upon the terms specified in Schedule II. In addition, solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, the Company grants to the Underwriters the option to purchase from the Company up to a specified additional aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes (the Additional Amount), upon the

 

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terms specified in Schedule II. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall be used as defined in the Prospectus (as hereinafter defined).

1. Underwriters and Representatives . The term “Underwriters” as used herein shall be deemed to mean the several persons, firms or corporations (including the Representatives hereinafter mentioned) named in Schedule I hereto, and the term “Representatives” as used herein shall be deemed to mean the Representatives to whom this Agreement is addressed, who by signing this Agreement represent that they have been authorized by the other Underwriters to execute this Agreement on their behalf and to act for them in the manner herein provided. If there shall be only one person, firm or corporation named as an addressee above, the term “Representatives” as used herein shall mean that person, firm or corporation. If there shall be only one person, firm or corporation named in Schedule I hereto, the term “Underwriters” as used herein shall mean that person, firm or corporation. All obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are several and not joint. Unless otherwise stated, any action under or in respect of this Agreement taken by the Representatives will be binding upon all the Underwriters.

2. Description of the Junior Subordinated Notes . Schedule II specifies the Firm Amount, the Additional Amount, the initial public offering price of the Junior Subordinated Notes, and the underwriting commissions and sets forth the date, time and manner of delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes and payment therefor. Schedule II also specifies (to the extent not set forth in Sections 4 and 5 herein, or in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information or Prospectus, each such term as defined below) the terms and provisions for the purchase of such Junior Subordinated Notes. The Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued under the Company’s Junior Subordinated Indenture II dated as of June 1, 2006, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as Trustee (the Indenture Trustee), as previously supplemented and as further supplemented by a Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture dated as of June 1, 2009 among the Company, the Indenture Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (the Series Trustee) (collectively, the Indenture).

3A. Representations and Warranties of the Company . The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Underwriters that:

(a) A registration statement, No. 333-157013 on Form S-3 for the registration of the Junior Subordinated Notes under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), heretofore filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) has become effective. Such registration statement (i) is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and (ii) became effective not earlier than three years prior to the Closing Date (as defined below) or any Additional Closing Date (as defined below), and the Company has not received any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act. As used herein, “Registration Statement” means, at any given time, such registration statement including the amendments thereto up to such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the Incorporated Documents (as defined below) at such time and documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein at such time pursuant to the Rules and Regulations (as defined below); “Rule 430B Information” means information that was omitted from the Registration Statement at the time it

 

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became effective but that is deemed to be part of and included in the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act; “Base Prospectus” means the base prospectus included in the Registration Statement; “Preliminary Prospectus” means the Base Prospectus and any prospectus supplement used in connection with the offering of the Junior Subordinated Notes that omitted the Rule 430B Information and is used prior to the filing of the Prospectus (as defined below); “Prospectus” means the prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus that is first filed after the execution hereof pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, together with the Base Prospectus, as amended at the time of such filing; and “Prospectus Supplement” means the prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus included in the Prospectus. As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “Base Prospectus,” “Preliminary Prospectus,” “Prospectus” and “Prospectus Supplement” include all documents (including any Current Report on Form 8-K) incorporated therein by reference, whether such incorporated documents are filed before or after the date of such Registration Statement or Prospectus (collectively, the Incorporated Documents). When such Incorporated Documents are filed after the date of the document into which they are incorporated, they shall be deemed included therein from the date of filing of such Incorporated Documents.

At or before 1:50 p.m. on the date hereof (the Time of Sale), the Company had prepared the following information in connection with the offering (collectively, the Time of Sale Information): the Base Prospectus dated January 29, 2009, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet (as defined in Section 6(a)) and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in Section 3A(c)) listed on Schedule VI hereto. Notwithstanding any provision hereof to the contrary, each document included in the Time of Sale Information shall be deemed to include all documents (including any Current Report on Form 8-K) incorporated therein by reference, whether any such Incorporated Document is filed before or after the document into which it is incorporated, so long as the Incorporated Document is filed before the Time of Sale.

(b) No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or otherwise preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and is in effect and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering are pending before or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission. The Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the provisions of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Securities Exchange Act), the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the Trust Indenture Act), and the rules, regulations and releases of the Commission under the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act (the Rules and Regulations); neither the Registration Statement on any date on which it has been deemed to have become effective (the Effective Date), the Prospectus as of its date nor the Time of Sale Information at the Time of Sale contained or contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and, on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) will conform in all respects to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the Rules

 

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and Regulations, and none of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information, the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (as supplemented by and taken together with the Time of Sale Information) or the Prospectus will include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this Section 3A(b) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus made in reliance upon information furnished herein or in writing to the Company by the Underwriters or on the Underwriters’ behalf through the Representatives for use in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus or the part of the Registration Statement which constitutes the Indenture Trustee’s Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act; and provided further, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 3A(a) with respect to the Time of Sale Information, the foregoing representations and warranties are given on the basis that any statement contained in an Incorporated Document shall be deemed not to be contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus if the statement has been modified or superseded by any statement in a subsequently filed Incorporated Document or in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto.

(c) Other than the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the documents listed on Schedule VI, the Prospectus, or any document not constituting a prospectus under Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act, the Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) has not made, used, prepared, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to, any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Junior Subordinated Notes, unless such written communication is approved in writing in advance by the Representatives. To the extent any such written communication constitutes an “issuer free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act and referred to herein as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus), such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complied or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of Rule 433(c) and, if the filing thereof is required pursuant to Rule 433, such filing has been or will be made in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 433(d). The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

(d) If, at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any event occurred or occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, the Company (i) has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Underwriters through the Representatives of such conflict and, (ii) at its expense, has promptly amended or supplemented or will promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict; provided, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this Section 3A(d) shall not

 

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apply to conflicts arising from statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon information furnished herein or in writing to the Company by the Underwriters or on the Underwriters’ behalf through the Representatives for use in such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

(e) Except as reflected in, or contemplated by, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements after the date hereof), since the respective most recent dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements after the date hereof), there has not been any material adverse change or event which would result in a material adverse effect on the condition of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, financial or otherwise (a Material Adverse Effect). The Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole have no material contingent financial obligation which is not disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus.

(f) Deloitte & Touche LLP, who has audited certain of the Company’s financial statements filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations.

(g) Dominion Energy, Inc., Dominion Transmission, Inc., The East Ohio Gas Company, Virginia Electric and Power Company and Virginia Power Energy Marketing, Inc. are the Company’s only direct, and Dominion Energy Brayton Point, LLC, Dominion Energy Marketing, Inc., Dominion Energy New England, Inc., Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc., and Dominion Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. are the Company’s only indirect, Significant Subsidiaries as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, substituting in such definition March 31, 2009 and the 12 months period ended March 31, 2009 for the end of the most recently completed fiscal year and for the most recently completed fiscal year, respectively (each of the foregoing entities, a Significant Subsidiary and, collectively, the Significant Subsidiaries). All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each such Significant Subsidiary that is a corporation has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and nonassessable, and, with the exception of the outstanding preferred stock of Virginia Electric and Power Company which is owned by third parties, the capital stock of each such Significant Subsidiary that is a corporation is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, claim, encumbrance or equitable right. With respect to the Significant Subsidiary that is a limited liability company, the membership interests of such Significant Subsidiary are owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, claim, encumbrance or equitable right.

(h) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Indenture, and the Junior Subordinated Notes, the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement (including the issuance and sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes as described in the Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”)

 

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and compliance by the Company with its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Junior Subordinated Notes do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of or default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary pursuant to any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or any other agreement or instrument, to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary is subject (except for such conflicts, breaches or defaults or liens, charges or encumbrances that would not have a Material Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or bylaws of the Company or any subsidiary, or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary or any of their respective properties, assets or operations, and the Company has full power and authority to authorize, issue and sell the Junior Subordinated Notes as contemplated by this Agreement.

(i) The Company is not, and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, will not be, an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” which is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(j) The Company is a “well-known seasoned issuer,” and is not, and has not been since the filing of the Registration Statement, an “ineligible issuer,” both terms as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act. The Company has paid the registration fee for this offering of Junior Subordinated Notes pursuant to Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act or will pay such fees within the time period required by such rule (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date.

(k) The Replacement Capital Covenant has been duly authorized and will be executed by the Company on or before the Closing Date.

3B. Representations and Warranties of the Underwriters . Each of the Underwriters represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Company that:

(a) It has not made and will not make, unless approved in writing in advance by the Company and the Representatives, any offer relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and referred to herein as a Free Writing Prospectus) that would be required to be filed with the Commission under Rule 433 under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it may use a free writing prospectus that is (i) the Final Term Sheet; (ii) an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule VI or otherwise approved in writing in advance by the Representatives pursuant to Section 3A(c) above or (iii) one or more term sheets relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes that do not contain substantive changes from or additions to the Final Term Sheet. The

 

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Representatives and the Company agree that any such term sheets described in clause (iii) above will not constitute Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses for purposes of this Agreement.

(b) It will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Free Writing Prospectus used or referred to by it, in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

(c) It is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act with respect to the offering (and will promptly notify the Company if any such proceeding is initiated against it during the period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Junior Subordinated Notes that a prospectus relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Junior Subordinated Notes by an Underwriter or dealer (the Prospectus Delivery Period)). Whether the Prospectus Delivery Period is ongoing for purposes of this Section 3B(h) shall be determined by the opinion of Troutman Sanders LLP.

4. Purchase and Public Offering . On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions in this Agreement set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the price, place and time hereinafter specified, the Firm Amount set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto. The Underwriters agree to make a public offering of their respective Junior Subordinated Notes specified in Schedule I hereto at the initial public offering price specified in Schedule II hereto. It is understood that after such initial offering the several Underwriters reserve the right to vary the offering price and further reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify any subsequent offering without notice.

In addition, the Company hereby grants to the several Underwriters the option (the Over-Allotment Option) to purchase, and upon the basis of the representations and warranties and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Company, ratably in accordance with the Firm Amount to be purchased by each of them set forth opposite the name of such Underwriters in Schedule I hereto, all or a portion of the Additional Amount as may be necessary to cover over-allotments made in connection with the offering of the Junior Subordinated Notes, at the same purchase price specified in Schedule II. The Over-Allotment Option may be exercised by the Underwriters at any time and from time to time on or before the third business day following the Closing Date, by written notice to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the Additional Amount as to which the Over-Allotment Option is being exercised and the date and time when the Additional Amount is to be delivered (or the Additional Closing Date); provided, however, that no Additional Closing Date shall be earlier than the Closing Date nor earlier than the second business day after the date on which the Over-Allotment Option shall have been exercised nor later than the tenth business day after the date on which the Over-Allotment Option shall have been exercised.

 

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The Company shall not be obligated to deliver any of the Junior Subordinated Notes, except upon payment for all of the Junior Subordinated Notes to be purchased on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as applicable.

5. Time and Place of Closing . Delivery of the certificate(s) for the Firm Amount and payment therefor by the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters shall be made at the time, place and date specified in Schedule II or such other time, place and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, and subject to the provisions of Section 10 hereof. The hour and date of such delivery and payment are herein called the “Closing Date.” On the Closing Date, the Company, through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (DTC), shall deliver or cause to be delivered a securities entitlement with respect to the Firm Amount to the Representatives for the accounts of each Underwriter against payment of the purchase price by wire transfer of same day funds to a bank account designated by the Company. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligation of each Underwriter hereunder. Upon delivery, the Firm Amount shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC.

Delivery of the certificate(s) for the Additional Amount and payment therefor by the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters shall be made at the time, place and date specified in the written notice described above in Section 4 or such other times, places and dates as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, and subject to the provisions of Section 10 hereof. The hour and date of any such delivery and payment related to the Additional Amount are herein called an “Additional Closing Date.” On any Additional Closing Date, the Company, through the facilities of DTC, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a securities entitlement with respect to the Additional Amount to the Representatives for the accounts of each Underwriter against payment of the purchase price by wire transfer of same day funds to a bank account designated by the Company. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligation of each Underwriter hereunder. Upon delivery, the Additional Amount shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee for DTC.

6. Covenants of the Company . The Company agrees that:

(a) The Company will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430B under the Securities Act; will prepare a final term sheet, substantially in the form of Schedule VI hereto (the Final Term Sheet) and file such Final Term Sheet in compliance with Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act; will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; and will file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of the Prospectus and within the Prospectus Delivery Period. The Company will pay the registration fees for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(i) under the Securities Act and, in any event, prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date.

 

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(b) If the Representatives so request, the Company, on or prior to the Closing Date, or any Additional Closing Date, as applicable, will deliver to the Representatives conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed, including all exhibits, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements to each such document, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as are reasonably requested by the Representatives, provided however that if any of the foregoing documents are delivered prior to the Closing Date, such documents need not be provided prior to any Additional Closing Date. The Representatives will be deemed to have made such a request for copies for each of the several Underwriters and Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, with respect to any such documents that are not electronically available through the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysts and Retrieval filing system or any successor thereto (EDGAR).

(c) The Company will pay all expenses in connection with (i) the preparation and filing by it of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus, (ii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes, (iii) any fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee and the Series Trustee and (iv) the printing and delivery (by first class mail) to the Underwriters, in reasonable quantities, of copies of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus (each as originally filed and as subsequently amended). In addition, the Company will pay the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and disbursements of Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, in connection with the qualification of the Junior Subordinated Notes under state securities or blue sky laws or investment laws (if and to the extent such qualification is required by the Underwriters or the Company).

(d) If, during the time when a prospectus relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, any event occurs as a result of which (i) the Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (ii) it is necessary at any time to amend the Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act, the Company promptly will (y) notify the Underwriters through the Representatives to suspend solicitation of purchases of the Junior Subordinated Notes and, (z) at its expense, prepare and file with the Commission an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance. During the period specified above, the Company will continue to prepare and file with the Commission on a timely basis all documents or amendments required under the Securities Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; provided, that the Company shall not file such documents or amendments without also furnishing copies thereof to the Representatives and Troutman Sanders LLP. Any such documents or amendments which

 

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are electronically available through EDGAR shall be deemed to have been furnished by the Company to the Representatives and Troutman Sanders LLP.

(e) The Company will advise the Representatives promptly of any proposal to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and will afford the Representatives a reasonable opportunity to comment on any such proposed amendment or supplement prior to filing; and the Company will also advise the Representatives promptly of the filing of any such amendment or supplement, of the institution by the Commission of any stop order proceedings in respect of the Registration Statement or of any part thereof, or of receipt from the Commission of any notice of objection to the use of the Registration Statement or any supplement or amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, and will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or any such notice of objection and to obtain as soon as possible their lifting, if issued.

(f) The Company will make generally available to its security holders, as soon as it is practicable to do so, an earnings statement of the Company (in reasonable detail, in form complying with the provisions of Rule 158 under the Securities Act and which need not be audited), covering a period of at least 12 months beginning within three months after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158 under the Securities Act) of the Registration Statement, which earnings statement shall satisfy the requirements of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.

(g) The Company will furnish such information as may be lawfully required for, and otherwise cooperate in, qualifying the Junior Subordinated Notes for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in any state to qualify as a foreign corporation, or to file a general consent to service of process, or to submit to any requirements which it deems unduly burdensome.

(h) Fees and disbursements of Troutman Sanders LLP, who is acting as counsel for the Underwriters, (exclusive of fees and disbursements of Troutman Sanders LLP which are to be paid as set forth in Section 6(c)) shall be paid by the Underwriters; provided, however, that if this Agreement is terminated in accordance with the provisions of Sections 7 or 8 hereof, the Company shall reimburse the Representatives for the account of the Underwriters for the amount of such fees and disbursements.

(i) During the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and continuing to and including the later of (i) 30 days after the date of this Agreement or (ii) 30 days after any election to exercise the Over-Allotment Option, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, directly or indirectly, sell or offer to sell or otherwise dispose of any Junior Subordinated Notes or any security convertible into or exchangeable for Junior Subordinated Notes or any debt securities substantially similar to Junior Subordinated Notes (except for the Junior Subordinated Notes issued pursuant to this Agreement).

 

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(j) The Company will use best efforts to list the Junior Subordinated Notes on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

7. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations; Termination by the Underwriters .

(a) The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Junior Subordinated Notes on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date and no proceedings for that purpose shall be pending before or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission on such date. The Representatives shall have received, prior to payment for the Junior Subordinated Notes, a certificate dated the Closing Date, and if applicable, any Additional Closing Date and signed by the President or any Vice President of the Company to the effect that no such stop order is in effect and that no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission.

(ii) On the Closing Date, and if applicable, any Additional Closing Date, the Representatives shall receive, on behalf of the several Underwriters, the opinions of Troutman Sanders LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, McGuireWoods LLP, counsel to the Company, and the Company’s General Counsel, substantially in the forms attached hereto as Schedules III, IV and V, respectively. In lieu of any such opinion to be delivered on an Additional Closing Date, such counsel may furnish the Representatives, on behalf of the several Underwriters, with a letter to the effect that they may rely upon the opinion delivered on the Closing Date by such counsel to the same extent as though it were dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance.

(iii) The Representatives shall have received from Deloitte & Touche LLP on the date of this Agreement, on the Closing Date, and if applicable, any Additional Closing Date, letters addressed to the Representatives containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ SAS 72 “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, including any pro forma financial information.

(iv) Subsequent to the execution of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, if applicable, (A) except as reflected in, or contemplated by, the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus (exclusive of amendments or supplements after the date hereof), there shall not have occurred (1) any change in the debt securities of the Company of the same class as the Junior Subordinated Notes or any class senior to the Junior Subordinated Notes (other than a decrease in the aggregate

 

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principal amount thereof outstanding or issuances of commercial paper in the ordinary course of business), (2) any material adverse change in the general affairs, financial condition or earnings of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or (3) any material transaction entered into by the Company other than a transaction in the ordinary course of business, the effect of which in each such case in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives is so material and so adverse that it makes it impracticable to proceed with the public offering or delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information, the Prospectus and this Agreement, and (B) there shall not have occurred (1) a downgrading in the rating accorded the debt securities of the Company of the same class as the Junior Subordinated Notes or any class senior to the Junior Subordinated Notes, by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as that term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act) and no such organization shall have given any notice of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change with possible negative implications in its ratings of such securities, (2) any general suspension of trading in securities on the New York Stock Exchange or any limitation on prices for such trading or any restrictions on the distribution of securities established by the New York Stock Exchange or by the Commission or by any federal or state agency or by the decision of any court, (3) a suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on the New York Stock Exchange, (4) a banking moratorium declared either by federal or New York State authorities or (5) any outbreak or escalation of major hostilities in which the United States is involved, any declaration of war by the United States Congress or any other substantial national or international calamity or crisis resulting in the declaration of a national emergency, or any material adverse change in the financial markets; provided the effect of such outbreak, escalation, declaration, calamity, crisis or material adverse change shall, in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives, make it impracticable to proceed with the public offering or delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information, the Prospectus and this Agreement.

(v) On the Closing Date, and if applicable, any Additional Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement shall be true and correct as if made on and as of such date, and the Company shall have performed all obligations and satisfied all conditions required of it under this Agreement; and, on the Closing Date, and if applicable, any Additional Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received a certificate to such effect signed by the President or any Vice President of the Company.

(vi) All legal proceedings to be taken in connection with the issuance and sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes shall have been satisfactory in form and substance to Troutman Sanders LLP.

(vii) The Company shall have applied for listing of the Junior Subordinated Notes on the NYSE.

 

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(b) In case any of the conditions specified above in Section 7(a) shall not have been fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives upon mailing or delivering written notice thereof to the Company; provided, however, that in case the conditions specified in subsections 7(a)(v) and (vi) shall not have been fulfilled, this Agreement may not be so terminated by the Representatives unless Underwriters who have agreed to purchase in the aggregate 50% or more of the aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes shall have consented to such termination and the aforesaid notice shall so state. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as otherwise provided in Sections 6(c), 6(h), 7(c) and 9 hereof.

(c) If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Representatives pursuant to Section 7(b) above or because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, then in any such case, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters, severally, for all out-of-pocket expenses (in addition to the fees and disbursements of their outside counsel as provided in Section 6(h)) reasonably incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder and, upon such reimbursement, the Company shall be absolved from any further liability hereunder, except as provided in Sections 6(c) and 9.

8. Conditions of the Obligation of the Company . The obligation of the Company to deliver the Junior Subordinated Notes shall be subject to the conditions set forth in the first sentence of Section 7(a)(i) and in Section 7(a)(ii). In case such conditions shall not have been fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Company by mailing or delivering written notice thereof to the Representatives. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as otherwise provided in Sections 6(c), 6(h), 9 and 10 hereof.

9. Indemnification and Contribution .

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its directors and officers and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, or any other statute or common law and to reimburse each such Underwriter, director, officer, and controlling person for any legal or other expenses (including, to the extent hereinafter provided, reasonable outside counsel fees) incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities, or in connection with defending any actions, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus (if and when used on or prior to the date hereof), the Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or in any such document as amended or supplemented (if any amendments or supplements

 

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thereto shall have been furnished), or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9(a) shall not apply to any such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arising out of or based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement, or any such omission or alleged omission, if such statement or omission was made in reliance upon information furnished herein or otherwise in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives for use in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto, in the Prospectus or any supplement thereto, in any Preliminary Prospectus or in the Time of Sale Information. The indemnity agreement of the Company contained in this Section 9(a) and the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3 hereof shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any such controlling person, and shall survive the delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes.

(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers and directors, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, or any other statute or common law and to reimburse each of them for any legal or other expenses (including, to the extent hereinafter provided, reasonable outside counsel fees) incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities or in connection with defending any actions, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in either such document as amended or supplemented (if any amendments or supplements thereto shall have been furnished), any Preliminary Prospectus (if and when used prior to the date hereof), or the Time of Sale Information or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading if such statement or omission was made in reliance upon information furnished herein or in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter for use in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to either thereof, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information. The indemnity agreement of the respective Underwriters contained in this Section 9(b) shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company or any such controlling person, and shall survive the delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes.

(c) The Company and each of the Underwriters agree that, upon the receipt of notice of the commencement of any action against the Company or any of its officers or directors, or any person controlling the Company, or against such Underwriter or any of its directors, officers or controlling persons as aforesaid, in respect of which indemnity may be sought on account of any indemnity agreement contained herein, it will promptly give written notice of the commencement thereof to the party or parties against whom

 

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indemnity shall be sought hereunder, but the omission so to notify such indemnifying party or parties of any such action shall not relieve such indemnifying party or parties from any liability which it or they may have to the indemnified party otherwise than on account of such indemnity agreement. In case such notice of any such action shall be so given, such indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate at its own expense in the defense or, if it so elects, to assume (in conjunction with any other indemnifying parties) the defense of such action, in which event such defense shall be conducted by counsel chosen by such indemnifying party (or parties) and satisfactory to the indemnified party or parties who shall be defendant or defendants in such action, and such defendant or defendants shall bear the fees and expenses of any additional outside counsel retained by them; provided that, if the defendants (including impleaded parties) in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party (or parties) and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party (or parties), the indemnified party shall have the right to select separate counsel to assert such legal defenses and to participate otherwise in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party. The indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees and expenses of outside counsel retained by the indemnified party if (i) the indemnified party shall have retained such counsel in connection with the assertion of legal defenses in accordance with the proviso to the preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to one local counsel), representing the indemnified parties under Section 9(a) or 9(b), as the case may be, who are parties to such action), (ii) the indemnifying party shall have elected not to assume the defense of such action, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the commencement of the action, or (iv) the indemnifying party has authorized the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, an indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such a proceeding), unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(d) If the indemnification provided for in Section 9(a) or 9(b) is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect

 

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thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations, including relative benefit. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or by the Underwriters on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 9(d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this Section 9(d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations under this Section 9(d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint. The remedies provided for in this Section 9 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

10. Termination . If any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Junior Subordinated Notes which it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder, and the aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes, then the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions which the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I bears to the aggregate underwriting obligations of all non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as the Underwriters may specify, to purchase the Junior Subordinated Notes which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall so fail or refuse to purchase Junior Subordinated Notes and the aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes and arrangements satisfactory to the Underwriters and the Company for the purchase of such Junior Subordinated Notes are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter (except as provided in Sections 6(h) and 9) or of the Company (except as provided in Sections 6(c) and 9). In any such case not involving a termination, either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date or, if applicable, any Additional Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action

 

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taken under this Section 10 shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

11. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery . All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or contained in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or by or on behalf of the Company, and shall survive delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes.

12. Miscellaneous . The validity and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the Company, the Underwriters and, with respect to the provisions of Section 9 hereof, each controlling person and each officer and director of the Company and the Underwriters referred to in Section 9, and their respective successors, assigns, executors and administrators. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give to any other person, firm or corporation any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. The term “successors” as used in this Agreement shall not include any purchaser, as such, of any of the Junior Subordinated Notes from any of the several Underwriters. The Company and the Underwriters each acknowledge and agree that in connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Company and the Underwriters have an arms length business relationship that creates no fiduciary duty on the part of either party and each expressly disclaims any fiduciary relationship, except that the Underwriters acknowledge that they owe a duty of trust or confidence to the Company as contemplated by paragraph (b)(2)(i) of Rule 100 (17 CFR §243.100) of Regulation FD under the Securities Exchange Act.

13. Notices . All communications hereunder shall be in writing and if to the Underwriters shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the Representatives at the address set forth on Schedule II hereto, or if to the Company shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to it, attention of Treasurer, Dominion Resources, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 (facsimile number: (804) 819-2211).

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Please sign and return to us a counterpart of this letter, whereupon this letter will become a binding agreement between the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

 

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
By:   /s/ James P. Carney
Name:   James P. Carney
Title:   Vice President and Assistant Treasurer

 

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The foregoing agreement is hereby

confirmed and accepted, as of the

date first above written.

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC

acting individually and as Representative

of the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

By: /s/ David Mikula

Authorized Signatory

Name: David Mikula

Title: Managing Director

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

acting individually and as Representative

of the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

By: /s/ Brian D. Bednarski

Authorized Signatory

Name: Brian D. Bednarski

Title: Managing Director

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

acting individually and as Representative

of the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

By: /s/ Yurij Slyz

Authorized Signatory

Name: Yurij Slyz

Title: Vice President

 

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UBS SECURITIES LLC

acting individually and as Representative

of the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

By: /s/ Christopher Forshner

Authorized Signatory

Name: Christopher Forshner

Title: Managing Director

By: /s/ Christopher Fernando

Authorized Signatory

Name: Christopher Fernando

Title: Associate Director

WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC

acting individually and as Representative

of the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

By: /s/ Carolyn C. Hurley

Authorized Signatory

Name: Carolyn C. Hurley

Title: Vice President

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriter

   Firm Amount
of Junior Subordinated Notes
to be Purchased

Banc of America Securities LLC

   $ 110,000,000

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

     110,000,000

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

     110,000,000

UBS Securities LLC

     110,000,000

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

     110,000,000

BB&T Capital Markets, a division of Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.

     3,125,000

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

     3,125,000

Davenport & Company, LLC

     3,125,000

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

     3,125,000

Fidelity Capital Markets, a division of National Financial Services LLC

     3,125,000

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

     3,125,000

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

     3,125,000

KeyBank Capital Markets Inc.

     3,125,000

Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.

     3,125,000

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.

     3,125,000

Pershing LLC

     3,125,000

Raymond James & Associates, Inc.

     3,125,000

RBC Dain Rauscher Inc.

     3,125,000

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated

     3,125,000

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

     3,125,000

Advisors Asset Management, Inc.

     1,125,000

Ameriprise Advisors Services, Inc.

     1,125,000

Boenning & Scattergood, Inc.

     1,125,000

C.L. King & Associates, Inc.

     1,125,000

CastleOak Securities, LP

     1,125,000

City Securities Corporation

     1,125,000

D.A. Davidson & Co.

     1,125,000

Guzman & Company

     1,125,000

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.

     1,125,000

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

     1,125,000

McGinn, Smith & Co. Inc.

     1,125,000

Mesirow Financial, Inc.

     1,125,000

Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.

     1,125,000

Piper Jaffrey & Co.

     1,125,000

Sanders Morris Harris Inc.

     1,125,000

Southwest Securities, Inc.

     1,125,000

Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc.

     1,125,000

Stone & Youngberg LLC

     1,125,000

 

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Synovus Securities, Inc.

     1,125,000

TD Waterhouse Investor Services, Inc.

     1,125,000

Utendahl Capital Partners, L.P.

     1,125,000

Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.

     1,125,000

William Blair & Company, L.L.C.

     1,125,000

The Williams Capital Group, L.P.

     1,125,000

Ziegler Capital Markets Group

     1,125,000
      

Total:

   $ 625,000,000

 

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SCHEDULE II

Title of Junior Subordinated Notes: 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

Firm Amount: $625,000,000 (subject to increase by up to the Additional Amount upon exercise of the Over-Allotment Option)

Additional Amount: $62,500,000

Initial Price to Public: $25.00 per Junior Subordinated Note, plus accrued interest from June 17, 2009, if settlement occurs after that date

Underwriting Commissions: $0.7875 per Junior Subordinated Note, provided, however, that the commission will be $0.50 per Junior Subordinated Note for sales to institutions

 

Time of Delivery: June 17, 2009, 10:00 A.M.

 

Closing Location: One James Center

901 East Cary Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

The Junior Subordinated Notes will be available for inspection by the Representatives at:

One James Center

901 East Cary Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

Addresses for Notices to the Underwriters:

Banc of America Securities LLC

One Bryant Park

NY1-100-18-03

New York, New York 10036

Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal

Facsimile: (646) 855-5958

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: (212) 816-7912

 

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Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Attention: Yurij Slyz

Telephone: (212) 761-8289

Facsimile: (212) 507-8908

UBS Securities LLC

677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

Attention: Fixed Income Syndicate

Telephone: (203) 719-1088

Facsimile: (203) 719-0495

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

One Wachovia Center

301 South College Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0613

Attention: Transaction Management Group

Telephone: (704) 715-0541

Facsimile: (704) 383-0661

With a copy of any notice pursuant to Section 9(c) also sent to:

Troutman Sanders LLP

Troutman Sanders Building

1001 Haxall Point

Richmond, Virginia 23219

Attention: F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr., Esquire

Telephone: (804) 697-1214

Facsimile: (804) 698-5108

 

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SCHEDULE III

PROPOSED FORM OF OPINION

OF

TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP

Troutman Sanders Building

1001 Haxall Point

Richmond, Virginia 23219

June 17, 2009

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

Banc of America Securities LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

UBS Securities LLC

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

as Representatives for the Underwriters

listed in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement

 

c/o Banc of America Securities LLC

      One Bryant Park

      New York, New York 10036

  

UBS Securities LLC

677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

      Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

      388 Greenwich Street

      New York, New York 10013

 

      Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

      1585 Broadway

      New York, New York 10036

  

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

One Wachovia Center

301 South College Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0613

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as your counsel in connection with the arrangements for issuance by Dominion Resources, Inc. (the Company) of up to U.S. $625,000,000 (subject to an increase of up to $62,500,000 upon exercise of the Over-Allotment Option) aggregate principal amount of its 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the Junior Subordinated Notes) and the offering of the Junior Subordinated Notes by you pursuant to an Underwriting

 

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Agreement dated June 10, 2009 by and between you and the Company (the Underwriting Agreement). This letter is being delivered to you pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement. All terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.

We have examined originals or copies certified to our satisfaction of such corporate records of the Company, indentures, agreements and other instruments, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of the Company, the Indenture Trustee and the Series Trustee, and other documents, as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed. As to various questions of fact material to such opinions, we have, when relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon certifications by officers of the Company, the Indenture Trustee and the Series Trustee and other appropriate persons and statements contained in the Registration Statement hereinafter mentioned. All legal proceedings taken as of the date hereof in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement have been satisfactory to us.

In addition, we attended the closing held today at which the Company satisfied the conditions contained in Section 7 of the Underwriting Agreement that are required to be satisfied as of the Closing Date.

Based upon the foregoing, and having regard to legal considerations that we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:

1. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Virginia, and has the corporate power to transact its business as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

2. No approval or consent by any public regulatory body is legally required in connection with the sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement (except to the extent that compliance with the provisions of securities or blue sky laws of certain states may be required in connection with the sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes in such states) and the carrying out of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement.

3. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company.

4. The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

5. The Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Company and when completed and authenticated by the Series Trustee in accordance with, and in the form contemplated by, the Indenture and issued, delivered and paid for as provided in

 

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the Underwriting Agreement, will have been duly issued under the Indenture and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

6. The Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-157013) with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes filed pursuant to the Securities Act is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that was filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, and the Prospectus may lawfully be used for the purposes specified in the Securities Act in connection with the offer for sale of Junior Subordinated Notes in the manner therein specified.

7. The Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (except that we express no comment or belief with respect to any historical or pro forma financial statements and schedules and other financial or statistical information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or Prospectus) appear on their face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act, and to the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

8. We are of the opinion that the statements relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes contained in the Base Prospectus under DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES and ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES, as supplemented by the statements under SPECIFIC TERMS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, and the statements relating to the Replacement Capital Covenant contained under CERTAIN TERMS OF THE REPLACEMENT CAPITAL COVENANT in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, are substantially accurate and fair.

9. With regard to the discussion in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, under the caption CERTAIN U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS, subject to the limitations and assumptions set forth therein, we are of the opinion that under current United States federal income tax law, although the discussion does not purport to disclose all possible United States federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership or disposition of the Junior Subordinated Notes, such discussion constitutes an accurate summary of the matters discussed therein in all material respects. In rendering the aforementioned opinion, we have considered the current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial decisions and Internal Revenue Service rulings, all of which are subject to change, which changes may be retroactively applied. A change in the authorities upon which our opinion is based could affect our conclusions.

*    *    *    *    *

We have not undertaken to determine independently the accuracy or completeness of the statements contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or in the Prospectus, and as to the statistical statements in the Registration

 

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Statement (which includes statistical statements in the Incorporated Documents), we have relied solely on the officers of the Company. We accordingly assume no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the statements made in the Registration Statement, except as stated above in numbered paragraphs 8 and 9 in regard to the statements described in such paragraphs 8 and 9. We note that the Incorporated Documents were prepared and filed by the Company without our participation. We have, however, participated in conferences with counsel for and representatives of the Company in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information, the Prospectus as it was initially issued and as it has been supplemented or amended, and we have reviewed the Incorporated Documents and such of the corporate records of the Company as we deemed advisable. In addition, we participated in one or more due diligence conferences with representatives of the Company and attended the closing at which the Company satisfied the conditions contained in the Underwriting Agreement. None of the foregoing participation, review or attendance disclosed to us any information that gives us reason to believe that the Registration Statement contained on any date the Registration Statement became effective, the Time of Sale Information contained at the Time of Sale, or the Prospectus contained on its date or the date it was supplemented or amended, or that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus contains on the date hereof (in all cases, excepting the financial statements and schedules and other financial information contained or incorporated therein by reference, any pro forma financial information and notes thereto, and the Statement of Eligibility of the Indenture Trustee filed on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act, included or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as to which we express no belief) any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted (or, with respect to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, now omits) to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

In rendering the opinions set forth in paragraphs (1) – (9) above and in making the statements expressed in the preceding paragraph, we do not purport to express an opinion on any laws other than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of New York and the United States of America. This opinion may not be relied upon by, nor may copies be delivered to, any person without our prior written consent.

Very truly yours,

TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP

 

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SCHEDULE IV

PROPOSED FORM OF OPINION

OF

MCGUIREWOODS LLP

One James Center

901 East Cary Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

Re: DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

June 17, 2009

Banc of America Securities LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

UBS Securities LLC

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

        as Representatives for the Underwriters

        listed in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement

 

c/o   Banc of America Securities LLC

        One Bryant Park

        New York, New York 10036

  

UBS Securities LLC

677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

        Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

        388 Greenwich Street

        New York, New York 10013

 

        Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

        1585 Broadway

        New York, New York 10036

  

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

One Wachovia Center

301 South College Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0613

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Dominion Resources, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the Company), in connection with the issuance and sale by the Company of up to U.S. $625,000,000   (subject to an increase of up to $62,500,000 upon exercise of the Over-Allotment Option) aggregate principal amount of its 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the Junior Subordinated Notes) and pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement dated

 

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June 10, 2009, by and between the Company and the Underwriters listed on Schedule I attached thereto (the Underwriting Agreement). This letter is being delivered to you pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement. All terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.

We have examined originals, or copies certified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records of the Company, indentures, agreements, and other instruments, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of the Company, the Indenture Trustee and the Series Trustee, and other documents, as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed. As to various questions of fact material to such opinions, we have, when relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon certifications by officers of the Company, the Indenture Trustee and the Series Trustee and other appropriate persons and statements contained in the Registration Statement hereinafter mentioned. All legal proceedings taken as of the date hereof in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement have been satisfactory to us.

On this basis we are of the opinion that:

1. No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency, domestic or foreign (other than those required under the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, have been obtained, or as may be required under the securities or blue sky laws of the various states) is necessary or required in connection with the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement or the due execution, delivery or performance of the Indenture by the Company or for the offering, issuance, sale or delivery of the Junior Subordinated Notes as contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement.

2. The Indenture has been authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless whether enforcement is in a proceeding in equity or at law).

3. The Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly authorized and executed by the Company and, when completed and authenticated by the Series Trustee in accordance with, and in the form contemplated by, the Indenture and issued, delivered and paid for as provided in the Underwriting Agreement, will have been duly issued under the Indenture and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless whether enforcement is in a proceeding in equity or at law).

4. The Registration Statement (Reg. No. 333-157013) with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes filed pursuant to the Securities Act is an “automatic shelf registration

 

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statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that was filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, and the Prospectus may lawfully be used for the purposes specified in the Securities Act in connection with the offer for sale of Junior Subordinated Notes in the manner therein specified.

5. The Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (except the financial statements, any pro forma financial information and schedules contained or incorporated by reference therein, as to which we express no opinion) appear on their face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act, and to the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

6. We are of the opinion that the statements relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes contained in the Base Prospectus under DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES and ADDITIONAL TERMS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES, as supplemented by the statements under SPECIFIC TERMS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, and the statements relating to the Replacement Capital Covenant contained under CERTAIN TERMS OF THE REPLACEMENT CAPITAL COVENANT in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, are substantially accurate and fair.

7. With regard to the discussion in the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009, under the caption CERTAIN U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS, subject to the limitations and assumptions set forth therein, we are of the opinion that under current United States federal income tax law, although the discussion does not purport to disclose all possible United States federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership or disposition of the Junior Subordinated Notes, such discussion constitutes an accurate summary of the matters discussed therein in all material respects. In rendering the aforementioned opinion, we have considered the current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial decisions and Internal Revenue Service rulings, all of which are subject to change, which changes may be retroactively applied. A change in the authorities upon which our opinion is based could affect our conclusions.

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We have participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company and your representatives at which the contents of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus were discussed, and we have consulted with officers and other employees of the Company to inform them of the disclosure requirements of the Securities Act. We have examined various reports, records, contracts and other documents of the Company and orders and instruments of public officials, which our investigation led us to deem pertinent. In addition, we participated in one or more due diligence conferences with representatives of the Company and attended the closing at which the Company satisfied the conditions contained in Section 7 of the Underwriting Agreement. We have not, however, undertaken to make any independent review of other records of the Company which our investigation did not lead us to deem pertinent. As to the statistical statements in the Registration Statement (which includes the Incorporated Documents), we have relied solely on the officers of the Company. We

 

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accordingly assume no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the statements made in the Registration Statement, except as stated above in numbered paragraphs 6 and 7 in regard to the statements described in such paragraphs 6 and 7. But such conferences, consultation, examination and attendance disclosed to us no information with respect to such other matters that gives us reason to believe that the Registration Statement contained on any date the Registration Statement became effective, the Time of Sale Information contained at the Time of Sale, the Prospectus contained as of its date, or that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus contains on the date hereof (in each case, except with respect to the financial statements, any pro forma financial information and schedules and other financial information and the Statement of Eligibility of the Indenture Trustee filed on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act, contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus), any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted on such date or omits on the date hereof to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The foregoing assurance is provided on the basis that, except as otherwise provided in Section 3A(a) of the Underwriting Agreement with respect to the Time of Sale Information, any statement contained in an Incorporated Document will be deemed not to be contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus if the statement has been modified or superseded by any statement in a subsequently filed Incorporated Document or in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus.

We do not purport to express an opinion on any laws other than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of New York and the United States of America. This opinion may not be relied upon by, nor may copies be delivered to, any person without our prior written consent.

Very truly yours,

MCGUIREWOODS LLP

 

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SCHEDULE V

PROPOSED FORM OF OPINION

OF

GENERAL COUNSEL OF

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

120 Tredegar Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

June 17, 2009

To: The Addressees Listed on Annex A

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The arrangements for issuance of up to U.S. $625,000,000 (subject to an increase of up to $62,500,000 upon exercise of the Over-Allotment Option) aggregate principal amount of 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the Junior Subordinated Notes), of Dominion Resources, Inc. (the Company), pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement dated June 10, 2009, by and between the Company and the Underwriters listed on Schedule I attached thereto (the Underwriting Agreement), have been taken under my supervision as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. Terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreement.

As Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company, I have general responsibility over the attorneys within the Company’s Legal Department responsible for rendering legal counsel to the Company regarding corporate, financial, securities and other matters. I am generally familiar with the organization, business and affairs of the Company. I am also familiar with the proceedings taken and proposed to be taken by the Company in connection with the offering and sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes, and I have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents and such questions of the law as I have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. In addition, I have responsibility for supervising lawyers who may have been asked by me or others to review legal matters arising in connection with the offering and sale of the Junior Subordinated Notes. Accordingly, some of the matters referred to herein have not been handled personally by me, but I have been made familiar with the facts and circumstances and the applicable law, and the opinions herein expressed are my own or are opinions of others in which I concur.

 

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On this basis I am of the opinion that:

1. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Virginia, and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement; and the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

2. Each Significant Subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized and is validly existing and in good standing under the respective laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has organizational power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

3. The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

4. There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the best of my knowledge, threatened, to which the Company or one of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ properties is subject other than any proceedings described in the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus and proceedings which I believe are not likely to have a material adverse effect on the power or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated thereby or by the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus.

I am a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Virginia and I do not purport to express an opinion on any laws other than those of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America. This opinion may not be relied upon by, nor may copies be delivered to, any person without our prior written consent. I do not undertake to advise you of any changes in the opinions expressed herein resulting from matters that may hereinafter arise or that may hereinafter be brought to my attention.

Yours very truly,

GENERAL COUNSEL

 

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Annex A

Banc of America Securities LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

UBS Securities LLC

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

as Representatives for the Underwriters

listed in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement

c/o Banc of America Securities LLC

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

UBS Securities LLC

677 Washington Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

One Wachovia Center

301 South College Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0613

 

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SCHEDULE VI

ISSUER FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES

Final Term Sheet dated June 10, 2009 containing final pricing and related information:

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

FINAL TERM SHEET

June 10, 2009

2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes

 

Issuer

   Dominion Resources, Inc. (DRI)

Principal Amount

   $625,000,000

Over-Allotment Option:

   Underwriters’ option to purchase within three business days after the Settlement Date up to an additional $62,500,000 principal amount of Junior Subordinated Notes in order to cover over-allotments, if any

Expected Ratings*

   Baa3(Stable)/BBB(Stable)/BBB(Stable) 1 Moody’s/S&P/Fitch)

Offering Description:

   2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (Junior Subordinated Notes)

Trade Date

   June 10, 2009

Settlement Date (T+5):

   June 17, 2009

Maturity Date

   June 15, 2064, but the maturity date will be automatically extended, except for any portion of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the holders of such Junior Subordinated Notes, for additional quarterly periods on each of March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15, beginning on June 15, 2014 through and including March 15, 2019, without notice to, or the consent of, the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes. Subject to certain conditions, the maturity date will be further automatically extended for additional quarterly periods beginning on June 15, 2019 through and including March 15, 2029, except for any portion of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the holders of such Junior Subordinated Notes. The final maturity date will be no later than June 15, 2079

Make-Whole Call:

   In whole or in part on one or more occasions before June 15, 2014, at an amount equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of (a) the remaining scheduled payments of interest from the redemption date to June 15, 2014 (excluding interest accrued as of the redemption date) and (b) the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed assuming a scheduled payment of principal on June 15, 2014, discounted to the redemption date on a quarterly basis at the adjusted treasury rate plus 50 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest, through, but not including, the redemption date

Par Call:

   In whole or part on one or more occasions on or after June 15, 2014 at 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest

Tax Event Call:

   In whole, but not in part, before June 15, 2014 at 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if certain changes in tax laws, regulations or interpretations occur

Rating Agency Event Call:

   In whole or in part on one or more occasions before June 15, 2014, if a rating agency makes certain changes in the equity credit criteria for securities such as the Junior Subordinated Notes, at an amount equal to or greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of (a) the remaining scheduled payments of interest from the redemption date to June 15, 2014 (excluding interest accrued as of the redemption date) and (b) the principal amount of Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed assuming a scheduled payment of principal on June 15, 2014, discounted to the redemption date on a quarterly basis at the adjusted treasury rate plus 50 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date

Interest Payment Dates:

   March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15, subject to DRI’s right to defer interest on one or more occasions for up to 10 consecutive years

First Interest Payment Date:

   September 15, 2009

 

 


Coupon:    8.375%
Listing:    DRI intends to apply to list the Junior Subordinated Notes on the New York Stock Exchange; trading is expected to commence within 30 days after the Junior Subordinated Notes are first issued
Price to Public:    $25.00 per Junior Subordinated Note plus accrued interest from June 17, 2009, if settlement occurs after that date
Underwriters’ Purchase
    Price:
   $24.2125 per Junior Subordinated Note
   $24.50 per Junior Subordinated Note (for sales to institutions)
CUSIP/ISIN:    25746U 604/US25746U6047
Book-Running Managers:    Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling:

 

Banc of America Securities LLC    1-800-294-1322 (toll free)
Citi    1-877-858-5407 (toll free)
Morgan Stanley    1-866-718-1649 (toll free)
UBS Securities LLC    1-877-827-6444 (ext. 561-3884) (toll-free)
Wachovia Securities    1-800-326-5897 (toll-free)

*Note: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities. Each rating may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time, and should be evaluated independently of any other rating.

 

 

Richmond01 1844228v1 222558.000052

Exhibit 4.2

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

Issuer

TO

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

(successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.)

Original Trustee

AND

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

Series Trustee

 

 

THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL AND AMENDING INDENTURE

DATED AS OF JUNE 1, 2009

 

 

2009 SERIES A 8.375% ENHANCED JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS    2
  1.1    Definition of Terms    2
ARTICLE II    6
  2.1    Amendment to Section 1.1    6
  2.2    Amendment to Section 2.1(c)    6
  2.3    Amendment to Section 2.1(n)    6
  2.4    Amendment to Section 2.12    7
ARTICLE III GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES    7
  3.1    Designation and Principal Amount    7
  3.2    Maturity    7
  3.3    Form and Payment; Minimum Transfer Restriction    8
  3.4    Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Junior Subordinated Notes; Restrictions on Transfers; Depositary    9
  3.5    Interest    10
  3.6    Events of Default    11
ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES    11
  4.1    Optional Redemption by Company    11
  4.2    Notice of Redemption    11
ARTICLE V OPTION TO DEFER INTEREST PAYMENTS    12
  5.1    Option to Defer Interest Payments    12
  5.2    Notice of Deferral    13
ARTICLE VI FORM OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE    14
  6.1    Form of Junior Subordinated Note    14
ARTICLE VII ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES    14
  7.1    Original Issue of Junior Subordinated Notes    14
ARTICLE VIII    14
  8.1    Appointment of Series Trustee    14
  8.2    Eligibility of Series Trustee    14
  8.3    Security Registrar and Paying Agent    14
  8.4    Concerning the Trustees    14

 

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  8.5    Patriot Act Requirements of Series Trustee    15
ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS    15
  9.1    Ratification of Indenture; Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture Controls    15
  9.2    Recitals    15
  9.3    Governing Law    15
  9.4    Separability    15
  9.5    Counterparts    16
EXHIBIT A    18

 

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THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL AND AMENDING INDENTURE

THIS THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL AND AMENDING INDENTURE, dated as of June 1, 2009 (this “Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture”), is between DOMINION RESOURCES, INC., a Virginia corporation, having its principal office at 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 (the “Company”), THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (successor to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.), a New York banking corporation, as Trustee, having a corporate trust office at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286 (herein called the “Original Trustee”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee of the series of Securities established by this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, having a corporate trust office at 60 Wall Street, 27 th Floor, New York, New York 10005 (herein called the “Series Trustee”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS , the Company has heretofore entered into a Junior Subordinated Indenture II, dated as of June 1, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”), as heretofore supplemented, with the Original Trustee;

WHEREAS , the Base Indenture is incorporated herein by this reference and the Base Indenture, as heretofore supplemented and as further supplemented and amended by this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, is herein called the “Indenture”;

WHEREAS , under the Base Indenture, a new series of Securities may at any time be established in accordance with the provisions of the Base Indenture and the terms of such series may be described by a supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the Trustee;

WHEREAS , the Company proposes to create under the Indenture a new series of Securities;

WHEREAS , the Company is also entering into this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture with the Original Trustee and the Series Trustee (i) to make certain amendments to the Base Indenture pursuant to Section 10.1(f) of the Base Indenture to permit the appointment of the Series Trustee as Trustee for the series of Securities hereby established, to add to or change any of the provisions of the Base Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts thereunder by more than one Trustee and to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment thereunder by a Trustee with respect to the series of Securities hereby established, and (ii) to make certain amendments to the Base Indenture pursuant to Section 10.1(d) of the Base Indenture relating to the method or methods, if any, by which the payment date or dates of principal for Securities issued on or after the date hereof may be determined and the circumstances, if any, in which such date or dates may be shortened or extended, either automatically or at the election of the Company;

WHEREAS , the Company has requested that the Original Trustee enter into this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture in connection with (i) the foregoing amendments, and (ii) the Company’s appointing the Series Trustee with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the Original Trustee with respect to, and only with respect to, the series of Securities hereby established;


WHEREAS , additional Securities of other series hereafter established, except as may be limited in the Base Indenture as at the time supplemented and modified, may be issued from time to time pursuant to the Indenture as at the time supplemented and modified; and the Original Trustee will, unless and until a Person other than the Original Trustee is appointed to act as Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, serve as Trustee of such series;

WHEREAS, all requirements necessary to make this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms, and to make the Junior Subordinated Notes (hereinafter defined), when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Series Trustee, the valid obligations of the Company, have been performed, and the execution and delivery of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture has been duly authorized in all respects;

NOW, 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, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definition of Terms. For all purposes of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) the terms not otherwise defined herein which are defined in the Base Indenture have the same meanings when used in this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture;

(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) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, whether directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

(d) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America at the date of such computation; provided, that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Company;

(e) a reference to a Section or Article is to a Section or Article of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture unless otherwise stated;

(f) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;

 

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(g) headings are for convenience of reference only and do not affect interpretation;

“Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date: (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the end of the Designated Period, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be determined by an Independent Investment Banker and the Adjusted Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. The Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date.

“Business Day” means a day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, (ii) a day on which banks in New York City are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee is closed for business.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a remaining term to maturity comparable to the Designated Period that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the Designated Period.

“Comparable Treasury Price” for any redemption date means (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

“Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee” means the office of the Series Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes shall be principally administered, which office at the date of original execution of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture is located at 60 Wall Street, 27 th Floor, New York, New York 10005 (in addition copies of correspondence are to be sent to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company for Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 25 DeForest Avenue, Mail Stop 0105, Summit, New Jersey, 07901).

“Definitive Note Certificates” means Junior Subordinated Notes issued in definitive, fully registered form.

“Designated Period” means the time period from a redemption date for the Junior Subordinated Notes to June 15, 2014.

 

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“Global Note” has the meaning specified in Section 3.4(a).

“Independent Investment Banker” means any of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC or one other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC and their respective successors, as selected by the Company, or if any such firm is unwilling or unable to serve as such, an independent investment and banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company.

“Interest Payment Dates” means March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2009.

“Make-Whole Amount” means an amount equal to the greater of:

(a) 100% of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes then outstanding being redeemed, or

(b) the sum of the present values of (i) the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon during the Designated Period (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the redemption date) and (ii) the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed assuming, solely for purposes of this calculation, a scheduled payment of such principal on June 15, 2014, discounted to the redemption date on a quarterly basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate, plus 50 basis points, as calculated by an Independent Investment Banker.

“Optional Deferral Period” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.

“Original Issue Date” means June 17, 2009.

“Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States.

“Rating Agency Event” means a change in the methodology employed by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (a “rating agency”) that currently publishes a rating for the Company in assigning equity credit to securities such as the Junior Subordinated Notes, as such methodology is in effect on June 10, 2009 (the “current criteria”), which change results in:

(a) the length of time for which such current criteria are scheduled to be in effect being shortened with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes; or

(b) a lower or higher equity credit being assigned by such rating agency to the Junior Subordinated Notes as of the date of such change than the equity credit that would have been assigned to the Junior Subordinated Notes as of the date of such change by such rating agency pursuant to its current criteria.

“Rating Agency Event Make-Whole Amount” means an amount equal to the greater of:

(a) 100% of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes then outstanding being redeemed, or

 

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(b) the sum of the present values of (i) the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon during the Designated Period (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the redemption date) and (ii) the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed assuming, solely for purposes of this calculation, a scheduled payment of such principal on June 15, 2014, discounted to the redemption date on a quarterly basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate, plus 50 basis points, as calculated by an Independent Investment Banker.

“Record Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.5(a).

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and one other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, and their respective successors; provided that, if any such firm or its successors ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date.

“Stated Maturity” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2.

“Tax Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such tax matters to the effect that, as a result of (a) any amendment to, clarification of, or change (including any announced prospective change) in the laws or treaties of the United States or any political subdivisions or taxing authorities, or any regulations under such laws or treaties, (b) any judicial decision or any official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement (including any notice or announcement of intent to issue or adopt any such administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation), (c) any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of any such administrative action or judicial decision or any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to such administrative action or judicial decision that differs from the theretofore generally accepted position, in each case by any legislative body, court, governmental authority or regulatory body, irrespective of the time or manner in which such amendment, clarification or change is introduced or made known, or (d) threatened challenge asserted in writing in connection with an audit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or a publicly-known threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the Junior Subordinated Notes, which amendment, clarification, or change is effective, or which administrative action is taken or which judicial decision, interpretation or pronouncement is issued or threatened challenge is asserted or becomes publicly-known, in each case after June 10, 2009, there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Junior Subordinated Notes is not deductible, or within 90 days would not be deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for United States Federal income tax purposes.

 

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The terms “Company,” “Original Trustee,” “Series Trustee,” “Base Indenture,” and “Indenture” shall have the respective meanings set forth in the recitals to this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture and the paragraph preceding such recitals.

ARTICLE II

AMENDMENTS TO THE BASE INDENTURE

2.1 Amendment to Section 1.1. The definition of “Trustee” as set forth in Section 1.1 of the Base Indenture is hereby amended to read as follows:

“The term “Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture or until a Trustee for a series of Securities shall have become such pursuant to Section 2.1(n) of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” shall mean each such Person and as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.”

2.2 Amendment to Section 2.1(c). Section 2.1(c) of the Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated as follows:

“(c) the date or dates (if any) on which the principal of the Securities of such series is payable or the method or methods, if any, by which such date or dates shall be determined and the circumstances, if any, under which such date or dates may be shortened or extended, either automatically or at the election of the Company;”

2.3 Amendment to Section 2.1(n). Section 2.1(n) of the Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated as follows:

“(n) if other than the Person named as the ‘Trustee’ in the first paragraph of this instrument (or a successor to such Person pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture) (for purposes of this clause (n), herein called the “Original Trustee”), the identity of a Trustee for the Securities of the series (a “Series Trustee”), and if not the Series Trustee, the identity of the person or persons who shall be registrar for the Securities of such series, and the place or places where the Register of Securities of such series shall be kept, and such additions or changes to any provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood, anything contained herein or in any Resolution of the Company, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, that (i) nothing herein shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust, (ii) each such Trustee shall be a trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee, (iii) the Series Trustee shall have all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the Original Trustee with respect to, and only with respect to, the Securities of the series, (iv) the Original Trustee shall have no rights, powers, trusts and duties with respect to the Securities of the series, (v) no Trustee hereunder shall have any liability for any acts or omissions of any other Trustee hereunder and (vi) no appointment of a Series Trustee shall become effective until the acceptance of the appointment by the Series Trustee is evidenced in writing;”

 

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2.4 Amendment to Section 2.12. Section 2.12 of the Base Indenture is hereby amended and restated as follows:

Section 2.12 Shortening or Extension of Stated Maturity. If specified as contemplated by Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 with respect to the Securities of a particular series, the Company shall have the right to (i) shorten the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities of such series at any time to any date, and (ii) extend the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities of such series at any time at its election for one or more periods, provided that, if the Company elects to exercise its right to shorten or extend the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities of such series pursuant to this section, at the time such election is made and at the time of such shortening or extension, such conditions as may be specified in such Securities shall have been satisfied.”

ARTICLE III

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES

3.1 Designation and Principal Amount. There is hereby established a new series of Securities to be issued under the Indenture, to be designated as the Company’s 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the “Junior Subordinated Notes”) in an aggregate principal amount of up to $687,500,000 which amount shall be set forth in any written orders of the Company for the authentication and delivery of Junior Subordinated Notes pursuant to Section 2.1 of the Base Indenture and Section 7.1 hereof. Additional Junior Subordinated Notes without limitation as to amount, and without the consent of the holders of the then Outstanding Junior Subordinated Notes, may also be authenticated and delivered in the manner provided in Section 2.1 of the Base Indenture. Any such additional Junior Subordinated Notes will have the same Stated Maturity and other terms (except, if applicable, the initial Interest Payment Date and initial interest accrual date) as those initially issued and shall be consolidated with and part of the same series of Junior Subordinated Notes as the Junior Subordinated Notes initially issued under this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture.

3.2 Maturity. The maturity date of the Junior Subordinated Notes initially will be June 15, 2064, but will be automatically extended, except for any portion of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the holders of such Junior Subordinated Notes, for additional quarterly periods on each of March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15, beginning on June 15, 2014 through and including March 15, 2019, without notice to, or consent of, the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes. Subject to the conditions described below, the maturity date will be further automatically extended for additional quarterly periods beginning on June 15, 2019 through and including March 15, 2029, except for any portion of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the holders of such Junior Subordinated Notes. The final maturity date of the Junior Subordinated Notes will be no later than June 15, 2079, on which date the entire principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes will become due and payable, together with any accrued and unpaid interest. The Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes shall mean the maturity date of the Junior Subordinated Notes as extended in accordance with this Section 3.2, which may not be otherwise shortened or extended.

 

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With respect to each extension beginning on June 15, 2019, the following shall constitute the extension conditions:

(a) On the applicable extension date the ratings on the Junior Subordinated Notes satisfy at least two of the three following ratings criteria: (i) at least Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”), (ii) at least BBB- by Standard & Poors Ratings Services (“Standard & Poor’s”) and (iii) at least BBB- by Fitch Ratings Ltd (“Fitch”), or, if Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and/or Fitch (or their respective successors) are no longer in existence, the equivalent rating by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization; and

(b) During the three years prior to the applicable extension date:

(i) no event of default has occurred in respect of any of the Company’s then outstanding indebtedness for money borrowed; and

(ii) the Company did not have (and does not have at the extension date) any outstanding deferred payments under any of its then-outstanding preferred stock or debt securities.

3.3 Form and Payment; Minimum Transfer Restriction.

(a) The Junior Subordinated Notes shall be issued in fully registered definitive form without coupons in minimum denominations of $25 and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof. Principal and interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes will be payable, the transfer of such Junior Subordinated Notes will be registrable and such Junior Subordinated Notes will be exchangeable for Junior Subordinated Notes bearing identical terms and provisions at the Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Register or by transfer to an account maintained by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Register, provided that proper transfer instructions have been received by the Paying Agent by the Record Date. The Register for the Junior Subordinated Notes shall be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Series Trustee, and the Series Trustee is hereby appointed registrar and Paying Agent for the Junior Subordinated Notes.

(b) The Junior Subordinated Notes may be transferred or exchanged only in minimum denominations of $25 and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof, and any attempted transfer, sale or other disposition of Junior Subordinated Notes in a denomination of less than $25 shall be deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever. Any such transferee shall be deemed not to be the holder of such Junior Subordinated Notes for any purpose, including but not limited to the receipt of payments in respect of such Junior Subordinated Notes and such transferee shall be deemed to have no interest whatsoever in such Junior Subordinated Notes.

 

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3.4 Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Junior Subordinated Notes; Restrictions on Transfers; Depositary. The Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued to the holders in accordance with the following procedures:

(a) So long as Junior Subordinated Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, or unless required by law, all Junior Subordinated Notes that are so eligible will be represented by one or more Junior Subordinated Notes in global form (a “Global Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. Except as provided in Section 3.4(c) below, beneficial owners of a Global Note shall not be entitled to have Definitive Note Certificates registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Note Certificates and will not be registered holders of such Global Notes.

(b) The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in Global Notes shall be effected through the Depositary in accordance with the Indenture and the procedures and standing instructions of the Depositary and the Series Trustee shall make appropriate endorsements to reflect increases or decreases in principal amounts of such Global Notes.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 3.4(c)), a Global Note may not be exchanged in whole or in part for Junior Subordinated Notes registered, and no transfer of a Global Note may be registered, in the name of any person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof unless (i) such Depositary (A) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Note or (B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange Act and no successor Depositary has been appointed by the Company within 90 days after its receipt of such notice or its becoming aware of such ineligibility, (ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, or any event which after notice or lapse of time or both would be an Event of Default under the Indenture, with respect to such Junior Subordinated Note, or (iii) the Company, in its sole discretion and subject to the procedures of the Depositary, instructs the Series Trustee to exchange such Global Note for a Junior Subordinated Note that is not a Global Note (in which case such exchange (subject to such procedures) shall be effected by the Series Trustee).

The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes. Initially, the Global Notes shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Series Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.

Definitive Note Certificates issued in exchange for all or a part of a Global Note pursuant to this Section 3.4(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Series Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Series Trustee shall deliver such Definitive Note Certificates to the person in whose names such Definitive Note Certificates are so registered.

 

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So long as Junior Subordinated Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes, (i) the registrar for the Junior Subordinated Notes and the Series Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the clearing agency for all purposes of the Indenture relating to such Global Notes as the sole holder of the Junior Subordinated Notes evidenced by such Global Notes and shall have no obligations to the holders of beneficial interests in such Global Notes; and (ii) the rights of the holders of beneficial interests in such Global Notes shall be exercised only through the clearing agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such holders and the clearing agency and/or the participants in the clearing agency.

At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been paid, redeemed, exchanged, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Series Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and instructions of the Depositary. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Note Certificates, redeemed by the Company pursuant to Article III or canceled, or transferred for part of a Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions of the Depositary be reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note by, or at the direction of, the Series Trustee to reflect such reduction or increase.

3.5 Interest.

(a) Each Junior Subordinated Note will bear interest at the rate of 8.375% per annum from the Original Issue Date. Subject to the Company’s right to defer interest payments described in Article V below, interest is payable quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. If interest payments are deferred or otherwise not paid, they will accrue and compound until paid at the annual rate of 8.375% per annum, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The interest so payable will be paid to the Person in whose name such Junior Subordinated Note is registered, at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date; provided that interest payable at Maturity will be paid to the Person to whom principal is payable. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or duly provided for, and that is not deferred pursuant to Article V hereof, will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders on such Record Date and may either be paid (i) to the Person in whose name such Junior Subordinated Note (or any Junior Subordinated Note issued upon registration of transfer or exchange thereof) is registered at the close of business on the record date for the payment of such defaulted interest established in accordance with Section 2.3 of the Base Indenture or (ii) at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of the securities exchange, if any, on which the Junior Subordinated Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange. The “Record Date” for payment of interest will be the close of business on the Business Day next preceding the Interest Payment Date, unless such Junior Subordinated Note is registered to a holder other than the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, in which case the Record Date for payment of interest will be the close of business on the fifteenth calendar day preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date, whether or not a Business Day.

(b) If an Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest and

 

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principal will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the Stated Maturity, as applicable.

3.6 Events of Default. An Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall be an Event of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes provided that the nonpayment of interest for so long as and to the extent that interest is permitted to be deferred pursuant to Article V herein shall not be deemed to be a default in the payment of interest for the purposes of Article VI of the Base Indenture and shall not otherwise be deemed an Event of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, and without prejudice to any other remedies that may be available to the Series Trustee or the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes, no breach by the Company of any covenant or obligation under the Indenture or the terms of the Junior Subordinated Notes shall be an Event of Default except those that are specifically identified as an Event of Default under the Indenture.

ARTICLE IV

REDEMPTION OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES

4.1 Optional Redemption by Company. The Company shall have the option to redeem the Junior Subordinated Notes:

(a) in whole or in part at any time before June 15, 2014 at a redemption price equal to the Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date;

(b) in whole or in part at any time before June 15, 2014, if a Rating Agency Event occurs, at a redemption price equal to the Rating Agency Event Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date;

(c) in whole, but not in part, at any time before June 15, 2014, upon the occurrence of a Tax Event, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Junior Subordinate Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date; and

(d) in whole or in part at any time on or after June 15, 2014, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date.

The applicable redemption price shall be paid prior to 2:30 p.m., New York City time, on the date of such redemption, provided that the Company shall deposit with the Series Trustee an amount sufficient to pay the applicable redemption price by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date such redemption price is to be paid. The Company will notify the Series Trustee of the amount of any applicable Make-Whole Amount or Rating Agency Event Make-Whole Amount promptly after the calculation thereof, and the Series Trustee will not be responsible for such calculation.

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before the redemption date to each holder of Junior Subordinated Notes to be redeemed at such holder’s registered address. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the applicable redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest shall cease to accrue on such Junior Subordinated Notes called for redemption.

ARTICLE V

OPTION TO DEFER INTEREST PAYMENTS

5.1 Option to Defer Interest Payments. So long as there is no Event of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes under the Base Indenture, the Company, at its option, may, on one or more occasions, defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on the Junior Subordinated Notes for a period of up to 10 consecutive years (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an “Optional Deferral Period”). A deferral of interest payments may not end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date any may not extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes, and the Company may not begin a new Optional Deferral Period and may not pay current interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes until it has paid all accrued interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes from the previous Optional Deferral Period. Such accrued interest shall be payable to the persons in whose names the Junior Subordinated Notes are registered at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

Any deferred interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes will accrue additional interest at a rate equal to 8.375% per annum, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Once the Company pays all deferred interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes, including any additional interest accrued on the deferred interest, it shall be entitled to again defer interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes as described above, but not beyond the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes.

Unless the Company has paid all accrued and payable interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes and is not deferring any interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes at such time, it will not and its Subsidiaries shall not do any of the following:

 

  (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment on any of Dominion Resources, Inc’s capital stock;

 

  (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any of its debt securities that rank on a parity with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Notes (including debt securities of other series issued under the Base Indenture); or

 

  (iii) make any guarantee payments on any guarantee of debt securities if the guarantee ranks on a parity with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Notes.

However, the foregoing provisions shall not prevent or restrict the Company from making:

(a) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of its capital stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors, agents or consultants or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred requiring it to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock;

 

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(b) any payment, repayment, redemption, purchase, acquisition or declaration of dividend described in clause (i) above as a result of a reclassification of its capital stock, or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of its capital stock for another class or series of its capital stock;

(c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of its capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of its capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred;

(d) dividends or distributions paid or made in its capital stock (or rights to acquire its capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of its capital stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred;

(e) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or

(f) payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes, any trust preferred securities, subordinated debentures, junior subordinated debentures or junior subordinated notes, or any guarantees of any of the foregoing, in each case that rank equal in right of payment to the Junior Subordinated Notes, so long as the amount of payments made on account of such securities or guarantees is paid on all such securities and guarantees then outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion to the full payment to which each series of such securities and guarantees is then entitled if paid in full.

5.2 Notice of Deferral. The Company shall give the Series Trustee written notice of its election to begin a deferral period at least one Business Day before the Record Date for the next Interest Payment Date. The Series Trustee will forward any written notice that the Company gives of its election to begin a deferral period to the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes. However, the Company’s failure to pay interest on any Interest Payment Date will itself constitute the commencement of a deferral period unless the Company pays such interest payment within five Business Days after the Interest Payment Date, whether or not the Company provides a notice of deferral.

 

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ARTICLE VI

FORM OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE

6.1 Form of Junior Subordinated Note. The Junior Subordinated Notes and the Series Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication to be endorsed thereon are to be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

ARTICLE VII

ORIGINAL ISSUE OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES

7.1 Original Issue of Junior Subordinated Notes. Junior Subordinated Notes in the initial aggregate principal amount of up to $687,500,000 may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Series Trustee for authentication by it, and the Series Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Junior Subordinated Notes to or upon the written order of the Company, signed by any Officer of the Company, without any further corporate action by the Company.

ARTICLE VIII

THE SERIES TRUSTEE

8.1 Appointment of Series Trustee . Pursuant to the Base Indenture and pursuant to this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, the Company hereby appoints the Series Trustee as Trustee under the Base Indenture with respect to, and only with respect to, the Junior Subordinated Notes, and by execution hereof the Series Trustee accepts such appointment. Pursuant to the Base Indenture, all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the Original Trustee under the Base Indenture shall be vested in the Series Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes, there shall continue to be vested in the Original Trustee all of its rights, powers, trusts and duties as Trustee under the Base Indenture with respect to all of the series of Securities as to which it has served and continues to serve as Trustee, and the Original Trustee shall have no rights, powers, trusts and duties with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes.

8.2 Eligibility of Series Trustee . The Series Trustee hereby represents that it is qualified and eligible under the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act and Section 7.9 of the Base Indenture to accept its appointment as Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes under the Base Indenture and hereby accepts the appointment as such Trustee.

8.3 Security Registrar and Paying Agent. Pursuant to the Base Indenture, the Company hereby appoints Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as registrar and “Paying Agent” with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes.

8.4 Concerning the Trustees . Neither the Original Trustee nor the Series Trustee assumes any duties, responsibilities or liabilities by reason of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture other than as set forth in the Base Indenture and, in carrying out its responsibilities hereunder, each shall have all of the rights, powers, privileges, protections, duties and immunities which it possesses under the Base Indenture. The Original Trustee and the Series Trustee shall not constitute co-trustees of the same trust, and each of the Original Trustee and the Series Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under the Indenture separate and apart from any trust or trusts under the Indenture administered by the other trustee. The Original Trustee shall have no liability for any acts or omissions of the Series Trustee and the Series Trustee shall have no liability for any acts or omissions of the Original Trustee.

 

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References in this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture to sections of the Base Indenture that require or permit actions by the Original Trustee with respect to Securities of the series established hereby shall be deemed to require or permit actions only by the Series Trustee and the Original Trustee shall have no responsibility therefor.

8.5 Patriot Act Requirements of Series Trustee . To help the United States government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account or establishes a relationship. The Series Trustee may ask the Company for documentation to verify the Company’s formation and existence as a legal entity. The Series Trustee may also seek to see financial statements, licenses, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the Company or other relevant documentation.

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

9.1 Ratification of Indenture; Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture Controls. The Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture shall be deemed part of the Base Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided. The provisions of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture shall supersede the provisions of the Base Indenture to the extent the Base Indenture is inconsistent herewith.

9.2 Recitals. The recitals herein contained are made by the Company only and not by the Original Trustee or the Series Trustee, and neither the Original Trustee nor the Series Trustee assumes any responsibility for the correctness thereof. Neither the Original Trustee nor the Series Trustee makes any representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture. All of the provisions contained in the Base Indenture in respect of the rights, powers, privileges, protections, duties and immunities of the Original Trustee shall be applicable, but only to the Series Trustee in respect of the Junior Subordinated Notes and of this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture (to the extent relating to the Junior Subordinated Notes) as fully and with like effect as if set forth herein in full.

9.3 Governing Law. This Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture and each Junior Subordinated Note shall be deemed to be a contract made under the internal laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of said State, without regard to the conflicts of law principles thereof.

9.4 Separability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture or in the Junior Subordinated Notes shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Third Supplemental and Amending

 

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Indenture or of the Junior Subordinated Notes, but this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture and the Junior Subordinated Notes shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.

9.5 Counterparts. This Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
By:  

 

Name:   G. Scott Hetzer
Title:   Senior Vice President and Treasurer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
(SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.), as Original Trustee, solely for purposes of Articles II, VIII and IX hereof.
By:  

 

Name:   Larry O’Brien
Title:   Vice President

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Series Trustee

By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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EXHIBIT A

(FORM OF FACE OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE)

[THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE 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 SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.] *

[UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF [CEDE & CO.] OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO [CEDE & CO.], ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, [CEDE & CO.], HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.] *

THE NOTES EVIDENCED HEREBY WILL BE ISSUED, AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED, ONLY IN MINIMUM DENOMINATIONS OF $25 AND INTEGRAL MULTIPLES OF $25 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER, SALE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF NOTES IN A DENOMINATION OF LESS THAN $25 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH NOTES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF SUCH NOTES, AND SUCH TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH NOTES.

 

*

Insert in Global Notes.


 

 

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

 

 

[Up to]* $             

2009 SERIES A 8.375% ENHANCED JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE

Dated:                     

 

NUMBER R-   CUSIP NO: 25746U 604
Registered Holder:  

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia (herein referred to as the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to the Registered Holder named above, the principal sum [of              Dollars]**[specified in the Schedule annexed hereto]*** on the date of Stated Maturity, as hereafter defined, and to pay (subject to deferral as set forth herein) interest thereon at the rate of 8.375% per annum, such interest to accrue from June 17, 2009. Subject to the Company’s right to defer interest payments described herein, interest is payable quarterly in arrears on each March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15, commencing on September 15, 2009 (the “Interest Payment Dates”), until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. If interest payments are deferred or otherwise not paid, they will accrue and compound until paid at the annual rate of 8.375% per annum, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

The maturity date of this note (this “Note”) initially will be June 15, 2064, but will be automatically extended, except for any portion of the principal amount of this Note that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the Holder hereof, for additional quarterly periods on each of March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15, beginning on June 15, 2014 through and including March 15, 2019, without notice to, or consent of, the Holder of this Note. Subject to the conditions described below, the maturity date will be further automatically extended for additional quarterly periods beginning on June 15, 2019 through and including March 15, 2029, except for any portion of the principal amount of this Note that shall have been earlier redeemed or with respect to which notice of redemption shall have been given to the Holder hereof. The final maturity date of this Note will be no later than June 15, 2079, on which date the entire principal amount of this Note

 

* Insert in Global Notes.
**

Insert in Notes other than Global Notes.

***

Insert in Global Notes.

 

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will become due and payable, together with any accrued and unpaid interest. The Stated Maturity of this Note shall mean the maturity date of this Note as extended in accordance with this paragraph, and may not be otherwise shortened or extended.

With respect to each extension beginning on June 15, 2019, the following shall constitute the extension conditions:

(a) On the applicable extension date the ratings on the Junior Subordinated Notes satisfy at least two of the three following ratings criteria: (i) at least Baa3 by Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”), (ii) at least BBB- by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“Standard & Poor’s”) and (iii) at least BBB- by Fitch Ratings Ltd (“Fitch”), or, if Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and/or Fitch (or their respective successors) are no longer in existence, the equivalent rating by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization; and

(b) During the three years prior to the applicable extension date:

(i) no event of default has occurred in respect of any of the Company’s then outstanding indebtedness for money borrowed; and

(ii) the Company did not have (and does not have at the extension date) any outstanding deferred payments under any of its then-outstanding preferred stock or debt securities.

The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The interest so payable on an Interest Payment Date will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered, at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date; provided that interest payable at Maturity will be paid to the Person to whom principal is payable. Any such interest that is not so punctually paid or duly provided for, and that is not deferred as described below, will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Record Date and may either be paid (i) to the Person in whose name this Note (or any Junior Subordinated Note issued upon registration of transfer or exchange thereof) is registered at the close of business on the record date for the payment of such defaulted interest established in accordance with Section 2.3 of the Base Indenture or (ii) at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of the securities exchange, if any, on which the Junior Subordinated Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange. The “Record Date” for payment of interest will be the close of business on the Business Day next preceding the Interest Payment Date, unless this Note is registered to a holder other than the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, in which case the Record Date for payment of interest will be the close of business on the fifteenth calendar day preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date, whether or not a Business Day.

If an Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment of interest and principal will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the Interest Payment Date, redemption date or the Stated Maturity, as applicable.

 

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This Note may be presented for payment of principal and interest at the office of the Paying Agent, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company (i) by check mailed to such address of the person entitled thereto as the address shall appear on the Register of the Notes or (ii) by transfer to an account maintained by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Register, provided that proper transfer instructions have been received by the Record Date. Payment of the principal and interest on this Note shall be made 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.

So long as there is no Event of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated Notes under the Base Indenture, the Company, at its option, may, on one or more occasions, defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on the Junior Subordinated Notes for a period of up to 10 consecutive years (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an “Optional Deferral Period”). A deferral of interest payments may not end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date and may not extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes, and the Company may not begin a new Optional Deferral Period and may not pay current interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes until it has paid all accrued interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes from the previous Optional Deferral Period. Such accrued interest shall be payable to the persons in whose names the Junior Subordinated Notes are registered at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

Any deferred interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes will accrue additional interest at a rate equal to 8.375% per annum, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Once the Company pays all deferred interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes, including any additional interest accrued on the deferred interest, it shall be entitled to again defer interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes as described above, but not beyond the Stated Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes.

Unless the Company has paid all accrued and payable interest on the Junior Subordinated Notes and is not deferring any interest payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes at such time, it will not and its Subsidiaries shall not do any of the following:

(i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment on any of Dominion Resources, Inc’s capital stock;

(ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any of its debt securities that rank on a parity with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Notes (including debt securities of other series issued under the Base Indenture); or

(iii) make any guarantee payments on any guarantee of debt securities if the guarantee ranks on a parity with or junior to the Junior Subordinated Notes.

 

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However, the foregoing provisions shall not prevent or restrict the Company from making:

(a) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of its capital stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors, agents or consultants or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred requiring it to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock;

(b) any payment, repayment, redemption, purchase, acquisition or declaration of dividend described in clause (i) above as a result of a reclassification of its capital stock, or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of its capital stock for another class or series of its capital stock;

(c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of its capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of its capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred;

(d) dividends or distributions paid or made in its capital stock (or rights to acquire its capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of its capital stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred;

(e) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan outstanding on the date that the payment of interest is deferred or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or

(f) payments on the Junior Subordinated Notes, any trust preferred securities, subordinated debentures, junior subordinated debentures or junior subordinated notes, or any guarantees of any of the foregoing, in each case that rank equal in right of payment to the Junior Subordinated Notes, so long as the amount of payments made on account of such securities or guarantees is paid on all such securities and guarantees then outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion to the full payment to which each series of such securities and guarantees is then entitled if paid in full.

The Company shall give the Series Trustee written notice of its election to begin a deferral period at least one Business Day before the Record Date for the next Interest Payment Date. The Series Trustee will forward any written notice that the Company gives of its election to begin a deferral period to the holders of the Junior Subordinated Notes. However, the Company’s failure to pay interest on any Interest Payment Date will itself constitute the commencement of a deferral period unless the Company pays such interest payment within five Business Days after the Interest Payment Date, whether or not the Company provides a notice of deferral.

 

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The Notes of this series shall have an initial aggregate principal amount of up to Six Hundred Eighty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($687,500,000).

The Notes evidenced by this Certificate may be transferred or exchanged only in minimum denominations of $25 and integral multiples of $25 in excess thereof, and any attempted transfer, sale or other disposition of Notes in a denomination of less than $25 shall be deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever.

The indebtedness of the Company evidenced by this Note, including the principal hereof and interest hereon, is, to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the Company’s obligations to Holders of Priority Indebtedness of the Company and each Holder of this Note, by acceptance hereof, agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions of the Indenture and all other provisions of the Indenture.

This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Series Trustee under the Indenture.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DOMINION RESOURCES, INC. has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

   

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.

   

By:

 

 

   

Name:

 

 

   

Title:

 

 

SERIES TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
as Series Trustee
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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REVERSE OF NOTE

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series pursuant to the Junior Subordinated Indenture II, dated as of June 1, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”), as heretofore supplemented and amended, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as Trustee (herein called the “Original Trustee”), and as further supplemented and amended by a Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture dated as of June 1, 2009, by and among the Company, the Original Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee of the series of Securities established thereby (herein called the “Series Trustee,” which term includes any successor series trustee for the Junior Subordinated Notes under the Indenture) (collectively, as amended or supplemented through the date hereof and from time to time, herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Original Trustee, the Series Trustee and the Holders (the word “Holder” or “Holders” meaning the registered holder or registered holders) of the Notes. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof (the “Junior Subordinated Notes”) which is unlimited in aggregate principal amount.

Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture.

As provided in and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the Company shall have the option to redeem the Junior Subordinated Notes:

(a) in whole or in part at any time before June 15, 2014 at a redemption price equal to the Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date;

(b) in whole or in part at any time before June 15, 2014, if a Rating Agency Event occurs, at a redemption price equal to the Rating Agency Event Make-Whole Amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date;

(c) in whole, but not in part, at any time before June 15, 2014, upon the occurrence of a Tax Event, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Junior Subordinate Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date; and

(d) in whole or in part at any time on or after June 15, 2014, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest through, but not including, the redemption date.

In the case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Junior Subordinated Notes may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.

 

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Any consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note given as provided in the Indenture (unless effectively revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Junior Subordinated Note issued in exchange, registration of transfer, or otherwise in lieu hereof irrespective of whether any notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note or such other Junior Subordinated Notes. 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 interest on this Note, at the places, at the respective times, at the rates 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 may be registered on the Register of the Junior Subordinated Notes upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices maintained by the Company or its agent for such purpose, duly endorsed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, 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, but without payment of any charge other than a sum sufficient to reimburse the Company for any tax or other governmental charge incident thereto. Upon any such registration of transfer, a new Junior Subordinated Note or Notes of authorized denomination or denominations for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.

Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Company, the Series Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Series Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this Note shall be registered upon the Register of the Notes of this series as the absolute owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and, subject to the provisions on the face hereof, interest due hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Series Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as a part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

The Company and, by acceptance of this Note or a beneficial interest in this Note, each holder hereof and any person acquiring a beneficial interest herein, agree that for United States federal, state and local tax purposes it is intended that this Note constitute indebtedness.

This Note shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York (without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof) and for all purposes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of said State.

 

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

 

  .

(please insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee)

 

  .

 

  .

 

  .

PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE

the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing

 

 

  .

 

  .

 

  .

 

 

  .

 

  .

 

  .

agent to transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:             ,              
    

 

NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular without alteration or enlargement, or any change whatever.

 

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[FORM OF SCHEDULE FOR ENDORSEMENTS ON GLOBAL NOTES TO REFLECT

CHANGES IN PRINCIPAL AMOUNT] *

The initial principal amount of this Note is: $             

Changes to Principal Amount of Global Note

 

Date

  

Principal Amount by which this

Note is to be Decreased or

Increased and the Reason for the

Decrease or Increase

  

Remaining

Principal Amount

of this Note

  

Signature of

Authorized

Signatory of

Series Trustee

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        

 

*

Insert Schedule in Global Notes.

 

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Exhibit 4.3

Replacement Capital Covenant , dated as of June 17, 2009 (this “Replacement Capital Covenant”), by Dominion Resources, Inc., a Virginia corporation (together with its successors and assigns, the “Corporation”), in favor of and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder (as defined below).

Recitals

A. On the date hereof, the Corporation is issuing $625,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (including any additional Junior Subordinated Notes issued on or after the date hereof that may be consolidated and form a single series with such Junior Subordinated Notes issued on the date hereof, the “Notes”) pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Junior Subordinated Indenture II dated as of June 1, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”), as heretofore supplemented and amended, between the Corporation, as issuer, and The Bank of New York Mellon (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A.), as Trustee (the “Original Trustee”), and as further supplemented and amended by a Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture dated as of June 1, 2009 (the “Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture”), by and among the Corporation, the Original Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee of the series of securities established thereby (the “Series Trustee”), being executed and delivered in connection with the issuance of the Notes.

B. This Replacement Capital Covenant is the “Replacement Capital Covenant” referred to in the Corporation’s Prospectus Supplement, dated June 10, 2009 (the “Prospectus Supplement”).

C. The Corporation, in entering into and disclosing the content of this Replacement Capital Covenant in the manner provided below, is doing so with the intent that the covenants provided for in this Replacement Capital Covenant, including its promise and covenant set forth in Section 2, be enforceable by each Covered Debtholder against the Corporation as a promise reasonably inducing action or forbearance and that the Corporation be estopped from disregarding the covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

D. The Corporation acknowledges that reliance by each Covered Debtholder upon the covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant is reasonable and foreseeable by the Corporation and that, were the Corporation to disregard its covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant, each Covered Debtholder would have sustained an injury as a result of its reliance on such covenants.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Corporation hereby covenants and agrees as follows in favor of and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder.

SECTION 1. Definitions . Capitalized terms used in this Replacement Capital Covenant (including the Recitals) have the meanings set forth in Schedule I hereto.

SECTION 2 . Limitations on Redemption, Defeasance or Purchase of Notes . The Corporation hereby promises and covenants to and for the benefit of each Covered Debtholder that the Corporation shall not redeem or purchase, or satisfy, discharge or defease any portion of the principal amount of the Notes through the deposit of money and/or U.S. government obligations pursuant to Article Twelve of the Base Indenture (such satisfaction, discharge or defeasance herein referred to as “defeasance”), and that the Corporation shall cause its majority owned Subsidiaries not to purchase all or any part of the Notes, on or before the Termination Date except to the extent that:


(a) the principal amount defeased or the applicable redemption or purchase price does not exceed the sum of the following amounts:

(i) the Applicable Percentage of (A) the aggregate amount of the net cash proceeds received by the Corporation from the sale of Common Stock and Rights to acquire Common Stock, and (B) the Market Value of any Common Stock that the Corporation has (1) delivered as consideration for property or assets in an arm’s-length transaction or (2) issued in connection with the conversion into or exchange for Common Stock of any convertible or exchangeable securities, other than, in the case of the preceding clause (2), convertible or exchangeable securities for which, and to the extent that, the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries then receives equity credit from any NRSRO; plus

(ii) the Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount of net cash proceeds received by the Corporation and/or any of its Subsidiaries from the sale of Replacement Capital Securities (other than the securities set forth in clause (i) above);

in each case, to Persons other than the Corporation and/or its Subsidiaries (for the avoidance of doubt, persons covered by the Corporation’s dividend reinvestment plan, any direct stock purchase plan and director and employee benefit plans shall not be deemed the Corporation and/or its Subsidiaries for purposes of this Section 2) within the applicable Measurement Period (without double counting proceeds received in any prior Measurement Period); provided that the limitations in this Section 2 shall not restrict the repayment, redemption or other acquisition of any Notes that have been previously defeased or purchased in accordance with this Replacement Capital Covenant; or

(b) the Notes are exchanged for consideration that includes an aggregate principal amount or liquidation preference (or, in the case of Common Stock, Market Value) of Replacement Capital Securities equal to 100% prior to the Stepdown Date, and 50% on or after the Stepdown Date (or, in the case of Common Stock, 50% prior to the Stepdown Date and 25% on or after the Stepdown Date) of the aggregate principal amount of Notes that are exchanged.

SECTION 3. Covered Debt .

(a) The Corporation represents and warrants that the Initial Covered Debt is Eligible Debt.

(b) On, or during the 30-day period immediately preceding, any Redesignation Date with respect to the Covered Debt then in effect, the Corporation shall identify the series of Eligible Debt that will become the Covered Debt on the related Redesignation Date in accordance with the following procedures:

(i) the Corporation shall identify each series of its then outstanding long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt;

(ii) if only one series of the Corporation’s then outstanding long-term indebtedness for money borrowed is Eligible Debt, such series shall become the Covered Debt commencing on the related Redesignation Date;

(iii) if the Corporation has more than one outstanding series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Debt, then the Corporation shall identify a specific series that has the latest stated final maturity date as of the date on which the Corporation is applying the procedures in this Section 3(b) and such series shall become the Covered Debt commencing on the related Redesignation Date;

 

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(iv) the series of outstanding long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is determined to be the Covered Debt pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) above shall be the Covered Debt for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant for the period commencing on the related Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the Redesignation Date as of which a new series of outstanding long-term indebtedness is next determined to be the Covered Debt pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Section 3(b); and

(v) in connection with such identification of a new series of the Covered Debt, notice shall be given, and a Form 8-K shall be filed, as provided for in Section 3(d) within the time frame provided for in such section.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Replacement Capital Covenant, (i) if a series of Eligible Senior Debt of the Corporation has become the Covered Debt in accordance with Section 3(b), on the date on which the Corporation issues a new series of Eligible Subordinated Debt, then immediately upon such issuance such series shall become the Covered Debt and the applicable series of Eligible Senior Debt shall cease to be the Covered Debt.

(d) In order to give effect to the intent of the Corporation described in Recital C, the Corporation covenants that (i) simultaneously with the execution of this Replacement Capital Covenant, or as soon as practicable after the date hereof, (A) notice shall be given to the Holders of the Initial Covered Debt, in the manner provided in the indenture or other instrument under which such Initial Covered Debt was issued, of this Replacement Capital Covenant and the rights granted to such Holders hereunder and (B) the Corporation shall file a copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant with the Commission as an exhibit to a Form 8-K; (ii) so long as the Corporation is a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act, the Corporation will include or cause to be included in each Form 10-K filed with the Commission by the Corporation a description of the covenant set forth in Section 2 and identify the series of long-term indebtedness for borrowed money that is Covered Debt as of the date such Form 10-K is filed with the Commission; (iii) if a series of the Corporation’s long-term indebtedness for money borrowed (A) becomes Covered Debt or (B) ceases to be Covered Debt, notice of such occurrence will be given within 30 days to the holders of such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed in the manner provided for in the indenture or other instrument under which such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed was issued and the Corporation shall report such change in a Form 8-K, which must include or incorporate by reference this Replacement Capital Covenant, and, if reported in a Form 8-K, also in the next Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, as applicable, of the Corporation; (iv) if, and only if, the Corporation ceases to be a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act, the Corporation will (A) post on its website the information otherwise required to be included in Securities Exchange Act filings pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) above; and (B) cause a notice of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be posted on the Bloomberg screen for the Initial Covered Debt or any successor Bloomberg screen or, if none, a similar third-party vendor’s screen the Corporation reasonably believes is appropriate (each an “Investor Screen”) and cause a hyperlink of this Replacement Capital Covenant to be included on the Investor Screen for each series of the Covered Debt, in each case to the extent permitted by Bloomberg or such similar third-party vendor, as the case may be; and (v) promptly upon the request of any Holder of Covered Debt, the Corporation will provide such Holder with an executed copy of this Replacement Capital Covenant.

SECTION 4. Termination and Amendment .

(a) The obligations of the Corporation pursuant to this Replacement Capital Covenant shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest date (the “Termination Date”) to occur of (i) (x) June 15, 2034 or (y) if the maturity date of the Notes shall be extended in accordance with the Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, the date which is 30 years prior to the maturity

 

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date, as extended, or if earlier, the date on which the Notes are otherwise paid, redeemed, defeased or purchased in full (in compliance with the terms of Section 2 of this Replacement Capital Covenant), (ii) the date, if any, on which the Holders of at least a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the then effective Covered Debt consent or agree in writing to the termination of the obligations of the Corporation hereunder, (iii) the date on which the Corporation ceases to have any Eligible Senior Debt or Eligible Subordinated Debt (in each case without giving effect to the rating requirement in clause (ii) of the definition of each such term), or (iv) the date on which the Notes are accelerated as a result of a default thereunder. From and after the Termination Date, the obligations of the Corporation pursuant to this Replacement Capital Covenant shall be of no further force and effect with respect to the Holders, or otherwise.

(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a written instrument signed only by the Corporation after obtaining the consent of the Holders of at least a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the then-effective Covered Debt; provided that this Replacement Capital Covenant may be amended or supplemented from time to time by a written instrument signed by the Corporation (and without the consent of the Holders) if any of the following apply: (i) such amendment or supplement eliminates Common Stock, Rights to acquire Common Stock, Common Equity Units and/or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock as Replacement Capital Securities, if, in the case of this clause, after the date of this Replacement Capital Covenant, an accounting standard or interpretive guidance of an existing accounting standard issued by an organization or regulator that has responsibility for establishing or interpreting accounting standards in the United States becomes effective such that, or the Corporation has been otherwise advised in writing by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm that, there is more than an insubstantial risk that failure to eliminate Common Stock, Rights to acquire Common Stock, Common Equity Units and/or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock as Replacement Capital Securities would result in a reduction in the Corporation’s earnings per share as calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States or International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) if then applicable to the Corporation; (ii) the sole effect of such amendment or supplement is either (A) to impose additional restrictions on the ability of (1) the Corporation to redeem, purchase or defease Notes or (2) any majority-owned Subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase Notes, or (B) to impose additional restrictions on, or to eliminate certain of, the types of securities qualifying as Replacement Capital Securities (other than securities which are covered by clause (i) above) and in each case an officer of the Corporation has delivered to the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the indenture or other instrument under which such Covered Debt was issued a written certificate to that effect; (iii) such amendment or supplement extends the date specified in Section 4(a)(i), the Stepdown Date or both; or (iv) such amendment or supplement is not adverse to the rights of the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt and an officer of the Corporation has delivered to the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt in the manner provided for in the indenture or other instrument under which such Covered Debt was issued a written certificate stating that, in his or her determination, such amendment or supplement is not adverse to the rights of the Holders of the then-effective Covered Debt. For the avoidance of doubt, an amendment or supplement that adds new types of Replacement Capital Securities or modifies the requirements of the Replacement Capital Securities described herein would not be adverse to the rights of the Holders of the Covered Debt if, following such amendment or supplement, this Replacement Capital Covenant would satisfy the definition of Explicit Replacement Covenant.

(c) For purposes of Sections 4(a) and 4(b), the Holders whose consent or agreement is required to terminate, amend or supplement this Replacement Capital Covenant or the obligations of the Corporation hereunder shall be the Holders of the then effective Covered Debt as of a record date established by the Corporation that is not more than 30 days prior to the date on which the Corporation proposes that such termination, amendment or supplement becomes effective.

 

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SECTION 5 . Miscellaneous .

(a) This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

(b) This Replacement Capital Covenant shall be binding upon the Corporation (and its successors and assigns) and shall inure to the benefit of the Covered Debtholders as they exist from time-to-time (it being understood and agreed by the Corporation that any Person who is a Covered Debtholder shall retain its status as a Covered Debtholder for so long as the series of long-term indebtedness for borrowed money owned by such Person is Covered Debt and, if such Person initiates a claim or proceeding to enforce its rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant after the Corporation has violated its covenants in Section 2 and before the series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed held by such Person is no longer Covered Debt, such Person’s rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant shall not terminate by reason of such series of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed no longer being Covered Debt). The Corporation agrees that, if at any time the Covered Debt is held by a trust (for example, where the Covered Debt is part of an issuance of trust preferred securities), a holder of the securities issued by such trust may enforce (including by instituting legal proceedings) this Replacement Capital Covenant directly against the Corporation as though such holder owned the Covered Debt directly, and the holders of such trust securities shall be deemed Holders of the Covered Debt for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant for so long as the indebtedness held by such trust remains the Covered Debt hereunder. Other than the Covered Debtholders as provided in the two previous sentences, no other Person shall have any rights under this Replacement Capital Covenant or be deemed a third party beneficiary of this Replacement Capital Covenant. In particular, no holder of the Notes is a third party beneficiary of this Replacement Capital Covenant, it being understood that such holders may have rights under the Base Indenture.

(c) The Corporation acknowledges that reliance by each Covered Debtholder upon the covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant is reasonable and foreseeable by the Corporation and that, were the Corporation to disregard its covenants in this Replacement Capital Covenant, each Covered Debtholder would have sustained an injury as a result of its reliance on such covenants.

(d) All demands, notices, requests and other communications to the Corporation under this Replacement Capital Covenant shall be deemed to have been duly given and made if in writing and (i) if served by personal delivery upon the Corporation, on the day so delivered (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) or (ii) if delivered by registered post or certified mail, return receipt requested, or sent to the Corporation by a national or international courier service, on the date of receipt by the Corporation (or, if such date of receipt is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), or (iii) if sent by telecopier, on the day telecopied, or if not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, provided that the telecopy is promptly confirmed by telephone confirmation thereof, and in each case to the Corporation at the address set forth below, or at such other address as the Corporation may thereafter post on its website as the address for notices under this Replacement Capital Covenant:

Dominion Resources, Inc.

120 Tredegar Street

Richmond, VA 23219

Attention: Treasurer

Facsimile No: (804) 819-2211

Telephone No: (804) 819-2000

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the Corporation has caused this Replacement Capital Covenant to be executed by a duly authorized officer as of the day and year first above written.

 

DOMINION RESOURCES, INC.
By:    

Name:

Title:

 

James P. Carney

Vice President and Assistant Treasurer

 

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Schedule I

Definitions

“Alternative Payment Mechanism” means, with respect to any Qualifying Capital Securities, provisions in the related transaction documents that permit the issuer, in its sole discretion, to defer Distributions in whole or in part on such Qualifying Capital Securities for one or more consecutive Distribution Periods of up to ten years and that require the issuer thereof to issue (or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to issue), in its sole discretion, one or more types of APM Qualifying Securities raising “eligible proceeds” (as defined in (a) below) at least equal to the deferred Distributions on such Qualifying Capital Securities and apply the proceeds to pay unpaid Distributions on such Qualifying Capital Securities, commencing on the earlier of (x) the first Distribution Date after commencement of a deferral period on which such issuer pays current Distributions on such Qualifying Capital Securities and (y) the fifth anniversary of the commencement of such deferral period, and that:

(a) define “eligible proceeds” to mean, for purposes of such Alternative Payment Mechanism, the net proceeds (after underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, commissions or discounts and other expenses relating to the issuance or sale of the relevant securities, where applicable, and including the fair market value of property received by the issuer or its Subsidiaries as consideration for such securities) that such issuer has received during the 180 days prior to the related Distribution Date from the issuance of APM Qualifying Securities to Persons other than the Corporation and/or its Subsidiaries, up to the Preferred Cap (as defined in (e) below) in the case of APM Qualifying Securities that are Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock;

(b) permit such issuer to pay current Distributions on any Distribution Date out of any source of funds but (x) require such issuer to pay deferred Distributions only out of eligible proceeds and (y) prohibit such issuer from paying deferred Distributions out of any source of funds other than eligible proceeds;

(c) if deferral of Distributions continues for more than one year (or such shorter period as may be provided for in the terms of such securities), require such issuer or any of its Subsidiaries not to redeem or purchase any securities that rank pari passu with or junior to any APM Qualifying Securities that such issuer has issued to settle deferred Distributions in respect to that deferral period until at least one year after all deferred Distributions have been paid (a “Purchase Restriction”), other than the following (none of which shall be restricted or prohibited by a Purchase Restriction):

(i) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with any employment or compensatory contract, compensation or benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors or consultants; or

(ii) purchases or other acquisitions of shares of Common Stock pursuant to a contractually binding requirement to buy shares of Common Stock entered into prior to the beginning of the related deferral period, including under a contractually binding stock repurchase plan;

(d) limit the obligation of such issuer to issue (or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities that are Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants to settle deferred Distributions pursuant to the Alternative Payment Mechanism either (i) during the first five years of any deferral period or (ii) before an anniversary of the commencement of any deferral period that is not earlier than the fifth such anniversary and not later than the ninth such anniversary (as designated in the terms of such Qualifying Capital Securities) with respect to deferred Distributions attributable to the first five years of such deferral period, either:

 

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(A) to an aggregate amount of such securities, the net proceeds from the issuance of which is equal to 2% of the product of the average of the current Market Value of the Common Stock on the ten consecutive trading days ending on the fourth trading day immediately preceding the date of issuance multiplied by the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of the Corporation’s most recent publicly available consolidated financial statements; or

(B) to a number of shares of Common Stock and shares issuable upon exercise of Qualifying Warrants, in the aggregate, not in excess of 2% of the outstanding number of shares of Common Stock as of the date of the Corporation’s most recent publicly available consolidated financial statements (the “Common Cap”);

(e) limit the right of such issuer to issue (or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities that are Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, to an amount from the issuance of such Qualifying Preferred Stock and then-still outstanding Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock pursuant to the related Alternative Payment Mechanism (including, in the case of Qualifying Preferred Stock, at any point in time from all prior issuances thereof pursuant to such Alternative Payment Mechanism) equal to 25% of the initial liquidation or principal amount of the Qualifying Capital Securities that are the subject of the related Alternative Payment Mechanism (the “Preferred Cap”);

(f) in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities include a Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision; and

(g) permit such issuer, at its option, to provide that if such issuer is involved in a merger, consolidation, amalgamation, statutory share exchange, conveyance, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets to any other person or a similar transaction (a “business combination”) where immediately after the consummation of the business combination more than 50% of the surviving or resulting entity’s voting securities is owned by the equityholders of the other party to the business combination, or the entity to whom all or substantially all of such issuer’s assets are conveyed, leased or otherwise transferred, then clauses (a), (b) and (c) above will not apply to any deferral period that is terminated on the next Distribution Date following the date of consummation of the business combination;

provided (and it being understood) that:

(h) the Alternative Payment Mechanism may at the discretion of such issuer include a share cap limiting the issuance of APM Qualifying Securities consisting of Common Stock, Qualifying Warrants and Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, in each case to a maximum issuance cap to be set at the discretion of such issuer (a “Share Cap”); provided that such Share Cap will be subject to such issuer’s agreement to use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to increase the Share Cap when reached and (i) only to the extent it can do so and simultaneously satisfy its future fixed or contingent obligations under other securities and derivative instruments that provide for settlement or payment in Common Stock or (ii) if such issuer cannot increase the Share Cap as contemplated in the preceding clause, by requesting its board of directors to adopt a resolution for shareholder vote at the next occurring annual shareholders meeting to increase the number of shares of such issuer’s authorized Common Stock or preferred stock for purposes of satisfying its obligations to pay deferred Distributions;

(i) such issuer shall not be obligated to issue (or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to issue) APM Qualifying Securities for so long as a Market Disruption Event has occurred and is continuing;

 

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(j) if, due to a Market Disruption Event or otherwise, such issuer is able to raise and apply some, but not all, of the eligible proceeds necessary to pay all deferred Distributions on any Distribution Date, such issuer will apply an amount equal to any available eligible proceeds to pay accrued and unpaid Distributions on the applicable Distribution Date in chronological order subject to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap, and the Share Cap (if any), as applicable; and

(k) if such issuer has outstanding more than one class or series of securities under which it is obligated to sell a type of APM Qualifying Securities and apply some part of the proceeds to the payment of deferred Distributions, then on any date and for any period the amount of net proceeds received by such issuer from those sales and available for payment of deferred Distributions on such securities shall be applied to such securities on a pro rata basis up to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap and the Share Cap (if any), as applicable, in proportion to the total amounts that are due on such securities.

“APM Qualifying Securities” means, with respect to any Alternative Payment Mechanism, any Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity or any Mandatory Trigger Provision, one or more of the following (as designated in the transaction documents for any Qualifying Capital Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision or for any Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity):

 

  (a) Common Stock;

 

  (b) Qualifying Warrants;

 

  (c) Qualifying Preferred Stock; and

 

  (d) Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock

provided (and it being understood) that:

(i) if the APM Qualifying Securities for any Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision includes both Common Stock and Qualifying Warrants,

(A) such Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision may permit, but need not require, the Corporation to issue Qualifying Warrants; and

(B) the Corporation may, without the consent of the holders of the Qualifying Capital Securities, amend the definition of APM Qualifying Securities to eliminate Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants (but not both) from the definition if, after the issue date, an accounting standard or interpretive guidance relating to an existing accounting standard issued by an organization or regulator that has responsibility for establishing or interpreting accounting standards followed by the Corporation becomes effective or applicable to the Corporation such that, or the Corporation has been otherwise advised in writing by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm that, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the failure to eliminate Common Stock or Qualifying Warrants from the definition of APM Qualifying Securities would result in a reduction in the Corporation’s EPS.

(ii) if the APM Qualifying Securities for any Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision includes Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock and Common Stock and/or Qualifying Preferred Stock,

 

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(A) such Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision may permit, but need not require, the Corporation to issue Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock; and

(B) the Corporation may, without the consent of the holders of the Qualifying Capital Securities, amend the definition of APM Qualifying Securities to eliminate Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock from the definition if, after the issue date, an accounting standard or interpretive guidance relating to an existing accounting standard issued by an organization or regulator that has responsibility for establishing or interpreting accounting standards followed by the Corporation becomes effective or applicable to the Corporation such that, or the Corporation has been otherwise advised in writing by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm that, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the failure to eliminate Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock from the definition of APM Qualifying Securities would result in a reduction in the Corporation’s EPS.

“Applicable Percentage” means:

(a) with respect to Common Stock, Rights to acquire Common Stock and Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, 200% prior to the Stepdown Date and 400% on or after the Stepdown Date;

(b)(i) with respect to Qualifying Capital Securities described in clause (a) of the definition of that term, 100% prior to the Stepdown Date and 200% on or after the Stepdown Date and (ii) with respect to Qualifying Capital Securities described in clause (b) of the definition of that term, 100%; and

(c) with respect to Debt Exchangeable for Equity, 150% prior to the Stepdown Date and 300% on or after the Stepdown Date.

“Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision” means, with respect to any Qualifying Capital Securities that have an Alternative Payment Mechanism or a Mandatory Trigger Provision, provisions that, upon any liquidation, dissolution, winding up or reorganization or in connection with any insolvency, receivership or proceeding under any bankruptcy law with respect to the issuer, limit the claim of the holders of such Qualifying Capital Securities to Distributions that accumulate during (a) any deferral period, in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities that have an Alternative Payment Mechanism or (b) any period in which the issuer fails to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements, in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities having a Mandatory Trigger Provision, to:

(i) in the case of Qualifying Capital Securities having an Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision with respect to which the APM Qualifying Securities do not include Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock, 25% of the stated or principal amount of such Qualifying Capital Securities then outstanding; and

(ii) in the case of any other Qualifying Capital Securities, an amount not in excess of the sum of (x) the amount of accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including compounded amounts) that relate to the earliest two years of the portion of the deferral period for which Distributions have not been paid and (y) an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Preferred Cap over the aggregate amount of net proceeds from the sale of Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock that the issuer has applied to pay such Distributions pursuant to the Alternative Payment Mechanism or the Mandatory Trigger Provision, provided that the holders of such Qualifying Capital

 

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Securities are deemed to agree that, to the extent the claim for deferred Distributions exceeds the amount set forth in subclause (x), the amount they receive in respect of such excess shall not exceed the amount they would have received had the claim for such excess ranked pari passu with the interests of the holders, if any, of Qualifying Preferred Stock or Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock.

“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation or a duly constituted committee thereof.

Business Day” means each day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday or (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.

“Commercially Reasonable Efforts” means, for purposes of selling APM Qualifying Securities, commercially reasonable efforts to complete the offer and sale of APM Qualifying Securities to third parties that are not the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries in public offerings or private placements. The issuer of APM Qualifying Securities shall not be considered to have made Commercially Reasonable Efforts to effect a sale of APM Qualifying Securities if it determines not to pursue or complete such sale due to pricing, coupon, dividend rate or dilution considerations.

“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Common Cap” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.

“Common Equity Units” means a security or combination of securities that:

(a) gives the holders (i) a beneficial interest in a fixed income security of the Corporation (including a debt security, a trust preferred security of a subsidiary trust or preferred stock) and (ii) a beneficial interest in a stock purchase contract;

(b) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which the fixed income security is required to be remarketed to new investors within four years from the date of issuance of the security; and

(c) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing to be used to purchase Common Stock pursuant to the stock purchase contract for a determinable number of shares or within a range established at the time of issuance of the Common Equity Units, in each case subject to customary anti-dilution or similar adjustments.

“Common Stock” means (i) any equity securities of the Corporation (including equity securities held as treasury shares and equity securities, if any, sold pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan, any direct stock purchase plan or director or employee benefit plan) that have no preference in the payment of dividends or amounts payable upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation (including any security that tracks the performance of, or relates to the results of, a business, unit or division of the Corporation), and (ii) any other securities that have no preference in the payment of dividends or amounts payable upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, and are issued in exchange for securities described in (i) above in connection with a merger, consolidation, binding share exchange, business combination, recapitalization or other similar event.

“Corporation” has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.

 

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“Covered Debt” means (i) at the date of this Replacement Capital Covenant and continuing to but not including the first Redesignation Date, the Initial Covered Debt and (ii) thereafter, commencing with each Redesignation Date and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Redesignation Date, the Eligible Debt identified pursuant to Section 3(b) as the Covered Debt for such period.

“Covered Debtholder” means each Person (whether a Holder or a beneficial owner holding through a participant in a clearing agency) that buys, holds or sells long-term indebtedness for money borrowed of the Corporation during the period that such long-term indebtedness for money borrowed is the Covered Debt, provided that a Person who has sold all its right, title and interest in the Covered Debt shall cease to be a Covered Debtholder at the time of such sale if, at such time, the Corporation has not breached or repudiated, or threatened to breach or repudiate, its obligations hereunder.

“Debt Exchangeable for Equity” means Common Equity Units or Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity.

“Debt Exchangeable for Preferred Equity” means a security or combination of securities (together in this definition, “such securities”) that:

(a) gives the holder a beneficial interest in (i) subordinated debt securities of the Corporation (in this definition, the “issuer”), permitting the issuer to defer Distributions in whole or in part on such securities for one or more Distribution Periods of up to at least seven years without any remedies other than Permitted Remedies and that are the most junior subordinated debt of the issuer (or rank pari passu with the most junior subordinated debt of the issuer) (in this definition, “subordinated debt”) and (ii) a fractional interest in a stock purchase contract for a share or shares of Qualifying Preferred Stock of the Corporation that ranks pari passu with or junior to all other preferred stock of the Corporation (in this definition, “preferred stock”);

(b) provides that the holders directly or indirectly grant to the Corporation a security interest in such subordinated debt and their proceeds (including any substitute collateral permitted under the transaction documents) to secure the holders’ direct or indirect obligation to purchase preferred stock of the Corporation pursuant to such stock purchase contracts;

(c) includes a remarketing feature pursuant to which the subordinated debt of the Corporation is remarketed to new investors commencing not later than the first Distribution Date that is at least five years after the date of issuance of such securities or earlier in the event of an early settlement event based on: (i) the dissolution of the issuer of such securities or (ii) one or more financial tests set forth in the terms of the instrument governing such securities;

(d) provides for the proceeds raised in the remarketing of the subordinated debt to be used to purchase preferred stock of the Corporation under the stock purchase contracts and, if there has not been a successful remarketing by the first Distribution Date that is six years after the date of issuance of such securities, provides that the stock purchase contracts will be settled by the Corporation exercising its remedies as a secured party with respect to its subordinated debt or other collateral directly or indirectly pledged by the holders of such securities;

(e) is subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant that will apply to such securities and preferred stock of the Corporation, and will not include Debt Exchangeable for Equity as a Replacement Capital Security; and

 

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(f) if applicable, after the issuance of such preferred stock of the Corporation, provides the holders of such securities with a beneficial interest in such preferred stock of the Corporation.

“Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.

“Distribution Date” means, as to any security or combination of securities, the dates on which periodic Distributions on such securities are scheduled to be made.

“Distribution Period” means, as to any security or combination of securities, each period from and including a Distribution Date (or from and including the date of issuance with respect to the period prior to the initial Distribution Date) for such securities to but not including the next succeeding Distribution Date for such securities.

“Distributions” means, as to a security or combination of securities, dividends, interest payments or other income distributions to the holders thereof that are not Subsidiaries of the Corporation.

“Eligible Debt” means, at any time, Eligible Subordinated Debt or, if no Eligible Subordinated Debt is then outstanding, Eligible Senior Debt. The Notes shall not be considered “Eligible Debt” for purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant.

“Eligible Senior Debt” means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series of the issuer’s then outstanding unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that (i) upon a bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks most senior among the issuer’s then outstanding classes of unsecured indebtedness for money borrowed, (ii) is then assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO (provided that this clause (ii) shall apply on a Redesignation Date only if on such date the issuer has outstanding senior long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that satisfies the requirements of clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) that is then assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO), (iii) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than $100,000,000, and (iv) was issued through or with the assistance of a commercial or investment banking firm or firms acting as underwriters, initial purchasers or placement or distribution agents. For purposes of this definition as applied to securities with a CUSIP number, each issuance of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that has (or, if such indebtedness is held by a trust or other intermediate entity established directly or indirectly by the issuer, the securities of such intermediate entity that have) a separate CUSIP number shall be deemed to be a series of the issuer’s long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is separate from each other series of such indebtedness.

“Eligible Subordinated Debt” means, at any time in respect of any issuer, each series of the issuer’s then outstanding unsecured long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that (i) upon a bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer, ranks senior to the Notes and subordinate to the issuer’s then outstanding series of unsecured indebtedness for money borrowed that ranks most senior, (ii) is then assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO (provided that this clause (ii) shall apply on a Redesignation Date only if on such date the issuer has outstanding subordinated long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that satisfies the requirements of clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) that is then assigned a rating by at least one NRSRO), (iii) has an outstanding principal amount of not less than $100,000,000, and (iv) was issued through or with the assistance of a commercial or investment banking firm or firms acting as underwriters, initial purchasers or placement or distribution agents. For purposes of this definition as applied to securities with a CUSIP number, each issuance of long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that has (or, if such indebtedness is held by a trust or other intermediate entity established directly or indirectly by the issuer, the securities of such intermediate entity

 

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have) a separate CUSIP number shall be deemed to be a series of the issuer’s long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is separate from each other series of such indebtedness.

“Explicit Replacement Covenant” means, as to any security or combination of securities, (i) a covenant substantially similar to this Replacement Capital Covenant or (ii) a replacement capital covenant that the Board of Directors, acting in good faith and in its reasonable discretion and reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant, has determined operates to the effect that the issuer will redeem, defease or purchase such securities, and any Subsidiaries of the issuer will purchase such securities, only if and to the extent that the applicable percentage of the amount raised within the 180-day period preceding the applicable redemption, defeasance or purchase date by issuing specified replacement capital securities having terms and provisions at the time of redemption, defeasance or purchase that are as much or more equity-like than the securities then being redeemed, defeased or purchased, is at least equal to the principal amount of the securities being defeased or the applicable redemption or purchase price, provided that the board of directors of the issuer has determined that such covenant is binding on the issuer for the benefit of one or more series of the long-term indebtedness for money borrowed of the issuer (or an affiliate of the issuer, if the covenant so provides) to the same extent as this Replacement Capital Covenant is binding on the Corporation for the benefit of the Holders of the Initial Covered Debt.

“Form 8-K” means a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act, and any successor report.

“Form 10-K” means an Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act, and any successor report.

“Form 10-Q” means a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act, and any successor report.

“Holder” means, as to the Covered Debt then in effect, each holder of such Covered Debt as reflected on the securities register maintained by or on behalf of the Corporation with respect to such Covered Debt.

“Initial Covered Debt” means the 2008 Series B 7.0% Senior Notes due 2038 issued by the Corporation on June 17, 2008 (CUSIP No. 25746U BD0).

“Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure” means, as to any security or combination of securities issued, directly or indirectly, that the issuer has publicly stated its intention, either in the prospectus or other offering or purchase document under which such security or combination of securities were initially offered for sale or in filings with the Commission made by the issuer or an affiliate under the Securities Exchange Act prior to or contemporaneously with the issuance of such securities, that the issuer will redeem, purchase or defease or its Subsidiaries will purchase, such securities only with the applicable percentage of the amounts raised within the 180-day period preceding the applicable redemption, purchase or defeasance date from the issuance of specified replacement capital securities that have terms and provisions at the time of redemption, defeasance or purchase that are as much or more equity like than the securities then being redeemed, defeased or purchased.

“Investor Screen” has the meaning specified in Section 3(d).

“Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock” means cumulative preferred stock or Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock of the Corporation with (a) no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the election of the holders or otherwise, and (b) a requirement that the preferred stock convert into Common Stock of the issuer within three years from the date of

 

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its issuance for a determinable number of shares or within a range established at the time of issuance of the cumulative preferred stock or the Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, subject to customary anti-dilution or similar adjustments.

“Mandatory Trigger Provision” means, as to any security or combination of securities, provisions in the terms thereof or in the related transaction agreements that (A) require, or at its option in the case of perpetual Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock permit, the issuer of such security or combination of securities to make payment of Distributions on such securities within two years after a failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements only if payment of such Distributions during that two-year period is made in connection with the issuance and sale of APM Qualifying Securities (for the avoidance of doubt, payment of such Distributions with cash from any source other than APM Qualifying Securities is not permitted during such two-year period immediately following the failure of the issuer to satisfy such financial test(s)), such payment to be in an amount not exceeding the amount of the net proceeds of such sale at least equal to the amount of unpaid Distributions on such securities (including without limitation all deferred and accumulated amounts) and in either case requires the application of the net proceeds of such sale to pay such unpaid Distributions; provided that (i) such Mandatory Trigger Provision shall limit the issuance and sale of Common Stock and Qualifying Warrants the proceeds of which may be applied to pay such Distributions pursuant to such provision to the Common Cap, unless the Mandatory Trigger Provision requires such issuance and sale within one year of such failure, and (ii) the amount of Qualifying Preferred Stock and still outstanding Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock the net proceeds of which the issuer may apply to pay such Distributions pursuant to such provision may not exceed the Preferred Cap, (B) in the case of securities other than perpetual Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, prohibit the issuer from purchasing any APM Qualifying Securities, or any securities that rank pari passu with or junior to APM Qualifying Securities, the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred interest during the relevant deferral period, prior to the date six months after the issuer applies the net proceeds of the sales described in clause (A) to pay such unpaid Distributions in full, (C) in the case of securities other than perpetual Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, include a Bankruptcy Claim Limitation Provision and (D) if deferral of Distributions continues for more than one year (or such shorter period as may be provided for in the terms of such securities), prohibit the issuer of such securities from redeeming or purchasing any of its securities ranking upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer junior to or pari passu with any APM Qualifying Securities the proceeds of which were used to settle deferred Distributions during the relevant deferral period until at least one year after all deferred Distributions have been paid. For purposes of this definition of Mandatory Trigger Provision, (i) the issuer will not be obligated to issue (or use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to issue) any such APM Qualifying Securities for so long as a Market Disruption Event has occurred and is continuing; (ii) if, due to a Market Disruption Event or otherwise, the issuer is able to raise and apply some, but not all, of the eligible proceeds necessary to pay all deferred Distributions on any Distribution Date, the issuer will apply an amount equal to any available eligible proceeds to pay accrued and unpaid Distributions on the applicable Distribution Date in chronological order subject to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap and the Share Cap (if any), as applicable; and (iii) if the issuer has outstanding more than one class or series of securities under which it is obligated to sell a type of any such APM Qualifying Securities and applies some part of the proceeds to the payment of deferred Distributions, then on any date and for any period the amount of net proceeds received by the issuer from those sales and available for payment of deferred Distributions on such securities shall be applied to such securities on a pro rata basis up to the Common Cap, the Preferred Cap and the Share Cap (if any), as applicable, in proportion to the total amounts of deferred Distributions that are due on such securities. No remedy other than Permitted Remedies will arise by the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements in favor of the holders of such securities as a result of the issuer’s failure to pay Distributions because of the Mandatory Trigger Provision or as a result of the issuer’s exercise of its right under an Optional Deferral

 

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Provision until Distributions have been deferred for one or more Distribution Periods that total together at least ten years.

“Market Disruption Event” means the occurrence or existence of any of the following events or sets of circumstances:

(a) trading in securities generally, or in the securities of the issuer (or any affiliate of the issuer that may issue securities in settlement of an Alternative Payment Mechanism) specifically, on The New York Stock Exchange or any other national securities exchange or over-the-counter market on which such securities are then listed or traded shall have been suspended or the settlement of such trading generally shall have been materially disrupted or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or market by the Commission, by the relevant exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental body having jurisdiction, and the establishment of such minimum prices materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, such securities;

(b) the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in clause (a) of this defined term) would be required to obtain the consent or approval of its shareholders (or the shareholders of an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) or a regulatory body (including, without limitation, any securities exchange) or governmental authority to issue APM Qualifying Securities or Qualifying Capital Securities and the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) fails to obtain that consent or approval notwithstanding the commercially reasonable efforts of the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) to obtain that consent or approval or a regulatory authority instructs the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) not to sell or offer for sale such securities;

(c) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by the federal or state authorities of the United States and such moratorium materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, APM Qualifying Securities;

(d) a material disruption shall have occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States and such disruption materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, APM Qualifying Securities;

(e) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving the United States, there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or there shall have occurred any other national or international calamity or crisis and such event materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, APM Qualifying Securities;

(f) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general domestic or international economic, political or financial conditions, including without limitation as a result of terrorist activities, and such change materially disrupts or otherwise has a material adverse effect on trading in, or the issuance and sale of, APM Qualifying Securities;

(g) an event occurs and is continuing as a result of which the offering document for the offer and sale of the APM Qualifying Securities or Qualifying Capital Securities would, in the reasonable judgment of the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in clause (a) of this defined term), contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a

 

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material fact required to be stated in that offering document or necessary to make the statements in that offering document not misleading and either (i) the disclosure of that event at such time, in the reasonable judgment of the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)), would have a material adverse effect on the business of the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) or (ii) the disclosure relates to a previously undisclosed proposed or pending material business transaction, the disclosure of which would impede the ability of the issuer or any affiliate to consummate that transaction, provided that no single suspension period contemplated by this clause (g) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods contemplated by this clause (g) shall not exceed an aggregate of 180 days in any 360-day period; or

(h) the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in clause (a) of this defined term) reasonably believes, for reasons other than those referred to in paragraph (g) above, that the offering document for such offer and sale of APM Qualifying Securities would not be in compliance with a rule or regulation of the Commission and the issuer (or an affiliate as specified in said clause (a)) is unable to comply with such rule or regulation or such compliance is unduly burdensome, provided that no single suspension period contemplated by this clause (h) shall exceed 90 consecutive days and multiple suspension periods contemplated by this clause (h) shall not exceed an aggregate of 180 days in any 360-day period.

The definition of “Market Disruption Event” or similar words as used in any securities or combination of securities that constitute Replacement Capital Securities may include less than all of the numbered clauses specified above in this definition, as determined by the issuer thereof at the time of issuance of such securities and, in the case of numbered clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) in this definition, as applicable to a circumstance where the issuer would otherwise endeavor to issue preferred stock, shall be limited to circumstances affecting markets in which the issuer’s preferred stock trades or in which a listing for its trading is being sought.

“Market Value” means, on any date, the closing sale price per share of Common Stock (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions by The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on The New York Stock Exchange, as reported by the principal U.S. securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted; if the Common Stock is not either listed or quoted on any U.S. securities exchange on the relevant date, the Market Value will be the average of the mid-point of the bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date submitted by at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Corporation for this purpose.

“Measurement Period” means, with respect to any redemption, purchase or defeasance of Notes, the period (i) beginning on the date that is 180 days prior to the date of delivery of notice of such redemption (such date of delivery, the “notice date”) or the date of such purchase or defeasance and (ii) ending on such notice date or the date of such purchase or defeasance. Measurement Periods cannot run concurrently.

“Most Junior Subordinated Debt” means debt securities of the Corporation that rank upon the Corporation’s liquidation, dissolution or winding-up junior to all of the Corporation’s other long-term indebtedness for money borrowed (other than the Corporation’s long-term indebtedness for money borrowed from time to time outstanding that by its terms ranks pari passu with such securities) and pari passu with the claims of the issuer’s trade creditors. As of the date hereof, the term “Most Junior Subordinated Debt” shall include the Notes.

 

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Non-Cumulative ” means, with respect to any securities, that the issuer thereof may elect not to make any number of periodic Distributions without any remedy arising under the terms of the securities or related transaction agreements in favor of the holders of such securities as a result of such issuer’s failure to pay Distributions, other than one or more Permitted Remedies. Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism shall also be deemed to be Non-Cumulative for all purposes of this Replacement Capital Covenant except in the definition of “Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock.”

Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock ” means preferred or preference stock which is Non-Cumulative.

“Notes” has the meaning specified in Recital A, including any subsequent offerings of additional notes of the same series.

“NRSRO” means a nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Securities Exchange Act.

“Optional Deferral Provision” means, as to any security or combination of securities, a provision in the terms thereof or of the related transaction agreements, to the effect that the issuer thereof may, in its sole discretion, defer in whole or in part payment of Distributions on such securities for one or more consecutive Distribution Periods of up to ten years without any remedy other than Permitted Remedies as a result of such issuer’s failure to pay Distributions.

“Permitted Remedies” means, as to any security or combination of securities, any one or more of (i) rights in favor of the holders thereof permitting such holders to elect one or more directors of the issuer or its direct or indirect parent company (including any such rights required by the listing requirements of any stock or securities exchange on which such securities may be listed or traded), (ii) complete or partial prohibitions on the issuer paying Distributions on or repurchasing Common Stock or other securities that rank pari passu with or junior as to Distributions to such securities for so long as Distributions on such securities, including deferred Distributions, have not been paid in full or to such lesser extent as may be specified in the terms of such securities or any related transaction agreements, and (iii) provisions obligating the issuer to cause such unpaid Distributions to be paid in full pursuant to an Alternative Payment Mechanism.

“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company or other legal entity, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

“Preferred Cap” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.

“Purchase Restriction” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.

“Qualifying Capital Securities” means securities (other than Common Stock, Rights to acquire Common Stock, Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock and Debt Exchangeable for Equity) that rank pari passu with or junior to the Most Junior Subordinated Debt of the Corporation upon its liquidation, dissolution or winding up and, in the determination of the Board of Directors reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant, meet one of the following criteria:

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(i) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years and (B) either (1) are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant and are Non-Cumulative or (2) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision and an Optional Deferral Provision and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure;

(ii) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 35 years, (B) are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant, (C) have an Optional Deferral Provision and (D) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision;

(iii) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years, (B) are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant and (C) have an Optional Deferral Provision;

(iv) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years and (B) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and (C) are Non-Cumulative;

(v) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years, (B) have an Optional Deferral Provision and (C) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision;

(vi) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 35 years, (B) are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant and (C) are Non-Cumulative;

(vii) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) either (1) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 35 years and are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure or (2) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 25 years and are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant, (B) have an Optional Deferral Provision and (C) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision; or

(viii) any other preferred stock issued by the Corporation that (A) has no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the election of the holders or otherwise, (B) has no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years and (C) is subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant; or

(b) in connection with any redemption, defeasance or purchase of the Notes after the Stepdown Date:

(i) all securities described under clause (a) of this definition;

(ii) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years, (B) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and (C) have an Optional Deferral Provision;

(iii) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 35 years, (B) are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant and (C) have an Optional Deferral Provision;

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least 25 years and are subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant and (B) are Non-Cumulative;

(v) securities issued by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) have no maturity or a maturity of at least 25 years, (B) are subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure, (C) have an Optional Deferral Provision and (D) have a Mandatory Trigger Provision; or

(vi) any other preferred stock issued by the Corporation that (A) has no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the election of the holders or otherwise and (B) either (1) has no maturity or a maturity of at least 55 years and is subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure or (2) has no maturity or a maturity of at least 35 years and is subject to an Explicit Replacement Covenant.

“Qualifying Preferred Stock” means Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock of the Corporation that (i) ranks pari passu with or junior to other preferred stock of the issuer, (ii) is perpetual with no prepayment obligation on the part of the issuer thereof, whether at the election of the holders or otherwise, and (iii) either (A) is subject to an Explicit Replacement Capital Covenant or (B) is subject to Intent-Based Replacement Disclosure and has a provision that prohibits the issuer thereof from paying any dividends thereon upon its failure to satisfy one or more financial tests set forth in the terms of such securities or related transaction agreements.

“Qualifying Warrants” means net share settled warrants to purchase Common Stock that have an exercise price at the date the issuer agrees to issue such warrants that is greater than the current Market Value of the issuer’s Common Stock as of their date of issuance, and do not entitle the issuer to redeem such warrants for cash and the holders of such warrants are not entitled to require the issuer to repurchase such warrants for cash in any circumstance; provided that the issuer states in the prospectus or other offering or purchase document for any Qualifying Capital Securities that include an Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision its intention that any Qualifying Warrants issued in accordance with such Alternative Payment Mechanism or Mandatory Trigger Provision will have exercise prices at least 10% above the current Market Value of the issuer’s Common Stock on the date of issuance of such Qualifying Warrants.

“Redesignation Date” means, as to the then effective Covered Debt, the earliest of (i) the date that is two years prior to the final maturity date of such Covered Debt, (ii) if the issuer elects to redeem or defease, or the Corporation or a majority owned Subsidiary of the Corporation elects to purchase, such Covered Debt either in whole or in part with the consequence that after giving effect to such redemption, defeasance or purchase the outstanding principal amount of such Covered Debt is less than $100,000,000, the applicable redemption, defeasance or purchase date and (iii) if the then outstanding Covered Debt is not Eligible Subordinated Debt, the date on which the Corporation issues long-term indebtedness for money borrowed that is Eligible Subordinated Debt.

“Replacement Capital Covenant” has the meaning specified in the introduction to this instrument.

“Replacement Capital Securities” means (i) Common Stock and/or (ii) securities that constitute one or more of the following (as determined by the Board of Directors reasonably construing the definitions and other terms of this Replacement Capital Covenant:

 

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  (b) Debt Exchangeable for Equity

 

  (c) Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock; and

 

  (d) Qualifying Capital Securities.

“Rights to acquire Common Stock” includes any right to acquire Common Stock, including any right to acquire Common Stock pursuant to a stock purchase plan or employee benefit plan. Rights to acquire Common Stock shall include Qualifying Warrants.

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

“Share Cap” has the meaning specified in the definition of Alternative Payment Mechanism.

“Stepdown Date” means the date that is 50 years prior to the maturity date of the Notes, as such maturity date of the Notes is extended pursuant to the Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture.

Subsidiary ” means, at any time, any Person the shares of stock or other ownership interests of which having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such Person are at the time owned, or the management or policies of which are otherwise at the time controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries (including other Subsidiaries) or both, by another Person.

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Exhibit 5.1

McGuireWoods LLP

One James Center

Richmond, Virginia 23219

June 15, 2009

Dominion Resources, Inc.

120 Tredegar Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have advised Dominion Resources, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), in connection with (i) the Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-157013) (the “Registration Statement”), filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purpose of registering various securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), including, among other securities, the Company’s junior subordinated notes, to be offered from time to time by the Company on terms to be determined at the time of the offering, and (ii) the issuance by the Company of up to $687,500,000 aggregate principal amount (including up to $62,500,000 aggregate principal amount issuable upon exercise of an over-allotment option) of the Company’s 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the “Notes”) as described in the Company’s Prospectus, dated January 29, 2009, which is a part of the Registration Statement, and the Company’s Prospectus Supplement, dated June 10, 2009 (the “Prospectus Supplement”). The Notes are being issued under an indenture dated as of June 1, 2006 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), as heretofore supplemented and amended and as to be further amended by the Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture among the Company, the Indenture Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (the “Series Trustee”), pertaining to the Notes and making amendments to the Base Indenture to permit appointment of a trustee for a series of Securities and to amend provisions of the Base Indenture relating to the method by which the payment date of principal for Securities issued may be determined and the circumstances, if any, in which such date may be shortened or extended, either automatically or at the election of the Company (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted November 24, 2008 and an approval of senior officers of the Company adopted June 10, 2009. The Notes are being offered to the public in accordance with an Underwriting Agreement, dated June 10, 2009, among the Company and the Underwriters named on Schedule I thereto. Capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Registration Statement or the Indenture.


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In addition to the documents described above, we have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and reviewed such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purpose of this opinion.

On the basis of such examination and review, we advise you that, in our opinion, when the Notes have been duly issued and sold in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement, and assuming due authentication thereof by the Series Trustee or the Authenticating Agent in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, the Notes will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K and the incorporation of this opinion by reference in the Registration Statement and to references to us under the heading “Legal Matters” in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Notes. We do not admit by giving this consent that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.

Very truly yours,

            /s/ McGuireWoods LLP

Exhibit 8.1

McGuireWoods LLP

One James Center

Richmond, Virginia 23219

June 15, 2009

Dominion Resources, Inc.

120 Tredegar Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Dominion Resources, Inc., a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement filed on January 29, 2009, as amended through the date hereof, and the Prospectus Supplement dated June 10, 2009 (the “Offering Documents”), for the purpose of offering up to $687,500,000 aggregate principal amount (including up to $62,500,000 aggregate principal amount issuable upon exercise of an over-allotment option) of the Company’s 2009 Series A 8.375% Enhanced Junior Subordinated Notes (the “Notes”) due June 15, 2064, subject to extensions to no later than June 15, 2079.

In connection with this opinion, we have examined the Junior Subordinated Indenture II, dated as of June 1, 2006, the form of Third Supplemental and Amending Indenture, and the form of Note, each to be entered into in connection with the offering of the Notes, the Offering Documents and such other documents and corporate records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of our opinion.

In our examination, we have assumed that (i) the statements concerning the issuance of the Notes contained in the Offering Documents are true, correct and complete, (ii) the terms of the documents referred to in the preceding paragraph will be complied with, (iii) the factual representations made to us by the Company in its officer’s certificate dated as of the date hereof and delivered to us for purposes of this opinion (the “Officer’s Certificate”) are true, correct and complete, and (iv) any factual representations made in the Offering Documents or the Officer’s Certificate “to the best knowledge of,” in the “belief” of, or similarly qualified are true, correct and complete without such qualification. If any of the above described assumptions are untrue for any reason or if the issuance of the Notes is consummated in a manner that is inconsistent with the manner in which it is described in the Offering Documents, our opinion as expressed below may be adversely affected and may not be relied upon.


Subject to and based solely upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that (1) the Notes will be treated as indebtedness of the Company for United States federal income tax purposes (although there is no controlling authority directly on point) and (2) insofar as it relates to matters of United Stated federal income tax law, the discussion set forth in the Prospectus Supplement under the heading “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” is a fair and accurate summary of the matters discussed therein.

Our opinion is based upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, Treasury Regulations (including temporary and proposed Treasury Regulations) issued thereunder, Internal Revenue Service rulings and pronouncements and judicial decisions now in effect, all of which are subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect. Our opinion is limited to the matters expressly stated herein. Our opinion is rendered only as of the date hereof, and its validity could be affected by subsequent changes in applicable law. We have not undertaken to advise you or any other person with respect to any such change subsequent to the date hereof. An opinion of counsel is not binding on the Internal Revenue Service or the courts, and there can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service or a court would not take a contrary position with respect to any of the conclusions contained herein.

We are rendering this opinion to you solely in connection with the offering of the Notes, and this opinion is not to be relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose.

Very truly yours,

/s/ McGuireWoods LLP