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): March 7, 2013

 

 

Avon Products, Inc.

(Exact Name of the Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

New York   1-4881   13-0544597

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

777 Third Avenue

New York, N.Y. 10017-1307

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(212) 282-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

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:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 


INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Senior Notes

On March 12, 2013, Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation (the “Company”), closed its public offering of $250.0 million principal amount of 2.375% Notes due 2016, $500.0 million principal amount of 4.600% Notes due 2020, $500.0 million principal amount of 5.000% Notes due 2023 and $250.0 million principal amount of 6.950% Notes due 2043 (collectively, the “Notes”). The Notes have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-180054) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement dated March 7, 2013. The Notes are the Company’s general senior unsecured obligations, are not guaranteed by any of the Company’s subsidiaries, rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness and senior to the Company’s future subordinated debt (if any).

In connection with the offering, on March 7, 2013, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriting Agreement”). The Underwriting Agreement includes the terms and conditions of the offer and sale of the Notes, indemnification and contribution obligations and other customary terms and conditions.

The net proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Notes were approximately $1,481,982,500 (after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses). The Company has used, or intends to use, the net proceeds, together with cash on hand, (i) to repay $380.0 million of the $550.0 million term loan based on the number of lenders that declined prepayment pursuant to the term loan amendment discussed below, (ii) to repay in full its $125.0 million 4.625% Notes due May 15, 2013, (iii) to prepay in full its $142.0 million 2.60% Senior Notes, Series A, due November 23, 2015, $290.0 million 4.03% Senior Notes, Series B, due November 23, 2020 and $103.0 million 4.18% Senior Notes, Series C, due November 23, 2022 (collectively which, following a notice of prepayment, the Company is required to prepay on March 29, 2013, plus make-whole premium and accrued interest) and (iv) for general corporate purposes, which may include the redemption in full of the Company’s $500.0 million 5.625% Notes due 2014 (plus make-whole premium and accrued interest), a process the Company anticipates initiating shortly.

The Notes are governed by and were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, as supplemented by the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture and the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, in each case, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (collectively, the “Supplemental Indentures”).

Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2013. The Notes mature on March 15 in 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2043, respectively. The Notes are subject to redemption upon at least 30 but not more than 60 days’ notice by mail, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price of T+30 or T+50, depending on the series of the Notes, plus , in each case, unpaid interest that has accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

The Base Indenture, Supplemental Indentures and the Notes contain customary terms and covenants for companies with a similar credit profile, including an interest rate adjustment upon the occurrence of certain rating events and covenants that limit, among other things, the Company’s ability to (i) incur certain liens securing indebtedness, (ii) engage in certain sale-leaseback transactions and (iii) enter into certain consolidations, mergers, conveyances, transfers or leases of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets. The terms of the Notes also require the Company to make an offer to repurchase the Notes upon a change of control triggering event at a price equal to 101% of their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest.

The underwriters and their affiliates have engaged in, and may in the future engage in, investment banking and other commercial dealings with the Company or its affiliates. They have received, and may in the future receive, customary fees and commissions for these transactions. In particular, certain of the underwriters and/or their affiliates are parties to the Company’s term loan agreement and revolving credit facility.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement, the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indentures and the Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such documents, which are filed as exhibits hereto and incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01. Also in connection with the offering, the Company is filing a legal opinion regarding the validity of the Notes as Exhibit 5.1 to this Form 8-K with reference to, and incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement.

 

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Credit Agreement

On March 13, 2013, the Company and Avon Capital Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“ACC” and, together with the Company, the “Borrowers”) entered into a $1.0 billion unsecured Revolving Credit Agreement with each of the banks and other lenders from time to time party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement has replaced the Company’s $1.0 billion Revolving Credit and Competitive Advance Facility Agreement, dated November 2, 2010, by and among the Company and ACC, each of the banks and other lenders from time to time party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the “2010 Credit Agreement”). The 2010 Credit Agreement was terminated on March 13, 2013 prior to its scheduled expiration of November 2, 2013. There were no amounts drawn under the 2010 Credit Agreement on the date of termination and no early termination penalties were incurred by the Borrowers.

The terms and conditions contained in the Credit Agreement include the ability of the Company to add Additional Borrowers (as defined therein) and affirmative, negative and financial covenants, which are customary for financings of this type, including, among other things, limits on the incurrence of liens and subsidiary debt, a minimum interest coverage ratio and a maximum leverage ratio. The Credit Agreement also includes events of default customary for facilities of this type (with customary grace periods, as applicable), including provisions under which, upon the occurrence of an event of default, all outstanding loans may be accelerated and/or the lenders’ commitments may be terminated. Also under such provisions, upon the occurrence of certain insolvency or bankruptcy related events of default, all amounts payable under the Credit Agreement shall automatically become immediately due and payable, and the lenders’ commitments will automatically terminate.

The Credit Agreement provides for a four-year unsecured $1.0 billion revolving credit facility, of which the entire amount is currently undrawn. The Credit Agreement is available for general corporate purposes. The Company has provided an unconditional guarantee of the full and punctual payment of ACC’s obligations under the Credit Agreement. Within the limits of the unused portion of the facility in effect, amounts under the Credit Agreement may be borrowed, repaid and reborrowed by the Borrowers from time to time until the maturity of the Credit Agreement. Voluntary prepayments and commitment reductions requested by the Company under the Credit Agreement are permitted at any time without fee (other than customary breakage costs relating to the prepayment of any drawn loans) upon proper notice and subject to a minimum dollar requirement. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at a rate per annum, which will be, at the Borrowers’ option, either LIBOR or a floating base rate, plus an applicable margin. Certain of the financial institutions that are parties to the Credit Agreement provide financial services to the Company and its affiliates such as investment banking, cash management, bank guarantees and derivative arrangements.

The foregoing description of the Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Credit Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, and incorporated herein by reference.

Term Loan Amendment

On March 12, 2013, the Company, lenders under the Company’s Term Loan Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2012 (the “Term Loan Agreement”) constituting the Required Banks (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement), and the administrative agent thereunder, entered into the first amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Term Loan Agreement. The Amendment primarily relates to (i) adding a provision whereby the lenders may, with the Company’s consent, elect to decline receipt of prepayments and (ii) adding a subsidiary debt covenant and conforming the interest coverage ratio and leverage ratio covenants to those contained in the Credit Agreement. Certain of the financial institutions that are parties to the Amendment provide financial services to the Company and its affiliates such as investment banking, cash management, bank guarantees and derivative arrangements.

The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, attached hereto as Exhibit 10.2, and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.

The disclosure required by this item is included in Item 1.01 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant

The disclosure required by this item is included in Item 1.01 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements made in this current report, including the net proceeds generated by the offering and the use of such proceeds, may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Risks, uncertainties and other factors exist that may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the anticipated results to differ from those described in the forward-looking statements include those factors described in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2012, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. The Company does not undertake to update any such forward-looking statements.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated March 7, 2013, among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein.
  4.1    Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008, between the Company and the Trustee. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2008).
  4.2    Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.3    Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.4    Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.5    Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.6    Form of 2016 Note (included in Exhibit 4.2).
  4.7    Form of 2020 Note (included in Exhibit 4.3).
  4.8    Form of 2023 Note (included in Exhibit 4.4).
  4.9    Form of 2043 Note (included in Exhibit 4.5).
  5.1    Opinion of White & Case LLP relating to the validity of the Notes.
10.1    Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013, among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the banks and other lenders party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
10.2    Amendment No. 1 to the Term Loan Agreement, dated as of March 12, 2013, among Avon Products, Inc., the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
23.1    Consent of White & Case LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

 

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SIGNATURE

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

 

   

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

           (Registrant)

Date: March 13, 2013     By:  

/s/ Kimberly Ross

    Name:   Kimberly Ross
    Title:   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated March 7, 2013, among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein.
  4.1    Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008, between the Company and the Trustee. (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 4, 2008).
  4.2    Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.3    Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.4    Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.5    Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee.
  4.6    Form of 2016 Note (included in Exhibit 4.2).
  4.7    Form of 2020 Note (included in Exhibit 4.3).
  4.8    Form of 2023 Note (included in Exhibit 4.4).
  4.9    Form of 2043 Note (included in Exhibit 4.5).
  5.1    Opinion of White & Case LLP relating to the validity of the Notes.
10.1    Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013, among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the banks and other lenders party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
10.2    Amendment No. 1 to the Term Loan Agreement, dated as of March 12, 2013, among Avon Products, Inc., the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
23.1    Consent of White & Case LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

Exhibit 1.1

Execution Version

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

(a New York corporation)

2.375% Notes due 2016

4.600% Notes due 2020

5.000% Notes due 2023

6.950% Notes due 2043

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

dated March 7, 2013

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated


AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

(a New York corporation)

2.375% Notes due 2016

4.600% Notes due 2020

5.000% Notes due 2023

6.950% Notes due 2043

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

March 7, 2013

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

and

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

and

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

                    Incorporated

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

As Representatives of the Several Underwriters Named in the Attached Schedule A

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (the “Underwriters”), acting severally and not jointly, the respective principal amounts set forth in such Schedule A hereto of (i) $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.375% Notes due 2016 (the “2016 Notes”), (ii) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.600% Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”), (iii) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.000% Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”) and (iv) $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.950% Notes due 2043 (the “2043 Notes”, and together with the 2016 Notes, the 2020 Notes and the 2023 Notes, the “Notes”). Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated have agreed to act as representatives of the several Underwriters (in such capacity, the “Representatives”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes.


The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee and the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (as amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”).

Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference. Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 15 hereof.

All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information which is “disclosed,” “contained,” “included” or “stated” (or other references of like import) in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which are or are deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, prior to the Execution Time, and all references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act which is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, after the Execution Time.

SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties of the Company . The Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter as of the Execution Time as follows:

(1) Compliance with Registration Requirements . The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Act and has prepared and filed with the Commission an automatic shelf registration statement, as defined in Rule 405 on Form S-3 (No. 333-180054), including a related Base Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Notes. Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing. The Company has filed with the Commission, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), a preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Notes, which has previously been furnished to you. The Company will file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement relating to the Notes in accordance with Rule 424(b). As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain all information

 

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required by the Act and the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised the Representatives, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x).

On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date (as defined herein), the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date, the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , however , that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter through the Representatives consists of the information described as such in Section 6(b).

(2) Incorporated Documents . The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act.

(3) Disclosure Package . As of the Initial Sale Time, (i) the Disclosure Package and (ii) each electronic road show, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein.

 

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(4) Company is a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer . (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Notes in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163 and (iv) at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), the Company was or is (as the case may be) a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405. The Company agrees to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the Notes within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).

(5) Company Not an Ineligible Issuer . (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Act) of the Notes and (ii) as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Company was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer.

(6) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus . Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein by reference and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein.

(7) Distribution of Offering Material by the Company . The Company has not distributed and will not distribute, prior to the later of the Closing Date and the completion of the Underwriters’ distribution of the Notes, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes other than the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

(8) Good Standing of Company . The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own its property and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

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(9) Good Standing of Subsidiaries . Each Significant Subsidiary of the Company listed in Schedule D-1, and to the knowledge of the Company, each Significant Subsidiary of the Company listed in Schedule D-2, has been duly organized or formed, as applicable, is validly existing in good standing (or has the analogous status in its respective jurisdiction, as applicable) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or formation, has the power and authority to own its property and to conduct its business in all material respects as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and is duly qualified (or has the analogous status in its respective jurisdiction, as applicable) to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Significant Subsidiary” is any subsidiary of the Company that generates 5% or more of the Company’s revenue or income or that holds 5% or more of the Company’s assets and is as set forth in Schedule D hereto.

(10) Authorization of this Agreement . This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(11) The Indenture . The Original Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and has been duly authorized and, when executed and delivered by the Company and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, the Indenture will be a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization, fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity.

(12) The Notes . The sale and issuance of the Notes have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Notes will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, in each case enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization, fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity.

(13) No Violation or Default . Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default under any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (iii) in violation of applicable law or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not result in a Material Adverse Change (as defined herein).

 

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(14) No Conflicts, No Required Consents . The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes will not contravene any provision of applicable law or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or, except to the extent that any such contravention would not result in a Material Adverse Change, any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary, and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or agency is required for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Notes, except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Notes.

(15) No Material Adverse Change . There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Change”), from that set forth in the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement).

(16) Intellectual Property . Each of the Company and its subsidiaries owns or possesses all patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, and trade names, in each case to the extent disclosed in the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”), to the extent required by it for the use thereof in connection with their respective businesses as currently operated by them, except where failure to possess Intellectual Property would not result in a Material Adverse Change, and none of the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice of, or otherwise has knowledge of, any infringement of asserted rights of others with respect to any of the Intellectual Property that if taken to a final judgment could result in a Material Adverse Change.

(17) Absence of Proceedings . There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, other than proceedings fairly summarized in all material respects in the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus and proceedings that are not reasonably expected by the Company to result in a Material Adverse Change or have a material adverse effect on the power or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Notes.

(18) Investment Company Act . The Company is not, and immediately after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus, will not be, required to register as an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

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(19) Compliance with Environmental Laws . To the knowledge of the Company, the Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, result in a Material Adverse Change.

(20) Environmental Costs and Liabilities . There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(21) Independent Accountants and Financial Statements . To the knowledge of the Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who has audited the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The financial statements, together with the related notes thereto, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements comply as to form in all material respects with the accounting requirements of the Act and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto. No other financial statements are required to be included in the Registration Statement.

(22) Maintenance of Internal Controls and Procedures . The Company and its consolidated subsidiaries maintain systems of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; and (iii) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

 

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(23) Disclosure Controls and Procedures . The Company and its subsidiaries maintain “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act); as of December 31, 2012, and to the knowledge of the Company, at the Execution Time, such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

(24) Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 . The Company is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective and the rules and regulations of the Commission that have been adopted and are effective thereunder.

(25) No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments . Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including with respect to the Company, its subsidiaries, directors, officers, agents, employees and affiliates, in each case, in connection with the FCPA investigations and compliance reviews disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus), to the knowledge of the Company, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), except where such violation would not result in a Material Adverse Change, including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA and (ii) the Company, its subsidiaries and its affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to ensure, compliance therewith, except where the failure to comply would not result in a Material Adverse Change.

(26) No Conflict with Money Laundering Laws . To the knowledge of the Company, the operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, “Money Laundering Laws”), except where the failure to comply would not result in a Material Adverse Change, and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

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(27) Compliance with Trade Sanctions . The Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, all directors, officers, agents, employees and affiliates of the Company and its subsidiaries, are currently in compliance with trade sanctions administered or enforced by the United States Government, including, without limitation, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), as well as those administered or enforced by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Trade Sanctions”), and the Company is not located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of comprehensive Trade Sanctions; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of the Notes, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is prohibited by Trade Sanctions and would result in a violation by any Person (including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Trade Sanctions.

(28) Extensible Business Reporting Language . The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in all material respects in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Notes shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.

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

(a) The Notes . The Company agrees to issue and sell to the several Underwriters, severally and not jointly, all of the Notes upon the terms herein set forth. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and upon the terms but subject to the conditions herein set forth, the Underwriters agree, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company (i) the aggregate principal amount of 2016 Notes set forth opposite their names on Schedule A at a purchase price of 99.545% of the principal amount thereof, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of 2020 Notes set forth opposite their names on Schedule A at a purchase price of 99.226% of the principal amount thereof, (iii) the aggregate principal amount of 2023 Notes set forth opposite their names on Schedule A at a purchase price of 98.380% of the principal amount thereof and (iv) the aggregate principal amount of 2043 Notes set forth opposite their names on Schedule A at a purchase price of 98.836% of the principal amount thereof, payable on the Closing Date, respectively.

(b) The Closing Date . Delivery of certificates for the Notes in global form to be purchased by the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP (or such other place as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) at 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on March 12, 2013, or such other time and date thereafter as the Representatives and the Company shall agree (the time and date of such closing are called the “Closing Date”).

 

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

(d) Payment for the Notes . Payment shall be made to the Company by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account designated by the Company, against delivery to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the Underwriters of the Notes to be purchased by them.

It is understood that the Representatives have been authorized, for their own account and the accounts of the several Underwriters, to accept delivery of and receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Notes the Underwriters have agreed to purchase. The Representatives may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment for any Notes to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds shall not have been received by the Representatives by the Closing Date for the account of such Underwriter, but any such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from any of its obligations under this Agreement.

(e) Denominations; Registration . The Notes or certificates for the Notes, as applicable, shall be in such denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request in writing at least two full business days prior to the Closing Date. The Notes or certificates for the Notes, as applicable, will be made available for examination and packaging by the Representatives in The City of New York not later than 10:00 A.M. (Eastern time) on the business day prior to the Closing Date, or at such other place and time as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company or their respective counsel.

SECTION 3. Covenants of the Company . The Company covenants with the Representatives and with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) Representatives’ Review of Proposed Amendments and Supplements . During such period beginning on the date hereof and ending on the later of the Closing Date or such date as, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, the Prospectus is no longer required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 (such period, the “Prospectus Delivery Period”), the Company will not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement unless the Company has furnished the Representatives a copy for review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object; provided that, subsequent to the Closing Date until the end of the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company may file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are required by the rules and regulations of the Commission without furnishing such reports to the Representatives for review prior to filing. The Company will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement

 

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thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing. The Company will promptly advise the Representatives (i) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) or when any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have been filed with the Commission, (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Notes, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement, or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.

(b) Final Term Sheet . The Company will prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms of the Notes and the offering thereof, in the form approved by the Representatives and substantially in the form attached as Schedule B hereto and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.

(c) Delivery of Registration Statements and Prospectuses . The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.

(d) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws . The Company will comply with the Act and the Exchange Act so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Notes as contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. If, at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made or the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may

 

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reasonably request. If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Notes is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, the Company promptly will (w) notify the Representatives of any such event, (x) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 3, an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (y) use its best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (z) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request.

(e) Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company agrees that, unless it has or shall have obtained the prior written consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Company that, unless it has or shall have obtained, as the case may be, the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Notes that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than a free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule C hereto and any electronic road show; and provided further that the Underwriters are authorized to use the information with respect to the final terms of the Notes in communications conveying customary information relating to the offering to investors. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.

(f) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts, in cooperation with the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, to qualify or register the Notes for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representatives may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect for as long as necessary to complete the distribution of the Notes, up to one year from the date of this Agreement; provided , however , that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.

 

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(g) Earning Statement . The Company will timely file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable an earning statement for the purposes of, and to provide the benefits contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the Act.

(h) Agreement Not to Offer or Sell Additional Securities . During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), sell, offer, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company similar to the Notes other than as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the Notes and other than commercial paper issued in the ordinary course of business.

(i) No Manipulation of Price . The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Notes.

The Representatives, on behalf of the several Underwriters, may, in their sole discretion, waive in writing the performance by the Company of any one or more of the foregoing covenants or grant the Company additional time in which to perform such covenants.

SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses . The Company will pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s accountants in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes and all other fees or expenses (excluding fees or expenses of the Underwriters’ counsel) in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto, including all printing costs associated therewith, and the delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters, in the quantities herein above specified, (ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Notes to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (iii) the cost of printing or producing any Blue Sky or legal investment memorandum in connection with the offer and sale of the Notes under state securities laws and all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Notes for offer and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 3(f) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky or legal investment memorandum (such fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters not to exceed $5,000), (iv) any fees charged by rating agencies for the rating of the Notes, (v) the costs and charges of the Trustee and any transfer agent, registrar or depositary, (vi) the cost of the preparation, issuance and delivery of the Notes and (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Notes. It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section, Section 6, and the last paragraph of Section 8, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including fees and disbursements of their counsels, transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Notes by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

 

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SECTION 5. Conditions to Underwriters’ Obligations . The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Notes are subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

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

(i) there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded the Company or any of the Company’s securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined for purposes of Section 3(c)(67) of the Exchange Act;

(ii) there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Disclosure Package (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement) that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and that makes it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable to market the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; and

(iii) there shall not be any stop order in effect suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, nor shall any proceedings for such purpose be pending before or threatened by the Commission.

(b) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Section 5(a)(i) and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date (as if made on the Closing Date) and that the Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date.

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

(c) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and negative assurance letter of White & Case LLP, outside counsel for the Company, each dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters and their counsel. The opinion of White & Case LLP described in this Section 5(c) shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.

(d) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion from the General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A. The opinion of the General Counsel of the Company described in this Section 5(d) shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.

 

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(e) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion from counsel for the Underwriters with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information from the Company as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(f) The Underwriters shall have received on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date a letter, dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and their counsel, from the Company’s registered public accounting firm, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

SECTION 6. Indemnification and Contribution . (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by any Underwriter or any such controlling person in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the registration statement for the registration of the Notes as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Notes, the Final Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arising out of or based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided , however , that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter through the Representatives consists of the information described as such in Section 6(b). This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.

(b) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to such Underwriter, but only with reference to information furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of any Underwriter expressly for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter through the Representatives consists of the following information in the Final Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the selling concessions and broker/dealer discount

 

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language appearing in the fourth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”, the market-making language in the third sentence of the fifth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”, the stabilizing language in the fifteenth and seventeenth paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting” and the penalty bid language in the sixteenth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting”.

(c) In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 6(a) or 6(b), such person (the “indemnified party”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “indemnifying party”) in writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. The failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph Section 6(a) or 6(b) unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in Section 6(a) or 6(b). In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential conflicting interests between them. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Such firm shall be designated in writing by the Representatives, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(a) above, or by the Company, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(b) above. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

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(d) To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 6(a) or 6(b) is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Notes or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 6(d)(i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause 6(d)(i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Notes shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering of such Notes (before deducting expenses but after deduction of the discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Final Prospectus, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Notes. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 6 are several in proportion to the respective principal amounts of Notes they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.

(e) The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 6(d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 6(d) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Notes underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The remedies provided for in this Section 6 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

 

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(f) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 6 and the representations, warranties and other statements of the Company contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Notes.

SECTION 7. Termination . This Agreement shall be subject to termination by notice given by the Representatives to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Market, (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market, (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred, (iv) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by Federal or New York State authorities or (v) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and which, singly or together with any other event specified in this clause (v), makes it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offer, sale or delivery of the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus.

SECTION 8. Defaulting Underwriters . If, on the Closing Date, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Notes that it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate amount of Notes which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate amount of the Notes to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the amount of Notes set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule A hereto bears to the aggregate amount of Notes set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as the Representatives may specify, to purchase the Notes which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the amount of Notes that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 8 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such amount of Notes without the written consent of such Underwriter. If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Notes and the aggregate amount of Notes with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate amount of Notes to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to the Representatives and the Company for the purchase of such Notes are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. In any such case either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

 

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If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.

SECTION 9. Counterparts . This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

SECTION 10. Applicable Law . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 11. Headings . The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.

SECTION 12. Notices . All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices shall be directed to the parties hereto as follows:

If to the Representatives:

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Facsimile: (212) 816-7912

Attention: General Counsel

and

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

Facsimile: (212) 902-9316

and

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

           Incorporated

50 Rockefeller Plaza

NY1-050-12-01

New York, New York 10020

Fax: (212) 901-7881

Attention: High Grade Debt Capital Markets Transaction Management/Legal

 

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with a copy to:

Shearman & Sterling LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Facsimile: (646) 848-8021

Attention: Robert C. Treuhold

If to the Company:

Avon Products, Inc.

777 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Facsimile: (917) 267-5050

Attention: General Counsel

with a copy to:

White & Case LLP

1155 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10036-2787

Facsimile: (212) 354-8113

Attention: Gary Kashar

SECTION 13. Representations and Covenants of the Underwriters . Each of the several Underwriters represents and agrees with the Company that such Underwriter will comply with or observe any restrictions or limitations set forth in the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or required by applicable law, on persons to whom, or the jurisdictions in which, or the manner in which, the Notes may be offered, sold, resold or delivered.

SECTION 14. Underwriters Not Fiduciaries . The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) each of the Underwriters is acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company and (c) its engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the Offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the Offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

SECTION 15. Definitions . The terms that follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.

“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

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“Base Prospectus” shall mean the base prospectus referred to in Section 1(1) above contained in the Registration Statement at the Execution Time.

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.

“Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule C hereto, (iv) the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto, if any, and (v) any other Free Writing Prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package.

“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement and any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement became or becomes effective.

“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Notes that was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.

“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405.

“Initial Sale Time” shall mean 5:40 p.m. (Eastern Time) on March 7, 2013, or such other time as agreed by the Company and the Representatives.

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433.

“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean the preliminary prospectus supplement, as filed on March 6, 2013, to the Base Prospectus referred to in Section 1(1) above which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.

“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in Section 1(1) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Notes that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B, as amended on each Effective Date and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended.

 

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“Rule 158”, “Rule 163”, “Rule 164”, “Rule 172”, “Rule 405”, “Rule 415”, “Rule 424”, “Rule 430B”, and “Rule 433” refer to such rules under the Act.

“Rule 462(b) Registration Statement” shall mean a registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) relating to the offering covered by the registration statement referred to in Section 1(a) hereof.

“Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this Underwriting Agreement, along with all counterparts, shall become a binding agreement between the Representatives and the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,
AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

 

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

 

By:   CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
By:  

/s/ Jeffrey Kania

Name:   Jeffrey Kania
Title:   Managing Director
By:   GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
By:  

/s/ Adam T. Greene

  (Goldman, Sachs & Co.)
By:  

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

                               INCORPORATED

By:  

/s/ Brendan Hanley

Name:   Brendan Hanley
Title:   Managing Director

Acting as Representatives of the several

Underwriters named in the attached Schedule A


SCHEDULE A

 

Underwriters

   Aggregate Principal Amount to Be Purchased  
    

 

2.375% Notes

due 2016

  

  

    

 

4.600% Notes

due 2020

  

  

    

 

5.000% Notes

due 2023

  

  

    
 
6.950% Notes
due 2043
  
  

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

     54,359,000         108,717,000         108,716,000         54,358,000   

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

     54,358,000         108,717,000         108,717,000         54,358,000   

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

     54,358,000         108,716,000         108,717,000         54,359,000   

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

     19,425,000         38,850,000         38,850,000         19,425,000   

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

     19,425,000         38,850,000         38,850,000         19,425,000   

Santander Investment Securities Inc.

     19,425,000         38,850,000         38,850,000         19,425,000   

Lloyds Securities Inc.

     6,275,000         12,550,000         12,550,000         6,275,000   

The Williams Capital Group, L.P.

     6,275,000         12,550,000         12,550,000         6,275,000   

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

     6,275,000         12,550,000         12,550,000         6,275,000   

Banca IMI S.p.A.

     3,275,000         6,550,000         6,550,000         3,275,000   

Banco Bradesco BBI S.A.

     3,275,000         6,550,000         6,550,000         3,275,000   

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited

     3,275,000         6,550,000         6,550,000         3,275,000   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 250,000,000       $ 500,000,000       $ 500,000,000       $ 250,000,000   


SCHEDULE B

Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration No. 333-180054

March 7, 2013

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated March 7, 2013

 

LOGO

Avon Products, Inc.

$250,000,000 2.375% Notes due 2016

$500,000,000 4.600% Notes due 2020

$500,000,000 5.000% Notes due 2023

$250,000,000 6.950% Notes due 2043

The following information supplements the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated March 6, 2013, filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) promulgated under the Securities Act, Registration No. 333-180054.

 

Issuer:    Avon Products, Inc.
Security:   

2.375% Notes due 2016

4.600% Notes due 2020

5.000% Notes due 2023

6.950% Notes due 2043

Size:   

$250,000,000 for the 2016 Notes

$500,000,000 for the 2020 Notes

$500,000,000 for the 2023 Notes

$250,000,000 for the 2043 Notes

Trade Date:    March 7, 2013
Settlement Date:    March 12, 2013 (T+3)
Maturity Date:   

March 15, 2016 for the 2016 Notes

March 15, 2020 for the 2020 Notes

March 15, 2023 for the 2023 Notes

March 15, 2043 for the 2043 Notes

Coupon:   

2.375% for the 2016 Notes

4.600% for the 2020 Notes

5.000% for the 2023 Notes

6.950% for the 2043 Notes

Interest Payment Dates:   

March 15 and September 15, commencing September 15, 2013, for the 2016 Notes

March 15 and September 15, commencing September 15, 2013, for the 2020 Notes

March 15 and September 15, commencing September 15, 2013, for the 2023 Notes

March 15 and September 15, commencing September 15, 2013, for the 2043 Notes


Day Count:

   30/360

Price to Public:

  

99.945% of principal amount for the 2016 Notes

99.851% of principal amount for the 2020 Notes

99.030% of principal amount for the 2023 Notes

99.711% of principal amount for the 2043 Notes

Minimum Denomination:

   $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof

Benchmark Treasury:

  

UST 0.375% due February 15, 2016 for the 2016 Notes

UST 1.250% due February 29, 2020 for the 2020 Notes

UST 2.000% due February 15, 2023 for the 2023 Notes

UST 2.750% due November 15, 2042 for the 2043 Notes

Benchmark Treasury Price & Yield:

  

99-30  1 / 4 ; 0.394% for the 2016 Notes

99-05+; 1.375% for the 2020 Notes

100-00; 2.000% for the 2023 Notes

91-00; 3.223% for the 2043 Notes

Spread to Benchmark Treasury:

  

+ 200 bps for the 2016 Notes

+ 325 bps for the 2020 Notes

+ 312.5 bps for the 2023 Notes

+ 375 bps for the 2043 Notes

Yield to Maturity:

  

2.394% for the 2016 Notes

4.625% for the 2020 Notes

5.125% for the 2023 Notes

6.973% for the 2043 Notes

Make-Whole Call:

  

T + 30 bps for the 2016 Notes

T + 50 bps for the 2020 Notes

T + 50 bps for the 2023 Notes

T + 50 bps for the 2043 Notes

CUSIP/ISIN:

  

054303 AY8 / US054303AY84 for the 2016 Notes

054303 AX0 / US054303AX02 for the 2020 Notes

054303 BA9 / US054303BA99 for the 2023 Notes

054303 AZ5 / US054303AZ59 for the 2043 Notes

Use of Proceeds:

   We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering, together with cash on hand, to repay approximately $500 million of the indebtedness outstanding under our $550.0 million term loan agreement (subject to any adjustment pursuant to the proposed amendment summarized below) and to repay in full our 4.625% Notes due 2013 (which mature on May 15, 2013), our Private Notes (as defined below) (which, following a notice of prepayment, we are required to prepay on March 29, 2013) and for general corporate purposes (which may include the redemption in full of our 5.625% Notes due 2014 (which mature on March 1, 2014), a process we anticipate initiating shortly following the consummation of this offering). As of December 31, 2012, (i) the total outstanding aggregate principal amount of our 2.60% Senior Notes, Series A, due November 23, 2015, our 4.03% Senior Notes, Series B, due November 23, 2020 and our 4.18% Senior Notes, Series C, due November 23, 2022 (collectively, the “Private Notes”) was $535.0 million, (ii) the outstanding aggregate principal amount of our 4.625%


   Notes due 2013 was $125.0 million and (iii) the outstanding aggregate principal amount of our 5.625% Notes due 2014 was $500.0 million. We are required to prepay our term loan in an amount equal to 50% of the net cash proceeds received from certain incurrences of debt for borrowed money in excess of $500.0 million, including the net cash proceeds of this offering, but are currently discussing with the lenders under our term loan agreement an amendment that would allow lenders who wish to remain as lenders under our term loan agreement to not accept such prepayment. Further, we are required to repay an amount equal to 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the term loans on June 29, 2014, and the remaining outstanding principal amount of the term loans on June 29, 2015. As of December 31, 2012, the weighted average annual interest rate on our borrowings under the term loan agreement was 2.562%.
Joint Book-Running Managers:    Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BNP Paribas Securities Corp, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Santander Investment Securities Inc.
Senior Co-Managers:    Lloyds Securities Inc., The Williams Capital Group, L.P., U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.
Co-Managers:    Banco Bradesco BBI S.A., Banca IMI S.p.A., SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement if you request it by calling Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at 1-800-831-9146, Goldman, Sachs & Co. at 1-866-471-2526 or Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated at 1-800-294-1322.


SCHEDULE C

Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Disclosure Package

None


SCHEDULE D

Significant Subsidiaries

SCHEDULE D-1

Avon International Holdings Company

SCHEDULE D-2

Avon Cosméticos Ltda.

Avon Cosmetics de Venezuela C.A.

Avon Cosmetics S. DE R.L. DE C.V.

Avon Beauty Products Company


Exhibit A

Opinion of General Counsel

You have requested my opinion as General Counsel for Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation (the “ Company ”), with respect to certain matters relating to the offering by the Company of its 2.375% Notes due 2016 (the “ 2016 Notes ”), its 4.600% Notes due 2020 (the “ 2020 Notes” ), its 5.000% Notes due 2023 (the “ 2023 Notes” ) and its 6.950% Notes due 2043 (the “ 2043 Notes ” and, together with the 2016 Notes, the 2020 Notes and the 2023 Notes, the “ Notes ”), pursuant to the prospectus dated March 12, 2012 (the “ Base Prospectus ”), as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated March 6, 2013, in the form first used to confirm sales of the Notes (or in the form first made available to you by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Act ”)) (as so supplemented, the “ Prospectus ”) pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement related to the Notes dated March 7, 2013 (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”). This opinion is furnished pursuant to Section 5(d) of the Underwriting Agreement. Defined terms used but not defined herein are as defined in the Underwriting Agreement

In connection with the foregoing, I have reviewed among other things, (i) the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company, (ii) the authorization by the Board of Directors and the Finance Committee of the Company for the offering by the Company of the Notes, (iii) the proposed form of Notes to be issued by the Company, (iv) the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (registration number 333-180054) of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act, including the documents incorporated by reference therein (the “ Registration Statement ”), (v) the Base Prospectus, as supplemented by the preliminary prospectus supplement dated March 6, 2013 relating to the Notes (as so supplemented, the “ Preliminary Prospectus ”) and (vi) the Prospectus, and have examined and am familiar with such other records, certificates and documents, have supervised such proceedings, and have examined such questions of law and fact as I have considered necessary or appropriate for purposes of the opinion expressed below.

In rendering the opinions expressed below, I have assumed the Notes will be offered and sold in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus.

Based on the foregoing, I am of the opinion that:

1. To my knowledge, the statements under the caption “Item 3 – Legal Proceedings” of the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of the documents or proceedings referred to therein and as such statements may have been updated or superseded by information included in any current reports on Form 8-K, if any, filed since the date of such annual report, fairly summarize in all material respects the matters referred to therein as of the respective dates of such reports.

2. I do not know of any legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject other than (x) the proceedings that are summarized in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus (in each case, including all documents incorporated by reference therein) and (y) proceedings that are not reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

 

B-1


I am a member of the Bar of the State of New York, and the foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the federal laws of the United States of America.

 

B-2

Exhibit 4.2

EXECUTION VERSION

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.,

as Issuer

2.375% NOTES DUE 2016

 

 

FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of March 12, 2013

To

INDENTURE

Dated as of February 27, 2008

 

 

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,

as Trustee

FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 12th day of March, 2013, between AVON PRODUCTS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as Issuer (herein called the “ Company ”), having its principal office at 777 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017-1307, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, with its principal office at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, a banking corporation duly organized under the State of New York, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “ Original Indenture ” and, together with this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (in the Original Indenture and herein called the “ Securities ”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.800% notes due 2013, a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.750% notes due 2018, a Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.625% notes due 2014, and a Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.500% notes due 2019; and

WHEREAS, simultaneously herewith, the Company is executing and delivering to the Trustee a Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.600% Notes due 2020, a Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Notes due 2023 and an Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.950% Notes due 2043; and

WHEREAS, the Company, in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under the provisions of the Original Indenture, including Section 3.01 thereof, has duly determined to make,


execute and deliver to the Trustee this Fifth Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture as permitted by Sections 3.01 and 9.01 of the Original Indenture in order to establish the form or terms of, and to provide for the creation and issue of, a series of Securities under the Original Indenture in the aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities provided for herein, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent and issued upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter and in the Original Indenture set forth against payment therefor, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company and to make this Fifth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That, in order to establish the terms of a series of Securities, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Original Indenture and in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1.01 Definitions . Each capitalized term that is used herein and is defined in the Original Indenture shall have the meaning specified in the Original Indenture unless that term is otherwise defined herein:

Attributable Debt ” means, as of the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate per annum equal to the rate of interest implicit in the lease involved in any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, as determined in good faith by the Company) of the obligation of the lessee under a Sale/Leaseback Transaction for rental payments (excluding, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee, whether or not designated as rent or additional rent, on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or similar charges or any amounts required to be paid by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or similar contingent awards) during the remaining term of such lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended). In the case of any lease which is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such rental payments shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rental payments shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated. If GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not

 

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be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the Redemption Date) of the Notes being redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed.

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

Continuing Director ” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Notes; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in 2.12.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.

DTC ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Fitch ” means Fitch Inc.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance of any security interest existing on property owned by such Person, (iii) the reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise, in connection with any letters of credit actually issued or amounts representing the balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by such Person as lessee which is reflected in such Person’s consolidated balance sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of Indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on such Person’s consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), Indebtedness of another Person; provided, that if GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

 

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Interest Payment Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06.

Investment Grade ” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07.

Rating Agency ” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

Rating Event ” means the Notes are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

Reference Treasury Dealers ” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

Regular Record Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04.

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Notes that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Notes to such Redemption Date.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Stated Maturity ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.

Substitute Rating Agency ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that

 

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Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

Trustee ” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereof and shall include any successor Trustee under the Indenture and, solely for purposes of Section 2.12(e), any other qualifying trustee as set forth in Section 2.12(e).

Voting Stock ” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

1.02 References . Each reference to a particular section set forth in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture shall, unless the context otherwise requires, refer to this Fifth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE II

TITLE AND TERMS OF SECURITIES

2.01 Title of the Securities . This Fifth Supplemental Indenture hereby establishes a series of Securities designated as the “2.375% Notes due 2016” of the Company (collectively referred to herein as the “ Notes ”). For purposes of the Original Indenture, the Notes shall constitute a single series of Securities.

2.02 Term of the Notes . The Notes shall mature on March 15, 2016 (the “ Stated Maturity ”). In the event that the Stated Maturity is not a Business Day, principal and interest payable at maturity shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same effect as if that Business Day were the Stated Maturity and no interest shall accrue or be payable for the period from and after the Stated Maturity to the next succeeding Business Day.

2.03 Amount and Denominations; Currency of Payment . The aggregate principal amount in which the Notes may be issued under this Fifth Supplemental Indenture is initially limited to $250,000,000.

The Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities in the name of Cede & Co., as registered owner and nominee for The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York (“ DTC ”). DTC shall initially act as Depositary for the Notes.

The Notes shall be denominated in United States dollars in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

2.04 Interest and Interest Rates . Each Note shall bear interest at the rate of 2.375% per annum from the date of issue or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest on such Note has been paid or duly provided for, commencing with the Interest Payment Date next succeeding the date of issue, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date (the “ Regular Record Dates ”). Interest on each Note shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprising twelve 30-day months.

2.05 Interest Rate Adjustment . (a) The interest rate payable on the Notes will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P (a “ Substitute Rating Agency ”), downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in this Section 2.05.

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equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

Moody’s Rating*

   Percentage  

Ba1

     0.25

Ba2

     0.50

Ba3

     0.75

B1 or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(c) If the rating from S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

S&P Rating*

   Percentage  

BB+

     0.25

BB

     0.50

BB-

     0.75

B+ or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(d) If at any time the interest rate on the Notes has been adjusted upward and either Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), as the case may be, subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to any of the threshold ratings set forth in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased such that the interest rate for the Notes equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentages set forth opposite the ratings from the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c) in effect immediately following the increase in rating. If Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to Baa3 (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, and S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) increases its rating to BBB- (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased to the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date. In addition, the interest rates on the Notes will permanently cease to be subject to any adjustment described in this Section 2.05 (notwithstanding any subsequent decrease in the ratings by either or both of Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)) if the Notes become rated Baa1 (stable outlook) and BBB+ (stable outlook) (or the equivalent of either such rating, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher by Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), respectively (or one of these ratings if the Notes are only rated by one rating agency).

(e) Each adjustment required by any decrease or increase in a rating set forth in this Section 2.05, whether occasioned by the action of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), shall be made independent of any and all other adjustments. In no event shall (1) the interest rate for the Notes be reduced to below the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date or (2) the total increase in the interest rate on the Notes exceed 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(f) No adjustments in the interest rate of the Notes shall be made solely as a result of Moody’s or S&P ceasing to provide a rating of such Notes. If at any time fewer than two rating agencies provide a rating of the Notes for a reason beyond the Company’s control, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a rating of such Notes from a Substitute Rating Agency, to the extent one exists, and if a Substitute Rating Agency exists, for purposes of determining any increase or decrease in the interest rate on the Notes pursuant to the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), (a) such Substitute Rating Agency will be substituted for the last rating agency to provide a rating of such Notes but which has since ceased to provide such rating, (b) the relative rating scale used by such Substitute Rating Agency to assign ratings to senior unsecured debt will be determined in good faith by the Company and, for purposes of determining the applicable ratings included in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, with respect to such Substitute Rating Agency, such ratings will be deemed to be the equivalent ratings used by Moody’s or S&P, as applicable, in such Section and (c) the interest rate on the Notes will increase or decrease, as the case may be, such that the interest rate equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the appropriate percentage, if any, set forth opposite the rating

 

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from such Substitute Rating Agency in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, (taking into account the provisions of clause (b) of this Section 2.05) (plus any applicable percentage resulting from a decreased rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)). For so long as only one of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency) provides a rating of the Notes and no Substitute Rating Agency is offered to replace the other rating agency, any subsequent increase or decrease in the interest rate of such Notes necessitated by a reduction or increase in the rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) providing the rating shall be twice the percentage set forth in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable. For so long as none of Moody’s, S&P or a Substitute Rating Agency provides a rating of the Notes, the interest rate on the Notes will increase to, or remain at, as the case may be, 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(g) Any interest rate increase or decrease described in this Section 2.05 will take effect from the first day of the interest period commencing after the date on which a rating change occurs that requires an adjustment in the interest rate. If Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) changes its rating of the Notes more than once during any particular interest period, the last change by such agency will control for purposes of any interest rate increase or decrease with respect to the Notes described above relating to such agency’s action.

(h) If the interest rate payable on the Notes is increased as described in this Section 2.05, the term “interest,” as used with respect to the Notes, will be deemed to include any such additional interest unless the context otherwise requires.

2.06 Interest Payments . (a) The interest payment dates for each Note shall be March 15 and September 15, in each year (the “ Interest Payment Dates ”), commencing September 15, 2013 payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the Regular Record Dates. Interest shall also be payable at maturity of any Note.

(b) If an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day with respect to the Notes and no interest shall accrue or be payable on such next succeeding Business Day for the period from and after such original Interest Payment Date to such next succeeding Business Day.

(c) Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, interest payments shall be in the amount of interest accrued, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013 to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date.

2.07 Place of Payment, Transfer and Exchange . (a) The Company authorizes and appoints the Trustee as the sole paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”) with respect to the Notes represented by a Registered Global Security, without prejudice to the Company’s authority to appoint additional paying agents from time to time pursuant to the Original Indenture. Payments of principal on each Note and interest thereon payable at maturity or upon redemption shall be made in immediately available funds in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the request of the Holder, at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in New York, New York or any other duly appointed Paying Agent; provided that the Note is presented to the Paying Agent in time for the Paying Agent to make the payments in immediately available funds in accordance with its normal procedures. So long as any Notes are represented by a Registered Global Security, interest (other than interest payable at maturity or upon redemption) shall be paid in immediately available funds by wire transfer to the Depositary for such Notes, on the written order of the Depositary. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for payment. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained will accept Notes for presentment, take payment instructions from the Holder and forward the Notes presented and any related payment instructions to the Paying Agent by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes presented as set forth in the previous sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Paying Agent on the Business Day next succeeding the day the Notes are delivered to the drop agent. Payment of interest (other than interest payable in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Section 2.07) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Original Indenture, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register as of the applicable Regular Record Date or, at the option of the Company, by wire transfer to an account maintained by such Person with a bank located in the United States.

 

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(b) The Company appoints the Trustee as the sole Security Registrar with respect to the Notes. The Notes may be presented by the Holders thereof for registration of transfer or exchange at the office or agency of the Security registrar or any successor or co-registrar in New York, New York. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for registration of transfer or exchange. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained by the Company will accept Notes for registration of transfer or exchange and forward those Notes to the Security registrar by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes accepted as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Security registrar on the Business Day next succeeding the day that Notes are delivered to the drop agent.

2.08 No Sinking Fund . The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

2.09 Redemption at Option of the Company . (a) The Notes will be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the Notes to be redeemed, discounted, on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points with respect to any Notes being redeemed. Accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

(b) On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or any portion of the Notes called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Notes to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

2.10 Change of Control Triggering Event . (a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, or has defeased the Notes pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) to each Holder to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Notes with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders electing to have Notes repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Notes to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Notes to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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(c) On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer; (ii) deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being purchased by the Company.

(d) The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the repurchase price (subject to its receipt of such funds from the Company) for the Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Notes from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided, that each new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

2.11 Modification and Waiver . (a) Together with the Trustee, the Company may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.11(b), the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes) may waive the Company’s compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes.

(b) Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(i) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, or the Redemption Price of, any such Note;

(ii) reduce the principal amount of or interest on any such Note;

(iii) change currency of payment of principal of or interest on any such Note;

(iv) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on any such Note;

(v) reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding Notes, the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture, or for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or waiver of certain defaults; or

(vi) modify such provisions with respect to modification and waiver.

(c) Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Notes outstanding under the Indenture affected by any past Default thereunder (all voting together as one class) may, on behalf of the Holders of all such Notes affected by such past Default, waive such past Default and its consequences, subject to the payment of the amounts required under the Indenture, except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note, or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

2.12 Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance . (a)  Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . The Company may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, elect to have either Section 2.12(a) or 2.12(b) hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section 2.12.

 

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(b) Defeasance and Discharge . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(b), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Defeasance ”). For this purpose, Defeasance means that the Company will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 2.12(e) hereof and the other Sections of the Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and the Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(1) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 2.12(d) hereof;

(2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 3 and Section 10.02 of the Original Indenture;

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

(4) this Section 2.12.

Subject to compliance with this Section 2.12, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 2.12(b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 2.12(c) hereof.

(c) Covenant Defeasance . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be released from each of its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 2.05 and 2.10 of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and Article 8, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes will not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and will have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01 of the Original Indenture, but, except as specified above, the remainder of the Indenture and such Notes will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, Sections 5.01(d) (with respect to any of Article 8, Section 10.06 or Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture), 5.01(e) and 5.01(h) in the Original Indenture will not constitute Events of Default.

(d) Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . In order to exercise either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof:

(1) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and U.S. Government Obligations, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on, the outstanding Notes on the Interest Payment Date or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such Interest Payment Date or to a particular Redemption Date;

(2) in the case of Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (a) the Company has received from, or there has

 

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been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel will confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred;

(3) in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

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

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

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

(e) Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions . Subject to Section 2.12(f) hereof, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 2.12(e), the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and the Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.12 to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the written request of the Company any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 2.12(d) hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 2.12(d)(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

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

 

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(g) Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

2.13 Form and Other Terms of the Notes . Attached hereto as Annex A is a form of a Note denominated in United States dollars, which form is hereby established as a form in which Notes may be issued. In addition, any Note may be issued in such other form as may be provided by, or not inconsistent with, the terms of the Original Indenture and this Fifth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

The Trustee makes no undertaking or representation in respect of, and shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for and in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture or the proper authorization or the due execution hereof by the Company or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Original Indenture, as heretofore amended and supplemented, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof and the Original Indenture is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed. This Fifth Supplemental Indenture and all its provisions shall be deemed a part of the Original Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

THIS FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

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

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee,
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Irina Golovashchuk

Name:   Irina Golovashchuk
Title:   Vice President
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President

 

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Annex A

GLOBAL SECURITY

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

2.375% Notes due 2016

 

CUSIP NO. 054303 AY8    $ 250,000,000           

Avon Products, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $250,000,000 (which amount may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary) on March 15, 2016, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, or if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013, semiannually in arrears in cash on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September 15, 2013 at the rate of 2.375% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360 day year comprised of twelve 30 day months.

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day), immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register. If this Security is a Global Security, then notwithstanding the foregoing, each such payment will be made in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary as then in effect.

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

 

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated: March 12, 2013

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:

 

Name:
Title:

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

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
        By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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REVERSE OF GLOBAL SECURITY

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 2.375% Notes due 2016 (herein called the “Securities”), issued under an indenture dated as of February 27, 2008 (herein called the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as amended and supplemented by a fifth supplemental indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

The Securities will bear interest, payable on each Interest Payment Date to Holders of record on the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date, at 2.375% per annum until March 15, 2016 or the cancellation of the Securities. The interest rate payable on the Securities will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a Substitute Rating Agency downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in Section 2.05 of the Fifth Supplemental Indenture.

The Securities are the Company’s unsecured senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s other existing and future senior indebtedness. The Securities are redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of Securities at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on those Securities discounted on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points with respect to any Securities being redeemed. Accrued interest, if any, will be paid to the Redemption Date.

Subject to payment by the Company of a sum sufficient to pay the amount due on redemption, interest on this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part) shall cease to accrue upon the Redemption Date of this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part).

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

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

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

 

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“Reference Treasury Dealers” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Securities that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Securities will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Securities to such Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a paying agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

The Securities do not have the benefit of a sinking fund.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, or has defeased the Securities pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of such Holder’s Securities, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Securities repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of the Securities on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of a pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of Securities electing to have Securities repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Securities to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Securities to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

 

   

accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

 

   

deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portion of Securities properly tendered; and

 

   

deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Securities from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Security surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

“Fitch” means Fitch Inc.

 

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“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases to provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

“Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following Consummation of a Change of Control so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

“Voting Stock” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the existing Holders of the Securities, issue additional securities under the Indenture having the same terms as the Securities in all respects, except for the issue date, the issue price and the initial interest payment date. Any such additional securities will be consolidated with and form a single series with the Securities.

In addition to the Securities, the Company may issue other series of debt securities under the Indenture. There is no limit on the total aggregate principal amount of debt securities that the Company may issue under the Indenture.

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal amount of the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time, upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, of (i) the entire Indebtedness evidenced by this Security or (ii) certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security.

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

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless (i) such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice

 

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of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and (iii) the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

In the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Security, including an exchange, transfer, or redemption of this Security in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary. The depository shall initially be The Depository Trust Company.

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)

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

 

Date:                        

Signed:                                

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

Signature Guarantee:

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

Exhibit 4.3

EXECUTION VERSION

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.,

as Issuer

4.600% NOTES DUE 2020

 

 

SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of March 12, 2013

To

INDENTURE

Dated as of February 27, 2008

 

 

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,

as Trustee

SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 12th day of March, 2013, between AVON PRODUCTS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as Issuer (herein called the “ Company ”), having its principal office at 777 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017-1307, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, with its principal office at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, a banking corporation duly organized under the State of New York, as trustee (the “ Trustee ).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “ Original Indenture ” and, together with this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (in the Original Indenture and herein called the “ Securities ”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.800% notes due 2013, a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.750% notes due 2018, a Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.625% notes due 2014, and a Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.500% notes due 2019; and

WHEREAS, simultaneously herewith, the Company is executing and delivering to the Trustee a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Notes due 2016, a Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Notes due 2023 and an Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.950% Notes due 2043; and

WHEREAS, the Company, in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under the provisions of the Original Indenture, including Section 3.01 thereof, has duly determined to make,


execute and deliver to the Trustee this Sixth Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture as permitted by Sections 3.01 and 9.01 of the Original Indenture in order to establish the form or terms of, and to provide for the creation and issue of, a series of Securities under the Original Indenture in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities provided for herein, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent and issued upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter and in the Original Indenture set forth against payment therefor, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company and to make this Sixth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That, in order to establish the terms of a series of Securities, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Original Indenture and in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1.01 Definitions . Each capitalized term that is used herein and is defined in the Original Indenture shall have the meaning specified in the Original Indenture unless that term is otherwise defined herein:

Attributable Debt ” means, as of the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate per annum equal to the rate of interest implicit in the lease involved in any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, as determined in good faith by the Company) of the obligation of the lessee under a Sale/Leaseback Transaction for rental payments (excluding, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee, whether or not designated as rent or additional rent, on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or similar charges or any amounts required to be paid by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or similar contingent awards) during the remaining term of such lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended). In the case of any lease which is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such rental payments shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rental payments shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated. If GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not

 

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be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the Redemption Date) of the Notes being redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed.

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

Continuing Director ” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Notes; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in 2.12.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.

DTC ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Fitch ” means Fitch Inc.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance of any security interest existing on property owned by such Person, (iii) the reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise, in connection with any letters of credit actually issued or amounts representing the balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by such Person as lessee which is reflected in such Person’s consolidated balance sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of Indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on such Person’s consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), Indebtedness of another Person; provided, that if GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

 

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Interest Payment Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06.

Investment Grade ” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07.

Rating Agency ” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

Rating Event ” means the Notes are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

Reference Treasury Dealers ” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

Regular Record Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04.

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Notes that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Notes to such Redemption Date.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Stated Maturity ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.

Substitute Rating Agency ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that

 

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Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

Trustee ” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereof and shall include any successor Trustee under the Indenture and, solely for purposes of Section 2.12(e), any other qualifying trustee as set forth in Section 2.12(e).

Voting Stock ” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

1.02 References . Each reference to a particular section set forth in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall, unless the context otherwise requires, refer to this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE II

TITLE AND TERMS OF SECURITIES

2.01 Title of the Securities . This Sixth Supplemental Indenture hereby establishes a series of Securities designated as the “4.600% Notes due 2020” of the Company (collectively referred to herein as the “ Notes ”). For purposes of the Original Indenture, the Notes shall constitute a single series of Securities.

2.02 Term of the Notes . The Notes shall mature on March 15, 2020 (the “ Stated Maturity ”). In the event that the Stated Maturity is not a Business Day, principal and interest payable at maturity shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same effect as if that Business Day were the Stated Maturity and no interest shall accrue or be payable for the period from and after the Stated Maturity to the next succeeding Business Day.

2.03 Amount and Denominations; Currency of Payment . The aggregate principal amount in which the Notes may be issued under this Sixth Supplemental Indenture is initially limited to $500,000,000.

The Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities in the name of Cede & Co., as registered owner and nominee for The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York (“ DTC ”). DTC shall initially act as Depositary for the Notes.

The Notes shall be denominated in United States dollars in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

2.04 Interest and Interest Rates . Each Note shall bear interest at the rate of 4.600% per annum from the date of issue or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest on such Note has been paid or duly provided for, commencing with the Interest Payment Date next succeeding the date of issue, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date (the “ Regular Record Dates ”). Interest on each Note shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprising twelve 30-day months.

2.05 Interest Rate Adjustment . (a) The interest rate payable on the Notes will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P (a “ Substitute Rating Agency ”), downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in this Section 2.05.

(b) If the rating from Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will

 

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equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

Moody’s Rating*

   Percentage  

Ba1

     0.25

Ba2

     0.50

Ba3

     0.75

B1 or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(c) If the rating from S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

S&P Rating*

   Percentage  

BB+

     0.25

BB

     0.50

BB-

     0.75

B+ or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(d) If at any time the interest rate on the Notes has been adjusted upward and either Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), as the case may be, subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to any of the threshold ratings set forth in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased such that the interest rate for the Notes equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentages set forth opposite the ratings from the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c) in effect immediately following the increase in rating. If Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to Baa3 (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, and S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) increases its rating to BBB- (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased to the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date. In addition, the interest rates on the Notes will permanently cease to be subject to any adjustment described in this Section 2.05 (notwithstanding any subsequent decrease in the ratings by either or both of Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)) if the Notes become rated Baa1 (stable outlook) and BBB+ (stable outlook) (or the equivalent of either such rating, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher by Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), respectively (or one of these ratings if the Notes are only rated by one rating agency).

(e) Each adjustment required by any decrease or increase in a rating set forth in this Section 2.05, whether occasioned by the action of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), shall be made independent of any and all other adjustments. In no event shall (1) the interest rate for the Notes be reduced to below the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date or (2) the total increase in the interest rate on the Notes exceed 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(f) No adjustments in the interest rate of the Notes shall be made solely as a result of Moody’s or S&P ceasing to provide a rating of such Notes. If at any time fewer than two rating agencies provide a rating of the Notes for a reason beyond the Company’s control, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a rating of such Notes from a Substitute Rating Agency, to the extent one exists, and if a Substitute Rating Agency exists, for purposes of determining any increase or decrease in the interest rate on the Notes pursuant to the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), (a) such Substitute Rating Agency will be substituted for the last rating agency to provide a rating of such Notes but which has since ceased to provide such rating, (b) the relative rating scale used by such Substitute Rating Agency to assign ratings to senior unsecured debt will be determined in good faith by the Company and, for purposes of determining the applicable ratings included in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, with respect to such Substitute Rating Agency, such ratings will be deemed to be the equivalent ratings used by Moody’s or S&P, as applicable, in such Section and (c) the interest rate on the Notes will increase or decrease, as the case may be, such that the interest rate equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the appropriate percentage, if any, set forth opposite the rating

 

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from such Substitute Rating Agency in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, (taking into account the provisions of clause (b) of this Section 2.05) (plus any applicable percentage resulting from a decreased rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)). For so long as only one of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency) provides a rating of the Notes and no Substitute Rating Agency is offered to replace the other rating agency, any subsequent increase or decrease in the interest rate of such Notes necessitated by a reduction or increase in the rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) providing the rating shall be twice the percentage set forth in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable. For so long as none of Moody’s, S&P or a Substitute Rating Agency provides a rating of the Notes, the interest rate on the Notes will increase to, or remain at, as the case may be, 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(g) Any interest rate increase or decrease described in this Section 2.05 will take effect from the first day of the interest period commencing after the date on which a rating change occurs that requires an adjustment in the interest rate. If Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) changes its rating of the Notes more than once during any particular interest period, the last change by such agency will control for purposes of any interest rate increase or decrease with respect to the Notes described above relating to such agency’s action.

(h) If the interest rate payable on the Notes is increased as described in this Section 2.05, the term “interest,” as used with respect to the Notes, will be deemed to include any such additional interest unless the context otherwise requires.

2.06 Interest Payments . (a) The interest payment dates for each Note shall be March 15 and September 15, in each year (the “ Interest Payment Dates ”), commencing September 15, 2013 payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the Regular Record Dates. Interest shall also be payable at maturity of any Note.

(b) If an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day with respect to the Notes and no interest shall accrue or be payable on such next succeeding Business Day for the period from and after such original Interest Payment Date to such next succeeding Business Day.

(c) Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, interest payments shall be in the amount of interest accrued, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013 to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date.

2.07 Place of Payment, Transfer and Exchange . (a) The Company authorizes and appoints the Trustee as the sole paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”) with respect to the Notes represented by a Registered Global Security, without prejudice to the Company’s authority to appoint additional paying agents from time to time pursuant to the Original Indenture. Payments of principal on each Note and interest thereon payable at maturity or upon redemption shall be made in immediately available funds in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the request of the Holder, at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in New York, New York or any other duly appointed Paying Agent; provided that the Note is presented to the Paying Agent in time for the Paying Agent to make the payments in immediately available funds in accordance with its normal procedures. So long as any Notes are represented by a Registered Global Security, interest (other than interest payable at maturity or upon redemption) shall be paid in immediately available funds by wire transfer to the Depositary for such Notes, on the written order of the Depositary. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for payment. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained will accept Notes for presentment, take payment instructions from the Holder and forward the Notes presented and any related payment instructions to the Paying Agent by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes presented as set forth in the previous sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Paying Agent on the Business Day next succeeding the day the Notes are delivered to the drop agent. Payment of interest (other than interest payable in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Section 2.07) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Original Indenture, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register as of the applicable Regular Record Date or, at the option of the Company, by wire transfer to an account maintained by such Person with a bank located in the United States.

 

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(b) The Company appoints the Trustee as the sole Security Registrar with respect to the Notes. The Notes may be presented by the Holders thereof for registration of transfer or exchange at the office or agency of the Security registrar or any successor or co-registrar in New York, New York. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for registration of transfer or exchange. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained by the Company will accept Notes for registration of transfer or exchange and forward those Notes to the Security registrar by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes accepted as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Security registrar on the Business Day next succeeding the day that Notes are delivered to the drop agent.

2.08 No Sinking Fund . The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

2.09 Redemption at Option of the Company . (a) The Notes will be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the Notes to be redeemed, discounted, on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Notes being redeemed. Accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

(b) On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or any portion of the Notes called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Notes to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

2.10 Change of Control Triggering Event . (a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, or has defeased the Notes pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) to each Holder to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Notes with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders electing to have Notes repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Notes to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Notes to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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(c) On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer; (ii) deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being purchased by the Company.

(d) The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the repurchase price (subject to its receipt of such funds from the Company) for the Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Notes from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided, that each new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

2.11 Modification and Waiver . (a) Together with the Trustee, the Company may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.11(b), the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes) may waive the Company’s compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes.

(b) Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(i) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, or the Redemption Price of, any such Note;

(ii) reduce the principal amount of or interest on any such Note;

(iii) change currency of payment of principal of or interest on any such Note;

(iv) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on any such Note;

(v) reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding Notes, the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture, or for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or waiver of certain defaults; or

(vi) modify such provisions with respect to modification and waiver.

(c) Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Notes outstanding under the Indenture affected by any past Default thereunder (all voting together as one class) may, on behalf of the Holders of all such Notes affected by such past Default, waive such past Default and its consequences, subject to the payment of the amounts required under the Indenture, except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note, or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

2.12 Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance . (a)  Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . The Company may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, elect to have either Section 2.12(a) or 2.12(b) hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section 2.12.

 

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(b) Defeasance and Discharge . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(b), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Defeasance ”). For this purpose, Defeasance means that the Company will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 2.12(e) hereof and the other Sections of the Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and the Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(1) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 2.12(d) hereof;

(2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 3 and Section 10.02 of the Original Indenture;

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

(4) this Section 2.12.

Subject to compliance with this Section 2.12, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 2.12(b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 2.12(c) hereof.

(c) Covenant Defeasance . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be released from each of its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 2.05 and 2.10 of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and Article 8, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes will not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and will have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01 of the Original Indenture, but, except as specified above, the remainder of the Indenture and such Notes will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, Sections 5.01(d) (with respect to any of Article 8, Section 10.06 or Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture), 5.01(e) and 5.01(h) in the Original Indenture will not constitute Events of Default.

(d) Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . In order to exercise either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof:

(1) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and U.S. Government Obligations, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on, the outstanding Notes on the Interest Payment Date or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such Interest Payment Date or to a particular Redemption Date;

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been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel will confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred;

(3) in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

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

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

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

(e) Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions . Subject to Section 2.12(f) hereof, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 2.12(e), the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and the Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.12 to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the written request of the Company any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 2.12(d) hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 2.12(d)(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

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

 

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(g) Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

2.13 Form and Other Terms of the Notes . Attached hereto as Annex A is a form of a Note denominated in United States dollars, which form is hereby established as a form in which Notes may be issued. In addition, any Note may be issued in such other form as may be provided by, or not inconsistent with, the terms of the Original Indenture and this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

The Trustee makes no undertaking or representation in respect of, and shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for and in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or the proper authorization or the due execution hereof by the Company or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Original Indenture, as heretofore amended and supplemented, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof and the Original Indenture is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed. This Sixth Supplemental Indenture and all its provisions shall be deemed a part of the Original Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

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

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee,
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Irina Golovashchuk

Name:   Irina Golovashchuk
Title:   Vice President
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President

 

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Annex A

GLOBAL SECURITY

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

4.600% Notes due 2020

 

CUSIP NO. 054303 AX0    $500,000,000        

Avon Products, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $500,000,000 (which amount may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary) on March 15, 2020, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, or if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013, semiannually in arrears in cash on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September 15, 2013 at the rate of 4.600% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360 day year comprised of twelve 30 day months.

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day), immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register. If this Security is a Global Security, then notwithstanding the foregoing, each such payment will be made in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary as then in effect.

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

 

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated: March 12, 2013

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:

 

Name:
Title:

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

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
        By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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REVERSE OF GLOBAL SECURITY

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 4.600% Notes due 2020 (herein called the “Securities”), issued under an indenture dated as of February 27, 2008 (herein called the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as amended and supplemented by a sixth supplemental indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

The Securities will bear interest, payable on each Interest Payment Date to Holders of record on the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date, at 4.600% per annum until March 15, 2020 or the cancellation of the Securities. The interest rate payable on the Securities will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a Substitute Rating Agency downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in Section 2.05 of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

The Securities are the Company’s unsecured senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s other existing and future senior indebtedness. The Securities are redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of Securities at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on those Securities discounted on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Securities being redeemed. Accrued interest, if any, will be paid to the Redemption Date.

Subject to payment by the Company of a sum sufficient to pay the amount due on redemption, interest on this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part) shall cease to accrue upon the Redemption Date of this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part).

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

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

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

 

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“Reference Treasury Dealers” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Securities that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Securities will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Securities to such Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a paying agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

The Securities do not have the benefit of a sinking fund.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, or has defeased the Securities pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of such Holder’s Securities, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Securities repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of the Securities on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of a pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of Securities electing to have Securities repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Securities to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Securities to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

 

   

accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

 

   

deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portion of Securities properly tendered; and

 

   

deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Securities from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Security surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

“Fitch” means Fitch Inc.

 

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“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases to provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

“Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following Consummation of a Change of Control so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

“Voting Stock” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the existing Holders of the Securities, issue additional securities under the Indenture having the same terms as the Securities in all respects, except for the issue date, the issue price and the initial interest payment date. Any such additional securities will be consolidated with and form a single series with the Securities.

In addition to the Securities, the Company may issue other series of debt securities under the Indenture. There is no limit on the total aggregate principal amount of debt securities that the Company may issue under the Indenture.

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal amount of the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time, upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, of (i) the entire Indebtedness evidenced by this Security or (ii) certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security.

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

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless (i) such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice

 

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of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and (iii) the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

In the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Security, including an exchange, transfer, or redemption of this Security in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary. The depository shall initially be The Depository Trust Company.

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)

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

 

Date:                        

Signed:                                

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

Signature Guarantee:

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

Exhibit 4.4

EXECUTION VERSION

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.,

as Issuer

5.000% NOTES DUE 2023

 

 

SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of March 12, 2013

To

INDENTURE

Dated as of February 27, 2008

 

 

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,

as Trustee

SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 12th day of March, 2013, between AVON PRODUCTS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as Issuer (herein called the “ Company ”), having its principal office at 777 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017-1307, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, with its principal office at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, a banking corporation duly organized under the State of New York, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “ Original Indenture ” and, together with this Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (in the Original Indenture and herein called the “ Securities ”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.800% notes due 2013, a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.750% notes due 2018, a Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.625% notes due 2014, and a Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.500% notes due 2019; and

WHEREAS, simultaneously herewith, the Company is executing and delivering to the Trustee a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Notes due 2016, a Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.600% Notes due 2020 and an Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.950% Notes due 2043; and

WHEREAS, the Company, in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under the provisions of the Original Indenture, including Section 3.01 thereof, has duly determined to make,


execute and deliver to the Trustee this Seventh Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture as permitted by Sections 3.01 and 9.01 of the Original Indenture in order to establish the form or terms of, and to provide for the creation and issue of, a series of Securities under the Original Indenture in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities provided for herein, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent and issued upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter and in the Original Indenture set forth against payment therefor, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company and to make this Seventh Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That, in order to establish the terms of a series of Securities, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Original Indenture and in this Seventh Supplemental Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1.01 Definitions . Each capitalized term that is used herein and is defined in the Original Indenture shall have the meaning specified in the Original Indenture unless that term is otherwise defined herein:

Attributable Debt ” means, as of the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate per annum equal to the rate of interest implicit in the lease involved in any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, as determined in good faith by the Company) of the obligation of the lessee under a Sale/Leaseback Transaction for rental payments (excluding, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee, whether or not designated as rent or additional rent, on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or similar charges or any amounts required to be paid by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or similar contingent awards) during the remaining term of such lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended). In the case of any lease which is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such rental payments shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rental payments shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated. If GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not

 

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be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the Redemption Date) of the Notes being redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed.

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

Continuing Director ” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Notes; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in 2.12.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.

DTC ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Fitch ” means Fitch Inc.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance of any security interest existing on property owned by such Person, (iii) the reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise, in connection with any letters of credit actually issued or amounts representing the balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by such Person as lessee which is reflected in such Person’s consolidated balance sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of Indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on such Person’s consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), Indebtedness of another Person; provided, that if GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

 

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Interest Payment Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06.

Investment Grade ” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07.

Rating Agency ” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

Rating Event ” means the Notes are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

Reference Treasury Dealers ” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

Regular Record Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04.

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Notes that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Notes to such Redemption Date.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Stated Maturity ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.

Substitute Rating Agency ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that

 

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Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

Trustee ” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereof and shall include any successor Trustee under the Indenture and, solely for purposes of Section 2.12(e), any other qualifying trustee as set forth in Section 2.12(e).

Voting Stock ” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

1.02 References . Each reference to a particular section set forth in this Seventh Supplemental Indenture shall, unless the context otherwise requires, refer to this Seventh Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE II

TITLE AND TERMS OF SECURITIES

2.01 Title of the Securities . This Seventh Supplemental Indenture hereby establishes a series of Securities designated as the “5.000% Notes due 2023” of the Company (collectively referred to herein as the “ Notes ”). For purposes of the Original Indenture, the Notes shall constitute a single series of Securities.

2.02 Term of the Notes . The Notes shall mature on March 15, 2023 (the “ Stated Maturity ”). In the event that the Stated Maturity is not a Business Day, principal and interest payable at maturity shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same effect as if that Business Day were the Stated Maturity and no interest shall accrue or be payable for the period from and after the Stated Maturity to the next succeeding Business Day.

2.03 Amount and Denominations; Currency of Payment . The aggregate principal amount in which the Notes may be issued under this Seventh Supplemental Indenture is initially limited to $500,000,000.

The Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities in the name of Cede & Co., as registered owner and nominee for The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York (“ DTC ”). DTC shall initially act as Depositary for the Notes.

The Notes shall be denominated in United States dollars in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

2.04 Interest and Interest Rates . Each Note shall bear interest at the rate of 5.000% per annum from the date of issue or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest on such Note has been paid or duly provided for, commencing with the Interest Payment Date next succeeding the date of issue, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date (the “ Regular Record Dates ”). Interest on each Note shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprising twelve 30-day months.

2.05 Interest Rate Adjustment . (a) The interest rate payable on the Notes will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P (a “ Substitute Rating Agency ”), downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in this Section 2.05.

(b) If the rating from Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will

 

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equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

Moody’s Rating*

   Percentage  

Ba1

     0.25

Ba2

     0.50

Ba3

     0.75

B1 or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(c) If the rating from S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

S&P Rating*

   Percentage  

BB+

     0.25

BB

     0.50

BB-

     0.75

B+ or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(d) If at any time the interest rate on the Notes has been adjusted upward and either Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), as the case may be, subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to any of the threshold ratings set forth in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased such that the interest rate for the Notes equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentages set forth opposite the ratings from the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c) in effect immediately following the increase in rating. If Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to Baa3 (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, and S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) increases its rating to BBB- (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased to the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date. In addition, the interest rates on the Notes will permanently cease to be subject to any adjustment described in this Section 2.05 (notwithstanding any subsequent decrease in the ratings by either or both of Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)) if the Notes become rated Baa1 (stable outlook) and BBB+ (stable outlook) (or the equivalent of either such rating, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher by Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), respectively (or one of these ratings if the Notes are only rated by one rating agency).

(e) Each adjustment required by any decrease or increase in a rating set forth in this Section 2.05, whether occasioned by the action of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), shall be made independent of any and all other adjustments. In no event shall (1) the interest rate for the Notes be reduced to below the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date or (2) the total increase in the interest rate on the Notes exceed 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(f) No adjustments in the interest rate of the Notes shall be made solely as a result of Moody’s or S&P ceasing to provide a rating of such Notes. If at any time fewer than two rating agencies provide a rating of the Notes for a reason beyond the Company’s control, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a rating of such Notes from a Substitute Rating Agency, to the extent one exists, and if a Substitute Rating Agency exists, for purposes of determining any increase or decrease in the interest rate on the Notes pursuant to the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), (a) such Substitute Rating Agency will be substituted for the last rating agency to provide a rating of such Notes but which has since ceased to provide such rating, (b) the relative rating scale used by such Substitute Rating Agency to assign ratings to senior unsecured debt will be determined in good faith by the Company and, for purposes of determining the applicable ratings included in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, with respect to such Substitute Rating Agency, such ratings will be deemed to be the equivalent ratings used by Moody’s or S&P, as applicable, in such Section and (c) the interest rate on the Notes will increase or decrease, as the case may be, such that the interest rate equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the appropriate percentage, if any, set forth opposite the rating

 

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from such Substitute Rating Agency in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, (taking into account the provisions of clause (b) of this Section 2.05) (plus any applicable percentage resulting from a decreased rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)). For so long as only one of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency) provides a rating of the Notes and no Substitute Rating Agency is offered to replace the other rating agency, any subsequent increase or decrease in the interest rate of such Notes necessitated by a reduction or increase in the rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) providing the rating shall be twice the percentage set forth in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable. For so long as none of Moody’s, S&P or a Substitute Rating Agency provides a rating of the Notes, the interest rate on the Notes will increase to, or remain at, as the case may be, 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(g) Any interest rate increase or decrease described in this Section 2.05 will take effect from the first day of the interest period commencing after the date on which a rating change occurs that requires an adjustment in the interest rate. If Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) changes its rating of the Notes more than once during any particular interest period, the last change by such agency will control for purposes of any interest rate increase or decrease with respect to the Notes described above relating to such agency’s action.

(h) If the interest rate payable on the Notes is increased as described in this Section 2.05, the term “interest,” as used with respect to the Notes, will be deemed to include any such additional interest unless the context otherwise requires.

2.06 Interest Payments . (a) The interest payment dates for each Note shall be March 15 and September 15, in each year (the “ Interest Payment Dates ”), commencing September 15, 2013 payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the Regular Record Dates. Interest shall also be payable at maturity of any Note.

(b) If an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day with respect to the Notes and no interest shall accrue or be payable on such next succeeding Business Day for the period from and after such original Interest Payment Date to such next succeeding Business Day.

(c) Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, interest payments shall be in the amount of interest accrued, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013 to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date.

2.07 Place of Payment, Transfer and Exchange . (a) The Company authorizes and appoints the Trustee as the sole paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”) with respect to the Notes represented by a Registered Global Security, without prejudice to the Company’s authority to appoint additional paying agents from time to time pursuant to the Original Indenture. Payments of principal on each Note and interest thereon payable at maturity or upon redemption shall be made in immediately available funds in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the request of the Holder, at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in New York, New York or any other duly appointed Paying Agent; provided that the Note is presented to the Paying Agent in time for the Paying Agent to make the payments in immediately available funds in accordance with its normal procedures. So long as any Notes are represented by a Registered Global Security, interest (other than interest payable at maturity or upon redemption) shall be paid in immediately available funds by wire transfer to the Depositary for such Notes, on the written order of the Depositary. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for payment. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained will accept Notes for presentment, take payment instructions from the Holder and forward the Notes presented and any related payment instructions to the Paying Agent by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes presented as set forth in the previous sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Paying Agent on the Business Day next succeeding the day the Notes are delivered to the drop agent. Payment of interest (other than interest payable in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Section 2.07) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Original Indenture, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register as of the applicable Regular Record Date or, at the option of the Company, by wire transfer to an account maintained by such Person with a bank located in the United States.

 

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(b) The Company appoints the Trustee as the sole Security Registrar with respect to the Notes. The Notes may be presented by the Holders thereof for registration of transfer or exchange at the office or agency of the Security registrar or any successor or co-registrar in New York, New York. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for registration of transfer or exchange. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained by the Company will accept Notes for registration of transfer or exchange and forward those Notes to the Security registrar by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes accepted as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Security registrar on the Business Day next succeeding the day that Notes are delivered to the drop agent.

2.08 No Sinking Fund . The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

2.09 Redemption at Option of the Company . (a) The Notes will be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the Notes to be redeemed, discounted, on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Notes being redeemed. Accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

(b) On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or any portion of the Notes called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Notes to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

2.10 Change of Control Triggering Event . (a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, or has defeased the Notes pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) to each Holder to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Notes with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders electing to have Notes repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Notes to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Notes to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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(c) On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer; (ii) deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being purchased by the Company.

(d) The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the repurchase price (subject to its receipt of such funds from the Company) for the Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Notes from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided, that each new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

2.11 Modification and Waiver . (a) Together with the Trustee, the Company may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.11(b), the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes) may waive the Company’s compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes.

(b) Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(i) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, or the Redemption Price of, any such Note;

(ii) reduce the principal amount of or interest on any such Note;

(iii) change currency of payment of principal of or interest on any such Note;

(iv) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on any such Note;

(v) reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding Notes, the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture, or for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or waiver of certain defaults; or

(vi) modify such provisions with respect to modification and waiver.

(c) Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Notes outstanding under the Indenture affected by any past Default thereunder (all voting together as one class) may, on behalf of the Holders of all such Notes affected by such past Default, waive such past Default and its consequences, subject to the payment of the amounts required under the Indenture, except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note, or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

2.12 Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance . (a)  Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . The Company may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, elect to have either Section 2.12(a) or 2.12(b) hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section 2.12.

 

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(b) Defeasance and Discharge . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(b), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Defeasance ”). For this purpose, Defeasance means that the Company will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 2.12(e) hereof and the other Sections of the Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and the Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(1) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 2.12(d) hereof;

(2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 3 and Section 10.02 of the Original Indenture;

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

(4) this Section 2.12.

Subject to compliance with this Section 2.12, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 2.12(b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 2.12(c) hereof.

(c) Covenant Defeasance . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be released from each of its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 2.05 and 2.10 of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture and Article 8, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes will not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and will have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01 of the Original Indenture, but, except as specified above, the remainder of the Indenture and such Notes will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, Sections 5.01(d) (with respect to any of Article 8, Section 10.06 or Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture), 5.01(e) and 5.01(h) in the Original Indenture will not constitute Events of Default.

(d) Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . In order to exercise either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof:

(1) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and U.S. Government Obligations, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on, the outstanding Notes on the Interest Payment Date or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such Interest Payment Date or to a particular Redemption Date;

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been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel will confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred;

(3) in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

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

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

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

(e) Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions . Subject to Section 2.12(f) hereof, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 2.12(e), the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and the Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.12 to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the written request of the Company any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 2.12(d) hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 2.12(d)(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

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

 

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(g) Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

2.13 Form and Other Terms of the Notes . Attached hereto as Annex A is a form of a Note denominated in United States dollars, which form is hereby established as a form in which Notes may be issued. In addition, any Note may be issued in such other form as may be provided by, or not inconsistent with, the terms of the Original Indenture and this Seventh Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

The Trustee makes no undertaking or representation in respect of, and shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for and in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture or the proper authorization or the due execution hereof by the Company or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Original Indenture, as heretofore amended and supplemented, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof and the Original Indenture is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed. This Seventh Supplemental Indenture and all its provisions shall be deemed a part of the Original Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

THIS SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

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

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee,
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Irina Golovashchuk

Name:   Irina Golovashchuk
Title:   Vice President
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President

 

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Annex A

GLOBAL SECURITY

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

5.000% Notes due 2023

 

CUSIP NO. 054303 BA9    $500,000,000        

Avon Products, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $500,000,000 (which amount may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary) on March 15, 2023, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, or if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013, semiannually in arrears in cash on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September 15, 2013 at the rate of 5.000% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360 day year comprised of twelve 30 day months.

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day), immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register. If this Security is a Global Security, then notwithstanding the foregoing, each such payment will be made in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary as then in effect.

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

 

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated: March 12, 2013

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:

 

Name:
Title:

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

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
        By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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REVERSE OF GLOBAL SECURITY

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 5.000% Notes due 2023 (herein called the “Securities”), issued under an indenture dated as of February 27, 2008 (herein called the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as amended and supplemented by a seventh supplemental indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

The Securities will bear interest, payable on each Interest Payment Date to Holders of record on the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date, at 5.000% per annum until March 15, 2023 or the cancellation of the Securities. The interest rate payable on the Securities will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a Substitute Rating Agency downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in Section 2.05 of the Seventh Supplemental Indenture.

The Securities are the Company’s unsecured senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s other existing and future senior indebtedness. The Securities are redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of Securities at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on those Securities discounted on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Securities being redeemed. Accrued interest, if any, will be paid to the Redemption Date.

Subject to payment by the Company of a sum sufficient to pay the amount due on redemption, interest on this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part) shall cease to accrue upon the Redemption Date of this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part).

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

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

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

 

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“Reference Treasury Dealers” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Securities that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Securities will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Securities to such Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a paying agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

The Securities do not have the benefit of a sinking fund.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, or has defeased the Securities pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of such Holder’s Securities, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Securities repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of the Securities on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of a pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of Securities electing to have Securities repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Securities to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Securities to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

 

   

accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

 

   

deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portion of Securities properly tendered; and

 

   

deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Securities from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Security surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

“Fitch” means Fitch Inc.

 

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“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases to provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

“Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following Consummation of a Change of Control so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

“Voting Stock” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the existing Holders of the Securities, issue additional securities under the Indenture having the same terms as the Securities in all respects, except for the issue date, the issue price and the initial interest payment date. Any such additional securities will be consolidated with and form a single series with the Securities.

In addition to the Securities, the Company may issue other series of debt securities under the Indenture. There is no limit on the total aggregate principal amount of debt securities that the Company may issue under the Indenture.

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal amount of the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time, upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, of (i) the entire Indebtedness evidenced by this Security or (ii) certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security.

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

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless (i) such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice

 

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of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and (iii) the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

In the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Security, including an exchange, transfer, or redemption of this Security in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary. The depository shall initially be The Depository Trust Company.

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)

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

 

Date:                        

Signed:                                

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

Signature Guarantee:

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

Exhibit 4.5

EXECUTION VERSION

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.,

as Issuer

6.950% NOTES DUE 2043

 

 

EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of March 12, 2013

To

INDENTURE

Dated as of February 27, 2008

 

 

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas,

as Trustee

EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 12th day of March, 2013, between AVON PRODUCTS, INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, as Issuer (herein called the “ Company ”), having its principal office at 777 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017-1307, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, with its principal office at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, a banking corporation duly organized under the State of New York, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008 (the “ Original Indenture ” and, together with this Eighth Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) providing for the issuance by the Company from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (in the Original Indenture and herein called the “ Securities ”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.800% notes due 2013, a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 3, 2008, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.750% notes due 2018, a Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.625% notes due 2014, and a Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2009, providing for the issuance by the Company of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.500% notes due 2019; and

WHEREAS, simultaneously herewith, the Company is executing and delivering to the Trustee a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Notes due 2016, a Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.600% Notes due 2020 and a Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, providing for the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.00% Notes due 2023; and

WHEREAS, the Company, in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon and reserved to it under the provisions of the Original Indenture, including Section 3.01 thereof, has duly determined to make,


execute and deliver to the Trustee this Eighth Supplemental Indenture to the Original Indenture as permitted by Sections 3.01 and 9.01 of the Original Indenture in order to establish the form or terms of, and to provide for the creation and issue of, a series of Securities under the Original Indenture in the aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities provided for herein, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent and issued upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter and in the Original Indenture set forth against payment therefor, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company and to make this Eighth Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That, in order to establish the terms of a series of Securities, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the covenants contained in the Original Indenture and in this Eighth Supplemental Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1.01 Definitions . Each capitalized term that is used herein and is defined in the Original Indenture shall have the meaning specified in the Original Indenture unless that term is otherwise defined herein:

Attributable Debt ” means, as of the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate per annum equal to the rate of interest implicit in the lease involved in any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, as determined in good faith by the Company) of the obligation of the lessee under a Sale/Leaseback Transaction for rental payments (excluding, however, any amounts required to be paid by such lessee, whether or not designated as rent or additional rent, on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water rates or similar charges or any amounts required to be paid by such lessee thereunder contingent upon the amount of sales or similar contingent awards) during the remaining term of such lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended). In the case of any lease which is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty, such rental payments shall also include the amount of such penalty, but no rental payments shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated. If GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not

 

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be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10.

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the Redemption Date) of the Notes being redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed.

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

Continuing Director ” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Notes; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in 2.12.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.

DTC ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.

Fitch ” means Fitch Inc.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (ii) indebtedness secured by a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance of any security interest existing on property owned by such Person, (iii) the reimbursement obligations, contingent or otherwise, in connection with any letters of credit actually issued or amounts representing the balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable or (iv) any lease of property by such Person as lessee which is reflected in such Person’s consolidated balance sheet as a capitalized lease in accordance with GAAP, in the case of items of Indebtedness under (i) through (iii) above to the extent that any such items (other than letters of credit) would appear as a liability on such Person’s consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by such Person to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise (other than for purposes of collection in the ordinary course of business), Indebtedness of another Person; provided, that if GAAP shall change after the Issue Date of the Notes so that a lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use property) that would not be classified as a capital lease under GAAP as in effect as of the Issue Date of the Notes would be classified as a capital lease, then the obligations under such lease (or other agreement conveying the right to use any property) shall not be considered to be a capitalized lease obligation.

Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

 

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Interest Payment Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06.

Investment Grade ” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07.

Rating Agency ” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

Rating Event ” means the Notes are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

Reference Treasury Dealers ” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

Regular Record Dates ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04.

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Notes that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Notes will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Notes to such Redemption Date.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Stated Maturity ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.

Substitute Rating Agency ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that

 

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Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

Trustee ” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereof and shall include any successor Trustee under the Indenture and, solely for purposes of Section 2.12(e), any other qualifying trustee as set forth in Section 2.12(e).

Voting Stock ” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

1.02 References . Each reference to a particular section set forth in this Eighth Supplemental Indenture shall, unless the context otherwise requires, refer to this Eighth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE II

TITLE AND TERMS OF SECURITIES

2.01 Title of the Securities . This Eighth Supplemental Indenture hereby establishes a series of Securities designated as the “6.950% Notes due 2043” of the Company (collectively referred to herein as the “ Notes ”). For purposes of the Original Indenture, the Notes shall constitute a single series of Securities.

2.02 Term of the Notes . The Notes shall mature on March 15, 2043 (the “ Stated Maturity ”). In the event that the Stated Maturity is not a Business Day, principal and interest payable at maturity shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same effect as if that Business Day were the Stated Maturity and no interest shall accrue or be payable for the period from and after the Stated Maturity to the next succeeding Business Day.

2.03 Amount and Denominations; Currency of Payment . The aggregate principal amount in which the Notes may be issued under this Eighth Supplemental Indenture is initially limited to $250,000,000.

The Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities in the name of Cede & Co., as registered owner and nominee for The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York (“ DTC ”). DTC shall initially act as Depositary for the Notes.

The Notes shall be denominated in United States dollars in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

2.04 Interest and Interest Rates . Each Note shall bear interest at the rate of 6.950% per annum from the date of issue or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest on such Note has been paid or duly provided for, commencing with the Interest Payment Date next succeeding the date of issue, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the fifteenth calendar day immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date (the “ Regular Record Dates ”). Interest on each Note shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprising twelve 30-day months.

2.05 Interest Rate Adjustment . (a) The interest rate payable on the Notes will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P (a “ Substitute Rating Agency ”), downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in this Section 2.05.

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equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

Moody’s Rating*

   Percentage  

Ba1

     0.25

Ba2

     0.50

Ba3

     0.75

B1 or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(c) If the rating from S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) of the Notes is decreased to a rating set forth in the immediately following table, the interest rate on the Notes will increase such that it will equal the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentage set forth opposite the ratings from the table below:

 

S&P Rating*

   Percentage  

BB+

     0.25

BB

     0.50

BB-

     0.75

B+ or below

     1.00

*  Including the equivalent ratings of any Substitute Rating Agency.

     

(d) If at any time the interest rate on the Notes has been adjusted upward and either Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), as the case may be, subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to any of the threshold ratings set forth in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased such that the interest rate for the Notes equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the percentages set forth opposite the ratings from the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c) in effect immediately following the increase in rating. If Moody’s (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) subsequently increases its rating of the Notes to Baa3 (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, and S&P (or any Substitute Rating Agency therefor) increases its rating to BBB- (or its equivalent, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher, the interest rate on the Notes will be decreased to the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date. In addition, the interest rates on the Notes will permanently cease to be subject to any adjustment described in this Section 2.05 (notwithstanding any subsequent decrease in the ratings by either or both of Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)) if the Notes become rated Baa1 (stable outlook) and BBB+ (stable outlook) (or the equivalent of either such rating, in the case of a Substitute Rating Agency) or higher by Moody’s and S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), respectively (or one of these ratings if the Notes are only rated by one rating agency).

(e) Each adjustment required by any decrease or increase in a rating set forth in this Section 2.05, whether occasioned by the action of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor), shall be made independent of any and all other adjustments. In no event shall (1) the interest rate for the Notes be reduced to below the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date or (2) the total increase in the interest rate on the Notes exceed 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(f) No adjustments in the interest rate of the Notes shall be made solely as a result of Moody’s or S&P ceasing to provide a rating of such Notes. If at any time fewer than two rating agencies provide a rating of the Notes for a reason beyond the Company’s control, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a rating of such Notes from a Substitute Rating Agency, to the extent one exists, and if a Substitute Rating Agency exists, for purposes of determining any increase or decrease in the interest rate on the Notes pursuant to the tables in Section 2.05(b) and 2.05(c), (a) such Substitute Rating Agency will be substituted for the last rating agency to provide a rating of such Notes but which has since ceased to provide such rating, (b) the relative rating scale used by such Substitute Rating Agency to assign ratings to senior unsecured debt will be determined in good faith by the Company and, for purposes of determining the applicable ratings included in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, with respect to such Substitute Rating Agency, such ratings will be deemed to be the equivalent ratings used by Moody’s or S&P, as applicable, in such Section and (c) the interest rate on the Notes will increase or decrease, as the case may be, such that the interest rate equals the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date plus the appropriate percentage, if any, set forth opposite the rating

 

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from such Substitute Rating Agency in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable, (taking into account the provisions of clause (b) of this Section 2.05) (plus any applicable percentage resulting from a decreased rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor)). For so long as only one of Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency) provides a rating of the Notes and no Substitute Rating Agency is offered to replace the other rating agency, any subsequent increase or decrease in the interest rate of such Notes necessitated by a reduction or increase in the rating by Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) providing the rating shall be twice the percentage set forth in Section 2.05(b) or 2.05(c), as applicable. For so long as none of Moody’s, S&P or a Substitute Rating Agency provides a rating of the Notes, the interest rate on the Notes will increase to, or remain at, as the case may be, 2.00% above the interest rate payable on the Notes on their Issue Date.

(g) Any interest rate increase or decrease described in this Section 2.05 will take effect from the first day of the interest period commencing after the date on which a rating change occurs that requires an adjustment in the interest rate. If Moody’s or S&P (or, in either case, a Substitute Rating Agency therefor) changes its rating of the Notes more than once during any particular interest period, the last change by such agency will control for purposes of any interest rate increase or decrease with respect to the Notes described above relating to such agency’s action.

(h) If the interest rate payable on the Notes is increased as described in this Section 2.05, the term “interest,” as used with respect to the Notes, will be deemed to include any such additional interest unless the context otherwise requires.

2.06 Interest Payments . (a) The interest payment dates for each Note shall be March 15 and September 15, in each year (the “ Interest Payment Dates ”), commencing September 15, 2013 payable to the Persons in whose name a Note is registered on the Regular Record Dates. Interest shall also be payable at maturity of any Note.

(b) If an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Notes would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day with respect to the Notes and no interest shall accrue or be payable on such next succeeding Business Day for the period from and after such original Interest Payment Date to such next succeeding Business Day.

(c) Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, interest payments shall be in the amount of interest accrued, from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013 to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date.

2.07 Place of Payment, Transfer and Exchange . (a) The Company authorizes and appoints the Trustee as the sole paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”) with respect to the Notes represented by a Registered Global Security, without prejudice to the Company’s authority to appoint additional paying agents from time to time pursuant to the Original Indenture. Payments of principal on each Note and interest thereon payable at maturity or upon redemption shall be made in immediately available funds in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the request of the Holder, at the office or agency of the Paying Agent in New York, New York or any other duly appointed Paying Agent; provided that the Note is presented to the Paying Agent in time for the Paying Agent to make the payments in immediately available funds in accordance with its normal procedures. So long as any Notes are represented by a Registered Global Security, interest (other than interest payable at maturity or upon redemption) shall be paid in immediately available funds by wire transfer to the Depositary for such Notes, on the written order of the Depositary. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for payment. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained will accept Notes for presentment, take payment instructions from the Holder and forward the Notes presented and any related payment instructions to the Paying Agent by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes presented as set forth in the previous sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Paying Agent on the Business Day next succeeding the day the Notes are delivered to the drop agent. Payment of interest (other than interest payable in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Section 2.07) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Original Indenture, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register as of the applicable Regular Record Date or, at the option of the Company, by wire transfer to an account maintained by such Person with a bank located in the United States.

 

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(b) The Company appoints the Trustee as the sole Security Registrar with respect to the Notes. The Notes may be presented by the Holders thereof for registration of transfer or exchange at the office or agency of the Security registrar or any successor or co-registrar in New York, New York. In addition, the Company may maintain a drop agent, in such location or locations as the Company may select, to provide the Holders with an office at which they may present the Notes for registration of transfer or exchange. The Company hereby acknowledges that any drop agent maintained by the Company will accept Notes for registration of transfer or exchange and forward those Notes to the Security registrar by overnight courier, for next day delivery. Notes accepted as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be deemed to be presented to the Security registrar on the Business Day next succeeding the day that Notes are delivered to the drop agent.

2.08 No Sinking Fund . The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

2.09 Redemption at Option of the Company . (a) The Notes will be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the Notes to be redeemed, discounted, on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Notes being redeemed. Accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

(b) On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or any portion of the Notes called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Notes to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

2.10 Change of Control Triggering Event . (a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, or has defeased the Notes pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) to each Holder to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Notes with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders electing to have Notes repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Notes to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Notes to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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(c) On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer; (ii) deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being purchased by the Company.

(d) The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the repurchase price (subject to its receipt of such funds from the Company) for the Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Notes from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided, that each new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

2.11 Modification and Waiver . (a) Together with the Trustee, the Company may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.11(b), the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes) may waive the Company’s compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes.

(b) Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

(i) change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, or the Redemption Price of, any such Note;

(ii) reduce the principal amount of or interest on any such Note;

(iii) change currency of payment of principal of or interest on any such Note;

(iv) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on any such Note;

(v) reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding Notes, the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture, or for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the Indenture or waiver of certain defaults; or

(vi) modify such provisions with respect to modification and waiver.

(c) Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Notes outstanding under the Indenture affected by any past Default thereunder (all voting together as one class) may, on behalf of the Holders of all such Notes affected by such past Default, waive such past Default and its consequences, subject to the payment of the amounts required under the Indenture, except a Default (i) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note, or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

2.12 Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance . (a)  Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . The Company may at any time, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, elect to have either Section 2.12(a) or 2.12(b) hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section 2.12.

 

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(b) Defeasance and Discharge . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(b), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Defeasance ”). For this purpose, Defeasance means that the Company will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, which will thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 2.12(e) hereof and the other Sections of the Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and the Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which will survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(1) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on, such Notes when such payments are due from the trust referred to in Section 2.12(d) hereof;

(2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 3 and Section 10.02 of the Original Indenture;

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

(4) this Section 2.12.

Subject to compliance with this Section 2.12, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 2.12(b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 2.12(c) hereof.

(c) Covenant Defeasance . Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), the Company will, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, be released from each of its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 2.05 and 2.10 of this Eighth Supplemental Indenture and Article 8, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes will thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but will continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes will not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and will have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01 of the Original Indenture, but, except as specified above, the remainder of the Indenture and such Notes will be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company’s exercise under Section 2.12(a) hereof of the option applicable to this Section 2.12(c), subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.12(d) hereof, Sections 5.01(d) (with respect to any of Article 8, Section 10.06 or Section 10.07 of the Original Indenture), 5.01(e) and 5.01(h) in the Original Indenture will not constitute Events of Default.

(d) Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance . In order to exercise either Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance under either Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof:

(1) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and U.S. Government Obligations, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest and premium, if any, on, the outstanding Notes on the Interest Payment Date or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such Interest Payment Date or to a particular Redemption Date;

(2) in the case of Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (a) the Company has received from, or there has

 

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been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date of this Eighth Supplemental Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel will confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Defeasance had not occurred;

(3) in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company must deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

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

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

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

(e) Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions . Subject to Section 2.12(f) hereof, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 2.12(e), the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes will be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and the Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company will pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 2.12(d) hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.12 to the contrary, the Trustee will deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the written request of the Company any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 2.12(d) hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 2.12(d)(1) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

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

 

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(g) Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes will be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 2.12(b) or 2.12(c) hereof, as the case may be; provided , however , that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company will be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

2.13 Form and Other Terms of the Notes . Attached hereto as Annex A is a form of a Note denominated in United States dollars, which form is hereby established as a form in which Notes may be issued. In addition, any Note may be issued in such other form as may be provided by, or not inconsistent with, the terms of the Original Indenture and this Eighth Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

The Trustee makes no undertaking or representation in respect of, and shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for and in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Eighth Supplemental Indenture or the proper authorization or the due execution hereof by the Company or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Original Indenture, as heretofore amended and supplemented, shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions thereof and the Original Indenture is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed. This Eighth Supplemental Indenture and all its provisions shall be deemed a part of the Original Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

THIS EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

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

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee,
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Irina Golovashchuk

Name:   Irina Golovashchuk
Title:   Vice President
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President

 

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Annex A

GLOBAL SECURITY

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

6.950% Notes due 2043

 

CUSIP NO. 054303 AZ5    $ 250,000,000           

Avon Products, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $250,000,000 (which amount may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary) on March 15, 2043, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, or if no interest has been paid, from and including March 12, 2013, semiannually in arrears in cash on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September 15, 2013 at the rate of 6.950% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360 day year comprised of twelve 30 day months.

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day), immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Payment of the principal of and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however , that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register. If this Security is a Global Security, then notwithstanding the foregoing, each such payment will be made in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary as then in effect.

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

 

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated: March 12, 2013

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:

 

Name:
Title:

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

 

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY
        By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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REVERSE OF GLOBAL SECURITY

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company designated as its 6.950% Notes due 2043 (herein called the “Securities”), issued under an indenture dated as of February 27, 2008 (herein called the “Original Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as amended and supplemented by a eighth supplemental indenture, dated as of March 12, 2013, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Eighth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

The Securities will bear interest, payable on each Interest Payment Date to Holders of record on the fifteenth calendar day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date, at 6.950% per annum until March 15, 2043 or the cancellation of the Securities. The interest rate payable on the Securities will be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P or, if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a Substitute Rating Agency downgrades (or subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Notes, in the manner set forth in Section 2.05 of the Eighth Supplemental Indenture.

The Securities are the Company’s unsecured senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Company’s other existing and future senior indebtedness. The Securities are redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time or from time to time, by the Company mailing notice to the registered address of each Holder of Securities at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on those Securities discounted on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points with respect to any Securities being redeemed. Accrued interest, if any, will be paid to the Redemption Date.

Subject to payment by the Company of a sum sufficient to pay the amount due on redemption, interest on this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part) shall cease to accrue upon the Redemption Date of this Security (or portion hereof if this Security is redeemed in part).

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

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

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date which is a Business Day fixed for such redemption by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

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

 

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“Reference Treasury Dealers” means each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers), provided, however, that if any Reference Treasury Dealer shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on those Securities that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for that redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities to be redeemed, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on those Securities will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Securities to such Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Redemption Date.

On or after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest). On or before the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with a paying agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee, pro rata, by lot or by a method the Trustee deems to be fair and appropriate.

The Securities do not have the benefit of a sinking fund.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, or has defeased the Securities pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, the Company will be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of such Holder’s Securities, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Securities repurchased to, but not including, the date of repurchase, subject to the rights of Holders of the Securities on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date. Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred, or at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of a pending Change of Control, the Company will send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities with respect to which a Change of Control Triggering Event shall have occurred on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control being consummated on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of Securities electing to have Securities repurchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender their Securities to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, or transfer their Securities to the Paying Agent by book-entry transfer, in each case pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Paying Agent, prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

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

 

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On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

 

   

accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

 

   

deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portion of Securities properly tendered; and

 

   

deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

The Trustee will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate (upon its receipt of executed Securities from the Company) and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Security surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any one of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the first day on which the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company cease to be Continuing Directors; (4) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or (5) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) (a) the Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (b) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to that transaction, and/or (ii)(a) the Company reincorporates in another jurisdiction and (b) the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately following the reincorporation are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to the reincorporation.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the Issue Date of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

“Fitch” means Fitch Inc.

 

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“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; provided , that if any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch ceases to provide rating services to issuers or investors, the Company may appoint a replacement for such Rating Agency.

“Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following Consummation of a Change of Control so long as any of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade). Unless at least two of the three Rating Agencies are providing a rating for the Notes at the commencement of any Trigger Period, the Notes will be deemed to be rated below Investment Grade by at least two of the three Rating Agencies during that Trigger Period.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

“Voting Stock” of a specified Person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the existing Holders of the Securities, issue additional securities under the Indenture having the same terms as the Securities in all respects, except for the issue date, the issue price and the initial interest payment date. Any such additional securities will be consolidated with and form a single series with the Securities.

In addition to the Securities, the Company may issue other series of debt securities under the Indenture. There is no limit on the total aggregate principal amount of debt securities that the Company may issue under the Indenture.

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal amount of the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time, upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, of (i) the entire Indebtedness evidenced by this Security or (ii) certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security.

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

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless (i) such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice

 

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of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities, (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee and (iii) the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in The City of New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

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

In the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Security, including an exchange, transfer, or redemption of this Security in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary. The depository shall initially be The Depository Trust Company.

All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

I or we assign and transfer this Security to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)

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

 

Date:                        

Signed:                                

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

Signature Guarantee:

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

Exhibit 5.1

 

 

LOGO

March 12, 2013

Avon Products, Inc.

777 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the issuance of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.375% Notes due 2016, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.600% Notes due 2020, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.000% Notes due 2023, and $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.950% Notes due 2043 (collectively, the “ Securities ”), under an Indenture, dated as of February 27, 2008, between the Company, as issuer, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 3, 2008, the second supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 3, 2008, the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 2, 2009, the fourth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 2, 2009, the fifth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 12, 2013, the sixth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 12, 2013, the seventh supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 12, 2013 and the eighth supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of March 12, 2013 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), and pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-180054) (the “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on March 12, 2012, a Prospectus, dated March 12, 2012, forming part of the Registration Statement (the “Base Prospectus”), a Prospectus Supplement, dated March 7, 2013, relating to the Notes, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (the “Prospectus Supplement” and together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”) and an Underwriting Agreement, dated March 7, 2013 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several Underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriters”).

As counsel to the Company, we have reviewed the originals, or copies identified to our satisfaction of (i) the Registration Statement, (ii) the Base Prospectus, (iii) the Prospectus Supplement, (iv) the Indenture, (v) the Securities, (vi) the Underwriting Agreement, (vii) such certificates of officers of the Company, and the originals (or copies thereof, certified to our satisfaction) of such corporate documents and records of the Company and (viii) such other documents, records and papers as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions expressed below. In our review, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of the originals of the documents submitted to us and the conformity to authentic originals of any documents submitted to us as copies. We have relied, as to matters of fact, upon the certificates of public officials and officers of the Company.

 

 

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LOGO

Based upon our examination of such documents, certificates, records, authorizations and proceedings as we have deemed relevant, it is our opinion that the Securities have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, when duly authenticated by the Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and delivered and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company under the laws of the State of New York, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles of equity (whether applied by a court of law or equity).

We do not express or purport to express any opinions with respect to laws other than the laws of the State of New York.

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K and its incorporation by reference into the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm in the Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Legal Matters.” In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ White & Case LLP

 

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Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

$1,000,000,000

REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of

March 13, 2013

among

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.

AVON CAPITAL CORPORATION

THE ADDITIONAL BORROWERS, BANKS AND OTHER LENDERS

FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO

and

CITIBANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent

 

 

Bank of America, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent

BNP Paribas, BBVA Compass, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, HSBC Bank USA, National

Association, and Sovereign Bank, N.A.,

as Co-Documentation Agents

Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BNP Paribas,

BBVA Compass, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, and

Sovereign Bank, N.A.,

as

Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

Lloyds TSB Bank plc,

as Co-Agent


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  

ARTICLE 1

  

DEFINITIONS

  

Section 1.01.

  

Certain Definitions

     1   

ARTICLE 2

  

THE LOANS

  

Section 2.01.

  

The Loans; Commitments

     15   

Section 2.02.

  

Procedure for Loans

     15   

Section 2.03.

  

Evidence for Loans

     16   

Section 2.04.

  

Increase of Commitment

     16   

Section 2.05.

  

Reduction of Commitments

     17   

Section 2.06.

  

Prepayment of Loans

     18   

Section 2.07.

  

Purpose of Loans

     18   

Section 2.08.

  

Defaulting Banks

     18   

ARTICLE 3

  

INTEREST, CONVERSION, FEES, ETC.

  

Section 3.01.

  

Procedure for Interest Rate Determination

     19   

Section 3.02.

  

Interest on ABR Loans

     19   

Section 3.03.

  

Interest on Eurodollar Loans

     19   

Section 3.04.

  

[Reserved]

     20   

Section 3.05.

  

Continuation and Conversion of Loans

     20   

Section 3.06.

  

Post-Maturity Interest

     20   

Section 3.07.

  

Maximum Interest Rate

     21   

Section 3.08.

  

Fees

     21   

ARTICLE 4

  

DISBURSEMENT AND PAYMENT

  

Section 4.01.

  

Disbursement of Loans; Pro Rata Treatment of Banks

     21   

Section 4.02.

  

Method of Payment

     22   

Section 4.03.

  

Compensation for Losses

     22   

Section 4.04.

  

Withholding, Reserves and Additional Costs

     23   

Section 4.05.

  

Unavailability and Impracticability

     27   

Section 4.06.

  

Substitution of Banks

     27   

Section 4.07.

  

Repayment of Loans

     28   

 

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ARTICLE 5

  

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

  

Section 5.01.

  

Representations and Warranties of the Borrowers

     28   

ARTICLE 6

  

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

  

Section 6.01.

  

Conditions to Effectiveness

     31   

Section 6.02.

  

Conditions to Each Loan

     33   

Section 6.03.

  

Satisfaction of Conditions Precedent

     34   

Section 6.04.

  

Additional Borrowers

     34   

ARTICLE 7

  

COVENANTS

  

Section 7.01.

  

Affirmative Covenants

     35   

Section 7.02.

  

Negative Covenants

     38   

ARTICLE 8

  

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

  

Section 8.01.

  

Events of Default

     41   

Section 8.02.

  

Notice of Default

     43   

ARTICLE 9

  

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE BANKS

  

Section 9.01.

  

Authorization and Action

     44   

Section 9.02.

  

Administrative Agent Individually

     44   

Section 9.03.

  

Duties of Administrative Agent; Exculpatory Provisions

     45   

Section 9.04.

  

Reliance by Administrative Agent

     46   

Section 9.05.

  

Delegation of Duties

     46   

Section 9.06.

  

Resignation of Administrative Agent

     46   

Section 9.07.

  

Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Banks

     47   

Section 9.08.

  

Indemnification

     48   

Section 9.09.

  

Sharing of Payments and Expenses

     48   

Section 9.10.

  

Other Agents

     49   

ARTICLE 10

  

THE GUARANTY

  

Section 10.01.

  

The Guaranty

     49   

Section 10.02.

  

Absolute Guaranty

     49   

Section 10.03.

  

Consents, Waivers and Renewals

     50   

Section 10.04.

  

Subrogation

     50   

 

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Section 10.05.

  

Continuing Guaranty

     50   

Section 10.06.

  

Waiver of Notice

     50   

ARTICLE 11

  

MISCELLANEOUS

  

Section 11.01.

  

Applicable Law

     51   

Section 11.02.

  

Set-off

     51   

Section 11.03.

  

Expenses

     51   

Section 11.04.

  

Amendments

     51   

Section 11.05.

  

Cumulative Rights and No Waiver

     51   

Section 11.06.

  

Notices

     52   

Section 11.07.

  

Severability

     54   

Section 11.08.

  

Parties in Interest

     54   

Section 11.09.

  

[Reserved]

     58   

Section 11.10.

  

Indemnity

     58   

Section 11.11.

  

Consent to Jurisdiction

     59   

Section 11.12.

  

Confidentiality

     59   

Section 11.13.

  

Judgment

     60   

Section 11.14.

  

Execution in Counterparts

     60   

Section 11.15.

  

Patriot Act

     61   

Section 11.16.

  

No Fiduciary Duty

     61   

Section 11.17.

  

Waiver of Right to Jury

     61   

 

SCHEDULES

     

Schedule 2.01

     

Banks and Commitments

Schedule 5.01(e)

     

Certain Litigation

Schedule 6.04

     

Certain Additional Borrowers

Schedule 7.02(f)

     

Existing Subsidiary Debt

EXHIBITS

     

Exhibit A

     

Form of Loan Request

Exhibit B

     

Form of Note

Exhibit C

     

Form of Continuation/Conversion Request

Exhibit D-1

     

Form of Additional Borrower Designation

Exhibit D-2

     

Form of Additional Borrower Confirmation

Exhibit E

     

Form of Assignment and Assumption

 

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REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as further amended, supplemented, modified or extended from time to time, this “ Agreement ”), among Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation (“ API ”), Avon Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“ ACC ”), each of the Additional Borrowers (as defined below) from time to time designated as such, each of the banks and other lenders from time to time parties hereto (each, a “ Bank ” and, collectively, the “ Banks ”) and the Administrative Agent (as defined below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, API and ACC have requested that, subject to certain conditions, the Administrative Agent and the Banks enter into this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent and the Banks are willing to enter into this Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions hereof;

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01. Certain Definitions .

(a) Terms Generally . The definitions ascribed to terms in this Section 1.01 and elsewhere in this Agreement shall apply equally to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole (including any exhibits and schedules hereto) and not merely to the specific section, paragraph or clause in which such word appears. All references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be deemed references to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise require.

(b) Accounting Terms . Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time; provided , however , that, for purposes of determining compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 7.02(b), 7.02(d), 7.02(e) and 7.02(f), such terms shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date of this Agreement applied on a basis consistent with the construction thereof applied in preparing API’s audited financial statements referred to in Section 5.01(d). In the event there shall occur a change in GAAP which but for the foregoing proviso would affect the computation used to determine compliance with either such covenant, the Borrowers and the Banks agree to negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon an amendment to this Agreement that will permit compliance with such covenant to be determined by reference to GAAP as so changed while affording the Banks the protection afforded by such covenant prior to such change (it being understood, however, that such covenant shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with its existing terms pending the execution by the Borrowers and the Banks of any


such amendment). For the avoidance of doubt, “operating leases” shall not be deemed to be Capital Leases for the purposes of the covenants set forth in Sections 7.02(b), 7.02(d), 7.02(e) and 7.02(f), notwithstanding any subsequent change in GAAP.

(c) Certain Other Terms . The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them below or in the Sections of this Agreement indicated below:

ABR Lending Office ” shall mean, with respect to each Bank, its office identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its domestic lending office or such other office as such Bank may hereafter designate as its domestic lending office or ABR lending office by notice to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.

ABR Loans ” shall mean, collectively, Loans, or portions thereof, that bear interest by reference to the Base Rate and in the manner set forth in Section 3.02.

ACC ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble to this Agreement.

Additional Amounts ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.04(a).

Additional Borrower ” shall mean, as of any date, a Subsidiary of API that has on or before such date been designated by API as an Additional Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Additional Costs ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.04(b).

Administrative Agent ” shall mean Citibank, N.A., together with its affiliates, as the administrative agent for the Banks under this Agreement and the Credit Documents.

Administrative Questionnaire ” shall mean, with respect to each Bank, an administrative details reply form in the form prepared by the Administrative Agent and submitted to the Administrative Agent duly completed by such Bank.

Affiliate ” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” have meanings correlative thereto.

Agreement ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble to this Agreement.

API ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble to this Agreement.

 

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Applicable Lending Office ” shall mean, with respect to any Bank, (a) in the case of its ABR Loans, its ABR Lending Office and (b) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, its Eurodollar Lending Office.

Applicable Margin ” means as of any date, a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Public Debt Rating in effect on such date as set forth below:

 

Public Debt Rating

S&P/Moody’s

   Applicable Margin
for Base Rate Loans
    Applicable Margin for
Eurodollar Loans
 

Level 1
A- / A3 or above

     0.00     1.00

Level 2
BBB+ /Baa1

     0.25     1.25

Level 3
BBB/Baa2

     0.50     1.50

Level 4
BBB-/Baa3

     0.75     1.75

Level 5
Rating lower than Level 4

     1.50     2.50

Applicable Percentage ” means, as of any date, a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Public Debt Rating in effect on such date as set forth below:

 

Public Debt Rating

S&P/Moody’s

   Applicable
Percentage
 

Level 1
A- / A3 or above

     0.10

Level 2
BBB+ /Baa1

     0.15

Level 3
BBB/Baa2

     0.20

Level 4
BBB-/Baa3

     0.25

Level 5
Rating lower than Level 4

     0.30

Assignee ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 11.08(b).

Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Bank and an Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.08), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

 

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Augmenting Bank ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.04.

Available Facility ” shall mean (a) on any date prior to the Termination Date, an amount equal to the remainder of (i) the Total Commitment on such date minus (ii) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans on such date and (b) on and after the Termination Date, $0.

Bank ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble to this Agreement.

Base Rate ” shall mean, for any day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall be equal to the highest of:

(a) the rate of interest publicly announced by the Administrative Agent in New York City from time to time as its “base rate” in effect on such day;

(b) the sum of (i) 1/2 of 1% per annum and (ii) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day; and

(c) the sum of (i) 1% per annum and (ii) the rate equal to LIBOR for an Interest Period of one month for each day that an ABR Loan is outstanding (and in respect of any day that is not a Eurodollar Business Day, LIBOR as in effect on the immediately preceding Eurodollar Business Day).

Benefit Arrangement ” shall mean, at any time, an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which is not a Plan or a Multiemployer Plan and which is maintained or otherwise contributed to by any member of the ERISA Group.

Borrower ” shall mean, with respect to any Loan, whichever of the Borrowers that has borrowed such Loan in accordance with the terms hereof.

Borrowers ” shall mean, collectively, as of any date, the Initial Borrowers and the Additional Borrowers as of such date; provided that if ACC shall at any time cease to be a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, it shall cease to be an Initial Borrower or a Borrower at such time. Without in any way limiting API’s obligations as guarantor under Article 10, all the obligations of the Borrowers hereunder and in respect of any Loans shall be several and not joint.

Borrowing Date ” shall mean, with respect to any Loan, the date set forth in the relevant Loan Request as the date upon which such Borrower desires to borrow such Loan.

Capital Lease ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a lease with respect to any property (whether real, personal or mixed) acquired or leased by such Person that is required to be accounted for as a liability on a balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP.

Change of Control ” shall mean, with respect to API, (i) any “person” (as defined in Section 3(a)(9) of the Exchange Act and as used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) thereof), excluding API, any Subsidiary and any Plan (including any trustee of such plan acting as trustee), but

 

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including a “group” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act, becomes the beneficial owner of shares of API having at least 35% of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of directors of API, provided that no Event of Default will occur as a result of an acquisition of stock by API which increases, proportionately, the stock representing the voting power of API owned by such person or group above 35% of the voting power of API and provided further that if such person or group acquires stock representing more than 35% of the voting power of API by reason of share purchases by API, and after such share purchases by API acquires any additional shares representing voting power of API, then an Event of Default shall occur; or (ii) within any 24-month period beginning on or after the date hereof, the persons who were directors of API immediately before the beginning of such period (the “ Incumbent Directors ”) shall cease (for any reason other than death) to constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of API or the board of directors of any successor to API, provided that any director who was not a director as of the date hereof shall be deemed to be an Incumbent Director if such director was elected to the Board of Directors by, or on the recommendation of or with the approval of, at least two-thirds of the directors who then qualified as Incumbent Directors either actually or by prior operation of this clause (ii) and provided further that any director elected to the Board of Directors of API to avoid or settle a threatened or actual proxy contest shall in no event be deemed to be an Incumbent Director.

Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Commitment ” shall mean, with respect to any Bank, the amount of such Bank’s commitment to make Loans reflected in the Register. In the case of Banks parties hereto on the date hereof, such amount is set forth opposite such Bank’s name under the heading “Commitment” on Schedule 2.01, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.05, 4.06 or 11.08 or increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.04 or 11.08. Each Bank’s Commitment shall terminate on the Termination Date.

Commitment Fee ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.08(a).

Consolidated EBIT ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and without duplication: (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes payable by API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) extraordinary and other non-cash losses and expenses ((w) other than in respect of provision for doubtful accounts or provision for obsolescence, (x) other than in respect of depreciation and amortization expense, (y) excluding any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, and (z) excluding any amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (iv) one-time fees, cash charges and other cash expenses, premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any asset sale, any issuance of equity interests or any issuance, incurrence or repayment of indebtedness and/or any refinancing transaction or modification or amendment of any debt instrument (including any transaction undertaken but not completed) and (v) cash charges and other cash expenses (including as cash charges and expenses any such non-cash items that represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in a future period), premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any restructuring or relating to any legal or regulatory action, settlement, judgment or ruling, in an

 

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aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000 for the period from October 1, 2012 until the Termination Date, provided , that restructuring charges incurred after December 31, 2014 shall not be included in this clause (v) and minus (b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for potential cash item in any prior period or is expected to be a cash item in any future period).

Consolidated EBITDA ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and without duplication: (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) extraordinary and other non-cash losses and expenses ((x) other than in respect of provision for doubtful accounts or provision for obsolescence, (y) excluding any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, and (z) excluding any amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (v) one-time fees, cash charges and other cash expenses, premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any asset sale, any issuance of equity interests or any issuance, incurrence or repayment of indebtedness and/or any refinancing transaction or modification or amendment of any debt instrument (including any transaction undertaken but not completed) and (vi) cash charges and other cash expenses (including as cash charges and expenses any such non-cash items that represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in a future period) , premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any restructuring or relating to any legal or regulatory action, settlement, judgment or ruling in an aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000 for the period from the October 1, 2012 until the Termination Date, provided , that restructuring charges incurred after December 31, 2014 shall not be included in this clause (vi), and minus (b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for potential cash item in any prior period or is expected to be a cash item in any future period)

Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, interest expense (other than (i) hyperinflationary interest expense in any country that is offset by corresponding foreign exchange-related gains, (ii) interest expense attributable to pension accruals in Germany and Italy and (iii) interest payable to the Internal Revenue Service in respect of taxes).

Consolidated Net Income ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, the net income of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses) for that period.

Consolidated Subsidiary ” shall mean, at any date with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of such Person in the consolidated financial statements of such Person if such statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date.

Conversion Date ” shall mean the date on which a conversion of interest rates on outstanding Loans, pursuant to a Conversion Request, shall take effect.

 

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Conversion Request ” shall mean a telephonic request (confirmed in writing not later than 12:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of such telephonic notice) by a Borrower to convert the interest rate on all or portions of its outstanding Loans pursuant to the terms hereof, which shall specify, with respect to such outstanding Loans, (i) the requested Conversion Date, which shall be not less than three Eurodollar Business Days after the date of such Conversion Request, (ii) the aggregate amount of the Loans, from and after the Conversion Date, which are to bear interest as ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans, as the case may be, and (iii) the term of the Interest Periods therefor, if any.

Credit Documents ” shall mean, collectively, this Agreement and the Notes.

Debt ” shall mean, with respect to any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, (d) all obligations of such Person as lessee under Capital Leases, (e) all contingent or non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse or prepay any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid or payable (currently or in the future, on a contingent or non-contingent basis) under a letter of credit, bankers’ acceptance or similar instrument, other than contingent obligations relating to letters of credit issued to support trade payables, (f) all Debt of others secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Debt is assumed by such Person and (g) all Debt of others Guaranteed by such Person; provided , however , that (x) Debt shall not include any obligations incurred in connection with the funding of a trust established under Section 501(c)(9) of the Code and (y) for purposes of Section 7.02(e), Debt shall not include undrawn amounts in respect of letters of credit or similar instruments.

Default ” shall mean any event or circumstance which, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would unless cured or waived become an Event of Default.

Defaulting Bank ” means, subject to Section 2.08(c), any Bank that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within three Domestic Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder unless such Bank notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers in writing that such failure is the result of such Bank’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Bank any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Domestic Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, (c) has notified API or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Bank’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Bank’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding, which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement, cannot be satisfied), (d) has failed, within three Domestic Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent (based on its reasonable belief that such Bank may not fulfill its funding obligations hereunder), to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative

 

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Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or (e) has become, or the parent company of which has become, the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding; provided that a Bank shall not be a Defaulting Bank solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in such Bank or a parent company thereof by a governmental authority or an instrumentality thereof so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Bank with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Bank (or such governmental authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Person.

Dollars ” and the sign “ $ ” shall mean lawful money of the United States of America.

Domestic Business Day ” shall mean any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close.

Effective Date ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 6.01.

Environmental Laws ” shall mean any and all federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, franchises, licenses, agreements or other governmental restrictions relating to the environment or to emissions, discharges or releases of pollutants, contaminants, petroleum or petroleum products, chemicals or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes into the environment including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, ground water, or land, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of pollutants, contaminants, petroleum or petroleum products, chemicals or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes or clean-up or other remediation thereof.

ERISA ” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

ERISA Group ” shall mean API and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with API, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

Eurodollar Business Day ” shall mean any Domestic Business Day on which commercial banks are open for international business (including dealings in Dollar deposits) in London.

Eurodollar Lending Office ” shall mean, with respect to each Bank, its office, branch or affiliate identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Eurodollar lending office or such other office, branch or affiliate of such Bank as it may hereafter designate as its Eurodollar lending office by notice to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.

Eurodollar Loans ” shall mean, collectively, Loans, or portions thereof, that bear interest at the rate and in the manner set forth in Section 3.03.

 

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Eurodollar Reserve Percentage ” shall mean, for any day, the percentage in effect on such day, as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any marginal, supplemental or emergency reserve requirements) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding one billion dollars in respect of “Eurocurrency Liabilities” (as defined in Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board (or any successor regulation)).

Event of Default ” shall mean any of the events described in Section 8.01.

Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Excluded Taxes ” shall mean (a) all present and future taxes imposed on or measured by the overall net income of any Bank (or any office, branch or subsidiary of such Bank) or any franchise taxes, taxes on doing business or taxes measured by capital or net worth imposed on any Bank (or any office, branch or subsidiary of such Bank), in each case imposed by the United States of America or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or taxes on or measured by the overall net income of any office, branch or subsidiary of a Bank or any franchise taxes, taxes imposed on doing business or taxes measured by capital or net worth imposed on any office, branch or subsidiary of such Bank, in each case imposed by any foreign country or subdivision thereof in which such office, branch or subsidiary is doing business, (b) any branch profits taxes or any similar tax imposed by any jurisdiction referred to in clause (a) above and (c) any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to a Bank as a result of FATCA.

Existing Credit Agreement ” shall mean the Revolving Credit and Competitive Advance Facility Agreement dated as of November 2, 2010 among API, ACC, the additional borrowers and the lenders parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent.

Existing Debt ” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.02(f).

FATCA ” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Federal Funds Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest 1/16 of 1% or, if there is no nearest 1/16 of 1%, to the next higher 1/16 of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Domestic Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Domestic Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Domestic Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Domestic Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Domestic Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to the Administrative Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

 

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Federal Reserve Board ” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any successor agency.

Fee Payment Date ” shall mean the last day of each calendar quarter, commencing with the first such day after the date hereof, and the earlier of (a) any other date on which the Total Commitment is cancelled in full and (b) as to any Bank, its Termination Date.

Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

GAAP ” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entities as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.

Governmental Authority ” shall mean any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government.

Guaranteed Obligations ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 10.01.

Guaranty ” by any Person shall mean any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt or other obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt or other obligation (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Debt or other obligation of the payment thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term Guaranty shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Indemnified Tax ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.04(a)(ii).

Initial Borrower ” shall mean API or ACC.

Interest Coverage Ratio ” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBIT to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense (excluding, to the extent included in interest expense, expenses incurred in connection with any premiums, consent fees, make-whole payments or other payments made to the holders of any Debt issued by API under (a) the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of November 23, 2010 or (b) the 5.625% Notes due March 1, 2014 for purposes of retiring or amending the terms of such Debt), in each case for the period of four fiscal quarters ending on such date.

 

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Interest Period ” shall mean, with respect to each Eurodollar Loan, the period commencing on the Borrowing Date or on the last day of the preceding Interest Period and ending one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect in the applicable Loan Request or pursuant to Section 3.03(b); provided that

(i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Eurodollar Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Eurodollar Business Day unless such Eurodollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Eurodollar Business Day,

(ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Eurodollar Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (iii) below, end on the last Eurodollar Business Day of a calendar month, and

(iii) any Interest Period that begins before the Termination Date and would otherwise end after the Termination Date shall end on the Termination Date.

Level ” means a Public Debt Rating level as specified in the definition of “Applicable Margin” or “Applicable Percentage”, as applicable.

LIBOR ” shall mean, with respect to any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent as the offered rate for Dollar deposits with a term comparable to such Interest Period that appears on the Reuters Screen (as defined below) at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on the second full Eurodollar Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period. However, if such rate does not appear on the Reuters Screen, “LIBOR” shall mean the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic mean (rounded to the nearest 1/16 of 1% or, if there is no nearest 1/16 of 1%, to the next higher 1/16 of 1%) of the respective rates of interest communicated by the Reference Banks to the Administrative Agent as the rate at which Dollar deposits are offered to the Reference Banks by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on the second full Eurodollar Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period in an amount substantially equal to the principal amount of such Eurodollar Loan (rounded up to the nearest integral multiple of $1,000,000) for a term equal to such Interest Period. “Reuters Screen” shall mean the display designated as Page LIBOR01 on the service provided by Reuters (or such other page as may replace such page on such service, or any successor to the substitute for such service for the purpose of displaying the rates at which Dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market).

Lien ” shall mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in or on such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset, and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

 

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Loan Request ” shall mean a telephonic request (confirmed in writing by not later than 12:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of such telephonic request) by a Borrower to borrow Loans, which shall specify (a) the requested Borrowing Date, (b) the aggregate amount of Loans that such Borrower desires to borrow on such date, (c) whether such requested Loans are to bear interest as ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans and (d) if the requested Loans are to bear interest as Eurodollar Loans, the Interest Period therefor.

Loans ” shall mean, collectively, ABR Loans and Eurodollar Loans, in each case denominated in Dollars.

Material Plan ” shall mean a Plan or Plans having aggregate Unfunded Liabilities in excess of $100,000,000.

Material Subsidiary ” shall mean, as of any date, a Subsidiary having assets (excluding intercompany assets that would be eliminated after consolidation in accordance with GAAP) of at least $150,000,000, as reflected in the most recent quarterly or annual balance sheet of such Subsidiary dated on or prior to such date.

Moody’s ” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Multiemployer Plan ” shall mean an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any member of the ERISA Group is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding five plan years made contributions (including for these purposes any Person which ceased to be a member of the ERISA Group during such five year period) and under which liability may be imposed on any member of the ERISA Group.

Notes ” shall mean, collectively, the promissory notes of the Borrowers evidencing Loans, if any.

Non-Consenting Bank ” means any Bank that, in response to any request by API or the Administrative Agent to a departure from, waiver of or amendment to any provision of any Credit Document that requires the agreement of all Banks, which departure, waiver or amendment receives the consent of the Required Banks, shall not have given its consent to such departure, waiver or amendment.

Participant ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 11.08(d).

PBGC ” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.

Person ” shall mean any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation, entity or government (whether federal, state, county, city, municipal or otherwise, including any instrumentality, division, agency, body or department thereof).

 

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Plan ” shall mean an employee pension benefit plan as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code and is maintained for employees of API or any other member of the ERISA Group.

Prescribed Forms ” shall mean such duly executed form(s) or statement(s), and in such number of copies, which may, from time to time, be prescribed by law and which, pursuant to applicable provisions of (a) an income tax treaty between the United States and the country of residence of the Bank providing the form(s) or statement(s), (b) the Code or (c) any applicable rule or regulation under the Code, permit one or more of the Borrowers to make payments hereunder for the account of such Bank free of deduction or withholding for income or similar taxes.

Pro Rata Share ” shall mean, in the case of each Bank, the proportion of such Bank’s Commitment to the Total Commitment of all the Banks or, if the Total Commitment shall have been cancelled or reduced to $0 or expired, the proportion of the aggregate amount of such Bank’s Loans then outstanding to the aggregate amount of Loans then outstanding.

Public Debt Rating ” means, as of any date, the rating that has been most recently announced by either S&P or Moody’s, as the case may be, for any class of non-credit enhanced long term senior unsecured debt issued by API or, if any such rating agency shall have issued more than one such rating, the lowest such rating issued by such rating agency. For purposes of the foregoing, (a) if no rating for API’s senior unsecured long-term debt shall be available from either rating agency, such rating agency shall be deemed to have established a Level 5 rating; (b) if only one of S&P and Moody’s shall have in effect a Public Debt Rating, the Applicable Margin and the Applicable Percentage shall be determined by reference to the available rating; (c) if the ratings established or deemed established by S&P and Moody’s shall fall within different levels, the Applicable Margin and the Applicable Percentage shall be based upon the Level corresponding to the more favorable of such ratings except if the lower of such ratings is more than one Level below the higher of such ratings, the Applicable Margin and the Applicable Percentage shall be based upon the Level that is one Level below the higher of such ratings; (d) if any rating established or deemed established by S&P or Moody’s shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of either Moody’s or S&P), such change shall be given effect on and as of the opening of business on the date when such change is first announced by the rating agency making such change; and (e) if the rating system of either Moody’s or S&P shall change prior to the Termination Date, API and the Banks shall negotiate in good faith to amend the references to specific ratings in this definition to reflect such changed rating system.

Reference Bank ” shall mean each of Citibank, N.A. and Bank of America, N.A.

Register ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 11.08(c).

Related Parties ” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s affiliates.

 

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Required Banks ” shall mean, at any date, Banks having at least a majority of the Total Commitment or, if the Total Commitment has been cancelled or terminated, holding at least a majority of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans.

Responsible Officer ” shall mean, with respect to a Person, the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, treasurer, deputy treasurer or assistant treasurer, secretary or assistant secretary or any vice president of such Person.

S&P ” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

SEC ” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency.

Subsidiary ” shall mean any corporation or other entity of which a majority of the securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the time directly or indirectly owned by API.

Taxes ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.04(a)(i).

Termination Date ” shall mean the earlier of (a) the fourth anniversary of the Effective Date and (b) the date on which all Loans shall have been fully repaid and all Commitments entirely cancelled.

Total Commitment ” shall mean the aggregate Commitments of all the Banks, being initially $1,000,000,000 (subject to cancellation, increase or reduction pursuant to Section 2.04 or 2.05).

Unfunded Liabilities ” means, with respect to any Plan, any amount by which (a) the present value of all benefit liabilities under such Plan exceeds (b) the fair market value of all Plan assets allocable to such benefits (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions), all determined as of the then most recent valuation date for such Plan, but only to the extent that such excess represents a potential liability of a member of the ERISA Group to the PBGC or any other Person under Title IV of ERISA.

Unused Commitment ” shall mean, as to each Bank on any day, such Bank’s Commitment minus the aggregate outstanding principal amount of ABR Loans and Eurodollar Loans made by such Bank.

Wholly-Owned Subsidiary ” shall mean any Subsidiary all the shares of stock of all classes of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares) at the time are owned directly or indirectly by API.

 

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ARTICLE 2

THE LOANS

Section 2.01. The Loans; Commitments . (a) Prior to the Termination Date and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of the Banks, severally and not jointly with the other Banks, agrees to make one or more Loans denominated in Dollars to the Borrowers from time to time in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed its Commitment; provided , however , that the amount of Loans which may be borrowed on any Borrowing Date may not exceed the Available Facility (after giving effect to any Loans being repaid or prepaid on such Borrowing Date and any other Loans to be made on such Borrowing Date).

(b) Each Bank’s Commitment, as of the date of this Agreement, is set forth opposite its name in Schedule 2.01, and, after such date, each Bank’s Commitment shall be recorded in the Register as provided in Section 11.08(c).

Section 2.02. Procedure for Loans . (a) A Borrower may borrow Loans by giving a Loan Request telephonically, to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:30 A.M., New York time (to be confirmed in writing in substantially the form of Exhibit A not later than 12:00 P.M., New York time, on the same day), (i) on the Borrowing Date therefor with respect to any ABR Loan and (ii) at least three Eurodollar Business Days before the Borrowing Date with respect to any Eurodollar Loan. Loans shall be in an amount equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (except that such borrowing of ABR Loans may be in the aggregate amount of the unused portion of the Total Commitment).

(b) Upon receipt of any Loan Request from a Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give notice to each Bank of the substance thereof. Not later than 2:00 P.M., New York time, on the Borrowing Date specified in such Loan Request, each Bank shall make available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Applicable Lending Office of the Administrative Agent (or, if the Administrative Agent has specified a different address in the notice referred to above, at such address), such Bank’s Pro Rata Share of the Loans requested.

(c) Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of such funds (and to the extent received by it from the various Banks), the Administrative Agent shall disburse to the relevant Borrower on the requested Borrowing Date the Loans requested in such Loan Request. The Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, advance on behalf of any Bank such Bank’s Pro Rata Share of such Loans on a Borrowing Date unless such Bank shall have notified the Administrative Agent prior to such Borrowing Date that it does not intend to make available its Pro Rata Share of such Loans on such date. If the Administrative Agent makes such an advance, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from the Bank on whose behalf such advance was made, and if such Bank does not pay the Administrative Agent the amount of such advance upon demand, the relevant Borrower shall promptly repay such amount to the Administrative Agent, acting for the Banks. Until such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent by such Bank or the relevant Borrower, such advance shall be deemed for all purposes to be a Loan made by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover

 

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from the Bank or such Borrower, as the case may be, interest on the amount advanced by it for each day from the Borrowing Date therefor until repaid to the Administrative Agent at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of an amount recovered from any Bank, the Federal Funds Rate or (ii) in the case of an amount recovered from a Borrower, the higher of the Federal Funds Rate and the interest rate applicable thereto pursuant to Section 3.01. The failure of any Bank to make any Loan to be made by it on any Borrowing Date shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on such Borrowing Date, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Bank shall be responsible for the failure by such Bank to make the Loan to be made by such Bank on such Borrowing Date.

Section 2.03. Evidence for Loans . (a) Each Bank shall maintain, in accordance with its customary and usual practice, accounts evidencing the indebtedness of each Borrower to such Bank resulting from each Loan made by such Bank from time to time, including an indication of the Applicable Lending Office and the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Bank in respect of Loans.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall maintain, in accordance with its customary and usual practice, accounts evidencing the indebtedness of each Borrower to each Bank resulting from each Loan made hereunder.

(c) The entries made in the foregoing accounts shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the indebtedness of each Borrower therein recorded; provided , however , that the failure of any Bank or the Administrative Agent to maintain any such account, as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the validity or enforceability of any obligation of a Borrower to repay any Loan actually made to such Borrower by such Bank in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(d) A Borrower’s obligation to repay any Loan that shall be assigned to a Federal Reserve Bank by a Bank shall, to the extent requested by such Bank in order to effect such assignment, be evidenced by one or more Notes, in substantially the form of Exhibit B (a “ Note ”). A Note shall be (i) in the principal amount of the Loan or Loans so assigned and (ii) stated to mature on the Termination Date and bear interest from its date until paid in full on the principal balance (from time to time outstanding thereunder) payable at the rates and in the manner provided herein.

Section 2.04. Increase of Commitment . API may from time to time, by notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Banks), request that the Total Commitment be increased by $10,000,000 or an integral multiple thereof and will not result in the Total Commitment exceeding $1,250,000,000. Each such notice shall set forth the requested amount of the increase in the Total Commitment and the date on which such increase is to become effective (which shall be not fewer than twenty days after the date of such notice), and shall offer each Bank the opportunity to increase its Commitment by its ratable share, based on the amounts of the Banks’ Commitments on the date of such notice, of the requested increase in the Total Commitment. Each Bank shall, by notice to API and the Administrative Agent given not more than ten Domestic Business Days after the date of API’s notice, either agree to increase its Commitment by all or a portion of the offered amount or decline to increase its Commitment (and any Bank that does not deliver such a notice within such period of ten Domestic Business Days

 

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shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Commitment). In the event that, on the tenth Domestic Business Day after API shall have delivered a notice pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph, the Banks shall have agreed pursuant to the preceding sentence to increase their Commitments by an aggregate amount less than the increase in the Total Commitment requested by API, API shall have the right to arrange for one or more banks or other financial institutions (any such bank or other financial institution being called an “ Augmenting Bank ”), which may include any Bank, to extend Commitments or increase their existing Commitments in an aggregate amount equal to the unsubscribed amount, provided that each Augmenting Bank, if not already a Bank hereunder, shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and shall execute all such documentation as the Administrative Agent shall specify to evidence its status as a Bank hereunder. If (and only if) Banks (including Augmenting Banks) shall have agreed to increase their Commitments or to extend new Commitments in an aggregate amount not less than $10,000,000, such increases and such new Commitments shall become effective on the date specified in the notice delivered by API pursuant to the first sentence of this Section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the Total Commitment (or in the Commitment of any Bank) shall become effective under this paragraph unless, on the date of such increase, (i) the conditions set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 6.02 (including the condition set forth in Section 6.02(c) insofar as it relates to representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.01(d)(ii) and 5.01(e) which are otherwise excluded in Section 6.02) shall be satisfied and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by a Responsible Officer of API or (ii) the Banks shall have waived the requirements set forth in clause (i) of this sentence.

Section 2.05. Reduction of Commitments . (a)  Ratable Reduction . API shall have the right, upon not less than three Domestic Business Days’ (or such shorter notice as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) from API to the Administrative Agent and, if the Total Commitment is thereby to be reduced to zero, upon payment of the Commitment Fee accrued to (but excluding) the date of such reduction, to reduce the Total Commitment in full or in part; provided , however , that the amount of any reduction in the Total Commitment may not exceed the Available Facility (after giving effect to any Loans being repaid or prepaid on the day of such reduction and any Loans to be made on such day). Partial reductions of the Total Commitment shall be in the amount of $10,000,000 or in integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if the Available Facility is less than $10,000,000, then all of such lesser amount). Subject to Section 2.04, all reductions of the Total Commitment shall be permanent.

(b) Non-Ratable Reduction . API shall have the right, upon at least ten Domestic Business Days’ written notice to a Defaulting Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), to terminate in whole such Bank’s Commitment; provided that if any Loans have been made by such Defaulting Bank and remain outstanding, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Such termination shall be effective, (x) with respect to such Bank’s Unused Commitment, on the date set forth in such notice, provided , however , that such date shall be no earlier than ten Domestic Business Days after receipt of such notice and (y) with respect to each Loan outstanding to such Bank, in the case of an ABR Loan, on the date set forth in such notice and in the case of a Eurodollar Loan, on the last day of the then current Interest Period relating to such Loan. Upon termination of a Bank’s Commitment under this Section 2.05(b), the Borrowers will pay or cause to be paid in full in cash all principal of, and interest accrued to the date of such

 

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payment on, Loans owing to such Bank and pay any accrued Commitment Fees payable to such Bank pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.08 (subject to Section 2.08), and all other amounts payable to such Bank hereunder (including, but not limited to, any increased costs or other amounts owing under Section 4.04; and upon such payments, the obligations of such Bank shall, by the provisions hereof, be released and discharged; provided , however , that such Bank’s rights under Sections 4.03, 4.04 and 11.10, and its obligations under Section 9.08 shall survive such release and discharge as to matters occurring prior to such date; provided further , however , that if pursuant to this Section 2.05(b), the Borrowers shall pay to a Defaulting Bank any principal of, or interest accrued on, the Loans owing to such Defaulting Bank, then the Borrowers shall either (x) confirm to the Administrative Agent that the conditions set forth in Section 6.02(b) and (c) are met on and as of such date of payment or (y) pay or cause to be paid a ratable payment of principal and interest to all Banks who are not Defaulting Banks. Subject to Section 2.04, once so reduced or terminated pursuant to this Section 2.05, the Commitments of the Banks shall not be reinstated.

Section 2.06. Prepayment of Loans . A Borrower shall have the right, by giving telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) to the Administrative Agent by not later than 10:30 A.M., New York time, (i) on the day of prepayment in the case of ABR Loans and (ii) on the third Eurodollar Business Day prior to the day of prepayment in the case of Eurodollar Loans, to prepay Loans of such Borrower bearing interest on the same basis and having the same Interest Period, if any, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 or integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if the outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Loan is less than $10,000,000, then all of such lesser amount), together with accrued interest (except for ABR Loans, as to which such interest shall be paid on the next date when it otherwise would be payable under 3.02) on the principal being prepaid to (but excluding) the date of prepayment and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the amounts required by Section 4.03. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Loans so prepaid may be reborrowed by any Borrower.

Section 2.07. Purpose of Loans . The proceeds of the Loans will be used for general corporate purposes.

Section 2.08. Defaulting Banks . (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Bank becomes a Defaulting Bank, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Bank is a Defaulting Bank:

(i) fees shall cease to accrue on the Commitment of such Defaulting Bank (other than a Defaulting Bank only under clause (e) of the definition thereof) pursuant to Section 3.08(a);

(ii) the Unused Commitment of such Defaulting Bank (other than a Defaulting Bank only under clause (e) of the definition thereof) shall not be included in determining whether the Required Banks have taken or may take any action hereunder; and

(iii) any amount payable to such Defaulting Bank hereunder (whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise and including any amount that would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Bank) shall, in lieu of being distributed to such Defaulting Bank, subject to any applicable requirements of law, be applied by the Administrative Agent, in

 

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the following order of priority: (x) first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Bank to the Administrative Agent hereunder, (y) second, to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Bank has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement and (z) the balance to such Defaulting Bank.

(b) The rights and remedies against a Defaulting Bank under this Section 2.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies that any Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Bank may have against such Defaulting Bank.

(c) In the event that the Administrative Agent and API agree that a Defaulting Bank has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Bank to be a Defaulting Bank, then such Bank shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other Banks as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Bank to hold such Loans ratably in accordance with its Commitment (or, if the Total Commitments have terminated, as last in effect) and such Bank shall no longer be a Defaulting Bank.

ARTICLE 3

INTEREST, CONVERSION, FEES, ETC.

Section 3.01. Procedure for Interest Rate Determination . Unless a Borrower shall request in a Loan Request or in a Conversion Request that its Loans, or portions thereof, bear interest as Eurodollar Loans, such Borrower’s Loans shall bear interest as ABR Loans.

Section 3.02. Interest on ABR Loans . Each ABR Loan shall bear interest from the date of such ABR Loan until paid in full, or (if converted into a Eurodollar Loan) to (but excluding) the first day of the relevant Interest Period, payable in arrears on the last day of each calendar quarter, commencing with the first such date after the date hereof, and on the date such Loan is repaid, at a rate per annum (on the basis of (i) a 365-day year (366 days in the case of a leap year) if the Base Rate is calculated based on the “base rate” and (ii) a 360-day year if the Base Rate is calculated based on the Federal Funds Rate or LIBOR, for the actual number of days involved) equal to the sum of (i) the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans and (ii) the Base Rate in effect from time to time, which rate shall change as and when said Base Rate shall change.

Section 3.03. Interest on Eurodollar Loans . (a) Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest from the date of such Loan to (but excluding) the last day of the relevant Interest Period, or (if earlier) to (but excluding) the Termination Date, payable in arrears (A) with respect to Interest Periods of three months or less, on the last day of such Interest Period, and (B) with respect to Interest Periods longer than three months, on the date which occurs three months after the first day of such Interest Period and on the last day of such Interest Period, at a rate per annum (on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number of days involved, with respect to each Interest Period), equal to the sum of (i) the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Loans and (ii) LIBOR.

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subsequent Eurodollar Loan at least three Eurodollar Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period of an outstanding Eurodollar Loan, then such outstanding Eurodollar Loan shall become an ABR Loan at the end of such current Interest Period.

(c) For so long as any Bank maintains reserves against “Eurocurrency Liabilities” pursuant to Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board (or any successor regulation), each Borrower shall, subject to the two next succeeding sentences, contemporaneously with the related interest payments, pay additional interest on each Eurodollar Loan of such Bank at a rate per annum up to but not exceeding the excess of (i) (A) LIBOR divided by (B) one minus the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage over (ii) LIBOR. Each Bank shall promptly notify API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, upon becoming aware that any Borrower may be required to make a payment pursuant to this Section 3.03(c). When requesting payment pursuant to this Section 3.03(c), each Bank shall provide to API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a certificate, signed by an officer of such Bank, setting forth, in reasonable detail, the basis of such claim, the amount required to be paid by the Borrower to such Bank and the computations made by such Bank to determine such amount. Absent demonstrable error, such certificate shall be binding as to the amounts of additional interest owing in respect of such Bank’s Eurodollar Loans.

Section 3.04. [Reserved] .

Section 3.05. Continuation and Conversion of Loans . (a) A Borrower may request, by telephonic notice to the Administrative Agent of a Conversion Request, confirmed in writing in substantially the form of Exhibit C by no later than 12:00 P.M., New York time, on the same day, in advance of the requested Conversion Date as provided in the definition of “Conversion Request”, that:

(i) all the outstanding ABR Loans of such Borrower, or a portion thereof in an aggregate amount equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, be converted into a Eurodollar Loan on the requested Conversion Date; or

(ii) all the Eurodollar Loans of such Borrower having the same Interest Period, or a portion thereof in an aggregate amount equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, be converted into ABR Loans on the requested Conversion Date.

(b) Upon receipt of any such Conversion Request from a Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith give notice to each Bank of the substance thereof. Effective on such Conversion Date and upon payment by such Borrower of the amounts, if any, required by Section 4.03, the Loans or portions thereof as to which the Conversion Request was made shall commence to accrue interest as set forth in this Article 3 for the type of interest rate and, in the case of a conversion of ABR Loans into Eurodollar Loans, Interest Period selected by such Borrower.

Section 3.06. Post-Maturity Interest . After maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of any Loan, such Loan shall bear interest, payable on demand, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) 2% plus (ii) the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus (iii) the Applicable Margin for ABR Loans.

 

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Section 3.07. Maximum Interest Rate . (a) Nothing in this Agreement or any other Credit Document shall require a Borrower to pay interest at a rate exceeding the maximum rate permitted by applicable law. Neither this Section nor Section 11.01 is intended to limit the rate of interest payable for the account of any Bank to the maximum rate permitted by the laws of the State of New York (or any other applicable law) if a higher rate is permitted with respect to such Bank by supervening provisions of U.S. federal law.

(b) If the amount of interest payable by a Borrower for the account of any Bank on any interest payment date in respect of the immediately preceding interest computation period, computed pursuant to this Article 3, would exceed the maximum amount permitted by applicable law to be charged by such Bank, the amount of interest payable for its account on such interest payment date shall automatically be reduced to such maximum permissible amount.

Section 3.08. Fees . (a) The Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to pay, in arrears on each Fee Payment Date, to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank, a fee (the “ Commitment Fee ”) for the quarterly period (or shorter period commencing on the Effective Date or ending on the Termination Date) ending on the Domestic Business Day immediately preceding such Fee Payment Date at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Percentage (as from time to time in effect, and appropriately adjusted if there are any changes to the Applicable Percentage during the relevant period) on the average Unused Commitments during such period.

(b) The Commitment Fee shall be computed based on a 365-day year (366 days in the case of a leap year), for the actual number of days involved.

ARTICLE 4

DISBURSEMENT AND PAYMENT

Section 4.01. Disbursement of Loans; Pro Rata Treatment of Banks . (a) ABR Loans shall be made by each Bank from its ABR Lending Office.

(b) Eurodollar Loans shall be made by each Bank from its Eurodollar Lending Office.

(c) Each payment of a Commitment Fee, each reduction of the Total Commitment and, except as expressly provided otherwise in this Agreement, each payment of principal of or interest on Loans shall be apportioned among the Banks in proportion to each Bank’s Pro Rata Share.

(d) If API shall designate as an Additional Borrower hereunder any Subsidiary not organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof, any Bank may, with notice to the Administrative Agent and API, fulfill its Commitment by causing an affiliate of such Bank to act as the Bank in respect of such Additional Borrower (and such Bank shall, to the extent of Loans made to such Additional Borrower, be deemed for all purposes hereof to have pro tanto assigned such Loans to such affiliate in compliance with the provisions of Section 11.08).

 

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Section 4.02. Method of Payment . (a) All payments of principal of and interest on the Loans and of fees hereunder shall be payable in Dollars.

(b) All payments to be made by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made not later than 2:00 P.M., New York time, on the date when due, in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City, to the Administrative Agent at its office referred to in Section 11.06 hereof.

(c) Whenever any payment of principal of, or interest on, ABR Loans or fees shall be due on a day which is not a Domestic Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Domestic Business Day. Whenever any payment of principal of, or interest on, Eurodollar Loans shall be due on a day which is not a Eurodollar Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Eurodollar Business Day unless such Eurodollar Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case the date for payment thereof shall be the next preceding Eurodollar Business Day. If the date for any payment of principal is extended by operation of law or otherwise, interest thereon shall be payable for such extended time.

(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the relevant Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Banks hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, but shall not be obligated to, cause to be distributed to each Bank on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Bank. If and to the extent that such Borrower shall not have so made such payment, each Bank shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Bank together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Bank until the date such Bank repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.

(e) Any and all payments made by a Borrower to the Administrative Agent or the Banks hereunder shall be made without right of set-off, counterclaim or other defenses.

(f) The Administrative Agent will promptly cause any payments received by it to be distributed to each Bank for whose account payment has been made in like funds.

Section 4.03. Compensation for Losses . (a)  Compensation . If (i) a Borrower makes a prepayment of a Eurodollar Loan under Section 2.06 (other than a prepayment to a Bank to which Additional Costs or Additional Amounts may be due that has not complied with its obligations under Section 4.04(c)), or a Conversion Date selected by a Borrower pursuant to Section 3.05 for the conversion of Eurodollar Loans, or portions thereof, falls on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for the amount so converted, (ii) a Borrower revokes any Loan Request for a Eurodollar Loan or any Eurodollar Loan requested is not made because of the failure of the applicable conditions precedent specified in Section 6.02 to be satisfied, (iii) an outstanding Eurodollar Loan, or any portion thereof, is converted into an ABR Loan pursuant to Section 4.05 on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto or (iv) a Eurodollar Loan (or portion thereof) shall be due and payable pursuant to Section 4.07, or declared to be due and payable prior to the scheduled maturity thereof pursuant to Section 8.01, on any day other than the

 

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last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, subject to Section 4.03(b) and without duplication of any amounts described in Section 3.03(c) or 4.04, the relevant Borrower shall be obligated to pay to the relevant Bank an amount that will compensate such Bank for any loss or premium, penalty or expense incurred by such Bank as a result of such prepayment, conversion, failure to borrow, declaration or revocation of notice in respect of funds obtained for the purpose of making or maintaining such Eurodollar Loan, or any portion thereof (other than loss of margin or profits after the date of such prepayment, conversion, failure to borrow, declaration or revocation of notice).

(b) Certificate, Etc . Each Bank shall promptly notify API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, upon becoming aware that any Borrower may be required to make any payment pursuant to this Section 4.03. When requesting payment pursuant to this Section 4.03, such Bank shall provide to API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a certificate, signed by an officer of such Bank, setting forth in reasonable detail the amount required to be paid by the Borrowers to such Bank and the computations made by such Bank to determine such amount. The applicable Borrower shall have a 30-day period following the receipt of such certificate (if such Borrower in good faith disagrees with the assertion that any payment under this Section 4.03 is due or with the amount shown as due on such certificate and so notifies such Bank of such disagreement within five Domestic Business Days following receipt of such certificate) to negotiate with such Bank, which negotiations shall be conducted by the respective parties in good faith, and to agree upon another amount that will adequately compensate such Bank, it being expressly understood that if such Borrower does not provide the required notice of its disagreement as provided above, then such Borrower shall pay the amount shown as due on the certificate on the tenth Domestic Business Day following receipt thereof and further if such Borrower does provide such required notice, and negotiations are entered into in good faith but do not result in agreement by such Borrower and such Bank within the 30-day period, then such Borrower shall pay the amount shown as due on the certificate on the last day of such period.

Section 4.04. Withholding, Reserves and Additional Costs . (a)  Withholding . (i) All payments payable under this Agreement to a Bank (including payments of principal of and interest on Loans) shall be made to such Bank free and clear of any and all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, fees, liabilities and similar charges other than Excluded Taxes (“ Taxes ”). If any Taxes are required to be withheld or deducted from any amount payable by a Borrower under this Agreement, then the amount so payable under this Agreement shall be increased to the amount which, after deduction from such increased amount of all Taxes required to be withheld or deducted therefrom (the amount of such increase, an “ Additional Amount ”), will yield to such Bank the amount stated to be payable under this Agreement. The relevant Borrower shall execute and deliver to any Bank upon its request such further instruments as may be necessary or desirable to give full force and effect to any such increase. The relevant Borrower shall also hold each Bank harmless and indemnify it for any stamp or other taxes with respect to the preparation, execution, delivery, recording, performance or enforcement of the Credit Documents (all of which shall be included within “Taxes”). If any of the Taxes specified in this Section 4.04(a) are paid by a Bank, the relevant Borrower shall, within 10 days after demand of such Bank, reimburse such Bank for such payments, together with any interest, penalties and expenses incurred in connection herewith. Each Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent certificates or other valid vouchers or other evidence of payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for all Taxes or other charges deducted from or paid with respect to

 

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payments made by such Borrower hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrowers shall be entitled, to the extent required to do so by law, to deduct or withhold (and shall not be required to make payments of any Additional Amounts or indemnification payments as otherwise required by this Section 4.04 on account of such deductions or withholdings) income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from interest, fees or other amounts payable hereunder for the account of any Bank other than a Bank (i) that is a U.S. Person for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (ii) that has the Prescribed Forms on file with the Borrowers for the applicable year, unless the failure to leave such forms on file results from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof by any court or administrative or Governmental Authority charged with the administration thereof subsequent to the date the Bank becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent that such Bank (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment) to receive additional amounts from the applicable Borrower pursuant to Section 4.04(a); provided that if a Borrower shall so deduct or withhold any such taxes, such Borrower shall provide a statement to the Administrative Agent and such Bank, setting forth the amount of such taxes so deducted or withheld, the applicable rate and any other information or documentation which such Bank may reasonably request for assisting such Bank to obtain any allowable credits or deductions for the taxes so deducted or withheld in the jurisdiction or jurisdictions in which such Bank is subject to tax.

(ii) If any Bank has received or been granted a refund or repayment of, any Tax paid or payable by it in respect of or which takes account of any Tax with respect to which an Additional Amount was paid by a Borrower (an “ Indemnified Tax ”) or other matter giving rise to such payment, such Bank shall, to the extent it determines in good faith that it can do so without prejudice to the retention of the amount of such refund or repayment, pay to such Borrower such amount as such Bank shall determine in good faith to be attributable to such Indemnified Tax or other matter and which will leave such Bank (after such payment to the Borrower) in a position no better or worse than it would have been in had such Borrower not been required to deduct or withhold such Indemnified Tax or such other matter had not arisen; provided that such Borrower upon the written request of such Bank, shall return to such Bank the amount of any such refund, repayment in the event that such Bank is required to repay such amount to the relevant Governmental Authority.

(b) Additional Costs . (i) Without duplication of any amounts payable described in Section 3.03(c), 4.04(a) or 4.04(b)(ii), if after the date hereof there shall have occurred any change in any law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof by any court or Governmental Authority charged with the administration thereof or the enactment of any law or regulation shall either (A) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement with respect to any Bank’s Commitment or its Eurodollar Loans, (B) subject such Bank to any duty or other charge with respect to any of its Eurodollar Loans or its obligations to make Eurodollar Loans or (C) impose on such Bank any other condition regarding this Agreement, its Commitment to make Eurodollar Loans or its Eurodollar Loans and the result of any event referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) shall be to increase the cost (“ Additional Costs ”) to such Bank of maintaining its Commitment to make Eurodollar Loans or making or maintaining its Eurodollar Loans or shall reduce the amounts received or receivable hereunder (which Additional Costs shall be calculated by such Bank in good faith in accordance with each Bank’s internal policies, including any reasonable averaging and attribution methods) by an amount which such Bank in good faith shall

 

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determine to be material, then, subject to Sections 4.04(c) and (d), the relevant Borrower shall pay to such Bank an amount equal to such Additional Costs; provided , that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a change in law or regulation under this Section 4.04(b)(i), regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

(ii) Without duplication of any amounts described in Section 3.03(c), 4.04(a) or 4.04(b)(i), if after the date hereof the adoption of any applicable law, rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency or instrumentality charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by such Bank with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy or liquidity (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency or instrumentality, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on capital for such Bank or any corporation controlling such Bank as a consequence of its obligations under this Agreement to a level below that which such Bank shall determine in good faith that reasonably could have been achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Bank’s or such corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time, subject to Sections 4.04(c) and (d), the relevant Borrower shall pay to such Bank such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank for such reduction; provided , that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be an adoption of law, rule, regulation or guideline under this Section 4.04(b)(ii), regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, this Section 4.04(b) shall not apply to (i) increased costs or reduction in amounts received or receivable hereunder resulting from any Tax or Excluded Tax, as to which Section 4.04(a) shall govern or (ii) changes in the basis of taxation of net income by the United States or any other jurisdiction which are applicable to any Bank or its lending office.

(c) Mitigation . If, with respect to a Bank, a condition arises or an event occurs after the date hereof that would, or would upon the giving of notice, result in the payment of any Additional Costs or Additional Amounts pursuant to this Section 4.04 or the delivery by such Bank of any notice described in the first sentence of Section 4.05, then such Bank, promptly upon becoming aware of the same, shall notify API (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) thereof and at API’s request shall take such steps as may be available to it and acceptable to the Borrowers to mitigate the effects of such condition or event (which shall include efforts consistent with legal and regulatory restrictions applicable to it to book the Loans held by such Bank hereunder at another lending office of such Bank if such other lending office is not, in the reasonable judgment

 

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of such Bank, otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank); provided that such Bank shall be under no obligation to take any step that, in its good faith judgment, would result in its incurring any unreimbursed Additional Costs, additional Taxes or other additional costs in performing its obligations hereunder (unless the Borrower has agreed to reimburse it for the same) or would, in the good faith judgment of such Bank, be materially disadvantageous to such Bank.

(d) Certificate, Etc . Each Bank shall promptly notify API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, upon becoming aware that the Borrowers may be required to make any payment pursuant to this Section 4.04. When requesting payment pursuant to this Section 4.04, a Bank shall provide to API, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a certificate, signed by an officer of such Bank specifying the event giving rise to such claim and setting forth, in reasonable detail, the basis of such claim, the amount required to be paid by each Borrower to such Bank and the computations made by such Bank to determine such amount. Anything herein notwithstanding, no Bank shall have the right to demand payment of Additional Amounts or compensation for Additional Costs or a reduced rate of return under this Section 4.04 (i) with respect to any period more than 180 days prior to the date it has made a demand pursuant to this Section 4.04, provided if any Additional Amounts or Additional Costs arise from a change of law that is retroactive, then the 180 day period shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof, (ii) to the extent that such Bank determines in good faith that the interest rate or margin on the relevant Loans appropriately accounts for any Additional Costs, and (iii) unless demand thereunder is made in accordance with a policy of the Bank being applied in good faith to all borrowers similarly situated, unless notice of such Bank’s entitlement to such compensation shall have been furnished to the relevant Borrower at or prior to such time.

(e) Prescribed Forms . (i) Each Bank that is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof agrees that it will, to the extent it has not previously done so, deliver to API or the Administrative Agent (and if to the latter, the Administrative Agent agrees that it will deliver to API) two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, or successor applicable form, as the case may be, certifying that such Bank or Administrative Agent is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement and under the Notes without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes. Each Bank further undertakes to deliver to API or the Administrative Agent (and if to the latter, the Administrative Agent agrees that it will deliver to API) (i) two further duly completed copies of the said Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI, or successor applicable forms, as the case may be, on or before the date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously delivered by it, and such extensions or renewals thereof as may reasonably be requested by a Borrower, certifying that such Bank or Administrative Agent is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement and under any Notes without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes, unless in any such cases an event (including without limitation any change in treaty, law or regulation) has occurred prior to the date on which any such delivery would otherwise be required which renders all such forms inapplicable or which would prevent a Bank from duly completing and delivering any such form with respect to it and such Bank advises API or the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent agrees that it will advise API) that it is not capable of receiving payments without any deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax and (ii) two duly completed copies of any other form or certification that may become applicable to such Bank certifying that such Bank or Administrative Agent is entitled to receive payments under this Agreement and under any Notes without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes.

 

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(ii) If a payment made to a Bank hereunder would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Bank were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Bank shall deliver to API and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by API or the Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by API or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for API or the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that such Bank has complied with such Bank’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct or withhold from such payment.

Section 4.05. Unavailability and Impracticability . If, after the date hereof, a Bank shall have determined in good faith that the making or maintenance of all or any part of such Bank’s Eurodollar Loans has been made (i) unlawful because of compliance by such Bank with any law or guideline or interpretation or administration thereof by any official body charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, in each case issued after the date hereof, or with any request or directive made after the date hereof of such body (whether or not having the effect of law) or (ii) impracticable because deposits in Dollars in the amounts and requested maturities of such Loans are not available to the Bank in the applicable interbank market or that the rate applicable to such Loans will not adequately reflect the cost to such Bank of making, funding or maintaining such Loans for the applicable Interest Period, then the Administrative Agent, upon receipt of written notice of such determination by such Bank, shall forthwith advise the other Banks and API thereof. After the date specified in such notice and until such time as the Administrative Agent, upon receipt of written notice to it by such Bank, shall notify API and the other Banks that the circumstances specified by it in such notice no longer apply, then notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement:

(i) the Eurodollar Loans of such Bank shall automatically be converted to ABR Loans, without any requirement of compliance by the Borrowers with Section 3.05, 4.03 or 4.04, on (x) the last day of the outstanding Interest Period or Periods applicable thereto, unless awaiting such date is unlawful or (y) if awaiting such date is unlawful, immediately upon the receipt by the applicable Borrower of such notice; and

(ii) the obligation of such Bank to make, convert ABR Loans into, or continue for an additional Interest Period, Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended, and, if the Borrower shall request in a Loan Request or Conversion Request that such Bank make a Eurodollar Loan, the Loan requested to be made by such Bank shall instead be made as an ABR Loan.

Such Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, which thereupon shall promptly notify API, when such specified circumstances no longer apply.

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first sentence of Section 4.05, (c) shall become a Non-Consenting Bank or (d) is a Defaulting Bank, the Borrowers shall have the right to require such Bank to assign all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to another Bank or financial institution identified by the Borrowers with the assistance of the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent agrees to use its reasonable efforts so to assist the Borrowers); provided , however , that (i) such assignment shall not conflict with any applicable statute, law, rule, regulation, order or decree of any Governmental Authority and (ii) the assigning Bank shall have received from the Borrowers and/or such assignee full payment of the principal of all then-outstanding Loans made by such Bank hereunder, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and (provided that such Bank has complied with its obligations under Section 4.04(c)) all other amounts owed to it hereunder.

Section 4.07. Repayment of Loans . Each Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of each Bank on the Termination Date the aggregate principal amount of the Loans made by such Bank to such Borrower and then outstanding.

ARTICLE 5

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Section 5.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrowers . The Borrowers severally represent and warrant that:

(a) Corporate Existence and Power . Each Borrower has been duly organized and is validly existing and, to the extent applicable, in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, and has all corporate powers and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as presently conducted.

(b) Corporate and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention . The execution, delivery and performance by each Borrower of each of the Credit Documents to which such Borrower is a party are within the corporate powers of such Borrower and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of such Borrower, require no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official and do not contravene in any material respect, or constitute a material default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or similar constitutive instruments) of such Borrower or of any agreement, judgment, injunction, order, decree or other instrument binding upon such Borrower or result in the creation or imposition of any material Lien on any asset of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary.

(c) Binding Effect . This Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of each Borrower, and each Note will constitute a valid and binding obligation of the Borrower party to such Note when executed and delivered by such Borrower in accordance with this Agreement, in each case enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and to general equity principles, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

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(d) Financial Information . (i) The consolidated balance sheet of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2012 and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity for the fiscal year then ended, reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and filed with the SEC in API’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, a copy of which has been made available to each of the Banks, fairly present, in conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and its consolidated income and cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity for such period.

(ii) Except as publicly disclosed by API prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date, there has been no material adverse change since December 31, 2012 in the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(e) Litigation . (i) There is no action, suit or proceeding before any court, arbitrator or governmental body, agency or official pending, or to the knowledge of API or ACC, threatened, against API or any Subsidiary which in any manner seeks to avoid the obligations of any Borrower to repay Loans or of API under the guaranty set forth in Article 10. (ii) As of the Effective Date, and except as publicly disclosed by API prior to the Effective Date, there is no action, suit or proceeding before any court, arbitrator or governmental body, agency or official pending, or to the knowledge of API or ACC, threatened, against API or any Subsidiary in which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse decision which would be reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole, except as disclosed (x) in the reports or financial statements referred to in Section 5.01(d) or (y) in Schedule 5.01(e).

(f) Compliance with ERISA . Each member of the ERISA Group has fulfilled its obligations under the minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan and is in compliance with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan, except to the extent that any failure to fulfill such obligations or to be in compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole. As of the Effective Date, no member of the ERISA Group has (i) sought a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code in respect of any Plan, (ii) failed to make any contribution or payment to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or in respect of any Benefit Arrangement, or made any amendment to any Plan or Benefit Arrangement, which has resulted or could result in the imposition of a Lien or the posting of a bond or other security under ERISA or the Code or (iii) incurred any liability under Title IV of ERISA other than a liability to the PBGC for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA, except to the extent that any such waivers, failures and liabilities would not, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

 

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(g) Taxes . United States federal income tax returns of API and its domestic Subsidiaries have been examined and closed through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. API and its Subsidiaries have filed all United States federal income tax returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be filed by them and have paid all material taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by API or any Subsidiary, except for assessments being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and as to which API or such Subsidiary has set aside adequate reserves on its books. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of taxes or other governmental charges are, in the opinion of API, adequate in all material respects.

(h) Material Subsidiaries . Each Material Subsidiary has been duly organized and is validly existing and, to the extent applicable, in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, and has all corporate powers and all governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted, except to the extent that the failure of any of the foregoing would not, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(i) Investment Company Act . No Borrower is an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(j) Disclosure . All information heretofore furnished by the Borrowers to the Administrative Agent or any Bank in writing for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby, taken as a whole, was true and accurate in all material respects or based on reasonable estimates on the date as of which such information is stated or certified and API has disclosed to the Banks in writing (including in any materials publicly filed by API with the SEC) any and all facts known to API which it reasonably believes materially and adversely affect or may materially and adversely affect (to the extent API can now reasonably foresee) the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(k) Environmental Matters . In the ordinary course of its business, API conducts an ongoing review of the effect of Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of API and its Subsidiaries, in the course of which it identifies and evaluates associated liabilities and costs (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up or closure of properties presently or previously owned, any capital or operating expenditures required to achieve or maintain compliance with environmental protection standards imposed by law or as a condition of any license, permit or contract, any related constraints on operating activities, including any periodic or permanent shutdown of any facility or reduction in the level of or change in the nature of operations conducted thereat and any actual or potential liabilities to third parties, including employees, and any related costs and expenses). On the basis of this review, API has reasonably concluded that, as of the Effective Date, and except as publicly disclosed by API prior thereto, Environmental Laws are unlikely to have a material adverse effect on the business, consolidated financial condition, or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(l) Federal Reserve Regulations . After giving effect to the application of the proceeds of each Loan, not more than 25% of the value of the consolidated assets of API (based on book value or another reasonable measure) will consist of or be represented by “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board.

 

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ARTICLE 6

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 6.01. Conditions to Effectiveness . This Agreement shall not become effective until the earliest date (the “ Effective Date ”) on which each of the following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied, or waived in writing by the Banks:

(a) Agreements . The Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Agreement, duly executed and delivered by each of the Banks, the Initial Borrowers and the Administrative Agent (or in the case of any such party as to which an executed counterpart shall not have been received, the Administrative Agent shall have received, in form satisfactory to it, telecopy or other written confirmation from such party of its execution of a counterpart of this Agreement).

(b) Evidence of Corporate Action . The Administrative Agent shall have received the following:

(i) API . (A) a copy of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of API, certified as of a recent date not later than the Effective Date by the Secretary of State of the State of New York, and a certificate as to the good standing of API as of a date not earlier than ten Domestic Business Days prior to the Effective Date, from such Secretary of State;

(B) a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of API, dated the Effective Date, and certifying (1) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws of API as in effect on such date and at all times since the date of the resolutions described in clause (2) below, (2) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors and/or Finance Committee of API authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, (3) that the certificate of incorporation of API has not been amended since the date of the last amendment thereto shown on the certificate of good standing furnished pursuant to clause (i)(A) above, and (4) as to the incumbency and signature of each officer executing this Agreement or any document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of the API;

(C) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of API as to the incumbency and signature of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of API executing the certificate described in clause (i)(B) above; and

 

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(D) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of API, dated the Effective Date, stating that (1) the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.01 are correct on and as of the Effective Date and (2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(ii) ACC . (A) a copy of the Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of ACC, certified as of a recent date not later than the Effective Date by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and a certificate as to the good standing of ACC as of a date not earlier than ten Domestic Business Days prior to the Effective Date, from such Secretary of State;

(B) a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of ACC, dated the Effective Date, and certifying (1) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws of ACC as in effect on such date and at all times since the date of the resolutions described in clause (2) below, (2) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of ACC authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, (3) that the certificate of incorporation of ACC has not been amended since the date of the last amendment thereto shown on the certificate of good standing furnished pursuant to clause (ii)(A) above, and (4) as to the incumbency and signature of each officer executing this Agreement or any document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of ACC; and

(C) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of ACC as to the incumbency and signature of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of ACC executing the certificate described in clause (ii)(B) above.

(c) Legal Opinions . The Administrative Agent shall have received an opinion of the General Counsel of API, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, an opinion of White & Case LLP, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and an opinion of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel to the Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) Repayment of Outstanding Loans . The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence, in form and substance satisfactory to it, that (i) all Loans outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, and all interest and fees that are payable thereunder, shall have been paid in full and (ii) the commitments thereunder have been terminated.

(e) Other Documents . Such other documents as the Administrative Agent or any Bank may reasonably request in order to satisfy its “know your customer” or related requirements.

(f) Offering . API shall, or shall contemporaneously with the making of the Loans, have completed an offering in the capital markets.

 

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Section 6.02. Conditions to Each Loan . The obligations of each Bank to make any Loan (including the initial Loans) are subject to the conditions that the Effective Date shall have occurred and that, on the Borrowing Date of each such Loan and after giving effect thereto, each of the following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied, or waived in writing by the Required Banks, and upon such satisfaction or waiver each such Bank will give a written confirmation of the same to the relevant Borrower upon request:

(a) Loan Request . The Administrative Agent shall have received from such Borrower a Loan Request, in the appropriate form and in the manner contemplated hereby.

(b) Absence of Defaults . No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

(c) Representations and Warranties . The representations and warranties contained in Section 5.01 (other than the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.01(d)(ii) and 5.01(e)(ii) or any other representations or warranties that expressly relate to a date certain) shall be true and correct with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made at the time of such Loan.

(d) Additional Conditions for Loans to Additional Borrowers . In the case of a Loan to an Additional Borrower, none of the following shall have occurred and be continuing:

(i) Such Additional Borrower shall fail to make any payment in respect of Debt, other than Debt under this Agreement or any Notes, having an aggregate principal or face amount of $100,000,000 or more when due or within any applicable grace period;

(ii) Any event or condition (other than those covered by clause (i) above) shall occur which (i) results in the acceleration of the maturity of Debt (other than Debt under any Credit Document) of such Additional Borrower having an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 or more or (ii) would presently cause or allow the maturity of any Debt (other than Debt under any Credit Document) of such Additional Borrower having an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 or more to be accelerated;

(iii) Such Additional Borrower shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due (or admit such failure in writing), or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;

 

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(iv) An involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against such Additional Borrower seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against such Additional Borrower under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; or

(v) Judgments or orders for the payment of money in excess of $100,000,000 in the aggregate shall be rendered against such Additional Borrower and such judgments or orders shall continue unsatisfied and unstayed for a period of more than 30 days.

Section 6.03. Satisfaction of Conditions Precedent . Acceptance by a Borrower of the proceeds of any Loan shall be deemed to constitute a certification of such Borrower that, as of the relevant Borrowing Date, each of the applicable conditions precedent in Section 6.02 has been satisfied or waived in writing.

Section 6.04. Additional Borrowers . In the case of the first Loans to be made to an Additional Borrower, in addition to the conditions set forth in Section 6.02, the obligations of each Bank to make such Loans are subject to the condition that, on the Borrowing Date of each such Loan, each of the following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied, or waived in writing by the Required Banks (except with respect to paragraph (b) below where the consent of all the Banks is required), and upon such satisfaction or waiver each Bank will give written confirmation of the same to the relevant Additional Borrower:

(a) Designation and Confirmation . The Administrative Agent shall have received an Additional Borrower Designation and an Additional Borrower Confirmation, in substantially the forms of Exhibits D-1 and D-2, respectively, duly executed and delivered by API and such Additional Borrower, respectively;

(b) Bank Consent . In the case of an Additional Borrower not listed on Schedule 6.04, all the Banks shall have consented to the designation of that Additional Borrower as such; and

(c) Evidence of Corporate Action . The Administrative Agent shall have received:

(i) a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary (or similar official) of such Additional Borrower, dated the Borrowing Date, and certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the constitutive instruments of such Additional Borrower as in effect on such date and at all times since the date of the resolutions described in clause (B) below, (B) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Additional Borrower authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this

 

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Agreement, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, and (C) as to the incumbency and signature of each officer executing this Agreement or any document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of such Additional Borrower; and

(ii) a certificate or certificates of a Responsible Officer of such Additional Borrower as to the incumbency and signature of the Secretary of Assistant Secretary (or similar official) of such Additional Borrower executing the certificate described in clause (i) above.

ARTICLE 7

COVENANTS

Section 7.01. Affirmative Covenants . API (and, in the case of Section 7.01(f), each Borrower (on and after the date on which it shall become a Borrower)) agrees that, so long as any Bank has in effect any Commitment hereunder or any amount payable on any Loan remains unpaid:

(a) Financial Information . API will deliver to the Administrative Agent:

(i) subject to Section 11.06(e), as soon as available and in any event within 75 days after the end of each fiscal year of API, a consolidated balance sheet of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on in a manner acceptable to the SEC by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent public accountants of nationally recognized standing;

(ii) subject to Section 11.06(e), as soon as available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of API, a consolidated balance sheet of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and the related consolidated statement of income for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter and the related consolidated statement of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter, all reported in a manner acceptable to the SEC and certified as to fairness of presentation, GAAP and consistency by a Responsible Officer of API;

(iii) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial statements referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of API (A) setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations required to establish whether API was in compliance with the requirements of Section 7.02(d) and Section 7.02(e) on the date of such financial statements and (B) stating whether any Default or Event of Default exists on the date of such certificate and, if any Default or Event of Default then exists, setting forth the details thereof and the action which API is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;

 

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(iv) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of financial statements referred to in clause (i) above, a statement of the firm of independent public accountants which reported on such statements (A) whether anything has come to their attention to cause them to believe that any Default or Event of Default existed on the date of such statements and (B) confirming the calculations set forth in the officer’s certificate delivered simultaneously therewith pursuant to clause (iii) above;

(v) within five Domestic Business Days of any Responsible Officer of the Borrower or API obtaining knowledge of any Default or Event of Default, if such Default or Event of Default is then continuing, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of API stating that such certificate is a “Notice of Default” and setting forth the details thereof and the action which API is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;

(vi) subject to Section 11.06(e), promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of API generally, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy statements so mailed;

(vii) subject to Section 11.06(e), promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of all registration statements (other than the exhibits thereto and any registration statements on Form S-8 or its equivalent) and reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K (or their equivalents) which API or the Borrower shall have filed with the SEC;

(viii) if and when any member of the ERISA Group (A) gives or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA) with respect to any Plan which could reasonably be expected to constitute grounds for a termination of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of any such reportable event, a copy of the notice of such reportable event given or required to be given to the PBGC, (B) receives notice of complete or partial withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA or notice that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization, is insolvent or has been terminated, a copy of such notice, (C) receives notice from the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA of an intent to terminate, impose liability (other than for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA) in respect of, or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, a copy of such notice, (D) applies for a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code, a copy of such application, (E) gives notice of intent to terminate any Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA, a copy of such notice and other information filed with the PBGC, (F) gives notice of withdrawal from any Plan pursuant to Section 4063 of ERISA, a copy of such notice, or (G) fails to make any payment or contribution to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or in respect of any Benefit Arrangement or makes any amendment to any Plan or Benefit Arrangement which, in any such case, has resulted or could result in the imposition of a Lien or the posting of a bond or other

 

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security under ERISA or the Code, a certificate of the Treasurer or chief financial officer of API setting forth details as to such occurrence and action, if any, which API or the applicable member of the ERISA Group is required or proposes to take; and

(ix) from time to time, such additional information regarding the financial position or business of the Borrowers (including notification of any change in the ratings assigned to API by S&P or Moody’s) as the Administrative Agent, at the request of any Bank, may reasonably request.

(b) Maintenance of Property; Insurance . (i) API will keep, and will cause each Material Subsidiary to keep, all material property useful and necessary in its business in substantial good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

(ii) API will, and will cause each Material Subsidiary to, maintain (either in the name of API or in such Material Subsidiary’s own name) with financially sound and responsible insurance companies, insurance on all their respective properties in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (and with such risk retention) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies of established repute engaged in the same or a similar business; and will furnish to the Banks, upon request from the Administrative Agent, information presented in reasonable detail as to the insurance so carried.

(c) Continuation of Business . API and its Subsidiaries will continue to engage in business of the same general type as conducted by API and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof, considered as a whole. API will preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect, and will cause each Material Subsidiary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect their respective corporate existence and their respective rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of business; provided that nothing contained in this sentence shall be deemed to prevent (x) API or any Subsidiary from consummating any transaction not prohibited by Section 7.02(a) or (y) any such failures, except to the corporate or other legal existence of any Borrower, which do not have a material adverse effect on the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(d) Compliance with Law . API will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, and requirements of governmental authorities (including, without limitation and to the extent applicable, anti-terrorism and money laundering laws, Environmental Laws, ERISA and the rules and regulations thereunder) except (i) as publicly disclosed by API prior to the Effective Date, (ii) where the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (iii) where failure so to comply would not have a material adverse effect on the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.

(e) Books, Records and Inspection . API will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets and business of API and its

 

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Subsidiaries so as to permit the preparation of financial statements of API and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP; and will permit, and will cause each Subsidiary to permit, representatives of any Bank at such Bank’s expense to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its officers, employees and independent public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may reasonably be desired.

(f) Use of Proceeds . The proceeds of each Loan (i) will be used by the relevant Borrower for the purposes described in Section 2.07 and (ii) will not be used by such Borrower in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including Regulation U and Regulation X of the Federal Reserve Board.

Section 7.02. Negative Covenants . API agrees that, so long as any Bank has any Commitment hereunder or any Loan remains unpaid:

(a) Mergers, Consolidations and Sales of Assets . API will not, and, so long as any Loans made to ACC are outstanding hereunder, will not permit ACC to, consolidate with or merge with or into any other person or sell, convey or otherwise transfer its properties or assets substantially as an entirety to any Person or Persons, except that (i) API may merge with a person that is a U.S. corporation, so long as API is the corporation surviving such merger and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing immediately after such merger and (ii) ACC may consolidate with or merge with or into API or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary.

(b) Negative Pledge . API will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset (including, without limitation, any stock of any Material Subsidiary) now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:

(i) Liens arising in the ordinary course of its business which (A) do not secure Debt and (B) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business;

(ii) any Lien on any assets securing Debt (including Capital Leases) incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition thereof;

(iii) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section 7.02(b), provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;

(iv) any Lien (x) existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by API or a Consolidated Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition and (y) arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement or refunding of any Debt secured by any such Lien permitted by the immediately preceding sub-clause (x), provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;

 

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(v) Liens for taxes or assessments and similar charges either (A) not delinquent or (B) being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and as to which adequate reserves have been set aside on the books of API and its Subsidiaries;

(vi) Liens arising out of judgments or orders against API or any Consolidated Subsidiary with respect to which API or such Consolidated Subsidiary shall in good faith be prosecuting an appeal or proceedings for review, provided that (A) API or such Consolidated Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall have secured, within 60 days after the creation thereof, an effective stay of execution pending such appeal or review, and (B) except with respect to (x) judgments and orders with respect to non-United States taxes against Consolidated Subsidiaries organized or conducting a substantial portion of their business outside the United States, and (y) judgments and orders for so long as (i) the amount of such judgment or order is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance between the defendant and the insurer covering payment thereof and (ii) such insurer, which shall be rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of, and has not disputed the claim made for payment of, the amount of such judgment or order, the aggregate amount of such judgments and orders shall not exceed $200,000,000;

(vii) Liens for minor survey exceptions, or minor encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real properties, which encumbrances, easements, reservations, rights and restrictions do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of the real properties of API and the Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole, or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of API or the Consolidated Subsidiary owning the same;

(viii) Liens of Consolidated Subsidiaries securing Debt of such Consolidated Subsidiaries to API;

(ix) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Banks securing obligations and liabilities of the Borrowers hereunder;

(x) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 90 days or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

(xi) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and pension or other social security laws or regulations;

(xii) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business; and

(xiii) to the extent not covered by the foregoing, any other Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business, provided that the aggregate amount of all such other Liens shall not exceed $100,000,000 at any time outstanding.

 

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(c) Ownership of Other Borrowers . API will at no time at which any Loans made to (i) ACC are outstanding hereunder own less than 100% of each outstanding class of capital stock of ACC or (ii) any Additional Borrower are outstanding hereunder, permit such Additional Borrower to cease to be a Subsidiary.

(d) Interest Coverage Ratio . As of the last day of each fiscal quarter of API, API shall not permit the Interest Coverage Ratio to be less than 4:1.

(e) Leverage Ratio . As of the last day of each fiscal quarter of API, API shall not permit the ratio of (i) Debt on such date to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four fiscal quarters ending on such date, to be greater than the applicable ratio set forth in the grid below:

 

Fiscal Quarter Ended

   Applicable Leverage Ratio  

March 31, 2013

     4.25:1.0   

June 30, 2013

     4.00:1.0   

September 30, 2013

     4.00:1.0   

December 31, 2013

     3.75:1.0   

March 31, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

June 30, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

September 30, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

December 31, 2014 and thereafter

     3.50:1.0   

(f) Subsidiary Debt . API will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to create or suffer to exist, any Debt other than:

(i) Debt owing to API or any other Subsidiary;

(ii) existing Debt outstanding on the Effective Date, and listed on Schedule 7.02(f) (the “ Existing Debt ”), and any Debt extending the maturity of, or replacing, refunding, renewing or refinancing, in whole or in part, the Existing Debt; provided that the principal amount of such Existing Debt shall not be increased above the principal amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to such extension, replacement, refunding, renewal or refinancing (except by an amount equal to any existing commitments utilized thereunder) as a result of or in connection with such extension, replacement, refunding, renewal or refinancing;

(iii) guarantees by any Subsidiary in respect of Debt of any other Subsidiary otherwise permitted under this Section 7.02(f);

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honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, so long as such Debt is extinguished within ten (10) Domestic Business Days of its incurrence;

(v) Debt representing deferred compensation or similar obligations to employees of incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(vi) Debt in respect of (i) performance bonds, surety bonds, appeal bonds or customs bonds required in the ordinary course of business or in connection with the enforcement of rights or claims of any Subsidiary or in connection with judgments that do not result in an Event of Default and (ii) letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, warehouse receipts or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Debt with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;

(vii) Debt of ACC so long as its primary activities are of the same general types as those conducted by ACC on the Effective Date; and

(viii) Debt in addition to that permitted above, so long as the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof (but as measured only on the date of each new incurrence of Debt under this clause (viii)) at no time exceeds $500,000,000.

For purposes of determining compliance with this clause (f), in the event that an item of proposed Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the categories, or is entitled to be incurred or outstanding pursuant to more than one clause or sub-clause of this clause (f), API shall be permitted to classify such item of Debt on the date of its incurrence, or later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Debt, in any manner that complies with this clause (f). Any amount specified in this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined in good faith by the Borrower based on the most recent available exchange rates published in the Wall Street Journal or other similar publication at the close of business on the Domestic Business Day immediately preceding any date of determination thereof; provided that to the extent that the principal amount of Debt measured against any basket, covenant, limitation or other test equals not more than 110% of such basket, covenant, limitation or other test solely as a result of fluctuations in applicable currency exchange rates, such basket will not be deemed to have been exceeded solely as a result of such fluctuations in currency exchange rates.

ARTICLE 8

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

Section 8.01. Events of Default . If one or more of the following events (each, an “ Event of Default ”) shall have occurred and be continuing:

(a) A Borrower shall fail to pay when due any principal of any Loan or shall fail to pay within five Domestic Business Days after the date when due any interest, fee or other amount payable hereunder;

 

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(b) API shall fail to observe or perform any of its covenants contained in Section 7.01(a)(v), 7.01(c) (as to the preservation of a Borrower’s corporate existence) or Section 7.02;

(c) A Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any of its covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement (other than those covered by clause (a) or (b) above) for 30 days after written notice thereof has been given to API by the Administrative Agent at the request of any Bank;

(d) Any representation, warranty, certification or statement made by a Borrower in this Agreement or in any certificate, financial statement or other document delivered pursuant hereto shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made (it being understood that good faith projections that are reasonable when made shall not be considered representations, warranties, certifications or statements for purposes of this Section 8.01(d));

(e) API, ACC, or any Material Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment in respect of Debt, other than Debt under this Agreement or any Notes, having an aggregate principal or face amount of $100,000,000 or more when due or within any applicable grace period;

(f) Any event or condition (other than those covered by clause (e) above) shall occur which (i) results in the acceleration of the maturity of Debt (other than Debt under any Credit Document) of API or any Material Subsidiary having an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 or more or (ii) would presently cause or allow the maturity of any Debt (other than Debt under any Credit Document) of API or any Material Subsidiary having an aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 or more to be accelerated;

(g) API, ACC, or any Material Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due (or admit such failure in writing), or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;

(h) An involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against API, ACC or any Material Subsidiary seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case

 

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or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against API, ACC or any Material Subsidiary under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect;

(i) Any member of the ERISA Group shall fail to pay when due an amount or amounts aggregating in excess of $100,000,000 which it shall have become liable to pay under Title IV of ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a Material Plan shall be filed under Title IV of ERISA by any member of the ERISA Group, any plan administrator or any combination of the foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate, to impose liability (other than for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA) in respect of, or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any Material Plan; or a condition specified in Section 4042(a)(1) of ERISA, shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a decree adjudicating that any Material Plan must be terminated; or there shall occur a complete or partial withdrawal from, or a default, within the meaning of Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA, with respect to, one or more Multiemployer Plans which could cause one or more members of the ERISA Group to incur a current payment obligation in excess of $100,000,000;

(j) Judgments or orders for the payment of money in excess of $100,000,000 in the aggregate shall be rendered against API or any Material Subsidiary and such judgments or orders shall continue unsatisfied and unstayed for a period of more than 30 days; provided , however , that any such judgment or order shall not be an Event of Default under this Section 8.01(j) if and for so long as (i) the amount of such judgment or order is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance between the defendant and the insurer covering payment thereof and (ii) such insurer, which shall be rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified of, and has not disputed the claim made for payment of, the amount of such judgment or order; or

(k) A Change of Control of API;

then, and in every such event, the Administrative Agent shall (i) if requested by the Required Banks, by notice to the Borrowers, terminate the Commitments and they shall thereupon terminate, and (ii) if requested by the Required Banks, by notice to the Borrowers, declare the Loans and any Notes (together with accrued interest thereon) to be, and such Notes shall thereupon become, immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers; provided that in the case of any of the Events of Default specified in clause (g) or (h) above with respect to a Borrower, without any notice to the Borrowers or any other act by the Administrative Agent or the Banks, the Commitments shall thereupon terminate and the Loans and any Notes (together with accrued interest thereon) shall become immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers.

Section 8.02. Notice of Default . The Administrative Agent shall give written notice to the Borrowers of the occurrence of any Event of Default under Section 8.01(c) promptly upon being requested to do so by any Bank and shall thereupon notify all the Banks thereof.

 

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ARTICLE 9

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE BANKS

Section 9.01. Authorization and Action . Each Bank hereby irrevocably appoints Citibank, N.A. to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article 9 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Banks and, except with respect to Section 9.06, the Borrowers shall not have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.

Section 9.02. Administrative Agent Individually . (a) The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Bank as any other Bank and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Bank” or “Banks” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity as a Bank. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with any Borrower or any Subsidiary or other affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Banks.

(b) Each Bank understands that the Person serving as Administrative Agent, acting in its individual capacity, and its affiliates (collectively, the “ Agent’s Group ”) are engaged in a wide range of financial services and businesses (including investment management, financing, securities trading, corporate and investment banking and research) (such services and businesses are collectively referred to in this Section 9.02 as “ Activities ”) and may engage in the Activities with or on behalf of the Borrowers or their affiliates. Furthermore, the Agent’s Group may, in undertaking the Activities, engage in trading in financial products or undertake other investment businesses for its own account or on behalf of others (including the Borrowers and their affiliates and including holding, for its own account or on behalf of others, equity, debt and similar positions in any Borrower or its affiliates), including trading in or holding long, short or derivative positions in securities, loans or other financial products of any Borrower or its affiliates. Each Bank understands and agrees that in engaging in the Activities, the Agent’s Group may receive or otherwise obtain information concerning a Borrower or its affiliates (including information concerning the ability of a Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder) which information may not be available to any of the Banks that are not members of the Agent’s Group. None of the Administrative Agent nor any member of the Agent’s Group shall have any duty to disclose to any Bank or use on behalf of the Banks, and shall not be liable for the failure to so disclose or use, any information whatsoever about or derived from the Activities or otherwise (including any information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any Borrower or any affiliate thereof) or to account for any revenue or profits obtained in connection with the Activities, except that the Administrative Agent shall deliver or otherwise make available to each Bank such documents as are expressly required by this Agreement to be transmitted by the Administrative Agent to the Banks.

 

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(c) Each Bank further understands that there may be situations where members of the Agent’s Group or their respective customers (including a Borrower and its affiliates) either now have or may in the future have interests or take actions that may conflict with the interests of any one or more of the Banks (including the interests of the Banks hereunder). Each Bank agrees that no member of the Agent’s Group is or shall be required to restrict its activities as a result of the Person serving as Administrative Agent being a member of the Agent’s Group, and that each member of the Agent’s Group may undertake any Activities without further consultation with or notification to any Bank. None of (i) this Agreement, (ii) the receipt by the Agent’s Group of information concerning a Borrower or its affiliates (including information concerning the ability of such Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder) nor (iii) any other matter shall give rise to any fiduciary, equitable or contractual duties (including without limitation any duty of trust or confidence) owing by the Administrative Agent or any member of the Agent’s Group to any Bank including any such duty that would prevent or restrict the Agent’s Group from acting on behalf of customers (including the Borrowers or their Affiliates) or for its own account.

Section 9.03. Duties of Administrative Agent; Exculpatory Provisions .

(a) The Administrative Agent’s duties hereunder are solely ministerial and administrative in nature and the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, but shall be required to act or refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written direction of the Required Banks (or such other number or percentage of the Banks as shall be expressly provided for herein), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent or any of its affiliates to liability or that is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Banks (or such other number or percentage of the Banks as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 11.04 or 8.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default or the event or events that give or may give rise to any Default or Event of Default unless and until a Borrower or any Bank shall have given notice to the Administrative Agent describing such Default or Event of Default and such event or events.

(c) Neither the Administrative Agent nor any member of the Agent’s Group shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty, representation or other information made or supplied in or in connection with this Agreement, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection herewith or the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the information contained therein, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement or any other agreement, instrument or document or the perfection or priority of any Lien or security interest created or

 

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purported to be created hereby or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article 6 or elsewhere herein, other than (but subject to the foregoing clause (ii)) to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

(d) Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties to carry out any “know your customer” or other checks in relation to any person on behalf of any Bank and each Bank confirms to the Administrative Agent that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties.

Section 9.04. Reliance by Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of any Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Bank, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Bank unless an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated hereby shall have received notice to the contrary from such Bank prior to the making of such Loan, and such Bank shall not have made available to the Administrative Agent such Bank’s ratable portion of such Loan. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

Section 9.05. Delegation of Duties . The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. Each such sub-agent and the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and each such sub-agent shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article 9 and Section 11.10 (as though such sub-agents were the “Administrative Agent” under this Agreement) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.

Section 9.06. Resignation of Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Banks and the Borrowers. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Banks, with the prior written consent of API (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall have the right to appoint a successor, which shall be a commercial bank or an affiliate of a Bank with an office in New York, New York, or an affiliate of any such bank with an office in New York, New York. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Banks and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (such 30-day period, the “ Bank Appointment Period ”), then the retiring Administrative Agent may with the prior written consent of API (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) on behalf of the Banks appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above. In

 

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addition and without any obligation on the part of the retiring Administrative Agent to appoint, on behalf of the Banks, a successor Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent may at any time upon or after the end of the Bank Appointment Period notify the Borrower and the Banks that no qualifying Person has accepted appointment as successor Administrative Agent and the effective date of such retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation. Upon the resignation effective date established in such notice and regardless of whether a successor Administrative Agent has been appointed and accepted such appointment, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nonetheless become effective and (i) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations as Administrative Agent hereunder and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Bank directly, until such time as the Required Banks appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this paragraph. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties as Administrative Agent of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations as Administrative Agent hereunder (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this paragraph). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, the provisions of this Article 9 and Section 11.10 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

Section 9.07. Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Banks .

(a) Each Bank confirms to the Administrative Agent, each other Bank and each of their respective Related Parties that it (i) possesses (individually or through its Related Parties) such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that it is capable, without reliance on the Administrative Agent, any other Bank or any of their respective Related Parties, of evaluating the merits and risks (including tax, legal, regulatory, credit, accounting and other financial matters) of (x) entering into this Agreement, (y) making Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder and (z) in taking or not taking actions hereunder, (ii) is financially able to bear such risks and (iii) has determined that entering into this Agreement and making Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder is suitable and appropriate for it.

(b) Each Bank acknowledges that (i) it is solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with this Agreement, (ii) that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Bank or any of their respective Related Parties, made its own appraisal and investigation of all risks associated with, and its own credit analysis and decision to enter into, this Agreement based on such documents and information, as it has deemed appropriate and (iii) it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Bank or any of their respective Related Parties, continue to be solely responsible for making its own appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with, and its own credit analysis and decision to take or not take action under, this Agreement based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, which may include, in each case:

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(ii) the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of this Agreement and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with this Agreement;

(iii) determining compliance or non-compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, and the form and substance of all evidence delivered in connection with establishing the satisfaction of each such condition; and

(iv) the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the information delivered by the Administrative Agent, any other Bank or by any of their respective Related Parties under or in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with this Agreement.

Section 9.08. Indemnification . Each Bank agrees (which agreement shall survive repayment of the Loans) to indemnify the Administrative Agent, to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers, ratably in accordance with its respective Commitment in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought (or, if indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitment shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with its respective Commitment immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, claims, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of any Credit Document, or any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Administrative Agent under any Credit Document; provided that no Bank shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers or employees. Without limiting the foregoing, each Bank agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent promptly upon demand for its Pro Rata Share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including counsel fees) incurred by the Administrative Agent in such capacity in connection with the enforcement of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, any Credit Document or any amendments or supplements hereto or thereto, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrowers.

Section 9.09. Sharing of Payments and Expenses . All funds for the account of the Banks received by the Administrative Agent in respect of payments made by a Borrower pursuant to, or from any Person on account of, any Credit Document shall be distributed forthwith by the Administrative Agent among the Banks, ratably in proportion to their respective interests therein. In the event that any Bank shall receive from a Borrower or any other source any payment of, on account of, or for or under any Credit Document (whether received pursuant to the exercise of any right of set-off, banker’s lien, realization upon any security held for or appropriated to such obligation or otherwise as permitted by law) other than in proportion to its Pro Rata Share, except

 

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for amounts payable to such Bank under Section 2.05(b), 4.03, 4.04, 4.06 or 4.07 hereof, then such Bank shall purchase at par from each other Bank so much of its interest in obligations of the Borrowers as shall be necessary in order that each Bank shall share such payment with each of the other Banks in proportion to each Bank’s Pro Rata Share. In the event that any purchasing Bank shall be required to return any excess payment received by it, the purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such return, but without interest.

Section 9.10. Other Agents . None of the Banks identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement as a “joint lead arranger”, “joint book runner”, “syndication agent”, “documentation agent”, “co-documentation agent”, “co-agent”, or any Affiliate of such Banks, shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than, in the case of any Bank, those applicable to all Banks as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Banks so identified (or such Affiliates) shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Bank. Each Bank acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Banks so identified (or such Affiliates) in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.

ARTICLE 10

THE GUARANTY

Section 10.01. The Guaranty . API unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the prompt payment when due of all present and future obligations and liabilities of all kinds (including post-petition interest, whether or not such interest constitutes an allowed claim in the related bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) of each other Borrower to the Banks under any Credit Document, whether incurred by such Borrower as maker, endorser, drawer, acceptor, guarantor, accommodation party or otherwise, and whether due or to become due, secured or unsecured, absolute or contingent, joint or several, and howsoever or whenever incurred by such Borrower (the “ Guaranteed Obligations ”).

Section 10.02. Absolute Guaranty . API’s obligations hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any instrument evidencing the Guaranteed Obligations (b) the existence, legality, validity, enforceability (including as a result of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding), perfection, or extent of any collateral therefor, (c) any change in the corporate existence or structure of any other Borrower, (d) any claims or set-offs that API may have, (e) any law, regulation, decree or order of any jurisdiction or any event affecting any term of the Guaranteed Obligations or the rights of any Bank with respect thereto or (f) any other circumstance relating to the Guaranteed Obligations or the Borrowers (other than API) which might otherwise constitute a defense available to any surety or guarantor or to this Guaranty. The Banks make no representation or warranty in respect of any such circumstance and have no duty or responsibility whatsoever to API with respect to the management or maintenance of the Guaranteed Obligations or any collateral therefor. The Banks shall not be obligated to file any claim relating to the Guaranteed Obligations in the event that a Borrower becomes subject to a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, and the

 

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failure of the Banks so to file shall not affect API’s obligations hereunder. In the event that any payment to the Banks in respect of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, API shall remain liable hereunder in respect of such Guaranteed Obligation as if such payment had not been made.

Section 10.03. Consents, Waivers and Renewals . API agrees that the Banks may at any time and from time to time, either before or after the maturity thereof, without notice to or further consent of API, extend the time of payment of, exchange or surrender any collateral for, or renew any Guaranteed Obligations, and may also make any agreement with ACC, an Additional Borrower or with any other party to or person liable on any Guaranteed Obligations, or interested therein, for the extension, renewal, payment, compromise, discharge or release thereof, in whole or in part, or for any modification of the terms thereof or of any agreement between the Banks, ACC, an Additional Borrower or any such other party or person, without in any way impairing or affecting this Guaranty. API agrees that the Banks may resort to API for payment of any Guaranteed Obligations, whether or not the Banks shall have resorted to any collateral security, or shall have proceeded against any Borrower or other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations.

Section 10.04. Subrogation . API will not exercise any rights which it may acquire by way of subrogation or by any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, and shall not exercise any right of recourse to any assets or property of any other Borrower held for the payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full and all Commitments have been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to API in violation of the preceding sentence, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Banks and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured.

Section 10.05. Continuing Guaranty . API’s obligations hereunder shall remain in full force and effect until the principal of and interest on the Loans and all other amounts payable by any other Borrower under this Agreement shall have been paid in full and the Commitments terminated. If at any time any payment of the principal of or interest on the Loans or any other amount payable by any such Borrower under this Agreement is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of such Borrower or otherwise, API’s obligations hereunder with respect to such payment shall be reinstated as though such payment had been due but not made at such time.

Section 10.06. Waiver of Notice . API waives notice of the acceptance of this Guaranty and of the making of any loans or extensions of credit to any other Borrower, presentment to or demand or payment from anyone whomsoever liable upon any of the Guaranteed Obligations, presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of any sale of collateral security and all other notices whatsoever.

 

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ARTICLE 11

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.01. Applicable Law . THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Section 11.02. Set-off . Each Bank is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time upon the occurrence of an Event of Default that is continuing, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set-off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other Debt at any time owing by such Bank to or for the credit or the account of a Borrower against any and all payment obligations of such Borrower under this Agreement then due to such Bank, irrespective of whether such Bank shall have made any demand under this Agreement. The rights of each Bank under this Section 11.02 are in addition to any other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off) which such Bank may have. Any Bank exercising its rights under this Section 11.02 shall give notice thereof to API, the relevant Borrower and the Administrative Agent concurrently with or prior to the exercise of such rights, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application.

Section 11.03. Expenses . API agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and any Banks, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel chosen from time to time to represent the Banks as a group in connection with the negotiation, execution and administration of the Credit Documents, and including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, if necessary, in connection with the enforcement of any provisions of the Credit Documents.

Section 11.04. Amendments . Any provision of this Agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented or waived if, but only if, such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver is in writing and is signed by each of the Borrowers and the Required Banks (and, if the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent are affected thereby, by the Administrative Agent); provided that no such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall, unless signed by each Bank directly affected thereby, (i) subject to Sections 2.04 and 2.05, increase or decrease the Commitment of any Bank or subject any Bank to any additional obligation, (ii) reduce the principal of or rate of interest on any Loan or any fees hereunder or (iii) postpone the date fixed for any payment of principal of or interest on any Loan or any fees hereunder or for any reduction or termination of any Commitment; and provided further that no such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall, unless signed by all the Banks (A) release API from any obligations under Article 10 or (B) amend or waive the provisions of this Section 11.04, the definition of “Required Banks” or any provision that explicitly requires the consent of all the Banks.

Section 11.05. Cumulative Rights and No Waiver . Each and every right granted to the Administrative Agent and the Banks under any Credit Document, or allowed them by law or equity, shall be cumulative and may be exercised from time to time. No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Bank to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any single or partial exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Bank of any right preclude any other or future exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right.

 

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Section 11.06. Notices . (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile as follows:

(i) If to any Borrower, to such Borrower at (or in care of):

Avon Products, Inc.

601 Midland Avenue

Rye, New York 10580

Telephone: 914-935-2303

Attention: Mr. Shalabh Gupta

Vice President and Treasurer

with a copy to:

Avon Products, Inc.

777 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Telephone: 212-282-5000

Attention: General Counsel;

(ii) If to the Administrative Agent, to it at:

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Telephone: 302-894-6011

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications

provided, that notices to be given pursuant to Articles 2, 3 or 4 hereunder shall be given to the Administrative Agent at;

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Telephone: 302-894-6011

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications;

(iii) If to any Bank, to it at the address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.

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the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications, to the extent provided in paragraph (b) below, shall be effective as provided in said paragraph (b).

Unless otherwise provided herein, any notice which is required to be given in writing or by telephone pursuant to the terms of this Agreement may be given by telecopy or facsimile transmission. Any party from time to time may change its address for notices by notice to the other Banks, the Administrative Agent and API in the manner provided in this subsection.

Each notice delivered in writing to API hereunder shall be deemed delivered to all the Borrowers.

(b) Electronic Communications . Notices and other communications to the Banks hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Bank pursuant to Article 2 if such Bank has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. So long as Citibank or any of its affiliates is the Administrative Agent, materials required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i), (ii), (vi) and (vii) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in an electronic medium in a format reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Banks by e-mail at oploanswebadmin@citigroup.com The Administrative Agent or API may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient, at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i), of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) above, if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient.

(c) Change of Address, etc. Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

(d) Platform .

(i) Subject to subsection (e) below, API agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make the Communications (as defined below) available to the Banks by posting the Communications on Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system (the “ Platform ”).

 

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(ii) The Platform is provided “as is” and “as available.” The Agent Parties (as defined below) do not warrant the adequacy of the Platform and expressly disclaim liability for errors or omissions in the Communications. No warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third-party rights or freedom from viruses or other code defects, is made by any Agent Party in connection with the Communications or the Platform. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “ Agent Parties ”) have any liability to any Borrower, any Bank or any other Person or entity for damages of any kind, including, without limitation, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of communications through the Platform. “ Communications ” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Borrower pursuant to any Credit Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed to the Administrative Agent or any Bank by means of electronic communications pursuant to this Section, including through the Platform.

(e) For purposes of Sections 7.01(a)(i), (ii), (vi) and (vii), API shall be deemed to have effectively delivered any financial statement required to be delivered under Section 7.01(a)(i) or (ii), proxy statement, registration statement, or report on Form 8-K, 10-K or 10-Q to the Administrative Agent and the Banks when such financial statement, proxy statement, registration statement or report is posted on the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Section 11.07. Severability . If any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any law, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 11.08. Parties in Interest . (a)  Successors and Assigns Generally . The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Bank, and no Bank may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (d) of this Section, or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of paragraph (f) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in paragraph (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Banks) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

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portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) to one or more banks or other financial institutions (each, an “ Assignee ”); provided , that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i) Minimum Amounts .

(A) In the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Bank’s Commitment and/or the Loans at the time owing to it or in the case of an assignment to a Bank or an Affiliate of a Bank, no minimum amount need be assigned; and

(B) In any case not described in paragraph (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Bank subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “ Trade Date ” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date) shall not be less than $10,000,000, and increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, API otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

(ii) Proportionate Amounts . Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loan or the Commitment assigned.

(iii) Required Consents . No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by paragraph (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:

(A) The consent of API (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (x) an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment, or (y) such assignment is to a Bank or an Affiliate of a Bank; and

(B) The consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments to a Person that is not a Bank or an Affiliate of such Bank.

(iv) Assignment and Assumption . The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in cash equal to $1,000 (if the Assignee is already a Bank) or $3,500 (otherwise); provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The Assignee, if it is not a Bank, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

 

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(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons . No such assignment shall be made to (A) the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries or (B) to any Defaulting Bank or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Bank hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B).

(vi) No Assignment to Natural Persons . No such assignment shall be made to a natural Person.

(vii) Certain Additional Payments . In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Bank hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Bank, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Bank to the Administrative Agent and each other Bank hereunder (and interest accrued thereon), and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Bank hereunder shall become effective under applicable law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Bank for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.

Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Bank under this Agreement, and the assigning Bank thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Bank shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.04, 4.05, 11.03, 11.05, and 11.10 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided , that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Bank will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Bank’s having been a Defaulting Bank. Any assignment or transfer by a Bank of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Bank of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (d) of this Section. To the extent that an Assignment and Assumption of all or any portion of a Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to any Loan or Commitment assigned pursuant to Section 4.06 or this Section 11.08(b) would, at the time of such assignment, result in increased costs under Sections 3.03(c), 4.04(a) or 4.04(b) from those being charged by the respective assigning Bank prior to such assignment, then the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Borrower, in accordance with and pursuant to the other provisions of this Agreement, shall be obligated to pay any other increased costs of the type described above resulting from changes after the date of the respective Assignment and Assumption).

 

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(c) Register . The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain its office at the address referred to in Section 11.06 a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Banks, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Bank pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “ Register ”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Banks shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Bank hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Bank, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(d) Participations . Any Bank, in the ordinary course of its business and in accordance with applicable law, may at any time grant to one or more banks or other financial institutions (each, a “ Participant ”) participating interests in its Commitment or any or all of its Loans. In the event of any such grant by a Bank of a participating interest to a Participant, whether or not upon notice to either Borrower and the Administrative Agent, such Bank shall remain responsible for the performance of its obligations hereunder and the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Bank in connection with such Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which any Bank may grant such a participating interest shall provide that such Bank shall retain the sole right and responsibility to enforce the obligations of the Borrowers under the Credit Documents, including the right to approve any amendment, modification, supplement or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such participation agreement may provide that such Bank will not agree to any modification, amendment or waiver of this Agreement described in the provisos to Section 11.04 without the consent of the Participant. Each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.03 and 4.04 with respect to its participating interest; provided that (i) subject to clause (ii) of this sentence, all amounts payable to a Bank for the account of a Participant under Sections 4.03 and 4.04 shall be determined as if such Bank had not granted such participation to the Participant and (ii) no Participant shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 4.03 or 4.04 than such Bank would have been entitled to receive with respect to the rights participated, unless (x) such transfer is made with API’s prior written consent or by reason of the provisions of Section 4.04 requiring such Bank to designate a different lending office under certain circumstances or at a time when the circumstances giving rise to such payment did not exist and (y) such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 4.04(e) as though it were a Bank. Each Bank that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the “ Participant Register ”); provided that no Bank shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Loans or other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Bank shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

 

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(e) Federal Reserve Regulations . Notwithstanding any other provision of any Credit Document, no Bank may sell, assign or participate all or any portion of its Commitment or Loans hereunder to any “broker” or “dealer” (as defined in Sections 3(a)(4) and 3(a)(5) of the Exchange Act) or any other Person that is a “creditor” (as defined in Regulation T of the Federal Reserve Board). By executing and delivering this Agreement, each Bank hereby confirms that it is not such a “broker”, “dealer” or “creditor”.

(f) Certain Pledges . Any Bank may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Bank, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Bank from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Bank as a party hereto.

Section 11.09. [ Reserved ].

Section 11.10. Indemnity . The Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent and each of the Banks and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and controlling persons (each such Person, an “ Indemnitee ”) against, and to hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees and expenses, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in any way connected with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties thereto of their respective obligations hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) the use of the proceeds of the Loans or (iii) any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 11.10 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by a Borrower, any of its directors, security holders or creditors (other than in the case where such litigation or proceeding is brought by a Borrower and such Borrower prevails), an Indemnitee or any other person or an Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto. In no event, however, shall any Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including, without limitation, any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). This Section 11.10 shall not apply with respect to Taxes or Excluded Taxes other than any Taxes or Excluded Taxes that represent losses or damages arising from any non-Tax claim.

The provisions of this Section 11.10 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Loans, the reduction or cancellation of the Total Commitment, the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any Note, or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Banks. All amounts due under this Section 11.10 shall be payable in immediately available funds upon written demand therefor.

 

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Section 11.11. Consent to Jurisdiction . Subject to the last sentence of this Section 11.11, any judicial proceeding brought against any party to this Agreement arising out of or relating to any Credit Document shall be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction in the City and County of New York, and, by its execution and delivery of this Agreement or an Additional Borrower Confirmation pursuant to Section 6.04, each Borrower shall be deemed, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to (a) accept, generally and unconditionally, the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts, (b) irrevocably waive any objection they may now or hereafter have as to the venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought in such a court or that such court is an inconvenient forum and (c) consent that service of process upon any of them may be made by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, at their address specified or determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.06 and service so made shall be deemed completed when received. Nothing herein shall affect the right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any Borrower to bring proceedings against any other party in the courts of any other applicable jurisdiction.

Section 11.12. Confidentiality . Each of the Administrative Agent and the Banks agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its affiliates and to its and its affiliates’ respective managers, administrators, trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives, in all cases to the extent such affiliates and such managers, administrators, trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors, and other representatives are involved in the administration of this Agreement (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it or its Affiliates (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any Note or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any Note or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 11.12 and as to which the Borrowers are third party beneficiaries, to (i) any Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective party (or its managers, administrators, trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives) to any swap, derivative or other transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to API and its obligations under this Agreement or payments hereunder, (g) with the written consent of API or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 11.12 or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any of their respective affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than API or any of its Subsidiaries, unless such Information is being made available by a Person not known after reasonable inquiry by the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any of their respective affiliates to be required to maintain the confidentiality of such Information; provided that, in the case of clauses (b) and (c), if the Administrative Agent or any Bank or any of their respective related parties is required in the opinion of the Administrative Agent or such Bank’s counsel, as applicable, to

 

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disclose by law, regulation, governmental or regulatory authority, subpoena, court order or similar legal or regulatory process, any Information, the Administrative Agent or such Bank, as applicable, shall (A) except as limited by applicable law, subpoena, order or other legal or regulatory process, give API written notice of such requirement or request so that API may seek, at its sole cost and expense, an appropriate protective order or other remedy; and (B) except with respect to providing information requested by regulatory authorities, reasonably cooperate with API, at API’s sole cost and expense, to obtain such protective order. Other than with respect to Information requested by regulatory authorities, in the event that such protective order or other remedy is not obtained or API waives its right to seek such order or other remedy, the Administrative Agent or such Bank, as applicable, shall (or shall cause any other Person to whom such request is directed to), without liability under this Agreement, furnish only that portion of the Information which, on the advice of the Administrative Agent or such Bank’s counsel, as applicable, is legally required or so compelled by law or regulation to be disclosed and, provided that the Administrative Agent or such Bank, as applicable, gives API written notice of the Information to be disclosed as far in advance of its disclosure as practicable and use its reasonable efforts to obtain assurances that confidential treatment will be accorded such information.

The foregoing is in addition to and not in limitation of the provisions of any confidentiality agreement between the Administrative Agent or any Bank and the Borrower.

For purposes of this Section, “ Information ” means all information received from API or any of its Subsidiaries relating to API or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, provided that, in the case of information received from API or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential.

Section 11.13. Judgment . To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, the obligation of any Borrower in respect of any sum due from it in Dollars to any Bank or the Administrative Agent hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in any other currency, be discharged only to the extent that on the Domestic Business Day following receipt by such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be), of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency, such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase Dollars with such other currency; if the amount of Dollars so purchased is less than such sum due to such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) in Dollars, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) against such loss, and if the amount of Dollars so purchased exceeds such sum due to any Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) in Dollars, such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) agrees to remit to such Borrower such excess.

Section 11.14. Execution in Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all the counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

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Section 11.15. Patriot Act . Each Bank hereby notifies each Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each borrower, guarantor or grantor (the “Loan Parties”), which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Bank to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the Act.

Section 11.16. No Fiduciary Duty . The Administrative Agent, each Bank and their respective Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this paragraph, the “Banks”), may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Borrowers. Each Borrower agrees that nothing in the Credit Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between the Banks and the Borrowers, their stockholders or their affiliates. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Banks, on the one hand, and the Borrowers, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each of the Banks is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of any Borrower, its management, stockholders, creditors or any other person, (iii) no Bank has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Borrowers with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Bank or any of its affiliates has advised or is currently advising any Borrower on other matters) or any other obligation to the Borrowers except the obligations expressly set forth in the Credit Documents and (iv) each of the Borrowers has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. Each Borrower further acknowledges and agrees that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto. Each Borrower agrees that it will not claim that any Bank has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Borrowers, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

Section 11.17. Waiver of Right to Jury . EACH OF THE BORROWERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH OF THE BANKS WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH THE CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE CREDIT DOCUMENTS.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

  Name:   Shalabh Gupta
  Title:   Vice President and Treasurer
AVON CAPITAL CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

  Name:   Shalabh Gupta
  Title:   Vice President and Treasurer
CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent
By:  

/s/ Carolyn Kee

  Name:   Carolyn Kee
  Title:   Vice President
CITIBANK, N.A.
By:  

/s/ Carolyn Kee

  Name:   Carolyn Kee
  Title:   Vice President
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By:  

/s/ J. Casey Cosgrove

  Name:   J. Casey Cosgrove
  Title:   Director

 

[ Avon Credit Agreement Signature Page ]


BNP PARIBAS
By:  

/s/ Angela Bentley Arnold

  Name: Angela Bentley Arnold
  Title: Managing Director
By:  

/s/ Berangere Allen

  Name: Berangere Allen
  Title: Director
COMPASS BANK
By:  

/s/ Susana Campuzano

  Name: Susana Campuzano
  Title: Senior Vice President
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA
By:  

/s/ Mark Walton

  Name: Mark Walton
  Title: Authorized Signatory
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:  

/s/ Alan Vitulich

  Name: Alan Vitulich
  Title: Director
SOVEREIGN BANK, N.A.
By:  

/s/ Matthew Bartlett

  Name: Matthew Bartlett
  Title: Vice President
LLOYDS TSB BANK PLC
By:  

/s/ Stephen Giacolone

  Name: Stephen Giacolone
  Title: Assistant Vice-President G011
By:  

/s/ Dennis McClellan

  Name: Dennis McClellan
  Title: Assistant Vice-President M040

 

[ Avon Credit Agreement Signature Page ]


BANCO BRADESCO S.A., NEW YORK BRANCH
By:  

/s/ Maisa de Oliveira

  Name: Maisa de Oliveira
 
By:  

/s/ Mauro Lopes

  Name: Mauro Lopes
 
INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A.
By:  

/s/ John Michalisin

  Name: John Michalisin
  Title: First Vice President
By:  

/s/ Glen Binder

  Name: Glen Binder
  Title: Vice President
THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Daniel J. Boote

  Name: Daniel J. Boote
  Title: Senior Vice President
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ David W. Kee

  Name: David W. Kee
  Title: Managing Director
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:  

/s/ Conan Schleicher

  Name: Conan Schleicher
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

[ Avon Credit Agreement Signature Page ]


Schedule 2.01

BANKS AND COMMITMENTS

 

Name of Bank

   Commitment as of the
Closing Date
 

Citibank, N.A.

(The Administrative Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

Bank of America, N.A.

(Syndication Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

BNP Paribas

(Co-Documentation Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

Compass Bank

(Co-Documentation Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

(Co-Documentation Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

HSBC Bank USA, National Association

(Co-Documentation Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

Sovereign Bank, N.A.

(Co-Documentation Agent)

   $ 100,000,000   

Lloyds TSB Bank plc

(Co-Agent)

   $ 65,000,000   

Banco Bradesco S.A., New York Branch

   $ 47,000,000   

Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

   $ 47,000,000   

The Northern Trust Company

   $ 47,000,000   

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

   $ 47,000,000   

U.S. Bank National Association

   $ 47,000,000   

Total

   $ 1,000,000,000   

 

Schedule 2.01-1


Schedule 5.01(e)

CERTAIN LITIGATION

The litigations, lawsuits, claims, investigations, compliance reviews and tax contingencies referenced in API’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

 

Schedule 5.01(e)-1


Schedule 6.04

CERTAIN ADDITIONAL BORROWERS

None

 

Schedule 6.04-1


Schedule 7.02(f)

EXISTING SUBSIDIARY DEBT

Schedule 7.02(f): March 13, 2013 1

 

Avon Cosmetics (Philippines), Inc.

   Philippines [DSB]      75,003,074   

Avon Cosmeticos Ltda.

   Brazil [DSB]      40,816,327   

Avon Products Mfg., Inc.

   Philippines [MFG]      27,050,289   

Avon Operations Polska Sp. z.o.o

   Poland      25,236,593   

Avon Beauty Products India Pvt. Ltd.

   India [DSB]      19,371,252   

Avon Cosmetics (Thailand) Ltd.

   Thailand      15,717,158   

U.K. Direct Selling

   United Kingdom      15,664,793   

Avon Manufacturing (Guangzhou) Ltd.

   China [MFG]      15,505,858   

Avon Cosmetics Manufacturing, S. de R.L., de C.V.

   Mexico [MFG]      15,000,000   

Cosmeticos Avon Sociedad Anonima Comercial E Industrial

   Argentina      13,576,872   

Avon Products (China) Co. Ltd.

   China [DSB]      13,163,797   

Avon Healthcare Products Manufacturing (Guangzhou) Limited

   China [Wellness]      11,388,953   

Cosmeticos Avon S.A.

   Chile      7,979,767 2  

Avon Canada, Inc.

   Canada      4,098,497 2  

Avon Kozmetik Urunleri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi

   Turkey      2,378,185 2  

Avon EMEA Finance Service Center Spolka

   Poland [FSSC]      2,171,217 2  

Avon Cosmeticos, Lda

   Portugal      1,307,019 2  

Avon Cosmetics (Greece) MEPE

   Greece      1,144,356 2  
     

 

 

 
        306,574,006   

 

1) All balances translated at February month end exchange rates
2) Balances as of February 28, 2013

 

Schedule 7.02(f)-1


Exhibit A

Form of Loan Request

[Date]

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications

Re: Loan Request

Dear Sirs:

Reference is made to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as amended, modified, supplemented or extended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the Additional Borrowers, banks and other lenders from time to time parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Credit Agreement.

[NAME OF BORROWER] hereby gives you notice pursuant to Section 2.02(a) of the Credit Agreement that it requests a Loan, and in that connection sets forth below the terms on which such Loan is requested to be made:

 

(A)

   Borrowing Date 1  

 

 

(B)

   Principal Amount 2   $  

 

 

(C)

   Interest Rate Basis   [ABR Loan] [Eurodollar Loan]  

(D)

   Interest Period and the last day thereof 3  

 

 

 

Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BORROWER]
By:  

 

  Title:

 

1  

Must be a Business Day.

2  

Must be equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.

3  

1, 2, 3 or 6 months in the case of Eurodollar Loans. Not applicable to ABR Loans.

 

Exhibit A-1


Exhibit B

Form of Note

 

[Principal Amount]                                  ,             

[NAME OF BORROWER], a [[New York] [Delaware] [jurisdiction of organization] corporation] (the “Borrower”), for value received, promises to pay to the order of [BANK] (the “Bank”), on the Termination Date, the principal sum of [PRINCIPAL AMOUNT IN DOLLARS] or, if less, the aggregate principal amount of the Loans made by the Bank to the Borrower pursuant to that certain Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as amended, modified, supplemented or extended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the Additional Borrowers, banks and other lenders from time to time parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

The Borrower also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of Loans from time to time outstanding from the date hereof until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and, after maturity, until paid, at the rate or rates per annum and on the date or dates specified in the Credit Agreement.

Payments of both principal and interest are to be made in lawful money of the United States of America in same day or immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at such office or offices of the Administrative Agent as may be designated by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

All parties hereto, whether as makers, endorsers, or otherwise, severally waive diligence, presentment, demand, protest and notice of any kind whatsoever. The failure or forbearance by the holder to exercise any of its rights hereunder in any particular instance shall in no event constitute a waiver thereof.

All borrowings evidenced by this Note and all payments and prepayments of the principal hereof and interest hereon and the respective dates thereof shall be endorsed by the holder of this Note on the schedule attached hereto and made a part hereof, or on a continuation thereof which shall be attached hereto and made a part hereof, or shall be recorded by the holder of this Note in its internal records; provided , however , that any failure of the holder of this Note to make such a notation or any error in such notation shall in no manner affect the validity or enforceability of the obligation of the Borrower to make payments of principal and interest in accordance with the terms of this Note and the Credit Agreement.

This Note is one of the Notes referred to in the Credit Agreement, which among other things, contains provisions for the acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain events, for optional prepayment of the principal hereof prior to the maturity thereof and for the amendment or waiver of certain provisions of the Credit Agreement, all upon the terms and conditions therein specified. Terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.

 

Exhibit B-1


THIS NOTE HAS BEEN DELIVERED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK AND SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER, GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

[Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, payment in full of principal and interest on this Note is unconditionally guaranteed by Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation.] 1

 

[NAME OF BORROWER]
By:  

 

  Title:

 

1  

The text in brackets is to be included only in Notes of ACC or an Additional Borrower.

 

Exhibit B-2


     LOANS AND PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS

Amount of Loans Made

   Amount of Principal Repaid    Amount of Unpaid Principal
Balance
     

 

Euro dollar Data Loan

   ABR Loan
Total
   Euro dollar
Notation
Loan  Made

By
   Interest
Paid (if
applicable)
   ABR Loan    Euro dollar
Loan
   ABR Loan
                 

 

Exhibit B-3


Exhibit C

Form of Continuation/Conversion Request

[Date]

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications

Re: Continuation/Conversion Request

Dear Sirs:

Reference is made to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as amended, modified, supplemented or extended from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the Additional Borrowers, banks and other lenders from time to time parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Credit Agreement.

[NAME OF BORROWER] hereby requests pursuant to Section 3.05(a) of the Credit Agreement that on                      ,              :

(1) $        ,000,000 of the presently outstanding principal amount of Loans presently being maintained as [ABR] [Eurodollar] Loans [with an Interest Period ending on                      ,              ],

(2) be [converted into] [continued as],

(3) [Eurodollar Loans having an Interest Period of [one][two][three][six] months] [ABR Loans].

 

Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BORROWER]
By:  

 

  Title:

 

Exhibit C-1


Exhibit D-1

Form of Additional Borrower [Designation] [Termination]

[Date]

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications

Re: Additional Borrower Designation

Dear Sirs:

Reference is made to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the Additional Borrowers, banks and other lenders from time to time parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

1. [Please be advised that the following Subsidiary is hereby designated as an Additional Borrower and, subject to Section 6.04 of the Credit Agreement, such Subsidiary will be authorized to use the credit facilities provided for under the Credit Agreement:] [Please be advised that the designation of the following Subsidiary as an Additional Borrower is terminated effective on the date referred to in paragraph 2 below:]

[Insert Name and

Address of Additional

Borrower]

2. The effective date of this Additional Borrower [Designation] [Termination] will be                   ,              .

 

Exhibit D-1


Very truly yours,
AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

  Title:
[NAME OF ADDITIONAL BORROWER] 1
By:  

 

  Title:

 

Accepted and Acknowledged:
CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent
By:  

 

  Title:

 

1  

Additional Borrower signature necessary only in the case of termination of designation.

 

Exhibit D-1-2


Exhibit D-2

Form of Additional Borrower Confirmation

[Date]

Citibank, N.A.

Building #3

1615 Brett Road

New Castle, Delaware 19720

Attention: Bank Loan Syndications

Re: Additional Borrower Confirmation

Dear Sirs:

Reference is made to the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2013 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Avon Products, Inc., Avon Capital Corporation, the Additional Borrowers, banks and other lenders from time to time parties thereto and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

The undersigned (the “New Borrower”) (1) also refers to the Additional Borrower Designation, effective                      ,              (the “Designation Effective Date”), in which the undersigned has been designated an Additional Borrower and (2) hereby confirms that, by its execution hereof, the undersigned acknowledges that it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, confirms that the representations and warranties contained in Section 5.01 of the Credit Agreement (except the representations and warranties contained in Section 5.01(d)(ii) or 5.01(e)(ii) and any other representation or warranty that expressly relates to a date certain) are true and correct insofar as they relate to the undersigned as of the Designation Effective Date hereof, the conditions specified in Section 6.02 have been satisfied insofar as relate to the undersigned, and agrees that, from and after the Designation Effective Date, subject to Section 6.04 of the Credit Agreement, it shall be a party to the Credit Agreement and shall be bound, as a “Borrower” and an “Additional Borrower”, by all of the provisions thereof.

The New Borrower hereby agrees that service of process in any action or proceeding brought in any New York State court or in federal court may be made upon API at its offices at                      , Attention:                      (the “ Process Agent” ) and the New Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Process Agent to give any notice of any such service of process, and agrees that the failure of the Process Agent to give any notice of any such service shall not impair or affect the validity of such service or of any judgment rendered in any action or proceeding based thereon.

API hereby accepts such appointment as Process Agent and agrees with you that (i) API will maintain an office in New York, New York through the Termination Date and will give the Administrative Agent prompt notice of any change of address of API, (ii) API will perform its duties as Process Agent to receive on behalf of the New Borrower and its property

 

Exhibit D-2-1


service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process which may be served in any action or proceeding in any New York State or federal court sitting in New York City arising out of or relating to the Credit Agreement and (iii) API will forward forthwith to the New Borrower at its address at                      or, if different, its then current address, copies of any summons, complaint and other process which API received in connection with its appointment as Process Agent.

This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

 

Very truly yours,
[NAME OF ADDITIONAL BORROWER]
By:  

 

  Title:
AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By:  

 

  Title:

 

Exhibit D-2


Exhibit E

Assignment and Assumption

This Assignment and Assumption (the “ Assignment and Assumption ”) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [the][each] 1 Assignor identified in item 1 below ([the][each, an] “ Assignor ”) and [the][each] 2 Assignee identified in item 2 below ([the][each, an] “ Assignee ”). [It is understood and agreed that the rights and obligations of [the Assignors][the Assignees] 3 hereunder are several and not joint.] 4 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as amended, the “ Credit Agreement ”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by [the][each] Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.

For an agreed consideration, [the][each] Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to [the Assignee][the respective Assignees], and [the][each] Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from [the Assignor][the respective Assignors], subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of [the Assignor’s][the respective Assignors’] rights and obligations in [its capacity as a Bank][their respective capacities as Banks] under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of [the Assignor][the respective Assignors] under the respective facilities identified below (including without limitation any letters of credit, guarantees, and swingline loans included in such facilities), and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of [the Assignor (in its capacity as a Bank)][the respective Assignors (in their respective capacities as Banks)] against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by [the][any] Assignor to [the][any] Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as [the][an] “ Assigned Interest ”). Each such sale and assignment is without recourse to [the][any] Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by [the][any] Assignor.

 

1  

For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignor(s), if the assignment is from a single Assignor, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is from multiple Assignors, choose the second bracketed language.

2  

For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignee(s), if the assignment is to a single Assignee, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is to multiple Assignees, choose the second bracketed language.

3  

Select as appropriate.

4  

Include bracketed language if there are either multiple Assignors or multiple Assignees.


1.    Assignor[s]:  

 

  
    

 

  
   [Assignor [is] [is not] a Defaulting Bank]
2.    Assignee[s]:  

 

  
    

 

  
   [for each Assignee, indicate [Affiliate] of [ identify Bank ]
3.    Borrower(s):  

 

  
4.    Administrative Agent:   Citibank, N.A., as the administrative agent under the Credit Agreement
5.    Credit Agreement:   The $1,000,000,000 Credit Agreement dated as of March 13, 2013 among Avon Products, Inc., a New York corporation, Avon Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation, each of the Additional Borrowers (as defined therein) from time to time designated as such, each of the Banks parties thereto, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the other agents parties thereto.
6.    Assigned Interest[s]:     

 

Assignor[s] 5

   Assignee[s] 6    Aggregate Amount of
Commitment/Loans
for all Banks 7
     Amount of
Commitment/Loans
Assigned 3
     Percentage
Assigned of
Commitment/

Loans 8
    CUSIP
Number
      $                    $                            
      $                    $                            
      $                    $                            

 

[7.

   Trade Date:                                                ] 9   

[Page break]

 

5

List each Assignor, as appropriate.

6

List each Assignee, as appropriate.

7

Amount to be adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date.

8

Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Banks thereunder.

9

To be completed if the Assignor(s) and the Assignee(s) intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date.

 

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Effective Date:                   , 20      [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]

The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:

 

ASSIGNOR[S] 10
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
By:  

 

  Title:
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]
By:  

 

  Title:
ASSIGNEE[S] 11
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By:  

 

  Title:
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
By:  

 

  Title:

 

[Consented to and] 12 Accepted:
CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent
By:  

 

  Title:
[Consented to:] 13

 

10

Add additional signature blocks as needed.

11

Add additional signature blocks as needed.

12

To be added only if the consent of the Administrative Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.

 

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[NAME OF RELEVANT PARTY]
By:  

 

  Title:

 

13  

To be added only if the consent of the Borrower and/or other parties is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.

 

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ANNEX 1

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

1. Representations and Warranties .

1.1 Assignor[s] . [The][Each] Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, (ii) [the][such] Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and (iv) it is [not] a Defaulting Bank; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Credit Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the Borrowers, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Credit Document, or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Credit Document.

1.2. Assignee[s] . [The][Each] Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Bank under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.08(b)(iii), (v) and (vi) of the Credit Agreement (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.08(b)(iii) of the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Bank thereunder and, to the extent of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Bank thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by the Assigned Interest and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire the Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 7.01(a) thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Bank and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, and (vii) attached to the Assignment and Assumption is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by [the][such] Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, [the][any] Assignor or any other Bank, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Credit Documents are required to be performed by it as a Bank.

 

Exhibit E-1


2. Payments . From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of [the][each] Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to [the][the relevant] Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to [the][the relevant] Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments of interest, fees or other amounts paid or payable in kind from and after the Effective Date to [the][the relevant] Assignee.

3. General Provisions . This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

 

Exhibit E-2

Exhibit 10.2

EXECUTION VERSION

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE

TERM LOAN AGREEMENT

Dated as of March 12, 2013

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE TERM LOAN AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) among AVON PRODUCTS, INC. (“ API ” or the “ Borrower ”), the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders parties to the Credit Agreement referred to below (collectively, the “ Banks ”) and CITIBANK, N.A., as administrative agent (the “ Administrative Agent ”) for the Banks.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:

(1) The Borrower, the Banks and the Administrative Agent have entered into a Term Loan Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2012, among the Borrower and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the various banks from time to time party thereto (as amended from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Amendment have the same meanings as specified in the Credit Agreement.

(2) The Borrower and the Required Banks have agreed to amend the Credit Agreement as hereinafter set forth.

SECTION 1. Amendments to Credit Agreement

The Credit Agreement is, effective as of the date hereof and subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2, hereby amended as follows:

(a) Section 1.01(b) is amended by replacing the text “and” with “,” where it appears immediately before the text “7.02(c)” and by inserting the text “and 7.02(e)” immediately after the text “7.02(d)”.

(b) The following definitions in Section 1.01(c) are amended in full to read as follows:

Consolidated EBIT ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and without duplication: (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) the provision for Federal, State, local and foreign income taxes payable by API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) extraordinary and other non-cash losses and expenses ((w) other than in respect of provision for doubtful accounts or provision for obsolescence, (x) other than in respect of depreciation and amortization expense, (y) excluding any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual


or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, and (z) excluding any amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (iv) one-time fees, cash charges and other cash expenses, premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any asset sale, any issuance of equity interests or any issuance, incurrence or repayment of indebtedness and/or any refinancing transaction or modification or amendment of any debt instrument (including any transaction undertaken but not completed) and (v) cash charges and other cash expenses (including as cash charges and expenses any such non-cash items that represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in a future period), premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any restructuring or relating to any legal or regulatory action, settlement, judgment or ruling, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000 for the period from October 1, 2012 until the Maturity Date, provided , that restructuring charges incurred after December 31, 2014 shall not be included in this clause (v), and minus (b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for potential cash item in any prior period or is expected to be a cash item in any future period).

Consolidated EBITDA ” means, for any period, for API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and without duplication: (i) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (ii) the provision for Federal, State, local and foreign income taxes of API and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense, (iv) extraordinary and other non-cash losses and expenses ((x) other than in respect of provision for doubtful accounts or provision for obsolescence, (y) excluding any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, and (z) excluding any amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (v) one-time fees, cash charges and other cash expenses, premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any asset sale, any issuance of equity interests or any issuance, incurrence or repayment of indebtedness and/or any refinancing transaction or modification or amendment of any debt instrument (including any transaction undertaken but not completed) and (vi) cash charges and other cash expenses (including as cash charges and expenses any such non-cash items that represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in a future period), premiums or penalties incurred in connection with any restructuring or relating to any legal or regulatory action, settlement, judgment or ruling in an aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000 for the period from the October 1, 2012 until the Maturity Date, provided , that restructuring charges incurred after December 31, 2014 shall not be included in this clause (vi), and minus (b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any such non-cash item to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for potential cash item in any prior period or is expected to be a cash item in any future period).

Existing Debt ” shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.02(e).

First Amendment ” shall mean Amendment No. 1 to this Agreement, dated as of March 12, 2013.


First Amendment Effective Date ” shall mean the Amendment Effective Date under, and as defined in, the First Amendment.

Interest Coverage Ratio ” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBIT to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense (excluding, to the extent included in interest expense, expenses incurred in connection with any premiums, consent fees, make-whole payments or other payments made to the holders of any Debt issued by API under (a) the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of November 23, 2010 or (b) the 5.625% Notes due March 1, 2014 for purposes of retiring or amending the terms of such Debt), in each case for the period of four fiscal quarters ending on such date.

(c) Section 2.06(b) is amended by replacing the text “the incurrence” appearing therein with the text “each incurrence”.

(d) Section 2.06 is amended by adding the following Section 2.06(c) at the end thereof:

“(c) Bank Opt-Out . With respect to any prepayment of Loans pursuant to Section 2.06(a) or (b), but only if API at its option and in its sole discretion determines to invoke the provisions of this clause (c) with respect to such prepayment (which it may do by written notice to the Administrative Agent), then any Bank, at its option, may elect not to accept such prepayment. Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of any such prepayment of Loans, the Administrative Agent shall give written notice to the Banks of the amount available to prepay the Loans (the “ Prepayment Amount ”) and the date on which such prepayment shall be made (the “ Opt-Out Prepayment Date ”), which date shall be the Domestic Business Day after the date of such receipt. Any Bank declining such prepayment (a “ Declining Bank ”) shall give written notice to the Administrative Agent by 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the Opt-Out Prepayment Date. On the Opt-Out Prepayment Date, (i) an amount equal to that portion of the Prepayment Amount accepted by the Banks other than the Declining Banks (such Banks being the “ Accepting Banks ”) to prepay Loans owing to such Accepting Banks shall be applied ratably to prepay Loans owing to such Accepting Banks, (ii) any amounts that would otherwise have been applied to prepay Loans owing to Declining Banks shall next be applied ratably to prepay Loans owing to the Accepting Banks and (iii) to the extent any amounts remain after the applications required by preceding clauses (i) and (ii), such excess amount shall be retained by the Borrower (and if already paid by it to the Administrative Agent shall be promptly returned by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower).”

(e) Section 7.01(a)(v) is amended by replacing the text “five days” appearing therein with the text “five Domestic Business Days”.

(f) Section 7.01(a)(viii) is amended by inserting the text “in any such case” immediately after the text “Plan or Benefit Arrangement which” where it appears therein.

(g) Section 7.01(c) is amended by inserting the text “(x)” immediately before the text “the Borrower or any Subsidiary” where it appears therein and by inserting the following text at the end thereof “or (y) any such failures, except to the corporate


existence of the Borrower, which do not have a material adverse effect on the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole”.

(h) Section 7.01(d) is amended by replacing the text “(i) where the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii)” appearing therein with the text “(i) as publicly disclosed by the Borrower prior to the Effective Date, (ii) where the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (iii)”.

(i) Section 7.02(b)(iv) is amended by inserting the text “(x)” immediately before the text “existing on any asset” where it appears therein and by inserting the following text at the end thereof “(y) arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement or refunding or any Debt secured by any such Lien permitted by the immediately preceding sub-clause (x), provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets”.

(j) Section 7.02(d) is amended by replacing the grid at the end thereof with the following:

 

Fiscal Quarter Ended

   Leverage Ratio  

March 31, 2013

     4.25:1.0   

June 30, 2013

     4.00:1.0   

September 30, 2013

     4.00:1.0   

December 31, 2013

     3.75:1.0   

March 31, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

June 30, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

September 30, 2014

     3.75:1.0   

December 31, 2014 and thereafter

     3.50:1.0   

(k) Section 7.02 is amended by adding the following Section 7.02(e) at the end thereof:

“(e) Subsidiary Debt . The Borrower will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to create or suffer to exist, any Debt other than:

(i) Debt owing to API or any other Subsidiary;

(ii) existing Debt outstanding on the Effective Date, and listed on Schedule 7.02(e) (the “ Existing Debt ”), and any Debt extending the maturity of, or replacing, refunding, renewing or refinancing, in whole or in part, the Existing Debt; provided that the principal amount of such Existing Debt shall not be increased above the principal amount thereof outstanding immediately prior to such extension, replacement, refunding, renewal or refinancing (except by an amount equal to any existing commitments utilized thereunder) as a result of or in connection with such extension, replacement, refunding, renewal or refinancing;


(iii) guarantees by any Subsidiary in respect of Debt of any other Subsidiary otherwise permitted under this Section 7.02(e);

(iv) Debt arising under cash management agreements or from customary cash management services, netting arrangements, automated clearing house transfers, or the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, so long as such Debt is extinguished within ten (10) Domestic Business Days of its incurrence;

(v) Debt representing deferred compensation or similar obligations to employees of incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(vi) Debt in respect of (i) performance bonds, surety bonds, appeal bonds or customs bonds required in the ordinary course of business or in connection with the enforcement of rights or claims of any Subsidiary or in connection with judgments that do not result in an Event of Default and (ii) letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, warehouse receipts or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Debt with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;

(vii) Debt of ACC so long as its primary activities are of the same general types as those conducted by ACC on the First Amendment Effective Date; and

(viii) Debt in addition to that permitted above, so long as the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof (but as measured only on the date of each new incurrence of Debt under this clause (viii)) at no time exceeds $500,000,000.

For purposes of determining compliance with this clause (e), in the event that an item of proposed Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the categories, or is entitled to be incurred or outstanding pursuant to more than one clause or sub-clause of this clause (e), API shall be permitted to classify such item of Debt on the date of its incurrence, or later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Debt, in any manner that complies with this clause (e). Any amount specified in this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined in good faith by the Borrower based on the most recent available exchange rates published in the Wall Street Journal or other similar publication at the close of business on the Domestic Business Day immediately preceding any date of determination thereof; provided that to the extent that the principal amount of Debt measured against any basket, covenant, limitation or other test equals not more than 110% of such basket, covenant, limitation or other test solely as a result of fluctuations in applicable currency exchange rates, such basket will not be deemed to have been exceeded solely as a result of such fluctuations in currency exchange rates.”.

(l) A new Schedule 7.02(e) is added therein, which shall read as attached hereto as Annex A.


SECTION 2. Conditions of Effectiveness

This Amendment shall become effective as of the date first above written (the “ Amendment Effective Date ”) when, and only when, each of the following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied, or waived in writing by the Required Banks:

(a) Agreements . The Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment, duly executed and delivered by the Required Banks and the Borrower (or in the case of any such party as to which an executed counterpart shall not have been received, the Administrative Agent shall have received, in form satisfactory to it, telecopy or other written confirmation from such party of its execution of a counterpart of this Amendment).

(b) Evidence of Incumbency . The Administrative Agent shall have received the following:

(i) a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of API, dated the Amendment Effective Date, and certifying as to the incumbency and signature of each officer executing this Amendment or any document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of the API; and

(ii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of API as to the incumbency and signature of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of API executing the certificate described in clause (i) above.

SECTION 3. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower

The Borrower represents and warrants as follows:

(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in Article 5 of the Credit Agreement (other than the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.01(d)(ii) and 5.01(e)(ii) or any other representations and warranties that expressly relate to a date certain) are true and correct with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on the date hereof.

(b) No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(c) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Amendment are within the corporate powers of the Borrower and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Borrower, require no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official and do not contravene in any material respect, or constitute a material default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or similar constitutive instruments) of the Borrower or of any agreement, judgment, injunction, order, decree or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or result in the creation or imposition of any material Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary.


(d) This Amendment constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and to general equity principles, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

SECTION 4. Reference to and Effect on the Credit Agreement and the Notes .

(a) On and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the Notes to “the Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.

(b) The Credit Agreement and the Notes, as specifically amended by this Amendment, are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed.

(c) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Bank or the Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 5. Costs and Expenses

The Borrower agrees to pay promptly all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and administration, modification and amendment of this Amendment and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel for the Administrative Agent) in accordance with the terms of Section 10.03 of the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 6. Execution in Counterparts

This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telecopier or other electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment.

SECTION 7. Governing Law

This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

AVON PRODUCTS, INC.
By  

/s/ Shalabh Gupta

Name:   Shalabh Gupta
Title:   Vice President and Treasurer

CITIBANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent and as a Bank

By  

/s/ Carolyn Kee

Name:   Carolyn Kee
Title:   Vice President
SOVEREIGN BANK, N.A.
By  

/s/ William Maag

Name:   William Maag
Title:   Senior Vice President
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA
By  

/s/ Michelle Latzoni

Name:   Michelle Latzoni
Title:   Authorized Signatory
COMPASS BANK
By  

/s/ Susana Campuzano

Name:   Susana Campuzano
Title:   Senior Vice President
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By  

/s/ Alan Vitulich

Name:   Alan Vitulich
Title:   Director


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By  

/s/ J. Case Cosgrove

Name:   J. Case Cosgrove
Title:   Director
THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY
By  

/s/ Daniel J. Boote

Name:   Daniel J. Boote
Title:   Senior Vice President
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By  

/s/ Conan Schleicher

Name:   Conan Schleicher
Title:   Senior Vice President

BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD.,

NEW YORK BRANCH

By  

/s/ Shelley He

Name:   Shelley He
Title:   Deputy General Manager
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By  

/s/ Michael A. Richards

Name:   Michael A. Richards
Title:   Senior Vice President


Annex A

Schedule 7.02(e): March 12, 2013 1

 

Avon Cosmetics (Philippines), Inc.

   Philippines [DSB]      75,003,074   

Avon Cosmeticos Ltda.

   Brazil [DSB]      40,816,327   

Avon Products Mfg., Inc.

   Philippines [MFG]      27,050,289   

Avon Operations Polska Sp. z.o.o

   Poland      25,236,593   

Avon Beauty Products India Pvt. Ltd.

   India [DSB]      19,371,252   

Avon Cosmetics (Thailand) Ltd.

   Thailand      15,717,158   

U.K. Direct Selling

   United Kingdom      15,664,793   

Avon Manufacturing (Guangzhou) Ltd.

   China [MFG]      15,505,858   

Avon Cosmetics Manufacturing, S. de R.L., de C.V.

   Mexico [MFG]      15,000,000   

Cosmeticos Avon Sociedad Anonima Comercial E Industrial

   Argentina      13,576,872   

Avon Products (China) Co. Ltd.

   China [DSB]      13,163,797   

Avon Healthcare Products Manufacturing (Guangzhou) Limited

   China [Wellness]      11,388,953   

Cosmeticos Avon S.A.

   Chile      7,979,767  2  

Avon Canada, Inc.

   Canada      4,098,497  2  

Avon Kozmetik Urunleri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi

   Turkey      2,378,185  2  

Avon EMEA Finance Service Center Spolka

   Poland [FSSC]      2,171,217  2  

Avon Cosmeticos, Lda

   Portugal      1,307,019  2  

Avon Cosmetics (Greece) MEPE

   Greece      1,144,356  2  
     

 

 

 
        306,574,006   

 

1) All balances translated at February month end exchange rates
2) Balances as of February 28, 2013