UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) June 25, 2009

 

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Georgia   001-08918   58-1575035

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

303 Peachtree St., N.E., Atlanta, Georgia   30308
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (404) 588-7711

Not Applicable

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

 

 

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

 

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. (the “Company”) has entered into the following documentation amending the terms and conditions of the governing documents of the Delaware trust subsidiaries of the Company set forth below (collectively, the “Amendments”).

 

Name of Trust

  

Amended Document

 

Effective Date

SunTrust Preferred Capital I    Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, among the Company, as Sponsor, and the Administrative Trustees named therein   June 25, 2009
   Amended and Restated Stock Purchase Contract Agreement between the Company and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee   June 26, 2009
   Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement among the Company, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee   June 26, 2009
SunTrust Capital I    Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital I, among the Company, as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees named therein   June 25, 2009
SunTrust Capital III    Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital III, among the Company, as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees therein   June 25, 2009
SunTrust Capital VIII    Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital VIII, among the Company, as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein   June 29, 2009

The Amendments are intended to facilitate the retirement of certain hybrid and trust preferred securities accepted by the Company in connection with its offer to purchase (as amended from time to time, the “Tender Offer”) up to $750,000,000 aggregate liquidation


preference or amount of the following securities: (i) Depositary Shares, liquidation preference $25 per share, each representing a 1/4,000th interest in a share of Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, of the Company; (ii) SunTrust Preferred Capital I 5.853% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal PPS, liquidation amount $1,000 per security; (iii) SunTrust Capital VIII 6.100% Trust Preferred Securities, liquidation amount $1,000 per security; (iv) SunTrust Capital I Floating Rate Preferred Securities, Series A, liquidation amount $1,000 per security; and (v) SunTrust Capital III Floating Rate Preferred Securities, Series A, liquidation amount $1,000 per security. The Amendments are filed as Exhibits 99.1 through 99.6, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Amendments is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibits 99.1 through 99.6.

The Tender Offer expired at 11:59 p.m. on June 26, 2009 and SunTrust announced the final results of the Tender Offer by press release on June 29, 2009.

The Tender Offer was made pursuant to the terms and conditions of an Offer to Purchase, dated June 1, 2009, included as Exhibit (a)(1)(A) to the Company’s Schedule TO filed the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 1, 2009, as supplemented by the Supplement to Offer to Purchase, dated June 15, 2009, included as Exhibit (a)(1)(D) to the Company’s Amendment to Schedule TO filed with the SEC on June 15, 2009, and an amended related letter of transmittal included as

Exhibit (a)(i)(E) to the Company’s Schedule TO filed with the SEC on June 15, 2009.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

99.1

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor and Holder of all of the Common Securities, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.

99.2

  Amended and Restated Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of June 26, 2009, between the Company and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee.

99.3

  Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement, dated as of June 26, 2009, among the Company, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee.

99.4

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital I, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees named therein.

99.5

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital III, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees named therein.


99.6

  Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital VIII, a Delaware statutory trust, dated as of June 29, 2009, among the Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.


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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

    SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.
Date: June 30, 2009     By:  

/s/ David A. Wisniewski

      David A. Wisniewski
      Group Vice President and Associate General Counsel


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

99.1

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor and Holder of all of the Common Securities, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.

99.2

  Amended and Restated Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of June 26, 2009, between the Company and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee.

99.3

  Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement, dated as of June 26, 2009, among the Company, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee.

99.4

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital I, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees named therein.

99.5

  Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital III, dated as of June 25, 2009, among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, and the Regular Trustees named therein.

99.6

  Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of SunTrust Capital VIII, a Delaware statutory trust, dated as of June 29, 2009, among the Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.

Exhibit 99.1

 

 

A MENDMENT NO . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Dated as of June 25, 2009

of

SunTrust Preferred Capital I

 

 


This A MENDMENT N O . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST , dated as of June 25, 2009 (this “ Amendment ”), is entered into among (i)  S UN T RUST B ANKS , I NC . , a Georgia corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “ Sponsor ”) and (ii) Raymond D. Fortin, an individual, and Jerome T. Lienhard, II, an individual, and Michael Spingler, an individual, each of whose address is c/o SunTrust Banks, Inc., 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (each, an “ Administrative Trustee ,” and collectively, the “ Administrative Trustees ”) pursuant to Section 12.2(b) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I.

R ECITAL OF THE S PONSOR

The Issuer Trustees have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into that certain Declaration of Trust, dated October 16, 2006 (the “ Original Declaration of Trust ”), as amended and restated by that certain Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated October 25, 2006 (the “Declaration of Trust ”), and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on October 16, 2006, attached to the Declaration of Trust as Exhibit A (the “ Certificate of Trust ”).

The Administrative Trustees, the Sponsor (as the Holder of all of the Common Securities) and the Holders representing a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Class have affirmatively consented to this Amendment in accordance with Section 12.2(b) of the Declaration of Trust and the Issuer Trustees have received and accepted the Opinion of Counsel contemplated thereby.

N OW , THEREFORE , this Amendment witnesseth: For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

ARTICLE I

D EFINED T ERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Declaration of Trust.

ARTICLE II

A MENDMENTS TO THE D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Section 2.1 Amendment of Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust. Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

(a) The current definition of “ Corresponding Assets ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

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

(a) in the case of Normal PPS and Common Securities, (i) from the Time of Delivery to but not including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes and a Pro Rata Interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, (ii) from and including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, the SunTrust Bank Deposit made with the net proceeds of each $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes sold in such Successful Remarketing on such Remarketing Settlement Date and a Pro Rata Interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, and (iii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Normal PPS are outstanding, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock;

 

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(b) in the case of Stripped PPS, (i) from the date of issuance for each Stripped PPS to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Treasury Securities and a Pro Rata Interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, and (ii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Stripped PPS are outstanding, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock, subject to Section 4.8; and

(c) in the case of Capital PPS, from the date of issuance for each Capital PPS, $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to Section 5.14.”

(b) The current definition of “ Deferred Contract Payment Amount ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

““ Deferred Contract Payment Amount ” means, at any time for each $100,000 stated amount of Stock Purchase Contracts, the amount of the Contract Payments accrued on such stated amount that has been deferred and not paid by reason of the Sponsor’s exercise of its right to defer payment of Contract Payments pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement (including a comparable amount in respect of any Contract Payments deferred in respect of Fractional Contracts (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement)), together with interest accrued on such amount in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.”

(c) The current definition of “ Like Amount ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

““ Like Amount ” means:

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

(b) with respect to a distribution of Notes to a Third Party Agent in connection with an early retirement of Normal PPS pursuant to Section 4.9, Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the applicable Subject Normal PPS;

 

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(c) with respect to a distribution of Stock Purchase Contracts to a Third Party Agent in connection with an early retirement of Normal PPS pursuant to Section 4.9, the number of Stock Purchase Contracts equal to the number of Subject Stock Purchase Contracts (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement);

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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(k) with respect to Section 5.16(c), $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Class; and

(l) with respect to Section 5.16(d), 1/100th of a Stock Purchase Contract with a stated amount of $100,000 for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes (or a comparable interest in the case of a Fractional Contract).”

(d) The current definition of “ Notes ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

““ Notes ” means the $501,000,000 initial aggregate principal amount of the Sponsor’s Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes due 2042 issued pursuant to the Indenture, or such lesser aggregate principal amount as shall remain outstanding from time to time.”

(e) The following definition of “ Pro Rata Interest in a Stock Purchase Contract ” is added:

““ Pro Rata Interest in a Stock Purchase Contract ” means, with respect to each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities, an interest in a Stock Purchase Contract representing the right to acquire a 1/100th interest in a share of Preferred Stock, together with such other rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities associated with such Stock Purchase Contract (including the right to receive Contract Payments), in each case, on the terms and conditions set forth in such Stock Purchase Contract.”

(f) The following definition of “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” is added:

““ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” means the Sponsor, its Affiliates or any other Person designated by the Sponsor.”

(g) The current definition of “ Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

““ Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ” means the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Sponsor and the Property Trustee (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as the same may be amended from time to time.”

(h) The current definition of “ Trust Property ” is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

““ Trust Property ” means (a) the Notes for so long as they are owned by the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Declaration of Trust, (b) the Stock Purchase Contracts for so long as they are owned by the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Declaration of Trust, (c) the Preferred Stock once acquired by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts, (d) treasury securities (that are required to be Qualifying Treasury Securities when delivered) delivered to the Property Trustee (or the Collateral Agent) pursuant to

 

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Section 5.13 or Section 5.14, (e) the rights of the Issuer Trust under the Transaction Agreements, and (f) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Declaration of Trust.”

Section 2.2 Amendment of Section 2.4(c) of the Declaration of Trust . The current Section 2.4(c) of the Declaration of Trust is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“(c) In order to give effect to (i) Exchanges as provided in Section 5.13 or (ii) the retirement of Normal PPS as provided in Section 4.9, the Securities Registrar may endorse Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to reduce or increase the number of Normal PPS, Stripped PPS or Capital PPS evidenced by each such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate, provided that no such endorsement shall result in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing a number of Normal PPS, Stripped PPS or Capital PPS exceeding the maximum number set forth on the face of such Certificate.”

Section 2.3 Amendment of Section 2.7(a)(i) of the Declaration of Trust . A new clause (L) is hereby added to Section 2.7(a)(i) of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(L) the taking of any action in connection with the retirement of Normal PPS in accordance with Section 4.9 of this Declaration of Trust.”

Section 2.4 Amendment of Section 2.7(a)(ii) of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (P) is hereby added to Section 2.7(a)(ii) of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(P) the taking of any action in connection with the retirement of Normal PPS in accordance with Section 4.9 of this Declaration of Trust.”

Section 2.5 Amendment of Article IV of the Declaration of Trust. A new Section 4.9 is hereby added to Article IV of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

Section 4.9 Retirement of Certain Normal PPS.

If at any time a Sponsor Affiliated Owner acquires or becomes obligated to acquire Normal PPS pursuant to contract, a tender offer, an exchange offer, a negotiated transfer or any other transaction (the “ Sponsor Affiliated Normal PPS ”), the Sponsor shall have the right to submit a notice (the “ Retirement Notice ”) to the Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar electing to retire all or a portion of such Sponsor Affiliated Normal PPS (the “ Subject Normal PPS ”) through the exchange of such Subject Normal PPS for a Like Amount of Notes and Stock Purchase Contracts. The Retirement Notice (i) shall specify the Liquidation Amount of the Subject Normal PPS with respect to which such election is being made and the date on which the proposed retirement is to occur (the “ Retirement Date ”) (which, without the consent of the Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar, shall not be less than 3 Business Days following the date that such Retirement Notice is so submitted), provided that such Retirement Date shall not be a date within the period beginning with the record date for a Distribution and ending with the applicable Distribution Date for such

 

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Distribution and, (ii) shall be conditioned upon the applicable Sponsor Affiliated Owner having delivered or caused to be delivered to the Securities Registrar or its designee the Subject Normal PPS by 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Retirement Date through the Clearing Agency and (iii) shall designate the Third-Party Agent (as defined below). Upon the delivery of the Subject Normal PPS to the Securities Registrar or its designee on the Retirement Date, the Securities Registrar will provide written notice thereof to the Property Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge and deliver them to the Property Trustee who shall distribute a Like Amount of Notes and Stock Purchase Contracts to the Sponsor Affiliated Owner designated by the Sponsor in the Retirement Notice (the “Third-Party Agent”) in the manner directed by the Sponsor to the Property Trustee in writing. Following the exchange of Subject Normal PPS for a Like Amount of Notes and Stock Purchase Contracts, the Securities Registrar shall cancel the Subject Normal PPS and such Subject Normal PPS will no longer be Outstanding for any purpose and all rights of the Holder or its Affiliate(s) with respect to such Subject Normal PPS will cease, including, but not limited to, any rights with respect to accumulated but unpaid Distributions.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, in order to effectuate the exchanges contemplated by this Section 4.9, the Issuer Trust is hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform, and the Sponsor, the Securities Registrar, the Property Trustee or any Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, acting singly or collectively, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Issuer Trust, an exchange agreement, cancellation letter, and any and all other documents, agreements, or certificates contemplated by or related to the exchanges made pursuant to this Section 4.9, in each case without further vote or approval of any other Person.”

Section 2.6 Amendment of Section 5.18(a)(i) of the Declaration of Trust . The current Section 5.18(a)(i) of the Declaration of Trust is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

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

Section 2.7 Amendment of Section 6.1(c) of the Declaration of Trust . The current Section 6.1(c) of the Declaration of Trust is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“(c) For so long as any Stock Purchase Contracts are outstanding, the Issuer Trustees may consent to any amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, without having obtained the prior approval of the Holders of any Trust Preferred Securities to such amendment or modification, for the purposes of (i) evidencing the succession of another person to the Issuer Trust’s or the Property Trustee’s obligations thereunder, (ii) adding to the covenants therein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee or to surrender any of the Sponsor’s rights or powers thereunder, (iii) evidencing and providing for the acceptance of appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary under the Collateral Agreement, (iv) curing any ambiguity, or correcting or supplementing any

 

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provisions that may be inconsistent, (v) conforming the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, to the descriptions thereof in the Prospectus, (vi) retiring Trust Preferred Securities held by a Sponsor Affiliated Owner or Trust Preferred Securities with respect to which a Sponsor Affiliated Owner has an obligation to purchase, or (vii) making any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (vii) shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of any Class in any material respect. The Issuer Trustees may, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal PPS and Stripped PPS then Outstanding, considered together as a single Class, agree to any other amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, except that, without obtaining the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal PPS and Capital PPS then Outstanding, the Issuer Trustees may not agree to any amendment or modification (other than an amendment or modification for the purpose of retiring Trust Preferred Securities held by a Sponsor Affiliated Owner or Trust Preferred Securities with respect to which a Sponsor Affiliated Owner has an obligation to purchase) that would (A) change any payment dates for Contract Payments, (B) change the amount or type of Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities required to be pledged under the Collateral Agreement, impair the right of the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) to receive distributions on Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights in or to the Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, (C) change the place or currency or reduce any Contract Payments, (D) impair the Property Trustee’s right (or any Holder’s right pursuant to Section 5.16(d)) to institute suit for the enforcement of the Stock Purchase Contracts or payment of any Contract Payments, or (E) reduce the number of shares of Preferred Stock purchasable under the Stock Purchase Contracts, increase the price to purchase Preferred Stock upon settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts, change the Stock Purchase Date or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights under the Stock Purchase Contracts.”

Section 2.8 Amendment of Section 11.1 of the Declaration of Trust . The current Section 11.1 of the Declaration of Trust is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“Each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities agrees, by acceptance of Trust Preferred Securities, and each Owner agrees, by acceptance of a beneficial interest in Trust Preferred Securities, to treat for all U.S. federal income tax purposes (i) the Issuer Trust as one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements, (ii) itself as the owner of the Corresponding Assets for the related Class of Trust Preferred Securities, (iii) in the case of Normal PPS the fair market value of the $1,000 principal amount of Notes corresponding to one Normal PPS as $1,000 and the fair market value of 1/100 th fractional interest in a Stock Purchase Contract corresponding to one Normal PPS as $0 at the time of initial purchase, (iv) the Notes as indebtedness of the Sponsor, (v) the stated interest on the Notes as ordinary interest income that is includible in the Holder’s or Owner’s gross income at the time the interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the Holder’s or Owner’s regular method of tax accounting, and otherwise to treat the Notes as described in the Prospectus and (vi) the acquisition by the Sponsor of Subject Normal PPS, in connection with an early retirement of Normal PPS (as described

 

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in Section 4.9), as consisting of the following transactions: (A) the distribution by the Issuer Trust to the Third Party Agent, on behalf of the Holders of Subject Normal PPS, of a Like Amount of Notes and Stock Purchase Contracts in redemption of the Subject Normal PPS, (B) the retirement of such Like Amount of Notes for an amount equal to $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of such Notes, (C) the physical settlement of such Like Amount of Stock Purchase Contracts, pursuant to which the Sponsor will issue with respect to each Subject Normal PPS redeemed a 1/100th interest in a share of Preferred Stock to the Third Party Agent, on behalf of the Holders of Subject Normal PPS, in exchange for $1,000 per 1/100th interest in a share of Preferred Stock, and (D) the repurchase by the Sponsor of each such 1/100th interest in a share of Preferred Stock for cash in an amount equal to the price per Subject Normal PPS at which the Sponsor is obligated to acquire Subject Normal PPS.”

Section 2.9 Amendment of Section 12.2(a) of the Declaration of Trust. The current Section 12.2(a) of the Declaration of Trust is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“(a) This Declaration of Trust may be amended from time to time by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Declaration of Trust, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Declaration of Trust, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Declaration of Trust to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding, to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or to ensure the treatment of the Trust Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to provide that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature instead of manual signature, in which case such amendment(s) shall also provide for the appointment by the Sponsor of an authentication agent, the fees and expenses of which will be paid by the Sponsor, a form of authentication certificate, and provisions to the effect that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates that have been executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Declaration of Trust or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless the certificate of authentication thereon has been executed by the authentication agent by manual signature, (iv) to conform the terms of this Declaration of Trust to the description of this Declaration of Trust and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus, or (v) to provide for the retirement of Trust Preferred Securities held by a Sponsor Affiliated Owner or Trust Preferred Securities with respect to which a Sponsor Affiliated Owner has an obligation to purchase; provided , however , that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; provided , further , that in the case of clause (iv), the Sponsor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to the

 

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Sponsor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Declaration of Trust to the descriptions of this Declaration of Trust and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective when notice is given to the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.”

ARTICLE III

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.1 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 3.2 Governing Law.

This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without regard to conflicts of laws principles).

Section 3.3 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, by each party thereto shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 3.4 Effect of Headings.

The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 3.5 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be a part of and govern the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

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

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , this Amendment has been executed and is effective as of the day and year first above written.

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor and Holder of all of the Common Securities

By:  

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Name:   Jerome T. Lienhard, II
Title:   Senior Vice President and Treasurer
 

/s/ Raymond D. Fortin

 

Raymond D. Fortin,

    as Administrative Trustee

 

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

 

Jerome T. Lienhard, II,

    as Administrative Trustee

 

/s/ Michael Spingler

 

Michael Spingler

    as Administrative Trustee

Exhibit 99.2

 

 

A MENDED AND R ESTATED

S TOCK P URCHASE C ONTRACT A GREEMENT

between

SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.

and

SUNTRUST PREFERRED CAPITAL I,

acting through U.S. Bank National Association,

as Property Trustee

Dated as of June 26, 2009

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

     Page
   ARTICLE I   
   DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION   
Section 1.1    Definitions    1
Section 1.2    Form of Documents Delivered to Property Trustee    6
Section 1.3    Notices    7
Section 1.4    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents    7
Section 1.5    Successors and Assigns    7
Section 1.6    Separability Clause    8
Section 1.7    Benefits of Agreement    8
Section 1.8    Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction    8
Section 1.9    Legal Holidays    8
Section 1.10    No Waiver    8
Section 1.11    No Consent to Assumption    9
Section 1.12    No Recourse    9
   ARTICLE II   
   THE STOCK PURCHASE CONTRACTS   
Section 2.1    Issuance of Stock Purchase Contracts; Transferability; Assignment; Amendment    9
Section 2.2    Purchase of Preferred Stock; Payment of Purchase Price    10
Section 2.3    Issuance of Preferred Stock    10
Section 2.4    Termination Event; Notice    11
Section 2.5    Charges and Taxes    11
Section 2.6    Contract Payments    11
Section 2.7    Deferral of Contract Payments    14
Section 2.8    Early Exercise and Cancellation of Stock Purchase Contracts    16
   ARTICLE III   
   REMEDIES   
Section 3.1    Unconditional Right of the Property Trustee to Receive Contract Payments and to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock; Direct Action by Holders of Normal PPS or Stripped PPS    17
Section 3.2    Restoration of Rights and Remedies    17
Section 3.3    Rights and Remedies Cumulative    17
Section 3.4    Delay or Omission Not Waiver    18
Section 3.5    Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws    18
   ARTICLE IV   
   CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE   
Section 4.1    Covenant Not to Consolidate, Merge, Convey, Transfer or Lease Property Except under Certain Conditions    18
Section 4.2    Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation    19
Section 4.3    Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel Given to Property Trustee    19


   ARTICLE V   
   COVENANTS   
Section 5.1    Performance under Stock Purchase Contracts    19
Section 5.2    Company to Reserve Preferred Stock    19
Section 5.3    Covenants as to Preferred Stock    19
Section 5.4    Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default    19

 

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A MENDED AND R ESTATED S TOCK P URCHASE C ONTRACT A GREEMENT , dated as of June 26, 2009, between S UN T RUST B ANKS , I NC . , a Georgia corporation (the “ Company ”), having its principal office at 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, and SunTrust Preferred Capital I, a Delaware statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), acting through U.S. B ANK N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION , not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust (the “ Property Trustee ”).

R ECITALS OF THE C OMPANY

The Company and the Issuer Trust entered into that certain Stock Purchase Contract Agreement dated as of October 25, 2006 (the “ Original Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ”).

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Agreement to amend and restate the Original Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

All things necessary to make the Stock Purchase Contracts (as defined herein) the valid obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

N OW , THEREFORE , THIS A MENDED AND R ESTATED S TOCK P URCHASE C ONTRACT A GREEMENT WITNESSETH : For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, it is mutually agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.1 Definitions.

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

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

(b) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States at the date or time 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.

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

(d) Unless the context otherwise requires, any references to an “Article,” a “Section” or another subdivision refers to an Article, a Section or another subdivision, as the case may be, of this Amended and Restated Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

Additional Subordinated Notes ” means the subordinated notes of the Company that may be issued to the Property Trustee as provided in Section 2.7(c).


Administrative Trustee ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

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

Bankruptcy Code ” means the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time, or any other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system of bankruptcy laws.

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

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

Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

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

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

Company ” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Agreement, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor.

Contract Payments ” means the payments payable by the Company on the Payment Dates in respect of each Stock Purchase Contract, at the rate of 0.265%  per annum of the Stated Amount of each Stock Purchase Contract.

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

Deferred Contract Payments ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.7(a).

Declaration of Trust ” means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, among the Company, as Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees (each as named therein) and the several Holders (as defined therein), as amended from time to time.

 

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Early Settlement Event ” has the meaning specified in the First Supplemental Indenture.

Failed Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in the First Supplemental Indenture.

Federal Reserve ” means (i) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as from time to time constituted, or if at any time after the execution of this Agreement the Federal Reserve is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then the body or bodies performing such duties at such time, or the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, or (ii) any successor Federal Reserve Bank (or successor body performing such duties) having primary jurisdiction over the Company.

First Supplemental Indenture ” means the Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 25, 2006, between the Company and the Note Trustee.

Fractional Contracts ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.8.

Guarantee Agreement ” means the Guarantee Agreement between the Company, as Guarantor and U.S. Bank National Association, as Guarantee Trustee named thereunder, dated as of the date hereof.

Holder ” means a Holder (as such term is defined in the Declaration of Trust) of Normal PPS or Stripped PPS.

Indenture ” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of October 25, 2006, between the Company and the Note Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, as further amended or supplemented from time to time with respect to the Notes.

Issuer Trust ” means the Person named as the “Issuer Trust” in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

Normal PPS ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Note Trustee ” means U.S. Bank National Association, solely in its capacity as trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President or a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or the duly authorized designee of any of the foregoing, and delivered to the Property Trustee.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of legal counsel, who may be counsel to the Company (and who may be an employee of the Company), and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee. An Opinion of Counsel may rely on certificates as to matters of fact.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

 

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Payment Date ” means (i) each June 15 and December 15 of each year occurring prior to the Stock Purchase Date, commencing on June 15, 2007, and (ii) the Stock Purchase Date.

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

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

Pledged Securities ” means the Pledged Notes and the Pledged Treasury Securities.

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

PPS ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Preferred Stock ” means the Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, $100,000 liquidation preference per share with no par value per share, of the Company.

Proceeds ” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

Property Trustee ” means U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee under the Declaration of Trust until a successor Property Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Declaration of Trust, and thereafter “Property Trustee” shall mean the Person who is then Property Trustee thereunder.

Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock ” means, with respect to a Stock Purchase Contract which is not a Fractional Contract, one share of Preferred Stock and, with respect to a Fractional Contract, the applicable fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock which may be acquired pursuant to such Fractional Contract, as determined in accordance with Section 2.8.

Qualifying Treasury Securities ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Remarketing ” means a remarketing of Notes pursuant to Article III of the First Supplemental Indenture.

Remarketing Agent ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Remarketing Agreement ” means the Remarketing Agreement to be entered into prior to the first Remarketing among the Company, the Property Trustee and the Remarketing Agent named in the Remarketing Agreement.

Remarketing Periods ” mean the five Business Day period beginning on the seventh Business Day prior to each of November 21, 2011, February 18, 2012, May 21, 2012, August 21, 2012 and November 21, 2012 (or if any such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business Day), until the settlement of a Successful Remarketing; provided that following the occurrence of an Early Settlement Event, Remarketing Periods mean such earlier dates as determined pursuant to Section 3.4 of the First Supplemental Indenture.

 

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

Second Supplemental Indenture ” means the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and the Note Trustee.

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

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

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

Senior Debt ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

Stated Amount ” means, with respect to any one Stock Purchase Contract which is not a Fractional Contract, $100,000, and with respect to any one Fractional Contract, the fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock which may be acquired pursuant to such Fractional Contract multiplied by $100,000.

Stock Purchase Contract ” means a contract obligating (i) the Company to sell, and the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) to purchase, a Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock for an amount equal to such Stock Purchase Contract’s Stated Amount on the Stock Purchase Date and (ii) the Company to pay Contract Payments to the Issuer Trust, in each case on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article II and Article V. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of the Original Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Company issued 5,010 Stock Purchase Contracts to the Issuer Trust. References in this Agreement to the Stock Purchase Contracts (whether individually or collectively) shall mean the Stock Purchase Contracts outstanding from time-to-time and shall exclude Stock Purchase Contracts that have been cancelled, retired, terminated, exercised or otherwise extinguished in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Declaration of Trust. The Fractional Contracts shall constitute Stock Purchase Contracts.

Stock Purchase Date ” means the first to occur of any March 15, June 15, September 15 or December 15, or if any such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day, after (i) the Remarketing Settlement Date or (ii) the Remarketing Period of a Failed Remarketing.

Stripped PPS ” has the meaning specified in the Declaration of Trust.

Successful ” has the meaning specified in the First Supplemental Indenture.

SunTrust Bank Deposit ” means a deposit of cash or cash equivalent with SunTrust Bank to be made on the Remarketing Settlement Date and payable on the Stock Purchase Date, with interest

 

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accruing at the rate of 5.097% per annum from and including the date of deposit to but excluding the date of payment, calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 365 days, established in the name of the Collateral Agent pursuant to an agreement naming the Collateral Agent as customer and providing that the bank’s jurisdiction for purposes of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code is New York.

Termination Date ” means the date, if any, on which a Termination Event occurs.

Termination Event ” means the occurrence of any of the following events at any time on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date:

(i) a judgment, decree or court order shall have been entered granting relief under the Bankruptcy Code, adjudicating the Company to be insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization or liquidation of the Company or any other similar applicable federal or state law and if such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered more than 90 days prior to the Stock Purchase Date, such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 days;

(ii) a judgment, decree or court order for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its property, or for the termination or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered and if such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered more than 90 days prior to the Stock Purchase Date, such judgment, decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or

(iii) the Company shall file a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or liquidation under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable federal or state law, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or of its property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due.

Vice President ” means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “Vice President.”

Section 1.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Property Trustee.

(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which its certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

 

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(b) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

Section 1.3 Notices.

Any notice or communication is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or mailed by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telecopier (with receipt confirmed) or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address; provided that notice shall be deemed given to the Property Trustee only upon receipt thereof:

If to the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee:

 

U.S. Bank National Association,

as Property Trustee of

SunTrust Preferred Capital I

One Federal Street

3 rd Floor

Boston, MA 02110

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

Facsimile: (617) 603-6667

If to the Company:

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc.
303 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Attention: Treasurer
Facsimile: (404) 724-3749

If to the Collateral Agent:

 

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

as Collateral Agent

900 Ashwood Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department
Facsimile: (770) 698-5196

Section 1.4 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 1.5 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Company and the Issuer Trust shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 

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Section 1.6 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 1.7 Benefits of Agreement.

Nothing contained in this Agreement, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and, to the extent provided hereby, the holders of Senior Debt and any Paying Agent, any benefits or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement.

Section 1.8 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. The Company and the Issuer Trust hereby submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the courts of the State of New York (in each case sitting in New York County) for the purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company and the Issuer Trust irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection that they may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

Section 1.9 Legal Holidays.

(a) In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), Contract Payments or other distributions shall not be paid on such date, but Contract Payments or such other distributions shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date. No interest shall accrue or be payable by the Company or to the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) for the period from and after any such Payment Date on such successive Business Day.

(b) In any case where the Stock Purchase Date shall not be a Business Day (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), the Stock Purchase Contracts shall not be performed and shall not be effected on such date, but the Stock Purchase Contracts shall be performed on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Stock Purchase Date.

Section 1.10 No Waiver.

No failure on the part of the Company, the Property Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary or any of their respective agents to exercise, and no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Company, the Property Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary or any of their respective agents of any right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. The remedies herein are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

 

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Section 1.11 No Consent to Assumption.

The Property Trustee for and on behalf of the Issuer Trust hereby expressly withholds any consent to the assumption under Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, of the Stock Purchase Contract by the Company or its trustee, receiver, liquidator or a Person performing similar functions in the event that the Company becomes the debtor under the Bankruptcy Code or subject to other similar state or Federal law providing for reorganization or liquidation.

Section 1.12 No Recourse

It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Agreement is executed and delivered by U.S. Bank National Association, not individually or personally but solely as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the Issuer Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings and agreements by U.S. Bank National Association but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Issuer Trust, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on U.S. Bank National Association, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no circumstances shall U.S. Bank National Association be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Issuer Trust under this Agreement or any other related documents.

ARTICLE II

THE STOCK PURCHASE CONTRACTS

Section 2.1 Issuance of Stock Purchase Contracts; Transferability; Assignment; Amendment.

(a) Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of the Original Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Company issued 5,010 Stock Purchase Contracts having the terms and conditions set forth therein to the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee), which by its execution and delivery of such Original Stock Purchase Contract Agreement entered into and agreed to be bound by the Stock Purchase Contracts. No certificates were issued to evidence the Stock Purchase Contracts. The Company and the Issuer Trust hereby agree that the Stock Purchase Contracts shall be amended as of the date hereof consistent with the terms and conditions applicable thereto as set forth in this Agreement.

(b) To the fullest extent permitted by law, other than a transfer in connection with (i) a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement of the Issuer Trust, (ii) any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Issuer Trust of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, and the assumption by, a successor entity pursuant to Section 9.5 of the Declaration of Trust or (iii) a distribution of the Subject Stock Purchase Contracts pursuant to Section 2.8, any attempted transfer of the Stock Purchase Contracts shall be void.

(c) To the fullest extent permitted by law, any assignment by the Issuer Trust of its rights hereunder, other than (i) an assignment of this Agreement in connection with a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement of the Issuer Trust or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Issuer Trust of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, and the assumption by, a successor entity pursuant to Section 9.5 of the Declaration of Trust or (ii) a distribution of the Subject Stock Purchase Contracts pursuant to Section 2.8, shall be void.

 

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(d) No amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective against either party hereto unless it is duly authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and permitted under Section 6.1 of the Declaration of Trust.

Section 2.2 Purchase of Preferred Stock; Payment of Purchase Price.

(a) Each Stock Purchase Contract shall obligate the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Stock Purchase Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount, a Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock, unless a Termination Event shall have occurred.

(b) If there has been a Successful Remarketing, the Issuer Trust will satisfy its obligations under Section 2.2(a) to pay the purchase price in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts out of (i) the Proceeds at maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities and (ii) to the extent of the excess of the purchase price over the amount of the Proceeds at maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities, the SunTrust Bank Deposit; provided that in the event that a receiver has been appointed for the purpose of liquidating or winding up the affairs of SunTrust Bank while SunTrust Bank is holding the SunTrust Bank Deposit, in lieu of payment of the SunTrust Bank Deposit the Issuer Trust shall cause the Collateral Agent to assign its rights in the SunTrust Bank Deposit to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date to the extent of such amount required in full satisfaction of the Issuer Trust’s obligation to pay the SunTrust Bank Deposit pursuant to this clause (ii).

(c) If there is a Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company reserves all of its rights as a secured party with respect to the Notes and, subject to applicable law and Section 2.2(d), may, among other things, (i) retain such Notes or their Proceeds in full satisfaction of the Issuer Trust’s obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts or (ii) sell such Notes in one or more public or private sales as permitted by applicable law, in order to satisfy the Issuer Trust’s obligations under Section 2.2(a) to pay the purchase price in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts to the extent not satisfied out of the Proceeds at maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities.

(d) The obligations of the Issuer Trust to pay the purchase price in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts are non-recourse obligations and are payable solely out of the Proceeds of any Collateral pledged to secure the obligations of the Issuer Trust and the assignment of the SunTrust Bank Deposit as set forth in this Section 2.2, and in no event will the Property Trustee be liable for any deficiency between the Proceeds of the disposition of Collateral and the purchase price in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts.

(e) The Company shall not be obligated to cause the issuance of any Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock in respect of a Stock Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Property Trustee unless the Company shall have received payment for such interest to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.

Section 2.3 Issuance of Preferred Stock.

Unless a Termination Event shall have occurred, on the Stock Purchase Date upon receipt of the aggregate purchase price payable on all Stock Purchase Contracts, the Company shall cause to be issued and deposited with the Property Trustee (or its nominee), one or more certificates representing newly issued shares (or fractional interests therein) of Preferred Stock registered in the name of the Property Trustee (or its nominee) as custodian for the Issuer Trust to which the Issuer Trust is entitled hereunder.

 

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Section 2.4 Termination Event; Notice.

(a) The Stock Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Issuer Trust (including the obligations and rights of the Property Trustee acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) thereunder, including, without limitation, the right of the Issuer Trust to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Payments), and the rights and obligations of the Issuer Trust to purchase shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein), shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or the Company, if a Termination Event shall have occurred on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date.

(b) Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than five Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Property Trustee and the Collateral Agent of such event.

Section 2.5 Charges and Taxes.

The Company will pay all stock transfer and similar taxes attributable to the initial issuance and delivery of the shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts; provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any such tax or taxes that may be payable in respect of any issuance of a share of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) in a name other than in the name of the Property Trustee or its nominee, as custodian for the Issuer Trust, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such share certificates unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company, in addition to any Stated Amount, the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.

Section 2.6 Contract Payments.

(a) Subject to Section 2.7, the Company shall pay, in arrears on each Payment Date, the Contract Payments payable in respect of each Stock Purchase Contract to the Property Trustee or upon its order. The Contract Payments will be payable by wire transfer to the account designated by the Property Trustee by a prior written notice to the Company. The Contract Payments will accrue from and including October 25,   2006 or from and including the most recent Payment Date on which Contract Payments have been paid or duly provided for (subject to deferral as set forth in Section 2.7) to but excluding the next succeeding Payment Date. Contract Payments will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(b) The Company’s obligations with respect to Contract Payments, if any, will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the Company’s obligations under any Senior Debt to the extent and in the manner set forth in Sections 2.6(c) through (m).

(c) No payment or distribution in respect of any Contract Payments shall be made by the Company unless full payment of amounts then due for principal (and premium, if any), sinking funds, and interest on Senior Debt of the Company has been made or duly provided for in money or money’s worth in accordance with its terms. No payment or distribution in respect of any Contract Payments shall be made by the Company if, at the time of such payment or immediately after giving effect thereto, there shall have occurred an event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company or in any instrument under

 

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which the same is outstanding, or an event of default with respect to any Senior Debt of the Company resulting in the acceleration of the maturity thereof, or if any judicial proceedings are pending with respect to any such default.

(d) Upon the occurrence of any event of default referred to in Section 2.6(a) that shall not have been cured or waived:

(i) all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to the Property Trustee in respect of Contract Payments;

(ii) any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property that would otherwise (but for these subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of Contract Payments shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior Debt in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders until all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such proceedings) shall have been paid in full;

(iii) after payment in full of all sums owing with respect to Senior Debt, the Property Trustee, together with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the Contract Payments, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the Company the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid Contract Payments and interest thereon and such other obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made on account of any capital stock of the Company or any obligations of the Company ranking junior to the Company’s obligations to make Contract Payments under the Stock Purchase Contracts and such other obligations; and

(iv) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of any character or any security, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be received by the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust in contravention of any of the terms hereof such payment or distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered and transferred back to the transferor for distribution, or to the holders of the Senior Debt at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Debt in full. In the event of the failure of the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust to endorse or assign any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of Senior Debt is hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the same.

(e) For purposes of Sections 2.6(c) through (p), the words “cash, securities or other property” shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other Person provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is subordinated at least to the extent provided in Sections 2.6(b) through (m) with respect to such Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts to the payment of all Senior Debt that may at the time be outstanding; provided that (i) the indebtedness or guarantee of indebtedness, as the case may be, that constitutes Senior Debt is assumed by the Person, if any, resulting from any such reorganization or readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of the Senior Debt are not, without the consent of each such holder adversely affected thereby, altered by such reorganization or readjustment.

(f) Any failure by the Company to make any payment on or perform any other obligation under Senior Debt, other than any indebtedness incurred by the Company or assumed or guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by the Company for money borrowed (or any deferral, renewal, extension

 

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or refunding thereof) or any indebtedness or obligation as to which the provisions of Sections 2.6(b) through (m) shall have been waived by the Company in the instrument or instruments by which the Company incurred, assumed, guaranteed or otherwise created such indebtedness or obligation, shall not be deemed a default or event of default if (i) the Company shall be disputing its obligation to make such payment or perform such obligation and (ii) either (A) no final judgment relating to such dispute shall have been issued against the Company that is in full force and effect and is not subject to further review, including a judgment that has become final by reason of the expiration of the time within which a party may seek further appeal or review, or (B) in the event a judgment that is subject to further review or appeal has been issued, the Company shall in good faith be prosecuting an appeal or other proceeding for review and a stay of execution shall have been obtained pending such appeal or review.

(g) Subject to the irrevocable payment in full of all Senior Debt, the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall be subrogated (equally and ratably with the holders of all obligations of the Company that by their express terms are subordinated to Senior Debt of the Company to the same extent as payment of the Contract Payments in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts is subordinated and that are entitled to like rights of subrogation) to the rights of the holders of Senior Debt to receive payments or distributions of cash, securities or other property of the Company applicable to the Senior Debt until all such Contract Payments owing on the Stock Purchase Contracts shall be paid in full, and as between the Company, its creditors other than holders of such Senior Debt and the Property Trustee, no such payment or distribution made to the holders of Senior Debt by virtue of Sections 2.6(b) through (m) that otherwise would have been made to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to be a payment by the Company on account of such Senior Debt, it being understood that the provisions of Sections 2.6(b) through (m) are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Property Trustee, on the one hand, and the holders of Senior Debt, on the other hand.

(h) Nothing contained in Sections 2.6(b) through (m) or elsewhere in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Debt and the Property Trustee, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Property Trustee such Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the Property Trustee and creditors of the Company other than the holders of Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Property Trustee from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Agreement, subject to the rights, if any, under Sections 2.6(b) through (m), of the holders of Senior Debt in respect of cash, securities or other property of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.

(i) Upon payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in Sections 2.6(b) through (m), the Property Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceeding affecting the affairs of the Company is pending or upon a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, conservator, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidating trustee or other Person making any payment or distribution, delivered to the Property Trustee, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to Sections 2.6(b) through (m); provided that the foregoing shall not be construed as creating any duty on the part of the Property Trustee.

(j) The Property Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt or a trustee or representative on behalf of any such holder or holders. In the event that the Property Trustee determines in

 

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good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to Section 2.6(b) through (m), the Property Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Property Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under Sections 2.6(b) through (m), and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Property Trustee may defer payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment, provided that the foregoing shall not be construed as imposing any obligation or duty on the part of the Property Trustee.

(k) Nothing contained in Sections 2.6(b) through (m) shall affect the obligations of the Company to make, or prevent the Company from making, payment of the Contract Payments, except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.6(b) through (m).

(l) U.S. Bank National Association, or any successor Property Trustee, in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Section with respect to any Senior Debt at the time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt and nothing in this Agreement shall deprive U.S. Bank National Association, or any successor Property Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.

(m) No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce the subordination herein shall at any time or in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Agreement, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.

(n) Nothing in this Section 2.6 shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Property Trustee under or pursuant to Section 2.7.

(o) With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, (i) the Property Trustee shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall pay over or distribute to the Holders or to the Company or any other Person cash, securities or other property to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Section 2.6 or otherwise; (ii) no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Property Trustee; and (iii) the Property Trustee shall owe no duties, fiduciary or otherwise, to such holders.

(p) Nothing in this Section 2.6 shall apply to any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, made to, or paid over or distributed by, any Paying Agent in respect of Contract Payments or otherwise. The Paying Agent shall owe no duty, fiduciary or otherwise, to any holder of Senior Debt and shall not be liable to any holders of Senior Debt if it shall pay over or distribute to the Holders or to the Company or any other Person cash, securities or other property to which any holders of Senior Debt shall otherwise be entitled by virtue of this Section 2.6 or otherwise; and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Paying Agent.

Section 2.7 Deferral of Contract Payments.

(a) The Company shall have the right (which will be exercised if so directed by the Federal Reserve), at any time prior to the Stock Purchase Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the Company shall give the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees (with a copy to the Paying Agent) written notice of its election to defer each such deferred Contract Payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Property

 

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Trustee and the Administrative Trustees are required to give notice of any record date or Payment Date with respect to any class of PPS to the New York Stock Exchange, any other national securities exchange, automated interdealer quotation system or other applicable self regulatory organization or to the Holders, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such record date. Any Contract Payments so deferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, accrue interest thereon at the rate originally applicable to the Notes (calculated on the same basis as originally applicable to the Notes), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Payments, if any, together with the additional Contract Payments, if any, accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “ Deferred Contract Payments ”). Deferred Contract Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 2.7, except as provided under Section 1.9. No Contract Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Stock Purchase Date and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, except as provided under Section 1.9. If the Stock Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Issuer Trust’s right to receive any Contract Payments and any Deferred Contract Payments will terminate.

(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Payments until a Payment Date prior to the Stock Purchase Date, then all Deferred Contract Payments, if any, shall be payable to the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust on such Payment Date, except as provided under Section 1.9.

(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts and such deferral is continuing on the Stock Purchase Date, the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust will receive on the Stock Purchase Date in lieu of a cash payment, in addition to the shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) to be issued pursuant to Section 2.3, Additional Subordinated Notes that will (i) have a principal amount equal to the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Payments at the Stock Purchase Date, (ii) mature on the later of December 15, 2014 and five years after the first Payment Date on which any of such Deferred Contract Payments was payable, (iii) bear interest at the rate per annum equal to the originally applicable rate of interest on the Notes (subject to deferral on the same basis as the Contract Payments; provided that the reference in clause (i)(2) of Section 2.7(d) to the beginning of the deferral period shall be deemed to refer to the beginning of the deferral period with respect to the Contract Payments), (iv) be subordinate and rank junior in right of payment to all of the Company’s Senior Debt on the same basis as the Contract Payments and (v) be redeemable at the option of the Company at any time or from time to time prior to their stated maturity at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof plus any accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption; provided that the Company shall register such Additional Subordinated Notes under the Securities Act prior to the delivery thereof to the Property Trustee unless they may be so delivered pursuant to an exemption or exception from registration thereunder.

(d) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Payments then, until the earlier of (x) the Termination Date or (y) the date on which the Company shall have either paid all Deferred Contract Payments to the Property Trustee in cash or repaid all amounts outstanding on the Additional Subordinated Notes, the Company shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of its capital stock, including Preferred Stock; (ii) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt security of the Company that ranks pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Notes (except for partial payments of interest pursuant to the terms of the Notes) or (iii) make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any subsidiary of the Company that by its terms ranks pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Company’s guarantee related to the PPS other than, in each case:

(i) any repurchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares of the Company’s capital stock in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or independent contractors, (2) the satisfaction of the Company’s obligations pursuant to any contract entered into in the ordinary course prior to the beginning of the deferral period, (3) a dividend reinvestment or shareholder purchase plan, or (4) the issuance of the Company’s capital stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock, as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the beginning of the deferral period;

 

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(ii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or the capital stock of one of its subsidiaries, for any other class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of its capital stock;

(iii) any purchase of fractional interests of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged;

(iv) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto;

(v) payments in respect of the Company’s guarantee related to the PPS executed for the benefit of the Holders of the PPS; or

(vi) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks equally with or junior to such stock.

Section 2.8 Early Exercise and Cancellation of Stock Purchase Contracts

If (i) a Sponsor Affiliated Owner (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) acquires or becomes obligated to acquire Normal PPS pursuant to contract, a tender offer, an exchange offer, a negotiated transfer or any other similar transaction (such Normal PPS, the “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner Normal PPS ”) and (ii) the Sponsor delivers a Retirement Notice (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) in accordance with Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust with respect to all or a portion of the Sponsor Affiliated Owner Normal PPS (such Normal PPS, the “ Subject Normal PPS ”), then each Stock Purchase Contract related to the Subject Normal PPS (the “ Subject Stock Purchase Contracts ”) shall be automatically exercised for the Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock represented thereby following the distribution thereof to the Third-Party Agent (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) in the manner set forth in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust. Following the distribution and automatic exercise of the Subject Stock Purchase Contracts, each such Subject Stock Purchase Contract shall no longer be treated as outstanding for any purpose. The Subject Stock Purchase Contracts shall be a number of Stock Purchase Contracts equal to 5,000 multiplied by a fraction equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) of the Subject Normal PPS divided by $500,000,000. In the event that the number of Subject Stock Purchase Contracts is not a whole number, then the Issuer Trust and the Company shall be deemed to have canceled one Stock Purchase Contract (which shall not be a Subject Stock Purchase Contract) and, in place thereof the Company shall automatically issue (a) a Stock Purchase Contract representing the right to acquire a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock equal to the number of Subject Stock Purchase Contracts less the next lowest whole number (the “ Distribution Fractional Contract ”) and (b) a Stock Purchase Contract representing the right to acquire a fractional interest in a share

 

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of Preferred Stock equal to 1 minus the fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock which may be acquired pursuant to the Distribution Fractional Contract (the “ Retained Fractional Contract ,” and together with the Distribution Fractional Contract, the “ Fractional Contracts ”). The Distribution Fractional Contract shall be distributed to the Third-Party Agent in accordance with Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust. The Retained Fractional Contract shall be retained by the Issuer Trust. Each Fractional Contract shall (i) represent the right to acquire a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock as set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above, as applicable and (ii) have a Stated Amount that is equal to the fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock that may be acquired pursuant to such Stock Purchase Contract multiplied by $100,000.

ARTICLE III

REMEDIES

Section 3.1 Unconditional Right of the Property Trustee to Receive Contract Payments and to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock; Direct Action by Holders of Normal PPS or Stripped PPS.

The Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, (i) subject to Article II, to receive each Contract Payment with respect to each Stock Purchase Contract on the respective Payment Date and (ii) except upon and following a Termination Event, to purchase a Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock pursuant to such Stock Purchase Contract and, in each such case, to institute suit for the enforcement of any such right to receive Contract Payments and the right to purchase such Pro Rata Interest in a share of Preferred Stock, and such rights shall not be impaired without its consent. Up to and including the Stock Purchase Date, or the earlier termination of the Stock Purchase Contracts, any Holder shall have the right, upon default in the payment of any Contract Payment with respect to any Stock Purchase Contract on the respective Payment Date (subject to Article II), to institute a suit directly against the Company for enforcement of payment to such Holder of Contract Payments on Stock Purchase Contracts (or interests therein) having a Stated Amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) of the PPS held by such Holder.

Section 3.2 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

If the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Issuer Trust, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company and the Issuer Trust shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 3.3 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

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Section 3.4 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.

No delay or omission of the Property Trustee to exercise any right upon a default or remedy upon a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article III or by law to the Property Trustee may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Property Trustee.

Section 3.5 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.

The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Agreement; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Property Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

ARTICLE IV

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

Section 4.1 Covenant Not to Consolidate, Merge, Convey, Transfer or Lease Property Except under Certain Conditions.

The Company covenants that it will not consolidate with, convert into, or merge with and into, any other entity or sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person or entity, unless:

(a) the successor shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof or the District of Columbia and such corporation shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under the Stock Purchase Contracts, this Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Declaration of Trust, the Indenture (including any supplement thereto), the Guarantee Agreement and the Remarketing Agreement by one or more supplemental agreements in form reasonably satisfactory to the Property Trustee, executed and delivered to the Property Trustee by such corporation;

(b) such successor corporation shall not, immediately after such consolidation, conversion, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in default of payment obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts, this Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Declaration of Trust or the Remarketing Agreement or in material default in the performance of any other covenants under any of the foregoing agreements; and

(c) the successor entity shall have reserved sufficient authorized and unissued shares of preferred stock having substantially the same terms and conditions as the Preferred Stock such that the Issuer Trust will receive, on the Stock Purchase Date, shares of preferred stock having substantially the same rights as the Preferred Stock that the Issuer Trust would have received had such merger, consolidation or other transaction not occurred.

 

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Section 4.2 Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.

In case of any such merger, consolidation, share exchange, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by a successor corporation in accordance with Section 4.1, such successor entity shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company.

Section 4.3 Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel Given to Property Trustee.

The Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.1 and Section 4.2, shall receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such merger, consolidation, share exchange, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies with the provisions of this Article IV and that all conditions precedent to the consummation of any such merger, consolidation, share exchange, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance have been met.

ARTICLE V

COVENANTS

Section 5.1 Performance under Stock Purchase Contracts.

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Issuer Trust that it will duly and punctually perform its obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contracts and this Agreement.

Section 5.2 Company to Reserve Preferred Stock.

The Company shall at all times prior to the Stock Purchase Date reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Preferred Stock the full number of shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) issuable against tender of payment for such shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) in respect of all Stock Purchase Contracts.

Section 5.3 Covenants as to Preferred Stock.

The Company covenants that all shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) that may be issued against tender of payment for such shares of Preferred Stock (or fractional interests therein) in respect of any Stock Purchase Contract will, upon issuance, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

Section 5.4 Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default.

The Company will deliver to the Property Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate, stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.

* * * *

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

 

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

 

S UN T RUST B ANKS , I NC .
By:  

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Name:   Jerome T. Lienhard, II
Title:   Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I
By:  

U.S. B ANK N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION , not

in its individual capacity but solely as

Property Trustee

By:  

/s/ Earl W. Dennison

Name:   Earl W. Dennison
Title:   Vice President

Exhibit 99.3

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

among

SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.,

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

(formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.)

as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent,

Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar

and

SUNTRUST PREFERRED CAPITAL I,

acting through U.S. Bank National Association,

as Property Trustee

Dated as of June 26, 2009

 

 

 


T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I
Definitions

Section 1.01

  Definitions    2
ARTICLE II
Pledge

Section 2.01

  Pledge    7

Section 2.02

  Control    8

Section 2.03

  Termination    8

Section 2.04

  Partial Release for Subject Normal PPS    8
ARTICLE III
Control

Section 3.01

  Establishment of Collateral Account    8

Section 3.02

  Treatment as Financial Assets    9

Section 3.03

  Sole Control by Collateral Agent    9

Section 3.04

  Securities Intermediary’s Location    9

Section 3.05

  No Other Claims    9

Section 3.06

  Investment and Release    10

Section 3.07

  No Other Agreements    10

Section 3.08

  Powers Coupled with an Interest    10

Section 3.09

  Waiver of Lien; Waiver of Set-off    10
ARTICLE IV
Custody

Section 4.01

  Appointment    10

Section 4.02

  Custody    10

Section 4.03

  Termination of Custody Account    11

Section 4.04

  Waiver of Lien; Waiver of Set-off    11
ARTICLE V   
Distributions on Collateral and Custody Notes   

Section 5.01

  Interest on Notes    11

Section 5.02

  Payments Following Termination Event    11

Section 5.03

  Payments Prior to or on Stock Purchase Date    12

Section 5.04

  Payments to Property Trustee    12

 

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Section 5.05

  Assets Not Properly Released    13
ARTICLE VI

Initial Deposit; Exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and

Capital PPS; Reinvestment of Proceeds of Pledged Treasury Securities

Section 6.01

  Initial Deposit of Notes    13

Section 6.02

  Exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS    13

Section 6.03

  Exchange of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities    14

Section 6.04

  Termination Event    15

Section 6.05

  Reinvestment of Proceeds of Pledged Treasury Securities    16

Section 6.06

  Application of Proceeds in Settlement of Stock Purchase Contracts    17
ARTICLE VII
Voting Rights—Notes

Section 7.01

  Voting Rights    17
ARTICLE VIII
Rights and Remedies

Section 8.01

  Rights and Remedies of the Collateral Agent    18

Section 8.02

  Remarketing; Contingent Exchange Elections by Holder of Normal PPS    18

Section 8.03

  Contingent Disposition Election by Holder of Capital PPS    20
ARTICLE IX
Representations and Warranties; Covenants

Section 9.01

  Representations and Warranties    21

Section 9.02

  Covenants    21
ARTICLE X

The Collateral Agent, The Custodial Agent, The Securities Intermediary and The Securities

Registrar

Section 10.01

  Appointment, Powers and Immunities    22

Section 10.02

  Instructions of the Company    23

 

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Section 10.03

  Reliance by Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar    23

Section 10.04

  Certain Rights    24

Section 10.05

  Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business    25

Section 10.06

  Rights in Other Capacities    25

Section 10.07

  Non-reliance on Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar    26

Section 10.08

  Compensation and Indemnity    26

Section 10.09

  Failure to Act    27

Section 10.10

  Resignation of Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar    27

Section 10.11

  Right to Appoint Agent or Advisor    29

Section 10.12

  Survival    29

Section 10.13

  Exculpation    29

Section 10.14

  Statements and Confirmations    29

Section 10.15

  Tax Allocations    29
ARTICLE XI
Amendment

Section 11.01

  Amendment    30

Section 11.02

  Execution of Amendments    30
ARTICLE XII
Miscellaneous

Section 12.01

  No Waiver    30

Section 12.02

  Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Trial by Jury    31

Section 12.03

  Notices    31

Section 12.04

  Successors and Assigns    31

Section 12.05

  Severability    31

Section 12.06

  Expenses, Etc    32

Section 12.07

  Security Interest Absolute    32

Section 12.08

  Notice of Termination Event    33

Section 12.09

  Incorporation by Reference    33

Section 12.10

  No Recourse    33

Section 12.11

  Amendment and Restatement    33

EXHIBITS

    

Exhibit A – Form of Normal PPS Certificate

Exhibit B – Form of Stripped PPS Certificate

Exhibit C – Form of Capital PPS Certificate

 

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SCHEDULES   
Schedule I – Reference Dealers
Schedule II – Contact Persons for Confirmation   

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED COLLATERAL AGREEMENT , dated as of June 26, 2009, among S UN T RUST B ANKS , I NC . , a Georgia corporation (the “ Company ”), T HE B ANK OF N EW Y ORK M ELLON T RUST C OMPANY , N.A. ( formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., and referred to herein as “The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company”), as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “ Collateral Agent ”), as Custodial Agent (in such capacity, the “ Custodial Agent ”), as securities intermediary (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC) with respect to the Collateral Account (in such capacity, the “ Securities Intermediary ”), and as securities registrar with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities (in such capacity, the “ Securities Registrar ”), and S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I , a Delaware statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), acting through U.S. B ANK N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION , not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust (in such capacity, the “ Property Trustee ”).

R ECITALS

The Company, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company (in its capacities as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary, and Securities Registrar), and the Issuer Trust acting through the Property Trustee, are parties to that certain Collateral Agreement dated as of October 25, 2006 (the “ Original Collateral Agreement ”).

The Company and the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) are parties to the Amended and Restated Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as may be further modified and supplemented and in effect from time to time, the “ Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ”), pursuant to which the Company has issued certain stock purchase contracts (each, a “ Stock Purchase Contract ”) to the Issuer Trust.

Each Stock Purchase Contract requires the Company to issue and sell, and the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) to purchase, on the Stock Purchase Date (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement), for an amount (the “ Purchase Price ”) equal to such Stock Purchase Contract’s Stated Amount (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement), the Pro Rata Interest (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement) in one share of the Company’s Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, $100,000 liquidation preference per share (the “ Preferred Stock ”).

Pursuant to the Declaration of Trust (as hereinafter defined), the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement and the Stock Purchase Contracts, the Issuer Trust acting through the Property Trustee, the Company, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company (in its capacities as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar) are entering into this Agreement in order to amend in certain respects, and to restate in its entirety as so amended, the Original Collateral Agreement (as so amended and restated, this “ Agreement ”).

N OW , THEREFORE , THIS A MENDED AND R ESTATED C OLLATERAL A GREEMENT WITNESSETH : For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trust mutually agree as follows:


ARTICLE I

D EFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Definitions.

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

(a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular, and nouns and pronouns of the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders.

(b) The words “ herein ,” “ hereof ” and “ hereunder ” and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision and references to any Article, Section or other subdivision are references to an Article, Section or other subdivision of this Agreement.

(c) The following terms that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings set forth therein: “ certificated security ,” “ control ,” “ financial asset ,” “ financing statement ,” “ entitlement order ,” “ securities account, ” “ security entitlement ” and “ funds-transfer system ”.

(d) Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Declaration of Trust.

(e) The following terms have the meanings given to them in this Section 1.01(e):

Address for Notices ” has the meaning specified in Section 12.03.

Agreement ” means this Amended and Restated Collateral Agreement, as the same may be further amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

Cash ” means any coin or currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

Collateral ” means the collective reference to:

(1) the Collateral Account and all investment property and other financial assets from time to time credited to the Collateral Account and all security entitlements with respect thereto, including, without limitation, (A) the Notes, other than any Notes that are Transferred to (x) the Custodial Agent in accordance with Section 6.02 upon the Exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS pursuant to Sections 5.13(a)(i), (b) and (c) of the Declaration of Trust from time to time or (y) the Remarketing Agent or the Custody Account in accordance with Section 8.02(b) upon a Successful Remarketing and (B) any Qualifying Treasury Securities and security entitlements thereto delivered from time to time upon the exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS pursuant to Sections 5.13(a)(i), (b) and (c) of the Declaration of Trust and in accordance with Section 6.02;

 

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(2) all Qualifying Treasury Securities and security entitlements thereto purchased by the Collateral Agent with the Proceeds of Qualifying Treasury Securities pursuant to Section 6.05;

(3) the SunTrust Bank Deposit;

(4) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing (whether such Proceeds arise before or after the commencement of any proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, by or against the Issuer Trust, as pledgor or with respect to the pledgor); and

(5) all powers and rights now owned or hereafter acquired under or with respect to the Collateral.

Collateral Account ” means the securities account of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, as Collateral Agent, maintained by the Securities Intermediary and designated “The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, as Collateral Agent of SunTrust Banks, Inc., as pledgee of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, acting through U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee.”

Collateral Agent ” means the Person named as the “Collateral Agent” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean such Person or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to this Agreement.

Company ” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor.

Custodial Agent ” means the Person named as the “Custodial Agent” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor Custodial Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter “Custodial Agent” shall mean such Person or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to this Agreement.

Custody Account ” means the securities account of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, as Custodial Agent, designated “The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, as Custodial Agent for SunTrust Preferred Capital I.”

Custody Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01.

Declaration of Trust ” means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, among the Company, as Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees (each as named therein), and the several Holders (as defined therein), as the same may be amended from time to time.

Exchange ” means an exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS pursuant to Section 5.13(b) of the Declaration of Trust and Section 6.02 or an exchange of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Declaration of Trust and Section 6.03.

 

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Final Dealer ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05(a).

Indemnitees ” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08(b).

Issuer Trust ” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

Like Amount ” has the meaning specified in clause (b) of the definition of “Like Amount” as set forth in the Declaration of Trust.

Loss ” (and collectively, “ Losses ”) has the meaning specified in Section 10.08(b).

Market Disruption Event ” means (i) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York declared by the relevant authorities or (ii) any material disruption of the U.S. government securities market or U.S. federal funds-transfer systems, written notification of which shall have been given to the Collateral Agent by any of the Administrative Trustees.

Notes ” means the Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes due 2042 of the Company issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Notice of Contingent Disposition Election ” means a Notice of Contingent Disposition Election substantially in the form set forth on the reverse side of the form of Capital PPS Certificate, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit C.

Notice of Contingent Exchange Election ” means a Notice of Contingent Exchange Election substantially in the form set forth on the reverse side of the form of Normal PPS Certificate, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

Obligations ” means all obligations and liabilities of the Issuer Trust and the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust under each Stock Purchase Contract, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement and this Agreement or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, in each case whether on account of principal, interest (including, without limitation, interest accruing before and after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to the Company or the Collateral Agent or the Securities Intermediary that are required to be paid by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the terms of any of the foregoing agreements).

Permitted Investments ” means any one of the following, in each case maturing on the Business Day following the date of acquisition:

(1) any evidence of indebtedness with an original maturity of 365 days or less issued, or directly and fully guaranteed or insured, by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support of the timely payment thereof or such indebtedness constitutes a general obligation of it);

(2) deposits, certificates of deposit or acceptances with an original maturity of 365 days or less of any institution which is a member of the Federal Reserve System having combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500 million at the time of deposit (and which may include the Collateral Agent);

 

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(3) investments with an original maturity of 365 days or less of any Person that are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by a bank referred to in clause (2);

(4) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements relating to marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or issued by any agency thereof and backed as to timely payment by the full faith and credit of the United States of America;

(5) investments in commercial paper, other than commercial paper issued by the Company or its Affiliates, of any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof, which commercial paper has a rating at the time of purchase at least equal to “A-1” by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (“ S&P ”) or at least equal to “P-1” by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”); and

(6) investments in money market funds (including, but not limited to, money market funds managed by the Collateral Agent or an Affiliate of the Collateral Agent) registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, rated in the highest applicable rating category by S&P or Moody’s.

Pledge ” means the lien and security interest created by this Agreement.

Pledged Notes ” means each Note deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.01 or delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.03, until such time as it is (i) released from the Pledge and delivered to the Custodial Agent pursuant to Section 6.02 or to the Remarketing Agent or the Custody Account pursuant to Section 8.02(b), or (ii) released from the Pledge, assigned (as applicable) and transferred or delivered to the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust as provided in Section 2.04.

Pledged Treasury Securities ” means Qualifying Treasury Securities from time to time credited to the Collateral Account pursuant to Section 6.02 and not then released from the Pledge pursuant to Section 6.03, together with all Qualifying Treasury Securities purchased from time to time by the Collateral Agent with the Proceeds of maturing Pledged Treasury Securities pursuant to Section 6.05.

Preferred Stock ” has the meaning specified in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Proceeds ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9-102(a)(64) of the UCC and includes, without limitation, all interest, dividends, Cash, instruments, securities, financial assets and other property received, receivable or otherwise distributed upon the sale (including, without limitation, the Remarketing), exchange, collection or disposition of any financial assets from time to time held in the Collateral Account.

Property Trustee ” means the Person named as the “Property Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor Property Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Declaration of Trust, and thereafter “Property Trustee” shall mean such Person or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to the Declaration of Trust.

 

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Purchase Price ” has the meaning specified in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Recombination Notice and Request ” means a Recombination Notice and Request substantially in the form set forth on the reverse side of the forms of Stripped PPS Certificate and Capital PPS Certificate, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits B and C respectively.

Reference Dealer ” means each of the U.S. government securities dealers listed on Schedule I hereto (including any successor thereto) and any other U.S. government securities dealers designated by the Collateral Agent (it being understood that the Collateral Agent may, but shall not be obligated, to designate any one or more such other U.S. government securities dealers); provided that if at any time fewer than three of the entities named on Schedule I are active U.S. government securities dealers and approved counterparties of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, any of the Administrative Trustees may designate an additional U.S. government securities dealer as a Reference Dealer.

Retirement Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust.

Retirement Notice ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust.

Remarketing ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

Roll Date ” means, with respect to any Additional Distribution Date, the latest date prior to such Additional Distribution Date that is a maturity date of Qualifying Treasury Securities held in the Collateral Account.

Securities Intermediary ” means the Person named as the “Securities Intermediary” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor Securities Intermediary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter “Securities Intermediary” shall mean such Person or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to this Agreement.

Securities Registrar ” means the Person named as the “Securities Registrar” in the first paragraph of this Agreement until a successor Securities Registrar shall have been appointed by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Declaration of Trust, and thereafter “Securities Registrar” shall mean such Person or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to the Declaration of Trust by the Company.

Stock Purchase Contract ” has the meaning specified in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Stock Purchase Contract Agreement ” has the meaning specified in the Recitals of this Agreement.

Stripping Notice and Request ” means a Stripping Notice and Request substantially in the form set forth on the reverse side of the form of Normal PPS Certificate, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

Subject Normal PPS ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust.

Successful ” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

 

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

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

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company ” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Agreement.

“Third Party Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust.

Trade Date ” means, with respect to each Roll Date, the Business Day immediately preceding such Roll Date.

Trades ” means the Treasury/Reserve Automated Debt Entry System maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York pursuant to the Trades Regulations.

Trades Regulations ” means the regulations of the United States Department of the Treasury, published at 31 C.F.R. Part 357, as amended from time to time. Unless otherwise defined herein, all terms defined in the Trades Regulations are used herein as therein defined.

Transfer ” means (i) in the case of certificated securities in registered form, delivery as provided in Section 8-301(a) of the UCC, endorsed to the transferee or in blank by an effective endorsement, (ii) in the case of Qualifying Treasury Securities, registration of the transferee as the owner of such Qualifying Treasury Securities on Trades and (iii) in the case of security entitlements, including, without limitation, security entitlements with respect to Qualifying Treasury Securities, a securities intermediary indicating by book entry that such security entitlement has been credited to the transferee’s securities account.

UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York from time to time.

Value ” means, with respect to any item of Collateral on any date, as to (1) Cash, the face amount thereof, (2) Notes, the aggregate principal amount thereof and (3) Qualifying Treasury Securities, the aggregate principal amount thereof.

ARTICLE II

P LEDGE

Section 2.01 Pledge.

The Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) hereby pledges and grants to the Collateral Agent, as agent of and for the benefit of the Company, a continuing first priority security interest in and to, and a lien upon and right of set-off against, all of such Person’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral to secure the prompt and complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations. The Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights, remedies and recourses with respect to the Collateral afforded a secured party by the UCC, in addition to, and not in limitation of, the other rights, remedies and recourses afforded to the Collateral Agent by this Agreement.

 

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Section 2.02 Control .

The Collateral Agent shall have control of the Collateral Account pursuant to the provisions of Article III.

Section 2.03 Termination.

This Agreement and the Pledge created hereby shall terminate upon the satisfaction of the Obligations. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent from the Company of notice of such termination, the Collateral Agent shall, except as otherwise provided herein, Transfer and instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer the Collateral to or upon the order of the Property Trustee, free and clear of the Pledge created hereby.

Section 2.04 Partial Release for Subject Normal PPS.

In connection with the retirement of any Subject Normal PPS pursuant to Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust, the Company shall provide to the Collateral Agent, not less than three Business Days prior to the applicable Retirement Date (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Collateral Agent), a copy of the Retirement Notice submitted by the Company to the Property Trustee in respect of such Subject Normal PPS. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent on the Retirement Date of written confirmation from the Securities Registrar (as defined in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement) as to its receipt of the Subject Normal PPS pursuant to such Retirement Notice, the Collateral Agent shall (i) release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount with respect to such Subject Normal PPS from the Pledge, and (ii) Transfer Pledged Notes to the Property Trustee for distribution by the Property Trustee to the Third Party Agent, all as contemplated in Section 4.9 of the Declaration of Trust.

ARTICLE III

C ONTROL

Section 3.01 Establishment of Collateral Account.

The Securities Intermediary hereby confirms that:

(a) the Securities Intermediary has established the Collateral Account;

(b) the Collateral Account is a securities account;

(c) subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Securities Intermediary shall identify in its records the Collateral Agent as the entitlement holder entitled to exercise the rights that comprise any financial asset credited to the Collateral Account;

(d) all property delivered to the Securities Intermediary pursuant to this Agreement or the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, including any Permitted Investments purchased by the Securities Intermediary from the Proceeds of any Collateral, will be credited promptly to the Collateral Account; and

 

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(e) all securities or other property underlying any financial assets credited to the Collateral Account shall be (i) registered in the name of the Property Trustee and indorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in blank, (ii) registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary or the Collateral Agent or (iii) credited to another securities account maintained in the name of the Securities Intermediary. In no case will any financial asset credited to the Collateral Account be registered in the name of the Property Trustee or specially indorsed to the Property Trustee unless such financial asset has been further indorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in blank.

Section 3.02 Treatment as Financial Assets.

Each item of property (whether investment property, financial asset, security, instrument or Cash) credited to the Collateral Account shall be treated as a financial asset.

Section 3.03 Sole Control by Collateral Agent.

Except as provided in Section 8.01, at all times prior to the termination of the Pledge, the Collateral Agent shall have sole control of the Collateral Account, and the Securities Intermediary shall take instructions and directions with respect to the Collateral Account solely from the Collateral Agent. If at any time the Securities Intermediary shall receive an entitlement order issued by the Collateral Agent and relating to the Collateral Account, the Securities Intermediary shall comply with such entitlement order without further consent by the Property Trustee or any other Person. Except with respect to any Pledged Notes that are released from the Pledge as provided in Section 2.04, or as otherwise permitted under this Agreement, until termination of the Pledge, the Securities Intermediary will not comply with any entitlement orders issued by the Property Trustee.

The Issuer Trust hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Collateral Agent and the Company, with full power of substitution, as the Issuer Trust’s attorney-in-fact to take on behalf of, and in the name, place and stead of the Issuer Trust and the Holders, any action necessary or desirable to perfect and to keep perfected the security interest in the Collateral referred to in Section 2.01. The grant of such power-of-attorney shall not be deemed to require of the Collateral Agent any specific duties or obligations not otherwise expressly assumed by the Collateral Agent hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Collateral Agent or Securities Intermediary be responsible for the preparation or filing of any financing or continuation statements or responsible for maintenance or perfection of any security interest hereunder.

Section 3.04 Securities Intermediary’s Location.

The Collateral Account, and the rights and obligations of the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent and the Property Trustee with respect thereto, shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. Regardless of any provision in any other agreement, for purposes of the UCC, New York shall be deemed to be the Securities Intermediary’s jurisdiction.

Section 3.05 No Other Claims.

Except for the claims and interest of the Collateral Agent and of the Issuer Trust in the Collateral Account, the Securities Intermediary (without having conducted any investigation) does not know of any claim to, or interest in, the Collateral Account or in any financial asset credited thereto. If any Person asserts any lien, encumbrance or adverse claim (including any writ, garnishment, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process) against the Collateral Account or in any financial asset carried therein, the Securities Intermediary will promptly notify the Collateral Agent and the Property Trustee.

 

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Section 3.06 Investment and Release.

All Proceeds of financial assets from time to time deposited in the Collateral Account shall be invested and reinvested as provided in this Agreement. At no time prior to termination of the Pledge with respect to any particular property shall such property be released from the Collateral Account except in accordance with this Agreement or upon written instructions of the Collateral Agent.

Section 3.07 No Other Agreements.

The Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and prior to the termination of the Pledge will not enter into, any agreement with any other Person relating to the Collateral Account or any financial assets credited thereto, including, without limitation, any agreement to comply with entitlement orders of any Person other than the Collateral Agent.

Section 3.08 Powers Coupled with an Interest.

The rights and powers granted in this Article III to the Collateral Agent have been granted in order to perfect its security interests in the Collateral Account, are powers coupled with an interest and will be affected neither by the bankruptcy of the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust nor by the lapse of time. The obligations of the Securities Intermediary under this Article III shall continue in effect until the termination of the Pledge with respect to any and all Collateral.

Section 3.09 Waiver of Lien; Waiver of Set-off.

The Securities Intermediary waives any security interest, lien or right to make deductions or set-offs that it may now have or hereafter acquire in or with respect to the Collateral Account, any financial asset credited thereto or any security entitlement in respect thereof. Neither the financial assets credited to the Collateral Account nor the security entitlements in respect thereof will be subject to deduction, set-off, banker’s lien or any other right in favor of any person other than the Company.

ARTICLE IV

C USTODY

Section 4.01 Appointment.

The Issuer Trust hereby appoints the Custodial Agent as Custodial Agent of the Issuer Trust to hold all of the Notes that are property of the Issuer Trust, other than the Pledged Notes (collectively, the “ Custody Notes ”), for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and for the purposes set forth herein, and the Custodial Agent hereby accepts such appointment under the terms and conditions set forth herein.

Section 4.02 Custody.

The Custodial Agent will hold the Custody Notes in the Custody Account. For the avoidance of doubt, the Custodial Agent shall segregate on its books and records the assets of the Issuer Trust from assets held by the Custodial Agent for other customers (including the Collateral) or for the

 

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Custodial Agent itself. The Custodial Agent shall only have the obligations expressly set forth herein and shall have no responsibility for monitoring compliance with the Declaration of Trust, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or any other agreement in connection therewith. The Custodial Agent shall accept the Transfer of Notes from the Collateral Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 6.02, deliver Notes to the Collateral Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 6.03 and deliver Notes to the Remarketing Agent on the Remarketing Settlement Date pursuant to Section 8.03.

Section 4.03 Termination of Custody Account.

Upon receipt by the Custodial Agent from the Company of notice of termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 2.03, the Custodial Agent shall deliver the Custody Notes to the Property Trustee.

Section 4.04 Waiver of Lien; Waiver of Set-off.

The Custodial Agent waives any security interest, lien or right to make deductions or set-offs that it may now have or hereafter acquire in or with respect to the Custody Account, any financial asset credited thereto or any security entitlement in respect thereof. Neither the financial assets credited to the Custody Account nor the security entitlements in respect thereof will be subject to deduction, set-off, banker’s lien or any other right in favor of any Person other than the Issuer Trust.

ARTICLE V

D ISTRIBUTIONS ON C OLLATERAL AND

C USTODY N OTES

Section 5.01 Interest on Notes.

(a) The Collateral Agent shall transfer all interest received from time to time by the Collateral Agent on account of the Pledged Notes to the Paying Agent.

(b) The Custodial Agent shall transfer all interest received from time to time by the Custodial Agent on account of the Custody Notes to the Paying Agent.

Section 5.02 Payments Following Termination Event.

Following a Termination Event, written notice of which the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent, as the case may be, shall have received from the Company, the Property Trustee or any of the Administrative Trustees,

(a) the Collateral Agent shall cause the Securities Intermediary to Transfer (i) the Pledged Notes, (ii) the Pledged Treasury Securities and (iii) any Permitted Investments, including in each case any and all payments of principal or interest it receives in respect thereof, to the Property Trustee or its designee, free and clear of the Pledge created hereby; and

(b) the Custodial Agent shall Transfer the Custody Notes and any and all payments of principal or interest it receives in respect thereof to the Property Trustee or its designee.

 

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Section 5.03 Payments Prior to or on Stock Purchase Date.

(a) Except as provided in Section 5.03(c) and Section 6.05, if the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent, as the case may be, shall not have received from the Company, the Property Trustee or any of the Administrative Trustees notice of any Termination Event, all payments of principal received by the Collateral Agent or the Securities Intermediary in respect of (i) the Pledged Notes and (ii) the Pledged Treasury Securities shall be held until the Stock Purchase Date and an amount thereof equal to the Purchase Price under the Stock Purchase Contracts shall be transferred to the Company on the Stock Purchase Date as provided in Section 2.2 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement in satisfaction of the Issuer Trust’s obligation to pay such Purchase Price. Any balance remaining in the Collateral Account shall be released from the Pledge and Transferred to the Paying Agent, free and clear of the Pledge created thereby. The Company shall instruct the Collateral Agent in writing as to the Permitted Investments in which any payments received under this Section 5.03(a) (which, for purpose of confirmation, includes the excess Proceeds received under Section 6.05(b)) shall be invested; provided that if the Company fails to deliver such instructions by 10:30 A.M. (New York City time) on the day such payments are received by the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall invest such payments in the Permitted Investments as described in clause (6) of the definition of Permitted Investments. The Collateral Agent shall have no liability in respect of losses incurred as a result of the failure of the Company to provide timely written investment direction. The Collateral Agent may conclusively rely on any written direction and shall bear no liability for any loss or other damage based on acting or omitting to act under this Section 5.03 (which, for purpose of confirmation, includes acting or omitting to act under Section 6.05(b) in respect of excess Proceeds referred to therein) pursuant to any direction of the Company or any investment in Permitted Investments as described in clause (6) of the definition of Permitted Investments as provided herein and neither the Collateral Agent nor the Securities Intermediary shall in any way be liable for the selection of Permitted Investments or by reason of any insufficiency in the Collateral Account resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment included therein.

(b) All payments of principal received by the Custodial Agent in respect of the Custody Notes shall be transferred to the Paying Agent.

(c) All payments of principal received by the Collateral Agent or the Securities Intermediary in respect of (1) the Pledged Notes and (2) the Pledged Treasury Securities or security entitlements thereto, that, in each case, have been released from the Pledge pursuant hereto (other than Pledged Notes that upon such release shall have become Custody Notes in accordance with Section 6.03) shall be transferred to or in accordance with the written instructions of the Paying Agent.

Section 5.04 Payments to Property Trustee.

The Securities Intermediary and the Custodial Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver payments to the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee as provided hereunder to the following account established by the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee, for credit to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., ABA#021000018, A/C#111565, for further credit to TAS#351561, Ref: SunTrust Preferred Capital I, not later than 12:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day it receives such payment; provided that if such payment is required to be made on a day that is not a Business Day or after 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on a Business Day, then it shall use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver such payment to the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee no later than 10:30 A.M. (New York City time) on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

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Section 5.05 Assets Not Properly Released.

If the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee shall receive any principal payments on account of financial assets credited to the Collateral Account and not released therefrom in accordance with this Agreement, the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee shall hold the same as trustee of an express trust for the benefit of the Company and, upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate of the Company so directing, promptly deliver the same to the Securities Intermediary for credit to the Collateral Account or to the Company for application to the Obligations, and the Paying Agent or the Property Trustee shall acquire no right, title or interest in any such payments of principal amounts so received. Neither the Paying Agent nor the Property Trustee shall have any liability under this Section 5.05 unless and until it has been notified in writing that such payment was delivered to it erroneously and nor shall it have any liability for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken prior to its receipt of such notice.

ARTICLE VI

I NITIAL D EPOSIT ; E XCHANGE OF N ORMAL PPS AND

Q UALIFYING T REASURY S ECURITIES FOR S TRIPPED PPS AND C APITAL PPS; R EINVESTMENT OF

P ROCEEDS OF P LEDGED T REASURY S ECURITIES

Section 6.01 Initial Deposit of Notes.

(a) Prior to or concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Property Trustee shall Transfer to the Securities Intermediary, for credit to the Collateral Account, Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $501,000,000.

(b) The Collateral Agent shall, at any time or from time to time, at the written request of the Company, cause any or all securities or other property underlying any financial assets credited to the Collateral Account to be registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent or their respective nominees; provided that unless any Event of Default (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) shall have occurred and be continuing, and in respect of which the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice from the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, the Collateral Agent agrees not to cause any Notes to be so re-registered.

Section 6.02 Exchange of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS.

(a) On each occasion on which a Holder of Normal PPS exercises its rights pursuant to Sections 5.13(a)(i), (b) and (c) of the Declaration of Trust to exchange Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS by, during any Exchange Period:

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

(ii) Transferring the Normal PPS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar; and

(iii) delivering a duly executed and completed Stripping Notice and Request to the Securities Registrar and Collateral Agent (x) stating that the Holder has deposited the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account,

 

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(y) stating that the Holder is Transferring the related Normal PPS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS, and (z) requesting the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS,

the Collateral Agent shall, upon the deposit and Transfer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in clause (iii), (w) be deemed to accept the Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited pursuant to clause (i) as Collateral subject to the Pledge, (x) release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge, (y) Transfer such Pledged Notes to the Custodial Account free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, and (z) confirm to the Property Trustee in writing that such release and Transfer has occurred. The Custodial Agent shall continue to hold such Notes as Custody Notes pursuant to Article IV.

(b) The Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Normal PPS Transferred pursuant to Section 6.02(a) and deliver a Like Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Class.

(c) The substitution of Qualifying Treasury Securities, or security entitlements thereto, for financial assets held in the Collateral Account pursuant to this Section 6.02, shall not constitute a novation of the security interest created hereby.

Section 6.03 Exchange of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities.

(a) On each occasion on which a Holder of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS exercises its rights pursuant to Sections 5.13(d) of the Declaration of Trust to exchange Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities by, during any Exchange Period, Transferring the Stripped PPS and the Capital PPS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar and delivering a duly executed and completed Recombination Notice and Request to the Securities Registrar and Collateral Agent (x) stating that the Holder is Transferring the related Stripped PPS and Capital PPS to the Securities Registrar in connection with the Exchange of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for a Like Amount of each of Normal PPS and Pledged Treasury Securities, (y) requesting the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of each of the Stripped PPS and Capital PPS being exchanged, and (z) requesting the Securities Registrar to deliver to the Holder Normal PPS of a Like Amount.

(b) Upon the Transfer pursuant to Section 6.03(a) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in Section 6.03(a):

(i) the Custodial Agent will Transfer a Like Amount of Notes from the Custody Account to the Collateral Account in substitution for such Pledged Treasury Securities;

(ii) the Collateral Agent will be deemed to accept the Notes Transferred by the Custodial Agent pursuant to clause (i) as Collateral subject to the Pledge;

 

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(iii) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Treasury Securities of a Like Amount from the Pledge and deliver such Qualifying Treasury Securities to the Holder free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, and confirm in writing to the Property Trustee that such release and Transfer has occurred; and

(iv) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS delivered pursuant to Section 6.03(a) and deliver a Like Amount of Normal PPS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Class.

(c) The substitution of Notes for financial assets held in the Collateral Account pursuant to this Section 6.03, shall not constitute a novation of the security interest created hereby.

Section 6.04 Termination Event.

(a) Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of written notice from the Company, the Property Trustee or any of the Administrative Trustees of the Issuer Trust that a Termination Event has occurred, the Collateral Agent shall release all Collateral from the Pledge and shall promptly instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer:

(i) any Pledged Notes;

(ii) the Proceeds of the SunTrust Bank Deposit; and

(iii) any Pledged Treasury Securities,

to the Property Trustee, free and clear of the Pledge created hereby.

(b) If such Termination Event shall result from the Company’s becoming a debtor under the Bankruptcy Code, and if the Collateral Agent shall for any reason fail promptly to effectuate the release and Transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Securities, Permitted Investments, the SunTrust Bank Deposit and Proceeds of any of the foregoing, as the case may be, as provided by this Section 6.04, the Property Trustee or any of the Administrative Trustees shall:

(i) use its best efforts to obtain an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm to the effect that, notwithstanding the Company being the debtor in such a bankruptcy case, the Collateral Agent will not be prohibited from releasing or Transferring the Collateral as provided in this Section 6.04 and shall deliver or cause to be delivered such opinion to the Collateral Agent within ten calendar days after the occurrence of such Termination Event, and if (A) the Property Trustee or any of the Administrative Trustees shall be unable to obtain such opinion within ten calendar days after the occurrence of such Termination Event or (B) the Collateral Agent shall continue, after delivery of such opinion, to refuse to effectuate the release and Transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Securities, Permitted Investments, the SunTrust Bank Deposit and Proceeds of any of the foregoing, as the case may be, as provided in this Section 6.04, then the Property Trustee shall within fifteen calendar days after the occurrence of such Termination Event commence an action or proceeding in the court having jurisdiction of the Company’s case under the Bankruptcy Code seeking an order requiring the Collateral Agent to effectuate the

 

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release and Transfer of all Pledged Notes, Pledged Treasury Securities, Permitted Investments, the SunTrust Bank Deposit and Proceeds of any of the foregoing, or as the case may be, as provided by this Section 6.04; or

(ii) commence an action or proceeding like that described in Section 6.04(b)(i) hereof within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event.

Section 6.05 Reinvestment of Proceeds of Pledged Treasury Securities.

(a) At or about 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on each Trade Date, the Collateral Agent shall select at least three Reference Dealers (including at least three Reference Dealers named on Schedule I hereto or named by any of the Administrative Trustees as replacements therefor who are approved counterparties of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company) and request each of them to provide a commitment (which may be oral if promptly confirmed in writing by facsimile or e-mail), satisfactory in form to the Collateral Agent, to the effect that if selected as the Final Dealer, such Reference Dealer shall sell to the Collateral Agent, for delivery against payment on the immediately succeeding Roll Date, an aggregate principal amount of the U.S. treasury security that is the Qualifying Treasury Security on such Roll Date equal to the aggregate principal amount of Qualifying Treasury Securities held in the Collateral Account on such Trade Date. If the Collateral Agent shall have received at least two firm offers, it shall select the lowest offer and the Reference Dealer providing the lowest offer shall be the “ Final Dealer ”; provided that if two or more Reference Dealers have provided identical lowest offers, the Collateral Agent shall select any of these Reference Dealers as the Final Dealer in its absolute discretion. The Final Dealer shall be obligated to sell to the Collateral Agent, for Cash on the Roll Date, the aggregate principal amount of the U.S. treasury security specified in such offer. If the Collateral Agent determines that (i) a Market Disruption Event has occurred or (ii) fewer than two Reference Dealers have provided firm offers in a timely manner meeting the foregoing requirements, the steps contemplated above shall be taken on each succeeding Business Day on which the Collateral Agent determines that no Market Disruption Event has occurred until at least two Reference Dealers have provided such offers, except that the Collateral Agent shall request offers from the Reference Dealers for same day settlement. The Collateral Agent shall use reasonable care in administering the foregoing procedures and shall have no liability in connection therewith to the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Company or any other Person in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct. All determinations regarding whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred shall be made by the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion.

(b) On each Roll Date (or, if no Final Dealer shall have been selected on the Trade Date, on the date that the Final Dealer is selected), the Collateral Agent shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to apply the Proceeds of the U.S. treasury securities held in the Collateral Account to the purchase price of the Qualifying Treasury Securities, which shall be deposited in the Collateral Account, and to apply the excess of such Proceeds over the purchase price of the Qualifying Treasury Securities to purchase Permitted Investments for deposit in the Collateral Account.

(c) On each Additional Distribution Date, if the Qualifying Treasury Securities shall have been purchased and deposited in the Collateral Account, the Collateral Agent shall liquidate the Permitted Investments in the Collateral Account and direct the Securities Intermediary to pay the Proceeds to the Payment Account.

 

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Section 6.06 Application of Proceeds in Settlement of Stock Purchase Contracts.

(a) The Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) agrees to pay the purchase price under the Stock Purchase Contracts on the Stock Purchase Date from the Proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities held in the Collateral Account and the SunTrust Bank Deposit (or in the circumstances set forth in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, by assignment thereof). Without receiving any further instruction from the Property Trustee, the Collateral Agent shall, in settlement of such Stock Purchase Contracts on the Stock Purchase Date, (i) instruct the Securities Intermediary to remit Proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities to the Company and (ii) instruct SunTrust Bank to pay the Proceeds of the SunTrust Bank Deposit to the Company in an amount equal to the excess of the Purchase Price over the amount of the Proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities.

(b) In the event of a Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, will, at the written instruction of the Company, deliver or dispose of the Pledged Notes in accordance with the Company’s written instructions to satisfy in full, from any such disposition or retention, the obligations of the Issuer Trust to pay the purchase price for the shares of Preferred Stock to be issued under the Stock Purchase Contracts to the extent not paid from the Proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities held in the Collateral Account.

(c) Thereafter, the Collateral Agent shall promptly remit the Proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities held in the Collateral Account in excess of the aggregate purchase price for the shares of Preferred Stock to be issued under such Stock Purchase Contracts to the Property Trustee or to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Property Trustee for deposit into the Payment Account.

ARTICLE VII

V OTING R IGHTS — N OTES

Section 7.01 Voting Rights.

The Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust may, subject to the Declaration of Trust, exercise, or refrain from exercising, any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Notes or any part thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement and in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement; provided , however , that the Property Trustee shall not exercise or shall not refrain from exercising such right with respect to any Notes, if, in the reasonable judgment of the Property Trustee, such action would impair or otherwise have a material adverse effect on the value of all or any of the Notes; and provided , further , that the Property Trustee shall give the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent, at least five Business Days’ prior written notice of the manner in which it intends to exercise, or its reasons for refraining from exercising, any such right. Upon receipt of any notices and other communications in respect of any Notes, including notice of any meeting at which holders of the Notes are entitled to vote or solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of the Notes, the Collateral Agent and the Custodial Agent shall use reasonable efforts to send promptly to the Property Trustee such notice or communication, and as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of a written request therefor from the Property Trustee, execute and deliver to the Property Trustee such proxies and other instruments in respect of such Notes (in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent or the Custodial Agent, as the case may be) as are prepared by the Company and delivered to the Property Trustee with respect to the Notes.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

R IGHTS AND R EMEDIES

Section 8.01 Rights and Remedies of the Collateral Agent.

(a) In addition to the rights and remedies specified in Section 6.04 or otherwise available at law or in equity, after an event of default (as specified in Section 8.01(b)) hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral of a secured party under the UCC (whether or not the UCC is in effect in the jurisdiction where the rights and remedies are asserted) and the Trades Regulations and such additional rights and remedies to which a secured party is entitled under the laws in effect in any jurisdiction where any rights and remedies hereunder may be asserted. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such remedies may include, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (1) retention of the Pledged Notes or the Pledged Treasury Securities in full satisfaction of the Issuer Trust’s or the Property Trustee’s obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts and the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or (2) sale of the Pledged Notes or the Pledged Treasury Securities in one or more public or private sales as permitted by applicable law.

(b) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this Agreement to the Collateral Agent, in the event the Company is unable to make payments from amounts transferred or transferable to the Company on account of the principal payments of any Pledged Treasury Securities as provided in Article V, in satisfaction of the Obligations of the Issuer Trust under the Stock Purchase Contracts, the inability to make such payments shall constitute an event of default hereunder and the Collateral Agent shall have and may exercise, with reference to such Pledged Treasury Securities any and all of the rights and remedies available to a secured party under the UCC and the Trades Regulations after default by a debtor, and as otherwise granted herein or under any other law.

(c) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this Agreement to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized to receive and collect all payments of (i) the principal amount of, and any interest on, the Pledged Notes and (ii) the principal amount of, and any interest on, the Pledged Treasury Securities, subject, in each case, to the provisions of Article V, and as otherwise granted herein.

(d) The Property Trustee agrees that, from time to time, upon the written request of the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the request of the Company), the Property Trustee shall execute and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the request of the Company) may reasonably request in order to maintain the Pledge, and the perfection and priority thereof, and to confirm the rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder; provided that, in no event shall the Property Trustee be responsible for the preparation (other than execution upon the request of the Company) or filing of any financing or continuation statements. In the absence of bad faith, the Property Trustee shall have no liability to the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the request of the Company) for executing any documents or taking any such acts requested by the Company or the Collateral Agent (acting upon the request of the Company) hereunder.

Section 8.02 Remarketing; Contingent Exchange Elections by Holder of Normal PPS.

(a) In the event a Holder of Normal PPS exercises its rights pursuant to Sections 5.14(a)(i), (b) and (e) of the Declaration of Trust to contingently exchange Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS in connection with any Remarketing by,

 

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

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

the Collateral Agent shall, upon the Transfer and receipt of the duly executed and completed Notice of Contingent Exchange Election pursuant to clause (i) and the deposit referred to in clause (ii), notify the Remarketing Agent not later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the first day of each Remarketing Period of the aggregate principal amount of Pledged Notes with respect to which elections have been validly made pursuant to this Section 8.02(a).

(b) Upon the receipt of notice from the Remarketing Agent that the Remarketing has been Successful, on the Remarketing Settlement Date,

(i) the Collateral Agent shall (A) instruct the Securities Intermediary to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Remarketing Agent the Pledged Notes for which no election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.02(a), free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, against delivery by the Remarketing Agent of Qualifying Treasury Securities purchased with the net Proceeds of the sale of such Pledged Notes in the Remarketing for deposit in the Collateral Account, (B) instruct the Securities Intermediary to release from the Pledge and (C) Transfer to the Custody Account the Pledged Notes for which an election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.02(a), free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, upon delivery by the Collateral Agent to the Securities Intermediary for deposit into the Collateral Account the Qualifying Treasury Securities to be deposited in connection with such elections, and confirm to the Property Trustee in writing that such instructions have been delivered;

(ii) the Securities Intermediary will (A) release the Pledged Notes from the Pledge, Transfer such Pledged Notes, free and clear of the Pledge, (x) to the Remarketing Agent in the case of Pledged Notes for which no election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.02(a) and (y) to the Custody Account in the case of Pledged Notes for which an election has been validly made pursuant to Section 8.02(a), (B) deposit in the Collateral Account as Pledged Treasury Securities the Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 8.02(a) or delivered by the Remarketing Agent and (C) confirm to the Property Trustee in writing that such release, Transfer and deposit have occurred;

(iii) the Custodial Agent shall hold such Notes delivered to it pursuant to clause (ii)(y) of this Section 8.02(b) in the Custody Account; and

(iv) the Securities Registrar shall cancel the number of Normal PPS Transferred pursuant to Section 8.02(a) and deliver a Like Amount of Capital PPS and Stripped PPS to the Holder in accordance with the procedures provided for in Section 5.14 of the Declaration of Trust.

 

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(c) Upon the receipt of notice from the Remarketing Agent that the Remarketing has not been Successful:

(i) as soon as reasonably practicable after the Remarketing, the Collateral Agent will deliver back to such Holder the Qualifying Treasury Securities delivered by such Holder to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 8.02(a); and

(ii) the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Normal PPS pursuant to Section 8.02(a), with the consequence that such Holder shall be deemed to continue to hold such Normal PPS.

(d) The substitution of Qualifying Treasury Securities, or security entitlements thereto, for financial assets held in the Collateral Account pursuant to this Section 8.02, shall not constitute a novation of the security interest created hereby.

Section 8.03 Contingent Disposition Election by Holder of Capital PPS.

(a) In the event a Holder of Capital PPS exercises its rights pursuant to Sections 5.14(a)(ii), (b), (f) and (g) of the Declaration of Trust to contingently dispose of Capital PPS in connection with any Remarketing by, during the period that commences with the Custodial Agent’s and Securities Registrar’s opening of normal business hours on the tenth Business Day immediately preceding the first day of a Remarketing Period and ending at 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of such Remarketing Period, Transferring the Capital PPS that are the subject of such Contingent Disposition Election to the Securities Registrar and delivering a duly completed Notice of Contingent Disposition Election to the Securities Registrar and Custodial Agent, the Custodial Agent shall, upon such Transfer and receipt of such notice, notify the Remarketing Agent not later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the first day of each Remarketing Period of the aggregate principal amount of Custody Notes with respect to which elections have been validly made pursuant to this Section 8.03(a).

(b) If the Custodial Agent is notified by the Remarketing Agent that the related Remarketing is Successful:

(i) the Securities Registrar shall cancel the number of Capital PPS Transferred pursuant to Section 8.03(a) in accordance with the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust;

(ii) the Custodial Agent shall deliver Custody Notes in the aggregate principal amount with respect to which elections have been validly made pursuant to Section 8.03(a) to the Remarketing Agent on the Remarketing Settlement Date; and

(iii) on or promptly after the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Custodial Agent will pay to the Property Trustee the net Proceeds of the Custody Notes received from the Remarketing Agent.

 

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(c) If the Custodial Agent is notified by the Property Trustee or the Remarketing Agent that the related Remarketing is not Successful, the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Capital PPS pursuant to Section 8.03(a), with the consequence that such Holder shall continue to hold such Capital PPS.

(d) None of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar, the Property Trustee, the Company or the Remarketing Agent shall be obligated in any case to provide funds to make payment upon tender of Notes for Remarketing.

ARTICLE IX

R EPRESENTATIONS AND W ARRANTIES ; C OVENANTS

Section 9.01 Representations and Warranties.

The Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust hereby represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent that:

(a) the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust has the power to grant a security interest in and lien on the Collateral; and

(b) the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust is the sole beneficial owner of the Collateral and, in the case of Collateral delivered in physical form, is the sole holder of such Collateral and is the sole beneficial owner of, or has the right to Transfer, the Collateral it Transfers to the Collateral Agent for credit to the Collateral Account, free and clear of any security interest, lien, encumbrance, call, liability to pay money or other restriction other than the security interest and lien granted under Article II hereof.

Section 9.02 Covenants.

The Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust hereby covenants to the Collateral Agent that for so long as the Collateral remains subject to the Pledge:

(a) it will not create or purport to create or allow to subsist any mortgage, charge, lien, pledge or any other security interest whatsoever over the Collateral or any part of it other than pursuant to this Agreement; and

(b) it will not sell or otherwise dispose (or attempt to dispose) of the Collateral or any part of it except in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE X

T HE C OLLATERAL A GENT , T HE C USTODIAL A GENT , T HE S ECURITIES I NTERMEDIARY

AND T HE S ECURITIES R EGISTRAR

It is hereby agreed as follows:

Section 10.01 Appointment, Powers and Immunities.

The Collateral Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall act as agents for the Company hereunder with such powers as are specifically vested in the Collateral Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, by the terms of this Agreement and the Collateral Agent and the Securities Intermediary owe no duties, fiduciary or otherwise, to any other Person except as provided by applicable law. The Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall act as agents for the Property Trustee hereunder with such powers as are specifically vested in the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, as the case may be, by the terms of this Agreement and, in the case of the Securities Registrar, the Declaration of Trust and the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar owe no duties, fiduciary or otherwise, to any other Person except as provided by applicable law. The Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Securities Registrar shall:

(a) have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and no implied covenants or obligations shall be inferred from this Agreement against the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Securities Registrar, nor shall the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Securities Registrar be bound by the provisions of any agreement by any party hereto beyond the specific terms hereof;

(b) not be responsible for any recitals contained in this Agreement, or in any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by it under, this Agreement, the Trust Preferred Securities or the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement (other than as against the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, as the case may be), the Trust Preferred Securities, any Collateral or the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or for any failure by the Company or any other Person (except the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, as the case may be) to perform any of its obligations thereunder or hereunder or for the validity, perfection, enforceability, priority or, except as expressly required hereby, maintenance of any security interest created hereunder;

(c) not be required to initiate or conduct any litigation or collection efforts or proceedings hereunder (except pursuant to directions furnished under Section 10.02, subject to Section 10.08);

(d) not be responsible for the exercise of any of the rights and remedies (at the direction of the Property Trustee or the Holders of the PPS, or otherwise) upon a default or event of default under the Indenture;

(e) not be responsible for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or in connection herewith or therewith, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct; and

(f) not be required to advise any party as to selling or retaining, or taking or refraining from taking any action with respect to, any securities or other property deposited hereunder.

Subject to the foregoing, during the term of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar shall take all reasonable action in connection with the safekeeping and preservation of the Collateral and the Custody Notes hereunder as determined by industry standards.

 

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No provision of this Agreement shall require the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder. In no event shall the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar be liable for any amount in excess of the Value of the Collateral and the Custody Notes.

Section 10.02 Instructions of the Company.

The Company shall have the right, by one or more written instruments executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent, to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for the realization of any right or remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or of exercising any power conferred on the Collateral Agent, or to direct the taking or refraining from taking of any action authorized by this Agreement; provided that (i) such direction shall not conflict with the provisions of any law or of this Agreement or involve the Collateral Agent in personal liability and (ii) the Collateral Agent shall be indemnified as provided herein. Nothing contained in this Section 10.02 shall impair the right of the Collateral Agent in its discretion to take any action or omit to take any action which it deems proper and which is not inconsistent with such direction. None of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar has any obligation or responsibility for determining the necessity of filing or to file or monitor the filing of UCC financing statements or other UCC statements.

Section 10.03 Reliance by Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar.

Each of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon any certification, order, judgment, opinion, notice or other written or telephonic communication (including, without limitation, any thereof by e-mail or similar electronic means, telecopy, telex or facsimile) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or Persons (without being required to determine the correctness of any fact stated therein). Each of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may consult with legal counsel or other experts of its selection and the advice, opinions and statements of such legal counsel and other experts and any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, suffering, or in refraining from acting, hereunder in accordance with instructions given by the Company or the Property Trustee in accordance with this Agreement. In the event any instructions are given (other than in writing at the time of the execution of the Agreement), whether in writing, by telecopier or otherwise, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar are authorized to seek confirmation of such instructions by telephone call-back to the person or persons designated on Schedule II hereto, and the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may rely upon the confirmations of anyone purporting to be the Person or Persons so designated. The persons and telephone numbers for call-backs may be changed only in writing actually received and acknowledged by the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar.

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beneficiary, (ii) the beneficiary’s bank, or (iii) an intermediary bank. The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may apply any of the deposited funds for any payment order it executes using any such identifying number, even where its use may result in a Person other than the beneficiary being paid, or the transfer of funds to a bank other than the beneficiary’s bank, or an intermediary bank, designated by the Company or the Property Trustee; provided that payment is made and confirmed to the account as specified by the Company or the Property Trustee, as the case may be.

Section 10.04 Certain Rights.

(a) Whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Agreement the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by one of the Company’s officers, and delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar and such certificate, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, shall be full warrant to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar for any action taken, suffered or omitted by any of them under the provisions of this Agreement in reliance thereon.

(b) The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, entitlement order, approval or other paper or document.

(c) None of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God, earthquakes, fires, floods, terrorism, wars, civil or military disturbances, sabotage, epidemics, riots, interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communication services, accidents, labor disputes, acts of civil or military authority and governmental action.

(d) The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar may request that the Company and the Property Trustee each deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Agreement, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.

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(f) None of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith, unless it shall have been grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.

(g) The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall have no liability whatsoever for the action or inaction of any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof. In no event shall any Clearing Agency or any book-entry system thereof be deemed an agent or subcustodian of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar. Unless and until Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates have been issued to Owners pursuant to Section 5.15 of the Declaration of Trust, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement (including the receipt or transfer of any funds hereunder) as the Holder of the Trust Preferred Securities, shall have no obligation to the Owners and the rights of the Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreement between such Owners and the Issuer Trust or the Clearing Agency Participants. The provisions of Sections 5.6 and 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust are hereby made applicable to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar, mutatis mutandis, as if they were the Securities Registrar as referred to therein.

(h) The Securities Registrar shall also have all of the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Securities Registrar under the Declaration of Trust, including its right to be indemnified. In the event of any conflict between any of the provisions of the Declaration of Trust and this Agreement with respect to any of such rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern and control and supersede such other provisions.

Section 10.05 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

Any Person into which the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall be the successor of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper with any party hereto or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto except where an instrument of transfer or assignment is required by law to effect such succession, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 10.06 Rights in Other Capacities.

The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar and their Affiliates may (without having to account therefor to the Company) accept deposits from, lend money to, make their investments in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with the Issuer Trust, any other Person interested herein and any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities (and any of their respective subsidiaries or Affiliates) as if it were not acting as the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, as the case may be, and the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and their Affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from the Issuer Trust, any other Person interested herein and any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities without having to account for the same to the

 

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Company; provided that each of the Securities Registrar, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Collateral Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that it shall not accept, receive or permit there to be created in favor of itself and shall take no affirmative action to permit there to be created in favor of any other Person, any security interest, lien or other encumbrance of any kind in or upon the Collateral other than the lien created by the Pledge.

Section 10.07 Non-reliance on Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar.

None of the Securities Registrar, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Collateral Agent shall be required to keep itself informed as to the performance or observance by the Issuer Trust or any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of this Agreement, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Trust Preferred Securities or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or in connection herewith or therewith or to inspect the properties or books of the Issuer Trust or any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities. None of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall have any duty or responsibility to provide the Company or the Property Trustee with any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of the Issuer Trust or the Company or any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities (or any of their respective Affiliates) that may come into the possession of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar or any of their respective Affiliates.

Section 10.08 Compensation and Indemnity.

The Company agrees to:

(a) pay the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, as the case may be, for all services rendered by them hereunder;

(b) indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and each of their respective directors, officers, agents and employees (collectively, the “ Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, fines, penalties and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) and taxes (other than those based upon, determined by or measured by the income of the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar) (collectively, “ Losses ” and individually, a “ Loss ”) that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against, the Indemnitees or any of them for or in respect of the Collateral Agent’s, the Securities Intermediary’s, the Custodial Agent’s and the Securities Registrar’s (i) execution and delivery of this Agreement and (ii) following any instructions or other directions upon which either the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar is entitled to rely pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; and

(c) in addition to and not in limitation of clause (b) immediately above, indemnify and hold the Indemnitees and each of them harmless from and against any and all Losses that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against, the Indemnitees or any of them in connection with or arising out of the Collateral Agent’s, the Securities Intermediary’s, the Custodial Agent’s or the Securities Registrar’s acceptance or performance of its powers and duties under this Agreement, provided that any Indemnitee with respect to the specific Loss against which indemnification is sought under this clause (c) has not acted with gross negligence or engaged in willful misconduct.

 

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The provisions of this Section 10.08 and Section 12.07 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar and the termination of this Agreement.

Section 10.09 Failure to Act.

In the event of (i) uncertainty on the part of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar as to the application of any provision in this Agreement or any other agreement relating to the transaction contemplated hereby or (ii) any ambiguity in the provisions of this Agreement or any dispute between or conflicting claims by or among the parties hereto or any other Person with respect to any funds or property deposited hereunder, such Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar in the case of (i) or each of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar in the case of (ii) shall be entitled, at its sole option and after prompt written notice to the Company and the Issuer Trust, to refrain from taking any action in respect of such uncertainty or ambiguous provision or to refuse to comply with any and all claims, demands or instructions with respect to such property or funds so long as such dispute or conflict shall continue, and the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall not be or become liable in any way to any of the parties hereto for its so refraining or refusal to comply with such conflicting claims, demands or instructions. The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall be entitled to refuse to act until either:

(a) such ambiguous provisions or conflicting or adverse claims or demands, as the case may be, shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction or settled by agreement between the conflicting parties as evidenced in a writing satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar; or

(b) the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall have received security or an indemnity satisfactory to it sufficient to save it harmless from and against any and all loss, liability or reasonable out-of-pocket expense which it may incur by reason of its acting.

The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may in addition elect to commence an interpleader action or seek other judicial relief or orders as the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar may deem necessary. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, none of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall be required to take any action that it reasonably believes to be contrary to law or to the terms of this Agreement, or which it reasonably believes would subject it or any of its officers, employees or directors to liability.

Section 10.10 Resignation of Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar.

Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar as provided below:

(i) the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may resign at any time by giving notice thereof to the Company and the Property Trustee;

 

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(ii) the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may be removed at any time by the Company; and

(iii) if the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar fails to perform any of its material obligations hereunder in any material respect for a period of not less than 20 days after receiving written notice of such failure by the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees and such failure shall be continuing, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar may be removed by the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees;

provided that any Person at any time acting as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar may not resign or be removed in any one of those capacities without the consent of each party to this Collateral Agreement unless it resigns or is removed in all such capacities in which it is then acting. The Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall promptly notify the Company of any removal of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar pursuant to clause (iii) of this Section 10.10. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Company shall have the right to appoint a successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, as the case may be, which shall not be an Affiliate of the Issuer Trust. If no successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Collateral Agent’s, Securities Intermediary’s, Custodial Agent’s or Securities Registrar’s giving of notice of resignation or the Company’s or the Property Trustee’s giving notice of such removal, then the retiring or removed Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar may petition any court of competent jurisdiction, at the expense of the Company, for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar. The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar shall each be a bank or a national banking association which has an office (or an agency office) in New York City with a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar hereunder by a successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, as the case may be, such successor Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, as the case may be, shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, as the case may be, and the retiring Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, as the case may be, shall take all appropriate action, subject to payment of any amounts then due and payable to it hereunder, to transfer any money and property held by it hereunder (including the Collateral) to such successor. The retiring Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar shall, upon such succession, be discharged from its duties and obligations as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar hereunder. After any retiring Collateral Agent’s, Securities Intermediary’s, Custodial Agent’s or Securities Registrar’s resignation or removal hereunder as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, the provisions of this Article X shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar. Any resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar hereunder, at a time when such Person is acting as the Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent or Securities Registrar, shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement as the simultaneous resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, Securities Registrar or Custodial Agent, as the case may be.

 

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Section 10.11 Right to Appoint Agent or Advisor.

The Collateral Agent shall have the right to appoint agents or advisors in connection with any of its duties hereunder, and the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted by, or in reliance upon the advice of, such agents or advisors selected in good faith. The appointment of agents (which, for the purpose of this sentence, excludes legal counsel) pursuant to this Section 10.11 shall be subject to prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Section 10.12 Survival.

The provisions of this Article X and Section 12.06 shall survive termination of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar.

Section 10.13 Exculpation.

Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar or their officers, directors, employees or agents be liable under this Agreement for indirect, special, punitive, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, lost profits, whether or not the likelihood of such loss or damage was known to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar, or any of them and regardless of the form of action.

Section 10.14 Statements and Confirmations.

The Securities Intermediary will, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of same, send copies of all statements, confirmations and other correspondence concerning the Collateral Account and any financial assets credited thereto simultaneously to each of the Property Trustee and the Collateral Agent at their addresses for notices under this Agreement. The Custodial Agent will, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of same, send copies of all statements, confirmations and other correspondence concerning the Custody Account and any financial assets credited thereto to the Property Trustee at its address for notices under this Agreement.

Section 10.15 Tax Allocations.

The Administrative Trustees shall report all items of income, gain, expense and loss recognized in the Collateral Account and the Custody Account, to the extent such reporting is required by law, to the Internal Revenue Service authorities in the manner required by law. None of the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar or the Property Trustee shall have any tax reporting duties hereunder.

 

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ARTICLE XI

A MENDMENT

Section 11.01 Amendment.

The Company, when duly authorized by resolution of its Board of Directors, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, at any time and from time to time, may amend this Agreement by a written instrument, in form satisfactory to the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Property Trustee, as provided under Section 6.1(c) of the Declaration of Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment to the forms of PPS certificates attached as exhibits hereto shall be effective upon written notice thereof from the Company without the consent of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar setting forth the revised form or forms and confirming that such revised form or forms have been duly adopted in accordance with the Declaration of Trust; provided that no such amendment that adversely affects the rights, duties or immunities of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Registrar shall be effective against such adversely affected party without its consent.

Section 11.02 Execution of Amendments.

In executing any amendment permitted by this Article XI, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 8.3 of the Declaration of Trust with respect to the Property Trustee) shall be fully authorized and protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate of the Company to the effect that all of the requirements of Section 6.1(c) of the Declaration of Trust in respect of such amendment have been met and/or satisfied. The Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Property Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects their own respective rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

ARTICLE XII

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.01 No Waiver.

No failure on the part of the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar or any of their respective agents to exercise, and no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Company, the Securities Intermediary, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar or any of their respective agents of any right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. The remedies herein are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

 

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Section 12.02 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Trial by Jury.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. The Company, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trust hereby submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the courts of the State of New York (in each case sitting in New York County) for the purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trust irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection that they may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH OF THE PARTIES IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 12.03 Notices.

All notices, requests, consents and other communications provided for herein (including, without limitation, any modifications of, or waivers or consents under, this Agreement) shall be given or made in writing (including, without limitation, by telecopy) delivered to the intended recipient at the “ Address for Notices ” specified below its name on the signature pages hereof or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all such communications shall be deemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or, in the case of a mailed or telecopied notice, upon receipt, in each case given or addressed as aforesaid.

Section 12.04 Successors and Assigns.

This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors of the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trust.

Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, shall give any Person, other than the parties hereto and their permitted successors, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement.

Section 12.05 Severability.

If any provision hereof is invalid and unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) the other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect in such jurisdiction and shall be liberally construed in order to give effect to the intentions of the parties hereto as nearly as may be possible and (ii) the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

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Section 12.06 Expenses, Etc.

The Company agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar for:

(a) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar), in connection with (i) the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery or performance of this Agreement and (ii) any modification, supplement or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement;

(b) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with (i) any enforcement or proceedings resulting or incurred in connection with causing the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee to satisfy its obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts or the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement and (ii) the enforcement of this Section 12.06;

(c) all transfer, stamp, documentary or other similar taxes, assessments or charges levied by any governmental or revenue authority in respect of this Agreement or any other document referred to herein and all costs, expenses, taxes, assessments and, subject to Section 10.01(b) and the last sentence of Section 10.01, other charges incurred in connection with any filing, registration, recording or perfection of any security interest contemplated hereby;

(d) all reasonable fees and expenses of any agent or advisor appointed by the Collateral Agent and (except in the case of legal counsel) consented to by the Company under Section 10.11; and

(e) any other out-of-pocket costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar in connection with the performance of their duties hereunder.

Section 12.07 Security Interest Absolute.

All rights of the Collateral Agent and security interests hereunder, and all obligations of the Issuer Trust from time to time hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:

(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any provision of the Stock Purchase Contracts or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;

(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or any other term of, or any increase in the amount of, all or any of the Obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts, or any other amendment or waiver of any term of, or any consent to any departure from any requirement of, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or any Stock Purchase Contract or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto; or

(c) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or discharge of, a borrower, a guarantor or a pledgor.

 

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Section 12.08 Notice of Termination Event .

Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall deliver written notice to the Property Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Registrar. Upon the written request of the Collateral Agent or the Securities Registrar, the Company shall inform such party whether or not a Termination Event has occurred.

Section 12.09 Incorporation by Reference .

In connection with its execution and performance hereunder the Property Trustee is entitled to all rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits and indemnities provided to it under the Declaration of Trust.

Section 12.10 No Recourse .

It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this Agreement is executed and delivered by U.S. Bank National Association, not individually or personally but solely as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the Issuer Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings and agreements by U.S. Bank National Association but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Issuer Trust, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability U.S. Bank National Association, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no circumstances shall U.S. Bank National Association be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Issuer Trust under this Agreement or any other related documents.

Section 12.11 Amendment and Restatement .

This Agreement is an amendment and restatement of the Original Collateral Agreement and does not constitute, and is not intended by the parties to be, a novation of the Original Collateral Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, the Pledge previously granted and effected pursuant to the Original Collateral Agreement remains and shall continue in full force and effect on and after the date hereof with the priority in effect as established in the Original Collateral Agreement. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Original Collateral Agreement shall remain and continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.

* * * *

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

 

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

 

S UN T RUST B ANKS , I NC .     S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I
By:  

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

    By:   U.S. B ANK N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION , not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee
Name:   Jerome T. Lienhard, II      
Title:   Senior Vice President and Treasurer        
        By:  

/s/ Earl W. Dennison

        Name:   Earl W. Dennison
        Title:   Vice President

 

Address for Notices:      Address for Notices:   
SunTrust Banks, Inc.   U.S. Bank National Association,
303 Peachtree Street, N.E.           as Property Trustee of
Atlanta, GA 30308           SunTrust Preferred Capital I
Attention:   Treasurer      One Federal Street
Facsimile:   (404) 724-3749      3 rd Floor
       Boston, MA 02110
       Attention:   Corporate Trust Department
       Facsimile:   (617) 603-6667

 

T HE B ANK OF N EW Y ORK M ELLON T RUST C OMPANY , N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), as Collateral Agent, Securities Intermediary, Custodial Agent and Securities Registrar
By:  

/s/ Karen Z. Kelly

Name:   Karen Z. Kelly
Title:   Vice President

 

900 Ashwood Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention:   Corporate Trust Department
Facsimile:   (770) 698-5196

 

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Exhibit A

FORM OF NORMAL PPS CERTIFICATE

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No.                       

Number of Normal PPS:                         

CUSIP No. 86800X AA 6

S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I

N ORMAL PPS

This Normal PPS Certificate certifies that {                                } is the registered Holder of the number of Normal PPS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Normal PPS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Normal PPS represents a beneficial interest in SunTrust Preferred Capital I (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Normal PPS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Normal PPS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Normal PPS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Declaration of Trust ”), including the designation of the terms of the Normal PPS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Sponsor and U.S. Bank National Association, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of October 25, 2006 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein.

 

A-1


Section 5.13(b) of the Declaration of Trust provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Normal PPS may exchange Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS and Section 5.14(d) of the Declaration of Trust provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Normal PPS may elect to exchange Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped PPS and Capital PPS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Stripping Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Exchange Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Declaration of Trust and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Normal PPS Certificate.

 

SUNTRUST PREFERRED CAPITAL I, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees

By:  

 

Name:  

Date:

 

A-2


ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:                             Custodian                          (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of                                 
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

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

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Normal PPS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                     , to transfer said Normal PPS Certificates on the books of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:   Signature
  NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Normal PPS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

Signature Guarantee:

 

A-3


FORM OF STRIPPING NOTICE AND REQUEST

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

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

900 Ashford Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

 

  Re: Normal PPS of SunTrust Preferred Capital I

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(b) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I (as the same may be further amended and restated from time to time, the “ Declaration of Trust ”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

(ii) is transferring the related Normal PPS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:  
  Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:  
Name   Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address  

 

A-4


FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT EXCHANGE ELECTION

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

  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

900 Ashford Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

 

Re: Normal PPS of SunTrust Preferred Capital I

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(d) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I (as the same may be further amended and restated from time to time, the “Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(iv) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

(v) is transferring the related Normal PPS to the Securities Registrar in connection with a Contingent Exchange Election of such Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS, and

(vi) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded and the Collateral Agent shall return such Qualifying Treasury Securities to the Holder promptly after the Remarketing.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

 

Date:  
  Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:  
Name   Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address  

 

A-5


{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in

Number of Normal PPS

evidenced by this

Global Certificate

 

Amount of decrease in

Number of Normal PPS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate

 

Number of Normal PPS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate following such

decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized

signatory of Securities

Registrar

     
     
     

 

A-6


Exhibit B

FORM OF STRIPPED PPS CERTIFICATE

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No.                

Number of Stripped PPS:                     

CUSIP No.    86800X AB 4

S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I

S TRIPPED PPS

This Stripped PPS Certificate certifies that {                                        } is the registered Holder of the number of Stripped PPS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Stripped PPS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Stripped PPS represents a beneficial interest in SunTrust Preferred Capital I (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Stripped PPS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Stripped PPS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Stripped PPS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Declaration of Trust ”), including the designation of the terms of the Stripped PPS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Sponsor and U.S. Bank National Association, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of October 25, 2006 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein.

 

B-1


Section 5.13(d) of the Declaration of Trust provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PPS and Stripped PPS may exchange them for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities. The form of Recombination Notice required to be delivered in connection therewith is printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Declaration of Trust and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Stripped PPS Certificate.

 

SUNTRUST PREFERRED CAPITAL I, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees

By:  

 

Name:  

Date:

 

B-2


ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:                         Custodian                      (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of                                                              
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

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

 

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Stripped PPS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                             , to transfer said Stripped PPS Certificates on the books of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:   Signature
  NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Stripped PPS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

B-3


FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

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

    as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

900 Ashford Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

 

  Re: Stripped PPS and Capital PPS of SunTrust Preferred Capital I

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I (as the same may be further amended and restated from time to time, the “ Declaration of Trust ”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is transferring $             Liquidation Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for a Like Amount of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

(ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal PPS of a Like Amount.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:   
   Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:   
Name    Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address   

 

B-4


{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in

Number of Stripped

PPS evidenced by this

Global Certificate

 

Amount of decrease in

Number of Stripped PPS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate

 

Number of Stripped PPS

evidenced by this Global

Certificate following such

decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized

signatory of Securities

Registrar

     
     
     

 

B-5


Exhibit C

FORM OF CAPITAL PPS CERTIFICATE

{ For inclusion in Global Certificates only – THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

 

No.                

Number of Capital PPS:                     

CUSIP No.    86800X AC 2

S UN T RUST P REFERRED C APITAL I

C APITAL PPS

This Capital PPS Certificate certifies that {                                        } is the registered Holder of the number of Capital PPS set forth above { for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Capital PPS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Capital PPS represents a beneficial interest in SunTrust Preferred Capital I (the “ Issuer Trust ”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Capital PPS are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital PPS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital PPS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “ Declaration of Trust ”), including the designation of the terms of the Capital PPS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Sponsor and U.S. Bank National Association, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of October 25, 2006 (the “ Guarantee Agreement ”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein.

 

C-1


Section 5.13(d) of the Declaration of Trust provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PPS and Stripped PPS may exchange them for Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities and Section 5.14(f) of the Declaration of Trust provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital PPS may elect to dispose of Capital PPS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Recombination Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Disposition Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

A copy of each of the Declaration of Trust and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Capital PPS Certificate.

 

SUNTRUST PREFERRED CAPITAL I, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees

By:  

 

Name:  

Date:

 

C-2


ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM:    as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:                         Custodian                      (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of                                                              
TENANT:    as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:    as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

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

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.

or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Capital PPS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                             , to transfer said Capital PPS Certificates on the books of SunTrust Preferred Capital I, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:   Signature
  NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Capital PPS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

C-3


FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

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

    as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

900 Ashford Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

Re: Stripped PPS and Capital PPS SunTrust Preferred Capital I

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I (as the same may be further amended and restated from time to time, the “Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03(a) of the Collateral Agreement that the Holder:

(i) is transferring $             Liquidation Amount of Stripped PPS and Capital PPS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped PPS and Capital PPS for a Like Amount of Normal PPS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

(ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

(iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal PPS of a Like Amount.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

 

Date:   
   Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:   
Name    Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address   

 

C-4


FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT DISPOSITION ELECTION

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

    as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

900 Ashford Parkway

Suite 425

Atlanta, Georgia 30338

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

Re: Normal PPS of SunTrust Preferred Capital I

The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(f) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of October 25, 2006, of SunTrust Preferred Capital I (as the same may be further amended and restated from time to time, the “Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

(i) is transferring              Capital PPS to the Securities Registrar, and

(ii) hereby requests the payment to the Holder, if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, of an amount in cash for each such Capital PPS equal to the proceeds of the sale of $1,000 principal amount of Notes, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded.

All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Declaration of Trust have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

 

Date:   
   Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:   
Name    Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address   

 

C-5


{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

 

Amount of increase in

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evidenced by this

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Number of Capital PPS

evidenced by this Global

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evidenced by this Global

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decrease or increase

 

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Exhibit 99.4

 

 

 

A MENDMENT NO . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Dated as of June 25, 2009

of

SunTrust Capital I

 

 

 

 


This A MENDMENT N O . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST , dated as of June 25, 2009 (this “ Amendment ”), is entered into among (i) SunTrust Banks, Inc., a Georgia corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “ Sponsor ”), and (ii) Raymond D. Fortin, an individual, and Jerome T. Lienhard, II, an individual, and Michael Spingler, an individual, each having an address at c/o SunTrust Banks, Inc., 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (each, a “ Regular Trustee ,” and collectively, the “ Regular Trustees ”), pursuant to Section 12.1(g)(ii) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated May 12, 1997, of SunTrust Capital I.

R ECITAL OF THE R EGULAR T RUSTEES

The Trustees have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into that certain Declaration of Trust, dated April 16, 1997 (the “ Original Declaration of Trust ”), as amended and restated by that certain Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated May 12, 1997 (the “Declaration of Trust ”), and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on April 16, 1997, attached to the Original Declaration of Trust as Exhibit A (as heretofore amended, the “ Certificate of Trust ”).

The Regular Trustees desire to amend the Declaration of Trust pursuant to Section 12.1(g)(ii) of the Declaration of Trust and, in accordance with Section 12.1(b) of the Declaration of Trust, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Institutional Trustee ”) has received and accepted the opinion of counsel and officer’s certificates contemplated thereby.

N OW , THEREFORE , this Amendment witnesseth: For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

ARTICLE I

D EFINED T ERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Declaration of Trust.

ARTICLE II

A MENDMENTS TO THE D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Section 2.1 Amendment of Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust. Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

 

  (a) The following definition of “ Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate ” is added:

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

 

  (b) The following definition of “ Book-Entry Preferred Security ” is added:

 

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““ Book-Entry Preferred Security ” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 9.4.”

 

  (c) The following definition of “ Like Amount ” is added:

““ Like Amount ” means, with respect to an exchange pursuant to Section 9.10, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged therefor.”

 

  (d) The following definition of “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” is added:

““ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10.”

Section 2.2 Amendment of Section 3.8 of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (s) is hereby added to Section 3.8 of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(s) the taking of any action in connection with the retirement of the Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.10 of this Declaration.”

Section 2.3 Amendment of Section 3.10 of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (l) is hereby added to Section 3.10 of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(l) The Institutional Trustee may take any action in connection with the retirement of the Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.10 of this Declaration.”

Section 2.4 Amendment of Article VI of the Declaration of Trust. A new Section 9.10 is hereby added to Article VI of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“SECTION 9.10 Exchanges .

(a) If at any time the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ”) acquires any Preferred Securities (whether as a Preferred Security Beneficial Owner or as a Holder of a Definitive Preferred Security Certificate), such Sponsor Affiliated Owner shall have the right to deliver to the Institutional Trustee or its designee all or such portion of its Preferred Securities as it elects and receive, in exchange therefor, a Like Amount of Debentures. Such election (i) shall be exercisable effective by such Sponsor Affiliated Owner delivering to the Institutional Trustee a written notice of such election (A) specifying the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities with respect to which such election is being made and (B) the date on which such exchange shall occur, which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the receipt by the Institutional Trustee of such election notice, and which may be any date other than the record date for any Distribution or a date from such record date to and including any date upon which such Distribution is made and (ii) shall be conditioned upon such Sponsor Affiliated Owner having delivered or caused to be delivered to the Institutional Trustee or its designee the Preferred Securities which are the subject of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York City time, on the date on which such exchange is to occur. After the exchange, such Preferred Securities will be cancelled and will no longer be deemed to be outstanding for any

 

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purpose and all rights of the Sponsor or its Affiliate(s) with respect to such Preferred Securities will cease, including accumulated but unpaid Distributions thereon. In the event such Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, upon such exchange the Institutional Trustee, in its capacity as Securities Registrar, shall cause an annotation to be made on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates evidencing such Book-Entry Preferred Securities to evidence the reduction in the liquidation amount thereof resulting from such cancellation.

(b) Notwithstanding anything else in this Declaration to the contrary, in order to effectuate the exchanges contemplated by Section 9.10(a) above, the Trust is hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform, and the Sponsor, the Institutional Trustee, any Regular Trustee or the Securities Registrar, on behalf of the Trust, acting singly or collectively, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust, an exchange agreement, cancellation letter, and any and all other documents, agreements, or certificates contemplated by or related to the exchanges made pursuant to Section 9.10(a) above, in each case without further vote or approval of any other Person.

Section 2.5 Amendment of Section 12.1(g) of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (vi) is hereby added to Section 12.1(g):

“(vi) to provide for the retirement of the Preferred Securities held by a Sponsor Affiliated Owner.”

ARTICLE III

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.1 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 3.2 Governing Law.

This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without regard to conflicts of laws principles).

Section 3.3 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, by each party thereto shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 3.4 Effect of Headings.

The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

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Section 3.5 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be a part of and govern the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

* * * *

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

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , this Amendment has been executed and is effective as of the day and year first above written.

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor
By:  

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

 

Name: Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

/s/ Raymond D. Fortin            

     Raymond D. Fortin,
    as Regular Trustee

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II            

     Jerome T. Lienhard, II,
    as Regular Trustee

/s/ Michael Spingler            

     Michael Spingler
    as Regular Trustee

Exhibit 99.5

 

 

 

A MENDMENT NO . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Dated as of June 25, 2009

of

SunTrust Capital III

 

 

 


This A MENDMENT N O . 1 TO A MENDED AND R ESTATED D ECLARATION OF T RUST , dated as of June 25, 2009 (this “ Amendment ”), is entered into among (i) SunTrust Banks, Inc., a Georgia corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “ Sponsor ”), and (ii) Raymond D. Fortin, an individual, and Jerome T. Lienhard, II, an individual, and Michael Spingler, an individual, each having an address at c/o SunTrust Banks, Inc., 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (each, a “ Regular Trustee ,” and collectively, the “ Regular Trustees ”), pursuant to Section 12.1(g)(ii) of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated March 10, 1998, of SunTrust Capital III.

R ECITAL OF THE R EGULAR T RUSTEES

The Trustees have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust (the “ Issuer Trust ”), pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into that certain Declaration of Trust, dated February 10, 1998 (the “ Original Declaration of Trust ”), as amended and restated by that certain Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated March 10, 1998 (the “Declaration of Trust ”), and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on February 10, 1998, attached to the Original Declaration of Trust as Exhibit A (as heretofore amended, the “ Certificate of Trust ”).

The Regular Trustees desire to amend the Declaration of Trust pursuant to Section 12.1(g)(ii) of the Declaration of Trust and, in accordance with Section 12.1(b) of the Declaration of Trust, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “ Institutional Trustee ”) has received and accepted the opinion of counsel and officer’s certificates contemplated thereby.

N OW , THEREFORE , this Amendment witnesseth: For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

ARTICLE I

D EFINED T ERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Declaration of Trust.

ARTICLE II

A MENDMENTS TO THE D ECLARATION OF T RUST

Section 2.1 Amendment of Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust. Section 1.1 of the Declaration of Trust is hereby amended as follows:

 

  (a) The following definition of “ Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate ” is added:

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

 

  (b) The following definition of “ Book-Entry Preferred Security ” is added:

 

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““ Book-Entry Preferred Security ” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 9.4.”

 

  (c) The following definition of “ Like Amount ” is added:

““ Like Amount ” means, with respect to an exchange pursuant to Section 9.10, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged therefor.”

 

  (d) The following definition of “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” is added:

““ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10.”

Section 2.2 Amendment of Section 3.8 of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (s) is hereby added to Section 3.8 of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(s) the taking of any action in connection with the retirement of the Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.10 of this Declaration.”

Section 2.3 Amendment of Section 3.10 of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (l) is hereby added to Section 3.10 of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“(l) The Institutional Trustee may take any action in connection with the retirement of the Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.10 of this Declaration.”

Section 2.4 Amendment of Article VI of the Declaration of Trust. A new Section 9.10 is hereby added to Article VI of the Declaration of Trust as follows:

“SECTION 9.10 Exchanges .

(a) If at any time the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ”) acquires any Preferred Securities (whether as a Preferred Security Beneficial Owner or as a Holder of a Definitive Preferred Security Certificate), such Sponsor Affiliated Owner shall have the right to deliver to the Institutional Trustee or its designee all or such portion of its Preferred Securities as it elects and receive, in exchange therefor, a Like Amount of Debentures. Such election (i) shall be exercisable effective by such Sponsor Affiliated Owner delivering to the Institutional Trustee a written notice of such election (A) specifying the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities with respect to which such election is being made and (B) the date on which such exchange shall occur, which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the receipt by the Institutional Trustee of such election notice, and which may be any date other than the record date for any Distribution or a date from such record date to and including any date upon which such Distribution is made and (ii) shall be conditioned upon such Sponsor Affiliated Owner having delivered or caused to be delivered to the Institutional Trustee or its designee the Preferred Securities which are the subject of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York City time, on the date on which such exchange is to occur. After the exchange, such Preferred Securities will be cancelled and will no longer be deemed to be outstanding for any

 

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purpose and all rights of the Sponsor or its Affiliate(s) with respect to such Preferred Securities will cease, including accumulated but unpaid Distributions thereon. In the event such Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, upon such exchange the Institutional Trustee, in its capacity as Securities Registrar, shall cause an annotation to be made on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates evidencing such Book-Entry Preferred Securities to evidence the reduction in the liquidation amount thereof resulting from such cancellation.

(b) Notwithstanding anything else in this Declaration to the contrary, in order to effectuate the exchanges contemplated by Section 9.10(a) above, the Trust is hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform, and the Sponsor, the Institutional Trustee, any Regular Trustee or the Securities Registrar, on behalf of the Trust, acting singly or collectively, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust, an exchange agreement, cancellation letter, and any and all other documents, agreements, or certificates contemplated by or related to the exchanges made pursuant to Section 9.10(a) above, in each case without further vote or approval of any other Person.

Section 2.5 Amendment of Section 12.1(g) of the Declaration of Trust. A new clause (vi) is hereby added to Section 12.1(g):

“(vi) to provide for the retirement of the Preferred Securities held by a Sponsor Affiliated Owner.”

ARTICLE III

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.1 Separability Clause.

In case any provision in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 3.2 Governing Law.

This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without regard to conflicts of laws principles).

Section 3.3 Successors and Assigns.

All covenants and agreements in the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, by each party thereto shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 3.4 Effect of Headings.

The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

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Section 3.5 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the Trust Indenture Act to be a part of and govern the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to the Declaration of Trust, as amended by this Amendment, as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

* * * *

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

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , this Amendment has been executed and is effective as of the day and year first above written.

 

SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor
By:  

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II

 

Name: Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

/s/ Raymond D. Fortin            

     Raymond D. Fortin,
    as Regular Trustee

/s/ Jerome T. Lienhard, II            

     Jerome T. Lienhard, II,
    as Regular Trustee

/s/ Michael Spingler            

     Michael Spingler
    as Regular Trustee

Exhibit 99.6

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST

among

SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.,

as Sponsor

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Property Trustee

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Delaware Trustee

and

THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN

 

 

Dated as of June 29, 2009

 

 

SUNTRUST CAPITAL XVI

(TO BE KNOWN AS SUNTRUST CAPITAL VIII)

 

 

 


Certain Sections of this Declaration of Trust relating to Sections 310 through 318

of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

Trust Indenture

Act Section

   Declaration of Trust
Section

(§)310 (a)(1)

   8.7

  (a)(2)

   8.7

  (a)(3)

   8.9

  (a)(4)

   2.7 (a)(ii)

  (b)

   8.8

(§)311 (a)

   8.13

  (b)

   8.13

(§)312 (a)

   5.8

  (b)

   5.8

  (c)

   5.8

(§)313 (a)

   8.15 (a)

  (a)(4)

   8.15 (b)

  (b)

   8.15 (b)

  (c)

   10.8

  (d)

   8.15 (c)

(§)314 (a)

   8.16

  (b)

   Not Applicable

  (c)(1)

   8.17

  (c)(2)

   8.17

  (c)(3)

   Not Applicable

  (d)

   Not Applicable

  (e)

   1.1, 8.17

(§)315 (a)

   8.1 (a), 8.3 (a)

  (b)

   8.2, 10.8

  (c)

   8.1 (d)

  (d)

   8.1, 8.3

  (e)

   10.1

  (a)

   Not Applicable

(§)316 (a)(1)(A)

   8.1 (e)(iii)

  (a)(1)(B)

   5.13 (b)

  (a)(2)

   Not Applicable

  (b)

   5.13

  (c)

   6.7

 

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(§)317 (a)(1)

   Not Applicable

  (a)(2)

   Not Applicable

            (b)

   5.10

(§)318 (a)

   10.10

 

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

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I. Defined Terms

   1

        Section 1.1.

   Definitions.    1

ARTICLE II. Continuation Of The Issuer Trust

   11

        Section 2.1.

   Name.    11

        Section 2.2.

   Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.    11

        Section 2.3.

   Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.    11

        Section 2.4.

   Issuance of the Preferred Securities.    11

        Section 2.5.

   Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Debentures.    12

        Section 2.6.

   Continuation of Trust.    12

        Section 2.7.

   Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.    12

        Section 2.8.

   Assets of Trust.    16

        Section 2.9.

   Title to Trust Property.    16

ARTICLE III. Payment Account

   16

        Section 3.1.

   Payment Account.    16

ARTICLE IV. Distributions; Redemption

   17

        Section 4.1.

   Distributions.    17

        Section 4.2.

   Redemption.    18

        Section 4.3.

   Subordination of Common Securities.    20

        Section 4.4.

   Payment Procedures.    21

        Section 4.5.

   Tax Returns and Reports.    21

        Section 4.6.

   Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust.    21

        Section 4.7.

   Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.    21

        Section 4.8.

   Liability of the Holder of Common Securities.    22

        Section 4.9.

   Exchanges.    22

ARTICLE V. Trust Securities Certificates

   23

        Section 5.1.

   Initial Ownership.    23

        Section 5.2.

   The Trust Securities Certificates.    23

        Section 5.3.

   Execution, Delivery and Authentication of Trust Securities Certificates.    23

        Section 5.4.

   Book-Entry Preferred Securities.    24

        Section 5.5.

   Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.    26

        Section 5.6.

   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.    27

        Section 5.7.

   Persons Deemed Holders.    27

        Section 5.8.

   Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses.    27

        Section 5.9.

   Maintenance of Office or Agency.    28

        Section 5.10.

   Appointment of Paying Agent.    28

        Section 5.11.

   Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor.    29

        Section 5.12.

   Notices to Clearing Agency.    29

        Section 5.13.

   Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults.    30

 

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ARTICLE VI. Acts Of Holders; Meetings; Voting

   32

        Section 6.1.

   Limitations on Voting Rights.    32

        Section 6.2.

   Notice of Meetings.    33

        Section 6.3.

   Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities.    33

        Section 6.4.

   Voting Rights.    33

        Section 6.5.

   Proxies, etc.    33

        Section 6.6.

   Holder Action by Written Consent.    34

        Section 6.7.

   Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.    34

        Section 6.8.

   Acts of Holders.    34

        Section 6.9.

   Inspection of Records.    35

ARTICLE VII. Representations And Warranties

   35

        Section 7.1.

   Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.    35

        Section 7.2.

   Representations and Warranties of Sponsor.    37

ARTICLE VIII. The Issuer Trustees

   37

        Section 8.1.

   Certain Duties and Responsibilities.    37

        Section 8.2.

   Certain Notices.    39

        Section 8.3.

   Certain Rights of Property Trustee.    40

        Section 8.4.

   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.    42

        Section 8.5.

   May Hold Securities.    42

        Section 8.6.

   Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.    42

        Section 8.7.

   Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees.    43

        Section 8.8.

   Conflicting Interests.    44

        Section 8.9.

   Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.    44

        Section 8.10.

   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.    45

        Section 8.11.

   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.    46

        Section 8.12.

   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.    47

        Section 8.13.

   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Sponsor or Issuer Trust.    47

        Section 8.14.

   Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.    47

        Section 8.15.

   Reports by Property Trustee.    48

        Section 8.16.

   Reports to the Property Trustee.    49

        Section 8.17.

   Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.    49

        Section 8.18.

   Number of Issuer Trustees.    49

        Section 8.19.

   Delegation of Power.    49

ARTICLE IX. Termination, Liquidation And Merger

   50

        Section 9.1.

   Termination Upon Expiration Date.    50

        Section 9.2.

   Early Termination.    50

        Section 9.3.

   Termination.    50

        Section 9.4.

   Liquidation.    51

        Section 9.5.

   Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust.    52

ARTICLE X. Miscellaneous Provisions

   53

        Section 10.1.

   Limitation of Rights of Holders.    53

 

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        Section 10.2.

   Amendment.    53

        Section 10.3.

   Separability.    55

        Section 10.4.

   Governing Law.    55

        Section 10.5.

   Payments Due on Non-Business Day.    56

        Section 10.6.

   Successors.    56

        Section 10.7.

   Headings.    56

        Section 10.8.

   Reports, Notices and Demands.    56

        Section 10.9.

   Agreement Not to Petition.    57

        Section 10.10.

   Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.    57

        Section 10.11.

   Acceptance of Terms of Declaration of Trust, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture.    58

 

Exhibit A    Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B    Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit C    Form of Amended and Restated Expense Agreement
Exhibit D    Form of Preferred Securities Certificate

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST, dated as of June 29, 2009, among SUNTRUST BANKS, INC., a Georgia corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “ Sponsor ”), U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “ Property Trustee ”), U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Delaware trustee (in such capacity, the “ Delaware Trustee ”), RAYMOND D. FORTIN, an individual, JEROME T. LIENHARD, II, an individual, and MICHAEL SPINGLER, an individual, each of whose address is c/o SunTrust Banks, Inc., 303 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308 (each an “ Administrative Trustee ” and collectively the “ Administrative Trustees ”) (the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees being referred to collectively as the “ Issuer Trustees ”), and the several Holders, as hereinafter defined. This Declaration of Trust shall be deemed effective immediately prior to the Effective Time.

W ITNESSETH

W HEREAS , the Sponsor and the Issuer Trustees have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust under the

name “SunTrust Capital XVI” pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into the Declaration of Trust, dated as of August 29, 2006, as heretofore amended (the “ Original Declaration of Trust ”), and by the execution and filing by the Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on August 29, 2006, attached as

Exhibit A ;

W HEREAS , the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Declaration of Trust in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the change of the Issuer Trust’s name to SunTrust Capital VIII, with effect at and from the Effective Time, (ii) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Sponsor pursuant to the Agreement of Merger at the Effective Time and (iii) the issuance of the Preferred Securities by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Agreement of Merger at the Effective Time;

N OW T HEREFORE , in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates the Current Declaration of Trust in its entirety and agrees as follows:

ARTICLE I.

D EFINED T ERMS

Section 1.1. Definitions.

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

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

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


(c) The words “include”, “includes” and “including” are deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”;

(d) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted in the United States at the date or time 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 Sponsor;

(e) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section” or an “Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section or an Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Declaration of Trust; and

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

2006 Declaration ” means that certain Declaration of Trust of the 2006 Trust, dated as of August 17, 2004, as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of August 29, 2006, as further amended and restated by the Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated as of December 6, 2006.

2006 Trust ” means SunTrust Capital VIII, a Delaware statutory trust created pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into the 2006 Declaration, and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on August 18, 2004, which was amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Trust, filed on August 29, 2006.

Act ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.

Additional Amount ” means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid by the Sponsor on a Like Amount of Debentures for such period.

Additional Sums ” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6 of the Indenture.

Administrative Trustee ” means each of the individuals identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the preamble to this Declaration of Trust solely in such individual’s capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in such individual’s individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee’s successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.

Affiliate ” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or

 

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indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

“Agreement of Merger” means the Agreement of Merger, dated as of June 29, 2009, between the 2006 Trust and the Issuer Trust.

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Book-Entry Preferred Security, the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Authorized Officer ” of any Person means any officer of such Person or any Person authorized by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of such Person.

Bankruptcy Event ” means, with respect to any Person:

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

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

Bankruptcy Laws ” has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.

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

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

Book-Entry Preferred Security ” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.4.

 

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

Certificate Depository Agreement ” means the Issuer Letter of Representations between the 2006 Trust and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date.

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

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

Closing Date ” has the meaning specified in the 2006 Declaration.

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

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

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

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

Corporate Trust Office ” means (i) when used with respect to the Property Trustee, the office of the Property Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at U.S. Bank National Association, One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110, Attn: Corporate Trust Department, and (ii) when used with respect to the Debenture Trustee, the principal office of the Debenture Trustee located at U.S. Bank National Association, One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110, Attn: Corporate Trust Department.

Debenture Event of Default ” means any “ Event of Default ” specified in Section 5.1(1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of the Indenture.

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

 

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Debenture Repayment Date ” means a Repayment Date as defined in the Second Supplemental Indenture.

Debenture Trustee ” means the Person identified as the “ Trustee ” in the Indenture, solely in its capacity as Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor Trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.

Debentures ” means the Sponsor’s 6.100% Extendible Junior Subordinated Notes, issued pursuant to the Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture.

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

Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates ” means either or both (as the context requires) of (i) Preferred Securities Certificates issued as Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.2 or 5.4, and (ii) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.2, 5.4 or 5.5.

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

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

Distribution Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).

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

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company.

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

Effective Time ” has the meaning specified in the Agreement of Merger.

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

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

 

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

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

(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this Declaration of Trust (other than those specified in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer Trustees and to the Sponsor by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “ Notice of Default ” hereunder; or

(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within 90 days thereof.

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

Expense Agreement ” means the Amended and Restated Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities, dated as of the date hereof, between the Sponsor and the Issuer Trust, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C , as amended from time to time.

Expiration Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.

Extendible Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement ” means the note purchase agreement executed and delivered by the Sponsor and the 2006 Trust contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of the 2006 Declaration, pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to issue and the Issuer Trust agreed to purchase the Debentures.

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

Final Repayment Date ” means the Final Repayment Date as specified in the Second Supplemental Indenture (as it may have been extended pursuant to the terms thereof).

Guarantee Agreement ” means the Guarantee Agreement, executed and delivered by the Sponsor and U.S. Bank National Association, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Declaration of Trust, for the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities.

 

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Holder ” means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

Indenture ” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of October 25, 2006, between the Sponsor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Investment Company Act ” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Issuer Trust ” means the Delaware statutory trust known as “SunTrust Capital XVI” which was formed on August 29, 2006 under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to the Original Declaration of Trust and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued pursuant to the Current Declaration of Trust and this Declaration of Trust.

Issuer Trustees ” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Declaration of Trust.

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

Like Amount ” means (a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed or repaid in accordance with the Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust Securities, (b) with respect to an exchange pursuant to Section 4.9, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged therefor, (c) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures are distributed, and (d) with respect to any distribution of Additional Amounts to Holders of Trust Securities, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities in respect of which such distribution is made.

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

Liquidation Date ” means the date of the dissolution of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4.

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

Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities ” or “ Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities ” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be, representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all then Outstanding Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be.

 

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Merger ” means the merger of the 2006 Trust with and into the Issuer Trust, pursuant to the Agreement of Merger.

Officers’ Certificate ” means, with respect to any person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of such Person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Declaration of Trust shall include:

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

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

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

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

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee of the Sponsor or an Affiliate of the Sponsor, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee.

Original Declaration of Trust ” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Declaration of Trust.

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

(a) Trust Securities theretofore cancelled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;

(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent; provided that, if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Declaration of Trust; and

(c) Trust Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.11;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by the Sponsor, any Issuer Trustee or any Affiliate of the Sponsor or of any Issuer Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee shall be

 

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protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Preferred Securities that such Issuer Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded, and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the Sponsor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor.

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

Paying Agent ” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.10 and shall initially be U.S. Bank National Association.

Payment Account ” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by or on behalf of the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in respect of the Debentures will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2.

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

Predecessor Common Securities ” means the issued and outstanding common securities of the 2006 Trust.

Predecessor Common Securities Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing Predecessor Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B to the 2006 Declaration.

Predecessor Preferred Securities ” means the issued and outstanding preferred securities of the 2006 Trust.

Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificate ” means a certificate evidencing Predecessor Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D to the 2006 Declaration.

Preferred Securities Certificate ” means (i) a Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificate issued prior to the Effective time pursuant to the 2006 Declaration or (ii) a certificate evidencing Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D .

Preferred Security ” means a preferred undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in

 

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this Declaration of Trust, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the extent provided herein.

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

Prospectus ” means the prospectus, dated October 18, 2006, of the Sponsor and the Issuer Trust relating to the offering of the Preferred Securities, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement, dated November 29, 2006.

Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Declaration of Trust; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust Securities.

Redemption Price ” means, with respect to any Trust Security, the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by the Sponsor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of Debentures or Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security.

Relevant Trustee ” has the meaning specified in Section 8.10.

Responsible Officer ” means, with respect to the Property Trustee, any officer of the Property Trustee assigned to its corporate trust services department, or with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.

Second Supplemental Indenture ” means the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 6, 2006, between the Sponsor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

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

Securities Register ” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 5.5.

Sponsor ” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Declaration of Trust.

Sponsor Affiliated Owner ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.9

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

 

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Trust Property ” means, following the effectiveness of the Merger, (a) the Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit in, or owing to, the Payment Account, and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to this Declaration of Trust.

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

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

ARTICLE II.

C ONTINUATION O F T HE I SSUER T RUST

Section 2.1. Name.

The trust established under the Original Declaration of Trust was originally known as “SunTrust Capital XVI” at all times prior to the Effective Time. With effect from the Effective Time, the Trust continued hereby shall be known as SunTrust Capital VIII, as such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Issuer Trustees, in which name the Issuer Trustees may conduct the business of the Issuer Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and sue and be sued.

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

The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is 300 Delaware Avenue, 9th Floor, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders, the Sponsor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is 303 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308.

Section 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.

The Sponsor deposited the sum of $10 in connection with the Original Declaration of Trust, which constituted the initial Trust Property. The Sponsor shall pay organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Issuer Trustee. The Sponsor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.

Section 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities.

The Sponsor, on behalf of the Issuer Trust and pursuant to the Original Declaration of Trust, executed and delivered the Agreement of Merger. As provided in the Agreement of Merger, at the Effective Time, each of the Predecessor Preferred Securities will be converted in the Merger into one Preferred Security, as a result of which 1,000,000 Preferred Securities, having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $1,000,000,000, shall be issued and outstanding immediately following the Merger. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Merger

 

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evidenced Predecessor Preferred Securities shall thereafter evidence the Preferred Securities into which such Predecessor Preferred Securities shall have been converted.

Section 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities.

As provided in the Agreement of Merger, at the Effective Time, each of the Predecessor Common Securities will be converted in the Merger into one Common Security, as a result of which 10 Common Securities, having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $10,000, shall be issued and outstanding immediately following the Merger. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Merger evidenced Predecessor Common Securities shall thereafter evidence the Common Securities into which such Predecessor Common Securities shall have been converted.

Section 2.6. Continuation of Trust.

The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are (a) to issue the Trust Securities pursuant to the Agreement of Merger, (b) to hold the Debentures acquired pursuant to the Agreement of Merger and (c) to engage in those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The Sponsor hereby reaffirms the appointment of the Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the respective Issuer Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. Each of the Merger, the Agreement of Merger and the Certificate of Merger referenced in the Agreement of Merger have been fully authorized by the Original Declaration of Trust and are hereby approved and ratified in all respects. Without the need for consent or action of any person, the Merger may be consummated, and the Issuer Trust may execute, deliver, perform and file, if applicable, the Agreement of Merger and Certificate of Merger.

Section 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.

(a) The Issuer Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms of this Declaration of Trust. Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section, and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Issuer Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the Issuer Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees, as the case may be, under this Declaration of Trust, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including, without limitation, the following:

 

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

(A) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or a series of transactions pursuant thereto;

(B) the issuance of the Trust Securities;

(C) causing the Issuer Trust to execute, deliver, and perform, as applicable, the Expense Agreement, the Certificate Depository Agreement, the Extendible Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, and such other agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Issuer Trust;

(D) assisting in the registration of the Preferred Securities under the Securities Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws and the qualification of this Declaration of Trust as a trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;

(E) assisting in the listing of the Preferred Securities, if applicable, upon such securities exchange or exchanges as shall be determined by the Sponsor, with the registration of the Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act and with the preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing, as applicable;

(F) assisting in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the Holders in accordance with this Declaration of Trust;

(G) the consent to the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with this Declaration of Trust (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld);

(H) the execution of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Declaration of Trust;

(I) application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust;

(J) unless otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act or the Trust Indenture Act, executing on behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone or together with the other Administrative Trustee) any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to execute pursuant to this Declaration of Trust; and

 

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(K) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Issuer Trustees may from time to time determine to be necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Declaration of Trust.

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

(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;

(B) the receipt of the Debentures;

(C) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments made in respect of the Debentures and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

(D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts distributable to the Holders in respect of the Trust Securities;

(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Debentures;

(F) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the Holders in accordance with this Declaration of Trust;

(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Declaration of Trust;

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

(I) performing the duties of the Property Trustee set forth in this Declaration of Trust; and

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

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

 

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(b) So long as this Declaration of Trust remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Issuer Trustees (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this Declaration of Trust, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt, (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust Property, (vi) apply any of the Trust Property or its proceeds other than as provided herein, (vii) acquire any assets other than the Trust Property, (viii) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein, (ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the terms of the Trust Securities in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly authorized in this Declaration of Trust or by the terms of the Trust Securities) or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the Issuer Trust other than the Trust Securities. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their capacity as Holders.

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

(i) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or a series of transactions pursuant thereto;

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

(iii) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of an application, if applicable, to the New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the Nasdaq National Market for listing upon notice of issuance of any Preferred Securities;

 

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

(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Agreement of Merger; and

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

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, and will not be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Declaration of Trust, that they determine in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. In no event shall the Sponsor or the Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust or the Holders for any failure to comply with this Section that results from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof.

Section 2.8. Assets of Trust.

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

Section 2.9. Title to Trust Property.

Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Declaration of Trust.

ARTICLE III.

P AYMENT A CCOUNT

Section 3.1. Payment Account.

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

 

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(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit (or cause to be deposited) in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.

ARTICLE IV.

D ISTRIBUTIONS ; R EDEMPTION

Section 4.1. Distributions.

(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property, and Distributions (including of Additional Amounts) will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest (including of Additional Interest, as defined in the Indenture) are made on the Debentures. Accordingly:

(i) Following the Merger, Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made in accordance with this Section 4.1, which represents the same terms and conditions as the payment of Distributions in respect of the Predecessor Preferred Securities under the 2006 Declaration. Distributions shall be cumulative, and will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Issuer Trust available for the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall have accumulated from December 6, 2006, and, except in the event (and to the extent) that the Sponsor exercises its right to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, having commenced on June 15, 2007 and through and including December 15, 2036, and monthly in arrears on the 15th day of each month thereafter, commencing on January 15, 2037. As of the date hereof, the 2006 Trust is current on all Distributions in respect of Predecessor Preferred Securities and no such Distributions are otherwise due or payable as of the date hereof. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and, in the case of dates prior to December 15, 2036, without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which such payment was originally payable (each date on which distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a “ Distribution Date ”).

(ii) In the event (and to the extent) that the Sponsor exercises its right under the Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures, Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be deferred but shall continue to accumulate. Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be payable on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities at the rate per annum equal to the then applicable rate of interest on the Debentures. The amount of Distributions payable for any period from December 6, 2006 to December 15, 2036 shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount of Distributions payable for any period after December 15, 2036 shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day

 

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months and the actual number of days elapsed. The amount of Distributions payable for any period shall include any Additional Amounts in respect of such period.

(iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent on behalf of the Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Distributions.

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

Section 4.2. Redemption.

(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on each Debenture Repayment Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.

(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date (or, in the case of a Debenture Repayment Date, not less than 10 nor more than 15 Business Days prior to the Redemption Date) to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of redemption shall state:

(i) the Redemption Date;

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

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

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

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cease to accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in Section 4.2(d) below; and

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

The Issuer Trust in issuing the Trust Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of the Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related materials.

(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has the Redemption Price then on hand and available for the payment of such Redemption Price, including, in the case of a cash redemption, funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price and, in the case of a Redemption using Debentures, funds on hand and available to redeem or repay such Debentures.

(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with respect to Book-Entry Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities, to the extent available therefor, the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to Preferred Securities that are not Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available therefor, the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and the Redemption Price deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Sponsor pursuant

 

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to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

(e) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated pro rata to the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based upon the relative Liquidation Amounts of such classes. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called for redemption by any method the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided that so long as the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Declaration of Trust, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities that has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.

(a) Payment of Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) on, the Redemption Price of, and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of the Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(e), pro rata among the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; provided , however , that if on any Distribution Date, Redemption Date or Liquidation Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(1) of the Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including any Additional Amounts) on, Redemption Price of, or Liquidation Distribution in respect of any Common Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, or in the case of payment of the Liquidation Distribution the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all Outstanding Preferred Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) on, or the Redemption Price of, the Preferred Securities then due and payable.

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any such Event of Default under this Declaration of Trust until the effect of all such Events of Default with respect to the Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all such Events of Default under this Declaration of Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and not on behalf of the Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.

Section 4.4. Payment Procedures.

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

Section 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.

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

Section 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust.

Upon receipt under the Debentures of Additional Sums, the Property Trustee shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the Issuer Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority, which were included in such Additional Sums.

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Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities (or any Owner with respect thereto) shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or Owner) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture or Section 5.13 of this Declaration of Trust.

Section 4.8. Liability of the Holder of Common Securities.

As permitted under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, the Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations of the Issuer Trust as set forth in the Expense Agreement.

Section 4.9. Exchanges.

(a) If at any time the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “ Sponsor Affiliated Owner ”) is the Owner of any Preferred Securities, such Sponsor Affiliated Owner shall have the right to deliver to the Property Trustee all or such portion of its Preferred Securities as it elects and receive, in exchange therefor, a Like Amount of Debentures. Such election (i) shall be exercisable effective by such Sponsor Affiliated Owner delivering to the Property Trustee a written notice of such election (A) specifying the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities with respect to which such election is being made and (B) the date on which such exchange shall occur, which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the receipt by the Property Trustee of such election notice, and which may be any date other than the record date for any Distribution or a date from such record date to and including the Distribution Date for such Distribution and (ii) shall be conditioned upon such Sponsor Affiliated Owner having delivered or caused to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee the Preferred Securities which are the subject of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York City time, on the date on which such exchange is to occur. After the exchange, such Preferred Securities will be cancelled and will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and all rights of the Sponsor or its Affiliate(s) with respect to such Preferred Securities will cease, including accumulated but unpaid Distributions thereon. In the event such Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, upon such exchange the Property Trustee, in its capacity as Securities Registrar, shall cause an annotation to be made on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates evidencing such Book-Entry Preferred Securities to evidence the reduction in the liquidation amount thereof resulting from such cancellation.

(b) Notwithstanding anything else in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, in order to effectuate the exchanges contemplated by Section 4.9(a) above, the Issuer Trust is hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform, and the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, any Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, acting singly or collectively, is hereby authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Issuer Trust, an exchange agreement, cancellation letter, and any and all other documents, agreements, or certificates contemplated by or related to the exchanges made pursuant to Section 4.9(a) above, in each case without further vote or approval of any other Person.

 

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ARTICLE V.

T RUST S ECURITIES C ERTIFICATES

Section 5.1. Initial Ownership.

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

Section 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates.

(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The Trust Securities Certificates (other than the Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificates and Predecessor Common Securities Certificates) shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust by manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Declaration of Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 5.5.

(b) Pursuant to the 2006 Declaration, upon their original issuance, the Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificates were issued in the form of one or more Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of DTC, as Clearing Agency, or its nominee and deposited with DTC or the Securities Registrar as custodian for DTC for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of the Owners thereof (or such other accounts as they may direct).

Section 5.3. Execution, Delivery and Authentication of Trust Securities Certificates.

After the Effective Time, an Administrative Trustee may cause additional Preferred Securities to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Sponsor, such written order executed by one authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized denominations; provided however that no such additional Preferred Securities shall be issued unless such Administrative Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such issuance will not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

 

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Each Preferred Securities Certificate (other than a Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be dated the date of its authentication.

No Preferred Securities Certificate (other than a Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be entitled to any benefit under this Declaration of Trust or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Preferred Securities Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in the form attached as Exhibit D executed by the Property Trustee by the manual signature of one of its Authorized Officers, and such certificate upon any Preferred Securities Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Preferred Securities Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 5.4. Book-Entry Preferred Securities.

(a) Each Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate issued under this Declaration of Trust shall be registered in the name of the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall constitute a single Preferred Securities Certificate for all purposes of this Declaration of Trust.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Declaration of Trust, no Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate may be exchanged in whole or in part for Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates registered, and no transfer of a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Clearing Agency (i) has notified the Issuer Trust that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days of this notice or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at a time when the Clearing Agency is required to be so registered to act as clearing agent and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days after the Issuer Trust has learned that the Clearing Agency has ceased to be so registered, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing a Debenture Event of Default, (C) the Sponsor in its sole discretion determines that such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate will be so exchangeable or transferable, or (D) Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities advise the Property Trustee in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (A), (B), (C) or (D) above, the Property Trustee shall notify the Clearing Agency and instruct the Clearing Agency to notify all Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities and the Administrative Trustees of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of such class or classes, as applicable, requesting the same.

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Article V or (ii) the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall be reduced, subject to Section 5.2, or increased by an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that portion of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by such other Preferred Securities Certificates to be so exchanged for Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon surrender to the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Securities Registrar, the Issuer Trustees or the Administrative Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates, the Issuer Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates as Holders. The Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them.

(d) Every Preferred Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article V or Article IV or otherwise, shall be executed and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, unless such Preferred Securities Certificate is registered in the name of a Person other than the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate or a nominee thereof.

(e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as registered owner of a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, shall be the Holder of such Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate for all purposes under this Agreement and the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate, and Owners with respect to a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trustees shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Declaration of Trust relating to the Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificates (including the payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and the giving of instructions or directions by Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby) as the sole Holder of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof. None of the Issuer Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the Clearing Agency.

The rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law, the Applicable Procedures and agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 5.4(b), the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and

 

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receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency Participants, and none of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trustees shall have any responsibility or obligation with respect thereto.

Section 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.

The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.9, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Trust Securities Certificates (the “ Securities Register ”) in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Trust Securities (the “ Securities Registrar ”), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.11 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Person acting as the Property Trustee shall at all times also be the Securities Registrar.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.9, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees.

The Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of such Preferred Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.

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

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

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Preferred Securities Certificate that is not a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate as provided in this Section 5.5.

Section 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.

If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 5.6, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.

Section 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders.

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

Section 5.8. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses.

Each of the Sponsor and any one of the Administrative Trustees will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property Trustee:

(i) monthly, quarterly or semi-annually, as the case may be, not more than 15 days after each regular record date in each year, a list, in such form as the Property Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Trust Securities as of such regular record date, and

(ii) at such other times as the Property Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Property Trustee at any time that is acting as Securities Registrar.

 

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The Property Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Property Trustee as provided in this Section 5.8 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Property Trustee at any time that is acting as Securities Registrar. The Property Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.8 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Declaration of Trust or under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Property Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act.

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

Section 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency.

The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, an office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate the Property Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, as its office and agency for such purposes. The Property Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Sponsor, the Administrative Trustees and to the Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.

Section 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent.

The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent in their sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be U.S. Bank National Association. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If U.S. Bank National Association shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) to act as Paying Agent. Such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees shall execute and deliver to the Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions

 

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of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d), (e)(i), (e)(iii) and (e)(vii) thereof), 8.3 (except (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 herein shall apply to U.S. Bank National Association also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as U.S. Bank National Association shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Declaration of Trust to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

Section 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor.

At the Effective Time and pursuant to the Agreement of Merger, the Sponsor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain, beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. The Sponsor may not transfer the Common Securities except (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Sponsor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Sponsor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Article VIII of the Indenture, or (ii) to an Affiliate of the Sponsor in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than as set forth in the next proceeding sentence shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Sponsor to contain a legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH A SIMULTANEOUS DELEGATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF THE EXPENSE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO THEREIN.”

Section 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency.

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

 

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Section 5.13. Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults.

(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Declaration of Trust. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable by the Issuer Trust. Subject to the provisions of Section 4.8, the Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

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

At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Debentures has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Debenture Trustee as provided in the Indenture, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Sponsor and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(i) the Sponsor has paid or deposited with the Debenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

(A) all overdue installments of interest (including any Additional Interest) on all of the Debentures,

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

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

 

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

The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of principal or interest (unless such default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Debenture. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of the Preferred Securities a record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day that is 90 days after such record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.13(b).

(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Declaration of Trust and the Indenture, upon a Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(1) of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Sponsor, pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of Debentures having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder (a “ Direct Action ”). Except as set forth in Section 5.13(b) and this Section 5.13(c), the Holders of Preferred Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Debentures.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 5.13, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every

 

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purpose of this Declaration of Trust, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

ARTICLE VI.

A CTS O F H OLDERS ; M EETINGS ; V OTING

Section 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights.

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

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

(c) If any proposed amendment to the Declaration of Trust provides for, or the Issuer Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to this Declaration of Trust or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Declaration of Trust, then the Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Declaration of Trust, no amendment to this Declaration of Trust may be made

 

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if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 6.2. Notice of Meetings.

Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Administrative Trustees or, at the written request of the Administrative Trustees, by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Holder of Preferred Securities, at such Holder’s registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.

Section 6.3. Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities.

No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.

The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.

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

Section 6.4. Voting Rights.

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

Section 6.5. Proxies, etc.

At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several persons, any one of

 

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them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.

Section 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent.

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

Section 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.

For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Declaration of Trust, or for the purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees or Property Trustee may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such purposes.

Section 6.8. Acts of Holders.

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

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

 

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of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that any Issuer Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.

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

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

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

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

Section 6.9. Inspection of Records.

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

ARTICLE VII.

R EPRESENTATIONS A ND W ARRANTIES

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

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

(a) the Property Trustee is a national banking association, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization;

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

 

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(c) the Delaware Trustee is a national banking association, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization;

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

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

(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Declaration of Trust have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the Articles of Association or By-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States of America governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;

(g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee of this Declaration of Trust nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) contemplated herein requires the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing law of the United States of America governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be; and

(h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal that, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Issuer Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Issuer Trustees under this Declaration of Trust.

 

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Section 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Sponsor.

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

(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Effective Time, if any, on behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Declaration of Trust (or, in the case of the Predecessor Preferred Securities Certificates and Predecessor Common Securities Certificates, by the issuer trustees of the 2006 Trust pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, the 2006 Declaration) and the Holders will be, as of the Effective Time, entitled to the benefits of this Declaration of Trust; and

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

ARTICLE VIII.

T HE I SSUER T RUSTEES

Section 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees shall be as provided by this Declaration of Trust and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Declaration of Trust shall require any of the Issuer Trustees to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Declaration of Trust relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Issuer Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 8.1. Nothing in this Declaration of Trust shall be construed to release an Administrative Trustee from liability for his or her own negligent action, his or her own negligent failure to act, or his or her own willful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such Issuer Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for such Issuer Trustee’s good faith reliance on the provisions of this Declaration of Trust. The provisions of this Declaration of Trust, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Sponsor and the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees.

(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

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Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Issuer Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Declaration of Trust or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.

(c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall enforce this Declaration of Trust and the Transaction Agreements for the benefit of the Holders.

(d) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Declaration of Trust (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and no implied covenants shall be read into this Declaration of Trust against the Property Trustee. If an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 5.14), the Property Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Declaration of Trust, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

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

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

(A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Declaration of Trust (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Declaration of Trust (including pursuant to Section 10.10); and

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

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(iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Declaration of Trust;

(iv) the Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Declaration of Trust and the Trust Indenture Act;

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

(vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees, the Sponsor or any other Person with their respective duties under this Declaration of Trust, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee, or the Sponsor or any other Person; and

(vii) subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Declaration of Trust shall require the Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.

(f) The Administrative Trustees shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the other Issuer Trustees or the Sponsor with their respective duties under this Declaration of Trust, nor shall any Administrative Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Administrative Trustee, the other Issuer Trustees or the Sponsor.

Section 8.2. Certain Notices.

Within 30 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such Event of Default to the Holders, the Administrative Trustees and the Sponsor, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Sponsor’s exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such exercise to the Holders, unless such exercise shall have been revoked.

 

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Section 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.

Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:

(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Declaration of Trust the Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Declaration of Trust the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Declaration of Trust, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this Declaration of Trust, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Sponsor requesting the Sponsor’s opinion as to the course of action to be taken, and the Property Trustee shall be fully protected in taking such action, or refraining from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Sponsor; provided , however , that if the Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Sponsor within ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less than two Business Days), it may take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Declaration of Trust as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;

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

(d) any direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Declaration of Trust shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act;

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

(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Declaration of Trust from any court of competent jurisdiction;

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or the Sponsor pursuant to this Declaration of Trust, unless such Holders or Sponsor shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; provided that nothing contained in this Section 8.3(g) shall be taken to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Declaration of Trust;

(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;

(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for its own negligence or willful misconduct with respect to selection of any agent or attorney appointed by it hereunder and shall not be liable for any act or omission of such agent or attorney selected with due care;

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

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

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

Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Declaration of Trust relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Property Trustee shall extend to each of the Security Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Delaware Trustee and shall be subject to the provisions of this Article VIII.

 

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Section 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

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

The Property Trustee may conclusively assume that any funds held by it hereunder are legally available unless an officer of the Property Trustee assigned to its institutional trust services department shall have received written notice from the Sponsor, any Holder or any other Issuer Trustee that such funds are not legally available.

Section 8.5. May Hold Securities.

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

Section 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

The Sponsor agrees:

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

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

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

 

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The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Declaration of Trust and the removal or resignation of any Issuer Trustee.

No Issuer Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.

Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, the Sponsor and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Declaration of Trust in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, neither the Sponsor nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the Sponsor and any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, any Issuer Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor, or may act as depositary for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Sponsor or its Affiliates.

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

(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank and eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 8.7 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.7, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VIII. At the time of appointment, the Property Trustee must have securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

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

(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the

 

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State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law and that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.

Section 8.8. Conflicting Interests.

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

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

Section 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.

Unless and until a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Holder of Common Securities and the Administrative Trustees shall have the power to appoint one or more Persons either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity. In case a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment and, upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, such co-trustee or separate trustee.

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

Section 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

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

Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and by appointing a successor Relevant Trustee. The Relevant Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the eligibility requirements its expenses and charges to serve as the Relevant Trustee on a form provided by the Administrative Trustees, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. If the instrument of acceptance by the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Sponsor, in the case of the Property Trustee, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

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The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed by Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and, in the case of the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust) (i) for cause (including upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in subparagraph (c) of the definition thereof with respect to the Relevant Trustee), or (ii) at any time if a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Unless and until a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of the Common Securities.

If a resigning Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Common Securities by Act of such Holders delivered to the Relevant Trustee or, if a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to such Relevant Trustee, may appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Issuer Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Common Securities or Preferred Securities, as the case may be, and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of an Issuer Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to the Sponsor and to the Administrative Trustees. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.

Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Declaration of Trust, if any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the Common Securities, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the Property Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and charges set forth above (with the successor being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for the Delaware Trustee set forth in Section 8.7).

Section 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, the retiring Relevant Trustee (if requested by the Sponsor) and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust, and (b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of

 

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this Declaration of Trust as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee, other than the filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust.

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

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

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

Any Person into which the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or any Administrative Trustee that is not a natural Person may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person, succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VIII, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, other than the filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

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

If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust (or any other obligor upon the Preferred Securities), the Property Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust (or any such other obligor).

Section 8.14. Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due

 

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Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

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

(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.

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

Section 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee.

(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, having commenced with May 15, 2007, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 10.8, and to the Sponsor, a brief report dated as of the immediately preceding May 15 with respect to:

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

(ii) a statement that the Property Trustee has complied with all of its obligations under this Declaration of Trust during the twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period since the Closing Date) ending with such May 15 or, if the Property Trustee has not complied in any material respect with such obligations, a description of such noncompliance; and

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

 

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

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

Section 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee.

Each of the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying whether such Person is in compliance with all of the terms and covenants applicable to such Person hereunder.

Section 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

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

Section 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.

(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be five, unless the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee are the same Person, in which case the number of Issuer Trustees shall be four.

(b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.

(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or terminate the Issuer Trust.

Section 8.19. Delegation of Power.

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

 

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

ARTICLE IX.

T ERMINATION , L IQUIDATION A ND M ERGER

Section 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date.

Unless earlier dissolved, the Issuer Trust shall automatically dissolve on the Final Repayment Date (the “ Expiration Date ”), following the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.

Section 9.2. Early Termination.

The first to occur of any of the following events is an “ Early Termination Event ”, upon the occurrence of which the Issuer Trust shall dissolve:

(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of, the Sponsor, in its capacity as the Holder of the Common Securities, unless the Common Securities shall be transferred as provided by Section 5.11, in which case this provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder of the Common Securities;

(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from all of the Holders of the Common Securities at any time to dissolve the Issuer Trust and to distribute the Debentures to Holders in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Holders of the Common Securities);

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

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

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

Section 9.3. Termination.

The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative

 

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Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders.

Section 9.4. Liquidation.

(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by the Issuer Trustees as expeditiously as the Issuer Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder a Like Amount of Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of liquidation shall:

(i) state the CUSIP Number of the Trust Securities;

(ii) state the Liquidation Date;

(iii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, a right to receive a Liquidation Distribution; and

(iv) provide such information with respect to the procedures by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees shall deem appropriate.

(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Debentures to Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be not more than 30 days prior to the Liquidation Date) and, establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.

(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid Distributions on such Trust Securities Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Debentures) and (iv) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.

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Debentures in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees not to be possible, or if an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (c) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust’s affairs shall be wound up by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees in such manner as the Administrative Trustees determine. In such event, upon the winding-up of the Issuer Trust except with respect to an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (b) of Section 9.2, Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the “ Liquidation Distribution ”). If, upon any such winding up, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holders of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except that the Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities under the circumstances provided in Section 4.3.

Section 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust.

The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other body, except pursuant to this Section 9.5 or Section 9.4 or as contemplated by the Merger (such Merger having been fully authorized, approved and ratified in all respects and with no other action being needed to authorized such Merger). At the request of the Holders of the Common Securities, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, the Issuer Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided that (i) such successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities, or (b) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (the “ Successor Securities ”) so long as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Debentures, (iii) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization which assigns ratings to the Preferred Securities, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, (v) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (vi) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Sponsor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material

 

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respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act, and (vii) the Sponsor or its permitted transferee owns all of the common securities of such successor entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of all of the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

ARTICLE X.

M ISCELLANEOUS P ROVISIONS

Section 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders.

Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death, termination, dissolution, bankruptcy or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Declaration of Trust, nor dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust, nor entitle the legal representatives, successors or heirs of such Person or any Holder for such person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

All parties to this Declaration of Trust agree, and each Holder of any Trust Securities by his or her acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit against any Issuer Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Issuer Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any suit instituted by any Issuer Trustee or to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders of more than 10% in aggregate number of the outstanding Trust Securities.

Section 10.2. Amendment.

(a) This Declaration of Trust may be amended from time to time by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Declaration of Trust, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Declaration of Trust, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Declaration of

 

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Trust to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding, to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or to ensure the treatment of the Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to provide that Preferred Securities Certificates may be executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature instead of manual signature, in which case such amendment(s) shall also provide for the appointment by the Sponsor of an authentication agent, the fees and expenses of which will be paid by the Sponsor, a form of authentication certificate, and provisions to the effect that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates that have been executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Declaration of Trust or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless the certificate of authentication thereon has been executed by the authentication agent by manual signature, or (iv) to conform the terms of this Declaration of Trust to the description of this Declaration of Trust and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus; provided , however , that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; provided , further , that in the case of clause (iv), the Sponsor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Declaration of Trust to the descriptions of this Declaration of Trust and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective when notice is given to the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Preferred Securities.

(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c), any provision of this Declaration of Trust may be amended by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities and with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities, and (ii) receipt by the Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees or Administrative Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not case the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Declaration of Trust, without the consent of each affected Holder, this Declaration of Trust may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date, or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; and notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Holders, this Section 10.2(c) may not be amended.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Declaration of Trust, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Declaration of Trust that would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment company”

 

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under the Investment Company Act or to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In particular, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Declaration of Trust that would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, without the consent of the Sponsor and the Administrative Trustees, this Declaration of Trust may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Sponsor or the Administrative Trustees.

(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, without the consent of the Property Trustee, this Declaration of Trust may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Property Trustee or that adversely affects the Property Trustee.

(g) Notwithstanding anything in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, without the consent of the Delaware Trustee, this Declaration of Trust may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Delaware Trustee or that adversely affects the Delaware Trustee.

(h) Notwithstanding anything in this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, without the consent of the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, this Declaration of Trust may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent or that adversely affects the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent.

(i) In the event that any amendment to this Declaration of Trust is made, the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Sponsor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee a copy of such amendment.

(j) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Declaration of Trust that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Declaration of Trust. The Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Declaration of Trust is in compliance with this Declaration of Trust.

Section 10.3. Separability.

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

Section 10.4. Governing Law.

THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST, THE SPONSOR AND THE ISSUER TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST AND THE TRUST

 

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SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS.

Section 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day.

If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such date.

Section 10.6. Successors.

This Declaration of Trust shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to the Sponsor, the Issuer Trust and any Issuer Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Sponsor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Sponsor’s obligations hereunder, the Sponsor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.

Section 10.7. Headings.

The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Declaration of Trust.

Section 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.

Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Declaration of Trust is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder, the Sponsor or the Administrative Trustees may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class, postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holder of Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of the Common Securities or the Sponsor, to SunTrust Banks, Inc., 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, Attention: Treasurer, or to such other address as may be specified in a written notice by the Sponsor to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Sponsor or the Holder of the Common Securities shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Sponsor or the Holder of the Common Securities, as the case may be.

Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Declaration of Trust is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed to such Person as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee, to U.S. Bank National Association, One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110, Attention:

 

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Corporate Trust Department; (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, 300 Delaware Avenue, 9th Floor, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division; (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the Sponsor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees of SunTrust Capital VIII”; and (d) with respect to the Issuer Trust, to its principal office specified in Section 2.2, with a copy to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or such Administrative Trustee.

Section 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.

Each of the Issuer Trustees and the Sponsor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust has been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “ Bankruptcy Laws ”) or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Sponsor takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Sponsor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Sponsor against the Issuer Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Sponsor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustees or the Issuer Trust may assert.

Section 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

(a) This Declaration of Trust is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Declaration of Trust and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Issuer Trustee that is a trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.

(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control. If any provision of this Declaration of Trust modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Declaration of Trust as so modified or excluded, as the case may be.

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Section 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Declaration of Trust, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture.

THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, THE INDENTURE AND THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust.

 

SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.
    as Sponsor
By:  

/s/    Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Name:   Jerome T. Lienhard, II
Title:   Senior Vice President and Treasurer
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
    as Property Trustee
By:  

/s/    Earl W. Dennison Jr.

Name:   Earl W. Dennison Jr.
Title:   Vice President
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Delaware Trustee
By:  

/s/    Earl W. Dennison Jr.

Name:   Earl W. Dennison Jr.
Title:   Vice President

/s/    Raymond D. Fortin

Name:   Raymond D. Fortin
      as Administrative Trustee

/s/    Jerome T. Lienhard, II

Name:   Jerome T. Lienhard, II
      as Administrative Trustee

/s/    Michael Spingler

Name:   Michael Spingler
      as Administrative Trustee

 

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Exhibit A

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST

OF

SUNTRUST CAPITAL XVI

[Insert Certificate of Trust]

 

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Exhibit B

[FORM OF COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]

THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST AND ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH A SIMULTANEOUS DELEGATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF THE EXPENSE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO THEREIN

 

Certificate Number    Number of Common Securities

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Certificate Evidencing Common Securities

of

SunTrust Capital VIII

6.100% Common Securities

(liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security)

SunTrust Capital VIII, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that SunTrust Banks, Inc. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of 10 common securities of the Issuer Trust representing common undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated the 6.100% Common Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security) (the “Common Securities”). Except in accordance with Section 5.11 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below), the Common Securities are not transferable and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer hereof other than in accordance therewith shall be void. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of [                    ], as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein, and the holders, from time to time, of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust including the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Declaration of Trust to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.

 

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Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Declaration of Trust.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Issuer Trust has executed this certificate on behalf of the Issuer Trust this [    ] day of [                    ].

 

SunTrust Capital VIII
By:  

 

Name:  
       Administrative Trustee

 

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Exhibit C

[FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED EXPENSE AGREEMENT]

AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES

A MENDED AND RESTATED A GREEMENT AS TO E XPENSES AND L IABILITIES , dated as of [                    ], between SunTrust Banks, Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Sponsor”) and SunTrust Capital VIII, a Delaware statutory trust formerly known as SunTrust Capital XVI (the “Issuer Trust”), as successor in interest of the Original Trust (as defined herein) pursuant to that certain Agreement of Merger between the Issuer Trust and the Original Trust, dated as of [                    ] (the “Agreement of Merger”), whereby the Original Trust was merged with and into the Issuer Trust (the “Merger”).

W HEREAS , the Sponsor and SunTrust Capital VIII, a Delaware statutory trust created by the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on August 18, 2004, which was amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Trust, filed on August 29, 2006 (the “Original Trust”) entered into that certain Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities, dated as of August 29, 2006 (the “Original Expense Agreement”), between the Original Trust and the Sponsor;

W HEREAS , the parties desire to amend and restate the Original Expense Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein;

W HEREAS , pursuant to a Second Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Original Trust, dated as of December 6, 2006 (the “Original Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein, the Original Trust issued $1,000,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of its 6.100% Trust Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Preferred Security) (the “Original Preferred Securities”), representing preferred undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Original Trust and having the terms set forth in the Original Declaration of Trust;

W HEREAS , the Original Preferred Securities were issued by the Original Trust and the proceeds thereof, together with the proceeds from the issuance of the Predecessor Common Securities (as defined in the Declaration of Trust (as defined below)), were used to purchase the Debentures (as defined in the Original Declaration of Trust) of the Depositor, which Debentures have been deposited with U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee under the Original Declaration of Trust, as trust assets;

W HEREAS , in accordance with the Merger, each Original Preferred Security of the Original Trust issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (as defined in the Agreement of Merger) was converted into one Preferred Security (as defined in the Declaration of Trust) of the Issuer Trust with identical powers, preferences and special rights and restrictions as those of the Original Preferred Securities and as set forth in the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of [                    ], among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National

 

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Association, as Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”);

W HEREAS , the Debentures have become trust assets of the Issuer Trust and continue to be deposited with U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee under the Declaration of Trust, following the Merger;

W HEREAS , terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Declaration of Trust;

N OW , T HEREFORE , for good and valid consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Original Expense Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as set forth below:

ARTICLE I

S ECTION  1.1. Guarantee by the Sponsor . Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Sponsor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to each person or entity to whom the Issuer Trust is now or hereafter becomes indebted or liable (the “Beneficiaries”) the full payment, when and as due, of any and all Obligations (as hereinafter defined) to such Beneficiaries. As used herein, “Obligations” means any costs, expenses or liabilities of the Issuer Trust, other than obligations of the Issuer Trust to pay to holders of any Trust Securities the amounts due such holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Securities. This Agreement is intended to be for the benefit of, and to be enforceable by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not such Beneficiaries have received notice hereof.

S ECTION  1.2. Subordination of Guarantee. The guarantee and other liabilities and obligations of the Sponsor under this Agreement shall constitute unsecured obligations of the Sponsor and shall rank subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture) of the Sponsor to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Debentures, and the provisions of Article XIII of the Indenture will apply, mutatis mutandis , to the obligations of the Sponsor hereunder. The obligations of the Sponsor hereunder do not constitute Senior Debt of the Sponsor.

S ECTION  1.3. Term of Agreement. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, provided, however, that this Agreement shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any holder of Preferred Securities or any Beneficiary must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities, under any Obligation, under the Guarantee Agreement, by the Sponsor and U.S. Bank National Association, as guarantee trustee, or under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever. This Agreement is continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute.

S ECTION  1.4. Waiver of Notice. The Sponsor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Agreement and of any Obligation to which it applies or may apply, and the Sponsor hereby waives presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.

 

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S ECTION  1.5. No Impairment. The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Sponsor under this Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following:

(a) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of all or any portion of the Obligations or for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Obligations;

(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Beneficiaries to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Beneficiaries with respect to the Obligations or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; or

(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust (other than the liquidation of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms thereof).

There shall be no obligation of the Beneficiaries to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Sponsor with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.

S ECTION  1.6. Enforcement. A Beneficiary may enforce this Agreement directly against the Sponsor and the Sponsor waives any right or remedy to require that any action be brought against the Issuer Trust or any other person or entity before proceeding against the Sponsor.

S ECTION  1.7. Subrogation. The Sponsor shall be subrogated to all rights (if any) of the Issuer Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Beneficiaries by the Sponsor under this Agreement; provided, however, that the Sponsor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Agreement.

ARTICLE II

S ECTION  2.1. Assignment. This Agreement may not be assigned by either party hereto without the consent of the other, and any purported assignment without such consent shall be void.

S ECTION  2.2. Binding Effect. All guarantees and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the Sponsor and shall inure to the benefit of the Beneficiaries.

S ECTION  2.3. Amendment. So long as there remains any Beneficiary or any Preferred Securities are outstanding, this Agreement shall not be modified or amended in any manner adverse to such Beneficiary or to the holders of the Preferred Securities without the consent of such Beneficiary or the holders of the Preferred Securities, as the case may be.

 

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S ECTION  2.4. Notices. Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be given in writing by delivering the same against receipt therefor by facsimile transmission (confirmed by mail), telex or by registered or certified mail, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given when mailed or upon receipt of an answer-back, if sent by telex):

If given to the Sponsor:

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

303 Peachtree Street, N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30308

Facsimile No.: (404) 724-3749

Attention: Treasurer

If given to the Issuer Trust:

SunTrust Capital VIII

c/o SunTrust Banks, Inc.

303 Peachtree Street, N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30308

Attention: Treasurer

S ECTION  2.4. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

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T HIS A GREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  
SUNTRUST CAPITAL VIII
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:   Administrative Trustee

 

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Exhibit D

[FORM OF PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]

This Preferred Securities Certificate is a Book-Entry Preferred Securities Certificate within the meaning of the Declaration of Trust hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or a nominee of a Clearing Agency. This Preferred Securities Certificate is exchangeable for Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of a person other than the Clearing Agency or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Declaration of Trust and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Clearing Agency to a nominee of the Clearing Agency or by a nominee of the Clearing Agency to the Clearing Agency or another nominee of the Clearing Agency, except in the limited circumstances described in the Declaration of Trust.

Unless this Preferred Security Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to SunTrust Capital VIII or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Preferred Security Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

NO EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OR OTHER PLAN SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ ERISA ”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “ CODE ”) (EACH, A “ PLAN ”), NO ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY (A “ PLAN ASSET ENTITY ”), AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN, MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION (“ PTCE ”) 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING OR THE REQUIREMENTS OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATION SECTION 2550.401c-1 ARE SATISFIED SUCH THAT THE PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE HELD BY THE PURCHASER OR HOLDER DOES NOT CONSTITUTE “PLAN ASSETS” AND, IN THE CASE OF ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER RELYING ON ANY EXEMPTION OTHER THAN PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATION SECTION 2550.401c-1, HAS COMPLIED WITH ANY REQUEST BY THE SPONSOR OR THE ISSUER TRUST FOR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH EXEMPTION. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING HEREOF THAT IT EITHER (A) IS NOT A PLAN OR A PLAN ASSET ENTITY AND IS NOT PURCHASING SUCH SECURITIES ON BEHALF OF OR WITH “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY

 

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PLAN, OR (B) IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING OR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATION SECTION 2550.401c-1.

 

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Certificate Number   Number of Preferred Securities

CAI-

CUSIP NO.

Certificate Evidencing Trust Preferred Securities

of

SunTrust Capital VIII

6.100% Trust Preferred Securities

(liquidation amount $1,000 per Trust Preferred Security)

SunTrust Capital VIII, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of 1,000,000 Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust representing an undivided preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated the SunTrust Capital VIII 6.100% Trust Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Trust Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.5 of the Declaration of Trust (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Issuer Trust, dated as of [                    ] as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Declaration of Trust”), among SunTrust Banks, Inc., as Sponsor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Property Trustee, U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein, and the holders, from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust including the designation of the terms of the Preferred Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by SunTrust Banks, Inc., a Georgia corporation, and U.S. Bank National Association, as guarantee trustee, dated as of [                    ], as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Guarantee Agreement”), to the extent provided therein. The Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Declaration of Trust and the Guarantee Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.

Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Declaration of Trust and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.

 

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I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , one of the Administrative Trustees of the Issuer Trust has executed this certificate on behalf of the Issuer Trust this [    ] day of [                    ].

 

SunTrust Capital VIII
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:   Administrative Trustee

This is one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Declaration of Trust.

 

U.S. Bank National Association,

as Property Trustee

By:  

 

Name:  
Title:   Authorized Officer

 

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ASSIGNMENT

F OR V ALUE R ECEIVED , the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Security to:

  

 

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

 

 

 

 

(Insert address and zip code of assignee)

and irrevocably appoints                                                                                                                                                             agent to transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Issuer Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

Date:                     

Signature:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred Securities Certificate)

The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15.

 

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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN SECURITY

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

 

Date of

Exchange

 

Amount of decrease in
Principal Amount of this
Security

 

Amount of increase in
Principal Amount of this
Security

 

Principal Amount of this
Security following such
decrease or increase

 

Signature of authorized
officer of Trustee or
Securities Custodian

 

 

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