UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 5, 2014 (December 5, 2014)

 

 

TENNECO INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-12387   76-0515284

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

500 NORTH FIELD DRIVE, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS   60045
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (847) 482-5000

 

 

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))

 

 

 


ITEM 1.01 ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.

On December 5, 2014, Tenneco Inc. (“Tenneco”) completed its previously announced public offering of $225 million 5  3 8 % senior notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”).

Further, on December 5, 2014, Tenneco announced that it had received the requisite tenders and consents from holders of its outstanding $225 million 7  3 4 % senior notes due 2018 (the “2018 Notes”) to amend the indenture governing such notes in connection with its previously announced cash tender offer for any and all of its outstanding $225 million 2018 Notes. Holders of approximately $181 million aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 2018 Notes (approximately 80.34%) validly tendered their 2018 Notes as of the expiration of the consent solicitation and thus validly delivered the consents necessary for the proposed amendments to the indenture governing the 2018 Notes. On December 5, 2014, Tenneco accepted for purchase all such 2018 Notes validly tendered as of the expiration of the consent solicitation and entered into a supplemental indenture effecting the proposed amendments, as described below.

Indenture

The 2024 Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014 (the “Base Indenture”), among Tenneco, each of Tenneco’s material domestic wholly-owned subsidiaries that also guarantee Tenneco’s senior credit facility (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). Copies of the Base Indenture and Supplemental Indenture are filed as Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.

The 2024 Notes are general senior obligations of Tenneco and will mature on December 15, 2024 with interest payable semi-annually on June 15 and December 15, beginning on June 15, 2015. The 2024 Notes are guaranteed by each of the Subsidiary Guarantors. These subsidiary guarantees are general senior obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors. The 2024 Notes and subsidiary guarantees are not secured by any assets of Tenneco or the Subsidiary Guarantors.

Tenneco may redeem some or all of the 2024 Notes in whole at any time or in part from time to time on or after December 15, 2019 at specified redemption prices. It also may redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Notes using the proceeds of certain equity offerings completed on or before December 15, 2017. Tenneco may also redeem the 2024 Notes, in whole or in part, at any time prior to December 15, 2019 at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus a specified premium. Additionally, if Tenneco experiences specific kinds of changes of control, Tenneco will be required to make an offer to purchase the 2024 Notes at 101 percent of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of purchase.

The Indenture provides for certain limitations on Tenneco’s ability and the ability of certain of Tenneco’s subsidiaries to (i) incur additional indebtedness or contingent obligations, (ii) pay dividends or make distributions to Tenneco’s stockholders, (iii) purchase or redeem Tenneco’s equity interests, (iv) make investments, (v) create liens, (vi) enter into transactions with Tenneco’s affiliates, (vii) sell assets and (viii) merge or consolidate with, or dispose of substantially all of Tenneco’s assets to, other companies. During any period that the credit rating on the 2024 Notes, as determined by either Moody’s Investors Service or Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services, equals or exceeds Baa3 and BBB-, respectively, and no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing, Tenneco will not be subject to most of the restrictive covenants and corresponding events of default contained in the Indenture. Any restrictive covenants or corresponding events of default that cease to apply as a result of achieving these ratings will be restored if at least one of the credit ratings on the 2024 Notes does not remain at or above these thresholds.


First Supplemental Indenture

On December 5, 2014, Tenneco, the Subsidiary Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, entered into the First Supplemental Indenture (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) amending and supplementing the indenture governing the 2018 Notes. The First Supplemental Indenture, among other things, removes substantially all of the restrictive covenants contained in the indenture, eliminates certain events of default contained therein, reduces the minimum notice period required to effect a call for redemption from 30 to 5 days and modifies certain other provisions thereof. A copy of the First Supplemental Indenture is filed as Exhibit 4.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

The descriptions and provisions of the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture described above are summaries only, are not necessarily complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full and complete terms contained in the Base Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, copies of which are attached as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.

This filing does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which it would be unlawful.

ITEM 2.03 CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT.

The information under Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.

 

ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS.

On December 5, 2014, Tenneco issued a press release announcing that it had received the requisite tenders and consents from holders of its outstanding $225 million 2018 Notes to amend the indenture governing such notes. A copy of this press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Exhibits are filed herewith in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-200663) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 1, 2014 relating to $225,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024 of Tenneco offered pursuant to the prospectus supplement dated December 2, 2014.

 

ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated December 2, 2014, among Tenneco Inc., the guarantors named therein, and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representative of the underwriters named therein
  4.1    Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco Inc., the guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee
  4.2    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco Inc., the guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, relating to the 2024 Notes
  4.3    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco Inc., the guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, relating to the 2018 Notes
  5.1    Opinion of Mayer Brown LLP
23.1    Consent of Mayer Brown LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
99.1    Press release dated December 5, 2014


SIGNATURES

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.

 

    TENNECO INC.
Date: December 5, 2014     By:  

/s/ James D. Harrington

      James D. Harrington
      Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

TENNECO INC.

5  3 8 % Senior Notes Due 2024

Underwriting Agreement

December 2, 2014

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

As Representative of

the several Underwriters listed in

Schedule 1 to the Underwriting

Agreement referred to below

c/o Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

550 South Tryon Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Tenneco Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes to issue and sell, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “ Underwriters ”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “ Representative ”), $225,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024 (the “ Notes ”). The Notes will be guaranteed (the “Guarantees”), jointly and severally, on a senior unsecured basis by each of the guarantors listed on Schedule 2 hereto (the “ Guarantors ”). The Notes and the Guarantees are collectively referred to as the “Securities”.

The Securities will be issued pursuant to the terms, and subject to the conditions, set forth in the indenture to be dated as of December 5, 2014 (the “ Base Indenture ”), by and among the Company, the Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”). Certain terms of the Securities will be established pursuant to a supplemental indenture to the Base Indenture, to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined herein) (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee.

In connection with the issuance of the Securities, the Company commenced a cash tender offer and consent solicitation (the “ Tender Offer ”) for any and all of the Company’s outstanding 7  3 4 % Senior Notes due 2018 (the “ Existing Notes ”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in that certain Offer to Purchase dated as of November 20, 2014 (the “ Offer to Purchase ”), including all information incorporated by reference therein and exhibits, appendices and attachments thereto, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. A portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities will be used to fund the Tender Offer and pay related fees and expenses.

The Company hereby confirms its agreement with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Securities, as follows:

1. Registration Statement . The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Securities Act ”), a registration statement (File No. 333-200663), including a prospectus (“ Base Prospectus ”) to be used in connection with the public offering and sale from time to time of the debt securities of the Company. Such registration


statement, as amended as of the date hereof, including the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its effectiveness is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement”; any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus that describes the Securities and the offering thereof and is used prior to the filing of the Prospectus is called, together with the Base Prospectus, a “Preliminary Prospectus”; and the term “Prospectus” shall mean the final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, together with the Base Prospectus, that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act after the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto. Any reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be and any reference to “amend”, “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Exchange Act ”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.

The term “Pricing Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Preliminary Prospectus dated December 2, 2014, (ii) the Final Term Sheet (as defined herein), (iii) any other issuer free writing prospectuses as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (each, an “ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ”), if any, identified on Schedule 4 hereto and (iv) any other free writing prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Pricing Disclosure Package.

“Applicable Time” means 3:50 P.M., New York City time, on December 2, 2014.

2. Purchase, Sale and Delivery of the Securities by the Underwriters .

(a) The Company agrees to issue and sell the Securities to the several Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and each Underwriter, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price per Security of 98.50% of the aggregate principal amount thereof (the “ Purchase Price ”), the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule 1 hereto.

(b) As soon after the effectiveness of this Agreement as in the judgment of the Representative is advisable, the Underwriters propose to offer their respective portions of the Securities for sale to the public on the terms set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(c) Payment for the Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company to the Representative and delivery thereof shall be made at the offices of Cahill Gordon & Reindel llp, 80 Pine Street, New York, New York 10005 at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on December 5, 2014 or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representative and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment for the Securities are referred to herein as the “Closing Date”.

The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Representative for the accounts of the several Underwriters, the Notes (guaranteed by the Guarantors) that the Underwriters have agreed to purchase on the Closing Date, against the irrevocable release of a wire transfer of immediately available funds for the amount of the purchase price therefor. Delivery of the Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representative shall otherwise instruct. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified in this Agreement is a further condition to the obligations of the Underwriters. The Company will not be obligated to deliver any of the Securities except upon payment for all the Securities to be purchased as provided herein.

 

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(d) It is understood that the Representative has been authorized, for its 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 Securities the Underwriters have agreed to purchase. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (“ Wells Fargo ”), individually and not as the Representative of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment for any Securities to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds shall not have been received by the Representative 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) The Company and each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters are acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company and each Guarantor with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company, the Guarantor or any other person. Additionally, neither the Representative nor any other Underwriter is advising the Company, the Guarantor or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company and each Guarantor shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company and each Guarantor with respect thereto. Any review by the Underwriters of the Company, the Guarantors, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and shall not be on behalf of the Company or the Guarantors.

3. Representations and Warranties of the Company . The Company and the Guarantors each hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to each Underwriter that:

(a) Preliminary Prospectus . No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus included in the Pricing Disclosure Package, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and no Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(b) Pricing Disclosure Package . The Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time did not, and as of the Closing Date, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in such Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

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(c) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus . Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the offering of Securities under this Agreement or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representative as described in the next sentence, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any prospectus or prospectus supplement that is or becomes part of the Registration Statement. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any prospectus or prospectus supplement that is or becomes part of the Registration Statement, the Company will promptly notify the Representative and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict. Any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus not identified on Schedule 4 , when taken together with the Pricing Disclosure Package, did not, and at the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(d) The 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 Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus) and (iii) at any other time specified in the Securities Act for determining whether the Company is a “well known seasoned issuer” in connection with the offering of the Securities, the Company was and is a “well known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

(e) The Company is not an Ineligible Issuer. (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement and (ii) as of the date of the Applicable Time, the Company is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act).

(f) Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, that automatically became effective not more than three years prior to the Applicable Time. The Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Securities Act objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form and the Company has not otherwise ceased to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration form. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Securities has been initiated or threatened by the Commission; as of the effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the

 

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Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “ Trust Indenture Act ”) and (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

(g) Incorporated Documents. The documents included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Pricing Disclosure Package, when such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(h) Financial Statements. The historical financial statements and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, present fairly the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such historical financial statements and supporting schedules comply as to form with the applicable accounting requirements of Regulation S-X and have been prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby (subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to all normal, recurring year-end adjustments); and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus relating to the Company and its subsidiaries has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and presents fairly the information shown thereby. No other financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present the information called for in all material respects and have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(i) No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), (i) there has not been any material decrease in the authorized or issued and outstanding capital stock or any material increase in long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development that could reasonably be expected to involve a prospective material adverse change, in the business, properties, financial position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) except in the ordinary course of business, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case as to matters otherwise disclosed or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(j) Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority (corporate and other) necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, financial position, results of operations or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company and the Guarantors of their obligations under the Securities and the Guarantees (a “ Material Adverse Effect ”). The subsidiaries listed in Schedule 3 to this Agreement are the only significant subsidiaries of the Company.

(k) Capitalization. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 135,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 61,068,245 shares were issued and outstanding as of October 31, 2014 and (ii) 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.01 per share, no shares of which were outstanding as of October 31, 2014. Except in the case of any foreign subsidiary, for directors’ qualifying shares and equity interests held by any other party to a joint venture or similar arrangement governing such foreign subsidiary, all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party, except as or may be created by (i) the Senior Debt Security Documents, and (ii) Permitted Liens and other Liens permitted under the Indenture (as each such term shall be defined in the Indenture).

“Senior Debt Security Documents” means (i) the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 22, 2012, among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the other agents and lenders party thereto (as may be further amended from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”) and (ii) each of the collateral agreements, security agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust or deeds to secure debt executed by the Company pursuant to the Credit Agreement.

(l) Due Authorization. To the extent it is or will be a party thereto, each of the Company and the Guarantors either has, will have, as of the Closing Date, or had, at the time of execution and delivery, as the case may be, all requisite corporate right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture (including the Guarantees set forth therein) and the Notes (collectively, the “ Transaction Documents ”), and to perform its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all corporate action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and each Guarantor (to the extent it is or will be a party thereto) and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, by each of them has been duly and validly taken (except, in the case of Transaction Documents to be entered into after the date hereof, for approval of the final form thereof by the officer or officers of the Company or the Guarantors executing the same, such approval to be evidenced by such officer’s or officers’ signature thereon)

(m) Underwriting Agreement . This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and each of the Guarantors.

 

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(n) The Indenture . As of the Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Company and each of the Guarantors and, assuming it has been duly executed and delivered by the Trustee, will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and each of the Guarantors enforceable against the Company and each of the Guarantors in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law (collectively, the “ Enforceability Exceptions ”); on the Closing Date, the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission applicable to an indenture that is qualified thereunder.

(o) The Notes and Guarantee. On the Closing Date, the Notes will have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture; and on the Closing Date, the Guarantees will have been duly authorized by each of the Guarantors and, when the Notes have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be valid and legally binding obligations of each of the Guarantors, enforceable against each of the Guarantors in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(p) Conformance of Description of Notes . On the Closing Date, the Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(q) No Violation or Default . Neither the Company nor any of its 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, in the due performance or observance by them of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority applicable to them, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance by the Company and each of the Guarantors of each of the Transaction Documents to which each is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the Guarantees) and compliance by the Company and each of the Guarantors with the terms thereof and the consummation by them of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents did not and will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) subject to obtaining the consents set forth in clause (i) of Section 3(t), below, result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority applicable to them, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation, default, lien, charge or encumbrance that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(s) No Consents Required . No consent, approval, authorization, filing, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is or was (at the time thereof) required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company and each of the Guarantors of each of the Transaction Documents to which each is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the Guarantees) and compliance by the Company and each of the Guarantors with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications (i) as may be required under applicable state securities laws or blue sky laws in connection with the purchase and resale of the Securities by the Underwriters or (ii) the failure to obtain which would not have a Material Adverse Effect or materially adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(t) Legal Proceedings . Except as to matters described or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory actions, suits or proceedings pending, and to the Company’s and Guarantors’ best knowledge there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations pending, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or could interfere with or adversely affect the right, power or ability of the Company or any of the Guarantors to perform their respective obligations under the Transaction Documents or to consummate the transactions contemplated by Transaction Documents; to the best knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, no such investigations, actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others.

(u) Independent Accountants . PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who have expressed their opinion with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) and supporting schedules filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement and included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries as required by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

(v) Title to Real and Personal Property . The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens and defects and imperfections of title except (i) those that arise under the Senior Debt Security Documents and (ii) Permitted Liens and other Liens permitted under the Indenture (as each such term shall be defined in the Indenture).

(w) Title to Intellectual Property . Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) (“ Intellectual Property ”) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses, (ii) the conduct of their respective businesses does not conflict in any material respect with any such rights of others, and (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notice of any claim of infringement of or conflict with any such rights of others.

 

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(x) Investment Company Act . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in each of the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus none of them will be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, “ Investment Company Act ”).

(y) Taxes . Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has filed all tax returns required to be filed through the date hereof, which filed returns are complete and correct in all material respects and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in default in the payment of any taxes which were due and payable pursuant to said returns or any due and payable assessments with respect thereto, except (i) as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or (ii) for such failures to file or defaults in payment of a character which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(z) Licenses and Permits . The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course.

(aa) No Labor Disputes. No material labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the best knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, is contemplated or threatened.

(bb) Compliance with Environmental Laws . The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, decisions and orders relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “ Environmental Laws ”), (ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses, and (iii) have not received notice of for any actual or potential liability for the investigation or remediation of any disposal or release of hazardous or substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, except in any such case for any such failure to comply with, or failure to receive required permits, licenses or approvals, or liability, as (i) is disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or (ii) would not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(cc) ERISA Compliance. Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ ERISA ”), that is maintained, administered or contributed to by the Company or any of its affiliates for employees or former employees of the Company and its affiliates has been maintained in all material respects in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”); and no prohibited transaction,

 

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within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any such plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has fulfilled its obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of ERISA. The Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred, and are not reasonably expected to incur, any material unpaid liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (other than for payment of premiums in the ordinary course) or to any such employee benefit plan under Title IV of ERISA (other than for payment of contributions in the ordinary course).

(dd) Disclosure Controls . The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-14 under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the Company by others within the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and such disclosure controls and procedures are reasonably effective to perform the functions for which they were established subject to the limitations of any such control system; the Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls.

(ee) Accounting Controls . The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions. The Company and its 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; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences and (v) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present the information called for in all material respects and are prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

(ff) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as are customary for a similarly situated company in the Company’s industry; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii) any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business.

(gg) No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has: (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to

 

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political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.

(hh) No Conflict with Money Laundering Laws . 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 all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(ii) No Conflict with Sanctions Laws . None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“ OFAC ”); and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(jj) No Broker’s Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against any of them or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities.

(kk) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.

(ll) Margin Rules . Neither the issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities nor the application of the proceeds thereof by the Company as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus will violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.

(mm) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

(nn) Statistical and Market Data . Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.

(oo) Sarbanes-Oxley Act . The Company is, in all material respects, in compliance with, and to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no failure by any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), including Section 402 related to loans and Section 302 and 906 related to certifications.

 

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(pp) No Restrictions on Subsidiaries . No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, except as shall be provided in the Indenture.

(qq) Senior Indebtedness . The Securities constitute “senior indebtedness” as such term is defined in any indenture or agreement governing any outstanding senior subordinated or subordinated indebtedness of the Company.

(rr) Solvency . On and immediately after the Closing Date, the Company (after giving effect to the issuance of the Securities and the other transactions related thereto as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus) will be Solvent. As used in this paragraph, the term “Solvent” means, with respect to a particular date, that on such date (i) the present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of the assets of the Company is not less than the total amount required to pay the liabilities of the Company on its total existing debts and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and matured; (ii) the Company is able to pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments as they mature and become due in the normal course of business; (iii) assuming consummation of the issuance of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement and the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company is not incurring debts or liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature; (iv) the Company is not engaged in any business or transaction, and does not propose to engage in any business or transaction, for which its property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which the Company is engaged; and (v) the Company is not otherwise insolvent under the standards set forth in applicable laws.

Any certificate signed by an officer of the Company and delivered to the Representative or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters set forth therein.

4. Further Agreements of the Company and the Guarantors . The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, covenant and agree with each Underwriter that:

(a) Required Filings. The Company will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time period specified by Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, will file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities; and will furnish copies of the Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters in New York City at such time and in such quantities as the Representative may reasonably request.

(b) Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representative (to the extent requested by them), two signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference therein; and (ii) to each Underwriter (A) a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) (to the extent requested by

 

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such Underwriter) and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as many copies of the Prospectus (including all amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein (but excluding exhibits) as the Representative may reasonably request. As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Securities as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Securities is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Securities by any Underwriter or dealer.

(c) Amendments or Supplements. In each case until the expiration of the Prospective Delivery Period, before making or distributing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, whether before or after the time that the Registration Statement becomes effective, the Company will furnish to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed amendment or supplement or document to be incorporated by reference therein for review, and will not distribute or cause to be distributed any such proposed amendment or supplement or file any such document with the Commission to which the Representative reasonably objects.

(d) Final Term Sheet. The Company will prepare a final term sheet in the form attached as Annex B hereto (the “ Final Term Sheet ”) and will file such Final Term Sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule.

(e) Notice to the Representative. The Company will advise the Representative promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (ii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus has been filed; (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional information; (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or, if the Company has knowledge of it, the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (v) of the occurrence of any event within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus or, if the Prospectus has not yet been delivered to the Underwriters, the Pricing Disclosure Package, in each case as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus or the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; and (vi) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(f) Ongoing Compliance. (1) If at any time during the Prospectus Delivery Period (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus (or any

 

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document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented (or including such document to be incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law and (2) if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Pricing Disclosure Package as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters such amendments or supplements to the Pricing Disclosure Package as may be necessary so that the statements in the Pricing Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Pricing Disclosure Package will comply with law.

(g) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company and the Guarantors will cooperate with the Underwriters to qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities; provided that the neither Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.

(h) Earning Statement . The Company will make generally available to its security holders and the Representative as soon as practicable an earning statement that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158) of the Registration Statement.

(i) Clear Market. During the period from the date hereof through and including the date that is 90 days after the date of the Prospectus, the Company and each of the Guarantors will not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of the Guarantors and having a tenor of more than one year other than (i) the Securities, (ii) borrowings under the Credit Agreement and (iii) borrowings of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries under bank and working capital facilities in the ordinary course of business.

(j) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of proceeds”.

(k) No Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.

(l) Reports. For a period of one year following the Closing Date, the Company will furnish to the Representative, as soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to holders of the Securities, and copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange or automatic

 

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quotation system; provided , however in no event shall the Company be required to furnish copies of any such documents which are filed and publicly accessible via the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system.

(m) Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents that it has not made, and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representative, it will not make, any offer relating to the Securities that constitutes or would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that otherwise constitutes or would constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) or a portion thereof required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 under the Securities Act; provided that the prior written consent of the Representative hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Final Term Sheet. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representative is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”. The Company agrees that (i) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and (ii) has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping. The Company consents to the use by any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that (a) is not an “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433, and (b) contains only (i) information describing the preliminary terms of the Securities or their offering, or (ii) information that describes the final terms of the Securities or their offering and that was included in the Final Term Sheet of the Company contemplated in Section 1(d)(ii) as previously filed with the Commission; provided that each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action without the Company’s consent which consent shall be confirmed in writing that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.

(n) Filing Fees . The Company agrees to pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) of the Securities Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) of the Securities Act.

(o) Notice of Inability to Use Automatic Shelf Registration Statement Form . If at any time during the Prospectus Delivery Period, the Company receives from the Commission a notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or otherwise ceases to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form, the Company will (i) promptly notify the Representative, (ii) promptly file a new registration statement or post effective amendment on the proper form relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to the Representative, (iii) use its best efforts to cause such registration statement or post effective amendment to be declared effective and (iv) promptly notify the Representative of such effectiveness. The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Notes to continue as contemplated in the registration statement that was the subject of the Rule 401(g)(2) notice or for which the Company has otherwise become ineligible. References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new registration statement or post effective amendment, as the case may be.

(p) Post-Closing Actions Relating to the Existing Notes . To the extent that less than all of the aggregate principal amount of the Existing Notes are repurchased in connection with the Tender Offer, the Company shall deliver to the trustee of the Existing Notes an irrevocable notice of redemption for the outstanding amount of Existing Notes in accordance with the provisions of the indenture governing the Existing Notes.

5. Certain Agreements of the Underwriters . Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees to the offering restrictions as set forth on Annex C hereto.

 

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6. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations . The obligation of each Underwriter to purchase the Securities on the Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company and the Guarantors of their covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) Registration Compliance; No Stop Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Company shall not have received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Securities Act objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form; all material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act, including the Prospectus and the Final Term Sheet, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings under the Securities Act; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative.

(b) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and the Guarantors and their officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.

(c) No Downgrade. Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Applicable Time and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded any debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act; and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of any debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).

(d) No Material Adverse Change. Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, no event or condition of a type described in Section 3(j) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not described in the Pricing Disclosure Package (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto or any document filed with the Commission after the date hereof and incorporated by reference therein) and the effect of which in the judgment of the Representative makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(e) Officer’s Certificate. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, a certificate of an executive officer of the Company and each Guarantor who has knowledge of the Company’s or such Guarantor’s financial matters and is satisfactory to the Representative (i) confirming that such officer has carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, to the best knowledge of such officer, the representations set forth in Sections 3(b) and (f) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company and the Guarantors have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (iii) to the effect set forth in paragraph (d) above.

(f) Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, in the form and

 

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substance satisfactory to the Representative by PricewaterhouseCooper LLP prior to the date hereof; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date, shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(g) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Company. Mayer Brown LLP, counsel for the Company and the Guarantors, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, to the effect set forth in Annex A hereto.

(h) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP , counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representative may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(i) No Legal Impediment to Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities.

(j) Good Standing . The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and the Guarantors in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing in such other jurisdictions as the Representative may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication, from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.

(k) Securities Eligible for DTC . On the Closing Date, the Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through the DTC.

(l) The Securities and the Indenture . The Securities, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture shall be executed by the Company and the Guarantors in substantially the form previously delivered to you.

(m) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative such further certificates and documents as the Representative may reasonably request.

All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.

7. Indemnification and Contribution .

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, arising out of, or based on, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact

 

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contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, (ii) or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or any Pricing Disclosure Package (including any Pricing Disclosure Package that has subsequently been amended), or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.

(b) Indemnification of the Company . Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Guarantors, each of their respective officers and directors and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Guarantors within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed upon that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the information contained in the third, seventh, eighth and ninth paragraphs and the third sentence of the fourth paragraph of the section entitled “Underwriting”.

(c) Notice and Procedures . If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “ Indemnified Person ”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “ Indemnifying Person ”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under this Section 7 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under this Section 7. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section 7 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person 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 Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying

 

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Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding 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 Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by the Representative and any such separate firm for the Company and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person 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 Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment to the extent provided therein or herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for reasonable fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

(d) Contribution . If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person 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 and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Notes or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other 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 and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement received by the Company and the Guarantors and the total discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, in each case as set forth on the front cover page of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Notes as set forth on such cover. The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other 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 and the Guarantors, on the one hand, or by the Underwriters, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(e) Limitation on Liability . The Company, the Guarantors and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 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 paragraph (d) above.

 

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The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.

(f) Non-Exclusive Remedies . The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

8. Effectiveness of Agreement . This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

9. Termination . This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representative, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

10. Defaulting Underwriter .

(a) If, on the Closing Date any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Securities by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Securities on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Securities that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.

 

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(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Securities that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the aggregate principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the aggregate principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.

(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased exceeds or is equal to 10% of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 7 and Section 10(d) hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.

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

11. Payment of Expenses .

(a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company and the Guarantors agree, jointly and severally, to pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of preparing, reproducing and distributing this Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s counsel (including local and special counsel) and independent accountants; (v) the reasonable fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the reasonable related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities; (viii) all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of the Company and the Guarantors in connection with approval of the Securities by the DTC for “book-entry” transfer; (ix) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, FINRA; (ix) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors; and (xii) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 11.

(b) If (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities hereunder is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 is not satisfied, (ii) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9(ii), (iii) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Securities for

 

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delivery to the Underwriters other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement by the Underwriters or (iv) the Underwriters decline to purchase the Securities for any reason permitted under this Agreement other than for termination of this Agreement under Section 9(i), (iii) and (iv), the Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby.

12. Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement . This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and any controlling persons referred to herein, the affiliates, officers and directors of each Underwriter, and the officers and directors of the Company and the Guarantors. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.

13. Survival . The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Guarantors, and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company and the Guarantors, the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Securities and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or the Underwriters.

14. Certain Defined Terms . For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; (c) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; and (d) the term “significant subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.

15. Miscellaneous .

(a) Authority of the Representative . Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by Wells Fargo Securities, LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by Wells Fargo Securities, LLC shall be binding upon the Underwriters and the Company and the Guarantors may rely thereon without independent investigation or verification thereof.

(b) Notices . All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication.

Notices to the Underwriters shall be given to the Representative at:

c/o Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

550 South Tryon Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

Attention: HY Syndicate

with a copy to:

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

80 Pine Street

 

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New York, NY 10005

Facsimile: (212) 269-5420

Attention: Luis R. Penalver, Esq.

Notices to the Company and the Guarantors shall be given to them at:

Tenneco Inc.

500 North Field Drive

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Facsimile: 847-482-5040

Attention: General Counsel

with a copy to:

Mayer Brown LLP

71 South Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Facsimile: 312-706-8436

Attention: Jodi A. Simala, Esq.

(c) Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

(d) Patriot Act . In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

(e) Counterparts . This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(f) Amendments or Waivers . No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.

(g) Headings . The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.

 

Very truly yours,
TENNECO INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax

Accepted: December 2, 2014


TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
THE PULLMAN COMPANY
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
TMC TEXAS INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax


Accepted as of the date hereof:
WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
By:  

/s/ Jake Petkovich

  Authorized Signatory

As Representative on behalf of each of the Underwriters


Schedule 1

 

Underwriter

   Aggregate Principal Amount of
Notes to be Purchased
 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

   $ 72,000,000   

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

   $ 49,500,000   

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

   $ 49,500,000   

BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC

   $ 4,500,000   

BBVA Securities Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

Capital One Securities, Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

CIBC World Markets Corp.

   $ 4,500,000   

Commerz Markets LLC

   $ 4,500,000   

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

KBC Securities USA, Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

PNC Capital Markets LLC

   $ 4,500,000   

RBS Securities Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

   $ 4,500,000   

Total

   $ 225,000,000   

 

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Schedule 2

Guarantors

 

Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.    Delaware
Tenneco International Holding Corp.    Delaware
Tenneco Global Holdings Inc.    Delaware
The Pullman Company    Delaware
TMC Texas Inc.    Delaware
Clevite Industries Inc.    Delaware

 

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Schedule 3

Significant Subsidiaries

Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.

Tenneco Global Holdings Inc.

Tenneco International Holding Corp.

Tenneco International Luxembourg S.A.

Tenneco Deutschland Holdings Gmbh

The Pullman Company

 

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Schedule 4

Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses

[None]

 

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Annex A

FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY

 

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Annex B

FORM OF FINAL TERM SHEET

Filed pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Statement No. 333-200663

Final Term Sheet

December 2, 2014

 

 

TENNECO INC.

5.375% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2024

FINAL TERM SHEET

Dated: December 2, 2014

 

Issuer:   Tenneco Inc. (the “Company”)
Title of Securities:   5.375% Senior Notes due 2024
Aggregate Principal Amount:   $225,000,000
Maturity Date:   December 15, 2024
Coupon:   5.375% per annum
Issue Price:   100% plus accrued interest, if any, from December 5, 2014
Yield to Maturity:   5.375%
Underwriting Discount:   1.500%
Net Proceeds to  
Tenneco (before expenses):   $221,625,000
Interest Payment Dates:   June 15 and December 15, beginning on June 15, 2015.
Record Dates:   June 1 and December 1
Optional Redemption:   Make-whole call at T+50 until December 15, 2019.
  On and after December 15, 2019, at the prices set forth below for the years beginning on the dates set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest:
    Year   Price
 

December 15, 2019

  102.688%
 

December 15, 2020

  101.792%
 

December 15, 2021

  100.896%
 

December 15, 2022 and thereafter

  100.000%

 

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Optional Redemption with  
Equity Proceeds:   Up to 35% at 105.375% prior to December 15, 2017
Trade Date:   December 2, 2014
Settlement Date:   December 5, 2014 (T+3)
Joint Book-Running Managers:   Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
  Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Co-Managers:   BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC
  BBVA Securities Inc.
  Capital One Securities, Inc.
  CIBC World Markets Corp.
  Commerz Markets LLC
  HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
  KBC Securities USA, Inc.
  PNC Capital Markets LLC
  RBS Securities Inc.
  Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.
  SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.
  U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.
CUSIP/ISIN:   88037E AJ0 /US88037EAJ01
Distribution:   SEC registered

 

The information in this term sheet supplements the Company’s preliminary prospectus supplement, dated December 2, 2014 (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”). This term sheet is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. Terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings as set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

The Company 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 and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement in that registration statement and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov . Alternatively, the Company, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll-free at the following number: 1-800-326-5897 or by e-mailing a request to: cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com or by calling Citigroup Global Markets Inc. toll-free at the following number: 1-800-831-9146 or by calling Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC toll-free at the following number: 1-866-718-1649.

 

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Annex C

Offering Restrictions

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), each Underwriter has represented and agreed that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive was implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”) it has not made and will not make an offer of Securities to the public in that Relevant Member State other than:

 

  (a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive;

 

  (b) to fewer than 150, natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive), subject to obtaining the prior consent of the relevant Underwriter or Underwriters nominated by the Company for any such offer; or

 

  (c) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive,

provided that no such offer of any Securities shall require the Company or any Underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospective Directive or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 16 of the Prospectus Directive.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of Securities to the public” in relation to any Securities in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe any Securities, as the same may be varied in that Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State. The expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended, including by Directive 2010/73/EU), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State.

Each Underwriter has represented and agreed that:

 

  (a) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the “FSMA”)) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any Securities in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to us or the guarantors; and

 

  (b) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Securities in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

The Securities may be offered or sold only to qualified investors (as defined in the Prospectus Directive), unless any advertisement relating to such an offer and any document in which the prospect of such offer is held out includes that:

(a) no prospectus approved by the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets ( Stichting Autoriteit Financiële Markten ) (the “AFM”) has been or will be made generally available; and

(b) such offer is not supervised by the AFM, in each case in such manner as prescribed by the AFM from time to time,

 

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provided that no such offer of Securities shall require the Company or any Underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 16 of the Prospectus Directive.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

 

TENNECO INC.,

THE GUARANTORS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,

AND

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, TRUSTEE

 

 

INDENTURE

 

 

Dated as of December 5, 2014

Debt Securities

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  
ARTICLE 1   
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION   

Section 1.1

  

Definitions

     1   

Section 1.2

  

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

     8   

Section 1.3

  

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

     8   

Section 1.4

  

Acts of Holders

     9   

Section 1.5

  

Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company

     10   

Section 1.6

  

Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver

     10   

Section 1.7

  

Language of Notices, Etc.

     11   

Section 1.8

  

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

     11   

Section 1.9

  

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

     11   

Section 1.10

  

Successors and Assigns

     11   

Section 1.11

  

Separability Clause

     11   

Section 1.12

  

Benefits of Indenture

     11   

Section 1.13

  

Governing Law

     11   

Section 1.14

  

Legal Holidays

     11   

Section 1.15

  

Waiver of Jury Trial

     12   

Section 1.16

  

Force Majeure

     12   

Section 1.17

  

No Recourse Against Others

     12   
ARTICLE 2   
SECURITY FORMS   

Section 2.1

  

Forms Generally

     12   

Section 2.2

  

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

     13   

Section 2.3

  

Securities in Global Form

     13   
ARTICLE 3   
THE SECURITIES   

Section 3.1

  

Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

     14   

Section 3.2

  

Denominations

     16   

Section 3.3

  

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

     16   

Section 3.4

  

Temporary Securities

     18   

Section 3.5

  

Registration, Transfer and Exchange

     18   

Section 3.6

  

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

     21   

Section 3.7

  

Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

     22   

Section 3.8

  

Persons Deemed Owners

     23   

Section 3.9

  

Cancellation

     23   

Section 3.10

  

Computation of Interest

     23   

Section 3.11

  

CUSIP Numbers

     24   

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  
ARTICLE 4   
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE   

Section 4.1

  

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

     24   

Section 4.2

  

Application of Trust Money

     25   
ARTICLE 5   
REMEDIES   

Section 5.1

  

Events of Default

     25   

Section 5.2

  

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

     27   

Section 5.3

  

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

     28   

Section 5.4

  

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     29   

Section 5.5

  

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

     29   

Section 5.6

  

Application of Money Collected

     30   

Section 5.7

  

Limitation on Suits

     30   

Section 5.8

  

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

     31   

Section 5.9

  

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

     31   

Section 5.10

  

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

     31   

Section 5.11

  

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

     31   

Section 5.12

  

Control by Holders of Securities

     31   

Section 5.13

  

Waiver of Past Defaults

     32   

Section 5.14

  

Undertaking for Costs

     32   

Section 5.15

  

Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws

     33   
ARTICLE 6   
THE TRUSTEE   

Section 6.1

  

Certain Duties and Responsibilities

     33   

Section 6.2

  

Notice of Defaults

     34   

Section 6.3

  

Certain Rights of Trustee

     35   

Section 6.4

  

Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

     36   

Section 6.5

  

May Hold Securities

     36   

Section 6.6

  

Money Held in Trust

     37   

Section 6.7

  

Compensation and Reimbursement

     37   

Section 6.8

  

Disqualifications; Conflicting Interests

     37   

Section 6.9

  

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

     38   

Section 6.10

  

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

     38   

Section 6.11

  

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

     39   

Section 6.12

  

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

     40   

Section 6.13

  

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

     41   

Section 6.14

  

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

     41   

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  
ARTICLE 7   
HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY   
Section 7.1   

Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

     43   
Section 7.2   

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

     43   
Section 7.3   

Reports by Trustee

     44   
Section 7.4   

Reports by the Company

     45   
ARTICLE 8   
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE   
Section 8.1   

Consolidations and Mergers of Company or any Guarantor and Sales, Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions

     45   
Section 8.2   

Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation

     46   
Section 8.3   

Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel

     46   
ARTICLE 9   
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE   
Section 9.1   

Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders

     47   
Section 9.2   

Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

     48   
Section 9.3   

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

     49   
Section 9.4   

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

     49   
Section 9.5   

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

     49   
Section 9.6   

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

     49   
ARTICLE 10   
COVENANTS   
Section 10.1   

Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest

     50   
Section 10.2   

Maintenance of Office or Agency

     50   
Section 10.3   

Money for Securities Payments To Be Held in Trust

     50   
Section 10.4   

Additional Amounts

     52   
Section 10.5   

Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults

     53   
ARTICLE 11   
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES   
Section 11.1   

Applicability of Article

     53   
Section 11.2   

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

     53   
Section 11.3   

Selection by Trustee of Securities To Be Redeemed

     53   
Section 11.4   

Notice of Redemption

     54   
Section 11.5   

Deposit of Redemption Price

     55   

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  
Section 11.6   

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

     55   
Section 11.7   

Securities Redeemed in Part

     55   
ARTICLE 12   
SINKING FUNDS   
Section 12.1   

Applicability of Article

     56   
Section 12.2   

Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

     56   
Section 12.3   

Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

     57   
ARTICLE 13   
GUARANTEES   
Section 13.1   

Applicability of Article

     57   
Section 13.2   

Subsidiary Guarantees

     57   
Section 13.3   

Severability

     58   
Section 13.4   

Release of a Guarantor

     58   
Section 13.5   

Limitation of a Guarantor’s Liability

     59   
Section 13.6   

Contribution

     59   
Section 13.7   

Waiver of Subrogation

     59   
Section 13.8   

Execution of Subsidiary Guarantees

     60   
Section 13.9   

Consideration

     60   

 

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Reconciliation and tie between

Trust Indenture Act of 1939

and Indenture

 

Trust Indenture Act Section

  

Indenture Section

§ 310 (a)(1)    6.9
(a)(2)    6.9
(a)(3)    Not Applicable
(a)(4)    Not Applicable
(b)    6.8, 6.10
§ 311 (a)    6.13(a),(c)
(b)    6.13(b),(c)
(b)(2)    7.3(a)(ii), 7.3(b)
§ 312 (a)    7.1, 7.2(a)
(b)    7.2(b)
(c)    7.2(c)
§ 313 (a)    7.3(a)
(b)(1)    Not Applicable
(b)(2)    7.3(b)
(c)    7.3(c)
(d)    7.3(d)
§ 314 (a)    7.4
(b)    Not Applicable
(c)(1)    1.2
(c)(2)    1.2
(c)(3)    Not Applicable
(d)    Not Applicable
(e)    1.2
§ 315 (a)    6.1(a)
(b)    6.2, 7.3(a)(6)
(c)    6.1(b)
(d)    6.1(c)
(d)(1)    6.1(a)(i),(c)(i)
(d)(2)    6.1(c)(ii)
(d)(3)    6.1(c)(iii)
(e)    5.14
§ 316 (a)    1.1
(a)(1)(A)    5.2, 5.12
(a)(1)(B)    5.13
(a)(2)    Not Applicable
(b)    5.8
§ 317 (a)(1)    5.3
(a)(2)    5.4
(b)    10.3
§ 318 (a)    1.8

 

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


INDENTURE, dated as of December 5, 2014 among Tenneco Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), having its principal office at 500 North Field Drive, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045, the Guarantors from time to time parties hereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (hereinafter called the “Trustee”).

Recitals of The Company

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of interest, to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more series and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.

The Company wishes to permit certain Subsidiaries of the Company to make the Subsidiary Guarantees permitted pursuant to Section 3.1 and set forth in Section 13.2 with respect to Securities of certain series issued under this Indenture.

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture and all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.1 Definitions .

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

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

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

(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the terms “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation; and

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


Certain terms, used principally in Article 6, are defined in that Article.

Act ” when used with respect to any Holders has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.

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

Affiliate ” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. The term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative of the foregoing.

Authenticating Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.

Authorized Newspaper ” means a newspaper, in an official language of the country of publication or in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of such place. Where successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in different newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

Board of Directors ” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.

Board Resolution ” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

Business Day ,” except as may otherwise be provided in the form of Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, with respect to any Place of Payment means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law to close.

 

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Capital Stock ” means (1) with respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including each class of common stock and preferred stock of such Person, and (2) with respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership or other equity interests of such Person.

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

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

Company Request ” and “ Company Order ” mean, respectively, a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer of the Company and another Officer or the secretary, treasurer or controller of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal office or agency of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business relating to this Indenture shall be administered, which office at the date of original execution of this Indenture is located at 5555 San Felipe, Suite 1150, Houston, Texas 77056, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee.

corporation ” includes corporations, associations, partnerships, limited liability companies and business trusts.

Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.

Depositary ” means with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1(c) until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any such series shall mean the “Depositary” with respect to the Securities of that series.

Dollars ” or “ $ ” or any similar reference shall mean currency of the United States which at the time shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Event of Default ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1

Guarantors ” means (1) Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc., The Pullman Company, Clevite Industries Inc., Tenneco Global Holdings Inc., TMC Texas Inc. and Tenneco International Holding Corp., each a Delaware corporation, and (2) such other Subsidiaries of the Company as may from time to time provide a Subsidiary Guarantee with

 

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respect to the Securities of a particular series pursuant to Section 3.1 and as set forth in Section 13.2, in each case (1) and (2) until released from its Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, any supplemental indentures and the terms of such series of Securities.

Holder ” when used with respect to any Security means the Person in whose name the Security is registered in the Security Register.

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

Interest ” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity means interest payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.4, includes such Additional Amounts.

Interest Payment Date ” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the applicable Securities.

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

Officer ” means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of such Person.

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by an Officer of the Company and another Officer or the secretary, treasurer or controller of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 1.2.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel acceptable to the Trustee, who may (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) be an employee of or counsel for the Company, or other counsel. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 1.2.

Original Issue Discount Security ” means a Security issued pursuant to this Indenture which provides for an amount less than the principal thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration pursuant to Section 5.2.

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

(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

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(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and

(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

provided , however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination and that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to the amount of the principal thereof that could be declared to be due and payable pursuant to the terms of such Original Issue Discount Security at the time the taking of such action by the Holders of such requisite principal amount is evidenced to the Trustee as provided in Section 1.4(a), and , provided further , that Securities owned beneficially by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate (other than officers or directors of the Company) of the Company or such other obligor, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers’ Certificate listing and identifying all securities known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.

Paying Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.

Person ” means an individual, partnership, corporation, unincorporated organization, trust or joint venture, or a governmental agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

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Place of Payment ” when used with respect to the Securities of any series means the place or places where, subject to the provisions of Section 10.2, the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as provided pursuant to Section 3.1.

Predecessor Security ” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security.

Redemption Date ” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

Redemption Price ” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed means the price at which it is to be redeemed as determined pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.

Registered Security ” means any Security of a series established pursuant to Section 3.1 which is registered in the Security Register.

Regular Record Date ” for the interest payable on a Security on any Interest Payment Date means the date, if any, specified for that purpose as provided pursuant to Section 3.1.

Responsible Officer ” shall mean, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee including any vice president, assistant vice president or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, and to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

Security ” or “ Securities ” means any Security or Securities, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

Security Register ” and “ Security Registrar ” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.

Special Record Date ” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series means a dated fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.

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

 

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Subsidiary ,” with respect to any Person, means (1) any corporation of which the outstanding Capital Stock having at least a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the election of directors under ordinary circumstances shall at the time be owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or (2) any other Person of which at least a majority of the voting interest under ordinary circumstances is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person.

Subsidiary Guarantee ” means any guarantee, if applicable, by any Guarantor endorsed on a Security authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture and any Subsidiary Guarantees of any Guarantor established in accordance with Section 3.1 and set forth in Section 13.2.

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

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

United States ” or “ U.S. ” means the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

United States Alien ” means any Person who, for United States Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual, a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

U.S. Government Obligations ” means securities that are (i) direct obligations of the United States for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States, that, in either case under clauses (i) or (ii), are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

 

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Section 1.2 Compliance Certificates and Opinions .

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein relating thereto;

(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

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

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

Section 1.3 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee .

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

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

 

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Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Company or of counsel may be based insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by a firm of accountants or an accountant in the employ of the Company, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.

Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants filed with the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is independent.

Section 1.4 Acts of Holders .

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section.

(c) The ownership of Securities and the principal amount and serial numbers of Securities held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register.

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

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

 

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Section 1.5 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company .

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or

(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to the attention of its Treasurer at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.

Section 1.6 Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver .

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the form of Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of Securities of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Securities if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice.

In any case where notice to Holders of Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Securities. In the case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

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Section 1.7 Language of Notices, Etc .

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that, if the Company so elects, any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication.

Section 1.8 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act .

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

Section 1.9 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents .

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

Section 1.10 Successors and Assigns .

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and any Guarantor shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 1.11 Separability Clause .

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

Section 1.12 Benefits of Indenture .

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

Section 1.13 Governing Law .

This Indenture, the Securities and Guarantees, if any, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York but without giving effect to applicable principles of conflicts of law to the extent that the application of the law of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

Section 1.14 Legal Holidays .

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities other than a provision in

 

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the Securities which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section) payment of interest or any Additional Amounts or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

Section 1.15 Waiver of Jury Trial.

EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 1.16 Force Majeure.

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

Section 1.17 No Recourse Against Others .

A director, officer, employee, stockholder or incorporator, as such, of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Guarantor shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guarantor under the Securities, this Indenture or any Guarantee or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creations. Each Holder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.

ARTICLE 2

SECURITY FORMS

Section 2.1 Forms Generally .

The Securities of each series and, if applicable, the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees to be endorsed thereon, shall be in the form established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, shall have appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be

 

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determined by the appropriate officers executing such Securities or notations of Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the forms of the Securities of any series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect to any series of Securities, the Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without coupons.

The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

Section 2.2 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication .

The Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

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

 

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee
By  

 

  Authorized Signatory
Dated:  

 

Section 2.3 Securities in Global Form .

If Securities of a series are issuable in whole or in part in global form, any such Security may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be reduced to reflect exchanges or increased to reflect the issuance of additional Securities. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made in such manner and by such Person or Persons, as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3.

 

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ARTICLE 3

THE SECURITIES

Section 3.1 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series .

The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:

(a) the title of the Securities and the series in which such Securities shall be included;

(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such title and the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6 or 11.7);

(c) whether Securities of the series may be issued in whole or in part in global form and, if so, the identity of the Depositary for such Securities in global form, and the terms and conditions, if any, upon which interests in such Securities in global form may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for the individual Securities represented thereby;

(d) the date or dates on which the principal of such Securities is payable;

(e) the rate or rates at which such Securities shall bear interest, if any, or method by which such rate or rates are determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on Registered Securities on any Interest Payment Date, whether and under what circumstances Additional Amounts on such securities shall be payable in respect of specified taxes, assessments or other governmental charges withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Company has the option to redeem the affected Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;

(f) the place or places, if any, in addition to or other than the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on or Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of such Securities shall be payable, where such Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where such Securities may be surrendered for exchange and where notice and demands to or upon the Company, in respect of such Securities and this Indenture, may be served;

 

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(g) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which such Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company or a Holder;

(h) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem such Securities pursuant to any sinking fund and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which such Securities shall be redeemed in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

(i) the denominations in which Securities of the series, if any, shall be issuable if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof;

(j) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2;

(k) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts in respect of such Securities may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(l) if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;

(m) whether, and under what conditions, Additional Amounts will be payable to Holders of Securities of such series pursuant to Section 10.4;

(n) any deletion or addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2 or in any other remedies provided in Article 5;

(o) if Securities of such series are guaranteed by any Guarantors and any deletions from, modifications to or additions to Article 13, the Events of Default or covenants with respect to such Guarantors with respect to Securities of such series, whether or not such changes are consistent with Article 13, the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein; and

(p) any other terms of such Securities (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 9.1).

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and the rate or rates of interest, if any, redemption dates and sinking fund dates, if any, and Stated Maturity, the date from which interest, if any, shall accrue, the amount that shall be payable upon the declaration of acceleration and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

 

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If any of the terms of the Securities of any series were established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of such series.

Section 3.2 Denominations .

Unless other denominations and amounts may from time to time be fixed by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Registered Securities of each series, if any, shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating .

Two Officers, or an Officer and a secretary, treasurer, controller or an assistant secretary of the Company, shall sign, or one Officer shall sign and one Officer or a Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company (each of whom shall, in each case, have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate actions) shall attest to, the Securities for the Company by manual or facsimile signature. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any such signature shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any Security that has been duly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. If Securities of or within a series are specified, as contemplated by Section 3.1, to be guaranteed by any Guarantors, then each such Guarantor shall execute its Subsidiary Guarantee in the manner set forth in Section 13.8.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series, executed by the Company, and, if applicable, having endorsed thereon the notations of Subsidiary Guarantees executed as provided in Section 13.8 by the Guarantors, to the Trustee for authentication, together with the Board Resolution and Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture with respect to such Securities referred to in Section 3.1 and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order and subject to the provisions hereof shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be provided with, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating,

(a) that the form and terms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provision of this Indenture;

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when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and

(c) as to such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request;

provided , however , that if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Opinion of Counsel at the time of issuance of each Security, but such Opinion of Counsel, with appropriate modifications, may instead be delivered at or prior to the time of the first issuance of Securities of such series.

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee or if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken.

If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.1 that Securities of a series may be issued in whole or in part in global form, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect to such series, authenticate and deliver one or more Securities in global form that (i) shall represent and shall be denominated in an authorized aggregate amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series and tenor to be represented by one or more Securities in global form, (ii) shall be registered, in the name of the Depositary for such Security or Securities in global form or the nominee of such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: “Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Notes in certificated form, this Note may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary. Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) to the issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of CEDE & CO. or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company and any payment is made to CEDE & CO., any transfer, pledge or other use hereof for value or otherwise by or to any person is wrongful since the registered owner hereof, CEDE & CO., has an interest herein.” Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 3.1 for a Security in global form must, at the time of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any other applicable statute or regulation.

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No Security or Subsidiary Guarantee shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in Section 2.2 or 6.14 executed by or on behalf of the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 3.4 Temporary Securities .

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute and deliver to the Trustee, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the manner provided in Section 3.3, temporary Securities of such series which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form without coupons and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form, representing all of the Outstanding Securities of such series and tenor.

Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable upon request for definitive Securities of such series containing identical terms and provisions upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at an office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 10.2, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations of the same series containing identical terms and provisions. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect to a temporary Security in global form, until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

Section 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange .

With respect to the Securities of each series, the Company shall cause to be kept, at an office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section 10.2, a register (herein sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of the Securities of each series and of transfers of the Securities of each series. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers and exchanges of Securities as herein provided; provided that the Company may, from time to time, designate (or change any designation of) any other Person or Persons to act as Security Registrar or co-Security Registrars with respect to the Securities of one or more series, with notice to the Trustee and as provided in Section 1.6 to the Holders. At all reasonable times the Security Register shall be open for inspection by the Company. In the event that the Trustee shall not be the Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.

 

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Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at any office or agency of the Company maintained for that series pursuant to Section 10.2, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, at the direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series of an authorized denomination, of a like aggregate principal amount bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding and containing identical terms and provisions.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for the individual Securities represented thereby, in definitive form, a Security in global form representing all or a portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series containing identical terms and provisions, in any authorized denominations, and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency of the Company maintained for that series pursuant to Section 10.2. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, at the direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

If at any time the Depositary for the Securities of a series notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Securities of such series or if at any time the Depositary for the Securities of such series shall no longer be eligible under Section 3.3, the Company, by Company Order, shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to the Securities of such series. If a successor Depositary for the Securities of such series is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Company’s election pursuant to Section 3.1(c) shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities of such series and the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of definitive Securities of such series, will authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount and of like terms and tenor equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities in global form representing such series in exchange for such Security or Securities in global form.

The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that individual Securities of any series issued in global form shall no longer be represented by such Security or Securities in global form. In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of individual definitive Securities of such series and of the same terms and tenor, will authenticate and deliver individual Securities of such series in definitive form in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities in global form representing such series in exchange for such Security or Securities in global form.

 

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If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to a series of Securities, the Depositary for such series of Securities may surrender a Security in global form for such series of Securities in exchange in whole or in part for individual Securities of such series in definitive form and of like terms and tenor on such terms as are acceptable to the Company, the Trustee and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of individual definitive Securities of such series, shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge:

(a) to the Depositary or to each Person specified by such Depositary a new individual Security or Securities of the same series and of the same tenor, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person’s beneficial interest in the Security in global form; and

(b) to such Depositary a new Security in global form in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered Security in global form and the aggregate principal amount of the individual Securities delivered to Holders thereof.

In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding three paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee pursuant to a Company Order will authenticate and deliver individual Securities in definitive registered form in authorized denominations.

Upon the exchange of a Security in global form for Securities in definitive form, at the direction of the Company, such Security in global form shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Securities issued in exchange for a Security in global form pursuant to this Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Security in global form, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee in writing. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the persons in whose names such Securities are so registered or to the Depositary.

Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, at the direction of the Company, shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar for such series of Security presented) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and such Security Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 9.6 or 11.7 not involving any transfer.

The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the selection for redemption of Securities of that series under Section 11.3 and ending at the close of business on the day of such selection, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed.

Section 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities .

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

If there be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

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

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

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

 

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Section 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved .

Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, if so provided in such Security, be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for such Security (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder; and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities affected (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder of such Securities at his address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in a newspaper, customarily published in the English language on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b).

(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

 

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Interest on Securities of any series that bear interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer or other electronic means.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.5, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

Section 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners .

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantors, or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to Sections 3.5 and 3.7) interest on and Additional Amounts with respect to, such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, the Security Registrar or any co-Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests and each of them may act or refrain from acting without liability on any information relating to such records provided by the Depositary.

Section 3.9 Cancellation .

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, shall be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee at the direction of the Company. No securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be cancelled by it in its customary manner unless by a Company Order the Company directs their return to it.

Section 3.10 Computation of Interest .

Except as otherwise contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

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Section 3.11 CUSIP Numbers .

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

ARTICLE 4

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

Upon the direction of the Company by a Company Order, this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for, rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Trustee set forth in the last paragraph of this Section and any right to receive Additional Amounts, as provided in Section 10.4), and the Trustee, pursuant to a Company Order and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instructions acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(a) either

(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6, and (B) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

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

(1) have become due and payable, or

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

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

 

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and the Company, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge, or U.S. Government Obligations, maturing as to principal and paying interest in such amounts and at such times as will insure the availability of cash sufficient to pay and discharge, the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so by Company Order with respect to Securities of all series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met. In the event there are two or more Trustees hereunder, then the effectiveness of any such instrument shall be conditioned upon receipt of such instruments from all Trustees hereunder.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.7 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (ii) of clause (a) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last paragraph of Section 10.3 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money .

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.3, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and any interest and Additional Amounts for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

ARTICLE 5

REMEDIES

Section 5.1 Events of Default .

“Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and

 

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whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) default in the payment of any interest on or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any of the Securities of such series as and when such interest or Additional Amounts becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any of the Securities of such series as and when the same becomes due and payable at Maturity, or default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of any of the Securities of such series; or

(c) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or agreement of the Company or, if Subsidiary Guarantees are issued with respect to the Securities of such series, any Guarantor, in the Securities of such series or this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities to which covenant or agreement relates a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(d) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or, if Subsidiary Guarantees are issued with respect to the Securities of such series, any Guarantor, in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or, if Subsidiary Guarantees are issued with respect to the Securities of such series, any Guarantor, for any substantial part of their respective property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or

(e) the Company or, if Subsidiary Guarantees are issued with respect to the Securities of such series, any Guarantor, shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to themselves or their respective debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of them or any substantial part of their respective 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 them, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;

 

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(f) if Subsidiary Guarantees are issued with respect to the Securities of such series, the Subsidiary Guarantee of any Guarantor ceases to be in full force and effect during its term or such Guarantor denies or disaffirms in writing its obligations under the terms of this Indenture or its Subsidiary Guarantee, in each case, other than any such cessation, denial or disaffirmation in connection with the termination of such Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to the provisions of Article 13; or

(g) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.

Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment .

If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) or (e)) occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every case, unless the principal of all of the Securities of such series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by such Holders), may declare the entire principal of all Securities of such series, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series, and the interest accrued thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become due and payable immediately.

If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) or (e) occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, unless the principal of all the Securities shall have already become due and payable, the entire principal of all the Outstanding Securities, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of any series, and interest accrued thereon shall automatically become due and payable immediately without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

At any time after a declaration of acceleration (other than resulting from an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) or (e)) with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to such series and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(i) all overdue installments of interest on and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of all Securities of that series,

(ii) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities,

 

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(iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest and Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and

(iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

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

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

Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee .

The Company covenants that if

(a) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security when such interest or Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at its Maturity,

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

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

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

 

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Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim .

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

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

(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders of Securities, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7.

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

Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities .

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

 

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Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected .

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

First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7; and

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

Third: The balance, if any, to the Company or any Guarantor or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest .

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 3.5 and 3.7) interest on and any Additional Amounts in respect of such Security on the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies .

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of Securities shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative .

Except as provided in Section 5.7 and except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver .

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities.

Section 5.12 Control by Holders of Securities .

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

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

(c) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Securities of such series.

Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults .

Prior to a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity of the Securities of any series as provided in Section 5.2 (other than resulting from an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) or (e)), the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default or Event of Default with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default:

(a) in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on or Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of such series, or

(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 9 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series 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 this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 5.14 Undertaking for Costs .

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit, other than the Trustee, of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, including the Trustee, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee or by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder of any Security for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts in respect of any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) or interest on any overdue principal of any Security.

 

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Section 5.15 Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws .

The Company and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company or each such Guarantor from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Securities or performing its Subsidiary Guarantee as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture by the Company and each Guarantor; and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) the Company and each such Guarantor hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

ARTICLE 6

THE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities .

(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default known to the Trustee,

(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties, and only such duties, as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

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

(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section;

 

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

(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and

(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults .

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, notice of such default hereunder known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided , however , that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of such series or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and responsible officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series; and provided further , that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 5.1(c) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, with respect to Securities of such series. A default shall not be considered known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee unless it is a default in the payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest when due under Section 5.1(a) or (b) or a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof, in accordance with this Indenture, from the Company or from the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of the series to which the default relates.

 

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Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee .

Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1:

(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than delivery of any Security to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.3, 3.5 or 3.6 which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officers’ Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel, or both;

(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

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

(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

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

 

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(h) the permissive rights of the Trustee to do things enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty, and the Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct;

(i) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, but not limited to, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, whether as agent or otherwise, and to each agent, custodian and other person employed to act hereunder;

(j) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

(k) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective or whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action;

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

(m) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities .

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

Section 6.5  May Hold Securities .

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.

 

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Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust .

Money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. Neither the Trustee nor any Paying Agent shall be under any liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.

Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement .

The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree

(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

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

(c) to fully indemnify the Trustee and its directors, officers, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder.

As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any series upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interests on or any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default, the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

Section 6.8 Disqualifications; Conflicting Interests . If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

 

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Section 6.9 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility .

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor .

(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition at the expense of the Company any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to such series.

(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.

(d) If at any time:

(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder of a Security, or

(iii) The Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder of a Security who has been a

 

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bona fide Holder of a Security of any series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to such Securities.

(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to such Securities.

(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor .

(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.

 

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(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust, that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee and that no Trustee shall be responsible for any notice given to, or received by, or any act or failure to act on the part of any other Trustee hereunder, and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein, such retiring Trustee shall with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates have no further responsibility for the exercise of rights and powers or for the performance of the duties and obligations vested in the Trustee under this Indenture other than as hereinafter expressly set forth, and each such successor Trustee without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee, to the extent contemplated by such supplemental indenture, the property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.

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

Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business .

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, by sale or otherwise, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and

 

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eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent

The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue or exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, by sale or otherwise, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

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An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities, if any, of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

The Company agrees to pay each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.

The provisions of Sections 3.8, 6.4 and 6.5 shall be applicable to each Authenticating Agent.

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:

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

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

As Trustee
By  

 

  As Authenticating Agent
By  

 

  Authorized Signatory
Dated:  

 

If all of the Securities of any series may not be originally issued at one time, and if the Trustee does not have an office capable of authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested in writing (which writing need not comply with Section 1.2) by the Company, shall appoint in accordance with this Section 6.14 an Authenticating Agent having an office in a Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to such series of Securities.

 

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ARTICLE 7

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

Section 7.1 Company To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders .

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

(a) semi-annually, not later than 5 days before each Interest Payment Date in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of the preceding Regular Record Date, and

(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

provided , however , that, so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders .

(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Securities (i) contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee for each series as provided in Section 7.1, and (ii) received by the Trustee for each series in the capacity of Security Registrar if the Trustee is then acting in such capacity. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b) If three or more Holders of Securities of any series (hereinafter referred to as “applicants”) apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee proof satisfactory to the Trustee that each such applicant has owned a Security of such series for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders of Securities of such series or with the Holders of all Securities with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five business days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either

(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.2(a), or

(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders of Securities whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.2(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application.

 

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If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon written request of such applicants, mail to each Holder of Securities whose name and address appears in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.2(a), a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders of Securities or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Holders of Securities with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application.

(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with Section 7.2(b), regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 7.2(b).

Section 7.3 Reports by Trustee .

(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313 (a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall, within sixty days after each May 15 following the date of the initial issuance of Securities under this Indenture deliver to Holders a brief report, dated as of such May 15, which complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a).

(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof.

 

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Section 7.4 Reports by the Company .

The Company shall:

(a) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations;

(b) file with the Trustee and Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

(c) transmit to Holders within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

ARTICLE 8

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, LEASE OR CONVEYANCE

Section 8.1 Consolidations and Mergers of Company or any Guarantor and Sales, Leases and Conveyances Permitted Subject to Certain Conditions .

Notwithstanding anything contained herein or in any of the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, the Company or any Guarantor may consolidate with, or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its respective assets to, or merge with or into any other corporation, provided that in any such case, either the Company, or in the case of a Guarantor, such Guarantor, shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor corporation shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof and such successor corporation shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of

 

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the principal of (and premium, if any), any interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable pursuant to Section 10.4 with respect to, all the Securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, by supplemental Indenture satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such successor corporation (provided that such successor corporation shall not be required to assume the obligations of any such Guarantor if such successor corporation would not, after giving effect to such transaction, be required to guarantee the Securities of such series under the provisions of Article 13).

Section 8.2 Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation .

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company or such Guarantor, with the same effect as if it had been named as the Company or such Guarantor herein, and the predecessor corporation shall be relieved of any further obligation under this Indenture, the Securities and the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company or such Guarantor, any or all of the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company or such Guarantor and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the restrictions contained in this Article 8 shall not apply to any merger or consolidation of a Guarantor into the Company or any other Guarantor or to any Guarantor upon any termination of the Subsidiary Guarantee of that Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture.

Section 8.3 Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel .

The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.3, may receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption and any such supplemental indenture, if any, complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided relating to such transactions have been complied with.

 

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ARTICLE 9

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders .

Without the consent of any Holders of Securities, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or any Guarantor, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or such Guarantor herein and in the Securities or Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, contained; or

(b) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or the Guarantors; or

(c) to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or

(d) to add to, change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision or (ii) shall not apply to any Security Outstanding; or

(e) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1; or

(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or

(g) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; or

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(i) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series), provided, however, that in respect of any such additional Events of Default such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of that or those series of Securities to which such additional Events of Default apply to waive such default; or

(j) to add one or more Subsidiary Guarantees or other guarantees for the benefit of the Holders; or

(k) to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with Article 13; or

(l) to add provisions for the defeasance or covenant defeasance with respect to the Securities of any series; or

(m) to add to or change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders .

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided , however , that no such supplemental Indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,

(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any Additional Amounts payable in respect thereof, or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.4 (except as contemplated by Section 8.1 and permitted by Section 9.1(a)), or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or

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consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or

(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 5.13, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures .

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trust created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be given, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and Officers’ Certificate stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures .

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act .

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.

Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures .

Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

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ARTICLE 10

COVENANTS

Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest .

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any), interest on and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such series of Securities and this Indenture.

Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency .

The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided , however , that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise set forth in a Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby designates as the Place of Payment for each series of Securities the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Offices as the Company’s office or agency for each of such purposes in such city.

Section 10.3 Money for Securities Payments To Be Held in Trust .

If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

 

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Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will

(a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

(b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series; and

(c) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same terms as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

Except as otherwise provided in the form of Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, 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 (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, 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, shall 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 an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment or to be mailed to Holders of Securities, or both, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. In the absence of a

 

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written request from the Company to return unclaimed funds to the Company, the Trustee shall from time to time deliver all unclaimed funds to or as directed by applicable escheat authorities, as determined by the Trustee in its sole discretion, in accordance with the customary practices and procedures of the Trustee. Any unclaimed funds held by the Trustee pursuant to this section shall be held uninvested and without any liability for interest.

Section 10.4 Additional Amounts .

If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of any series Additional Amounts as provided therein. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided for in the terms of such Security and this Section to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

If the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal (and premium, if any) is made, and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest, if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate), the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company’s principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series who are United States Aliens without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of that series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Security and the first paragraph of this Section. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.

 

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Section 10.5 Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults .

(a) The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement, which need not comply with Section 1.2, signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company, stating that

(i) a review of the activities of the Company and its subsidiaries during such year and of performance under this Indenture has been made under his supervision, and

(ii) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review, (a) the Company has fulfilled all of its obligations under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to him and the nature and status thereof, and (b) no event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, or, if such event has occurred and is continuing, specifying each such event known to him and the nature and status thereof.

(b) The Company will deliver to the Trustee within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any event which after notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to clause (d) of Section 5.1.

ARTICLE 11

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 11.1 Applicability of Article .

Securities of any series which are redeemable at the option of the Company before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with the terms of such Securities and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series) this Article. Securities of any series which are redeemable at the option of the Holder before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with the terms of such Securities and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series) Sections 11.5 and 11.6 of this Article.

Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and the relevant terms of the Securities to be redeemed. The election of a Holder to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a writing by a Holder sent to the Trustee and the Company at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Holder in such notice (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee). Such notice shall notify the Trustee and the Company of such Redemption Date, the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and any relevant terms of the Securities of such series to be redeemed.

Section 11.3 Selection by Trustee of Securities To Be Redeemed .

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to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series or any integral multiple thereof which is also an authorized denomination) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series.

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 1.6, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed (which shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed. Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Securities designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof. Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(a) the Redemption Date,

(b) the Redemption Price (or the method of calculating the Redemption Price),

(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Securities to be redeemed,

(d) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,

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(f) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and

(g) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.

A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section 1.6 need not identify particular Securities to be redeemed.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request and provision of such request at least 15 days prior to the notice being sent by the Trustee (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.

Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price .

On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.

Section 11.6 Securities Payable on Redemption Date .

Notice of redemption having been given by the Holder to the Company and Trustee pursuant to Section 11.2 or to the Holder by the Company or the Trustee pursuant to Section 11.4, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest (and any Additional Amounts) to the Redemption Date; provided , however , that installments of interest on Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.

Section 11.7 Securities Redeemed in Part .

Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at any office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 10.2 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall

 

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authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series, containing identical terms and provisions, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

ARTICLE 12

SINKING FUNDS

Section 12.1 Applicability of Article .

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of such series or as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of the Securities of such series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.

Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities .

The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such series, (1) deliver Outstanding Securities of such series (other than any of such Securities previously called for redemption) theretofore purchased or receive credit for Securities (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to Section 3.9, and (2) apply as a credit Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such series of Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If, as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities of any series in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 12.2, the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such series for redemption, except upon Company Request, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided , however , that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall at the request of the Company from time to time pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment requested to be released to the Company.

 

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Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund .

Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that series pursuant to Section 12.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so credited and not theretofore delivered. If such Officers’ Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.6 and 11.7.

ARTICLE 13

GUARANTEES

Section 13.1 Applicability of Article .

Unless the Company elects to issue any series of Securities without the benefit of the Subsidiary Guarantees, which election shall be evidenced in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series of Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, the provisions of this Article shall be applicable to each series of Securities except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series pursuant to Section 3.1.

Section 13.2 Subsidiary Guarantees .

Subject to Section 13.1, each Guarantor hereby agrees to unconditionally, jointly and severally, guarantee to each Holder of such Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, that (i) the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on any such Security will be promptly paid in full when due, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise and interest on the overdue principal, if any, and interest on any interest, to the extent lawful, of such Security and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any such Security or of any such other obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in

 

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accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise subject, however, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) above, to the limitations set forth in Section 13.5. Each Guarantor agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of any such Security or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of such Security with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that its Subsidiary Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in such Security, this Indenture and each Subsidiary Guarantee. If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, any Guarantor or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or any Guarantor, any amount paid by the Company or any Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, each Subsidiary Guarantee to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between each Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 5 for the purposes of each Subsidiary Guarantee notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 5, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by each Guarantor for the purpose of its Subsidiary Guarantee.

Section 13.3 Severability .

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

Section 13.4 Release of a Guarantor .

In the event of the issuance or sale of Capital Stock of a Guarantor in compliance with this Indenture which results in the Guarantor no longer being a Subsidiary of the Company, the applicable Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee will be released.

The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release upon receipt of a written request by the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying as to the compliance with this Section 13.4. Any Guarantor not so released remains liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the Securities as provided in this Article 13.

 

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Section 13.5 Limitation of a Guarantor’s Liability .

Each Guarantor and, by its acceptance hereof, each Holder hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant to its Subsidiary Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of any Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders and each Guarantor irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee, or pursuant to Section 13.6, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee not constituting such fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

Section 13.6 Contribution .

In order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, the Guarantors agree,  inter   se , that in the event any payment or distribution is made by any Guarantor (a “Funding Guarantor”) under its Subsidiary Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from all other Guarantors in a pro rata amount based on the Adjusted Net Assets of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging the Company’s obligations with respect to such Security or any other Guarantor’s obligations with respect to its Subsidiary Guarantee. “Adjusted Net Assets” of a Guarantor at any date shall mean the lesser of the amount by which (x) the fair value of the property of such Guarantor exceeds the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities incurred or assumed on such date), but excluding liabilities under the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Guarantor at such date and (y) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Guarantor at such date exceeds the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Guarantor on its debts (after giving effect to all other fixed and contingent liabilities incurred or assumed on such date), excluding debt in respect of the Subsidiary Guarantee of such Guarantor, as they become absolute and matured.

Section 13.7 Waiver of Subrogation .

Until all Subsidiary Guarantee obligations are paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any claims or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any Holder of any of the Securities against the Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and any such Security shall not have been paid in full, such

 

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amount shall be deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Holders of such Security, and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of such Holders to be credited and applied upon such Security, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that the waiver set forth in this Section 13.7 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

Section 13.8 Execution of Subsidiary Guarantees.

To evidence its guarantee to the Holders of any such Security set forth in this Article 13, each Guarantor shall execute a Subsidiary Guarantee, which shall be endorsed on each such Security ordered to be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee. Each Guarantor agrees that its Subsidiary Guarantee set forth in this Article 13 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each such Security a notation of such Subsidiary Guarantee. Each such Subsidiary Guarantee shall be signed on behalf of each Guarantor by two Officers, or an Officer and a secretary, treasurer, controller or an assistant secretary of the Guarantor or one Officer shall sign and one Officer or a secretary, treasurer, controller or an assistant secretary of the Guarantor (each of whom shall, in each case, have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate actions) shall attest to such Subsidiary Guarantee prior to the authentication of such Security on which it is endorsed, and the delivery of such Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of such Subsidiary Guarantee on behalf of such Guarantor. Such signatures upon the Subsidiary Guarantee may be by manual or facsimile signature of such officers and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Subsidiary Guarantee, and in case any such officer who shall have signed the Subsidiary Guarantee shall cease to be such officer before such Security on which such Subsidiary Guarantee is endorsed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Company, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed the Subsidiary Guarantee had not ceased to be such officer of the Guarantor.

Section 13.9 Consideration .

Each of the Guarantors has received, or shall receive, direct or indirect benefits from the making of its Subsidiary Guarantee.

* * * * *

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

 

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

 

TENNECO INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
THE PULLMAN COMPANY, as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
TMC TEXAS INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax

 

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TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax

 

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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Mauri J. Cowen

  Name:   Mauri J. Cowen
  Title:   Vice President

 

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Exhibit 4.2

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of December 5, 2014

TO THE INDENTURE

Dated as of December 5, 2014

among

TENNECO INC.,

as Issuer,

TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC.,

THE PULLMAN COMPANY

CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC.

TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC.

TMC TEXAS INC.

TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP.

as Guarantors,

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

 

 

5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE I   
ESTABLISHMENT; DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE   
SECTION 1.01.  

Establishment

     1   
SECTION 1.02.  

Definitions

     3   
SECTION 1.03.  

Incorporation by Reference of TIA

     24   
SECTION 1.04.  

Rules of Construction

     24   
ARTICLE II   
THE SECURITIES   
SECTION 2.01.  

Form and Dating

     25   
SECTION 2.02.  

Registrar and Paying Agent

     25   
SECTION 2.03.  

Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust

     25   
SECTION 2.04.  

Additional Notes

     26   
ARTICLE III   
REDEMPTION   
SECTION 3.01.  

Notices to Trustee

     26   
SECTION 3.02.  

Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed

     26   
SECTION 3.03.  

Notice of Redemption

     27   
SECTION 3.04.  

Effect of Notice of Redemption

     27   
SECTION 3.05.  

Deposit of Redemption Price

     28   
SECTION 3.06.  

Notes Redeemed in Part

     28   
ARTICLE IV   
COVENANTS   
SECTION 4.01.  

Payment of Notes

     28   
SECTION 4.02.  

Maintenance of Office or Agency

     28   
SECTION 4.03.  

Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness

     28   
SECTION 4.04.  

Limitation on Restricted Payments

     29   
SECTION 4.05.  

Corporate Existence

     32   
SECTION 4.06.  

Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

     33   
SECTION 4.07.  

Maintenance of Properties and Insurance

     33   
SECTION 4.08.  

Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default

     33   
SECTION 4.09.  

Compliance with Laws

     34   
SECTION 4.10.  

Reports to Holders

     34   
SECTION 4.11.  

Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws

     35   
SECTION 4.12.  

Limitation on Asset Sales

     35   
SECTION 4.13.  

Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries

     37   

 

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         Page  
SECTION 4.14.  

[Intentionally omitted]

     39   
SECTION 4.15.  

Limitation on Liens

     39   
SECTION 4.16.  

[Intentionally Omitted]

     39   
SECTION 4.17.  

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates

     39   
SECTION 4.18.  

Issuance of Subsidiary Guarantees

     40   
SECTION 4.19.  

Payments for Consent

     42   
SECTION 4.20.  

Limitation on Designations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries

     42   
SECTION 4.21.  

Change of Control

     43   
SECTION 4.22.  

Covenant Suspension

     45   
ARTICLE V   
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION   
SECTION 5.01.  

Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets

     46   
SECTION 5.02.  

Successor Corporation Substituted

     48   
ARTICLE VI   
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES   
SECTION 6.01.  

Events of Default

     48   
SECTION 6.02.  

Acceleration

     49   
SECTION 6.03.  

Priorities

     50   
ARTICLE VII   
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE   
SECTION 7.01.  

Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

     51   
SECTION 7.02.  

Satisfaction and Discharge

     53   
SECTION 7.03.  

Survival of Certain Obligations

     54   
SECTION 7.04.  

Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee

     54   
SECTION 7.05.  

Application of Trust Assets

     54   
SECTION 7.06.  

Repayment to the Company or Guarantors; Unclaimed Money

     54   
SECTION 7.07.  

Reinstatement

     55   
ARTICLE VIII   
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS   
SECTION 8.01.  

Without Consent of Holders

     55   
SECTION 8.02.  

With Consent of Holders

     56   
ARTICLE IX   
GUARANTEE   
SECTION 9.01.  

Unconditional Guarantee

     57   
SECTION 9.02.  

Release of a Guarantor

     57   

 

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ARTICLE X   
MISCELLANEOUS   
SECTION 10.01.  

TIA Controls

     57   
SECTION 10.02.  

Notices

     57   
SECTION 10.03.  

Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar

     58   
SECTION 10.04.  

Governing Law

     59   
SECTION 10.05.  

No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements

     59   
SECTION 10.06.  

Successors

     59   
SECTION 10.07.  

Duplicate Originals

     59   
SECTION 10.08.  

Severability

     60   
SECTION 10.09.  

Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.

     60   

 

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Exhibit A    -    Form of Note
Exhibit B    -    Form of Legend for Global Notes
Exhibit C    -    Form of Subsidiary Guarantee

Note:    This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of December 5, 2014 (this “ Supplemental Indenture ”), among TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), as issuer, TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC., THE PULLMAN COMPANY, CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC., TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC., TMC TEXAS INC., TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP. and such other subsidiaries of the Company, as shall from time to time execute a Subsidiary Guarantee (as defined herein), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantors have previously executed and delivered an indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014 (the “ Base Indenture ”), with the Trustee providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of the Company’s debt securities;

WHEREAS, Section 9.1 of the Base Indenture provides that the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Section 2.1 and Section 3.1 of the Base Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantors are entering into this Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and terms of the Company’s 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024 (the “ Notes ”; which defined term shall include the Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes) and related Subsidiary Guarantees;

WHEREAS, the Base Indenture is incorporated herein by reference and the Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is herein called the “Indenture”; and

WHEREAS, all conditions necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture and to make it a valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Guarantors have been done or performed.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders.

ARTICLE I

ESTABLISHMENT; DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

SECTION 1.01. Establishment .

(a) There is hereby established a new series of Securities to be issued under this Supplemental Indenture, to be designated as the Company’s “5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024.”

(b) There are to be authenticated and delivered on the date hereof $225,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued under this Supplemental Indenture after the date hereof in accordance with Section 2.04.

(c) The Notes shall be issued substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

(d) Each Note shall be dated the date of authentication thereof and shall bear interest from the date of original issuance thereof or from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for.


(e) The Notes are to be issued in fully registered form only, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

(f) With respect to the Notes (and any Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon) only, the Base Indenture shall be supplemented pursuant to Sections 2.1, 3.1 and 9.1 thereof to establish the terms of the Notes (and any Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon) as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture, including as follows:

(i) the form and terms of the securities representing the Notes required to be established pursuant to Article 2 of the Base Indenture shall be established in accordance with Article II of this Supplemental Indenture;

(ii) the provisions of Article 4 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Article VII hereof;

(iii) the provisions of Article 8 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Article V hereof;

(iv) the provisions of Article 10 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Article IV hereof;

(v) the provisions of Article 11 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Article III hereof;

(vi) the provisions of Article 12 of the Base Indenture shall not be applicable to the Notes;

(vii) the provisions of Article 13 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Senior Notes as specified in Section 9.01 of this Supplemental Indenture;

(viii) the provisions of Sections 5.1, 5.2 and 5.6 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Section 6.01, 6.02 and 6.03 hereof, respectively;

(ix) the provisions of Section 7.4 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Section 4.10 hereof;

(x) the provisions of Section 9.1 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Section 8.01 hereof; and

(xi) the provisions of Section 9.2 of the Base Indenture are deleted and replaced in their entirety by the provisions of Section 8.02 hereof.

To the extent that the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture (including those referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) and (xi) immediately above) conflict with any provision of the Base Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling solely with respect to the Notes (and any Subsidiary Guarantees endorsed thereon).

(g) Unless otherwise expressly specified, references in this Supplemental Indenture to specific Article numbers or Section numbers refer to Articles and Sections contained in this Supplemental Indenture, and not the Base Indenture or any other document.

 

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SECTION 1.02. Definitions .

(a) All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined below shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Base Indenture.

(b) Set forth below are certain defined terms used in this Supplemental Indenture and to the extent that a term is defined both herein and in the Base Indenture, unless otherwise specified, the definition in this Supplemental Indenture shall govern solely with respect to the Notes (and any Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed thereon).

Accounts Receivable Entity ” means a Person, including, without limitation, a Subsidiary of the Company, whose operations consist solely of owning and/or selling accounts receivable of the Company and its Subsidiaries and engaging in other activities in connection with transactions that are Permitted Receivables Financings.

Acquired Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time it merges or consolidates with the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or assumed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person and in each case not incurred by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or such acquisition, merger or consolidation.

Acquired Subsidiary ” means a Person which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date; provided that such Person has outstanding voting Capital Stock prior to becoming a Subsidiary of the Company and a majority of such voting Capital Stock was owned by Persons other than the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Additional Notes ” means, subject to compliance with Section 4.03, Notes issued from time to time after the Issue Date under the terms of this Supplemental Indenture (other than pursuant to Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 of the Base Indenture or 3.06 of this Supplemental Indenture).

Affiliate Transaction ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.17.

Applicable Premium ” means, at any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note and (ii) the excess of (A) the present value at such Redemption Date of (1) the redemption price of such Note on December 15, 2019 (such redemption price being that described in the Note under Paragraph 5 “Optional Redemption”) plus (2) all required remaining scheduled interest payments due on such Note through such date, computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, over (B) the principal amount of such Note on such Redemption Date; and, as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate; provided that such calculation shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee.

Asset Acquisition ” means (1) an Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any other Person pursuant to which such Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary, or shall be merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or (2) the acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the assets of any Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary) which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person or comprise any division or line of business of such Person or any other assets of such Person other than in the ordinary course of business.

Asset Sale ” means any direct or indirect sale, issuance, conveyance, lease (other than operating leases entered into in the ordinary course of business), assignment or other transfer (other than

 

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the granting of a Lien in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture) for value by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) to any Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of (a) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary; or (b) any other property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than in the ordinary course of business; provided , however , that Asset Sales shall not include:

(1) a transaction or series of related transactions for which the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries receive aggregate consideration of less than $25 million;

(2) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company as permitted by Section 5.01;

(3) any Restricted Payment made in accordance with Section 4.04;

(4) sales or contributions of accounts receivable and related assets pursuant to a Permitted Receivables Financing made in accordance with Section 4.03;

(5) sales or dispositions of (i) obsolete and not practically usable or (ii) worn-out equipment;

(6) the sale or other disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents;

(7) surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;

(8) the grant in the ordinary course of business of any non-exclusive license of patents, trademarks, registrations therefor and other similar intellectual property;

(9) any expropriation, taking, sale or other disposition of assets (including any receipt of proceeds related thereto) by any government or any political subdivisions, agencies or controlled entities thereof;

(10) the issuance by a Restricted Subsidiary of Preferred Stock that is permitted by Section 4.03; or

(11) involuntary foreclosure upon any assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to any Lien granted in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture.

Board of Directors ” means, as to any Person, the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorized committee thereof.

Board Resolution ” means, with respect to any Person, a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

Capitalized Lease Obligations ” means, as to any Person, the obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and accounted for as capital lease obligations under GAAP and, for purposes of this definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Cash Equivalents ” means

(1) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;

(2) marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s;

(3) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having a rating of at least A-2 from S&P or at least P-2 from Moody’s;

(4) demand and time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any U.S. branch of a foreign bank having at the date of acquisition thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $250 million;

(5) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (1) above entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (4) above;

(6) investments in money market funds which invest substantially all their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (1) through (5) above;

(7) investments in money market funds subject to the risk limiting conditions of Rule 2a-7 or any successor rule of the Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and

(8) solely in respect of the ordinary course cash management activities of the Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company, equivalents of the investments described in clause (1) above to the extent guaranteed by any member state of the European Union or the country in which the applicable Foreign Subsidiary operates and equivalents of the investments described in clause (4) above issued, accepted or offered by any commercial bank organized under the laws of a member state of the European Union or the jurisdiction of organization of the applicable Foreign Subsidiary having at the date of acquisition thereof combined capital and surplus of not less than $250 million.

Cash Management Obligations ” means, with respect to any Person, all obligations of such Person in respect of overdrafts and related liabilities owed to any other Person that arise from treasury, depositary or cash management services, including in connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds, or any similar transactions.

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events:

(1) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to any Person or group of related Persons for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (a “ Group ”), together with any Affiliates thereof (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture);

 

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(2) the approval by the holders of Capital Stock of the Company of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company (whether or not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture);

(3) any Person or Group shall become the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of shares representing more than 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Company; or

(4) during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of the Company (together with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election by the stockholders of the Company was approved pursuant to a vote of a majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then in office.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.21.

Change of Control Payment Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.21.

Commodity Agreement ” means any commodity futures contract, commodity option or other similar agreement or arrangement entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company designed to protect the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries against fluctuations in the price of the commodities at the time used in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and not for speculative purposes.

Common Stock ” of any Person means any and all shares, interests or other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether voting or non-voting) of such Person’s common stock, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or issued after the Issue Date, and includes, without limitation, all series and classes of such common stock.

Consolidated EBITDA ” means, with respect to the Company, for any period, the sum (without duplication) of:

(1) Consolidated Net Income; and

(2) to the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby:

(1) all income taxes of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries expensed or accrued in accordance with GAAP for such period;

(2) Consolidated Interest Expense; and

(3) Consolidated Non-cash Charges,

less any non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period, all as determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ” means, with respect to the Company, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of the Company during the four full fiscal quarters (the “ Four Quarter Period ”) ending on or prior to the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (the “ Transaction Date ”) to Consolidated Fixed Charges of the Company for the Four Quarter Period. In addition to and without limitation of the foregoing, for purposes of this definition, “Consolidated EBITDA” and “Consolidated Fixed Charges” shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the period of such calculation to:

(1) the incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (and the application of the proceeds thereof) giving rise to the need to make such calculation and any incurrence or repayment of other Indebtedness (and the application of the proceeds thereof), other than the incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to working capital facilities, occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date, as if such incurrence or repayment, as the case may be (and the application of the proceeds thereof), occurred on the first day of the Four Quarter Period; and

(2) any Asset Sales or other dispositions or Asset Acquisitions (including, without limitation, any Asset Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such calculation as a result of the Company or one of the Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Asset Acquisition) incurring, assuming or otherwise being liable for Acquired Indebtedness and also including any Consolidated EBITDA ( provided that such Consolidated EBITDA shall be included only to the extent includable pursuant to the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”) attributable to the assets which are the subject of the Asset Acquisition or Asset Sale or other disposition during the Four Quarter Period) occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date as if such Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition or other disposition (including the incurrence, assumption or liability for any such Acquired Indebtedness) occurred on the first day of the Four Quarter Period.

If the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries directly or indirectly guarantees Indebtedness of a third Person, the preceding sentence shall give effect to the incurrence of such guaranteed Indebtedness as if the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary had directly incurred or otherwise assumed such guaranteed Indebtedness. Furthermore, in calculating “Consolidated Fixed Charges” for purposes of determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of this “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”:

(1) interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so determined thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction Date;

(2) if interest on any Indebtedness actually incurred on the Transaction Date may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rates, then the interest rate in effect on the Transaction Date will be deemed to have been in effect during the Four Quarter Period; and

(3) notwithstanding clause (1) above, interest on Indebtedness determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is covered by agreements relating to Interest Swap Obligations, shall be deemed to accrue at the rate per annum in effect on the Transaction Date resulting after giving effect to the operation of such agreements on such date.

 

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Consolidated Fixed Charges ” means, with respect to the Company for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

(1) Consolidated Interest Expense, plus

(2) the product of (x) the amount of all dividend payments on any series of Preferred Stock of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued during such period (other than dividends paid in Qualified Capital Stock) multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current effective consolidated federal, state and local income tax rate of the Company, expressed as a decimal.

Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, with respect to the Company for any period, the sum of, without duplication:

(1) the aggregate of the interest expense of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation,

(A) any amortization of debt discount,

(B) the net costs under Interest Swap Obligations,

(C) all capitalized interest, and

(D) the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation;

(2) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations accrued by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; and

(3) to the extent not included in clause (1) above, net losses relating to sales of accounts receivable pursuant to Permitted Receivables Financings during such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Income ” means, with respect to the Company, for any period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded therefrom:

(1) after-tax gains and losses from Asset Sales or abandonments or reserves relating thereto;

(2) extraordinary or non-recurring gains or losses (determined on an after-tax basis);

(3) any non-cash compensation expense incurred for grants and issuances of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted shares or other rights to officers, directors and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries (including any such grant or issuance to a 401(k) plan or other retirement benefit plan);

 

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(4) the net income (but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that income is restricted by a contract, operation of law or otherwise;

(5) the net income (loss) of any Person, other than a Restricted Subsidiary, except in the case of net income to the extent of cash dividends or distributions paid to the Company or to a Restricted Subsidiary by such Person;

(6) [reserved];

(7) income or loss attributable to discontinued operations (including, without limitation, operations disposed of during such period whether or not such operations were classified as discontinued) from and after the date that such operation is classified as discontinued;

(8) in the case of a successor to the Company by consolidation or merger or as a transferee of the Company’s assets, any earnings of the successor corporation prior to such consolidation, merger or transfer of assets;

(9) write-downs resulting from the impairment of goodwill or intangible assets;

(10) the amount of amortization or write-off of deferred financing costs and debt issuance costs of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period and any premium or penalty paid in connection with redeeming or retiring Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries prior to the stated maturity thereof pursuant to the agreements governing such Indebtedness; and

(11) any and all costs, expenses, fees, fines, penalties, judgments, legal settlements and other amounts associated with any restructuring, litigation, claim, proceeding, or investigation related to or undertaken by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and included in the Company’s audited financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, together with any related provision for taxes, in an aggregate amount not to exceed in any twelve-month period, $35 million (with unused amounts in any twelve-month period being permitted to be carried over to the immediately succeeding twelve-month period subject to a maximum of $70 million).

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets ” means, as of any date of determination, the total assets, less goodwill and other intangibles (other than patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property), shown on the balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Non-cash Charges ” means, with respect to the Company, for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of the Company for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding any such charge which requires an accrual of or a reserve for cash payments for any future period).

Consolidated Secured Debt Ratio ” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries that is secured by Liens as of the end of the Four Quarter Period ending on or prior to the Transaction Date minus the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents (in each case, free and clear of all Liens) included on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such time to

 

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(b) the aggregate amount of Consolidated EBITDA of the Company during the Four Quarter Period ending on or prior to the Transaction Date, in each case with such pro forma adjustments to Consolidated Total Indebtedness and Consolidated EBITDA as are appropriate and consistent with the pro forma adjustment provisions set forth in the definition of Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.

Consolidated Total Debt Ratio ” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the Four Quarter Period ending on or prior to the Transaction Date to (b) the aggregate amount of Consolidated EBITDA of the Company during the Four Quarter Period ending on or prior to the Transaction Date, in each case with such pro forma adjustments to Consolidated Total Indebtedness and Consolidated EBITDA as are appropriate and consistent with the pro forma adjustment provisions set forth in the definition of Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.

Consolidated Total Indebtedness ” means, as at any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum of (1) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, Obligations in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations and debt obligations evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances (and excluding (x) any undrawn letters of credit and (y) all obligations relating to Permitted Receivables Financings) and (2) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Disqualified Capital Stock of the Company and all Disqualified Capital Stock and Preferred Stock of the Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding items eliminated in consolidation), with the amount of such Disqualified Capital Stock and Preferred Stock equal to the greater of their respective voluntary or involuntary liquidation preferences and Maximum Fixed Repurchase Prices, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

For purposes hereof, the “ Maximum Fixed Repurchase Price ” of any Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock that does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock as if such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock were purchased on the applicable date on which Consolidated Total Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock, such fair market value shall be determined reasonably and in good faith by the Company.

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01.

Credit Agreement ” means the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 22, 2012, among the Company, the Guarantors, the lenders party thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, together with the documents related thereto (including, without limitation, any guarantee agreements and security documents), in each case as such agreements may be amended (including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their terms, including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring (including increasing the amount of available borrowings thereunder ( provided that such increase in borrowings is permitted by Section 4.03 (including the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”)) or adding Subsidiaries of the Company as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement and whether by the same or any other agent lender or group of lenders.

Credit Facilities ” means one or more debt facilities (including the Credit Agreement) or commercial paper facilities providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from lenders

 

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against such receivables) or letters of credit, or any debt securities or other form of debt financing (including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments), in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated or refunded in whole or in part from time to time.

Currency Agreement ” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary against fluctuations in currency values.

Custodian ” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Default ” means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

Depository ” means, with respect to the Notes issued in the form of one or more Global Notes, DTC or another Person designated as Depository by the Company, which must be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act.

Designation ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.20.

Designation Amount ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.20.

Disqualified Capital Stock ” means that portion of any Capital Stock which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is mandatorily exchangeable for Indebtedness, or is redeemable or exchangeable for Indebtedness, at the sole option of the holder thereof on or prior to the final maturity date of the Notes.

Domestic Restricted Subsidiary ” means a Restricted Subsidiary incorporated or otherwise organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto.

Equity Interests ” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).

Equity Offering ” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 6 of the Notes.

Event of Default ” has the meaning provided in Section 6.01.

Excess Proceeds ” has the meaning provided in Section 4.12.

Excess Proceeds Offer ” has the meaning provided in Section 4.12.

Excess Proceeds Offer Trigger Date ” has the meaning provided in Section 4.12.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute or statutes thereto, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Fair Market Value ” means, with respect to any asset or property, the price which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing

 

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and able buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company acting reasonably and in good faith and shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Finance Subsidiary ” means a Restricted Subsidiary that is organized solely for the purpose of owning Indebtedness of the Company and/or other Restricted Subsidiaries and issuing securities the proceeds of which are utilized by the Company and/or other Restricted Subsidiaries, and which engages only in such activities and activities incident thereto.

Foreign Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized and existing under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary that is organized and existing under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

Four Quarter Period ” has the meaning provided in the definition of “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”.

GAAP ” means 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 entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession of the United States, which are in effect as of the Issue Date.

Global Note ” means a security evidencing all or a part of the Notes deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository in accordance with Section 2.01 and bearing the legend prescribed in Exhibit B .

Guarantee ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.18.

Guaranteed Indebtedness ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.18.

Guarantor ” means (1) each Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (other than any Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries, Accounts Receivable Entities and Finance Subsidiaries) as of the Issue Date and (2) each other Restricted Subsidiary that in the future is required to or executes a Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to Section 4.18 or otherwise; provided that any Person constituting a Guarantor as described above shall cease to constitute a Guarantor when its Subsidiary Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

Holder ” or “ Noteholder ” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary ” means at any time, any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary having total assets (as determined in accordance with GAAP) in an amount of less than 1% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined in accordance with GAAP); provided , however , that the total assets (as so determined) of all Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries shall not exceed 5% of consolidated total assets of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries (as so determined). In the event that the total assets of all Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries exceed 5% of consolidated total assets of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries, the Company will designate Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries that would otherwise be Immaterial

 

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Domestic Subsidiaries to be excluded as Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries until such 5% threshold is met. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Domestic Restricted Subsidiary that guarantees the Credit Agreement or any obligation thereunder shall be deemed an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary.

incur ” has the meaning provided in Section 4.03.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, without duplication:

(1) all Obligations of such Person for borrowed money;

(2) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

(3) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;

(4) all Obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations and all Obligations under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue by 90 days or more or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted);

(5) all Obligations for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction;

(6) guarantees and other contingent obligations in respect of Indebtedness of any other Person referred to in clauses (1) through (5) above and clauses (8) and (10) below;

(7) all Obligations of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (1) through (6) above which are secured by any Lien on any property or asset of such Person, the amount of such Obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the Fair Market Value of such property or asset or the amount of the Obligation so secured;

(8) all Obligations under Currency Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations of such Person;

(9) all Disqualified Capital Stock of the Company and all Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary with the amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock being equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and its maximum fixed repurchase price, but excluding accrued and unpaid dividends, if any; and

(10) all Outstanding Permitted Receivables Financings.

For purposes hereof, the “maximum fixed repurchase price” of any Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock as if such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the Fair Market Value of such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock, such Fair Market Value shall be determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the issuer of such Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock.

 

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Independent ” when used with respect to any specified Person means such a Person who (a) is in fact independent; (b) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or in any Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (c) is not an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or Person performing similar functions for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Whenever it is provided in the Indenture that any Independent Person’s opinion or certificate shall be furnished to the Trustee, such Person shall be appointed by the Company, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read this definition and that the signer is Independent within the meaning hereof.

Independent Financial Advisor ” means a firm (1) which does not, and whose directors, officers and employees and Affiliates do not, have a direct or indirect material financial interest in the Company and (2) which, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, is otherwise independent and qualified to perform the task for which it is to be engaged.

Initial Notes ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding ” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, (b) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding with respect to such Person or with respect to any of its assets, (c) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or winding up of such Person whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy or (d) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshaling of assets and liabilities of such Person.

Interest Payment Date ” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Notes.

Interest Swap Obligations ” means the obligations of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person, whereby, directly or indirectly, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is entitled to receive from time to time periodic payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate lock obligations, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.

Investment ” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a guarantee) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued by, any other Person. “Investment” shall exclude extensions of trade credit by the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on commercially reasonable terms in accordance with normal trade practices of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary (the “ Referent Subsidiary ”) such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, the Referent Subsidiary shall cease to be a Restricted Subsidiary, the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of the Referent Subsidiary not sold or disposed of.

Investment Grade Rating ” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P (or the equivalent rating by any Successor Rating Agency).

 

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Issue Date ” means December 5, 2014, the date of initial issuance of the Notes.

Legal Defeasance ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01.

Lien ” means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, pledge, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any agreement to give any security interest).

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

Net Cash Proceeds ” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the proceeds in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents, including payments in respect of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (other than the portion of any such deferred payment constituting interest), received by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale net of:

(1) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, sales commissions and relocation expenses);

(2) taxes paid or payable after taking into account any reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements;

(3) repayments of Indebtedness secured by the property or assets subject to such Asset Sale that is required to be repaid in connection with such Asset Sale; and

(4) appropriate amounts to be determined by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, after such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Sale.

Notes ” has the meaning provided in the recitals to this Supplemental Indenture.

Obligations ” means any and all obligations with respect to the payment of (a) any principal of or interest (including interest accruing on or after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding) or premium on any Indebtedness, including any reimbursement obligation in respect of any letter of credit and (b) any fees, indemnification obligations, damages, expense reimbursement obligations or other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

Outstanding Permitted Receivables Financings ” means the aggregate amount of the receivables sold, contributed or financed pursuant to a Permitted Receivables Financing that remain uncollected at any one time. For the avoidance of doubt, regardless of the accounting treatment under GAAP, it is understood that the amount financed pursuant to a Permitted Receivables Financing is the aggregate amount of capital funded by the purchasers (other than an Accounts Receivable Entity) thereunder and outstanding at the time of determination.

Paying Agent ” has the meaning provided in Section 2.02.

 

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Payment Default ” has the meaning provided in Section 6.01.

Permitted Indebtedness ” means, without duplication, each of the following:

(1) Indebtedness under the Notes, this Supplemental Indenture and any Subsidiary Guarantees outstanding on the Issue Date;

(2) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a Credit Facility, including but not limited to the Credit Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the greater of (x) $1,700 million and (y) an amount such that at the time of incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto (including the use of proceeds therefrom), the Consolidated Secured Debt Ratio would not be greater than 3.50:1.00;

(3) other Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on the Issue Date, other than amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement on the Issue Date;

(4) Interest Swap Obligations entered into to protect the Company and/or any Restricted Subsidiary from fluctuations in interest rates on Indebtedness incurred in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture to the extent the notional principal amount of such Interest Swap Obligations does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness to which such Interest Swap Obligations relate;

(5) Indebtedness under Currency Agreements and Commodity Agreements, provided that in the case of Currency Agreements which relate to Indebtedness, such Currency Agreements do not increase the Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding other than as a result of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates or by reason of fees, indemnities and compensation payable thereunder;

(6) Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or to a Restricted Subsidiary for so long as such Indebtedness is held by the Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or the lenders or collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15, in each case subject to no Lien held by a Person other than the Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or the lenders or collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15; provided that if as of any date any Person other than the Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or the lenders or collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15, owns or holds any such Indebtedness or holds a Lien in respect of such Indebtedness, such date shall be deemed the incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness under this clause (6) by the issuer of such Indebtedness;

(7) Indebtedness of the Company to a Restricted Subsidiary for so long as such Indebtedness is held by a Restricted Subsidiary or the lenders or the collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15, and is subject to no Lien other than a Lien in favor of the lenders or collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15; provided that (a) any Indebtedness of the Company to any Restricted Subsidiary is unsecured and, except in the case of Indebtedness owed to Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company, subordinated, pursuant to a written agreement to the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes and (b) if as of any date any Person other than a Restricted Subsidiary owns or holds any such Indebtedness or any Person holds a Lien other than a Lien in favor of the lenders or collateral agent under any agreement governing secured Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Sections 4.03 and 4.15, such date shall be deemed the incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness under this clause (7) by the Company;

 

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(8) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided , however , that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days after incurrence;

(9) Indebtedness of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries represented by letters of credit for the account of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in order to provide security for workers’ compensation claims, payment obligations in connection with self-insurance or similar requirements in the ordinary course of business;

(10) Refinancing Indebtedness;

(11) additional Indebtedness of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $350.0 million at any one time outstanding;

(12) additional Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries of the Company in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 125.0 million Euros at any one time outstanding;

(13) Purchase Money Indebtedness and Capitalized Lease Obligations of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (and any Indebtedness incurred to Refinance such Purchase Money Indebtedness or Capitalized Lease Obligations) not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at any one time outstanding;

(14) Outstanding Permitted Receivables Financings;

(15) any Guarantee by the Company or a Guarantor of any Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that was permitted to be incurred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary under the terms of this Supplemental Indenture at the time so incurred; and

(16) Acquired Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that either (i) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and any related financing transactions on a pro forma basis as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Four Quarter Period, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.03 or (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and any related financing transactions a pro forma basis as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable Four Quarter Period, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company would be equal to or greater than the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company immediately prior to such transaction.

If any Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary would qualify in more than one of the categories of Permitted Indebtedness as set forth in clauses (1) through (16) of this definition, or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to the first paragraph of Section 4.03, the Company may classify under which category such incurrence shall be deemed to have been made or, for the avoidance of doubt, later reclassify all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness, in any manner that complies with Section 4.03 (including this definition); provided that Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement outstanding on the Issue Date will be deemed to have been incurred in reliance on the exception provided by clause (2) of this definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” and may not be reclassified.

 

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Permitted Investments ” means:

(1) Investments by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person that is or will become immediately after such Investment a Restricted Subsidiary or that will merge into or consolidate with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(2) Investments in the Company by any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any Indebtedness evidencing such Investment is unsecured;

(3) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;

(4) loans and advances to employees, officers and directors of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business for bona fide business purposes not in excess of an aggregate of $25.0 million at any one time outstanding;

(5) Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of the Company’s or a Restricted Subsidiary’s businesses and otherwise in compliance with this Supplemental Indenture;

(6) Investments in securities of trade creditors or customers received pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of such trade creditors or customers or in settlement of delinquent accounts;

(7) Investments made by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of consideration received in connection with an Asset Sale made in compliance with Section 4.12;

(8) Investments (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) in Persons, including, without limitation, Unrestricted Subsidiaries and joint ventures, engaged in a business similar or related to or logical extensions of the businesses in which the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged on the Issue Date, not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of such Investment, at any one time outstanding;

(9) Investments (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time of such Investment, at any one time outstanding;

(10) Investments in an Accounts Receivable Entity;

(11) any acquisition of assets solely in exchange for the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Company;

(12) Guarantees issued in accordance with Section 4.03;

(13) any Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary existing on, or made pursuant to binding commitments existing on, the Issue Date; and

(14) any Investment held by any Person at the time that such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary provided that such Investment was not made in connection with or in contemplation thereof.

 

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Permitted Liens ” means the following types of Liens:

(1) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims either (A) not delinquent or (B) contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and, in each case, as to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required pursuant to GAAP;

(2) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen, repairmen and other Liens imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith, if such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made in respect thereof;

(3) Liens on property or shares of Capital Stock of another Person at the time such other Person becomes a Subsidiary of such Person and not incurred in connection with or in contemplation thereof; provided , however , that the Liens may not extend to any other property owned by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and assets and property affixed or appurtenant thereto);

(4) Liens on property at the time such Person or any of its Subsidiaries acquires the property and not incurred in connection with or in contemplation thereof, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person; provided , however , that the Liens may not extend to any other property owned by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and assets and property affixed or appurtenant thereto);

(5) leases or subleases granted in the ordinary course of business;

(6) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease;

(7) Liens arising out of consignments or similar arrangements for the sale of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(8) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, including any Lien securing letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection therewith, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money);

(9) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment shall not have been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired;

(10) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions and other similar charges or encumbrances in respect of real property not impairing in any material respect the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries;

(11) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease Obligation; provided that such Liens do not extend to any property or asset which is not leased property subject to such Capitalized Lease Obligation;

 

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(12) purchase money Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary acquired in the ordinary course of business, and Liens securing Indebtedness which Refinances any such Indebtedness; provided , however , that (A) the related Purchase Money Indebtedness (or Refinancing Indebtedness) shall not exceed the cost of such property or assets and shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the assets so acquired (and assets affixed or appurtenant thereto) and (B) the Lien securing the Purchase Money Indebtedness shall be created within 180 days after such acquisition;

(13) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

(14) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof;

(15) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising from statutory, regulatory, contractual or warranty requirements of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset and set-off;

(16) Liens securing Interest Swap Obligations which Interest Swap Obligations relate to Indebtedness that is otherwise permitted under this Supplemental Indenture;

(17) Liens securing Indebtedness and other Obligations under Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Cash Management Obligations, in each case permitted under this Supplemental Indenture;

(18) Liens securing Acquired Indebtedness (and any Indebtedness which Refinances such Acquired Indebtedness) incurred in accordance with Section 4.03; provided that (A) such Liens secured the Acquired Indebtedness at the time of and prior to the incurrence of such Acquired Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and were not granted in connection with, or in anticipation of the incurrence of such Acquired Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and (B) such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Company or of any of the Restricted Subsidiaries other than the property or assets that secured the Acquired Indebtedness prior to the time such Indebtedness became Acquired Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(19) Liens securing Indebtedness of Foreign Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture; provided that such Liens do not extend to any property or assets other than property or assets of Foreign Restricted Subsidiaries;

(20) Liens incurred in connection with a Permitted Receivables Financing;

(21) Liens incurred to secure Obligations in respect of any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.03; provided that, at the time of incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto, the Consolidated Secured Debt Ratio would be no greater than 3.50:1.00; and

(22) Liens securing Indebtedness of Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors permitted to be incurred in accordance with Section 4.03.

 

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Permitted Receivables Financing ” means any sale or contribution by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of accounts receivable and related assets intended to be (and which shall be treated for purposes of this Supplemental Indenture as) a true sale transaction with customary limited recourse based upon the collectibility of the receivables and related assets sold and the corresponding sale or pledge of such accounts receivable and related assets (or an interest therein), in each case without any guarantee (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than of collectibility of receivables transferred or of Indebtedness) pursuant to representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities customary for such transactions), by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary other than an Accounts Receivable Entity.

Preferred Stock ” of any Person means any Capital Stock of such Person that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person with respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation.

Presenting Agent ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.02.

pro forma ” means, with respect to any calculation made or required to be made pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture, a calculation in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act as interpreted by the Company’s Board of Directors in consultation with its Independent certified public accountants.

Purchase Money Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost of an Asset Acquisition or the acquisition, construction or improvement of any property or assets; provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed such purchase price or cost.

Qualified Capital Stock ” means any Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Capital Stock.

Rating Agencies ” means Moody’s and S&P; provided that if S&P, Moody’s or any Successor Rating Agency (as defined below) shall cease to be in the business of providing rating services for debt securities generally, the Company shall be entitled to replace any such Rating Agency or Successor Rating Agency, as the case may be, which has ceased to be in the business of providing rating services for debt securities generally with a security rating agency which is in the business of providing rating services for debt securities generally and which is nationally recognized in the United States (such rating agency, a “ Successor Rating Agency ”).

Record Date ” means the Record Dates specified in the Notes; provided that if any such date is not a Business Day, the Record Date shall be the first day immediately preceding such specified day that is a Business Day.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes.

Redemption Price ,” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the price fixed for such redemption, payable in immediately available funds, pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes.

Reference Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04.

 

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Refinance ” means in respect of any security or Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue a security or Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such security or Indebtedness in whole or in part. “ Refinanced ” and “ Refinancing ” shall have correlative meanings.

Refinancing Indebtedness ” means any Refinancing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness incurred in accordance with Section 4.03 (other than pursuant to clause (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (11), (12), (13) or (14) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”), in each case that does not:

(1) result in an increase in the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness of such Person as of the date of the completion of all components of such proposed Refinancing (provided such completion occurs within 60 days of the initial incurrence of Indebtedness in connection with such Refinancing) (plus the amount of any accrued and unpaid interest and any premium reasonably necessary to Refinance such Indebtedness and plus the amount of reasonable expenses incurred by the Company in connection with such Refinancing); or

(2) create Indebtedness with (A) a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced or (B) a final maturity earlier than the final maturity of the Indebtedness being Refinanced;

provided that (x) if such Indebtedness being Refinanced is Indebtedness of the Company and/or a Guarantor, then such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be Indebtedness solely of the Company and/or such Guarantor and (y) if such Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinate or junior to the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee, then such Refinancing Indebtedness shall be subordinate to the Notes or such Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be, at least to the same extent and in the same manner as the Indebtedness being Refinanced.

Registrar ” has the meaning provided in Section 2.02.

Replacement Assets ” means assets and property that will be used in the business of the Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries or in a business that is the same, similar or reasonably related thereto (including Capital Stock of a Person which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary).

Restricted Payment ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04.

Restricted Security ” has the meaning set forth in Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to request and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Security is a Restricted Security.

Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Company that has not been designated by the Board of Directors of the Company, by a Board Resolution of the Company delivered to the Trustee, as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.20. Any such Designation may be revoked by a Board Resolution of the Company delivered to the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 4.20.

Reversion Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.22.

Revocation ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.20.

 

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S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or any successor to its rating agency business.

Sale and Leaseback Transaction ” means any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party, providing for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property, whether owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor statute or statutes thereto, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Senior Notes ” means the Company’s 7  3 4 % Senior Notes due 2018 issued from time to time under that certain indenture dated as of August 3, 2010 with U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee and the Company’s 6  7 8 Senior Notes due 2020 issued from time to time under that certain indenture dated December 23, 2010 with U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.

Significant Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that satisfies the criteria for a “significant subsidiary” set forth in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act.

Subordinated Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness as to which the payment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and other payment obligations is subordinate or junior in right of payment by its terms to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable.

Subsidiary ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Base Indenture.

Subsidiary Guarantee ” means the guarantee by each Guarantor of the obligations of the Company under the Notes pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture.

Successor Rating Agency ” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Rating Agencies.”

Surviving Entity ” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01.

Suspended Covenants ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.22.

Suspension Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.22.

Suspension Period ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.22.

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

Transaction Date ” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to a Redemption Date, the yield to maturity at the time of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published

 

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in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to such Redemption Date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from such Redemption Date to December 15, 2019; provided , however , that if the period from the Redemption Date to such date is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the Redemption Date to such date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Company designated as such pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.20. Any such designation may be revoked by a Board Resolution of the Company delivered to the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 4.20.

U.S. Legal Tender ” means such coin or currency in immediately available funds of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Weighted Average Life to Maturity ” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (A) the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness into (B) the sum of the total of the products obtained by multiplying (I) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (II) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse between such date and the making of such payment.

Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted Subsidiary ” means a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary that is also a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary.

Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary ” of the Company means any Restricted Subsidiary of which all the outstanding voting securities (other than in the case of a Foreign Restricted Subsidiary, directors’ qualifying shares or an immaterial amount of shares required to be owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are owned by the Company or any other Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary.

 

SECTION 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of TIA .

Whenever this Supplemental Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is incorporated by reference in, and made a part of, this Supplemental Indenture.

All TIA terms used in this Supplemental Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.

 

SECTION 1.04. Rules of Construction .

Unless the context otherwise requires

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

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

 

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(3) “or” is not exclusive;

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

(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and

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

ARTICLE II

THE SECURITIES

Pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 3.1 of the Base Indenture, the provisions of this Article II establish the form of the Notes under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating .

The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereof shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A annexed hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Supplemental Indenture.

The Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes in registered form, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A , deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository, and shall bear the legend set forth in Exhibit B . The aggregate principal amount of any Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository.

 

SECTION 2.02. Registrar and Paying Agent .

The Company shall maintain an office or agency (the “ Presenting Agent ”), where (a) Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, (b) Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment and (c) notices and demands upon the Company in respect of the Notes and the Indenture may be served. The Trustee shall initially act as Registrar (“ Registrar ”) and Paying Agent (“ Paying Agent ”) for the Notes. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange. The Company, upon written notice to the Trustee, may have one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying Agents reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional Paying Agent. The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Paying Agent and Presenting Agent until such time as the Trustee has resigned or a successor has been appointed. Notices and demands upon the Company in respect of the Notes and the Indenture may be served at the Trustee’s office located as of the date hereof c/o U.S. Bank National Association, Corporate Trust Services, 5555 San Felipe, Suite 1150, Houston, Texas 77056. Interest may be paid at the Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office, by check mailed to the registered address of the Holders or by wire transfer if instructions therefor are furnished by a Holder. Neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent except as otherwise expressly provided in the form of the Note.

 

SECTION 2.03. Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust .

The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all assets held by the

 

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Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any Default by the Company in making any such payment. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and account for any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time, but shall be under no obligation to, during the continuance of any payment Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any assets distributed. Upon distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall have been delivered by the Company to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for such assets.

 

SECTION 2.04. Additional Notes.

The Company shall be entitled, subject to its compliance with Section 4.03, to issue Additional Notes under this Supplemental Indenture in an unlimited aggregate principal amount which shall have identical terms as the Notes issued on the date of this Supplemental Indenture (the “ Initial Notes ”), other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price and first payment of interest. The Initial Notes and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Supplemental Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase.

ARTICLE III

REDEMPTION

 

SECTION 3.01. Notices to Trustee .

If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Paragraph 5 or Paragraph 6 of the Notes or pursuant to the fifth paragraph of Section 4.21(b) hereof, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed. The Company shall give notice of redemption to the Trustee at least 45 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be agreed to by the Trustee in writing), together with an Officers’ Certificate stating that such redemption will comply with the conditions contained herein.

 

SECTION 3.02. Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed .

If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select the Notes to be redeemed in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed or, if the Notes are not then listed on a national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate; provided , however , that if the Notes are redeemed pursuant to Paragraph 6 of the Notes, the Notes shall be redeemed solely on a pro rata basis or on as nearly a pro rata basis as is practicable (subject to the procedures of the Depository) unless the securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed requires a different method. If the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the requirements of such exchange in respect of any redemption. The Trustee shall make the selection from the Notes outstanding and not previously called for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal of Notes that have denominations larger than $2,000. Provisions of this Supplemental Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.

 

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SECTION 3.03. Notice of Redemption .

At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed a notice of redemption by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of an Equity Offering or other corporate transaction. At the Company’s written request and provision of such notice information, delivered at least 15 days prior to the proposed date of such mailing (unless a shorter notice shall be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense. Each notice for redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed (including CUSIP numbers, if any) and shall state

(1) the Redemption Date;

(2) the Redemption Price (or method of calculating the Redemption Price) and the amount of accrued interest, if any, to be paid;

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

(4) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any;

(5) that, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the Redemption Date, and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Notes is to receive payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed;

(6) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the Redemption Date, and upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued;

(7) if fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to be redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be outstanding after such partial redemption; and

(8) the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the Notes are to be redeemed.

 

SECTION 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption .

Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03, Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Notes called for redemption shall be paid at the Redemption Price (which shall include accrued interest thereon to the Redemption Date), but installments of interest, the maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date, shall be payable to Holders of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates.

 

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SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price .

Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes to be redeemed on that date.

If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph, then, unless the Company defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any, interest on the Notes to be redeemed will cease to accrue on and after the applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Notes are presented for payment.

 

SECTION 3.06. Notes Redeemed in Part .

Upon surrender of a Note that is to be redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Note or Notes equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.

ARTICLE IV

COVENANTS

 

SECTION 4.01. Payment of Notes .

Not later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date of the principal, premium, if any, and interest on any Notes, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money in immediately available funds sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, and interest so becoming due.

The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in the manner provided in the Notes. An installment of principal of or interest on the Notes shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent holds on that date U.S. Legal Tender designated for and sufficient to pay the installment.

The Company shall pay, to the extent such payments are lawful, interest on overdue principal and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes plus 2% per annum. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

 

SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency .

The Company shall maintain an office or agency required under Section 2.02. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the Trustee set forth in Section 10.02. The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee’s office located at c/o U.S. Bank National Association, Corporate Trust Services, 5555 San Felipe, Suite 1150, Houston, Texas 77056 as its office or agency.

 

SECTION 4.03. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness .

The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee, acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise,

 

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with respect to, or otherwise become responsible for payment of (collectively, “ incur ”) any Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness); provided , however , that if no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or as a consequence of the incurrence of any such Indebtedness the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary may incur Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) if on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Company would be greater than 2.0 to 1.0.

No Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test of the preceding paragraph (including, without limitation, Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement) shall reduce the amount of Indebtedness which may be incurred pursuant to any clause of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement pursuant to clause (2) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”).

The Company and the Guarantors will not incur or suffer to exist any Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company or the Guarantors unless such Indebtedness is at least equally subordinated in right of payment to the Notes and any Subsidiary Guarantee.

For the avoidance of doubt, no Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor will be deemed to be contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor solely by virtue of being unsecured.

The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, and the payment of dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Capital Stock or Preferred Stock for purposes of this Section 4.03; provided , in each such case, that the amount thereof is included in Consolidated Fixed Charges of the Company as accrued.

For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness; provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness being refinanced and the amount of all expenses and premiums incurred in connection therewith). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 4.03, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred pursuant to this Section 4.03 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies.

 

SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Restricted Payments .

The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:

(a) declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable in Qualified Capital Stock of the Company) on or in respect of shares of its Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock (including by means of a Person (including an Unrestricted Subsidiary) making such a payment with the proceeds of an Investment made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary);

 

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(b) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any class of such Capital Stock (including by means of a Person (including an Unrestricted Subsidiary) making such a payment with the proceeds of an Investment made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary);

(c) make any principal payment on, or purchase, redeem, defease, retire or otherwise acquire for value, prior to any scheduled principal payment, sinking fund or maturity, any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than the principal payment on, or the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition for value of, Subordinated Indebtedness made in satisfaction of or anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity within one year of the due date of such obligation, installment or final maturity); or

(d) make any Investment (other than Permitted Investments)

(each of the foregoing actions set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) being referred to as a “ Restricted Payment ”), if at the time of such Restricted Payment or immediately after giving effect thereto:

(1) a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(2) the Company is not able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.03; or

(3) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments (including such proposed Restricted Payment) made after the Issue Date (the amount expended for such purpose, if other than in cash, being the Fair Market Value of such property as determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company) shall exceed the sum of:

(v) (i) $650 million plus (ii) 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss) of the Company earned during the period beginning on the first day of the fiscal quarter commencing on October 1, 2014 and through the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available prior to the date such Restricted Payment occurs (the “ Reference Date ”) (treating such period as a single accounting period); plus

(w) 100% of the Fair Market Value of the net proceeds received by the Company from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company) from the issuance and sale subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the Reference Date of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or from the issuance of Indebtedness of the Company that has been converted into or exchanged for Qualified Capital Stock of the Company subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the Reference Date; plus

(x) without duplication of any amounts included in clause (3)(w) above, 100% of the Fair Market Value of the net proceeds of any contribution to the common equity capital of the Company received by the Company from a holder of the Company’s Capital Stock subsequent to the Issue Date; plus

 

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(y) an amount equal to the lesser of (A) the sum of the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary owned by the Company and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries and the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary owed to the Company and each Restricted Subsidiary on the date of Revocation of such Unrestricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.20 or (B) the Designation Amount with respect to such Unrestricted Subsidiary on the date of the Designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.20; plus

(z) an amount equal to the sum of (1) the net reduction in the Investments (other than Permitted Investments) made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person after the Issue Date resulting from repurchases, repayments or redemptions of such Investments by such Person, proceeds realized on the sale of such Investment and proceeds representing the return of capital, in each case received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and (2) the amount of any Guarantee or similar arrangement that has terminated or expired or by which it has been reduced to the extent that it was treated as a Restricted Payment after the Issue Date that reduced the amount available under this clause (3) or clause (VIII) of the next paragraph net of any amounts paid by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such Guarantee or similar arrangement; provided , however , that the amounts set forth in clauses (1) and (2) above shall not exceed, in the case of any such Person, the amount of Investments (excluding Permitted Investments) previously made and treated as a Restricted Payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date that reduced the amount available under this clause (3) or clause (VIII) of the next paragraph in such Person.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph do not prohibit:

(I) the payment of any dividend within 60 days after the date of declaration of such dividend if the dividend would have been permitted on the date of declaration;

(II) the acquisition of any shares of Capital Stock of the Company, either (A) solely in exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (B) through the application of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company;

(III) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, repurchases of Capital Stock (or rights or options therefor) of the Company from officers, directors, employees or consultants not to exceed $50.0 million in the aggregate subsequent to the Issue Date;

(IV) dividends and distributions paid on Common Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary on a pro rata basis;

(V) an Investment with the net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company;

 

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(VI) the purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Indebtedness after the Company has complied with the requirements of Section 4.12 and Section 4.21; provided that all Notes validly tendered for payment (and not withdrawn) in connection with an Excess Proceeds Offer or a Change of Control Offer, as applicable, pursuant to such sections have been purchased, redeemed or acquired for value;

(VII) any purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement, payment or prepayment of principal of Subordinated Indebtedness either (i) solely in exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, (ii) through the application of net proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (iii) in connection with Refinancing Indebtedness;

(VIII) other Restricted Payments in an amount not to exceed $100 million in the aggregate since the Issue Date;

(IX) Restricted Payments if, at the time of making such payments, and after giving effect thereto (including, without limitation, the incurrence of any Indebtedness to finance such payment), the Consolidated Total Debt Ratio would not exceed 3.50 to 1.00; provided , however , that at the time of each such Restricted Payment, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or result therefrom);

(X) the declaration and payment of any dividends on any shares of any Disqualified Capital Stock of the Company or any Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary incurred in accordance with Section 4.03; provided that such dividends are included in the calculation of Consolidated Fixed Charges; and

(XI) purchases of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of stock options, warrants, other rights to acquire Equity Interests or other convertible or exchangeable securities if such Equity Interests represent all or portion of the exercise price thereof; and any purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests made in lieu of withholding taxes in connection with any exercise, exchange or vesting of stock options, warrants, restricted stock or rights to acquire Equity Interests.

In determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date in accordance with clause (3) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.04, amounts expended pursuant to clauses (I), (II), (III), (V), (VII)(i), (VII)(ii) and (IX) shall be included in such calculation.

 

SECTION 4.05. Corporate Existence .

Except as otherwise permitted by Article V, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each of the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the respective organizational documents of each Restricted Subsidiary and the rights (charter and statutory) and material franchises of the Company and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided , however , that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise, or the corporate existence of any Restricted Subsidiary, if the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not, and will not be, adverse in any material respect to the Holders.

 

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SECTION 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims .

The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or upon the income, profits or property of it or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, in each case, if unpaid, might by law become a material liability or Lien upon the property of it or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided , however , that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which appropriate provision has been made.

 

SECTION 4.07. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance .

(a) The Company shall cause all material properties owned by or leased by it or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries used in the conduct of its business or the business of any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to be improved or maintained and kept in normal condition, repair and working order (reasonable wear and tear excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment and shall cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in its judgment may be necessary, so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided , however , that nothing in this Section 4.07 shall prevent the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries from discontinuing the use, operation or maintenance of any of such properties, or disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company or of the Board of Directors of any Restricted Subsidiary, or of an officer (or other agent employed by the Company or of any of the Restricted Subsidiaries) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries having managerial responsibility for any such property, desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, and if such discontinuance or disposal is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.

(b) The Company shall maintain, and shall cause the Restricted Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible carriers against such risks and in such amounts, and with such deductibles, retentions, self-insured amounts and co-insurance provisions, as are customarily carried by similar businesses of similar size, including property and casualty loss, workers’ compensation and interruption of business insurance.

 

SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default .

(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 100 days after the close of each fiscal year, an Officers’ Certificate (which much be signed by at least one of the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company) but which otherwise need not comply with Section 1.2 of the Base Indenture, stating that a review of the activities of the Company has been made under the supervision of the signing officers with a view to determining whether it has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under the Indenture and further stating, as to each such Officer of the Company signing such certificate, that to the best of his knowledge the Company during such preceding fiscal year has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every such covenant and no Default or Event of Default occurred during such year and at the date of such certificate no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if such signers do know of such Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall describe its status with particularity. The Officers’ Certificate shall also notify the Trustee should the Company elect to change the manner in which it fixes its fiscal year end.

 

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(b) The annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.10 shall be accompanied by a written report of the Company’s independent accountants (who shall be a firm of established national reputation) that in conducting their audit of such financial statements nothing has come to their attention that would lead them to believe that the Company has violated any provisions of Article IV, V or VI of this Supplemental Indenture insofar as they relate to accounting matters or, if any such violation has occurred, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, it being understood that such accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to any Person for any failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation.

(c) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within thirty days after becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default in the performance of any covenant, agreement or condition contained in the Indenture, an Officers’ Certificate specifying the Default or Event of Default and describing its status with particularity. Upon the written request of the Trustee (which may be given at any time and from time to time), the Company shall promptly provide written notice to the Trustee confirming that no Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, or if a Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing, written notice briefly describing such Default or Event of Default.

 

SECTION 4.09. Compliance with Laws .

The Company shall comply, and shall cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to comply, with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders and restrictions of the United States of America, all states and municipalities thereof, and of any governmental department, commission, board, regulatory authority, bureau, agency and instrumentality of the foregoing, in respect of the conduct of their respective businesses and the ownership of their respective properties, except for such noncompliances as would not in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

 

SECTION 4.10. Reports to Holders .

(a) Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, to the extent permitted by the Exchange Act, the Company will file with the Commission, and provide to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, the annual reports and the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) that are specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act within the time periods required; provided , however , that availability of the foregoing materials on the Commission’s EDGAR service shall be deemed to satisfy the Company’s delivery obligations hereunder. In the event that the Company is not permitted to file such reports, documents and information with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Company will nevertheless provide such Exchange Act information to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes as if the Company were subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act within the time periods required by law.

(b) If the Company has designated any of its Subsidiaries as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, then the quarterly and annual financial information required by the preceding paragraph will include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes to the financial statements, and in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries.

(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Supplemental Indenture, the Company will not be deemed to have failed to comply with any of its obligations under clause (a) of this Section 4.10 for purposes of Section 6.01(3) until 90 days after the date any report hereunder is due.

 

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Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.10 is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

 

SECTION 4.11. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws .

The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of and/or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of the Indenture, and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Asset Sales .

The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless:

(1) the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of;

(2) at least 75% of the consideration received by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from such Asset Sale shall be in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents and is received at the time of such disposition; and

(3) the Company shall apply, or cause such Restricted Subsidiary to apply, the Net Cash Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale within 365 days after receipt thereof either (A) to prepay any pari passu Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien permitted under the indenture or other pari passu Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor that is not Subordinated Indebtedness ( provided that if the Company or any Guarantor shall so reduce Obligations under unsecured pari passu Indebtedness, the Company will equally and ratably reduce Obligations under the Notes as provided in paragraph 5 of the Notes through open-market purchases ( provided that such purchases are at or above 100% of the principal amount thereof) or by making an offer (in accordance with the procedures set forth below for an Excess Proceeds Offer) to all holders to purchase at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof), plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, the pro rata principal amount of Notes, in each case other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) or any Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, (B) to acquire Replacement Assets (or make a capital expenditure that will be useful in the business of the Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries) or (C) a combination of prepayment and investment permitted by the foregoing clauses (3)(A) and (3)(B); provided , however , that the requirements of clause (B) of this clause (3) shall be deemed to be satisfied if a bona fide

 

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binding contract committing to make the acquisition or expenditure referred to therein is entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with a Person other than an Affiliate of the Company within such 365-day period and such Net Cash Proceeds are subsequently applied in accordance with such contract within 360 days following the end of such 365-day period.

Pending the final application of the Net Cash Proceeds, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries may invest such Net Cash Proceeds in any manner not prohibited by this Supplemental Indenture.

Notwithstanding clause (2) above, all or a portion of the consideration for any such Asset Sale may consist of Replacement Assets, the assumption by the purchaser of Indebtedness or other obligations (other than Subordinated Indebtedness or intercompany obligations) and/or instruments or securities received from the purchaser that are promptly, but in any event within 180 days of the closing, converted into cash, to the extent of the cash actually so received; provided that, after giving effect to any such Asset Sale and related acquisition of Replacement Assets, (x) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing; and (y) the Net Cash Proceeds of any such Asset Sale, if any, are applied in accordance with this Section 4.12.

Any Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sales that are not applied or invested as provided in the preceding paragraph will constitute “ Excess Proceeds .” When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds equals or exceeds $100.0 million (the “ Excess Proceeds Offer Trigger Date ”), the Company will make an offer (an “ Excess Proceeds Offer ”) not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable Excess Proceeds Offer Trigger Date to all Holders and all holders of other Indebtedness that ranks pari passu with the Notes containing provisions similar to those set forth in this Supplemental Indenture with respect to offers to purchase or redeem such Indebtedness with the proceeds of sales of assets to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds (the entire amount of Excess Proceeds, and not just the amount in excess of $100.0 million). The offer price in any Excess Proceeds Offer will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes purchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase, and will be payable in cash. If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Excess Proceeds Offer, the Company may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Supplemental Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and other pari passu Indebtedness tendered into such Excess Proceeds Offer exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee will select the Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis, with adjustments so that only Notes in multiples of $2,000 principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess of $2,000 will be purchased. Upon completion of each Excess Proceeds Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero. An Excess Proceeds Offer shall remain open for a period of at least 20 Business Days or such longer period as may be required by law.

In the event of the transfer of substantially all (but not all) of the assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date as an entirety to a Person in a transaction permitted under Section 5.01, the successor corporation shall be deemed to have sold the assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries not so transferred for purposes of this Section 4.12, and shall comply with the provisions of this Section 4.12 with respect to such deemed sale as if it were an Asset Sale. In addition, the Fair Market Value of such assets of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries deemed to be sold shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds for purposes of this Section 4.12.

If at any time any non-cash consideration (other than Replacement Assets) received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in connection with any Asset Sale is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash (other than interest received with respect to any such non-cash consideration) or Cash Equivalents, then such conversion or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale hereunder and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with this Section 4.12.

 

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The Company shall (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Excess Proceeds Offer which are to be purchased in accordance with the terms hereof, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent in accordance with the first paragraph of Section 4.01, U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes to be purchased and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any. For purposes of this Section 4.12, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

The Company will comply with all tender offer rules under state and federal securities laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, Section 14(e) under the Exchange Act and Rule 14e-1 thereunder, to the extent applicable to such offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 4.12, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.12 by virtue thereof.

The Trustee shall make such adjustments as are needed so that no unauthorized denominations are purchased in part when the aggregate principal amount of Notes properly tendered in an Excess Proceeds Offer pursuant to this Section 4.12 exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds and Notes of tendering Holders are purchased on a pro rata basis (based on amounts tendered). Each notice of an Excess Proceeds Offer required pursuant to this Section 4.12 shall state that such adjustments may be made under such circumstances.

 

SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries .

The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

(a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock (it being understood that the priority of any preferred stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make distributions on Capital Stock);

(b) make loans or advances or to pay any Indebtedness or other obligation owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary; or

(c) transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary;

except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

(1) applicable law, rule, regulation or order;

(2) the Indenture;

 

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(3) the Credit Agreement and/or the documentation for or related to the Credit Agreement;

(4) the Senior Notes and/or the documentation for or related to the Senior Notes;

(5) provisions that restrict in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is a lease, license, conveyance or contract or similar property or asset;

(6) any instrument governing Acquired Indebtedness, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the assets of any Person, other than the Person or the assets of the Person so acquired;

(7) agreements existing on the Issue Date to the extent and in the manner such agreements are in effect on the Issue Date;

(8) any other agreement entered into after the Issue Date which contains encumbrances and restrictions which are not materially more restrictive with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary than those in effect with respect to such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to agreements as in effect on the Issue Date;

(9) any instrument governing Indebtedness of a Foreign Restricted Subsidiary;

(10) customary restrictions on the transfer of any property or assets arising under a security agreement governing a Lien permitted under the Indenture;

(11) secured Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.03 and Section 4.15 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets securing such Indebtedness;

(12) any agreement governing Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to Refinance the Indebtedness issued, assumed or incurred pursuant to an agreement referred to in clause (2), (4), (6), (7) or (9) above; provided , however , that the provisions relating to such encumbrance or restriction contained in any such Refinancing Indebtedness are not materially more restrictive than the provisions relating to such encumbrance or restriction contained in agreements referred to in such clause (2), (4), (6), (7) or (9);

(13) any agreement governing the sale or disposition of any Restricted Subsidiary which restricts dividends and distributions pending such sale or disposition;

(14) any agreement, instrument or Lien placing encumbrances or restrictions applicable only to a Finance Subsidiary or an Accounts Receivable Entity;

(15) any agreement governing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.03; provided that the provisions relating to such encumbrance or restriction contained in such Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive than the provisions contained in the Credit Agreement or in the Indenture as in effect on the Issue Date;

(16) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business; and

(17) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business.

 

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SECTION 4.14. [ Intentionally omitted ].

 

SECTION 4.15. Limitation on Liens .

The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or permit or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind against or upon any property or assets of the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any proceeds therefrom, or assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income or profits therefrom unless:

(1) in the case of Liens securing Indebtedness that is expressly subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes or a Subsidiary Guarantee, the Notes or such Subsidiary Guarantee is secured by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such Liens; and

(2) in all other cases, the Notes are equally and ratably secured,

except for:

(A) Liens existing as of the Issue Date to the extent and in the manner such Liens are in effect on the Issue Date;

(B) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (2) or (11) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness” and all other Obligations relating thereto;

(C) Liens securing the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee;

(D) Liens in favor of the Company or any Guarantor;

(E) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness which is incurred to Refinance any Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) which has been secured by a Lien permitted under this Supplemental Indenture and which has been incurred in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture; provided , however , that such Liens:

(I) are no less favorable to Holders of the Notes and are not more favorable to the lienholders with respect to such Liens than the Liens in respect of the Indebtedness being Refinanced; and

(II) do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries not securing the Indebtedness so Refinanced; and

(F) Permitted Liens.

 

SECTION 4.16. [Intentionally Omitted]

 

SECTION 4.17. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates .

(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction or series of related transactions (including,

 

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without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates involving aggregate payment or consideration in excess of $5 million (each, an “ Affiliate Transaction ”), other than:

(x) Affiliate Transactions permitted under paragraph (b) below; and

(y) Affiliate Transactions on terms that are not materially less favorable than those that would have reasonably been expected in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary.

All Affiliate Transactions (and each series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments or other property with a Fair Market Value in excess of $25.0 million shall be approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, such approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that such Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the foregoing provisions. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary enters into an Affiliate Transaction (or series of related Affiliate Transactions related to a common plan) on or after the Issue Date that involves an aggregate Fair Market Value of more than $75.0 million, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such transaction or series of related transactions to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view, from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee.

(b) The restrictions set forth in paragraph (a) above shall not apply to

(1) employment, consulting and compensation arrangements and agreements of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary consistent with past practice or approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company (or a committee comprised of disinterested directors);

(2) reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees, consultants or agents of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors or senior management;

(3) transactions exclusively between or among the Company and any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or exclusively between or among such Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that such transactions are not otherwise prohibited by the Indenture;

(4) Restricted Payments, Permitted Investments or Permitted Liens permitted by this Supplemental Indenture; and

(5) transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date or any amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries than the agreement or arrangement in existence on the Issue Date.

 

SECTION 4.18. Issuance of Subsidiary Guarantees .

If, on or after the Issue Date, the Company forms or acquires any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary (other than (w) an Acquired Subsidiary for so long as it is not a Wholly Owned Domestic Restricted

 

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Subsidiary, (x) a Finance Subsidiary, (y) an Accounts Receivable Entity or (z) an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary) that incurs any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness owing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary), or if, on or after the Issue Date, any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor guarantees (a “ Guarantee ”) any Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor (other than Indebtedness owing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) (“ Guaranteed Indebtedness ”), then the Company shall cause such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, as the case may be, to:

(1) execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee pursuant to which such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, as the case may be, shall unconditionally guarantee all of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms set forth in the Indenture; and

(2) execute and deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (which may contain customary exceptions) that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, as the case may be, and constitutes a legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, as the case may be.

Thereafter, such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary that was not a Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be a Guarantor for all purposes of the Indenture. The Company may cause any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to issue a Subsidiary Guarantee and become a Guarantor.

If the Guaranteed Indebtedness is pari passu with the Notes, then the Guarantee of such Guaranteed Indebtedness shall be pari passu with the Subsidiary Guarantee. If the Guaranteed Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes, then the Guarantee of such Guaranteed Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Subsidiary Guarantee at least to the extent that the Guaranteed Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Subsidiary Guarantee of the Notes provided by a Guarantor will be released without any action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of the Notes:

(1) if the guarantee of the Credit Agreement and of the Senior Notes made by such Guarantor is released, unless such Guarantor has any Indebtedness outstanding or remains a guarantor of Indebtedness of the Company or another Guarantor;

(2) if (a) all of the Capital Stock of, or all or substantially all of the assets of, such Guarantor is sold or otherwise disposed of (including by way of merger or consolidation) to a Person other than the Company or any of its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries or (b) such Guarantor ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary, and the Company otherwise complies, to the extent applicable, with Section 4.12;

(3) if the Company designates such Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.20; or

(4) upon the Company’s request if the Fair Market Value of the assets of the applicable Guarantor (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company), together with the Fair Market Value of the assets of other Guarantors whose Subsidiary Guarantee was released in the same calendar year in reliance on this paragraph (4), do not exceed $5.0 million (subject to cumulative carryover for amounts not used in any prior calendar year).

 

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At the Company’s written request, the Trustee will execute and deliver any instrument evidencing such release. A Guarantor may also be released from its obligation under its Subsidiary Guarantee in connection with amendments permitted in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII of this Supplemental Indenture. The Trustee shall only be obligated to deliver any such instrument upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate stating that such release is authorized and in compliance with the Indenture.

 

SECTION 4.19. Payments for Consent .

The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder of any Notes for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of the Indenture, the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees unless such consideration is offered to be paid to all Holders who so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or amendment.

 

SECTION 4.20. Limitation on Designations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries .

The Company may, on or after the Issue Date, designate any Subsidiary of the Company (other than a Subsidiary of the Company which owns Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary or is a Guarantor) as an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” under this Supplemental Indenture (a “ Designation ”) only if:

(1) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or after giving effect to such Designation;

(2) the Company would be permitted under this Supplemental Indenture to make an Investment at the time of Designation (assuming the effectiveness of such Designation) in an amount (the “ Designation Amount ”) equal to the sum of (A) the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary owned by the Company and/or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries on such date and (B) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness of such Subsidiary owed to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries on such date; and

(3) the Company would be permitted to incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) pursuant to Section 4.03 at the time of Designation (assuming the effectiveness of such Designation).

In the event of any such Designation, the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment constituting a Restricted Payment in the Designation Amount pursuant to Section 4.04 for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture.

The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, at any time:

(x) provide direct or indirect credit support for or a guarantee of any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument evidencing such Indebtedness);

(y) be directly or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary; or

 

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(z) be directly or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness which provides that the holder thereof may (upon notice, lapse of time or both) declare a default thereon or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its final scheduled maturity upon the occurrence of a default with respect to any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any right to take enforcement action against such Unrestricted Subsidiary), except, in the case of clause (x) or (y), to the extent permitted under Section 4.04 hereof.

The Company may revoke any Designation of a Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary (“ Revocation ”), whereupon such Subsidiary shall then constitute a Restricted Subsidiary, if

(1) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time and after giving effect to such Revocation;

(2) all Liens and Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary outstanding immediately following such Revocation would, if incurred at such time, have been permitted to be incurred for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture; and

(3) such Subsidiary shall for purposes of Section 4.18 be treated as having then been acquired by the Company.

All Designations and Revocations must be evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate of the Company delivered to the Trustee certifying authorization under this Supplemental Indenture and compliance with the foregoing provisions.

 

SECTION 4.21. Change of Control .

(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder will have the right to require that the Company purchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Notes pursuant to the offer described below (the “ Change of Control Offer ”), at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of purchase.

(b) Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control occurs, the Company shall send, by first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state, among other things,

(1) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 4.21 and that all Notes tendered and not withdrawn will be accepted for payment;

(2) the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest) and the purchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor 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 ”);

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

(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;

(5) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Note completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date;

 

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(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, not later than the Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Notes the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Notes purchased;

(7) that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered; and

(8) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of Control.

On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall (i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent, in accordance with the first paragraph of Section 4.01, U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the Company. Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of the monies specified in clause (ii) above and a copy of the Officers’ Certificate specified in clause (iii) above, the Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to such Holders new Notes equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered. Any Notes not so accepted shall be promptly mailed by the Company to the Holder thereof. For purposes of this Section 4.21, the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.

The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in the Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Supplemental Indenture, a Change of Control Offer by the Company or a third party may be made in advance of a Change of Control and conditioned upon the consummation of such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time the Change of Control Offer is made.

If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in a Change of Control Offer and the Company, or any third party making the Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Company as described above, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company will have the right, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given not more than 15 days following such purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer described above, to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption set forth in such notice, subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.

Any amounts remaining after the purchase of all validly tendered and not validly withdrawn Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.

 

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The Company shall and shall cause its Subsidiaries to comply with all tender offer rules under state and federal securities laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, Section 14(e) under the Exchange Act and Rule 14e-1 thereunder, to the extent applicable to such offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 4.21, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.21 by virtue thereof.

Notwithstanding the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company will not be obligated to repurchase the Notes under this Section 4.21 if it has exercised its right to redeem the Notes under the terms of Paragraph 5 of the Notes.

 

SECTION 4.22. Covenant Suspension .

Beginning on the date (the “ Suspension Date ”) that (i) the Notes have an Investment Grade Rating from a Rating Agency and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture, and ending on the date (the “ Reversion Date ”) that the Notes no longer have an Investment Grade Rating from at least one Rating Agency or a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (such period of time from and including the Suspension Date to but excluding the Reversion Date, the “ Suspension Period ”), the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to the following provisions of this Supplemental Indenture:

(1) Section 4.03;

(2) Section 4.04;

(3) Section 4.12;

(4) Section 4.13;

(5) Section 4.17; and

(6) Sections 5.01(a)(2) and (c)(4);

(collectively, the “ Suspended Covenants ”); provided , however , that the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will remain subject to the following provisions of this Supplemental Indenture:

(1) Section 4.10;

(2) Section 4.15;

(3) Section 4.18;

(4) Section 4.19;

(5) Section 4.20;

(6) Section 4.21; and

(7) Section 5.01 (except to the extent set forth in this paragraph).

During any Suspension Period, the Company’s Board of Directors may not designate any of the Company’s Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

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On the Reversion Date, all Indebtedness incurred and Disqualified Capital Stock and Preferred Stock issued during the Suspension Period by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary will be classified as having been incurred or issued pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.03 or one of the clauses set forth in the definition of Permitted Indebtedness (to the extent such Indebtedness would be permitted to be incurred or issued thereunder as of the Reversion Date and after giving effect to Indebtedness incurred issued prior to the Suspension Period and outstanding on the Reversion Date). To the extent any such Indebtedness would not be so permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test or the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, such Indebtedness will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under clause (3) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness.

Calculations made after the Reversion Date of the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 4.04 will be made as though Section 4.04 had been in effect since the Issue Date and throughout the Suspension Period. Accordingly, Restricted Payments made during the Suspension Period will reduce the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under the first paragraph of Section 4.04.

For purposes of Section 4.12, on the Suspension Date, the Net Cash Proceeds amount will be reset to zero.

Notwithstanding the reinstatement of the Suspended Covenants on the Reversion Date, neither (a) the continued existence, on and after the Reversion Date, of facts and circumstances or obligations that occurred, were incurred or otherwise came into existence during a Suspension Period nor (b) the performance thereof, shall constitute a breach of any Suspended Covenant set forth in the Indenture or cause a Default or Event of Default thereunder; provided , however , that (i) the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries did not incur or otherwise cause such facts and circumstances or obligations to exist in anticipation of a withdrawal or downgrade by either Rating Agency (or both Rating Agencies) of its Investment Grade Rating on the Notes and (ii) the Company reasonably believed that such incurrence or actions would not result in such withdrawal or downgrade.

ARTICLE V

SUCCESSOR CORPORATION

 

SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets .

(a) The Company will not, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of (or cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary to sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of) all or substantially all of the Company’s assets (determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries) whether as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person unless:

(1) either (A) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing corporation or (B) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition the assets of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety (the “ Surviving Entity ”) (x) shall be a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and (y) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee), executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Notes and the performance of every covenant of the Notes and the Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

 

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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis and the assumption contemplated by clause (1)(B)(y) above (including giving effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such transaction), the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted Indebtedness) pursuant to Section 4.03; provided , however , that this clause (2) shall not be effective during any Suspension Period as described under Section 4.22;

(3) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by clause (1)(B)(y) above (including, without limitation, giving effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred or anticipated to be incurred and any Lien granted or to be released in connection with or in respect of the transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(4) the Company or the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with the applicable provisions of the Indenture and that all conditions precedent in the Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

(b) For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by lease, assignment, sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets of one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, the Capital Stock of which constitutes all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

(c) No Guarantor (other than any Guarantor whose Subsidiary Guarantee is to be released in accordance with the terms of the Subsidiary Guarantee and the Indenture in connection with any transaction complying with the provisions of Section 4.12) will, and the Company will not cause or permit any Guarantor to, consolidate with or merge with or into any Person other than the Company or any other Guarantor unless:

(1) if the Guarantor is a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary the entity formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Guarantor) is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia;

(2) such entity expressly assumes by supplemental indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee), executed and delivered to the Trustee, the performance of every covenant of the Notes and the Indenture on the part of such Guarantor to be performed or observed;

(3) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(4) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the use of any net proceeds therefrom on a pro forma basis, the Company could satisfy the provisions of clause (a)(2) of this Section 5.01; provided , however , that this clause (4) shall not be effective during any Suspension Period as described under Section 4.22; and

(5) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation or merger and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture complies with the applicable provisions of the Indenture and that all conditions precedent in the Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

 

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SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted .

In accordance with the foregoing, upon any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, lease or any transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing corporation, the Surviving Entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such successor had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter the predecessor corporation will be relieved of all further obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Notes; provided that solely for purposes of computing amounts described in subclause (3) of Section 4.04, any such Surviving Entity shall only be deemed to have succeeded to and be substituted for the Company with respect to periods subsequent to the effective time of such merger, consolidation or transfer of assets.

ARTICLE VI

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

 

SECTION 6.01. Events of Default .

An “ Event of Default ” occurs if

(1) the failure to pay interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable and the default continues for a period of 30 days;

(2) the failure to pay the principal on any Notes when such principal becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise (including the failure to make a payment to purchase Notes tendered pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or an Excess Proceeds Offer);

(3) a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the observance or performance of any other covenant or agreement contained in the Indenture which default continues for a period of 30 days after the Company receives written notice specifying the default from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes (except in the case of a default with respect to Article V, which will constitute an Event of Default with such notice requirement but without such passage of time requirement);

(4) a default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness of the Company or of any Restricted Subsidiary (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary), whether such Indebtedness now exists or is created after the Issue Date, which default (a) is caused by a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness after any applicable grace period provided in such Indebtedness on the date of such default (a “ Payment Default ”), or (b) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its express maturity (and such acceleration is not rescinded, or such Indebtedness is not repaid, within 30 days) and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, exceeds $100.0 million or more at any time;

 

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(5) the Company or any of the Guarantors (A) admits in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, (B) commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to itself, (C) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, (D) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for substantially all of its property, (E) consents to or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it, (F) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or (G) takes any corporate action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing;

(6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any of the Guarantors in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law, which shall (A) approve as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the Company or any of the Guarantors, (B) appoint a Custodian of the Company or any of the Guarantors or for substantially all of any of their property or (C) order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; and such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(7) one or more judgments in an aggregate amount in excess of $100.0 million not covered by adequate insurance (other than self-insurance) shall have been rendered against the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and such judgments remain undischarged, unpaid or unstayed for a period of 60 days after such judgment or judgments become final and nonappealable; or

(8) any Subsidiary Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary of the Company ceases to be in full force and effect, or any Subsidiary Guarantee of such a Significant Subsidiary is declared to be null and void and unenforceable or any Subsidiary Guarantee of such a Significant Subsidiary is found to be invalid or any Guarantor which is a Significant Subsidiary denies its liability under its Subsidiary Guarantee (other than by reason of release of such Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture).

The Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of any Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, give to the Noteholders notice of such Default; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Noteholders.

 

SECTION 6.02. Acceleration .

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) above) shall occur and be continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of outstanding Notes may declare the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Notes to be due and payable by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee, if given by the Holders) specifying the respective Events of Default and that it is a “notice of acceleration,” and the same shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) above occurs and is continuing, then all unpaid principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the outstanding Notes shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

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At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes as described in the preceding paragraph, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may rescind and cancel such declaration and its consequences;

(i) if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree;

(ii) if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except non-payment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration;

(iii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, if interest on overdue installments of interest and overdue principal, which has become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid;

(iv) if the Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances and any other sums owing to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture; and

(v) in the event of the cure or waiver of an Event of Default of the type described in clauses (5) and (6) of the description above of Events of Default, the Trustee shall have received an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel that such Event of Default has been cured or waived.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

 

SECTION 6.03. Priorities .

If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

First: without duplication, to the Trustee for amounts owing under Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture;

Second: if the Holders are forced to proceed against the Company, a Guarantor or any other obligor on the Notes directly without the Trustee, to Holders for their collection costs;

Third: to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium and interest, respectively; and

Fourth: to the Company or any Guarantors, as their respective interests may appear or to such party as directed by a court of competent jurisdiction.

The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Company, may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 6.03.

 

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ARTICLE VII

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

 

SECTION 7.01. Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

(a) The Company may, at its option and at any time, with respect to the Notes, elect to have either paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) below applied to the outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraph (d).

(b) Upon the Company’s exercise under paragraph (a) of the option applicable to this paragraph (b), the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been released and discharged from their obligations with respect to the outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Legal Defeasance ”). For this purpose, such Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of the Sections and matters under the Indenture referred to in (i) and (ii) below, and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and the Indenture insofar as such Notes are concerned, except for the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (i) the rights of the Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes when such payments are due, (ii) the Company’s obligations to issue temporary Notes, register the transfer or exchange of any Notes, replace mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and maintain an office or agency for payments in respect of the Notes, (iii) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith and (iv) the Legal Defeasance provisions of the Indenture. The Company may exercise its option under this paragraph (b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under paragraph (c) below with respect to the Notes.

(c) Upon the Company’s exercise under paragraph (a) of the option applicable to this paragraph (c), the Company and the Guarantors shall be released and discharged from their obligations under any covenant contained in Article V and in Sections 4.03 through 4.21 with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ Covenant Defeasance ”), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed to be not “outstanding” for the purpose of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company and any Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall 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 shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01(3), nor shall any event referred to in Section 6.01(4) or (7) thereafter constitute a Default or an Event of Default thereunder but, except as specified above, the remainder of the Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby.

(d) The following shall be the conditions to application of either paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) above to the outstanding Notes:

(1) The Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holder pursuant to an irrevocable trust and security agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of which obligation or guarantee the full faith and credit of the United States of America

 

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is pledged or a combination thereof, maturing as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such times as are sufficient, without consideration of the reinvestment of such interest and principal and after payment of all federal, state and local taxes or other charges or assessments in respect thereof payable by the Trustee, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of Independent public accountants selected by the Company, expressed in a written certification thereof (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee) delivered to the Trustee, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all the outstanding Notes on the dates on which any such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and of the Notes;

(2) Such deposits shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest as defined in and for purposes of the TIA;

(3) The Trustee shall have received Officers’ Certificates stating that no Default or Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a Default or an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Section 6.01(5) or (6) is concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period);

(4) The Trustee shall have received Officers’ Certificates stating that such deposit will not result in a Default under the Indenture or a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material instrument or agreement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound;

(5) (i) In the event the Company elects paragraph (b) hereof, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and the defeasance contemplated hereby and will be subject to federal income taxes on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred, or (ii) in the event the Company elects paragraph (c) hereof, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, confirming that Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and the defeasance contemplated hereby and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;

(6) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that as a result of the Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, neither the Trustee nor the trust have become or are deemed to have become an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;

(7) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that the deposit under clause (1) was not made by the Company, a Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Company with the intent of preferring the Holders of Notes over any other creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company, a Guarantor, or any Subsidiary of the Company or others;

 

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(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, to the effect that, after the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally;

(9) The Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent specified herein relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section 7.01 have been complied with; provided , however , that no deposit under clause (1) above shall be effective to terminate the obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture prior to 90 days following any such deposit; and

(10) The Company shall have paid all amounts owing to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.07.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Opinion of Counsel required by paragraph (5) above need not be delivered if all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, (ii) will become due and payable on the maturity date for the securities within one year, or (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company.

In the event all or any portion of the Notes are to be redeemed through such irrevocable trust, the Company must make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee, at the time of such deposit, for the giving of the notice of such redemption or redemptions by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.

 

SECTION 7.02. Satisfaction and Discharge .

In addition to the Company’s rights under Section 7.01, the Company may terminate all of its obligations under the Indenture as to all outstanding Notes (subject to Section 7.03) when

(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.6 of the Base Indenture and Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid) have (i) become due and payable, (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year or (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee, and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee funds in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes to the date of deposit together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment thereof at maturity or redemption, as the case may be; and

(3) the Company and/or the Guarantors have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable under the Indenture; and

 

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(4) there exists no Default or Event of Default under the Indenture; and

(5) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent specified herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture have been complied with; and

(6) the Company shall have paid all amounts owing to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture.

 

SECTION 7.03. Survival of Certain Obligations .

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and of the Notes referred to in Section 7.01 or 7.02 of this Supplemental Indenture, the respective obligations of the Company and the Trustee under Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.11, 5.8, 7.1 and 7.2 and Article 6 of the Base Indenture and Sections 2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 7.05, 7.06 and 7.07 of this Supplemental Indenture shall survive until the Notes are no longer outstanding, and thereafter the obligations of the Company and the Trustee under Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture and Sections 7.05, 7.06 and 7.07 of this Supplemental Indenture shall survive. Nothing contained in this Article VII shall abrogate any of the rights, obligations or duties of the Trustee under the Indenture.

 

SECTION 7.04. Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee .

Subject to Section 7.07, after (i) the conditions of Section 7.01 or 7.02 have been satisfied, (ii) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, and (iii) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent referred to in clause (i) above relating to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture have been complied with, the Trustee upon written request shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of the Company’s obligations under the Indenture except for those surviving obligations specified in Section 7.03.

 

SECTION 7.05. Application of Trust Assets .

The Trustee shall hold any U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it in the irrevocable trust established pursuant to Sections 7.01 and 7.02. The Trustee shall apply the deposited U.S. Legal Tender or the U.S. Government Obligations, together with earnings thereon, through the Paying Agent, in accordance with the Indenture and the terms of the irrevocable trust agreement established pursuant to Sections 7.01 and 7.02, to the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes. The U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations so held in trust and deposited with the Trustee in compliance with Section 7.01 shall not be part of the trust estate under this Supplemental Indenture, but shall constitute a separate trust fund for the benefit of all Holders entitled thereto.

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 7.01 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 outstanding Notes.

 

SECTION 7.06. Repayment to the Company or Guarantors; Unclaimed Money .

Subject to Section 7.01 of this Supplemental Indenture and Section 6.7 of the Base Indenture and to applicable laws relating to escheat, the Trustee shall promptly pay to the Company, or if deposited with the Trustee by any Guarantor, to such Guarantor, upon receipt by the Trustee of an Officers’

 

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Certificate, any excess money, determined in accordance with Section 7.01, held by it at any time. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company or any Guarantor, as the case may be, upon receipt by the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, of an Officers’ Certificate, any money held by it for the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest that remains unclaimed for two years after payment to the Holders is required; provided , however , that the Trustee and the Paying Agent before being required to make any payment may, but need not, at the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or mail to each Holder entitled to such money notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified therein (which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such mailing or publication and shall be at least two years after the date such money held by the Trustee for the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest remains unclaimed), any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. After payment to the Company or any Guarantor, as the case may be, Noteholders entitled to such money must look solely to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee or Paying Agent with respect to such money shall thereupon cease.

 

SECTION 7.07. Reinstatement .

If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with the Indenture by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then and only then the Company’s and each Guarantor’s, if any, obligations under the Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had been made pursuant to the Indenture until such time as the Trustee is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with the Indenture; provided , however , that if the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, have made any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Notes because of the reinstatement of their obligations, the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

ARTICLE VIII

AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

 

SECTION 8.01. Without Consent of Holders .

The Company and any Guarantors (when authorized by Board Resolutions), and the Trustee, together, may amend or supplement the Indenture without notice to or consent of any Noteholder

(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, so long as such changes do not adversely affect the rights of any Holders in any material respect;

(2) to evidence the succession in accordance with Article V hereof of another Person to the Company or a Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or a Guarantor herein and in the Notes or a Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be;

(3) to comply with any requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA;

(4) to add any Guarantor pursuant to the terms of the Indenture; or

(5) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture;

 

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provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate, each stating that such amendment or supplement complies with the provisions of this Section 8.01.

 

SECTION 8.02. With Consent of Holders .

Subject to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, the Company and any Guarantors (when authorized by Board Resolutions) and the Trustee, together, with the written consent of the Holder or Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, may amend or supplement this Supplemental Indenture, the Notes and any Subsidiary Guarantees without notice to any other Noteholders. Subject to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, the Holder or Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes without notice to any other Noteholder (including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 4.21). Without the consent of each Noteholder affected, however, no amendment, supplement or waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture, may

(1) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver of any provision of the Indenture, the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantees;

(2) reduce the rate of or change or have the effect of changing the time for payment of interest, including defaulted interest, on any Note;

(3) reduce the principal of or change or have the effect of changing the Stated Maturity of any Notes; or change the date on which any Notes may be subject to redemption, or reduce the redemption price therefor;

(4) make any Notes payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

(5) make any change in provisions of the Indenture protecting the right of each Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes on or after the stated due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce such payment, or permitting Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes to waive Defaults or Events of Default;

(6) amend, change or modify in any material respect the obligations of the Company to make and consummate a Change of Control Offer after the occurrence of a Change of Control or make and consummate an Excess Proceeds Offer with respect to any Asset Sale that has been consummated or, after the consummation or occurrence of any such Change of Control or Asset Sale. modify any of the provisions or definitions with respect thereto;

(7) modify or change any provision of the Indenture or the related definitions affecting the ranking of the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee in a manner which adversely affects the Holders;

(8) modify the provisions of Section 4.19 or this Section 8.02 or Sections 5.8 and 5.13 of the Base Indenture in any manner adverse to a Holder of Notes; or

(9) release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee or the Indenture otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.

 

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It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 8.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 8.02 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

ARTICLE IX

GUARANTEE

 

SECTION 9.01. Unconditional Guarantee .

Each Guarantor hereby agrees that Article 13 of the Base Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes, subject to the provisions of Section 9.02 hereof.

 

SECTION 9.02. Release of a Guarantor .

In addition to those events set forth in Section 13.4 of the Base Indenture and Section 4.18 hereof, in the event of either (i) a Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary or (ii) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of a Guarantor pursuant to an Asset Sale which complies with the provisions of Section 4.12, the applicable Guarantor’s Subsidiary Guarantee will be released.

ARTICLE X

MISCELLANEOUS

 

SECTION 10.01. TIA Controls .

If any provision of the Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with the duties imposed by operation of TIA § 318(c), the imposed duties shall control.

 

SECTION 10.02. Notices .

Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery, by telecopier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed as follows:

if to the Company or a Guarantor:

Tenneco Inc.

500 North Field Drive

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

Facsimile: (847) 482-5180

 

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with a copy to:

General Counsel

Tenneco Inc.

500 North Field Drive

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Facsimile: (847) 482-5040

if to the Trustee:

U.S. Bank National Association

Corporate Trust Services

5555 San Felipe, Suite 1150

Houston, Texas 77056

Facsimile: (713) 235-9213

Each of the Company and the Trustee by written notice to each other such Person may designate additional or different addresses for notices to such Person. Any notice or communication to the Company or a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five (5) calendar days after mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until actually received by the addressee).

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to the Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, pdf, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods; provided , however , that the Trustee shall have received an incumbency certificate listing persons designated to give such instructions or directions and containing specimen signatures of such designated persons, which such incumbency certificate shall be amended and replaced whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. If the Company elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Trustee’s understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction. The Company agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by third parties.

Any notice or communication mailed to a Noteholder shall be mailed to him by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given to him if so mailed within the time prescribed.

Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Noteholder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Noteholders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

 

SECTION 10.03. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar .

The Trustee, Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its functions.

 

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SECTION 10.04. Governing Law .

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES AND ANY SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to the Indenture, and the Notes to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the Courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and appellate courts from any thereof;

(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar from of mail), postage prepaid, to such person at its address referred to in Section 10.02 or at such other address of which notice shall have been given pursuant thereto;

(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction; and

(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

 

SECTION 10.05. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements .

The Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Guarantor. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Supplemental Indenture.

 

SECTION 10.06. Successors .

All agreements of the Company and any Guarantors in the Indenture, the Notes and any Subsidiary Guarantees shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in the Indenture shall bind its successor.

 

SECTION 10.07. Duplicate Originals .

All parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy or counterpart shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the same agreement.

 

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SECTION 10.08. Severability .

In case any one or more of the provisions in this Supplemental Indenture, in the Notes or in any Subsidiary Guarantee shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.

 

SECTION 10.09. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc .

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

[Signature Pages Follow]

 

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SIGNATURES

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

 

TENNECO INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE OPERATING COMPANY INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
THE PULLMAN COMPANY, as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
CLEVITE INDUSTRIES INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax

TENNECO GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC.,

as Guarantor

By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax
TMC TEXAS INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax

 

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TENNECO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORP.,

as Guarantor

By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasure and Tax

 

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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Mauri J. Cowen

  Name:   Mauri J. Cowen
  Title:   Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF NOTE]

TENNECO INC.

5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024

CUSIP No.:

 

No. [    ]    $[        ]

TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation), for value received promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the principal sum of [        ] Dollars, on December 15, 2024.

Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15, commencing June 15, 2015.

Record Dates: June 1 and December 1.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated: [ ]

 

TENNECO INC.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024 referenced in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated: [ ]

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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(REVERSE OF NOTE)

TENNECO INC.

5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024

 

1. Interest .

TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above. The Company will pay interest semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year (an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing June 15, 2015. Interest on the Notes will accrue from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including December 5, 2014. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes plus 2% and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.

 

2. Method of Payment .

The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the Notes are canceled on registration of transfer or registration of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder’s registered address.

 

3. Paying Agent and Registrar .

Initially, U.S. Bank National Association (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.

 

4. Indenture .

The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014 (the “ Base Indenture ”), between the Company and the Trustee, as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014 (the “ Supplemental Indenture ”, and the Base Indenture as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee. Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) (the “ TIA ”), as in effect on the date of the Base Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are governed by all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them.

 

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5. Optional Redemption .

The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and after December 15, 2019 upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on December 15 of the applicable year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date):

 

Year

   Percentage  

2019

     102.688

2020

     101.792

2021

     100.896

2022 and thereafter

     100.000

At any time prior to December 15, 2019, the Notes may also be redeemed in whole or in part, at the Company’s option, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, the date of redemption (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

 

6. Optional Redemption upon Equity Offerings .

At any time, or from time to time, on or prior to December 15, 2017, the Company may, at its option, use all or any portion of the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings (as defined below) to redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes issued at a redemption price equal to 105.375% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided that at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes issued remains outstanding immediately after any such redemption. In order to effect the foregoing redemption with the proceeds of any Equity Offering, the Company shall make such redemption not more than 180 days after the consummation of any such Equity Offering.

As used in the preceding paragraph, “ Equity Offering ” means any public or private sale of the common stock of the Company, other than any public offering with respect to the Company’s common stock registered on Form S-8 or other issuances upon exercise of options by employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

7. Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder’s registered address. Notes in denominations of $2,000 may be redeemed only in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal of Notes that have denominations larger than $2,000.

If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Note shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. A new Note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Note. On and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

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8. Change of Control Offer .

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company will be required to offer to purchase all of the outstanding Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase.

 

9. Limitation on Disposition of Assets .

The Company is, subject to certain conditions, obligated to make an offer to purchase Notes at 100% of their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase with certain net cash proceeds of certain sales or other dispositions of assets in accordance with the Indenture.

 

10. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange .

The Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Notes or portions thereof selected for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any security being redeemed in part.

 

11. Persons Deemed Owners .

The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

12. Unclaimed Funds .

Subject to any applicable escheat laws, if funds for the payment of principal or interest remain unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will repay the funds to the Company at its request. After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall cease.

 

13. Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance .

The Company may be discharged from its obligations under the Indenture and the Notes except for certain provisions thereof, and may be discharged from its obligations to comply with certain covenants contained in the Indenture and the Notes, in each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in the Indenture.

 

14. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver .

Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, so

 

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long as such changes do not adversely affect the rights of the Holders in any material respect, or comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA.

 

15. Restrictive Covenants .

The Indenture contains certain covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of the Company and certain of its subsidiaries to make restricted payments, to incur indebtedness, to create liens, to sell assets, to permit restrictions on dividends and other payments by subsidiaries to the Company, to consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of its assets or to engage in transactions with affiliates. The limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions.

 

16. Defaults and Remedies .

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has received indemnity satisfactory to it. The Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest, including an accelerated payment) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.

 

17. Trustee Dealings with Company .

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Subsidiaries, any Guarantor and their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.

 

18. No Recourse Against Others .

No stockholder, director, officer, employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for any obligation of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

 

19. Authentication .

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating agent signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.

 

20. Abbreviations and Defined Terms .

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

 

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21. CUSIP Numbers .

Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.

The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to TENNECO INC., 500 North Field Drive, Lake Forest, IL 60045, Attention: Chief Financial Officer.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee or transferee)

 

 

 

(Insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee or transferee)

 

and irrevocably appoint   

 

agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.

The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:  

 

    Signed:  

 

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

 

Signature Guarantee:  

 

  Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.12 or Section 4.21 of the Supplemental Indenture, check the appropriate box:

Section 4.12 [    ] Section 4.21 [    ]

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.12 or Section 4.21 of the Supplemental Indenture, state the amount: $        

 

Date:  

 

    Your Signature:  

 

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

 

Signature Guarantee:  

 

  Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor reasonably acceptable to the Trustee)

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL NOTES

Any Global Note authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend (which would be in addition to any other legends required in the case of a Restricted Security) in substantially the following form:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY OR A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. THIS SECURITY IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

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

 

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EXHIBIT C

[FORM OF SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE]

Each undersigned Guarantor (as defined in the Indenture referred to in the Note upon which this notation is endorsed and each referred to as the “ Guarantor ,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture) unconditionally guarantees on a senior basis as set forth in the Indenture (such guarantee by the Guarantor being referred to herein as a “ Subsidiary Guarantee ”) (i) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue principal and interest, if any, on the Notes, to the extent lawful, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee all in accordance with the terms set forth in Article 13 of the Base Indenture and Article IX of the Supplemental Indenture and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise.

No stockholder, officer, director or incorporator, as such, past, present or future, of the Guarantor shall have any liability under the Subsidiary Guarantee by reason of his or its status as such stockholder, officer, director or incorporator.

The Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Notes upon which the Subsidiary Guarantee is noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers.

 

[GUARANTOR]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

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Exhibit 4.3

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

(Senior Notes due 2018)

THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), is dated as of December 5, 2014, among TENNECO INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), each of the GUARANTORS listed on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “ Guarantors ”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of August 3, 2010 (the “ Indenture ”), providing for the issuance of the Company’s 7  3 4 % Senior Notes due 2018 (the “ Securities ”);

WHEREAS, $225,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Securities are currently outstanding;

WHEREAS, Section 9.02 of the Indenture provides that, with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Indenture for the purpose of amending or supplementing the Indenture or the Securities (subject to certain exceptions);

WHEREAS, the Company desires to enter into, and has requested the Trustee to join with it and the Guarantors in entering into, this First Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of amending the Indenture and the Securities in certain respects as permitted by Section 9.02 of the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Company has been soliciting consents to this First Supplemental Indenture upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in its Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated November 20, 2014 and the Consent and Letter of Transmittal (which together, including any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto, constitute the “ Tender Offer ”);

WHEREAS, (a) the Company has received the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (excluding any Securities owned by the Company, any Guarantor or any of their respective Affiliates), all as certified by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture, (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture an Opinion of Counsel and Officers’ Certificate relating to this First Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Sections 9.06 and 11.04 of the Indenture and (c) the Company and the Guarantors have satisfied all other conditions required under Article IX of the Indenture to enable the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee to enter into this First Supplemental Indenture;


WHEREAS , all acts and requirements necessary to make this First Supplemental Indenture the legal, valid and binding obligation of each of the Company and the Guarantors have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities as follows:

ARTICLE I

AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE AND SECURITIES

Section 1.1 AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES III, IV, V AND VI OF THE INDENTURE.

(a) The Indenture is hereby amended by deleting the following Sections or clauses of the Indenture and all references and definitions related thereto in their entirety:

 

  Section 4.03 (Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness);

 

  Section 4.04 (Limitation on Restricted Payments);

 

  Section 4.05 (Corporate Existence);

 

  Section 4.06 (Payment of Taxes and Other Claims);

 

  Section 4.07 (Maintenance of Properties and Insurance);

 

  Section 4.09 (Compliance with Laws);

 

  Section 4.11 (Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws);

 

  Section 4.12 (Limitation on Asset Sales);

 

  Section 4.13 (Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries);

 

  Section 4.14 (Limitation on Issuances of Capital Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries);

 

  Section 4.15 (Limitation on Liens);

 

  Section 4.17 (Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates);

 

  Section 4.18 (Issuance of Subsidiary Guarantees);

 

  Section 4.20 (Limitation on Designations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries);

 

  Section 4.21 (Change of Control);

All such deleted Sections are replaced with “[Intentionally Omitted]”.

(b) Clause (c) of Section 4.08 (Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default) is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with “[Intentionally Omitted]” and all references in the Indenture to such clause are deleted in their entirety.

(c) Clauses (2) and (3) of Section 5.01(a) and clause (3) of Section 5.01(c) (Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets), are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with “[Intentionally Omitted]”, and all references in the Indenture to the clauses so eliminated are deleted in their entirety.


(d) Clauses (4), (5), (6) and (7) of Section 6.01 (Events of Default), are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with “[Intentionally Omitted]”, and all references in the Indenture to the clauses so eliminated are deleted in their entirety.

(e) The second sentence of the first unnumbered paragraph of Section 3.01 (Notices to Trustee) is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“The Company shall give notice of redemption to the Trustee at least 4 Business Days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be agreed to by the Trustee in writing), together with an Officers’ Certificate stating that such redemption will comply with the conditions contained herein.”

(f) The first and second sentences of the first unnumbered paragraph of Section 3.03 (Notice of Redemption) are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with the following:

“At least 5 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed a notice of redemption by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed. At the Company’s request delivered at least 4 Business Days prior to the proposed date of mailing (unless a shorter notice shall be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense.”

(g) Section 4.10 of the Indenture is hereby amended by deleting Section 4.10 in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

“Section 4.10. Reports to Holders .

The Company shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section 314(a), as applicable.”

Section 1.2 AMENDMENTS TO SECURITIES. The phrase “upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice,” in the first unnumbered paragraph of Paragraph 5 of the Securities is amended in its entirety to read “upon not less than 5 nor more than 60 days’ notice,”. The phrase “at least 30 days but not more than 60” in the first sentence of the first unnumbered paragraph of Paragraph 7 of the Securities is amended in its entirety to read “at least 5 days but not more than 60”. The Securities are hereby further amended to delete all provisions inconsistent with the amendments to the Indenture effected by this First Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE II

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 2.1 CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

Section 2.2 INDENTURE. Except as amended hereby, the Indenture and the Securities are in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms shall remain in full force and effect. This First Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be bound hereby and all terms and conditions of both shall be read together as though they constitute a single instrument, except that in the case of conflict the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture shall control.


Section 2.3 NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE.

Section 2.4 SUCCESSORS. All agreements of the Company and the Guarantors in this First Supplemental Indenture and the Securities shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this First Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.

Section 2.5 COUNTERPARTS. The parties may sign any number of copies of this First Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the same agreement.

Section 2.6 SEVERABILITY. In case any one or more of the provisions in this First Supplemental Indenture or in the Securities shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.

Section 2.7 THE TRUSTEE. The Trustee accepts the amendments of the Indenture effected by this First Supplemental Indenture and agrees to execute the trust created by the Indenture as hereby amended, but on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture, including the terms and provisions defining and limiting the liabilities and responsibilities of the Trustee, which terms and provisions shall in like manner define and limit its liabilities and responsibilities in the performance of the trust created by the Indenture as hereby amended, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of (i) the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture, (ii) the proper authorization or the due execution hereof by the Company and the Guarantors, (iii) the consequences of any amendment herein provided for or (iv) the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company and the Guarantors.

Section 2.8 EFFECTIVENESS. The provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture shall be effective only upon execution and delivery of this instrument by the parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture shall become operative only upon the purchase by the Company, pursuant to the Tender Offer, of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities (excluding any Securities owned by the Company, any Guarantor or any of their respective Affiliates), with the result that the amendments to the Indenture effected by this First Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be revoked retroactive to the date hereof if such purchase shall not occur. The Company shall notify the Trustee promptly after the occurrence of such purchase or promptly after the Company shall determine that such purchase will not occur.


Section 2.9 ENDORSEMENT AND CHANGE OF FORM OF SECURITIES. Any Securities authenticated and delivered after the close of business on the date that this First Supplemental Indenture becomes operative in substitution for Securities then outstanding and all Securities presented or delivered to the Trustee on and after that date for such purpose shall be stamped, imprinted or otherwise legended by the Company, with a notation as follows:

“Effective as of December 5, 2014, certain restrictive covenants of the Company and certain Events of Default have been eliminated or limited, as provided in the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee. Reference is hereby made to such First Supplemental Indenture, copies of which are on file with the Trustee, for a description of the amendments made therein.”

Section 2.10 EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.


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

 

TENNECO INC.
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax
On behalf of each Guarantor named on the attached Schedule I
By:  

/s/ John E. Kunz

  Name:   John E. Kunz
  Title:   Vice President, Treasurer and Tax

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

By:  

/s/ Mauri J. Cowen

  Name:   Mauri J. Cowen
  Title:   Vice President


SCHEDULE I

Guarantors

Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc., a Delaware corporation

Tenneco International Holding Corp., a Delaware corporation

Tenneco Global Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation

The Pullman Company, a Delaware corporation

Clevite Industries Inc., a Delaware corporation

TMC Texas Inc., a Delaware corporation

Exhibit 5.1

 

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Re: Tenneco Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Tenneco Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Tenneco”), in connection with the offer and sale of the following securities (the “Securities”), as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement dated December 2, 2014 (the “Prospectus Supplement”) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended: (i) $225,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024 of Tenneco (the “Notes”) and (ii) the guarantees of Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc., a Delaware corporation, Clevite Industries Inc., a Delaware corporation, The Pullman Company, a Delaware corporation, Tenneco Global Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation, Tenneco International Holding Corp., a Delaware corporation, and TMC Texas Inc., a Delaware corporation (collectively, the “Subsidiary Guarantors”), with respect to the Notes (the “Guarantees”).

The Securities will be issued under an Indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco, the Subsidiary Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2014, among Tenneco, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee (collectively, the “Indenture”).

As special counsel to Tenneco, we have examined originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of resolutions of the Board of Directors (or a committee thereof) of Tenneco and the boards of directors of the Subsidiary Guarantors and such records, certificates and other documents of Tenneco and the Subsidiary Guarantors and such questions of law as we considered necessary or appropriate for the purpose of this opinion. In rendering this opinion, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the assumptions, conditions and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that upon the due execution, authentication, issuance and delivery of the Notes and the Guarantees thereof, the Notes and the Guarantees thereof when sold in exchange for the consideration therefor set forth in the Prospectus Supplement, will be duly authorized and will be valid and binding obligations of Tenneco and the Subsidiary Guarantors, respectively, enforceable in accordance with their terms and entitled

 

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to the benefits of the Indenture, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to Tenneco’s Current Report on Form 8-K and to being named in the Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Legal Matters” with respect to the matters stated therein.

 

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Tenneco Completes Consent Solicitation and Indenture Amendments for 7  3 4 % Senior Notes Due 2018

Lake Forest, Illinois, December 5, 2014 — Tenneco Inc. (NYSE: TEN) announced today that it has received the requisite tenders and consents from holders of its outstanding $225 million 7  3 4 % Senior Notes due 2018 (the “2018 Notes”) to amend the indenture governing such notes. Tenneco also completed its previously announced public offering of $225 million 5  3 8 % Senior Notes due 2024, the proceeds of which will be used to purchase the 2018 notes.

On November 20, 2014, Tenneco commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of the 2018 Notes and a solicitation of consents to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the 2018 Notes. The deadline for tendering 2018 Notes to be eligible to receive a consent payment in connection with the consent solicitation was 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 4, 2014. Tenders may no longer be withdrawn and consents may no longer be revoked. As of the consent payment deadline, Tenneco had received tenders and consents representing $180,755,000 in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 2018 Notes. The consents received exceeded the minimum needed to amend the indenture governing the 2018 Notes. Accordingly, Tenneco, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, have executed a supplemental indenture that eliminates substantially all of the restrictive covenants and certain event of default provisions in the indenture governing the 2018 Notes and reduces the minimum notice period required to effect a call for redemption from 30 to 5 days.

Tenneco will make a cash payment of $1,043.50 per $1,000 principal amount, which includes a consent payment of $30.00 per $1,000 principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, to the holders of 2018 Notes who tendered prior to the consent payment deadline. The initial settlement is expected to occur today.

The tender offer is scheduled to expire at 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on December 19, 2014. Remaining holders who validly tender their 2018 Notes after the consent payment deadline and before the expiration of the tender offer will not be entitled to the consent payment but will be eligible to receive $1,013.50 per $1,000 principal amount of 2018 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest. Tenneco intends to call for redemption any 2018 Notes not purchased in the tender offer. The redemption date for any 2018 Notes not purchased in the tender offer is expected to be December 22, 2014.

The complete terms and conditions of the tender offer and consent solicitation are described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated November 20, 2014, copies of which may be obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the depositary and information agent for the tender offer, at (866) 470-4500 (US toll-free) or (212) 430-3774 (collect).

Tenneco has engaged Wells Fargo Securities, LLC to act as the exclusive dealer manager and solicitation agent in connection with the tender offer. Questions regarding the terms of the tender offer may be directed to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, at (866) 309-6319 (US toll-free) or (704) 410-4760 (collect).

This announcement is not an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell with respect to any securities. The tender offer is being made solely by the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement dated November 20, 2014.


Tenneco is an $8 billion global manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 26,000 employees worldwide. Tenneco is one of the world’s largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of clean air and ride performance products and systems for automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment markets and the aftermarket. Tenneco’s principal brand names are Monroe®, Walker®, XNOx™ and Clevite®Elastomer.

The disclosures herein include statements that are “forward looking” within the meaning of federal securities law concerning Tenneco’s tender offer and consent solicitation. The forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Contacts:

Linae Golla    Bill Dawson   
Investor inquiries    Media inquiries   
847 482-5162    847 482-5807   

 

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