UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 14, 2018

 

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Israel

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

 

001-16174

(Commission
File Number)

 

Not Applicable

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

 

5 Basel Street

P.O. Box 3190

Petach Tikva 4951033, Israel

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)

+972-3-914-8171

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

Not Applicable

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

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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))

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On March 14, 2018, (i) Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V. (“ Teva Finance III ”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the “ Company ”), issued $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.000% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “ USD 2024 Notes ”) and $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.750% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “ USD 2028 Notes ” and, together with the USD 2024 Notes, the “ USD Notes ”); and (ii) Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V. (“ Teva Finance II ” and, together with Teva Finance III, the “ Issuers ”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, issued €700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “ Euro 2022 Notes ”) and €900,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.500% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “ Euro 2025 Notes ” and, together with the Euro 2022 Notes, the “ Euro Notes ,” and, together with the USD Notes, the “ Notes ”).

As previously disclosed, Teva intends to use the net proceeds from the Notes to repay approximately $2.3 billion outstanding indebtedness under its U.S. Dollar and Japanese Yen term loan agreements and, together with cash on hand, to redeem all $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its 1.40% Senior Notes due 2018 and all €$1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 2.875% Senior Notes due 2019, which senior notes have been called for redemption and will be redeemed on March 28, 2018.

The USD Notes were issued pursuant to a Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ USD Notes Base Indenture ”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ USD Notes Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the USD Notes Base Indenture, the “ USD Notes Indenture ”), in each case, by and among Teva Finance III, the Company, as guarantor, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee. The Euro Notes were issued pursuant to a Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ Euro Notes Base Indenture ”), by and among Teva Finance II, the Company, as guarantor, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ Euro Notes Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Euro Notes Base Indenture, the “ Euro Notes Indenture ” and, together with the USD Notes Indenture, the “ Indentures ”), by and among Teva Finance II, the Company, as guarantor, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent.

Interest will be payable on the USD 2024 Notes semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning on October 15, 2018, until their maturity date of April 15, 2024. Interest will be payable on the USD 2028 Notes semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2018, until their maturity date of March 1, 2028. Interest will be payable on the Euro 2022 Notes semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning on October 15, 2018, until their maturity date of April 15, 2022. Interest will be payable on the Euro 2025 Notes semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2018, until their maturity date of March 1, 2025. The USD Notes and the Euro Notes are senior unsecured obligations of Teva Finance III and Teva Finance II, respectively, and each series of Notes is guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Company.

Teva Finance III may redeem the USD Notes of any series, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time. The USD Notes of each series will be redeemable at a redemption price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the USD Notes of such series to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in the USD Notes Indenture) of the USD Notes of such series being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), using a discount rate equal to the sum of the Treasury Rate (as defined in the USD Notes Indenture) plus 50 basis points, in the case of the USD 2024 Notes, and 50 basis points, in the case of the USD 2028 Notes, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date; provided that if Teva Finance III elects to redeem the USD 2024 Notes at any time on or after January 15, 2024 (three months prior to the maturity date of the USD 2024 Notes) or the USD 2028 Notes at any time on or after December 1, 2027 (three months prior to the maturity date of the USD 2028 Notes), Teva Finance III may redeem the USD 2024 Notes and the USD 2028 Notes, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the USD Notes of such series being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date.

Teva Finance II may redeem the Euro Notes of any series, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time. The Euro Notes of each series will be redeemable at a redemption price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Euro Notes of such series to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining

 

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Scheduled Payments (as defined in the Euro Notes Indenture) of the Euro Notes of such series being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at the applicable Reinvestment Rate (as defined in the Euro Notes Indenture), plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date; provided that if Teva Finance II elects to redeem the Euro 2022 Notes at any time on or after January 15, 2022 (three months prior to the maturity date of the Euro 2022 Notes) or the Euro 2025 Notes at any time on or after December 1, 2024 (three months prior to the maturity date of the Euro 2025 Notes), Teva Finance II may redeem the Euro 2022 Notes and the Euro 2025 Notes, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Euro Notes of such series being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date.

The terms of the Indentures, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, limit the ability of (a) the Company and its subsidiaries to (i) create liens upon certain of their property and (ii) enter into sale-leaseback transactions; and (b) the applicable Issuer and the Company to merge, consolidate or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of their assets. The Indentures provide for customary events of default, which include (subject in certain cases to customary grace and cure periods), among others, nonpayment of principal or interest; breach of other covenants or agreements in the Indentures; acceleration of certain other indebtedness; failure of the Company’s guarantee to be enforceable; and certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency. The Notes were issued in private offerings exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), to qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A and to persons outside of the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

In connection with the sale of the USD Notes, Teva Finance III and the Company, entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, with the initial purchasers party thereto. In connection with the sale of the Euro Notes, Teva Finance II and the Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, with the initial purchasers party thereto. Under the terms of each Registration Rights Agreements, the applicable Issuer and the Company agreed, with respect to each series of Notes, to use reasonable best efforts to file a registration statement with respect to a registered exchange offer to exchange the Notes for new notes with terms substantially identical to the Notes, to cause the exchange offer registration statement to be declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission and to consummate the exchange offer on or before the 365th day after March 14, 2018. The Issuers and the Company may be required to provide shelf registration statements to cover resale of any series of Notes under certain circumstances. If the Issuers and the Company fail to satisfy these and other obligations contained in the Registration Rights Agreements, additional payments of interest will accrue on the Notes.

The foregoing summary descriptions of the USD Notes Base Indenture, USD Notes Supplemental Indenture, Euro Notes Base Indenture, Euro Notes Supplemental Indenture, each series of Notes and the Registration Rights Agreements are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the USD Notes Base Indenture, the USD Notes Supplemental Indenture, the form of USD Notes, the USD Notes Registration Rights Agreement, the Euro Notes Base Indenture, the Euro Notes Supplemental Indenture, the form of Euro Notes and the Euro Notes Registration Rights Agreement, which are filed as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.

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

The information set forth in Item 1.01 is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

 

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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

4.1    Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.
4.2    First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March  14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.
4.3    Form of USD Notes (included in Exhibit 4.2).
4.4    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and the initial purchasers party thereto.
4.5    Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee.
4.6    First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March  14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent.
4.7    Form of Euro Notes (included in Exhibit 4.6).
4.8    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and the initial purchasers party thereto.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
        By  

/s/ Michael McClellan

  Name:   Michael McClellan
  Title:   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dated: March 14, 2018

 

4

Exhibit 4.1

Execution Version

 

 

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.,

as Issuer

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED,

as Guarantor

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee

SENIOR INDENTURE

Dated as of March 14, 2018

 

 

 


Table of Contents

 

     Page  
ARTICLE 1   
DEFINITIONS   

Section 1.01 Certain Terms Defined

     1  
ARTICLE 2   
SECURITIES   

Section 2.01 Forms Generally

     5  

Section 2.02 Form of Trustee’s Certification of Authentication

     5  

Section 2.03 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

     5  

Section 2.04 Authentication and Delivery of Securities

     7  

Section 2.05 Execution of Securities

     7  

Section 2.06 Certificate of Authorization

     8  

Section 2.07 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest

     8  

Section 2.08 Registration, Transfer and Exchange

     8  

Section 2.09 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

     9  

Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities

     10  

Section 2.11 Temporary Securities

     10  

Section 2.12 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers

     10  

Section 2.13 Registered Global Securities

     10  
ARTICLE 3   
COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR AND THE TRUSTEE   

Section 3.01 Payment of Principal and Interest

     11  

Section 3.02 Offices for Payments, etc.

     11  

Section 3.03 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee

     11  

Section 3.04 Paying Agent

     11  

Section 3.05 Certificates of the Issuer

     12  

Section 3.06 Securityholders Lists

     12  

Section 3.07 Reports by the Issuer

     13  

Section 3.08 Reports by the Trustee

     13  
ARTICLE 4   
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT   

Section 4.01 Event of Default; Acceleration of Maturity, Waiver of Default

     13  

Section 4.02 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt

     15  

Section 4.03 Application of Proceeds

     16  

Section 4.04 Suits for Enforcement

     17  

Section 4.05 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceeding

     17  

Section 4.06 Limitations on Suits by Securityholder

     17  

Section 4.07 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits

     18  

Section 4.08 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default

     18  

Section 4.09 Control by Securityholders

     18  

Section 4.10 Waiver of Past Defaults

     18  

Section 4.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain Circumstances

     19  

Section 4.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs

     19  

 

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Table of Contents

(continued)

 

     Page  
ARTICLE 5   
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE   

Section 5.01 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default

     19  

Section 5.02 Certain Rights of the Trustee

     20  

Section 5.03 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof

     21  

Section 5.04 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections, etc.

     21  

Section 5.05 Moneys Held by Trustee

     22  

Section 5.06 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior Claim

     22  

Section 5.07 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer’s Certificate, etc.

     22  

Section 5.08 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee

     22  

Section 5.09 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee

     23  

Section 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee

     23  

Section 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee

     24  
ARTICLE 6   
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS   

Section 6.01 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders

     24  

Section 6.02 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities; Record Date

     25  

Section 6.03 Holders to be Treated as Owners

     25  

Section 6.04 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding

     25  

Section 6.05 Right of Revocation of Action Taken

     25  
ARTICLE 7   
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES   

Section 7.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders

     26  

Section 7.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders

     27  

Section 7.03 Effect of Supplemental Indenture

     28  

Section 7.04 Documents to Be Given to Trustee

     28  

Section 7.05 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures

     29  
ARTICLE 8   
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE   

Section 8.01 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms

     29  

Section 8.02 Successor Substituted

     29  

Section 8.03 Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms

     29  

Section 8.04 Successor Legal Entity Substituted for the Guarantor

     30  

Section 8.05 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee

     30  
ARTICLE 9   
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS   

Section 9.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

     30  

Section 9.02 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Securities

     32  

Section 9.03 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent

     32  

Section 9.04 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years

     32  

 

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Table of Contents

(continued)

 

     Page  
ARTICLE 10   
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS   

Section 10.01 Incorporators, Stockholders, Members, Officers, Directors and Employees of Issuer and Guarantor Exempt from Individual Liability

     33  

Section 10.02 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Securityholders

     33  

Section 10.03 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Indenture

     33  

Section 10.04 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Securityholders

     33  

Section 10.05 Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein

     35  

Section 10.06 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays

     35  

Section 10.07 Conflict of any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939

     36  

Section 10.08 New York Law to Govern

     36  

Section 10.09 Counterparts

     36  

Section 10.10 Effect of Headings

     36  

Section 10.11 Securities in a Non-U.S. Currency

     36  

Section 10.12 Submission to Jurisdiction

     36  

Section 10.13 Judgment Currency

     36  

Section 10.14 Waiver of Jury Trial

     37  

Section 10.15 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

     37  
ARTICLE 11   
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS   

Section 11.01 Applicability of Article

     37  

Section 11.02 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions

     37  

Section 11.03 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption

     38  

Section 11.04 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption

     38  

Section 11.05 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds

     39  
ARTICLE 12   
GUARANTEE   

Section 12.01 The Guarantee

     40  

Section 12.02 Net Payments

     40  

Section 12.03 Guarantee Unconditional, etc.

     41  

Section 12.04 Reinstatement

     42  

Section 12.05 Subrogation

     42  

Section 12.06 Assumption by Guarantor

     42  

 

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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation (the “ Trustee ”),

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (the “ Securities ”) up to such principal amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the authentication, delivery and administration of the Securities;

WHEREAS, for value received, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the Guarantee provided for herein, and all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and legally binding agreement of the Guarantor according to its terms have been done; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and legally binding agreement of the Issuer according to its terms have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE:

In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the Holders thereof, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Securities as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Certain Terms Defined . The following terms (except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any indenture supplemental hereto, or unless the context otherwise clearly requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), are referred to in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms defined therein by reference to the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act. All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. 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. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular. References herein to action by any Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor include actions taken by any duly authorized attorney in fact thereof.

Board ” means the board of directors, board of managers, managing directors, or supervisory directors of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or any other body or Person authorized by the organizational documents or by the members of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to act for it.

Board Resolution ” means one or more resolutions, duly adopted or consented to by the Board, and in full force and effect, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

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Business Day ” means, with respect to any Security, a day that in the city (or in any of the cities, if more than one) in which amounts are payable, as specified in the form of such Security, is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law or regulation to close.

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, then the body performing such duties on such date.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the office of the Trustee located in The City of New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered (which at the date of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, 7th Floor East, New York, New York 10286), Attention: Corporate Trust, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer).

Depositary ” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 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 Registered Global Securities of that series.

Dollar ” means the coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Event of Default ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.01.

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

generally accepted accounting principles ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on the date of any calculation or determination required hereunder. Except as otherwise set forth in this Indenture, all ratios and calculations based on generally accepted accounting principles contained in this Indenture shall be computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the Original Issue Date. At any time after the Original Issue Date, the Issuer may elect to establish that generally accepted accounting principles shall mean the generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on or prior to the date of such election; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable. At any time after the Original Issue Date, the Issuer may elect to apply IFRS in lieu of generally accepted accounting principles and, upon any such election, references herein to generally accepted accounting principles shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS on the date of such election, including as to the ability of the Issuer to make an election pursuant to the previous sentence; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable; provided, further, that any calculation or determination in this Indenture that requires the application of generally accepted accounting principles for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to the Issuer’s election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Guarantee ” means the unconditional guarantee of the Issuer’s obligations with respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture by the Guarantor, as more fully set forth in Article 12.

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

Holder ”, “ Holder of Securities ”, “ Securityholder ” or other similar terms mean the registered holder of any Security.

 

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IFRS ” means the International Financial Reporting Standards accounting principles as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.

Indenture ” means this instrument as originally executed and delivered or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

Interest ” means, when used with respect to non-interest bearing Securities, interest payable after maturity.

Issuer ” means (except as otherwise provided in Article 8) Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law, and, subject to Article 8, its successors and assigns.

Judgment Currency ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

New York Banking Day ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

Non-U.S. Currency ” means a currency issued by the government of a country other than the United States (or any currency unit comprised of any such currencies).

Officer ” means, with respect to any Person, (1) the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Corporate Treasurer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Head of Corporate Treasury, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, any managing director or supervisory director (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity, or (2) any other individual designated as an “Officer” by the Board of Directors of such Person or any other body or Person authorized by the organizational documents or by the members of such Person to act for it.

Officer’s Certificate ” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate (i) signed by one Officer and (ii) delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 if applicable to such certificate.

Opinion of Counsel ” means an opinion in writing reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee signed by legal counsel to the Issuer or the Guarantor who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or the Guarantor. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 if applicable to such opinion and shall include the statements provided for in Section 10.05 if and to the extent required hereby.

Original Issue Date ” of any Security (or portion thereof) means the date on which such Security was originally issued under this Indenture.

Original Issue Discount Security ” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.

Outstanding ”, when used with reference to Securities, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:

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

(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Issuer or the Guarantor) or shall have been set aside, segregated and held in trust by the Issuer or the Guarantor for the Holders of such Securities (if the Issuer shall act as its own, or authorize the Guarantor to act as, paying agent), provided that if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and

 

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(c) Securities in substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered, or which shall have been paid, pursuant to the terms of Section 2.09 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer).

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.

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

Registered Global Security ” means a Security evidencing all or a part of a series of Registered Securities, issued to the Depositary for such series in accordance with Section 2.03, and bearing the legend prescribed by the applicable supplemental indenture.

Registered Security ” means any Security registered on the Security register.

Required Currency ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

Responsible Officer ”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office, including any vice president, any trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above-designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with that particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

Security ” or “ Securities ” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

Trustee ” means the Person identified as “Trustee” in the first paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article 5, shall also include any successor trustee.

Trust Indenture Act of 1939 ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was originally executed.

U.S. Government Obligations ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.01.

vice president ” when used with respect to the Issuer or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title of “vice president”.

Yield to Maturity ” means the yield to maturity on a series of securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.

 

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ARTICLE 2

SECURITIES

Section 2.01 Forms Generally . The Securities of each series shall be substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.

The definitive Securities shall be printed or lithographed on security printed paper or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

Section 2.02 Form of Trustee s Certification of Authentication . The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the following form:

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

 

 

The Bank of New York Mellon,

as Trustee

  By:  

 

    Authorized Signatory
  Date:  

 

   

Section 2.03 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 and, unless provided for otherwise in a Board Resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or an indenture supplemental hereto, each such series shall rank equally and pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated debt of the Issuer. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,

(a) the designation of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities, except to the extent that additional Securities of an existing series are being issued);

(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that 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 such series pursuant to Section 2.08, 2.09, 2.11 or 11.03);

(c) if other than Dollars, the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated (including, but not limited to, any Non-U.S. Currency);

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

(e) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be payable and the record dates for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable and/or the method by which such rate or rates or date or dates shall be determined;

 

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(f) the place or places where the principal of and any interest on Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than as provided in Section 3.02);

(g) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Issuer, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;

(h) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory redemption, sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

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

(j) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02;

(k) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable;

(l) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series are to be payable, at the election of the Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities are denominated, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;

(m) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index based on a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities of the series are denominated, or with reference to any currencies, securities or baskets of securities, commodities or indices, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(n) if the Holders of the Securities of the series may convert or exchange the Securities of the series into or for securities of the Issuer or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), the specific terms of and period during which such conversion or exchange may be made;

(o) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as Registered Securities (and if so, whether such Securities will be issuable as Registered Global Securities) or any combination of the foregoing, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale, transfer, exchange or delivery of Registered Securities or the payment of interest thereon and, if other than as provided herein;

(p) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person who is not a U.S. Person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Issuer will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional amounts;

(q) 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, the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;

(r) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents or registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of such series;

(s) any applicable United States federal income tax and Israel income tax provisions, including, but not limited to: whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay additional amounts on Securities for any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether it will have the option to redeem those

 

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Securities rather than pay the additional amounts; tax considerations applicable to any discounted Securities or to Securities issued at par that are treated as having been issued at a discount for United States federal income tax purposes; and tax considerations applicable to any Securities denominated and payable in foreign currencies;

(t) whether certain payments on the Securities will be guaranteed under a financial insurance guaranty policy and the terms of that guaranty;

(u) any applicable selling restrictions;

(v) any other events of default, modifications or elimination of any acceleration rights, or covenants with respect to the Securities of such series and any terms required by or advisable under applicable laws or regulations, including laws and regulations relating to attributes required for the Securities to be afforded certain capital treatment for bank regulatory or other purposes; and

(w) any other terms of the series.

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board resolution, Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

Section 2.04 Authentication and Delivery of Securities . At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Issuer may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon the written order of the Issuer, signed by one Officer of the Issuer, without any further action by the Issuer. In authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(a) a copy of the Board resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or an executed supplemental indenture, relating to such series, setting forth the form and terms of the Securities, as required pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03; and

(b) an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section 10.05,

(i) to the effect that the form or forms and terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board, an Officer’s Certificate or by a supplemental indenture as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03 in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(ii) to the effect that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Issuer in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Issuer.

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.

Section 2.05 Execution of Securities . The Securities shall be signed on behalf of the Issuer by one Officer of the Issuer. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such Officers. 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.

 

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In case any Officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the Securities shall cease to be such Officer before the Security so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Issuer, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security had not ceased to be such Officer of the Issuer; and any Security may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such person as, at the actual date of the execution of such Security, shall be the proper Officer of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

Section 2.06 Certificate of Authorization . Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 2.07 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest . The Securities shall be issuable as Registered Securities without coupons and in denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.03. In the absence of any such specification with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof. The Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the Officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication, shall bear interest, if any, from the date and shall be payable on the dates, in each case, which shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.03.

The person in whose name any Security of any series is registered at the close of business on any record date applicable to a particular series with respect to any interest payment date for such series shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest payment date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Issuer and the Guarantor shall default in the payment of the interest due on such interest payment date for such series, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names Outstanding Securities for such series are registered at the close of business on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business Days prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by notice delivered by or on behalf of the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Holders of Securities not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The term “ record date ” as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) shall mean the date specified as such in the terms of the Securities of any particular series, or, if no such date is so specified, if such interest payment date is the first day of a calendar month, the 15th day of the next preceding calendar month or, if such interest payment date is the 15th day of a calendar month, the first day of such calendar month, in either case whether or not such record date is a Business Day.

Section 2.08 Registration, Transfer and Exchange . The Issuer will keep or cause to be kept at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02 a register or registers in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will register or cause to be registered, and will register or cause to be registered the transfer of, Securities as in this Article provided. Such register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such register or registers shall be open for inspection by the Trustee if the Corporate Trust Office is not the office or agency maintained for such purpose.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at any such office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a new Security or Securities of the same series in authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.

Any Security or Securities of any series may be exchanged for a Security or Securities of the same series in other authorized denominations, in an equal aggregate principal amount. Securities of any series to be exchanged shall be surrendered at any office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor the Security or Securities of the same series which the Securityholder making the exchange shall be entitled to receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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All Securities presented for registration of transfer, exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any such transaction. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.08, the Issuer will not be required to exchange any Securities if, as a result of the exchange, the Issuer would suffer adverse consequences under any United States law or regulation. Each Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Issuer and the Trustee against any liability that may result from the registration, transfer or exchange of such Holder’s Security in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable United States federal or state securities laws.

The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the first delivery of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be redeemed, (b) any Securities selected, called or being called for redemption except, in the case of any Security where notice has been given that such Security is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed, or (c) any Securities of any series between a record date and the next succeeding payment date.

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

The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Registered Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

Neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

Section 2.09 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . In case any temporary or definitive Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may execute, and upon the written request of any Officer of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of the same series, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substitute Security shall furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee such security or indemnity required by them to indemnify and defend and to hold each of them harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof in the case of mutilation or defacement shall surrender the Security to the Trustee or such agent.

Upon the issuance of any substitute Security, the Issuer 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 reasonable and documented fees and expenses of the Trustee or its agent) connected therewith. In case any Security which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Security), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them may require to hold each of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.

 

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Every substitute Security of any series issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Issuer and the Guarantor, 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 (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Securities shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities . All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be cancelled by it upon its receipt of a written order of cancellation executed by one Officer of the Issuer; and no Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Securities held by it in accordance with its procedures for the disposition of cancelled Securities and deliver a certificate of disposition to the Issuer upon written request. If the Issuer shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 2.11 Temporary Securities . Pending the preparation of definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be issuable as registered Securities without coupons, of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such series but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer with the concurrence of the Trustee. Temporary Securities may contain such reference to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Issuer shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.02, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such series a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series unless otherwise established pursuant to Section 2.03.

Section 2.12 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers . The Issuer in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use such numbers in notices of redemption and other notices to the Holders 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 Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers.

Section 2.13 Registered Global Securities . None of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent shall have any responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of an interest in a Registered Global Security, any members of, or a participant in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or any participant or Agent Member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in a Registered Global Security or with respect to the delivery to any participant, Agent Member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Registered Global Security (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Registered Global Securities. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Registered Global Securities shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered

 

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Holders. The rights of beneficial owners in any Registered Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each agent may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its Agent Members, participants and any beneficial owners.

ARTICLE 3

COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR AND THE TRUSTEE

Section 3.01 Payment of Principal and Interest . The Issuer covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of the Securities of such series (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) at the place or places, at the respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities. Subject to any other provisions that may be established pursuant to Section 2.03, the interest on Securities (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only to or upon the written order of the Holders thereof and, at the option of the Issuer, may be paid by wire transfer or by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of such Holders at their last addresses as they appear on the registry books of the Issuer.

Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium, interest or any other amounts 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 by the terms of such series established hereby or pursuant hereto to the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable) in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding the payment of additional amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Section 3.02 Offices for Payments, etc. So long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the following for each series: an office or agency (a) where the Securities may be presented for payment, (b) where the Securities may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture or any supplemental indenture provided and (c) where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Securities or of this Indenture may be delivered. The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. Unless otherwise specified in accordance with Section 2.03, the Issuer hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, as the office to be maintained by it for each such purpose. In case the Issuer shall fail to so designate or maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be delivered at the Corporate Trust Office.

The Issuer may from time to time designate one or more additional offices or agencies where the Securities of a series may be presented for payment, where the Securities of that series may be presented for exchange as provided in this Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.03 and where the Securities of that series may be presented for registration of transfer as provided in this Indenture, and the Issuer may from time to time rescind any such designation, as the Issuer may deem desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligation to maintain the agencies provided for in this Section. The Issuer will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission thereof.

Section 3.03 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee . The Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 5.09, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series of Securities hereunder.

Section 3.04 Paying Agent . Whenever the Issuer shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series, it will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 3.04,

 

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(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer, the Guarantor or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series or of the Trustee,

(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or by the Guarantor or any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in making any payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series when the same shall be due and payable, and

(c) that it will pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the Trustee upon the Trustee’s written request at any time during the continuance of the default referred to in clause 3.04(b) above.

The Issuer will, on the Business Day prior to each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the paying agent a sum in immediately available funds sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action.

If the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent with respect to the Securities of any Series, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action.

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect to one or more or all series of Securities hereunder, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any such series by the Issuer or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this Section, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the provisions of Sections 9.03 and 9.04.

For the avoidance of doubt, any paying agent hereunder shall comply with applicable backup withholding tax and information reporting requirements under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to payments made under the Securities of any series (including, to the extent required, the collection of Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 and W-9 and the filing of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099 and 1096).

Section 3.05 Certificates of the Issuer . The Issuer will furnish to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer, commencing on December 31, 2018, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer to the signer’s knowledge of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture (such compliance to be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Indenture). In the event the Issuer comes to have actual knowledge of an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, regardless of the date, the Issuer shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee specifying such default and the nature and status thereof.

Section 3.06 Securityholders Lists . If and so long as the Trustee shall not be the Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (a) semi-annually not more than 15 days after each record date for the payment of interest on such Securities, as hereinabove specified, as of such record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.03 for non-interest bearing securities in each year, and (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such information is furnished.

 

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Section 3.07 Reports by the Issuer . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor covenants to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports that the Issuer or the Guarantor may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Reports, information and documents filed by the Issuer or the Guarantor with the Commission via the EDGAR system will be deemed filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 3.07 as of the time that such reports, information and documents are filed via EDGAR. 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 actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any parent entity of the Issuer has filed with the Commission the information described in this Section 3.07 with respect to such parent entity of the Issuer, the Issuer shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.07; provided that, if such parent entity has material assets or operations other than those that are owned or operated by the Issuer and its subsidiaries, such parent entity will provide to the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities financial information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such parent entity, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Issuer and its subsidiaries, on the other hand.

The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine if and when the reports, information and documents of the Issuer or the Guarantor are filed with the Commission via the EDGAR system and available on the Commission’s EDGAR website. If the Guarantor ceases to be a reporting company with the Commission, it shall provide the Trustee with prompt written notification at that time and shall provide the Trustee with such reports, information and documents as set forth in this Section 3.07.

Section 3.08 Reports by the Trustee . Any Trustee’s report required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be transmitted on or before July 15 in each year following the date hereof, so long as any Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be dated as of a date convenient to the Trustee no more than 60 nor less than 45 days prior thereto.

ARTICLE 4

REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT

Section 4.01 Event of Default; Acceleration of Maturity, Waiver of Default . Unless otherwise established in accordance with Section 2.03 or by any applicable supplemental indenture, “Event of Default” with respect to any particular series of Securities wherever used herein means each one of the following events with respect to the Securities of such series which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) default in the payment of principal in respect of the Securities of such series, when due and payable;

(b) default for more than 30 days in the payment of interest in respect of the Securities of such series, when due and payable;

(c) the failure to perform any covenant or agreement of the Issuer or the Guarantor under this Indenture or the Securities of that series (other than a covenant or agreement which has been included in this Indenture or an indenture supplemental hereto solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than that series and other than a covenant or agreement a default in the performance of which is elsewhere in this Section 4.01 specifically addressed), which failure shall not have been remedied, or without provision deemed to be adequate for the remedying thereof having been made, for a period of 90 days after written notice shall have been given to the Issuer by the Trustee or shall have been given to the Issuer and the Trustee by Holders of 25% or more in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding, specifying such failure, requiring the Issuer to remedy the same and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

 

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(d) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of:

(i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law; or

(ii) a decree or order adjudging the Issuer or the Guarantor as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(e) the commencement by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Issuer or the Guarantor, or the filing by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or the consent by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or the taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by the Issuer or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer or the Guarantor in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Issuer or the Guarantor expressly in furtherance of any such action; or

(f) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such series.

For the avoidance of doubt, a default with respect to a single series of Securities under this Indenture or such series of Securities will not constitute a default with respect to any other series of Securities issued under this Indenture.

Unless otherwise set forth in any applicable supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate, if an Event of Default described in clauses 4.01(a), 4.01(b), 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) above occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, except for any series the principal of which shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a series affected thereby then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class) by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Guarantor (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal (or, if the Securities of any such affected series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) of such affected series of Securities and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable. Unless otherwise set forth in any applicable supplemental indenture, if an Event of Default described in clauses 4.01(d) or 4.01(e) occurs and is continuing, then the principal and accrued and unpaid interest and premium, if any, with respect to any Securities then Outstanding 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.

The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of the Securities of any series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer or the Guarantor shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all the Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) and the principal of any and all Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may

 

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be) which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series (or at the respective rates of interest or Yields to Maturity of all the Securities, as the case may be) to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein, then and in every such case the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of each such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) then Outstanding (in each case treated as one class), by written notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to each such series (or with respect to all the Securities, as the case may be) and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.

For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal of any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and declared due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and after such declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such Original Issue Discount Securities.

Section 4.02 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of any series when such interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the Securities of any series when the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon maturity of the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or by declaration or otherwise, then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will pay to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all Securities of such series for principal or interest, as the case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series); and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.

Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay the principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the registered Holders, whether or not the principal of and interest on the Securities of such series be overdue.

In case the Issuer or the Guarantor shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or the Guarantor or other obligor upon such Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or the Guarantor or other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,

 

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sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor or its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer, the Guarantor or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any 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 pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, 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 reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer, the Guarantor or such other obligor,

(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of the Securities of any series in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and

(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except in the event of a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.

All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof on any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such action was taken.

In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Securities in respect to which such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such Securities parties to any such proceedings.

Section 4.03 Application of Proceeds . Any moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the several Securities in respect of which monies have been collected and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

 

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FIRST: To the Trustee for the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such series in respect of which monies have been collected, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys and of all fees, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except in the event of a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order;

SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;

THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority of principal over interest or Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to Maturity; and

FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

Section 4.04 Suits for Enforcement . In case an Event of Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may, but is not required to, proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

Section 4.05 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceeding . In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken.

Section 4.06 Limitations on Suits by Securityholder . No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each affected series then Outstanding (treated as a single class) shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.09; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Security with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of

 

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this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holder of Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of the applicable series. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

Section 4.07 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits . Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any provision of any Security, the right of any Holder of any Security to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Security on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Security, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

Section 4.08 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default . Except as provided in Section 4.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders 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.

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 4.06, every power and remedy given by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Securityholders.

Section 4.09 Control by Securityholders . The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series affected (with all such series voting as a single class) at the time Outstanding 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 by this Indenture; provided that such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further that (subject to the provisions of Section 5.01 and 5.02(d)) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if (i) the Trustee shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken; or (ii) if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability; or (iii) if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions or forebearances specified in or pursuant to such direction would be unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all series so affected not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that (subject to Section 5.01) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forebearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders; or (iv) the Trustee has not received indemnity satisfactory to it in its sole discretion.

Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.

Section 4.10 Waiver of Past Defaults . Prior to the acceleration of the maturity of any Securities as provided in Section 4.01, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a series at the time Outstanding with respect to which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (voting as a single class) may on behalf of the Holders of all such Securities waive any past default or Event of Default described in Section 4.01 and its consequences, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of all such Securities shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

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Section 4.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain Circumstances . The Trustee shall give to the Securityholders of any series, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on the registry books, notice of all defaults known to the Trustee which have occurred with respect to such series, such notice to be transmitted within 90 days after the occurrence thereof, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such notice (the term “default” or “defaults” for the purposes of this Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition which is, or with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default); provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities of such series, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment with respect to the 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/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series.

Section 4.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay 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 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 and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the case of any suit relating to or arising under clauses 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) (if the suit relates to Securities of more than one but less than all series), 10% in aggregate principal amount of Securities Outstanding affected thereby, or in the case of any suit relating to or arising under clauses 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) (if the suit relates to all the Securities then Outstanding), 4.01(d) or 4.01(e), 10% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the due date expressed in such Security.

ARTICLE 5

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

Section 5.01 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default . With respect to the Holders of any series of Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of Securities 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 person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

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

(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:

(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any Series shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations 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 the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision 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);

 

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

(c) 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 pursuant to Section 4.09 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.

None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it.

The provisions of this Section 5.01 are in furtherance of and subject to Sections 315 and 316 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

Section 5.02 Certain Rights of the Trustee . In furtherance of and subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and subject to Section 5.01:

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

(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer or the Guarantor mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed);

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

(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;

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

(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, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all series affected then Outstanding; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to it against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall be paid by the Issuer or, if advanced by the Trustee or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer promptly upon demand;

 

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(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 not regularly in its employ and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

(h) 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, conclusively rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;

(i) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Event of Default or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default unless in the case of a payment default under Section 4.01(a) or Section 4.01(b) hereof a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or in the case of any other Event of Default unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;

(j) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder;

(k) the Trustee may request that the Issuer or the Guarantor deliver an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the names of individuals and titles of Officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any Officer specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded;

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

(m) 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; and

(n) neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance by the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Securityholders with or with respect to any securities or tax laws (including but not limited to any United States federal or state or other securities or tax laws), or, except as specifically provided herein, obtain documentation on any transfers or exchanges of the Securities of any series. Nothing in this provision shall be deemed to limit the Trustee’s duty to comply with any obligations it may have pursuant to applicable law.

Section 5.03 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof . The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the Securities or of the proceeds thereof.

Section 5.04 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections, etc . The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or the Guarantor and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer or the Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.

 

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Section 5.05 Moneys Held by Trustee . Subject to the provisions of Section 9.04 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law. All such moneys shall remain uninvested and neither the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder.

Section 5.06 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior Claim . The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation as the Issuer and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the fees, expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents) except to the extent any such expense, disbursement or advance shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees for, and to hold each of them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in the premises, except to the extent such loss, liability or expense shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Trustee or such predecessor Trustee or their respective agents, officers, directors and employees in a final, non-appealable order. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the payment in full of the Securities issued hereunder, the resignation or removal of the Trustee, or the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. As security for the performance of such obligations, the Trustee shall have a senior claim to that of the Holders of 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 benefit of the Holders of particular Securities, and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 4.01(d) or Section 4.01(e), 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.

Section 5.07 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer s Certificate, etc. . Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, whenever in the administration of the trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such matter may, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.

Section 5.08 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee . The Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder 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 having a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000, and which is eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a federal, state or District of Columbia 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.

 

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Section 5.09 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee .

(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer no less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such resignation and by delivering notice thereof to Holders of the applicable series of Securities at their last addresses as they shall appear on the Security register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable series by written instrument. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to any series and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the delivery of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee at the Issuer’s expense may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 4.12, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.

(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:

(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any series of Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months;

(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder; or

(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator 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, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series by written instrument, or, subject to Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities 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 removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.

(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the evidence provided for in Section 6.01 of the action in that regard taken by the Securityholders not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such removal.

(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 5.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 5.10.

Section 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee . Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 5.09 shall execute and deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless,

 

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on the written request of the Issuer or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 9.04, pay over to the successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.06.

If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the Guarantor, predecessor Trustee and each successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and 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 and that each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate indentures.

Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this Section 5.10, the Issuer shall deliver notice thereof to the Holders of Securities of any series for which such successor trustee is acting as trustee at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security register. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 5.09. If the Issuer fails to deliver such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Issuer.

Section 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee . 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, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 5.08, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

ARTICLE 6

CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

Section 6.01 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders . Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article.

 

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Section 6.02 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities; Record Date . Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a certificate of the registrar thereof. The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of Securities of any series entitled to vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 6.01, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, only Holders of Securities of such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to so vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent.

Section 6.03 Holders to be Treated as Owners . The Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and none of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Security.

Section 6.04 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding . In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are 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 Issuer or any other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In 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 Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s 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.

Section 6.05 Right of Revocation of Action Taken . At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 6.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Securities affected by such action.

 

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ARTICLE 7

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 7.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders . The Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto with respect to any series of Securities or amend any series of Securities for one or more of the following purposes:

(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the Securities of one or more series any property or assets, or to confirm and evidence the release, termination, discharge or retaking of any lien with respect to or securing the Securities of any series when such lien is not required under this Indenture;

(b) to evidence the succession of another legal entity to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor legal entity of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, pursuant to Article 8;

(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer or the Guarantor such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of Securities (and, if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are being included solely for the benefit of such series), and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision 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 an Event of Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series to waive such an Event of Default;

(d) to delete or modify any Events of Default with respect to all or any new series of the Securities, the form and terms of which are being established pursuant to such supplemental indenture, Officer’s Certificate or resolution of the Board as permitted in Section 2.01 (and, if any such Event of Default is applicable to fewer than all such series of the Securities, specifying the series to which such Event of Default is applicable), and to specify the rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders of such Securities in connection therewith;

(e) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide, change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or premium, if any, on Securities; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect;

(f) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision;

(g) to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or error, or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture; or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer or the Guarantor; or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under any supplemental indenture as the Issuer or the Guarantor may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities in any material respect;

(h) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03, or to authorize the issuance of additional Securities of a series previously authorized or to add to the conditions, limitations or restrictions on the authorized amount, form, terms or purposes of issue, authentication or delivery of the Securities of any series, as herein set forth, or other conditions, limitations or restrictions thereafter to be observed;

 

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(i) to evidence the assumption by the Guarantor of all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series and the release of the Issuer from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such series, all as provided in Section 12.06 hereof;

(j) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor trustee or a Trustee (other than The Bank of New York Mellon) for a series of Securities 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 the successor trustee or more than one Trustee, as the case may be, pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.10;

(k) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Section 9.01; provided, however, that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other series of Securities in any material respect;

(l) to add to or change or eliminate any provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or modify this Indenture, if necessary with respect to a series of Securities, in order to continue its qualification with respect to such series of Securities under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939;

(m) to reduce the minimum denomination of any series of Securities;

(n) to prohibit the authentication and delivery of additional series of Securities;

(o) to add guarantors or co-obligors with respect to any series of Securities, or to release guarantors from their guarantees of Securities in accordance with the terms of the applicable series of Securities;

(p) to make such provisions as may be necessary to issue any Securities in exchange for existing Securities pursuant to a registration rights agreement or similar agreement;

(q) to conform the provisions of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities or the terms of such series of Securities to any provision of the “Description of Notes” in any offering memorandum or prospectus relating to the issuance of such series; or

(r) to make any change in any series of Securities that does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of such Securities.

The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer and the Guarantor in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder, but the Trustee 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.

Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the Securities at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 7.02.

Section 7.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders . With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 6) of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as one class), the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto or amend the Securities of any series for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall (a) (i) extend the final maturity of any Security, (ii) reduce the principal amount thereof, (iii) reduce

 

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the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon, (iv) reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, (v) make the principal thereof (including any amount in respect of original issue discount), or interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Securities or in accordance with the terms thereof, (vi) modify or amend any provisions for converting any currency into any other currency as provided in the Securities or in accordance with the terms thereof, (vii) reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02, (viii) modify or amend any provisions relating to the conversion or exchange of the Securities for securities of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), including the determination of the amount of securities or other property (or cash) into which the Securities shall be converted or exchanged, other than as provided in the anti-dilution provisions or other similar adjustment provisions of the Securities or otherwise in accordance with the terms thereof, or (ix) alter the provisions of Section 10.11 or Section 10.13 or impair the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment of principal of and interest on such Securityholder’s Securities on or after the due dates therefor, in each case without the consent of the Holder of each Security so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each Security so affected.

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 Holders of Securities of such series, with respect to such covenant or provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

Upon the request of the Issuer and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 6.01, the Trustee shall join with the Issuer and the Guarantor in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.

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

Promptly after the execution by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall give notice thereof to the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books of the Issuer, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Trustee to deliver such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

Section 7.03 Effect of Supplemental Indenture . Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

Section 7.04 Documents to Be Given to Trustee . In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.05 hereof, and 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 adversely affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

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Section 7.05 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures . Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action taken by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of such series then Outstanding.

ARTICLE 8

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE

Section 8.01 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms . The Issuer will not merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any Person, unless (i) either the Issuer shall be the continuing legal entity, or the successor legal entity or the Person which acquires by sale or conveyance substantially all the assets of the Issuer (if other than the Issuer) is organized under the laws of The Netherlands shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on 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 or observed by the Issuer, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such successor legal entity, and (ii) the Issuer or such successor legal entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or condition.

Section 8.02 Successor Substituted . In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and following such an assumption by the successor legal entity, all in the manner described in Section 8.01, such successor legal entity shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer, with the same effect as if it had been named herein; and any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture required or permitted to be done by the Board or any Officer of the Issuer may be done with like force and effect by the like board or officer of any entity that shall at the time be the successor of the Issuer hereunder. Such successor legal entity may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Issuer prior to such succession any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor legal entity instead of the Issuer 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 Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor legal entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All of the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. Any required changes in phrasing and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

In the event of such assumption following any sale or conveyance in accordance with Section 8.01 and this Section 8.02 (other than a conveyance by way of lease) the Issuer (including any successor legal entity that has been further substituted in accordance with Section 8.01 and this Section 8.02) shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.

Section 8.03 Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms . The Guarantor will not merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any other Person, unless (i) either the Guarantor shall be the continuing legal entity, or the successor legal entity or the Person which acquires by sale, lease or conveyance substantially all the assets of the Guarantor (if other than the Guarantor) shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Guarantor, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such successor legal entity, and (ii) the Guarantor, such Person or such successor legal entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale, lease or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or condition.

 

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Section 8.04 Successor Legal Entity Substituted for the Guarantor . In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and following such an assumption by the successor legal entity, all in the manner described in Section 8.03, such successor legal entity shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein; and any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture required or permitted to be done by the Board or any Officer of the Guarantor may be done with like force and effect by the like board or officer of any entity that shall at the time be the successor of the Guarantor hereunder. Any required changes in phrasing and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

In the event of such assumption following any sale or conveyance in accordance with Section 8.03 and this Section 8.04 (other than a conveyance by way of lease) the Guarantor (including any successor legal entity that has been further substituted in accordance with Section 8.03 and this Section 8.04) shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.

Section 8.05 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee . The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 5.01 and 5.02, shall receive an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section 10.05, as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, and any such liquidation or dissolution, complies with the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

ARTICLE 9

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS

Section 9.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

(a) If at any time (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder (other than Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (ii) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) or (iii) (A) all the securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and (B) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash (other than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any paying agent to the Issuer in accordance with Section 9.04) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, direct obligations of the United States of America, backed by its full faith and credit (“ U.S. Government Obligations ”), maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash, or a combination thereof, sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all Securities of such series (other than any Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest due or to become due on or prior to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any such case, the Issuer or the Guarantor shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer or the Guarantor with respect to Securities of such series, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to Securities of such series (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of securities of such series, and the Issuer’s right of optional redemption, if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon upon the original stated due date therefor (but no upon acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (v) the rights of the Securityholders of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them), and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer or the Guarantor accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such series; provided, that the rights of Holders of the Securities to receive amounts in respect of principal of and interest on the Securities held by them shall not be delayed longer than required by then-applicable mandatory rules or policies of any securities exchange upon which the Securities are listed. The Issuer agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities of such series.

 

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(b) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of each series unless specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto provided pursuant to Section 2.03. In addition to discharge of this Indenture pursuant to the next preceding paragraph, in the case of any series of Securities the exact amounts (including the currency of payment) of principal of and interest due on which can be determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in clause 9.01(b)(i) below, the Issuer and the Guarantor shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Securities of such series on the date of the deposit referred to in clause 9.01(b)(i) below and the satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series thereto shall no longer be in effect (except as to (1) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such series and the Issuer’s right of optional redemption, if any, (2) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (3) rights of Holders of Securities to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (4) the rights, obligations, duties, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (5) the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them and (6) the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.02) and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer or the Guarantor, shall at the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same, if

(i) with reference to this provision the Issuer or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series (A) cash in an amount, or (B) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (1) the principal and interest on all Securities of such series and coupons appertaining thereto on each date that such principal or interest is due and payable and (2) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series;

(ii) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;

(iii) the Issuer or the Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel based on the fact that (x) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; and

(iv) the Issuer or the Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied with.

(c) Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor shall be released from its obligations under Section 8.01 with respect to the Securities of any Series, Outstanding, and under any guarantee in respect thereof, on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ covenant defeasance ”). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any Series, and under a guarantee in respect thereof, the Issuer and the Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in such Sections, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to such Sections or by reason of any reference in such Sections to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute an Event of Default under Section 4.01, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and coupons and the Guarantee shall be unaffected thereby. The following shall be the conditions to application of this subsection (c) of this Section 9.01:

 

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(i) The Issuer or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, (A) cash in an amount, or (B) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (1) the principal and interest on all Securities of such series and coupons appertaining thereto and (2) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series.

(ii) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit, after giving effect thereto.

(iii) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any securities of the Issuer.

(iv) Such covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Issuer or the Guarantor is a party or by which either of them is bound.

(v) The Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

(vi) The Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied with.

Section 9.02 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Securities . Subject to Section 9.04 and any subordination provisions applicable to the Securities; all moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Issuer acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of such series for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

Section 9.03 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent . In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any paying agent under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities shall, upon written demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.

Section 9.04 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years . Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any paying agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of any series and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for such series or such paying agent, and the Holder of the Security of such series shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

 

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The Issuer 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 9.01 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 Securities.

ARTICLE 10

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 10.01 Incorporators, Stockholders, Members, Officers, Directors and Employees of Issuer and Guarantor Exempt from Individual Liability . No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future stockholder (except in a stockholder’s corporate capacity as Guarantor), member, officer, director or employee, as such, of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any successor, either directly or through the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 10.02 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Securityholders . Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the Holders of the Securities, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Securities.

Section 10.03 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Indenture . All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 10.04 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Securityholders . Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or delivered to or by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities to or on the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be in writing in the English language and may be given or delivered by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address is filed with the Trustee) as follows:

If to the Issuer:

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V.

Piet Heinkade 107, 1019 GM

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Attention: Managing Director

Fax: +972-3-9062501

with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

c/o Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark, Chief Legal Officer

Fax: (215) 293-6499

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

 

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New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

 Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

If to the Guarantor:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

5 Basel Street, P.O. Box 3190

Petach Tikva 4951033, Israel

Attention: Eran Ezra, Global Treasury

Facsimile: 011-972-3-914-8678

with copies (which, in the case of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark, Chief Legal Officer

Fax: (215) 293-6499

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

 Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer, the Guarantor or any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if delivered in person or telecopied or mailed by first-class mail to the Trustee at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E, New York, NY 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust – Global Finance Unit, Fax: (212) 815-2830.

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods. If the party elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee 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. Each other party 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 to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered or if delivered electronically, in pdf format or if telecopied; and seven 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). Any notice or communication to the Trustee shall be deemed delivered upon receipt.

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, delivered personally, telecopied or sent by electronic mail to each Holder entitled thereto, in each case at his last address as it appears in the Security register. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail or otherwise delivered, neither the failure to send such notice, nor any defect in any notice so sent, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. 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 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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In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor or Securityholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, as long as the Securities are in the form of a Registered Global Security, notice to the Holders may be made electronically or by other method in accordance with procedures of the Depositary.

Section 10.05 Officer s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein . Upon any application or demand by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, stating that all conditions precedent 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 have been complied with.

Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such Officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by an Officer of Officers of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, 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 10.06 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays . If the date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Security shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.

 

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Section 10.07 Conflict of any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939 . If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture by operation of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (an “incorporated provision”), such incorporated provision shall control.

Section 10.08 New York Law to Govern . This Indenture and each Security shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State.

Section 10.09 Counterparts . This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 10.10 Effect of Headings . The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 10.11 Securities in a Non-U.S. Currency . Unless otherwise specified in an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 of this Indenture with respect to a particular series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all series or all series affected by a particular action at the time Outstanding and, at such time, there are Outstanding Securities of any series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars, then the principal amount of Securities of such series which shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange Rate. For purposes of this Section 10.11, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Issuer shall use, in good faith and its reasonable discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of the currency in question, or such other quotations as the Issuer shall in its commercially reasonable judgment deem appropriate. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a series denominated in a currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

All decisions and determinations of the Issuer regarding the Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be in its commercially reasonable judgment and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Issuer and all Holders.

Section 10.12 Submission to Jurisdiction . Each of the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Indenture may be instituted in any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such court in any suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor, as long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding or the parties hereto have any obligation under this Indenture, shall have an authorized agent in the United States upon whom process may be served in any such legal action or proceeding. Service of process upon such agent and written notice of such service mailed or delivered to it shall to the extent permitted by law be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon it in any such legal action or proceeding. The Issuer and the Guarantor each hereby appoints Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., 1090 Horsham Road, North Wales, PA 19454, as its agent for such purposes, and covenants and agrees that service of process in any legal action or proceeding may be made upon it at such office of such agent.

Section 10.13 Judgment Currency . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities of any series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final

 

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unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to close.

Section 10.14 Waiver of Jury Trial . EACH OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR 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 TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 10.15 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act . In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (including directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (“Applicable Law”), the Issuer agrees, upon reasonable request, to provide to the Trustee and any paying agent tax-information about Holders or the transactions contemplated hereby (including any modification to the terms of such transactions), to the extent such information is directly available to the Issuer, so that the Trustee and any paying agent can determine whether it has tax-related obligations under Applicable Law and the Issuer acknowledges that the Trustee and any paying agent without liability shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law.

ARTICLE 11

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS

Section 11.01 Applicability of Article . The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03 for Securities of such series.

Section 11.02 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions . Notice of redemption to the Holders of Securities of any series to be redeemed as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by delivering notice of such redemption, at least 20 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption, to such registered Holders of Securities of such series. Any notice which is delivered in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice, or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security of such series. Any such notice of redemption shall also be given to the Trustee in the manner provided in Section 10.04 hereof at least 20 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption.

The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify: (i) the principal amount of the Securities of such series to be redeemed, (ii) the CUSIP number (if any), (iii) the date fixed for redemption, (iv) the redemption price, (v) the place or places of payment, (vi) that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities, (vii) that such redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, (viii) that interest accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such notice, (ix) if such redemption or notice is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall state that, in the Issuer’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied (or waived by the Issuer in its sole discretion), or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by

 

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the Issuer in its sole discretion) by the redemption date, or by the redemption date so delayed and (x) that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue, unless the Issuer defaults in making such redemption payment or the Trustee or paying agent for such series is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.

The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 3.04) an amount of money or other property sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Securities of such series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption price, together with accrued interest to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair, Securities of such series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such series 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 of any series shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 11.03 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption . If notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue and, except as provided in Sections 5.05 and 9.04, such Securities shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice, said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption; provided that any semiannual payment of interest becoming due on the date fixed for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as such on the relevant record date subject to the terms and provisions of Sections 2.03 and 2.04 hereof.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security) borne by such Security.

Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or Securities of such series, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.

Section 11.04 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption . Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate number in a written statement signed by an authorized officer of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice of redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified in such written statement as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer.

 

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Section 11.05 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds . The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein referred to as the “sinking fund payment date”.

In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except as aforesaid) by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or (c) receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited) redeemed by the Issuer through any optional redemption provision contained in the terms of such series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be received or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price specified in such Securities.

On or before the 45th day next preceding each sinking fund payment date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee a written statement (which need not contain the statements required by Section 10.05) signed by an authorized Officer of the Issuer (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit of Securities of such series, (b) stating that none of the Securities of such series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in the payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing and (d) stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make an optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so, specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any Securities of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the Trustee in order for the Issuer to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such written statement (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee). Such written statement shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the Trustee the Issuer shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Issuer, on or before any such 60th day, to deliver such written statement and Securities specified in this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the mandatory sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to deliver or credit Securities of such series in respect thereof and (ii) that the Issuer will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series as provided in this Section.

If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Issuer shall so request in writing to the Trustee specifying such lesser amount) with respect to the Securities of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less and the Issuer makes no such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in excess of $50,000 is available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in Section 11.02, for redemption on such sinking fund payment date a sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to absorb said cash, as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform the Issuer of the serial numbers of the Securities of such series (or portions thereof) so selected. Securities of any series which are (a) owned by the Issuer or an entity known by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to be directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer, as shown by the Security register, and not known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to have been pledged or hypothecated by the Issuer or any such entity or (b) identified in an Officer’s Certificate at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund payment date as being beneficially owned by, and not pledged or hypothecated by, the

 

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Issuer or an entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer shall be excluded from Securities of such series eligible for selection for redemption. The Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer (or the Issuer, if it shall so request the Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series to be given in substantially the manner provided in Section 11.02 (and with the effect provided in Section 11.03) for the redemption of Securities of such series in part at the option of the Issuer. The amount of any sinking fund payments not so applied or allocated to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be applied to the next cash sinking fund payment for such series and, together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the stated maturity date of the Securities of any particular series (or earlier, if such maturity is accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied, together with other moneys, if necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities of such series at maturity.

On or before the Business Day prior to each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall pay to the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed on the next following sinking fund payment date.

The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of redemption of Securities for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any Event of Default except that, where the delivery of notice of redemption of any Securities shall theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall redeem or cause to be redeemed such Securities, provided that it shall have received from the Issuer a sum sufficient for such redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall occur, and any moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article 4 and held for the payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of Default shall have been waived as provided in Section 4.10 or the default cured on or before the 60th day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date in accordance with this Section to the redemption of such Securities.

ARTICLE 12

GUARANTEE

Section 12.01 The Guarantee . The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts with respect to such Security and the due and punctual payment of the sinking fund payments (if any) provided for pursuant to the terms of such Security, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such Security and of this Indenture and all other amounts due and payable by the Issuer under this Indenture. In case of the failure of the Issuer punctually to pay any such principal, premium, interest, additional amounts, sinking fund payment or other amounts, the Guarantor hereby agrees to cause any such payment to be made punctually when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, upon acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Issuer.

Section 12.02 Net Payments . Except as otherwise provided in any indenture supplemental hereto, all payments of principal of and premium, if any, interest and any other amounts on, or in respect of, the Securities of any series shall be made by the Guarantor without withholding or deduction at source for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the State of Israel (the “taxing jurisdiction”) or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges are required to be withheld or deducted by (i) the laws (or any regulations or ruling promulgated thereunder) of a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (ii) an official position regarding the application, administration, interpretation or enforcement of any such laws, regulations or rulings (including, without limitation, a holding by a court of competent jurisdiction or by a taxing authority in a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof). If a withholding or deduction at source is required, the Guarantor shall, subject to certain limitations and exceptions set forth below, pay to the Holder of any such Security such additional amounts as may be necessary so that every

 

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net payment of principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount made to such Holder, after such withholding or deduction, shall not be less than the amount provided for in such Security, and this Indenture to be then due and payable; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be required to make payment of such additional amounts for or on account of:

(a) any tax, fee, duty, assessment or governmental charge of whatever nature which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such Holder: (A) was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or otherwise had some connection with the relevant taxing jurisdiction other than by reason of the mere ownership of, or receipt of payment under, such Security; (B) presented such Security for payment in the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof, unless such Security could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; (C) presented for payment in Israel; (D) presented for payment by or on behalf of a Holder who would have been able to avoid such withholding or deduction by presenting the relevant Security to another paying agent in a Member State of the European Union; or (E) presented such Security more than 30 days after the date on which the payment in respect of such Security first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such additional amounts if it had presented such Security for payment on any day within such period of 30 days;

(b) any withholding or deduction required by reason of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act;

(c) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of the failure by the Holder or the beneficial owner of such Security to comply with any reasonable request by the Guarantor addressed to the Holder within 90 days of such request (A) to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial owner or (B) to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (A) or (B), is required or imposed by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or

(e) any combination of items (a), (b), (c) and (d); nor shall additional amounts be paid with respect to any payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, interest or any other amounts on, any such Security to any Holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such Security to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the relevant taxing jurisdiction (or any political subdivision or relevant taxing authority thereof or therein) to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such additional amounts had it been the Holder of the Security.

Section 12.03 Guarantee Unconditional, etc. . The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be as principal and not merely as surety, and shall be absolute, irrevocable and unconditional, irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of any Security or this Indenture, any failure to enforce the provisions of any Security or this Indenture, or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted with respect thereto by the Holder of such Security or the Trustee, the recovery of any judgment against the Issuer or any action to enforce the same, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to any such Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged except by payment in full of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts and sinking fund payments required with respect to, the Securities and the complete performance of all other obligations contained in the Securities and this Indenture, as supplemented and amended from time to time. The Guarantor further agrees, to the fullest extent that it lawfully may do so, that, as between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 4.01 hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or prohibition extant under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law of any jurisdiction preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby.

 

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Section 12.04 Reinstatement . This Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment on any Security, in whole or in part, is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to the Issuer or the Guarantor upon the bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise.

Section 12.05 Subrogation . The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holder of any Security against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holder by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be entitled to enforce, or to receive any payments arising out of or based upon, such right of subrogation until the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts and sinking fund payments required with respect to, all Securities shall have been paid in full.

Section 12.06 Assumption by Guarantor .

(a) The Guarantor may, without the consent of the Holders, assume all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series if, after giving effect to such assumption, no Event of Default or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing. Upon such an assumption, the Guarantor shall execute a supplemental indenture evidencing its assumption of all such rights and obligations of the Issuer and the Issuer shall be released from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such Series.

(b) The Guarantor shall assume all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series if, upon a default by the Issuer in the due and punctual payment of the principal, sinking fund payment, if any, premium, if any, or interest on such Securities, the Guarantor is prevented by any court order or judicial proceeding from fulfilling its obligations under Section 12.01 with respect to such series of Securities. Such assumption shall result in the Securities of such series becoming the direct obligations of the Guarantor and shall be effected without the consent of the Holders of the Securities of any Series. Upon such an assumption, the Guarantor shall execute a supplemental indenture evidencing its assumption of all such rights and obligations of the Issuer, and the Issuer shall be released from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such Series.

 

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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.

 

Very truly yours,
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V., AS ISSUER
By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

  Name: Richard Daniell
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

  Name: David Vrhovec
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, AS GUARANTOR
By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

  Name: Eran Ezra
  Title: Senior Vice President, Head of Global Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance
By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

  Name: Michael McClellan
  Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

 

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
  AS TRUSTEE
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

  Name: Wanda Camacho
  Title: Vice President

 

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Exhibit 4.2

Execution Version

 

 

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.,

as Issuer,

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED,

as Guarantor,

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

as Trustee

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL SENIOR INDENTURE

Dated as of March 14, 2018

to the Senior Indenture dated as of March 14, 2018

 

 

Creating the series of Securities (as defined herein) designated

6.000% Senior Notes due 2024

and

6.750% Senior Notes due 2028

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1  

Section 1.1

  Definitions      1  

Section 1.2

  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act      11  

Section 1.3

  Rules of Construction      12  

ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEE

     12  

Section 2.1

  Title and Terms      12  

Section 2.2

  Forms of Notes      13  

Section 2.3

  Selling Restrictions; Legends      14  

Section 2.4

  Form of Guarantee      18  

Section 2.5

  Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Notes      19  

Section 2.6

  Transfer and Exchange      21  

Section 2.7

  Defaulted Interest      25  

Section 2.8

  Execution of Guarantees      26  

Section 2.9

  Add On Notes      26  

Section 2.10

  CUSIP and ISIN Numbers      28  

ARTICLE 3 ADDITIONAL COVENANTS

     28  

Section 3.1

  Payment of Additional Tax Amounts      28  

Section 3.2

  Stamp Tax      30  

Section 3.3

  Corporate Existence      30  

Section 3.4

  Certificates of the Issuer and the Guarantor      30  

Section 3.5

  Guarantor To Be the Sole Equityholder of the Issuer      30  

Section 3.6

  Limitation on Liens      30  

Section 3.7

  Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks      31  

Section 3.8

  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws      31  

ARTICLE 4 REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     32  

Section 4.1

  Optional Redemption      32  

Section 4.2

  Notice of Redemption      32  

Section 4.3

  Deposit of Redemption Price      32  

Section 4.4

  Tax Redemption      32  

ARTICLE 5 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     33  

Section 5.1

  Satisfaction and Discharge      33  

ARTICLE 6 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     34  

Section 6.1

  Scope of Supplemental Indenture      34  

 

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Section 6.2

  Provisions of Supplemental Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Notes      34  

Section 6.3

  Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Supplemental Indenture      34  

Section 6.4

  Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of Notes      34  

Section 6.5

  Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein      36  

Section 6.6

  Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays      37  

Section 6.7

  Conflict of any Provisions of Supplemental Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939      38  

Section 6.8

  New York Law to Govern      38  

Section 6.9

  Counterparts      38  

Section 6.10

  Effect of Headings      38  

Section 6.11

  Submission to Jurisdiction      38  

Section 6.12

  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities      39  

ARTICLE 7 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     39  

Section 7.1

  Without Consent of Holders      39  

Section 7.2

  With Consent of Each Affected Holder      40  

 

EXHIBIT A -  

FORM OF NOTE

     A-1  
EXHIBIT B -  

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

     B-1  
EXHIBIT C -  

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER TO QIB

     C-1  
EXHIBIT D -  

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO RULE 144

     D-1  

 

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL SENIOR INDENTURE, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee a Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ Base Indenture ”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of its senior unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the “ Securities ”);

WHEREAS, Section 7.01(h) of the Base Indenture provides that the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental thereto to establish the form or terms of Securities of a new series;

WHEREAS, the Issuer, pursuant to the foregoing authority, proposes in and by this First Supplemental Senior Indenture (this “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) to amend and supplement the Base Indenture insofar as it will apply only to the 6.000% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “ 2024 Notes ”) and the 6.750% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “ 2028 Notes ”) issued hereunder (and not to any other series of Securities). Unless the context otherwise suggests, the 2024 Notes and 2028 Notes are collectively referred to as the “ Notes ”; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done to make the Notes, when executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Issuer, the valid obligations of the Issuer, and to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Issuer, in accordance with their and its terms;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the holders thereof, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions .

Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Base Indenture unless otherwise indicated. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes, the following terms are defined as follows:

 

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2024 Notes ” has the meaning specified in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

2028 Notes ” has the meaning specified in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

Additional Interest ” means all additional interest then owing pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Add On Notes ” means any notes originally issued after the date hereof pursuant to Section 2.9, including any replacement notes as specified in the relevant Add On Note Board Resolutions, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture issued therefor in accordance with the Base Indenture.

Additional Tax Amounts ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1.

Agent Members ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.5.

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Global Note, Euroclear or Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Authorized Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.11.

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

Capital Stock ” means:

 

  (1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

 

  (2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

 

  (3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and

 

  (4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.

Clearstream ” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme.

 

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

Comparable Treasury Price ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations or (2) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

Consolidated Net Worth ” means the stockholders’ equity of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, as shown on the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor’s latest annual report to stockholders, prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the office of the Trustee located in The City of New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered (which at the date of this Supplemental Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, 7 th Floor East, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust) or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer).

corporation ” means corporations, associations, limited liability companies, companies and business trusts or any other similar entity.

Custodian ” means the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary with respect to the Notes in global form, or any successor entity thereto.

Default ” means an event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

Definitive Note ” means a certificated Initial Note, Add On Note or Exchange Note issued pursuant to the Indenture (bearing the Restricted Notes Legend if the transfer of such Note is restricted by applicable law) that does not include the Global Notes Legend, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (“Exhibit A”).

Depositary ” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.7.

Distribution Compliance Period ,” with respect to any Note, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (a) the day on which such Note is first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the Issuer to the Trustee, and (b) the date of issuance with respect to such Note or any predecessor of such Note.

 

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Euroclear ” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.

Event of Default ” with respect to the Notes of each series shall not have the meaning assigned to such term by Section 4.01 of the Base Indenture. An Event of Default with respect to the Notes of each series means each one of the following events which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) the Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal and premium, if any, of any of the Notes of such series when it becomes due and payable at Maturity or upon redemption;

(b) the Issuer defaults in the payment of interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on any of the Notes of such series when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

(c) the Guarantor fails to perform its obligations under the Guarantee relating to the Notes of such series;

(d) except as otherwise permitted by the Indenture, the Guarantee with respect to such series of Notes is held in any final, non-appealable judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of the Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under the Guarantee;

(e) either the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Notes of such series or this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture and the default continues for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure, requiring the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series;

(f) (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to make by the end of the applicable grace period, if any, any payment of principal or interest due in respect of any Indebtedness for borrowed money, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is an amount in excess of $250,000,000; or (ii) there is an acceleration of any Indebtedness for borrowed money in an amount in excess of $250,000,000 because of a default with respect to such Indebtedness, without, in the case of either (i) or (ii) above, such Indebtedness having been discharged or such non-payment or acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series;

(g) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Issuer or the Guarantor as bankrupt or insolvent, or

 

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approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

(h) the commencement by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Issuer or the Guarantor, or the filing by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or the consent by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or the taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by the Issuer or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer or the Guarantor in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Issuer or the Guarantor expressly in furtherance of any such action.

Except as otherwise provided herein, with respect to the Notes, the references in Section 4.01 of the Base Indenture to “clauses 4.01(a), 4.01(b), 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) above” shall be construed as references to clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this definition and references to Sections 4.01(d) and (e) in the Base Indenture shall be construed as references to clauses (g) and (h) of this definition.

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

Exchange Notes ” means any notes issued in exchange for Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Exchange Offer ” has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

GAAP ” has the meaning given to “generally accepted accounting principles” in the Base Indenture; provided , however , that any change in GAAP that would cause the Guarantor to record an existing item as a liability upon that entity’s balance sheet, which item was not previously required by GAAP to be so recorded, shall not constitute an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Supplemental Indenture.

Global Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(b).

 

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guarantee ” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person, directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:

 

  (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or

 

  (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided , however , that the term “guarantee” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Guarantees ” means the guarantees of the Guarantor in respect of the Notes in the form provided in Section 2.4.

Guarantor ” means Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Guarantor” shall mean such successor Person.

Holder ,” “ Holder of Notes ” or other similar terms means the registered holder of any Note.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person:

 

  (1) any liability for borrowed money, or evidenced by an instrument for the payment of money, or incurred in connection with the acquisition of any property, services or assets (including securities), or relating to a capitalized lease obligation, other than accounts payable or any other indebtedness to trade creditors created or assumed by such Person in the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services;

 

  (2) obligations under exchange rate contracts or interest rate protection agreements;

 

  (3) any obligations to reimburse the Issuer of any letter of credit, surety bond, performance bond or other guarantee of contractual performance;

 

  (4) any liability of another Person of the type referred to in clause (1), (2) or (3) of this definition which has been assumed or guaranteed by such Person; and

 

  (5) any obligations described in clauses (1) through (3) of this definition secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance existing on property which is owned or held by such Person, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby shall have been assumed by such Person.

 

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

Initial Notes ” means the aggregate principal amount of each series of Notes issued on the date hereof, as specified in Section 2.1(a).

Interest Payment Date ” means, (a) for the 2024 Notes, each of April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning October 15, 2018 and (b) for the 2028 Notes, each of March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning September 1, 2018; provided, however, in each case, that if any such date is not a Business Day, the payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no interest shall accrue thereon on account of such delay.

Interest Rate ” means (a) 6.000% per annum in the case of the 2024 Notes and (b) 6.750% per annum in the case of the 2028 Notes, plus in each case Additional Interest, if any.

Issuer ” means Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.

Issuer Order ” means a written order signed in the name of the Issuer by any Officer of the Issuer or a duly authorized Attorney-in-Fact of the Issuer, and delivered to the Trustee.

Lien ” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction.

Maturity ” means the date on which the principal of the Notes of a given series becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

Note ” or “ Notes ” has the meaning specified to it in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

Officer ” has the meaning given to “Officer” in the Base Indenture.

Par Call Date ” means (i) with respect to the 2024 Notes, January 15, 2024 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity of such Notes) and (ii) with respect to the 2028 Notes, December 1, 2027 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity of such Notes).

 

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Paying Agent ” means an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.

Permitted Liens ” means:

 

  (1) Liens existing as of the date when the Issuer first issues such series of Notes pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture;

 

  (2) Liens on property created, incurred or assumed prior to, at the time of or within 120 days after the date of acquisition, completion of construction or completion of improvement of such property to secure all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving all or any part of such property;

 

  (3) landlord’s, material men’s, carriers’, workmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations which are not overdue or which are being contested in good faith in appropriate proceedings;

 

  (4) Liens existing on any property of any Person at the time such Person became or becomes a subsidiary of the Guarantor (provided that the Lien has not been created or assumed in contemplation of such Person becoming a subsidiary of the Guarantor);

 

  (5) Liens securing debt owing by a subsidiary to the Guarantor or to one or more of its subsidiaries;

 

  (6) Liens in favor of any governmental authority of any jurisdiction securing the obligation of the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any contract or payment owed to that entity pursuant to applicable laws, regulations or statutes; or

 

  (7) any extension, renewal, substitution or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) to (6), inclusive, or the Indebtedness secured thereby; provided , however , that (i) the principal amount of Indebtedness secured thereby and not otherwise authorized by said clauses (1) to (6), inclusive, shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal, substitution or replacement; and (ii) any such extension, renewal, substitution or replacement Lien shall be limited to the property covered by the Lien extended, renewed, substituted or replaced.

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

 

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Primary Treasury Dealer ” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of Reference Treasury Dealer.

Purchase Agreement ” means the Purchase Agreement, dated March 7, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers named in Schedule I thereto.

QIB ” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

Record Date ” means either a Regular Record Date or a Special Record Date, as the case may be.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note of any series to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption.

Redemption Price ” when used (a) with respect to any Notes of any series to be redeemed pursuant to Section 4.1 of this Supplemental Indenture, means an amount that is equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of such series to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments of the Notes of such series being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), using a discount rate equal to the sum of the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points in the case of the 2024 Notes, and 50 basis points in the case of the 2028 Notes, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date, provided that if the Redemption Date is on or after the applicable Par Call Date with respect to any series of Notes, the Redemption Price for such Notes will be equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date; and (B) with respect to any Notes of such series to be redeemed pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Supplemental Indenture, means an amount that is equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

Reference Treasury Dealer ” means each of Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and their respective successors (each a “Prime Treasury Dealer”). If any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Issuer will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a Primary Treasury Dealer.

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

Registrar ” means the office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange.

 

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Registration Rights Agreement ” means (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers set forth on Schedule I thereto and (ii) with respect to any Add On Notes, one or more registration rights agreements entered into in connection with the issuance of such Add On Notes in a private offering by the Issuer after the date hereof, as such agreements may be amended from time to time.

Regular Record Date ” means (i) with respect to the 2024 Notes, the close of business on the preceding April 1 and October 1, and (ii) with respect to the 2028 Notes, the close of business on the preceding February 15 and August 15, in each case whether or not a Business Day.

Regulation S ” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to each Note of a given series to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on such Note as if redeemed on the applicable Par Call Date. If the applicable Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to such Note, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on such Note will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Note to such Redemption Date.

Restricted Notes Legend ” means the Rule 144A Restricted Notes Legend or the Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend, as applicable.

Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Sale-Leaseback Transaction ” means the sale or transfer by the Guarantor or any subsidiary of any property to a Person and the taking back by the Guarantor or any subsidiary, as the case may be, of a lease of such property.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Special Record Date ” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.7.

Stated Maturity ” means the date specified in any Note as the fixed date for the payment of principal on such Note.

subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more other subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition only, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

 

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Taxing Jurisdiction ” means, with respect to the Notes, The Netherlands, Israel or any jurisdiction where a successor to the Issuer or the Guarantor is incorporated or organized or considered to be a resident, if other than The Netherlands or Israel, respectively, or any jurisdiction through which payments will be made.

TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect on the date of this Supplemental Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the TIA is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent such amendment is applicable to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended, or any successor statute.

Transfer Restricted Notes ” means Definitive Notes and any Notes in global form that bear or are required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the second Business Day immediately preceding such Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.

Trustee ” means The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

Unrestricted Global Note ” means any Note in global form that does not bear or is not required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

U.S. Dollar ” means the coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

U.S. Person ” means a U.S. Person as defined in Regulation S.

Section 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act .

Whenever the Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Supplemental Indenture.

The following TIA terms used in the Indenture have the following meanings:

indenture securities ” means the Notes of each series and the Guarantees; and

obligor ” on the Notes of each series means the Issuer and on the Guarantee means the Guarantor and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Supplemental Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

 

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Section 1.3 Rules of Construction .

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

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

(2) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them under GAAP;

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

(4) whenever in this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, principal, interest or any other amount payable under or with respect to any Notes, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Interest, to the extent that, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the Notes.

ARTICLE 2

THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEE

Section 2.1 Title and Terms .

(a) The 2024 Notes and 2028 Notes shall be known and designated as the “6.000% Senior Notes due 2024” and the “6.750% Senior Notes due 2028” of the Issuer, respectively. The aggregate principal amount that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture of (i) the 2024 Notes is limited to $1,250,000,000 and (ii) the 2028 Notes is limited to $1,250,000,000; except, in each case, for Add On Notes of the applicable series issued in accordance with Section 2.9 and Notes of any series authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the same series pursuant to Section 2.5. The Notes of each series shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $200,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $200,000.

(b) The 2024 Notes shall mature on April 15, 2024 and the 2028 Notes shall mature on March 1, 2028.

(c) Interest on the Notes shall accrue from March 14, 2018, at the Interest Rate applicable to Notes of such series until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date.

(d) Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

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(e) A Holder of any Note at the close of business on a Regular Record Date shall be entitled to receive interest on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

(f) Principal of and interest on Global Notes shall be payable to the Depositary in immediately available funds.

(g) Principal on Definitive Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose, initially the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Interest on Definitive Notes will be payable by (i) U.S. Dollar check drawn on a bank in The City of New York delivered to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the register of the Notes, or (ii) upon written application to the Registrar not later than the relevant Record Date by a Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Notes in excess of $5,000,000, wire transfer in immediately available funds, which application and written wire instructions shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Registrar to the contrary.

(h) The Notes shall be redeemable at the option of the Issuer as provided in Article 4.

Section 2.2 Forms of Notes .

(a) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to this Section 2.2, the Notes are issuable in fully registered form without coupons in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto with such applicable legends as are provided for in Section 2.3. The Notes are not issuable in bearer form. The terms and provisions contained in the form of Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends and endorsements as the Officers executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes of any series may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage.

(b) The Notes and the Guarantees are being (i) initially offered and sold by the Issuer to the initial purchasers thereof pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A (“ Rule 144A Notes ”) and (2) non-U.S. Persons in offshore transactions in accordance with Regulation S (“ Regulation S Notes ”). Add On Notes may also be considered to be Rule 144A Notes or Regulation S Notes, as applicable. The Rule 144A and the Regulation S Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, each with the applicable legends as provided in Section 2.3 (each referred to as the “ Rule 144A Global Note ” and the “ Regulation S Global Note ,” respectively). The Rule 144A Global Note, the Regulation S Global Note and any Unrestricted Global Note are each referred to herein as a “ Global Note ” and are collectively referred to herein as “ Global

 

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Notes .” Each Global Note shall be duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, shall have endorsed thereon the applicable Guarantee executed by the Guarantor and shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and retained by the Trustee, as Custodian, at its Corporate Trust Office, for credit to the accounts of the Agent Members holding the Notes evidenced thereby. The aggregate principal amount of each Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as Custodian, and of the Depositary or its nominee, as hereinafter provided.

(c) At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Depositary to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee at the written direction of the Issuer. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

Section 2.3 Selling Restrictions; Legends .

(a) Each Global Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Global Notes Legend ”):

THIS IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREINAFTER.

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE III, B.V. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS NOTE IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. (“CEDE”) OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE 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, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FOR A NOTE REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES SET FORTH IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

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(b) Except as permitted by this Section 2.3, Section 2.6(d) and Section 2.6(g), each Rule 144A Global Note and each Definitive Note, if applicable, shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following applicable form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Rule 144A Restricted Notes Legend ”):

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V. (THE “ISSUER”) OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS NOTE) ONLY (A) TO THE ISSUER, TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (THE “GUARANTOR”) OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO NON- U.S. PERSONS IN OFFSHORE TRANSACTIONS IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES TO ANY REQUIREMENT OF LAW THAT THE DISPOSITION OF ITS PROPERTY OR THE PROPERTY OF SUCH INVESTOR ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS BE AT ALL TIMES WITHIN ITS OR THEIR CONTROL AND TO COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND ANY APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AND

 

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FURTHER SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHTS PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER (I) PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, (II) IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, TO REQUIRE THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS NOTE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE AND (III) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.

THIS LEGEND SHALL ONLY BE REMOVED AT THE OPTION OF THE ISSUER.

(c) The Regulation S Global Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following applicable form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend ”):

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND SHALL CEASE TO APPLY UPON THE EXPIRY OF THE PERIOD OF 40 DAYS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ALL THE NOTES OF THE TRANCHE OF WHICH THIS NOTE FORMS A PART.

(d) Each Definitive Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following form (the “ Definitive Notes Legend ”):

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

(e) Each Note shall bear a legend substantially in the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ ERISA Legend ”):

BY ITS ACQUISITION OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, THE HOLDER THEREOF WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (A) SUCH HOLDER IS NOT ACQUIRING, HOLDING OR DISPOSING OF THE NOTES OR ANY

 

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INTEREST THEREIN WITH THE ASSETS OF (I) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”)) THAT IS SUBJECT TO ERISA, (II) A PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAWS”), OR (III) ANY ENTITY OR ACCOUNT WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS ARE CONSIDERED TO INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT; OR (B)(1) THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND SUBSEQUENT DISPOSITION OF THE NOTES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY SUCH HOLDER WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A SIMILAR VIOLATION UNDER ANY APPLICABLE SIMILAR LAWS AND (2) IF SUCH PURCHASER IS SUBJECT TO ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, THE DECISION TO ACQUIRE THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) HAS BEEN MADE BY A DULY AUTHORIZED FIDUCIARY (A “PLAN FIDUCIARY”) WHO IS INDEPENDENT OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR, THE TRUSTEE, THE INITIAL PURCHASERS AND ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “TRANSACTION PARTIES”), WHICH PLAN FIDUCIARY (I) IS A FIDUCIARY UNDER ERISA, THE CODE OR BOTH WITH RESPECT TO THE PURCHASER’S DECISION TO PURCHASE THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (II) IS NOT, IN THE CASE OF AN IRA, THE IRA OWNER, (III) IS CAPABLE OF EVALUATING INVESTMENT RISKS INDEPENDENTLY, BOTH IN GENERAL AND WITH REGARD TO THE INVESTMENT IN THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (IV) HAS EXERCISED INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT IN EVALUATING WHETHER TO INVEST THE ASSETS OF SUCH PURCHASER IN THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (V) IS A BANK, INSURANCE CARRIER, REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISER, REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR AN INDEPENDENT FIDUCIARY WITH AT LEAST $50 MILLION OF ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, AND (VI) THE PLAN FIDUCIARY IS NOT (NOR IS THE PURCHASER) PAYING ANY FEE OR OTHER COMPENSATION TO THE TRANSACTION PARTIES FOR INVESTMENT ADVICE (AS OPPOSED TO OTHER SERVICES) IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN).

(f) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Definitive Note that does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend and the Definitive Notes Legend and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange is in respect of a transfer made in reliance on Rule 144 and provides such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer or the Trustee may reasonably request.

 

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(g) After a transfer of any Initial Notes or Add On Notes during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) with respect to such Initial Notes or Add On Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Notes Legend on such Initial Notes or Add On Notes shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Notes or Add On Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(h) Upon the consummation of an Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes or Add On Notes pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Notes or Add On Notes are offered Exchange Notes in exchange for their Initial Notes or Add On Notes, all requirements pertaining to Initial Notes or Add On Notes that Initial Notes or Add On Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Notes in global form without the Restricted Notes Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes or Add On Notes in such Exchange Offer.

(i) Any Add On Notes sold in a registered offering shall not be required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

(j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, in no event shall a Definitive Note be delivered upon exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in a Note subject to the Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend prior to the end of the Distribution Compliance Period.

Section 2.4 Form of Guarantee .

A Guarantee substantially in the following form shall be endorsed on the reverse of each Note:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the “ Guarantor ”) hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Holder of this Note (the “ Guarantee ”) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), on this Note, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at Maturity or upon redemption or upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of this Note and of the Indenture. The Guarantor agrees that in the case of default by the Issuer in the payment of any such principal or interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), the Guarantor shall duly and punctually pay the same. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of any extension of the time for payment of this Note, any modification of this Note, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of this Note or the Indenture, any failure to enforce the same or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted to the Issuer with respect thereto by the Holder of this Note or the Trustee, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the

 

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event of merger or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a demand or proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to this Note or the indebtedness evidenced hereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged as to this Note except by payment in full of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note.

The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees or the Indenture; provided , however , that the Guarantor hereby waives any and all rights to which it may be entitled, by operation of law or otherwise, upon making any payment hereunder (i) to be subrogated to the rights of a Holder against the Issuer with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated by the Issuer in respect thereof or (ii) to receive any payment in the nature of contribution or for any other reason, from any other obligor with respect to such payment, in each case, until the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note shall have been paid in full.

The Guarantee shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to this Note until the certificate of authentication on this Note shall have been signed by the Trustee.

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has caused the Guarantee to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized Officer.

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
By  

                 

Section 2.5 Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Notes .

(a) The Global Notes initially shall be registered in the name of the Depositary (or a nominee thereof) and be delivered to the Trustee as Custodian for such Depositary.

(b) Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“ Agent Members ”) shall have no rights under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary, or the Trustee as its Custodian, or under such Global Note, and the Depositary may be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and the Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.

 

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With respect to any Global Note deposited on behalf of the subscribers for the Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as Custodian for the Depositary for credit to their respective accounts (or to such other accounts as they may direct) at Euroclear or Clearstream, the provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” and the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “Management Regulations” and “Instructions to Participants” of Clearstream, respectively, shall be applicable to the Global Notes.

(c) The Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including DTC Participants and Persons that may hold interests through DTC Participants, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or the Notes of any series.

(d) A Global Note may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than the Depositary (or a nominee thereof), and no such transfer to any such other Person may be registered. Beneficial interests in a Global Note may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary.

(e) Except as provided in Sections 2.5(f) and 2.6, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes shall not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes.

(f) If at any time:

(1) the Depositary notifies the Issuer in writing that it is no longer willing or able to continue to act as Depositary for the Global Notes of any series or the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary for the Global Notes of such series is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days of such notice or cessation;

(2) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and enforcement action is being taken in respect thereof under their Indenture and the Registrar has received a request from the Depositary for the issuance of Definitive Notes in exchange for such Global Note or Global Notes; or

(3) the Issuer, at its option, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to exchange in whole, but not in part, the Global Note for Definitive Notes;

such Global Note or Global Notes shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for such Global Note or Global Notes, Definitive Notes of the applicable series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Note or Global Notes. Such Definitive Notes shall be registered in such names as the Depositary shall identify in writing as the beneficial owners of the Notes represented by such Global Note or Global Notes (or any nominee thereof).

 

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(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with any transfer of beneficial interests in a Global Note to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to Section 2.5(f), the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interests in such Global Note to be transferred.

Section 2.6 Transfer and Exchange .

(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes . When Definitive Notes are presented to the Registrar with a written request:

(i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes, or

(ii) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations,

the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided , however , that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

(1) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing; and

(2) in the case of Transfer Restricted Notes, they are being transferred or exchanged pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to Section 2.6(b) or otherwise in accordance with the Restricted Notes Legend, and are accompanied by a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto.

(b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note . A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar, together with:

(i) a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto, and

(ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase,

 

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the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If the applicable Global Note is not then outstanding, the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Issuer in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new applicable Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes .

(i) The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth in Section 2.6(d), if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the Registrar a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note, or another Global Note, and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred.

(ii) If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

(iii) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.6 (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.5(f)), a Global Note may not be transferred except as a whole and not in part if the transfer is 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.

(iv) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein to a QIB shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit B or any additional certification.

 

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(v) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein to a Non-U.S. Person shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit C or any additional certification.

(vi) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein pursuant to Rule 144 shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit D from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit D or any additional certification.

(d) Restrictions on Transfer of Global Notes; Voluntary Exchange of Interests in Transfer Restricted Global Notes for Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes .

(i) Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through another Transfer Restricted Global Note shall be made in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the Restricted Notes Legend and only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto.

(ii) During the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, the Restricted Notes Legend on such Regulation S Global Note and any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States of America. Prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note shall be made only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the Restricted Notes Legend and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers. Such written certifications shall no longer be required after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period. Upon the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of this Supplemental Indenture.

(iii) Upon the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note upon certification in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for an exchange from a Regulation S Global Note to an Unrestricted Global Note.

(iv) Beneficial interests in a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Rule 144A Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange is in respect of a transfer made in reliance on Rule 144 under the Securities Act and/or upon delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer or the Trustee may reasonably request.

 

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(v) If no Unrestricted Global Note is outstanding at the time of a transfer contemplated by the preceding clauses (iii) and (iv), the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Issuer in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new Unrestricted Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(e) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes .

(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar’s request.

(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.08, 2.09, 2.11 and 11.02 of the Base Indenture).

(iii) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(iv) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of the Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

(v) In order to effect any transfer or exchange of an interest in any Transfer Restricted Note for an interest in a Note that does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend and has not been registered under the Securities Act, if the Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an opinion of counsel, in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that no registration under the Securities Act is required in respect of such exchange or transfer or the re-sale of such interest by the beneficial holder thereof, shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar and the Trustee.

(f) No Obligation of the Trustee .

(i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be

 

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given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

(ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under the Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of the Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

(iii) Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

(g) Exchange Offer . Upon the occurrence of the Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate or an Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate (i) one or more Global Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amounts of the beneficial interests in the Global Notes tendered for acceptance by Persons that provide in the applicable letters of transmittal such certifications as are required by the Registration Rights Agreement and applicable law, and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer and (ii) Definitive Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Notes tendered for acceptance by Persons that provide in the applicable letters of transmittal such certification as are required by the Registration Rights Agreement and applicable law, and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer. Concurrently with the issuance of such Notes, the Trustee shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Notes with the Restricted Notes Legend to be reduced accordingly, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Persons designated by the Holders of the Definitive Notes so accepted Definitive Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in the applicable principal amount. Any Notes that remain outstanding after the consummation of the Exchange Offer, and Exchange Notes issued in connection with the Exchange Offer, shall be treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.

Section 2.7 Defaulted Interest .

If the Issuer fails to make a payment of interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on any Note when due and payable (“ Defaulted Interest ”), it shall pay such Defaulted Interest plus (to the extent lawful) any interest payable on the Defaulted Interest, in any lawful manner. It may elect to pay such Defaulted Interest, plus any such interest payable on it, to the Persons who are Holders of such Notes on which the interest is due on a subsequent Special Record Date. The

 

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Issuer shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Note. The Issuer shall fix any such Special Record Date and payment date for such payment. At least 15 days before any such Special Record Date, the Issuer shall deliver to Holders affected thereby, with a copy to the Trustee, a notice that states the Special Record Date, the Interest Payment Date and amount of such interest to be paid.

Section 2.8 Execution of Guarantees .

The Guarantor hereby agrees to execute the Guarantees in substantially the form above recited to be endorsed on each Note. If the Issuer shall execute Definitive Notes in accordance with Section 2.5, the Guarantor shall execute the Guarantees in substantially the form above recited to be endorsed on each such Note. Such Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of the Guarantor by an Officer of the Guarantor. The signature of any Officer on the Guarantees may be manual or facsimile.

In case any Officer of the Guarantor who shall have signed the Guarantee endorsed on a Note shall cease to be such Officer before the Note so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, such Note nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Guarantee had not ceased to be such Officer of the Guarantor; and any Guarantee endorsed on a Note may be signed on behalf of the Guarantor by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Guarantee, shall be the proper Officers of the Guarantor, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

Section 2.9 Add On Notes .

The Issuer may, from time to time, subject to compliance with any other applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, without the consent of the Holders, create and issue pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture Add On Notes having terms identical to those of the Outstanding Notes of any series, except that Add On Notes:

(a) may have a different issue date from other Outstanding Notes;

(b) may have a different first Interest Payment Date after issuance than other Outstanding Notes of such series;

(c) may have a different amount of interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date after issuance than is payable on other Outstanding Notes of such series;

(d) may have a different issue price;

(e) may have a different CUSIP or ISIN number if such Add On Notes are not fungible with the Notes of such series then outstanding for United States federal income tax purposes; and

 

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(f) may have terms specified in Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture for such Add On Notes making appropriate adjustments to this Article 2 and Exhibit A (and related definitions), as the case may be, applicable to such Add On Notes in order to conform to and ensure compliance with the Securities Act (or other applicable securities laws) and any registration rights or similar agreement applicable to such Add On Notes, which are not adverse in any material respect to the Holder of any Outstanding Notes of such series (other than such Add On Notes) and which shall not affect the rights, benefits, immunities or duties of the Trustee.

In authenticating any Add On Notes, and accepting the additional responsibilities under the Indenture in relation to such Add On Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(a) the Add On Note Board Resolutions, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture relating thereto, setting forth the form and terms of the Add On Notes;

(b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 6.5; and

(c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 6.5 stating,

(1) that the forms of such Notes have been established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, as permitted by this Section 2.9 and in conformity with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture;

(2) that the terms of such Notes have been established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, as permitted by this Section 2.9 and in conformity with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture; and

(3) that such Notes and the related Guarantees, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Issuer and the Guarantor in the manner provided for herein and in the Base Indenture and the Guarantee, respectively, subject to any customary conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantor, respectively, entitled to the benefits provided in this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that the enforcement of such obligations may be subject to bankruptcy laws or insolvency laws or other similar laws, general principles of equity and such other qualifications as such counsel shall conclude are customary or do not materially affect the rights of the Holders of such Notes.

If such forms or terms have been so established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Notes:

(1) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken;

 

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(2) if the Trustee in good faith determines that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any Outstanding Notes; or

(3) if the issue of such Add On Notes pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, benefits and immunities under the Notes, this Supplemental Indenture and the Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.9, the Issuer may not issue Add On Notes if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Section 2.10 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers .

The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers and “ISIN” Numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption and other notices to the Holders 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 Notes of a given series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes of a given series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” or “ISIN” numbers.

ARTICLE 3

ADDITIONAL COVENANTS

In addition to the covenants set forth in Article 3 of the Base Indenture, the Notes shall be subject to the additional covenants set forth in this Article 3.

Section 3.1 Payment of Additional Tax Amounts .

With respect to the Notes, Section 12.02 of the Base Indenture is not applicable. All payments of interest and principal by the Issuer under the Notes of any series and by the Guarantor under the Guarantees shall be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future Taxes unless such withholding or deduction is required by law. In the event that the Issuer or the Guarantor is required to withhold or deduct on account of any such Taxes from any payment made under or with respect to the Notes, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will (a) withhold or deduct such amounts, (b) pay such additional tax amounts so that the net amounts received by each Holder or beneficial owner of the relevant Notes will equal the amount such Holder or beneficial owner would have received if such Taxes had not been required to be withheld or deducted (“Additional Tax Amounts”) and (c) pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant tax or other authority in accordance with applicable law, except that no such Additional Tax Amounts shall be payable in respect of any Note:

 

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(1) to the extent that such Taxes are imposed or levied by reason of such Holder (or the beneficial owner) having some present or former connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction other than the mere holding (or beneficial ownership) of such Note or receiving principal or interest payments on the Notes (including but not limited to citizenship, nationality, residence, domicile, or the existence of a business, permanent establishment, a dependent agent, a place of business or a place of management present or deemed present in the Taxing Jurisdiction);

(2) in respect of any Taxes that would not have been so withheld or deducted but for the failure by the Holder or the beneficial owner of the Notes to make a declaration of non-residence, or any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled or otherwise comply with any reasonable certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement concerning nationality, residence, identity or connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction if (a) compliance is required by applicable law, regulation, administrative practice or treaty as a precondition to exemption from all or part of the Taxes, (b) the Holder (or beneficial owner) is able to comply with these requirements without undue hardship and (c) the Issuer has given the Holders (or beneficial owners) at least 30 calendar days prior notice that they will be required to comply with such requirement;

(3) to the extent that such Taxes are imposed by reason of any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or personal property taxes imposed with respect to the Notes, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture;

(4) to the extent that any such Taxes would not have been imposed but for the presentation of such Notes, where presentation is required, for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to Additional Tax Amounts had the Notes been presented for payment on any date during such 30-day period;

(5) in respect of any Taxes imposed under Sections 1471-1474 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, or any judicial or administrative interpretations of any of the foregoing; or

(6) any combination of items 1 through 5 above.

For purposes of this Section 3.1, “Taxes” means, with respect to payments on the Notes, all taxes, withholdings, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or any authority or agency therein or thereof having power to tax.

 

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Section 3.2 Stamp Tax .

The Issuer and the Guarantor will pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from the execution, delivery, enforcement or registration of the Notes of any series or any other document or instrument in relation thereto.

Section 3.3 Corporate Existence .

Subject to Article 8 of the Base Indenture and subject to the ability of the Issuer or the Guarantor to convert (or similar action) to another form of legal entity under the laws of the jurisdiction under which the Issuer or the Guarantor then exists, each of the Guarantor and the Issuer will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Issuer and the Guarantor shall not be required to preserve any such existence, right or franchise if the Issuer and the Guarantor determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuer or the Guarantor and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

Section 3.4 Certificates of the Issuer and the Guarantor .

The Issuer will furnish to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer as to the signer’s knowledge of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (such compliance to be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture). In the event the Issuer comes to have actual knowledge of an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, regardless of the date, the Issuer shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee specifying such Default and the nature and status thereof.

Section 3.5 Guarantor To Be the Sole Equityholder of the Issuer .

So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Guarantor or its successor will directly or indirectly own all of the outstanding Capital Stock of the Issuer.

Section 3.6 Limitation on Liens .

The Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, upon any of its property (including any shares of Capital Stock or Indebtedness of any subsidiary) to secure any other Indebtedness incurred by the Guarantor or any subsidiary, without in any such case making effective provision whereby all of the Notes outstanding (together with, if the Guarantor so determines, any other Indebtedness by the Guarantor or any subsidiary ranking equally with the Notes or the Guarantees) shall be secured equally and ratably with, or prior to, such Indebtedness for so long as such other Indebtedness shall be so secured unless, after giving effect to such Lien, the aggregate amount of secured Indebtedness then outstanding (excluding Indebtedness secured solely by Permitted Liens) plus the value (as defined in Section 3.7) of all Sale-Leaseback Transactions (other than those described in clause (a) or clause (b) of Section 3.7) then outstanding would not exceed 10% of the Guarantor’s Consolidated Net Worth.

 

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Section 3.7 Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks .

The Guarantor will not, and will not permit any subsidiary to, enter into any Sale-Leaseback Transaction after the date of this Supplemental Indenture unless:

(a) the Sale-Leaseback Transaction:

(1) involves a lease for a period, including renewals, of not more than five years;

(2) occurs within 270 days after the date of acquisition, completion of construction or completion of improvement of such property; or

(3) is with the Guarantor or one of its subsidiaries; or

(b) the Guarantor or any subsidiary, within 270 days after the Sale-Leaseback Transaction shall have occurred, applies or causes to be applied an amount equal to the value of the property so sold and leased back at the time of entering into such arrangement to the prepayment, repayment, redemption, reduction or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Guarantor or any subsidiary that is not subordinated to the Notes and that has a Stated Maturity of more than twelve months; or

(c) the Guarantor or such subsidiary would be entitled pursuant to Section 3.6 to create, incur, issue or assume Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the property without equally and ratably securing the Notes.

As used in this Section 3.7, the term “value” shall mean, with respect to a Sale-Leaseback Transaction, as of any particular time an amount equal to the greater of (i) the net proceeds of sale of the property leased pursuant to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, or (ii) the fair value of such property at the time of entering into such Sale-Leaseback Transaction as determined by the Board of Directors of the Guarantor, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the number of full years of remaining term of the lease (without regard to renewal options) and the denominator is the full years of the full term of the lease (without regard to renewal options).

Section 3.8 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws .

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

 

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ARTICLE 4

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

Section 4.1 Optional Redemption .

The Issuer may at its option redeem the Notes of any series, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, on any date prior to the Stated Maturity, upon notice as set forth in Section 4.2, at the Redemption Price.

Section 4.2 Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption to the Holders of the Notes of any series to be redeemed shall be given by delivering notice of such redemption, on at least 20 days’, but not more than 60 days’, prior notice delivered to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes of such series, with a copy of such notice delivered to the Trustee. The notice of redemption of the Notes of any series to be redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request, delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

Notice of any redemption of any series of Notes in connection with a corporate transaction (including an equity offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or a change of control) may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion thereof and any such redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of the related transaction. If such redemption or purchase is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded or the Redemption Date delayed in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date. In addition, the Issuer may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of its obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.

Section 4.3 Deposit of Redemption Price .

On or prior to the Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price in respect of all the Notes to be redeemed on that Redemption Date. If less than all of the Notes (or any series thereof) are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and subject to the rules of the applicable depositary.

Section 4.4 Tax Redemption .

(a) If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or in any Taxing Jurisdiction affecting taxation or any change in official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or

 

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rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective or, in the case of a change in official position, is announced on or after the date of this Supplemental Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, is or will be obligated to pay any Additional Tax Amounts with respect to the Notes (or any series thereof), and if the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, determines that such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, after taking reasonable measures available to it, then at the option of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, the Notes (or any series thereof) may be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time, upon the giving not less than 20 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders of such Notes, at the Redemption Price; provided, however, that (1) no notice of such tax redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, would, but for such redemption, be obligated to pay such Additional Tax Amounts were a payment on such Notes then due, and (2) at the time such notice is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Tax Amounts remains in effect. The notice of tax redemption shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

(b) Not less than five Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee) before any notice of tax redemption pursuant to Section 4.4(a) is given to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes (or any series thereof), the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, shall deliver to the Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, to so redeem have occurred or have been satisfied and (ii) an opinion of independent legal counsel of recognized standing to that effect based on the statement of facts. Such notice, once given to the Trustee, shall be irrevocable.

ARTICLE 5

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 5.1 Satisfaction and Discharge .

(a) With respect to the Notes, Section 9.01 of the Base Indenture is not applicable.

(b) The Issuer and the Guarantor may satisfy and discharge their obligations under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to any series of Notes while such Notes remain outstanding, if (a) all Outstanding Notes of such series have become due and payable at their scheduled Maturity, or (b) all Outstanding Notes of such series have been called for redemption, and in either case, the Issuer has deposited with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay and discharge all Outstanding Notes of such series on the date of their scheduled Maturity or the scheduled Redemption Date.

 

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ARTICLE 6

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 6.1 Scope of Supplemental Indenture .

The changes, modifications and supplements to the Base Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall only be applicable with respect to, and govern the terms of, the Notes and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued by the Issuer under the Base Indenture. Other than such, changes, modifications and supplements, the Base Indenture is incorporated by reference herein and affirmed in all respects.

Section 6.2 Provisions of Supplemental Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Notes .

Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or in the Notes or the Guarantees, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the Holders of the Notes, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Notes.

Section 6.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Supplemental Indenture .

All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 6.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Holders of Notes .

Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Supplemental Indenture is required or permitted to be given or delivered to or by the Trustee or by the Holders of Notes to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be in writing in the English language and may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address is filed with the Trustee) as follows:

If to the Issuer:

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V.

Piet Heinkade 107, 1019 GM

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Attention: Managing Director

Fax: +972-3-9062501

 

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with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark

Fax: +1 (215) 293-6499

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

If to the Guarantor:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

5 Basel Street, P.O. Box 3190

Petach Tikva 4951033 Israel

Attention: Michael McClellan and Eran Ezra

Facsimile: +972-3-914-8678

with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark

Fax: +1 (215) 591-8811

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer, the Guarantor or any Holder of Notes to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail to the Trustee at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E, New York, NY 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust – Global Finance Unit, Fax: (212) 815-2830. The Trustee also agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to the Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods.

 

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The Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee by written notice to each other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered or if delivered electronically, in pdf format or if telecopied; and seven 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). Any notice or communication to the Trustee shall be deemed delivered upon receipt.

Where this Supplemental Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing, in the English language, and delivered to each Holder entitled thereto, at his last address as it appears in the register of the Notes of the applicable series. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, personal delivery, telecopy or electronic delivery, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed or delivered, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Supplemental 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 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.

In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor or Holders of Notes when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Supplemental Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the Base Indenture or in the Notes, where this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption or purchase) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary electronically or by other method in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary.

Section 6.5 Officer s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein .

Upon any application or demand by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate or Guarantor’s Officer’s Certificate, as the case may be, stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Supplemental 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 have been complied with.

 

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Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Supplemental Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Supplemental Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such Officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by an Officer of Officers of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, 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 6.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays .

If the date of maturity of interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) on or principal of the Notes of any series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Note shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) shall accrue for the period after such date.

 

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Section 6.7 Conflict of any Provisions of Supplemental Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939 .

If and to the extent that any provision of this Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Supplemental Indenture by operation of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the TIA (an “incorporated provision”), such incorporated provision shall control.

Section 6.8 New York Law to Govern .

This Supplemental Indenture, each 2024 Note and each 2028 Note shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State.

Section 6.9 Counterparts .

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

Section 6.10 Effect of Headings .

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

Section 6.11 Submission to Jurisdiction .

Each of the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Supplemental Indenture may be instituted in any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such court in any law suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor, as long as any of the Notes remain Outstanding or the parties hereto have any obligation under this Supplemental Indenture, shall have an authorized agent (the “ Authorized Agent ”) in the United States upon whom process may be served in any such legal action or proceeding. Service of process upon such agent and written notice of such service mailed or delivered to it shall to the extent permitted by law be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon it in any such legal action or proceeding. The Issuer and the Guarantor each hereby appoints Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (1090 Horsham Road, North Wales, PA 19454) as its agent for such purposes, and covenants and agrees that service of process in any legal action or proceeding may be made upon it at such office of such agent. The Issuer will provide written notice to the Trustee of any change in the Authorized Agent. In the event that any Authorized Agent resigns, is removed or becomes incapable of so acting, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Authorized Agent and shall notify the Trustee in writing of such change in Authorized Agent.

 

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Section 6.12 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities .

The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer and the Guarantor, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of Notes or the proceeds thereof.

ARTICLE 7

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 7.1 Without Consent of Holders .

(a) Sections 7.01(d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (k), (l), (m), (n), (q) and (r) of the Base Indenture are not applicable with respect to the Notes.

(b) In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 7.01 of the Base Indenture as amended by Section 7.1(a) above, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes of any series without the consent of any Holder for one or more of the following purposes:

(1) to cure any ambiguity, supply any omission or correct or supplement any provision contained herein, in the Base Indenture, in any supplemental indenture or in the Notes of any series which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture; provided that such amendment, modification or supplement shall not, in the good faith opinion of the Issuer’s managing and supervisory directors, adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes in any material respect; provided , further , that any amendment made solely to conform the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture to the description of the Notes contained in the Issuer’s Offering Memorandum dated March 7, 2018 will not be deemed to adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;

(2) to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Issuer or the Guarantor hereunder;

(3) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA;

(4) to authorize the issuance of Add On Notes of either series of Notes pursuant to Section 2.9; and

(5) to add or modify any other provision of the Indenture which the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable and which will not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes of such series.

 

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Section 7.2 With Consent of Each Affected Holder .

In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 7.02 of the Base Indenture, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may not amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes of any series for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of each Holder so affected:

(a) to modify the Issuer’s obligation to maintain an office or agency in New York City pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Base Indenture;

(b) to modify the Guarantor’s obligation to own, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding Capital Stock or membership interests, as applicable, of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.5 of this Supplemental Indenture;

(c) to modify any provision of Article 4 relating to redemption of such series of Notes;

(d) to modify the Guarantee in a manner that would adversely affect the interests of the Holders of such series of Notes; and

(e) to reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then Outstanding necessary (i) to modify, amend or supplement the Base Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or (ii) to waive any past default or Event of Default pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Base Indenture.

 

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

 

Very truly yours,

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V., AS ISSUER

By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

Name: Richard Daniell
Title: Attorney-in -Fact
By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

Name: David Vrhovec
Title: Attorney-in -Fact

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, AS GUARANTOR

By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

Name: Eran Ezra

Title: Senior Vice President, Head of Global Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance

By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

Name: Michael McClellan

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

[ Signature page to Supplemental Indenture ]


THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name: Wanda Camacho
Title: Vice President

[ Signature page to Supplemental Indenture ]


EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE OF GLOBAL NOTE]

[Insert Global Notes Legend, Restricted Notes Legend, Definitive Notes Legend and ERISA Legend, as applicable]

 

No.[•]    U.S. $[•] [as revised by the Schedule of Increases
   or Decreases in the Global Note attached hereto] 1

CUSIP No. [•]

GLOBAL NOTE

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.

[•]% Senior Notes due 20[•]

Payment of Principal, Interest and Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any, Unconditionally

Guaranteed By

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

This Global Note is in respect of an issue of [•]% Senior Notes due 20[•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”, which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), and issued pursuant to a base indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), each dated as of March 14, 2018, in each case among the Issuer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”). Unless the context otherwise requires, the capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings specified in the Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture.

The Issuer, for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or its registered assigns, the principal amount of [•] United States Dollars (U.S.$[•]) on [•], and to pay interest on such principal amount in U.S. Dollars at the rate of [•]% per annum, computed on a basis of a 360 day year consisting of twelve 30 day months, from the date hereof until payment of such principal amount has been made or duly provided for, such interest to be paid semi-annually in arrears on [•] and [•] of each year, commencing [•], 2018. The interest so payable on [•] and [•] (each an “ Interest Payment Date ”) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Supplemental Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the immediately preceding [•] and [•], respectively (whether or not a Business Day).

 

1   Insert in Global Notes only.

 

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The Issuer shall also pay all Additional Interest, if any, on the applicable Interest Payment Date in the same manner as interest is paid on the Notes and in the amounts set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

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

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly executed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.

By:  

 

Name :
Title :
By:  

 

Name :
Title :

 

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Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the [•]% Senior Notes due 20[•] described in the within-named Indenture.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

as Trustee

By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory
Dated:

 

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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the “Guarantor”) hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Holder of this Note (the “Guarantee”) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), on this Note, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at Maturity or upon redemption or upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of this Note and of the Indenture. The Guarantor agrees that in the case of default by the Issuer in the payment of any such principal or interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), the Guarantor shall duly and punctually pay the same. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of any extension of the time for payment of this Note, any modification of this Note, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of this Note or the Indenture, any failure to enforce the same or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted to the Issuer with respect thereto by the Holder of this Note or the Trustee, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a demand or proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to this Note or the indebtedness evidenced hereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged as to this Note except by payment in full of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note.

The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees or the Indenture; provided, however, that the Guarantor hereby waives any and all rights to which it may be entitled, by operation of law or otherwise, upon making any payment hereunder (i) to be subrogated to the rights of a Holder against the Issuer with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated by the Issuer in respect thereof or (ii) to receive any payment in the nature of contribution or for any other reason, from any other obligor with respect to such payment, in each case, until the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note shall have been paid in full.

The Guarantee shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to this Note until the certificate of authentication on this Note shall have been signed by the Trustee.

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has caused the Guarantees to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
By  

 

Name :  
Title :  
By  

 

Name :  
Title :  

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.

[•]% Senior Note due 20[•]

Payment of Principal, Interest and Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any, Unconditionally

Guaranteed By

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

1. Principal and Interest.

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law (the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at [•]% per annum from March 14, 2018 until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on each [•] and [•] of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing [•], 2018. If an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, interest will be payable on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no interest shall accrue thereon on account of such delay.

Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

A Holder of any Note at the close of business on a Regular Record Date shall be entitled to receive interest on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

2. Payment of Additional Interest.

The Issuer shall pay all Additional Interest, if any, on the applicable Interest Payment Date in the same manner as interest is paid on the Notes and in the amounts set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

For purposes of the foregoing discussion of Additional Interest, the following definitions are applicable:

“Additional Interest” means all additional interest then owing pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

“Registration Rights Agreement” means (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers set forth on Schedule I thereto and (ii) with respect to any Add On Notes, one or more registration rights agreements entered into in connection with the issuance of such Add On Notes in a private offering by the Issuer after the date hereof, as such agreements may be amended from time to time.

 

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3. Method of Payment.

Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date for such interest.

Principal of and interest on Global Notes shall be payable to the Depositary in immediately available funds.

Principal of Definitive Notes will be payable at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose, initially the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Interest on Definitive Notes will be payable by (i) U.S. Dollar check drawn on a bank in The City of New York delivered to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the register of the Notes, or (ii) upon written application to the Registrar not later than the relevant Record Date by a Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Notes in excess of $5,000,000, wire transfer in immediately available funds, which application and written wire instructions shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Registrar to the contrary.

4. Paying Agent and Registrar.

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, the Trustee under the Supplemental Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuer may change the Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.

5. Supplemental Indenture and Indenture.

The Issuer issued this Note under a Base Indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), each dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”). The terms of the Note include those stated in the Indenture, and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (“ TIA ”). This Note is subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of all such terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of this Note and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall control.

6. Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may at its option redeem this Note, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, on any date prior to the Stated Maturity, upon notice as set forth in Section 4.2 of the Supplemental Indenture, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the

 

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Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in the Supplemental Indenture) of the Notes being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), using a discount rate equal to the sum of the Treasury Rate (as defined in the Supplemental Indenture) plus 50 basis points, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date (as defined in the Supplemental Indenture); provided that if the Redemption Date is on or after [•] (three months prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes), the Redemption Price for such Notes will be equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

On and after the Redemption Date, interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) shall cease to accrue on Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption, unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price.

Notice of redemption will be given by the Issuer to the Holders as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

7. Tax Redemption.

If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or in any Taxing Jurisdiction affecting taxation or any change in official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective or, in the case of a change in official position, is announced on or after the issuance of the Notes, the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, is or will be obligated to pay any Additional Tax Amounts with respect to the Notes (or any series thereof), and if the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, determines that such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, after taking reasonable measures available to it, then at the option of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, the Notes (or any series thereof) may be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time, upon the giving not less than 20 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders of such Notes, at the Redemption Price; provided, however, that (1) no notice of such tax redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, would, but for such redemption, be obligated to pay such Additional Tax Amounts were a payment on such Notes then due, and (2) at the time such notice is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Tax Amounts remains in effect.

8. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $200,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $200,000. A Holder may register the transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Issuer or the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and the Issuer may require a Holder to pay any taxes or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes.

 

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The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Note for a period of 15 days next preceding the first delivery of notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed, (b) any Notes selected, called or being called for redemption except, in the case of any Note where notice has been given that such Note is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed or (c) any Notes between a record date and the next succeeding payment date.

In the event of redemption of the Notes in part only, in the case of a Global Note, the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes may be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Depositary or, if necessary, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof.

9. Holders to be Treated as Owners.

The registered Holder of this Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

10. Unclaimed Money.

Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of such Note shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

11. Satisfaction and Discharge.

The Issuer and the Guarantor may satisfy and discharge their obligations under the Indenture while the Notes remain outstanding, if (a) all Outstanding Notes have become due and payable at their scheduled Maturity, or (b) all Outstanding Notes have been called for redemption, and in either case, the Issuer has deposited with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay and discharge all Outstanding Notes on the date of their scheduled Maturity or the scheduled Redemption Date.

12. Supplement; Waiver.

Without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Notes, the Indenture and the Notes may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee as provided in the Indenture. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer

 

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and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (or such lesser amount as shall have acted at a meeting pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note or such other Note.

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

13. Defaults and Remedies.

The Indenture provides that an Event of Default with respect to the Notes occurs when any of the following occurs:

(a) the Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal and premium, if any, of any of the Notes when it becomes due and payable at Maturity or upon redemption;

(b) the Issuer defaults in the payment of interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on any of the Notes when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

(c) the Guarantor fails to perform its obligations under the Guarantee;

(d) except as otherwise permitted by the Indenture, the Guarantee is held in any final, non-appealable judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor, or any person acting on behalf of the Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under the Guarantee;

(e) either the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Notes or the Indenture and the default continues for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure, requiring the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;

(f) (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to make by the end of the applicable grace period, if any, any payment of principal or interest due in respect of any Indebtedness for borrowed money, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is an amount in excess of $250,000,000; or (ii) there is an acceleration of any Indebtedness for borrowed money in an amount in excess of $250,000,000 because of a default with respect to such Indebtedness, without, in the case of either (i) or (ii) above, such Indebtedness having been discharged or such

 

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non-payment or acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series; or

(g) the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Issuer or Guarantor as specified in the Supplemental Indenture.

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

14. Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee (or authenticating agent) executes the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

15. CUSIP Numbers.

The Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on this Note and, therefore, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. Any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

16. Governing Law.

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

17. Successor Corporation.

In the event a successor corporation legal entity assumes all the obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantor under this Note, pursuant to the terms hereof and of the Indenture, the Issuer or Guarantor, as the case may be, will be released from all such obligations.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:

 

 

 

       (Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

and irrevocably appoint                                                                                                                                                                                      

to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuer. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Dated:                                                            Your Name:  

 

    (Print your name exactly as it appears on the face of this Note)
    Your Signature:  

 

    (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)
    Signature Guarantees * :

 

*   Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR

REGISTRATION OF TRANSFERS OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED NOTES

This certificate relates to $         principal amount of Notes held in (check applicable space)             book-entry or             definitive form by the undersigned.

The undersigned (check one box below):

 

has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange for its beneficial interest in a Global Note held by the Depositary a Note or Notes in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Note (or the portion thereof indicated above) in accordance with the Indenture; or

 

has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or register the transfer of a Note or Notes.

In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)       to the Issuer, the Guarantor or any subsidiary thereof; or
(2)       to the Registrar for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer; or
(3)       pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); or
(4)       to a Person that the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“ Rule 144A ”)) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer and to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A; or
(5)       pursuant to offers and sales to non-U.S. persons that occur outside the United States of America within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act (and if the transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, the Notes shall be held immediately thereafter through Euroclear or Clearstream); or
(6)       pursuant to another available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided , however , that if box (6) is checked, the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

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    Your Signature
Date:                                                  

 

Signature of Signature Guarantor

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Issuer as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Date:                                                  

 

NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer

    Name:  
    Title:  

 

Signature Guarantee*:                     

 

* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN THE GLOBAL NOTE

The initial outstanding principal amount of this Global Note is $[•]. The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:

 

Date of

Exchange

  

Amount of

decrease in

Principal

Amount of this

Global Note

  

Amount of

increase in

Principal

Amount of this

Global Note

  

Principal

Amount of this

Global Note

following such

decrease or

increase

  

Signature of

authorized

signatory of

Trustee,

Depositary or

Custodian

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER

PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

                    [Date]

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, each dated as of March 14, 2018 (as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

In connection with our proposed sale of U.S.$                     aggregate principal amount of the Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a 144A Global Note :                     , which represent an interest in a 144A Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), and, accordingly, we represent that:

(a) the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States

(b) either (i) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States or (ii) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated off-shore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States;

(c) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of Regulation S, as applicable;

(d) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

(e) we are the beneficial owner of the principal amount of Notes being transferred.

In addition, if the sale is made during a Distribution Compliance Period and the provisions of Rule 904(b)(1) or Rule 904(b)(2) of Regulation S are applicable thereto, we confirm that such sale has been made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Rule 904(b)(1) or Rule 904(b)(2), as the case may be.

 

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You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this letter have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By:  

 

  Authorized Signature

 

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EXHIBIT C

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER TO QIB

                    [Date]

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, each dated as of March 14, 2018 (as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

This letter relates to U.S.$                 aggregate principal amount of Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note :                 , which represents an interest in a Regulation S Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned (the “ Transferor ”) to effect the transfer of such Notes in exchange for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note.

In connection with such request, and with respect to such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 144A”), to a transferee that the Transferor reasonably believes is purchasing the Notes for its own account or an account with respect to which the transferee exercises sole investment discretion, and the transferee, as well as any such account, is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

Very truly yours,

[Name of Transferor]

 

By:

 

 

  Authorized Signature

 

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EXHIBIT D

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER

PURSUANT TO RULE 144

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, each dated as of March 14, 2018 (as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

In connection with our proposed sale of U.S.$                 aggregate principal amount of the Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a 144A Global Note :                 , which represent an interest in a 144A Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

Very truly yours,

[Name of Transferor]

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signature

 

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Exhibit 4.4

Execution Version

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of March 14, 2018 (this “ Agreement ”), is entered into by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands III B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ) organized under the laws of the Netherlands (the “ Company ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a company organized under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), and the initial purchasers listed on Schedule I hereto (each an “ Initial Purchaser ” and collectively, the “ Initial Purchasers ”), for which Barclays Capital Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated are acting as representatives (each a “ Representative ” and collectively, the “ Representatives ”).

The Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers listed in Schedule I hereto are parties to the Purchase Agreement dated March 7, 2018 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.000% Senior Notes due 2024 and $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.750% Senior Notes due 2028 (collectively, the “ Notes ” and, together with the Guarantee (as defined below), the “ Securities ”).

As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Guarantor have agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.

The Notes will be issued by the Company and guaranteed by the Guarantor on a senior unsecured basis.

In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Business Day ” shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

Closing Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

Company ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include the Company’s successors.


Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

Exchange Dates ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof.

Exchange Offer ” shall mean the exchange offer by the Company and the Guarantor of Exchange Securities for Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration ” shall mean a registration under the Securities Act effected pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration Statement ” shall mean an exchange offer registration statement on Form S-4 (or, if applicable, on another appropriate form) and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Exchange Securities ” shall mean senior unsecured notes issued under the Indenture by the Company and guaranteed by the Guarantor containing terms identical to the Securities (except that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to restrictions on transfer or to any increase in annual interest rate for failure to comply with this Agreement) and to be offered to Holders of the applicable Registrable Securities in exchange for Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer.

FINRA ” shall mean the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

Free Writing Prospectus ” shall mean each free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or used or referred to by the Company in connection with the sale of the Securities or the Exchange Securities.

Guarantee ” shall mean the guarantee of the Notes and guarantee of the Exchange Securities, by the Guarantor under the Indenture.

“Guarantor” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Holder Notice ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Holders ” shall mean the Initial Purchasers, for so long as they own any Registrable Securities, and each of their successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners of Registrable Securities under the Indenture; provided that for purposes of Sections 4 and 5 of this Agreement, the term “Holders” shall include Participating Broker-Dealers.

Indemnified Person ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

Indemnifying Person ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

 

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Indenture ” shall mean the Senior Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture relating to the Securities, each dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, as may be amended and supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

Initial Purchasers ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Inspector ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xiv) hereof.

Issuer Information ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.

Majority Holders ” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities; provided that whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, any Registrable Securities owned directly or indirectly by the Company or any of its affiliates shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage or amount; and provided , further , that if the Company shall issue any additional Securities under the Indenture prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement, such additional Securities and the Registrable Securities to which this Agreement relates shall be treated together as one class for purposes of determining whether the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities has been obtained.

Participating Broker-Dealers ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

Person ” shall mean an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.

Prospectus ” shall mean the prospectus included in, or, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, deemed a part of, a Registration Statement, including (i) any preliminary prospectus and (ii) any such prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including a prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other amendments and supplements to such prospectus, and in each case including any document incorporated by reference therein.

Purchase Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Registrable Securities ” shall mean the Securities; provided that the Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when (i) a Registration Statement with respect to such Securities has become effective under the Securities Act and such Securities have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such Registration Statement, (ii) such Securities become eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act)

 

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of the Company or the Guarantor, (iii) such Securities are sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by such Securities relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or (iv) such Securities cease to be outstanding.

Registration Expenses ” shall mean any and all expenses incident to the performance of or compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with this Agreement, including without limitation: (i) all SEC, stock exchange or FINRA registration and filing fees, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel for any Underwriters or Holders in connection with blue sky qualification of any Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, which firm shall be selected by the Underwriters or the Majority Holders), (iii) the costs incident to the preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, any underwriting agreements, securities sales agreements or other similar agreements and any other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all rating agency fees, (v) all fees and disbursements relating to the qualification of the Indenture under applicable securities laws, (vi) the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Trustee and its counsel, (vii) the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and the Guarantor and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Holders (which counsel shall be selected by the Majority Holders and which counsel may also be counsel for the Initial Purchasers) and (viii) the fees and disbursements of the independent public accountants of the Company and the Guarantor, including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, but excluding any or all fees and expenses of advisors or counsel to the Underwriters (other than fees and expenses set forth in clause (ii) above) or the Holders and underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder.

Registration Statement ” shall mean any registration statement of the Company and the Guarantor that covers any of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and all amendments and supplements to any such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

SEC ” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Securities Act ” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf Additional Interest Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.

 

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Shelf Effectiveness Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Shelf Registration ” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof.

Shelf Registration Statement ” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company and the Guarantor that covers all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (but no other securities unless approved by a majority of the Holders whose Registrable Securities are to be covered by such Shelf Registration Statement) on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Shelf Request ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Staff ” shall mean the staff of the SEC.

Target Registration Date ” shall mean the date which is 365 days after the Closing Date.

Trigger Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.

Trust Indenture Act ” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.

Trustee ” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under the Indenture.

Underwriter ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(e) hereof.

Underwritten Offering ” shall mean an offering in which Registrable Securities are sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public.

2. Registration Under the Securities Act.

(a) To the extent not prohibited by any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) cause to be filed with the SEC an Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering an offer to the Holders to exchange all the Registrable Securities for Exchange Securities and (ii) have such Registration Statement remain effective until 180 days after the date the Exchange Offer Registration Statement became effective for use by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers. The Company and the Guarantor shall commence the Exchange Offer promptly after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC and use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer not later than the Target Registration Date (or if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).

 

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The Company and the Guarantor shall commence the Exchange Offer by mailing the related Prospectus, appropriate letters of transmittal and other accompanying documents to each Holder stating, in addition to such other disclosures as are required by applicable law, substantially the following:

(i) that the Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to this Agreement and that all Registrable Securities validly tendered and not properly withdrawn will be accepted for exchange;

(ii) the dates of acceptance for exchange (which shall be a period of at least 20 Business Days (in accordance with the Exchange Act) from the date such notice is mailed) (the “ Exchange Dates ”);

(iii) that any Registrable Security not tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest but will not retain any rights under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein;

(iv) that any Holder electing to have a Registrable Security exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer will be required to (A) surrender such Registrable Security, together with the appropriate letters of transmittal, to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) and in the manner specified in the notice, or (B) effect such exchange otherwise in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for such Registrable Security, in each case prior to the close of business on the last Exchange Date; and

(v) that any Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election, not later than the close of business on the last Exchange Date, by (A) sending to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) specified in the notice a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Registrable Securities delivered for exchange, such other information as may be reasonably required to identify the Securities to be withdrawn and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Securities exchanged or (B) effecting such withdrawal in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for the Registrable Securities.

As a condition to participating in the Exchange Offer, a Holder will be required to represent to the Company and the Guarantor prior to the consummation of the Exchange Offer that (i) any Exchange Securities to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary course of its business, (ii) at the time of the commencement of the Exchange Offer it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Securities in violation of the Securities Act, (iii) it is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor or, if it is such an “affiliate,” such Holder will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable in

 

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connection with any resale of the Exchange Securities and (iv) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Registrable Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, then such Holder will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable, in connection with any resale of the Exchange Securities. Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any broker-dealer and any such Holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the securities to be acquired in the Exchange Offer (1) could not under SEC policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the SEC enunciated in the Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. no-action letter (available June 5, 1991) and the Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation no-action letter (available May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the SEC’s letter to Shearman  & Sterling dated July 2, 1993, and similar no-action letters, and (2) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction and that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K if the resales are of Exchange Securities obtained by such Holder in exchange for Registrable Securities acquired by such Holder directly from the Company.

As soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date, the Company and the Guarantor shall:

(i) accept for exchange Registrable Securities or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer; and

(ii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities or portions thereof so accepted for exchange by the Company and issue, and cause the Trustee to promptly authenticate and deliver to each Holder, Exchange Securities equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the Registrable Securities validly tendered by such Holder and accepted for exchange pursuant to the Exchange Offer.

The Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer as provided above and shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and other applicable laws and regulations in connection with the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other than that the Exchange Offer does not violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff and customary conditions relating to the delivery of Securities or other actions customarily taken by Holders participating in the Exchange Offer or the execution and delivery of customary documentation relating to the Exchange Offer.

(b) In the event that (i) the Company and the Guarantor determine that the Exchange Offer Registration provided for in Section 2(a) above is not available or the Exchange Offer may not be completed as soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date because it would violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, (ii) a Holder participating in the Exchange Offer does not receive Exchange Securities on the

 

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date of the exchange that may be sold without restriction under state and federal securities laws (other than due solely to the status of such Holder as an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act) and notifies (a “ Holder Notice ”) the Company within 30 days after such Holder first becomes aware of such restrictions, (iii) the Exchange Offer is not for any other reason completed by the Target Registration Date or (iv) upon receipt of a written request (a “ Shelf Request ”) from any Initial Purchaser representing that it holds Registrable Securities that are or were ineligible to be exchanged in the Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause to be filed, as soon as practicable after such determination, date, Holder Notice or Shelf Request, as the case may be, a Shelf Registration Statement providing for the sale of all the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and to have such Shelf Registration Statement become effective.

In the event that the Company and the Guarantor are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of the preceding sentence, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to file and have become effective both an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) above with respect to all Registrable Securities and a Shelf Registration Statement (which may be a combined Registration Statement with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) with respect to offers and sales of Registrable Securities held by the Initial Purchasers after completion of the Exchange Offer.

The Company and the Guarantor agree to use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of one year from the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement or such shorter period that will terminate when the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement cease to be Registrable Securities (the “ Shelf Effectiveness Period ”). The Company and the Guarantor further agree to supplement or amend the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration Statement or by the Securities Act or by any other rules and regulations thereunder or if reasonably requested by a Holder of Registrable Securities with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to use their reasonable best efforts to cause any such amendment to become effective, if required, and such Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to become usable as soon as thereafter practicable. The Company and the Guarantor agree to furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities registered on such Shelf Registration Statement copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC.

(c) The Company and the Guarantor shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) hereof. Each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.

 

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(d) An Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC. A Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective upon filing with the SEC as provided by Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

In the event that either the Exchange Offer is not consummated by the Target Registration Date or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required pursuant to Section 2(b)(i) or 2(b)(iii) hereof, is not effective by the Target Registration Date, the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Target Registration Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Exchange Offer is completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, becomes effective, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum. In the event that the Company receives a Holder Notice or Shelf Request pursuant to Section 2(b)(ii) or 2(b)(iv), and the Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed thereby has not become effective by the later of the Target Registration Date or (y) 90 days after delivery of such Holder Notice or Shelf Request (such later date, the “ Shelf Additional Interest Date ”), then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period payable commencing from one day after the Shelf Additional Interest Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum.

If the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, is effective and thereafter either ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable, in each case whether or not permitted by this Agreement, at any time during the Shelf Effectiveness Period, and such failure to remain effective or usable exists for more than 60 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period (the 60 th such date, the “ Trigger Date ”), then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Trigger Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum, and ending on such date that the Shelf Registration Statement is again effective or the Prospectus again becomes usable. Such additional interest shall accrue as liquidated damages on the principal amount of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be. Any additional interest required to be paid by the Company pursuant to Section 2(d) shall be referred to as “Additional Interest.”

(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Additional Interest is the sole and exclusive remedy available to Holders due to a registration default, so long as the Company and the Guarantor are acting in good faith hereunder, including, without limitation, with respect to satisfying their obligations.

 

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3. Registration Procedures.

(a) In connection with their obligations pursuant to Section 2(a) and Section 2(b) hereof, the Company and the Guarantor shall as soon as reasonably practicable possible:

(i) use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form (x) shall be selected by the Company and the Guarantor, (y) shall, in the case of a Shelf Registration, be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and (z) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include all financial statements required by the SEC to be filed therewith; and use their reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof;

(ii) use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act; and keep each Prospectus current during the period described in Section 4(3) of and Rule 174 under the Securities Act that is applicable to transactions by brokers or dealers with respect to the Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities;

(iii) to the extent any Free Writing Prospectus is used, file with the SEC any Free Writing Prospectus that is required to be filed by the Company or the Guarantor with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and to retain any Free Writing Prospectus not required to be filed;

(iv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, use their reasonable best efforts, upon written request, to furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement, to counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to counsel for such Holders and to each Underwriter of an Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, as such Holder, counsel or Underwriter may reasonably request in writing in order to facilitate the sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities thereunder; and the Company and the Guarantor consent to the use of such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law by each of the Holders of Registrable Securities and any such Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by and in the manner described in such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law;

 

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(v) in the case of an Exchange Offer Registration Statement, use their reasonable best efforts to register and qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, cooperate with the selling Holders and their counsel to register or qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement shall reasonably request in writing by the time the applicable Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective; cooperate with such Holders in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA; and use their reasonable best efforts to do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable each Holder to complete the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided that neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to (1) 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, (2) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (3) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not so subject;

(vi) notify counsel for the Initial Purchasers and, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement and counsel for such Holders promptly and, if requested by any such Holder or counsel, confirm such advice in writing (1) when a Registration Statement has become effective, when any post-effective amendment thereto has been filed and becomes effective, when any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed, (2) of any request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information after the Registration Statement has become effective, (3) of the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, including the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the SEC to the use of a Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, (4) if, between the applicable effective date of a Shelf Registration Statement and the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities covered thereby, the Company or any Guarantor receives any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose, (5) of the happening of any event during the period a Registration Statement is effective that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) and (6) of any determination by the Company or any Guarantor that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus would be required;

 

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(vii) use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, the resolution of any objection of the SEC pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2), including by filing an amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement on the proper form, as promptly as practicable and provide prompt notice to each Holder of the withdrawal of any such order or such resolution;

(viii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto (without any documents incorporated therein by reference or exhibits thereto, unless requested in writing);

(ix) in the case of a Shelf Registration, cooperate with the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends and enable such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and registered in such names (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) as such Holders may reasonably request at least three Business Days prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;

(x) in the case of a Shelf Registration, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(a)(vi)(5) hereof, use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a supplement or post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available) to purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit 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 the Company and the Guarantor shall notify the Holders of Registrable Securities to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, and such Holders hereby agree to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, until the Company and the Guarantor have amended or supplemented the Prospectus or the Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to correct such misstatement or omission;

(xi) a reasonable time prior to the filing of any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment to a Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a

 

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Registration Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus after initial filing of a Registration Statement and does not name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), provide copies of such document to the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, to the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement and their counsel) and make such of the representatives of the Company and the Guarantor as shall be reasonably requested by the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement or their counsel) available for discussion of such document; and the Company and the Guarantor shall not, at any time after initial filing of a Registration Statement, use or file any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment of or supplement to a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus and does not name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), of which the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities and their counsel) shall not have previously been advised and furnished a copy or to which the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities or their counsel) shall reasonably object in writing within five Business Days after receipt thereof;

(xii) use reasonable best efforts to obtain a CUSIP number for all Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be, not later than the initial effective date of a Registration Statement;

(xiii) use reasonable best efforts to cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the registration of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be; cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for the Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;

(xiv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, make available for inspection by a representative of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration (an “ Inspector ”), any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, any attorneys and one firm of accountants designated by a majority of the Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration and any attorneys (but no more than one counsel acting

 

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for all such Holders) and accountants designated by such Underwriter, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, all pertinent financial and other records, documents and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, and cause the respective officers, directors and employees of the Company and the Guarantor to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant to conduct reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement; provided that the foregoing investigation and information gathering shall be coordinated on behalf of such parties by one counsel designated by and on behalf of such parties; and provided further that if any such information is identified by the Company or any Guarantor as being confidential or proprietary, each Person receiving such information shall take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information to the extent such action is otherwise not inconsistent with, an impairment of or in derogation of the rights and interests of any Inspector, Holder or Underwriter;

(xv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, use their reasonable best efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on any securities exchange or any automated quotation system on which similar securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor are then listed if requested by the Majority Holders, to the extent such Registrable Securities satisfy applicable listing requirements;

(xvi) if reasonably requested by any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, promptly include in a Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information with respect to such Holder as such Holder reasonably requests to be included therein and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company has received notification of the matters to be so included in such filing; and

(xvii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, enter into such customary agreements and take all such other actions in connection therewith (including those reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement) in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities including, but not limited to, in an Underwritten Offering and in such connection, (1) to the extent possible, make such representations and warranties to the Holders and any Underwriters of such Registrable Securities with respect to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and the Registration Statement, Prospectus any Free Writing Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference, if any, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings and confirm the same if and when required by the applicable underwriting agreement, (2) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and the Guarantor (which counsel and opinions, in form, scope and substance, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold

 

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and such Underwriters and their respective counsel) addressed to each selling Holder and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings, (3) obtain “comfort” letters from the independent certified public accountants of the Company and the Guarantor (and, if necessary, any other certified public accountant of any subsidiary of the Company or any Guarantor, or of any business acquired by the Company or any Guarantor for which financial statements and financial data are or are required to be included in the Registration Statement) addressed to each selling Holder (to the extent permitted by applicable professional standards) and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings, including but not limited to financial information contained in any preliminary prospectus, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, and (4) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold or the Underwriters, and which are customarily delivered in underwritten offerings, to evidence the continued validity of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor made pursuant to clause (1) above and to evidence compliance with any customary conditions contained in an underwriting agreement; it being agreed that the representations and warranties, opinions of counsel and comfort letters delivered in connection with the initial offering of the Securities are customary.

(b) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require each Holder of Registrable Securities to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Holder and the proposed disposition by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company and the Guarantor may from time to time reasonably request in writing; provided that if such Holder fails to provide the requested information within 15 Business Days, the Company may exclude such Holder’s Registrable Securities from such Shelf Registration Statement until such time as the information is provided.

(c) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder of Registrable Securities covered in such Shelf Registration Statement agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company and the Guarantor of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(a)(vi)(3), 3(a)(vi)(5) or 3(a)(vi)(6) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(a)(x) hereof and, if so directed by the Company and the Guarantor, such Holder will deliver to the Company and the Guarantor all copies in its possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that is current at the time of receipt of such notice.

 

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(d) If the Company and the Guarantor shall give any notice to suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantor shall extend the period during which such Registration Statement shall be maintained effective pursuant to this Agreement by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Holders of such Registrable Securities shall have received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus necessary to resume such dispositions. The Company and the Guarantor may give any such notice only twice during any 365-day period, any such suspensions shall not exceed 60 days for each suspension and there shall not be more than two suspensions in effect during any 365-day period.

(e) The Holders of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement who desire to do so may sell such Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering. In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment bank or investment banks and manager or managers (each an “ Underwriter ”) that will administer the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities included in such offering and reasonably acceptable to the Company. However, each Holder agrees that, neither such Holder nor any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to any Registration Statement on such Holder’s behalf, will make any offer relating to the Registrable Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act) or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 of the Securities Act, unless it has obtained the prior written consent of the Company. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, no Underwritten Offering hereunder may be conducted without the Company’s written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that any request for an Underwritten Offering must be made by written request of Holders of at least 20% of the principal amount of the then outstanding Registrable Securities; provided further, that the Company shall not be required to complete more than one Underwritten Offering pursuant to the terms hereof

4. Participation of Broker-Dealers in Exchange Offer.

(a) The Company has been advised that the Staff has taken the position that any broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in the Exchange Offer in exchange for Securities that were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities (a “ Participating Broker-Dealer ”) may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

The Company and the Guarantor have been advised that it is the Staff’s position that if the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution containing a statement to the above effect and the means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities, without naming the Participating Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Securities owned by them, such Prospectus may be delivered by Participating Broker-Dealers (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available to purchasers) to satisfy their prospectus delivery obligation under the Securities Act in connection with resales of Exchange Securities for their own accounts, so long as the Prospectus otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.

 

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(b) In light of the above, and notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantor agree to use their reasonable best efforts to amend or supplement the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 180 days after the date the Exchange Offer Registration Statement becomes effective (as such period may be extended pursuant to Section 3(d) of this Agreement) and (ii) the date on which each Participating Broker-Dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities, in each case to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales. The Company and the Guarantor further consent to the delivery of such Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, agree to make available) by Participating Broker-Dealers during such period in connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.

(c) The Initial Purchasers shall have no liability to the Company, any Guarantor or any Holder with respect to any such request that they may make pursuant to Section 4(b) above.

5. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Initial Purchaser and each Holder, their respective affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and each Person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser or any Holder 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, that arise out of, or are based upon, (1) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement or 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, or (2) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or any supplement thereto, any Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” (“ Issuer Information ”) filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or 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, in each case 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 Initial Purchaser or information relating to any Holder furnished to the Company in writing, or any selling Holder, respectively, expressly for use therein. In connection with any Underwritten Offering permitted by Section 3, the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, will also indemnify the Underwriters, if any, their respective affiliates and each Person

 

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who controls such Persons (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the Holders, if requested in connection with any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Information.

(b) Each Holder agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor, the Initial Purchasers and the other selling Holders, the directors of the Company and the Guarantor, each officer of the Company and the Guarantor who signed the Registration Statement and each Person, if any, who controls the Company, the Guarantor, any Initial Purchaser and any other selling Holder 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 (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) 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 Holder furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus.

(c) 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 paragraph (a) or (b) above 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 paragraph (a) or (b). 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 5 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the 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

 

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between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying 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 (x) for any Initial Purchaser or its respective affiliates, directors and officers and any control Persons of such Initial Purchaser shall be designated in writing such Initial Purchasers, (y) for any Holder, its directors and officers and any control Persons of such Holder shall be designated in writing by the Majority Holders and (z) in all other cases 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. 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 (A) 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 (B) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

(d) 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 Guarantor from the offering of the Securities and the Exchange Securities, on the one hand, and by the Holders from receiving Securities or Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act, on the other hand, 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 Guarantor on the one hand and the Holders 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 fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Holders 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 Guarantor or by the Holders and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(e) The Company, the Guarantor and the Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations

 

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referred to in paragraph (d) above. 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 5, in no event shall a Holder be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities or Exchange Securities sold by such Holder exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder 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 Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5 are several and not joint.

(f) The remedies provided for in this Section 5 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.

(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers or any Holder or any Person controlling any Initial Purchaser or any Holder, or by or on behalf of the Company or the Guarantor or the officers or directors of or any Person controlling the Company or the Guarantor, (iii) acceptance of any of the Exchange Securities and (iv) any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement.

6. General.

(a) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company and the Guarantor represent, warrant and agree that (i) the rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of any other outstanding securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor under any other agreement and (ii) neither the Company nor any Guarantor has entered into, or on or after the date of this Agreement will enter into, any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.

(b) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company and the Guarantor have obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent; provided that no amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent to any departure from the provisions of Section 5 hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registrable Securities unless consented to in writing by such Holder. Any amendments, modifications, supplements, waivers or consents pursuant to this Section 7(b) shall be by a writing executed by each of the parties hereto.

 

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(c) Notices. Except as otherwise specified herein, all notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail, telex, telecopier or any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery (i) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c), which address initially is, with respect to the Initial Purchasers, the address set forth in the Purchase Agreement; (ii) if to the Company and the Guarantor, initially at the Company’s address set forth in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c); and (iii) if to such other persons, at their respective addresses as provided in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7(c). All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and on the next Business Day if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery. Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee, at the address specified in the Indenture.

(d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof. The Initial Purchasers (in their capacity as Initial Purchasers) shall have no liability or obligation to the Company or the Guarantor with respect to any failure by a Holder to comply with, or any breach by any Holder of, any of the obligations of such Holder under this Agreement.

(e) Third-Party Beneficiaries. Each Holder shall be a third-party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights or the rights of other Holders hereunder.

(f) Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed on 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.

 

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(g) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

(h) Waiver of Immunity . To the extent that the Company or the Guarantor has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from jurisdiction of any court or from set-off or any legal process (whether service or notice, attachment in aid or otherwise) with respect to itself or any of its property, each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Agreement.

(i) Jurisdiction. Each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees that any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or the Guarantor brought by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in any State or Federal court in The City of New York, New York, and waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Guarantor has appointed Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (“Teva USA”) as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) upon whom process may be served in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein which may be instituted in any State or Federal court in The City of New York, New York, by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, and expressly accepts the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as said agent for service of process, and each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action arising out of or based upon this Agreement may be instituted by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, in any court of competent jurisdiction in Israel. THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTOR AND EACH OF THE INITIAL PURCHASERS 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 AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

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(j) Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

(k) Entire Agreement; Severability. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all oral statements and prior writings with respect thereto. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable or against public policy, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated. The Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of such invalid, void or unenforceable provisions.

[ Signature Pages Follow ]

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V.
By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

  Name: Richard Daniell
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

  Name: David Vrhovec
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

  Name: Eran Ezra
  Title: Senior Vice President, Head of Global Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance
By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

  Name: Michael McClellan
  Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


Confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written:

 

For itself and on behalf of the several Initial

Purchasers listed in Schedule I hereto.

BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC.
By:  

/s/ John Skrobe

  Name: John Skrobe
  Title: Managing Director
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP.
By:  

/s/ Roger Kim

  Name: Roger Kim
  Title: Managing Director
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
By:  

/s/ Adam D. Bordner

  Name: Adam D. Bordner
  Title: Director
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC
By:  

/s/ Christopher S. Murphy

  Name: Christopher S. Murphy
  Title: Managing Director
HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC.
By:  

/s/ Luiz Lanfredi

  Name: Luiz Lanfredi
  Title: Vice President

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

                                INCORPORATED

By:  

/s/ Matthew Curtin

  Name: Matthew Curtin
  Title: Managing Director

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


Schedule I

Initial Purchasers Party to the Purchase Agreement

Barclays Capital Inc.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

                     Incorporated

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

Exhibit 4.5

Execution Version

 

 

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.,

as Issuer

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED,

as Guarantor

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee

SENIOR INDENTURE

Dated as of March 14, 2018

 

 

 


Table of Contents

 

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ARTICLE 1

 

DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01 Certain Terms Defined

     1  

ARTICLE 2

 

SECURITIES

 

Section 2.01 Forms Generally

     5  

Section 2.02 Form of Trustee’s Certification of Authentication

     5  

Section 2.03 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

     5  

Section 2.04 Authentication and Delivery of Securities

     7  

Section 2.05 Execution of Securities

     7  

Section 2.06 Certificate of Authorization

     8  

Section 2.07 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest

     8  

Section 2.08 Registration, Transfer and Exchange

     8  

Section 2.09 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

     9  

Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities

     10  

Section 2.11 Temporary Securities

     10  

Section 2.12 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers

     10  

Section 2.13 Registered Global Securities

     10  

ARTICLE 3

 

COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR AND THE TRUSTEE

  

Section 3.01 Payment of Principal and Interest

     11  

Section 3.02 Offices for Payments, etc.

     11  

Section 3.03 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee

     11  

Section 3.04 Paying Agent

     11  

Section 3.05 Certificates of the Issuer

     12  

Section 3.06 Securityholders Lists

     12  

Section 3.07 Reports by the Issuer

     13  

Section 3.08 Reports by the Trustee

     13  

ARTICLE 4

 

REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT

 

Section 4.01 Event of Default; Acceleration of Maturity, Waiver of Default

     13  

Section 4.02 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt

     15  

Section 4.03 Application of Proceeds

     16  

Section 4.04 Suits for Enforcement

     17  

Section 4.05 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceeding

     17  

Section 4.06 Limitations on Suits by Securityholder

     17  

Section 4.07 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits

     18  

Section 4.08 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default

     18  

Section 4.09 Control by Securityholders

     18  

Section 4.10 Waiver of Past Defaults

     18  

Section 4.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain Circumstances

     19  

Section 4.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay Costs

     19  

 

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Table of Contents

(continued)

 

     Page  

ARTICLE 5

  

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

  

Section 5.01 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default

     19  

Section 5.02 Certain Rights of the Trustee

     20  

Section 5.03 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof

     21  

Section 5.04 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections, etc

     21  

Section 5.05 Moneys Held by Trustee

     22  

Section 5.06 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior Claim

     22  

Section 5.07 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer’s Certificate, etc.

     22  

Section 5.08 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee

     22  

Section 5.09 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee

     23  

Section 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee

     23  

Section 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee

     24  

ARTICLE 6

  

CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

  

Section 6.01 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders

     24  

Section 6.02 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities; Record Date

     25  

Section 6.03 Holders to be Treated as Owners

     25  

Section 6.04 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding

     25  

Section 6.05 Right of Revocation of Action Taken

     25  

ARTICLE 7

  

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

  

Section 7.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders

     26  

Section 7.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders

     27  

Section 7.03 Effect of Supplemental Indenture

     28  

Section 7.04 Documents to Be Given to Trustee

     28  

Section 7.05 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures

     29  

ARTICLE 8

  

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE

  

Section 8.01 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms

     29  

Section 8.02 Successor Substituted

     29  

Section 8.03 Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms

     29  

Section 8.04 Successor Legal Entity Substituted for the Guarantor

     30  

Section 8.05 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee

     30  

ARTICLE 9

  

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS

  

Section 9.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

     30  

Section 9.02 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Securities

     32  

Section 9.03 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent

     32  

Section 9.04 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years

     32  

 

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Table of Contents

(continued)

 

     Page  

ARTICLE 10

  

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

  

Section 10.01 Incorporators, Stockholders, Members, Officers, Directors and Employees of Issuer and Guarantor

                        Exempt from Individual Liability

     33  

Section 10.02 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Securityholders

     33  

Section 10.03 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Indenture

     33  

Section 10.04 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Securityholders

     33  

Section 10.05 Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein

     35  

Section 10.06 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays

     35  

Section 10.07 Conflict of any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939

     36  

Section 10.08 New York Law to Govern

     36  

Section 10.09 Counterparts

     36  

Section 10.10 Effect of Headings

     36  

Section 10.11 Securities in a Non-U.S. Currency

     36  

Section 10.12 Submission to Jurisdiction

     36  

Section 10.13 Judgment Currency

     36  

Section 10.14 Waiver of Jury Trial

     37  

Section 10.15 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

     37  

ARTICLE 11

  

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS

  

Section 11.01 Applicability of Article

     37  

Section 11.02 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions

     37  

Section 11.03 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption

     38  

Section 11.04 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption

     38  

Section 11.05 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds

     39  

ARTICLE 12

  

GUARANTEE

  

Section 12.01 The Guarantee

     40  

Section 12.02 Net Payments

     40  

Section 12.03 Guarantee Unconditional, etc.

     41  

Section 12.04 Reinstatement

     42  

Section 12.05 Subrogation

     42  

Section 12.06 Assumption by Guarantor

     42  

 

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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation (the “ Trustee ”),

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the issue from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (the “ Securities ”) up to such principal amount or amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the authentication, delivery and administration of the Securities;

WHEREAS, for value received, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the Guarantee provided for herein, and all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and legally binding agreement of the Guarantor according to its terms have been done; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid indenture and legally binding agreement of the Issuer according to its terms have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE:

In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities by the Holders thereof, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Securities as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Certain Terms Defined . The following terms (except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any indenture supplemental hereto, or unless the context otherwise clearly requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), are referred to in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms defined therein by reference to the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires), shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act. All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. 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. The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular. References herein to action by any Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor include actions taken by any duly authorized attorney in fact thereof.

Board ” means the board of directors, board of managers, managing directors, or supervisory directors of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or any other body or Person authorized by the organizational documents or by the members of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to act for it.

Board Resolution ” means one or more resolutions, duly adopted or consented to by the Board, and in full force and effect, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

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Business Day ” means, with respect to any Security, a day that in the city (or in any of the cities, if more than one) in which amounts are payable, as specified in the form of such Security, is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law or regulation to close.

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, then the body performing such duties on such date.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the office of the Trustee located in The City of New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered (which at the date of this Indenture is located at 101 Barclay Street, 7th Floor East, New York, New York 10286), Attention: Corporate Trust, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuer).

Depositary ” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in the form of one or more Registered Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03 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 Registered Global Securities of that series.

Dollar ” means the coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Event of Default ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.01.

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

generally accepted accounting principles ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect on the date of any calculation or determination required hereunder. Except as otherwise set forth in this Indenture, all ratios and calculations based on generally accepted accounting principles contained in this Indenture shall be computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the Original Issue Date. At any time after the Original Issue Date, the Issuer may elect to establish that generally accepted accounting principles shall mean the generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on or prior to the date of such election; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable. At any time after the Original Issue Date, the Issuer may elect to apply IFRS in lieu of generally accepted accounting principles and, upon any such election, references herein to generally accepted accounting principles shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS on the date of such election, including as to the ability of the Issuer to make an election pursuant to the previous sentence; provided that any such election, once made, shall be irrevocable; provided, further, that any calculation or determination in this Indenture that requires the application of generally accepted accounting principles for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to the Issuer’s election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Guarantee ” means the unconditional guarantee of the Issuer’s obligations with respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture by the Guarantor, as more fully set forth in Article 12.

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

Holder ”, “ Holder of Securities ”, “ Securityholder ” or other similar terms mean the registered holder of any Security.

 

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IFRS ” means the International Financial Reporting Standards accounting principles as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.

Indenture ” means this instrument as originally executed and delivered or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

Interest ” means, when used with respect to non-interest bearing Securities, interest payable after maturity.

Issuer ” means (except as otherwise provided in Article 8) Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law, and, subject to Article 8, its successors and assigns.

Judgment Currency ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

New York Banking Day ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

Non-U.S. Currency ” means a currency issued by the government of a country other than the United States (or any currency unit comprised of any such currencies).

Officer ” means, with respect to any Person, (1) the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Corporate Treasurer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Head of Corporate Treasury, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, any managing director or supervisory director (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity, or (2) any other individual designated as an “Officer” by the Board of Directors of such Person or any other body or Person authorized by the organizational documents or by the members of such Person to act for it.

Officer’s Certificate ” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate (i) signed by one Officer and (ii) delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 if applicable to such certificate.

Opinion of Counsel ” means an opinion in writing reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee signed by legal counsel to the Issuer or the Guarantor who may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer or the Guarantor. Each such opinion shall comply with Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 if applicable to such opinion and shall include the statements provided for in Section 10.05 if and to the extent required hereby.

Original Issue Date ” of any Security (or portion thereof) means the date on which such Security was originally issued under this Indenture.

Original Issue Discount Security ” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.

Outstanding ”, when used with reference to Securities, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:

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

(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Issuer or the Guarantor) or shall have been set aside, segregated and held in trust by the Issuer or the Guarantor for the Holders of such Securities (if the Issuer shall act as its own, or authorize the Guarantor to act as, paying agent), provided that if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and

 

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(c) Securities in substitution for which other Securities shall have been authenticated and delivered, or which shall have been paid, pursuant to the terms of Section 2.09 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer).

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01.

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

Registered Global Security ” means a Security evidencing all or a part of a series of Registered Securities, issued to the Depositary for such series in accordance with Section 2.03, and bearing the legend prescribed by the applicable supplemental indenture.

Registered Security ” means any Security registered on the Security register.

Required Currency ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.13.

Responsible Officer ”, when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office, including any vice president, any trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above-designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with that particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

Security ” or “ Securities ” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

Trustee ” means the Person identified as “Trustee” in the first paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article 5, shall also include any successor trustee.

Trust Indenture Act of 1939 ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was originally executed.

U.S. Government Obligations ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.01.

vice president ” when used with respect to the Issuer or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title of “vice president”.

Yield to Maturity ” means the yield to maturity on a series of securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and calculated in accordance with accepted financial practice.

 

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ARTICLE 2

SECURITIES

Section 2.01 Forms Generally . The Securities of each series shall be substantially in such form (not inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.

The definitive Securities shall be printed or lithographed on security printed paper or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

Section 2.02 Form of Trustee s Certification of Authentication . The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in substantially the following form:

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

 

  The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee
  By:  

 

    Authorized Signatory
  Date:  

 

Section 2.03 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 and, unless provided for otherwise in a Board Resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or an indenture supplemental hereto, each such series shall rank equally and pari passu with all other unsecured and unsubordinated debt of the Issuer. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,

(a) the designation of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities, except to the extent that additional Securities of an existing series are being issued);

(b) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that 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 such series pursuant to Section 2.08, 2.09, 2.11 or 11.03);

(c) if other than Dollars, the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated (including, but not limited to, any Non-U.S. Currency);

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

(e) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be payable and the record dates for the determination of Holders to whom interest is payable and/or the method by which such rate or rates or date or dates shall be determined;

 

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(f) the place or places where the principal of and any interest on Securities of the series shall be payable (if other than as provided in Section 3.02);

(g) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Issuer, pursuant to any sinking fund or otherwise;

(h) the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay Securities of the series pursuant to any mandatory redemption, sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or prices at which and the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

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

(j) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02;

(k) if other than the coin or currency in which the Securities of that series are denominated, the coin or currency in which payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable;

(l) if the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series are to be payable, at the election of the Issuer or a Holder thereof, in a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities are denominated, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;

(m) if the amount of payments of principal of and interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index based on a coin or currency other than that in which the Securities of the series are denominated, or with reference to any currencies, securities or baskets of securities, commodities or indices, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(n) if the Holders of the Securities of the series may convert or exchange the Securities of the series into or for securities of the Issuer or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), the specific terms of and period during which such conversion or exchange may be made;

(o) whether the Securities of the series will be issuable as Registered Securities (and if so, whether such Securities will be issuable as Registered Global Securities) or any combination of the foregoing, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale, transfer, exchange or delivery of Registered Securities or the payment of interest thereon and, if other than as provided herein;

(p) whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay additional amounts on the Securities of the series held by a Person who is not a U.S. Person in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Issuer will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional amounts;

(q) 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, the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;

(r) any trustees, depositaries, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents or registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of such series;

(s) any applicable United States federal income tax and Israel income tax provisions, including, but not limited to: whether and under what circumstances the Issuer will pay additional amounts on Securities for any tax, assessment or governmental charge withheld or deducted and, if so, whether it will have the option to redeem those

 

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Securities rather than pay the additional amounts; tax considerations applicable to any discounted Securities or to Securities issued at par that are treated as having been issued at a discount for United States federal income tax purposes; and tax considerations applicable to any Securities denominated and payable in foreign currencies;

(t) whether certain payments on the Securities will be guaranteed under a financial insurance guaranty policy and the terms of that guaranty;

(u) any applicable selling restrictions;

(v) any other events of default, modifications or elimination of any acceleration rights, or covenants with respect to the Securities of such series and any terms required by or advisable under applicable laws or regulations, including laws and regulations relating to attributes required for the Securities to be afforded certain capital treatment for bank regulatory or other purposes; and

(w) any other terms of the series.

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board resolution, Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to such Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

Section 2.04 Authentication and Delivery of Securities . At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Issuer may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Securities to or upon the written order of the Issuer, signed by one Officer of the Issuer, without any further action by the Issuer. In authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Section 5.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(a) a copy of the Board resolution, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer or an executed supplemental indenture, relating to such series, setting forth the form and terms of the Securities, as required pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 2.03; and

(b) an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section 10.05,

(i) to the effect that the form or forms and terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board, an Officer’s Certificate or by a supplemental indenture as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03 in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(ii) to the effect that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Issuer in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Issuer.

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Issuer or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.

Section 2.05 Execution of Securities . The Securities shall be signed on behalf of the Issuer by one Officer of the Issuer. Such signatures may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such Officers. 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.

 

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In case any Officer of the Issuer who shall have signed any of the Securities shall cease to be such Officer before the Security so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed of by the Issuer, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security had not ceased to be such Officer of the Issuer; and any Security may be signed on behalf of the Issuer by such person as, at the actual date of the execution of such Security, shall be the proper Officer of the Issuer, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

Section 2.06 Certificate of Authorization . Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 2.07 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of Interest . The Securities shall be issuable as Registered Securities without coupons and in denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.03. In the absence of any such specification with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any multiple thereof. The Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plan as the Officers of the Issuer executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication, shall bear interest, if any, from the date and shall be payable on the dates, in each case, which shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.03.

The person in whose name any Security of any series is registered at the close of business on any record date applicable to a particular series with respect to any interest payment date for such series shall be entitled to receive the interest, if any, payable on such interest payment date notwithstanding any transfer or exchange of such Security subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Issuer and the Guarantor shall default in the payment of the interest due on such interest payment date for such series, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names Outstanding Securities for such series are registered at the close of business on a subsequent record date (which shall be not less than five Business Days prior to the date of payment of such defaulted interest) established by notice delivered by or on behalf of the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Holders of Securities not less than 15 days preceding such subsequent record date. The term “ record date ” as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) shall mean the date specified as such in the terms of the Securities of any particular series, or, if no such date is so specified, if such interest payment date is the first day of a calendar month, the 15th day of the next preceding calendar month or, if such interest payment date is the 15th day of a calendar month, the first day of such calendar month, in either case whether or not such record date is a Business Day.

Section 2.08 Registration, Transfer and Exchange . The Issuer will keep or cause to be kept at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02 a register or registers in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will register or cause to be registered, and will register or cause to be registered the transfer of, Securities as in this Article provided. Such register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times such register or registers shall be open for inspection by the Trustee if the Corporate Trust Office is not the office or agency maintained for such purpose.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at any such office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a new Security or Securities of the same series in authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.

Any Security or Securities of any series may be exchanged for a Security or Securities of the same series in other authorized denominations, in an equal aggregate principal amount. Securities of any series to be exchanged shall be surrendered at any office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for the purpose as provided in Section 3.02, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor the Security or Securities of the same series which the Securityholder making the exchange shall be entitled to receive, bearing numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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All Securities presented for registration of transfer, exchange, redemption or payment shall (if so required by the Issuer or the Trustee) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of Securities. No service charge shall be made for any such transaction. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.08, the Issuer will not be required to exchange any Securities if, as a result of the exchange, the Issuer would suffer adverse consequences under any United States law or regulation. Each Holder of a Security agrees to indemnify the Issuer and the Trustee against any liability that may result from the registration, transfer or exchange of such Holder’s Security in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable United States federal or state securities laws.

The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Securities of any series for a period of 15 days next preceding the first delivery of notice of redemption of Securities of such series to be redeemed, (b) any Securities selected, called or being called for redemption except, in the case of any Security where notice has been given that such Security is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed, or (c) any Securities of any series between a record date and the next succeeding payment date.

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

The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Registered Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

Neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

Section 2.09 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . In case any temporary or definitive Security shall become mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer in its discretion may execute, and upon the written request of any Officer of the Issuer, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of the same series, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security, or in lieu of and substitution for the Security so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substitute Security shall furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee such security or indemnity required by them to indemnify and defend and to hold each of them harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof in the case of mutilation or defacement shall surrender the Security to the Trustee or such agent.

Upon the issuance of any substitute Security, the Issuer 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 reasonable and documented fees and expenses of the Trustee or its agent) connected therewith. In case any Security which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Issuer may instead of issuing a substitute Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Security), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee such security or indemnity as any of them may require to hold each of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the ownership thereof.

 

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Every substitute Security of any series issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Issuer and the Guarantor, 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 (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such series duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Securities shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced or destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

Section 2.10 Cancellation of Securities . All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking or analogous fund, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, shall be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be cancelled by it upon its receipt of a written order of cancellation executed by one Officer of the Issuer; and no Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Securities held by it in accordance with its procedures for the disposition of cancelled Securities and deliver a certificate of disposition to the Issuer upon written request. If the Issuer shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 2.11 Temporary Securities . Pending the preparation of definitive Securities for any series, the Issuer may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities for such series (printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise reproduced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Trustee). Temporary Securities of any series shall be issuable as registered Securities without coupons, of any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Securities of such series but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Securities, all as may be determined by the Issuer with the concurrence of the Trustee. Temporary Securities may contain such reference to any provisions of this Indenture as may be appropriate. Every temporary Security shall be executed by the Issuer and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive Securities. Without unreasonable delay the Issuer shall execute and shall furnish definitive Securities of such series and thereupon temporary Securities of such series may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge at each office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.02, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Securities of such series a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series unless otherwise established pursuant to Section 2.03.

Section 2.12 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers . The Issuer in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use such numbers in notices of redemption and other notices to the Holders 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 Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers.

Section 2.13 Registered Global Securities . None of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent shall have any responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of an interest in a Registered Global Security, any members of, or a participant in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or any participant or Agent Member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in a Registered Global Security or with respect to the delivery to any participant, Agent Member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Registered Global Security (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Registered Global Securities. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Registered Global Securities shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered

 

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Holders. The rights of beneficial owners in any Registered Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each agent may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its Agent Members, participants and any beneficial owners.

ARTICLE 3

COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR AND THE TRUSTEE

Section 3.01 Payment of Principal and Interest . The Issuer covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of the Securities of such series (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) at the place or places, at the respective times and in the manner provided in such Securities. Subject to any other provisions that may be established pursuant to Section 2.03, the interest on Securities (together with any additional amounts payable pursuant to the terms of such Securities) shall be payable only to or upon the written order of the Holders thereof and, at the option of the Issuer, may be paid by wire transfer or by mailing checks for such interest payable to or upon the written order of such Holders at their last addresses as they appear on the registry books of the Issuer.

Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium, interest or any other amounts 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 by the terms of such series established hereby or pursuant hereto to the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express mention of the payment of additional amounts (if applicable) in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding the payment of additional amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

Section 3.02 Offices for Payments, etc. So long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the following for each series: an office or agency (a) where the Securities may be presented for payment, (b) where the Securities may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture or any supplemental indenture provided and (c) where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Securities or of this Indenture may be delivered. The Issuer will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. Unless otherwise specified in accordance with Section 2.03, the Issuer hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, as the office to be maintained by it for each such purpose. In case the Issuer shall fail to so designate or maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be delivered at the Corporate Trust Office.

The Issuer may from time to time designate one or more additional offices or agencies where the Securities of a series may be presented for payment, where the Securities of that series may be presented for exchange as provided in this Indenture and pursuant to Section 2.03 and where the Securities of that series may be presented for registration of transfer as provided in this Indenture, and the Issuer may from time to time rescind any such designation, as the Issuer may deem desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligation to maintain the agencies provided for in this Section. The Issuer will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission thereof.

Section 3.03 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee . The Issuer, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 5.09, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with respect to each series of Securities hereunder.

Section 3.04 Paying Agent . Whenever the Issuer shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series, it will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 3.04,

 

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(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Issuer, the Guarantor or by any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series or of the Trustee,

(b) that it will give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or by the Guarantor or any other obligor on the Securities of such series) in making any payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series when the same shall be due and payable, and

(c) that it will pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the Trustee upon the Trustee’s written request at any time during the continuance of the default referred to in clause 3.04(b) above.

The Issuer will, on the Business Day prior to each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, deposit with the paying agent a sum in immediately available funds sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action.

If the Issuer shall act as its own paying agent with respect to the Securities of any Series, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such series, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action.

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect to one or more or all series of Securities hereunder, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any such series by the Issuer or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this Section, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the provisions of Sections 9.03 and 9.04.

For the avoidance of doubt, any paying agent hereunder shall comply with applicable backup withholding tax and information reporting requirements under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to payments made under the Securities of any series (including, to the extent required, the collection of Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 and W-9 and the filing of U.S. Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099 and 1096).

Section 3.05 Certificates of the Issuer . The Issuer will furnish to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer, commencing on December 31, 2018, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer to the signer’s knowledge of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture (such compliance to be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Indenture). In the event the Issuer comes to have actual knowledge of an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, regardless of the date, the Issuer shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee specifying such default and the nature and status thereof.

Section 3.06 Securityholders Lists . If and so long as the Trustee shall not be the Security registrar for the Securities of any series, the Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (a) semi-annually not more than 15 days after each record date for the payment of interest on such Securities, as hereinabove specified, as of such record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section 2.03 for non-interest bearing securities in each year, and (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such information is furnished.

 

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Section 3.07 Reports by the Issuer . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor covenants to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports that the Issuer or the Guarantor may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Reports, information and documents filed by the Issuer or the Guarantor with the Commission via the EDGAR system will be deemed filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 3.07 as of the time that such reports, information and documents are filed via EDGAR. 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 actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any parent entity of the Issuer has filed with the Commission the information described in this Section 3.07 with respect to such parent entity of the Issuer, the Issuer shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.07; provided that, if such parent entity has material assets or operations other than those that are owned or operated by the Issuer and its subsidiaries, such parent entity will provide to the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities financial information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such parent entity, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Issuer and its subsidiaries, on the other hand.

The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine if and when the reports, information and documents of the Issuer or the Guarantor are filed with the Commission via the EDGAR system and available on the Commission’s EDGAR website. If the Guarantor ceases to be a reporting company with the Commission, it shall provide the Trustee with prompt written notification at that time and shall provide the Trustee with such reports, information and documents as set forth in this Section 3.07.

Section 3.08 Reports by the Trustee . Any Trustee’s report required under Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 shall be transmitted on or before July 15 in each year following the date hereof, so long as any Securities are Outstanding hereunder, and shall be dated as of a date convenient to the Trustee no more than 60 nor less than 45 days prior thereto.

ARTICLE 4

REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT

Section 4.01 Event of Default; Acceleration of Maturity, Waiver of Default . Unless otherwise established in accordance with Section 2.03 or by any applicable supplemental indenture, “Event of Default” with respect to any particular series of Securities wherever used herein means each one of the following events with respect to the Securities of such series which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) default in the payment of principal in respect of the Securities of such series, when due and payable;

(b) default for more than 30 days in the payment of interest in respect of the Securities of such series, when due and payable;

(c) the failure to perform any covenant or agreement of the Issuer or the Guarantor under this Indenture or the Securities of that series (other than a covenant or agreement which has been included in this Indenture or an indenture supplemental hereto solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than that series and other than a covenant or agreement a default in the performance of which is elsewhere in this Section 4.01 specifically addressed), which failure shall not have been remedied, or without provision deemed to be adequate for the remedying thereof having been made, for a period of 90 days after written notice shall have been given to the Issuer by the Trustee or shall have been given to the Issuer and the Trustee by Holders of 25% or more in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding, specifying such failure, requiring the Issuer to remedy the same and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

 

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(d) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of:

(i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law; or

(ii) a decree or order adjudging the Issuer or the Guarantor as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(e) the commencement by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Issuer or the Guarantor, or the filing by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or the consent by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or the taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by the Issuer or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer or the Guarantor in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Issuer or the Guarantor expressly in furtherance of any such action; or

(f) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such series.

For the avoidance of doubt, a default with respect to a single series of Securities under this Indenture or such series of Securities will not constitute a default with respect to any other series of Securities issued under this Indenture.

Unless otherwise set forth in any applicable supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate, if an Event of Default described in clauses 4.01(a), 4.01(b), 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) above occurs and is continuing, then, and in each and every such case, except for any series the principal of which shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a series affected thereby then Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class) by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Guarantor (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal (or, if the Securities of any such affected series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) of such affected series of Securities and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable. Unless otherwise set forth in any applicable supplemental indenture, if an Event of Default described in clauses 4.01(d) or 4.01(e) occurs and is continuing, then the principal and accrued and unpaid interest and premium, if any, with respect to any Securities then Outstanding 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.

The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of the Securities of any series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Issuer or the Guarantor shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all the Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) and the principal of any and all Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may

 

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be) which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series (or at the respective rates of interest or Yields to Maturity of all the Securities, as the case may be) to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein, then and in every such case the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of each such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) then Outstanding (in each case treated as one class), by written notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to each such series (or with respect to all the Securities, as the case may be) and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.

For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal of any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and declared due and payable pursuant to the provisions hereof, then, from and after such declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such Original Issue Discount Securities.

Section 4.02 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of any series when such interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part of the principal of any of the Securities of any series when the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon maturity of the Securities of such series or upon any redemption or by declaration or otherwise, then upon demand of the Trustee, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will pay to the Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all Securities of such series for principal or interest, as the case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series); and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.

Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Issuer may pay the principal of and interest on the Securities of any series to the registered Holders, whether or not the principal of and interest on the Securities of such series be overdue.

In case the Issuer or the Guarantor shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Issuer or the Guarantor or other obligor upon such Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or the Guarantor or other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

 

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In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor or its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer, the Guarantor or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any 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 pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest (or, if the Securities of any series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such series) owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities of any series, 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 reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Guarantor or other obligor upon the Securities of any series, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer, the Guarantor or such other obligor,

(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of the Securities of any series in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and

(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except in the event of a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities of any series or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.

All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof on any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such action was taken.

In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Securities in respect to which such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such Securities parties to any such proceedings.

Section 4.03 Application of Proceeds . Any moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of any series shall be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the several Securities in respect of which monies have been collected and stamping (or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing Securities of such series in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented Securities of like series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

 

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FIRST: To the Trustee for the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such series in respect of which monies have been collected, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys and of all fees, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except in the event of a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order;

SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such series in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in such Securities, such payments to be made ratably to the persons entitled thereto, without discrimination or preference;

THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such series in respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon all the Securities of such series for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such series; and in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such series, then to the payment of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without preference or priority of principal over interest or Yield to Maturity, or of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Security of such series over any other Security of such series, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest or Yield to Maturity; and

FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Issuer or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

Section 4.04 Suits for Enforcement . In case an Event of Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may, but is not required to, proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

Section 4.05 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceeding . In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Issuer and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken.

Section 4.06 Limitations on Suits by Securityholder . No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each affected series then Outstanding (treated as a single class) shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.09; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Security with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Securities of any series shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing of any provision of

 

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this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holder of Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of the applicable series. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

Section 4.07 Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Institute Certain Suits . Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture and any provision of any Security, the right of any Holder of any Security to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Security on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Security, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

Section 4.08 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default . Except as provided in Section 4.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders 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.

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 4.06, every power and remedy given by this Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Securityholders.

Section 4.09 Control by Securityholders . The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series affected (with all such series voting as a single class) at the time Outstanding 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 by this Indenture; provided that such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further that (subject to the provisions of Section 5.01 and 5.02(d)) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if (i) the Trustee shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken; or (ii) if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability; or (iii) if the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions or forebearances specified in or pursuant to such direction would be unduly prejudicial to the interests of Holders of the Securities of all series so affected not joining in the giving of said direction, it being understood that (subject to Section 5.01) the Trustee shall have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forebearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders; or (iv) the Trustee has not received indemnity satisfactory to it in its sole discretion.

Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction or directions by Securityholders.

Section 4.10 Waiver of Past Defaults . Prior to the acceleration of the maturity of any Securities as provided in Section 4.01, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of a series at the time Outstanding with respect to which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (voting as a single class) may on behalf of the Holders of all such Securities waive any past default or Event of Default described in Section 4.01 and its consequences, except a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of all such Securities shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

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Section 4.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in Certain Circumstances . The Trustee shall give to the Securityholders of any series, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear on the registry books, notice of all defaults known to the Trustee which have occurred with respect to such series, such notice to be transmitted within 90 days after the occurrence thereof, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such notice (the term “default” or “defaults” for the purposes of this Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition which is, or with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default); provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities of such series, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment with respect to the 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/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series.

Section 4.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay 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 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 and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or group of Securityholders of any series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, or, in the case of any suit relating to or arising under clauses 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) (if the suit relates to Securities of more than one but less than all series), 10% in aggregate principal amount of Securities Outstanding affected thereby, or in the case of any suit relating to or arising under clauses 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) (if the suit relates to all the Securities then Outstanding), 4.01(d) or 4.01(e), 10% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the due date expressed in such Security.

ARTICLE 5

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

Section 5.01 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; During Default; Prior to Default . With respect to the Holders of any series of Securities issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a particular series and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to such series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a series has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the Trustee shall exercise with respect to such series of Securities 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 person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

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

(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default with respect to such series which may have occurred:

(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any Series shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations 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 the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision 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);

 

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

(c) 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 pursuant to Section 4.09 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.

None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it.

The provisions of this Section 5.01 are in furtherance of and subject to Sections 315 and 316 of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

Section 5.02 Certain Rights of the Trustee . In furtherance of and subject to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and subject to Section 5.01:

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

(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Issuer or the Guarantor mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed);

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

(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;

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

(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, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of all series affected then Outstanding; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to it against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall be paid by the Issuer or, if advanced by the Trustee or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Issuer promptly upon demand;

 

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(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 not regularly in its employ and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

(h) 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, conclusively rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;

(i) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Event of Default or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default unless in the case of a payment default under Section 4.01(a) or Section 4.01(b) hereof a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or in the case of any other Event of Default unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;

(j) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder;

(k) the Trustee may request that the Issuer or the Guarantor deliver an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the names of individuals and titles of Officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any Officer specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded;

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

(m) 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; and

(n) neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance by the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Securityholders with or with respect to any securities or tax laws (including but not limited to any United States federal or state or other securities or tax laws), or, except as specifically provided herein, obtain documentation on any transfers or exchanges of the Securities of any series. Nothing in this provision shall be deemed to limit the Trustee’s duty to comply with any obligations it may have pursuant to applicable law.

Section 5.03 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof . The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of any of the Securities or of the proceeds thereof.

Section 5.04 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections, etc . The Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or the Guarantor and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Issuer or the Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.

 

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Section 5.05 Moneys Held by Trustee . Subject to the provisions of Section 9.04 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law. All such moneys shall remain uninvested and neither the Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any moneys received by it hereunder.

Section 5.06 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and its Prior Claim . The Issuer covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation as the Issuer and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) and the Issuer covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the fees, expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all agents) except to the extent any such expense, disbursement or advance shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith in a final, non-appealable order. The Issuer also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees for, and to hold each of them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in the premises, except to the extent such loss, liability or expense shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Trustee or such predecessor Trustee or their respective agents, officers, directors and employees in a final, non-appealable order. The obligations of the Issuer under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and their agents, officers, directors and employees for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive the payment in full of the Securities issued hereunder, the resignation or removal of the Trustee, or the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. As security for the performance of such obligations, the Trustee shall have a senior claim to that of the Holders of 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 benefit of the Holders of particular Securities, and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 4.01(d) or Section 4.01(e), 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.

Section 5.07 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer s Certificate, etc. . Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, whenever in the administration of the trusts of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action hereunder, such matter may, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.

Section 5.08 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee . The Trustee for each series of Securities hereunder 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 having a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000, and which is eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of a federal, state or District of Columbia 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.

 

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Section 5.09 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee .

(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time resign with respect to one or more or all series of Securities by giving written notice of resignation to the Issuer no less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such resignation and by delivering notice thereof to Holders of the applicable series of Securities at their last addresses as they shall appear on the Security register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable series by written instrument. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed with respect to any series and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the delivery of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee at the Issuer’s expense may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of the applicable series for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section 4.12, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.

(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:

(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any series of Securities after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities of such series for at least six months;

(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Securityholder; or

(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator 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, the Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to the applicable series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such series by written instrument, or, subject to Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities 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 removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.

(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series and appoint a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of such series by delivering to the Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Issuer the evidence provided for in Section 6.01 of the action in that regard taken by the Securityholders not less than 30 days prior to the effective date of such removal.

(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such series pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 5.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 5.10.

Section 5.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee . Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 5.09 shall execute and deliver to the Issuer and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee with respect to all or any applicable series shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to such series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee for such series hereunder; but, nevertheless,

 

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on the written request of the Issuer or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 9.04, pay over to the successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.06.

If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Issuer, the Guarantor, predecessor Trustee and each successor trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and 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 and that each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate indentures.

Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided in this Section 5.10, the Issuer shall deliver notice thereof to the Holders of Securities of any series for which such successor trustee is acting as trustee at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security register. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 5.09. If the Issuer fails to deliver such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Issuer.

Section 5.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee . 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, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 5.08, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any series shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the Securities of any series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities of such series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

ARTICLE 6

CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

Section 6.01 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders . Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Article.

 

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Section 6.02 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Securities; Record Date . Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Securities shall be proved by the Security register or by a certificate of the registrar thereof. The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of Securities of any series entitled to vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 6.01, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, only Holders of Securities of such series of record on such record date shall be entitled to so vote or give such consent or revoke such vote or consent.

Section 6.03 Holders to be Treated as Owners . The Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register for such series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and, subject to the provisions of this Indenture, interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and none of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Security.

Section 6.04 Securities Owned by Issuer Deemed Not Outstanding . In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any or all series have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are 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 Issuer or any other obligor upon the Securities or any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer or any other obligor on the Securities. In 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 Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Issuer to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s 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.

Section 6.05 Right of Revocation of Action Taken . At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 6.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Securities affected by such action.

 

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ARTICLE 7

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 7.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders . The Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto with respect to any series of Securities or amend any series of Securities for one or more of the following purposes:

(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the Securities of one or more series any property or assets, or to confirm and evidence the release, termination, discharge or retaking of any lien with respect to or securing the Securities of any series when such lien is not required under this Indenture;

(b) to evidence the succession of another legal entity to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor legal entity of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, pursuant to Article 8;

(c) to add to the covenants of the Issuer or the Guarantor such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of Securities (and, if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are being included solely for the benefit of such series), and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision 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 an Event of Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series to waive such an Event of Default;

(d) to delete or modify any Events of Default with respect to all or any new series of the Securities, the form and terms of which are being established pursuant to such supplemental indenture, Officer’s Certificate or resolution of the Board as permitted in Section 2.01 (and, if any such Event of Default is applicable to fewer than all such series of the Securities, specifying the series to which such Event of Default is applicable), and to specify the rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders of such Securities in connection therewith;

(e) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide, change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of or premium, if any, on Securities; provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect;

(f) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision;

(g) to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or error, or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture; or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer or the Guarantor; or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under any supplemental indenture as the Issuer or the Guarantor may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities in any material respect;

(h) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 2.03, or to authorize the issuance of additional Securities of a series previously authorized or to add to the conditions, limitations or restrictions on the authorized amount, form, terms or purposes of issue, authentication or delivery of the Securities of any series, as herein set forth, or other conditions, limitations or restrictions thereafter to be observed;

 

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(i) to evidence the assumption by the Guarantor of all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series and the release of the Issuer from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such series, all as provided in Section 12.06 hereof;

(j) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor trustee or a Trustee (other than The Bank of New York Mellon) for a series of Securities 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 the successor trustee or more than one Trustee, as the case may be, pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.10;

(k) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Section 9.01; provided, however, that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of such series or any other series of Securities in any material respect;

(l) to add to or change or eliminate any provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary or desirable in accordance with any amendments to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or modify this Indenture, if necessary with respect to a series of Securities, in order to continue its qualification with respect to such series of Securities under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939;

(m) to reduce the minimum denomination of any series of Securities;

(n) to prohibit the authentication and delivery of additional series of Securities;

(o) to add guarantors or co-obligors with respect to any series of Securities, or to release guarantors from their guarantees of Securities in accordance with the terms of the applicable series of Securities;

(p) to make such provisions as may be necessary to issue any Securities in exchange for existing Securities pursuant to a registration rights agreement or similar agreement;

(q) to conform the provisions of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities or the terms of such series of Securities to any provision of the “Description of Notes” in any offering memorandum or prospectus relating to the issuance of such series; or

(r) to make any change in any series of Securities that does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of such Securities.

The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Issuer and the Guarantor in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder, but the Trustee 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.

Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the Securities at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 7.02.

Section 7.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders . With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 6) of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as one class), the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto or amend the Securities of any series for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such series; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall (a) (i) extend the final maturity of any Security, (ii) reduce the principal amount thereof, (iii) reduce

 

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the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon, (iv) reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof, (v) make the principal thereof (including any amount in respect of original issue discount), or interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Securities or in accordance with the terms thereof, (vi) modify or amend any provisions for converting any currency into any other currency as provided in the Securities or in accordance with the terms thereof, (vii) reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or the amount thereof provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 4.02, (viii) modify or amend any provisions relating to the conversion or exchange of the Securities for securities of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of other entities or other property (or the cash value thereof), including the determination of the amount of securities or other property (or cash) into which the Securities shall be converted or exchanged, other than as provided in the anti-dilution provisions or other similar adjustment provisions of the Securities or otherwise in accordance with the terms thereof, or (ix) alter the provisions of Section 10.11 or Section 10.13 or impair the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment of principal of and interest on such Securityholder’s Securities on or after the due dates therefor, in each case without the consent of the Holder of each Security so affected, or (b) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities of any series, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders of each Security so affected.

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 Holders of Securities of such series, with respect to such covenant or provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

Upon the request of the Issuer and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 6.01, the Trustee shall join with the Issuer and the Guarantor in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.

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

Promptly after the execution by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall give notice thereof to the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby at their addresses as they shall appear on the registry books of the Issuer, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Trustee to deliver such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

Section 7.03 Effect of Supplemental Indenture . Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Holders of Securities of each series affected thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

Section 7.04 Documents to Be Given to Trustee . In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.05 hereof, and 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 adversely affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

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Section 7.05 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental Indentures . Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee for such series as to any matter provided for by such supplemental indenture or as to any action taken by Securityholders. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Issuer, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of such series then Outstanding.

ARTICLE 8

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE

Section 8.01 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms . The Issuer will not merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any Person, unless (i) either the Issuer shall be the continuing legal entity, or the successor legal entity or the Person which acquires by sale or conveyance substantially all the assets of the Issuer (if other than the Issuer) is organized under the laws of The Netherlands shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on 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 or observed by the Issuer, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such successor legal entity, and (ii) the Issuer or such successor legal entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or condition.

Section 8.02 Successor Substituted . In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and following such an assumption by the successor legal entity, all in the manner described in Section 8.01, such successor legal entity shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer, with the same effect as if it had been named herein; and any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture required or permitted to be done by the Board or any Officer of the Issuer may be done with like force and effect by the like board or officer of any entity that shall at the time be the successor of the Issuer hereunder. Such successor legal entity may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Issuer prior to such succession any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor legal entity instead of the Issuer 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 Issuer to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities which such successor legal entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All of the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. Any required changes in phrasing and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

In the event of such assumption following any sale or conveyance in accordance with Section 8.01 and this Section 8.02 (other than a conveyance by way of lease) the Issuer (including any successor legal entity that has been further substituted in accordance with Section 8.01 and this Section 8.02) shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.

Section 8.03 Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms . The Guarantor will not merge or consolidate with any other Person or sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any other Person, unless (i) either the Guarantor shall be the continuing legal entity, or the successor legal entity or the Person which acquires by sale, lease or conveyance substantially all the assets of the Guarantor (if other than the Guarantor) shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all the Securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Guarantor, by supplemental indenture reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such successor legal entity, and (ii) the Guarantor, such Person or such successor legal entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale, lease or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such covenant or condition.

 

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Section 8.04 Successor Legal Entity Substituted for the Guarantor . In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and following such an assumption by the successor legal entity, all in the manner described in Section 8.03, such successor legal entity shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein; and any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture required or permitted to be done by the Board or any Officer of the Guarantor may be done with like force and effect by the like board or officer of any entity that shall at the time be the successor of the Guarantor hereunder. Any required changes in phrasing and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

In the event of such assumption following any sale or conveyance in accordance with Section 8.03 and this Section 8.04 (other than a conveyance by way of lease) the Guarantor (including any successor legal entity that has been further substituted in accordance with Section 8.03 and this Section 8.04) shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.

Section 8.05 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee . The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 5.01 and 5.02, shall receive an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in accordance with Section 10.05, as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, and any such liquidation or dissolution, complies with the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

ARTICLE 9

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS

Section 9.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

(a) If at any time (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and interest on all the Securities of any series Outstanding hereunder (other than Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (ii) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) or (iii) (A) all the securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and (B) the Issuer or the Guarantor shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash (other than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any paying agent to the Issuer in accordance with Section 9.04) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, direct obligations of the United States of America, backed by its full faith and credit (“ U.S. Government Obligations ”), maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash, or a combination thereof, sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all Securities of such series (other than any Securities of such series which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.09) not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest due or to become due on or prior to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any such case, the Issuer or the Guarantor shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer or the Guarantor with respect to Securities of such series, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to Securities of such series (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of securities of such series, and the Issuer’s right of optional redemption, if any, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon upon the original stated due date therefor (but no upon acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (v) the rights of the Securityholders of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them), and the Trustee, on demand of the Issuer or the Guarantor accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such series; provided, that the rights of Holders of the Securities to receive amounts in respect of principal of and interest on the Securities held by them shall not be delayed longer than required by then-applicable mandatory rules or policies of any securities exchange upon which the Securities are listed. The Issuer agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Securities of such series.

 

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(b) The following provisions shall apply to the Securities of each series unless specifically otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto provided pursuant to Section 2.03. In addition to discharge of this Indenture pursuant to the next preceding paragraph, in the case of any series of Securities the exact amounts (including the currency of payment) of principal of and interest due on which can be determined at the time of making the deposit referred to in clause 9.01(b)(i) below, the Issuer and the Guarantor shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the Securities of such series on the date of the deposit referred to in clause 9.01(b)(i) below and the satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, and the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series thereto shall no longer be in effect (except as to (1) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Securities of such series and the Issuer’s right of optional redemption, if any, (2) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities, (3) rights of Holders of Securities to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon acceleration), and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking fund payments, if any, (4) the rights, obligations, duties, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (5) the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any of them and (6) the obligations of the Issuer under Section 3.02) and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer or the Guarantor, shall at the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same, if

(i) with reference to this provision the Issuer or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series (A) cash in an amount, or (B) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (1) the principal and interest on all Securities of such series and coupons appertaining thereto on each date that such principal or interest is due and payable and (2) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the dates on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series;

(ii) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;

(iii) the Issuer or the Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel based on the fact that (x) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (y) since the date hereof, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; and

(iv) the Issuer or the Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied with.

(c) Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor shall be released from its obligations under Section 8.01 with respect to the Securities of any Series, Outstanding, and under any guarantee in respect thereof, on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “ covenant defeasance ”). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of any Series, and under a guarantee in respect thereof, the Issuer and the Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in such Sections, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to such Sections or by reason of any reference in such Sections to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute an Event of Default under Section 4.01, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and coupons and the Guarantee shall be unaffected thereby. The following shall be the conditions to application of this subsection (c) of this Section 9.01:

 

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(i) The Issuer or the Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series, (A) cash in an amount, or (B) in the case of any series of Securities the payments on which may only be made in Dollars, U.S. Government Obligations maturing as to principal and interest at such times and in such amounts as will insure the availability of cash or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay (1) the principal and interest on all Securities of such series and coupons appertaining thereto and (2) any mandatory sinking fund payments on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series.

(ii) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit, after giving effect thereto.

(iii) Such covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with respect to any securities of the Issuer.

(iv) Such covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Issuer or the Guarantor is a party or by which either of them is bound.

(v) The Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

(vi) The Issuer or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this provision have been complied with.

Section 9.02 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Securities . Subject to Section 9.04 and any subordination provisions applicable to the Securities; all moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 9.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Issuer acting as its own paying agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of such series for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

Section 9.03 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent . In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to Securities of any series, all moneys then held by any paying agent under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such series of Securities shall, upon written demand of the Issuer, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys.

Section 9.04 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years . Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any paying agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of any series and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee for such series or such paying agent, and the Holder of the Security of such series shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

 

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The Issuer 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 9.01 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 Securities.

ARTICLE 10

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 10.01 Incorporators, Stockholders, Members, Officers, Directors and Employees of Issuer and Guarantor Exempt from Individual Liability . No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such or against any past, present or future stockholder (except in a stockholder’s corporate capacity as Guarantor), member, officer, director or employee, as such, of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any successor, either directly or through the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, or any successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 10.02 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Securityholders . Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the Holders of the Securities, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Securities.

Section 10.03 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Indenture . All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 10.04 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee and Securityholders . Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or delivered to or by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities to or on the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be in writing in the English language and may be given or delivered by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address is filed with the Trustee) as follows:

If to the Issuer:

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V.

Piet Heinkade 107, 1019 GM

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Attention: Managing Director

Fax: +972-3-9062501

with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

c/o Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark, Chief Legal Officer

Fax: (215) 293-6499

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

 

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New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

If to the Guarantor:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

5 Basel Street, P.O. Box 3190

Petach Tikva 4951033, Israel

Attention: Eran Ezra, Global Treasury

Facsimile: 011-972-3-914-8678

with copies (which, in the case of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark, Chief Legal Officer

Fax: (215) 293-6499

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer, the Guarantor or any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if delivered in person or telecopied or mailed by first-class mail to the Trustee at 101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E, New York, NY 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust\ – Global Finance Unit, Fax: (212) 815-2830.

The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods. If the party elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee 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. Each other party 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 to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered or if delivered electronically, in pdf format or if telecopied; and seven 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). Any notice or communication to the Trustee shall be deemed delivered upon receipt.

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, delivered personally, telecopied or sent by electronic mail to each Holder entitled thereto, in each case at his last address as it appears in the Security register. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail or otherwise delivered, neither the failure to send such notice, nor any defect in any notice so sent, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. 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 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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In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor or Securityholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, as long as the Securities are in the form of a Registered Global Security, notice to the Holders may be made electronically or by other method in accordance with procedures of the Depositary.

Section 10.05 Officer s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein . Upon any application or demand by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, stating that all conditions precedent 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 have been complied with.

Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such Officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by an Officer of Officers of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, 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 10.06 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays . If the date of maturity of interest on or principal of the Securities of any series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Security shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.

 

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Section 10.07 Conflict of any Provision of Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939 . If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture by operation of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (an “incorporated provision”), such incorporated provision shall control.

Section 10.08 New York Law to Govern . This Indenture and each Security shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State.

Section 10.09 Counterparts . This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 10.10 Effect of Headings . The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 10.11 Securities in a Non-U.S. Currency . Unless otherwise specified in an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.03 of this Indenture with respect to a particular series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all series or all series affected by a particular action at the time Outstanding and, at such time, there are Outstanding Securities of any series which are denominated in a coin or currency other than Dollars, then the principal amount of Securities of such series which shall be deemed to be Outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount at the Market Exchange Rate. For purposes of this Section 10.11, Market Exchange Rate shall mean the noon Dollar buying rate in New York City for cable transfers of that currency as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. If such Market Exchange Rate is not available for any reason with respect to such currency, the Issuer shall use, in good faith and its reasonable discretion and without liability on its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in The City of New York or in the country of issue of the currency in question, or such other quotations as the Issuer shall in its commercially reasonable judgment deem appropriate. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a series denominated in a currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

All decisions and determinations of the Issuer regarding the Market Exchange Rate or any alternative determination provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be in its commercially reasonable judgment and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive to the extent permitted by law for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Issuer and all Holders.

Section 10.12 Submission to Jurisdiction . Each of the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Indenture may be instituted in any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such court in any suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor, as long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding or the parties hereto have any obligation under this Indenture, shall have an authorized agent in the United States upon whom process may be served in any such legal action or proceeding. Service of process upon such agent and written notice of such service mailed or delivered to it shall to the extent permitted by law be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon it in any such legal action or proceeding. The Issuer and the Guarantor each hereby appoints Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., 1090 Horsham Road, North Wales, PA 19454, as its agent for such purposes, and covenants and agrees that service of process in any legal action or proceeding may be made upon it at such office of such agent.

Section 10.13 Judgment Currency . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest on the Securities of any series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final

 

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unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to close.

Section 10.14 Waiver of Jury Trial . EACH OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR 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 TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 10.15 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act . In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (including directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (“Applicable Law”), the Issuer agrees, upon reasonable request, to provide to the Trustee and any paying agent tax-information about Holders or the transactions contemplated hereby (including any modification to the terms of such transactions), to the extent such information is directly available to the Issuer, so that the Trustee and any paying agent can determine whether it has tax-related obligations under Applicable Law and the Issuer acknowledges that the Trustee and any paying agent without liability shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law.

ARTICLE 11

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS

Section 11.01 Applicability of Article . The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any series which are redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.03 for Securities of such series.

Section 11.02 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions . Notice of redemption to the Holders of Securities of any series to be redeemed as a whole or in part at the option of the Issuer shall be given by delivering notice of such redemption, at least 20 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption, to such registered Holders of Securities of such series. Any notice which is delivered in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice. Failure to give notice, or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security of a series designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security of such series. Any such notice of redemption shall also be given to the Trustee in the manner provided in Section 10.04 hereof at least 20 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption.

The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify: (i) the principal amount of the Securities of such series to be redeemed, (ii) the CUSIP number (if any), (iii) the date fixed for redemption, (iv) the redemption price, (v) the place or places of payment, (vi) that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities, (vii) that such redemption is pursuant to the mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if such be the case, (viii) that interest accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in such notice, (ix) if such redemption or notice is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall state that, in the Issuer’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied (or waived by the Issuer in its sole discretion), or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by

 

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the Issuer in its sole discretion) by the redemption date, or by the redemption date so delayed and (x) that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue, unless the Issuer defaults in making such redemption payment or the Trustee or paying agent for such series is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture. In case any Security of a series is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities of such series in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.

The notice of redemption of Securities of any series to be redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

On or before the redemption date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in this Section, the Issuer will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Issuer is acting as its own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 3.04) an amount of money or other property sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the Securities of such series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption price, together with accrued interest to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

If less than all the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair, Securities of such series to be redeemed in whole or in part. Securities may be redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Securities of such series selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such series 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 of any series shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 11.03 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption . If notice of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption, and on and after said date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Securities at the redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to accrue and, except as provided in Sections 5.05 and 9.04, such Securities shall cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price thereof and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice, said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption; provided that any semiannual payment of interest becoming due on the date fixed for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as such on the relevant record date subject to the terms and provisions of Sections 2.03 and 2.04 hereof.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly provided for, bear interest from the date fixed for redemption at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security) borne by such Security.

Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Issuer, a new Security or Securities of such series, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.

Section 11.04 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for Selection for Redemption . Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate number in a written statement signed by an authorized officer of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the last date on which notice of redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not pledged or hypothecated by either (a) the Issuer or (b) an entity specifically identified in such written statement as directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer.

 

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Section 11.05 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds . The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. The date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein referred to as the “sinking fund payment date”.

In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any series of Securities in cash, the Issuer may at its option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the mandatory sinking fund) by the Issuer or receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired (except as aforesaid) by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or (c) receive credit for Securities of such series (not previously so credited) redeemed by the Issuer through any optional redemption provision contained in the terms of such series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be received or credited by the Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price specified in such Securities.

On or before the 45th day next preceding each sinking fund payment date for any series, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee a written statement (which need not contain the statements required by Section 10.05) signed by an authorized Officer of the Issuer (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by credit of Securities of such series, (b) stating that none of the Securities of such series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in the payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such series have occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing and (d) stating whether or not the Issuer intends to exercise its right to make an optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series and, if so, specifying the amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Issuer intends to pay on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Any Securities of such series to be credited and required to be delivered to the Trustee in order for the Issuer to be entitled to credit therefor as aforesaid which have not theretofore been delivered to the Trustee shall be delivered for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the Trustee with such written statement (or reasonably promptly thereafter if acceptable to the Trustee). Such written statement shall be irrevocable and upon its receipt by the Trustee the Issuer shall become unconditionally obligated to make all the cash payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Issuer, on or before any such 60th day, to deliver such written statement and Securities specified in this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall constitute, on and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Issuer (i) that the mandatory sinking fund payment for such series due on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the option to deliver or credit Securities of such series in respect thereof and (ii) that the Issuer will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series as provided in this Section.

If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Issuer shall so request in writing to the Trustee specifying such lesser amount) with respect to the Securities of any particular series, such cash shall be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less and the Issuer makes no such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in excess of $50,000 is available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in Section 11.02, for redemption on such sinking fund payment date a sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to absorb said cash, as nearly as may be, and shall (if requested in writing by the Issuer) inform the Issuer of the serial numbers of the Securities of such series (or portions thereof) so selected. Securities of any series which are (a) owned by the Issuer or an entity known by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to be directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer, as shown by the Security register, and not known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee to have been pledged or hypothecated by the Issuer or any such entity or (b) identified in an Officer’s Certificate at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund payment date as being beneficially owned by, and not pledged or hypothecated by, the

 

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Issuer or an entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Issuer shall be excluded from Securities of such series eligible for selection for redemption. The Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer (or the Issuer, if it shall so request the Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series to be given in substantially the manner provided in Section 11.02 (and with the effect provided in Section 11.03) for the redemption of Securities of such series in part at the option of the Issuer. The amount of any sinking fund payments not so applied or allocated to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be applied to the next cash sinking fund payment for such series and, together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the stated maturity date of the Securities of any particular series (or earlier, if such maturity is accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied, together with other moneys, if necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities of such series at maturity.

On or before the Business Day prior to each sinking fund payment date, the Issuer shall pay to the Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed on the next following sinking fund payment date.

The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or give any notice of redemption of Securities for such series by operation of the sinking fund during the continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any Event of Default except that, where the delivery of notice of redemption of any Securities shall theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall redeem or cause to be redeemed such Securities, provided that it shall have received from the Issuer a sum sufficient for such redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall occur, and any moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article 4 and held for the payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of Default shall have been waived as provided in Section 4.10 or the default cured on or before the 60th day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any year, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date in accordance with this Section to the redemption of such Securities.

ARTICLE 12

GUARANTEE

Section 12.01 The Guarantee . The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts with respect to such Security and the due and punctual payment of the sinking fund payments (if any) provided for pursuant to the terms of such Security, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such Security and of this Indenture and all other amounts due and payable by the Issuer under this Indenture. In case of the failure of the Issuer punctually to pay any such principal, premium, interest, additional amounts, sinking fund payment or other amounts, the Guarantor hereby agrees to cause any such payment to be made punctually when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, upon acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Issuer.

Section 12.02 Net Payments . Except as otherwise provided in any indenture supplemental hereto, all payments of principal of and premium, if any, interest and any other amounts on, or in respect of, the Securities of any series shall be made by the Guarantor without withholding or deduction at source for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the State of Israel (the “taxing jurisdiction”) or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges are required to be withheld or deducted by (i) the laws (or any regulations or ruling promulgated thereunder) of a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (ii) an official position regarding the application, administration, interpretation or enforcement of any such laws, regulations or rulings (including, without limitation, a holding by a court of competent jurisdiction or by a taxing authority in a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof). If a withholding or deduction at source is required, the Guarantor shall, subject to certain limitations and exceptions set forth below, pay to the Holder of any such Security such additional amounts as may be necessary so that every

 

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net payment of principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount made to such Holder, after such withholding or deduction, shall not be less than the amount provided for in such Security, and this Indenture to be then due and payable; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be required to make payment of such additional amounts for or on account of:

(a) any tax, fee, duty, assessment or governmental charge of whatever nature which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such Holder: (A) was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or otherwise had some connection with the relevant taxing jurisdiction other than by reason of the mere ownership of, or receipt of payment under, such Security; (B) presented such Security for payment in the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof, unless such Security could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; (C) presented for payment in Israel; (D) presented for payment by or on behalf of a Holder who would have been able to avoid such withholding or deduction by presenting the relevant Security to another paying agent in a Member State of the European Union; or (E) presented such Security more than 30 days after the date on which the payment in respect of such Security first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such additional amounts if it had presented such Security for payment on any day within such period of 30 days;

(b) any withholding or deduction required by reason of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act;

(c) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(d) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of the failure by the Holder or the beneficial owner of such Security to comply with any reasonable request by the Guarantor addressed to the Holder within 90 days of such request (A) to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial owner or (B) to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (A) or (B), is required or imposed by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or

(e) any combination of items (a), (b), (c) and (d); nor shall additional amounts be paid with respect to any payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, interest or any other amounts on, any such Security to any Holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such Security to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the relevant taxing jurisdiction (or any political subdivision or relevant taxing authority thereof or therein) to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such additional amounts had it been the Holder of the Security.

Section 12.03 Guarantee Unconditional, etc . The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be as principal and not merely as surety, and shall be absolute, irrevocable and unconditional, irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of any Security or this Indenture, any failure to enforce the provisions of any Security or this Indenture, or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted with respect thereto by the Holder of such Security or the Trustee, the recovery of any judgment against the Issuer or any action to enforce the same, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to any such Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged except by payment in full of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts and sinking fund payments required with respect to, the Securities and the complete performance of all other obligations contained in the Securities and this Indenture, as supplemented and amended from time to time. The Guarantor further agrees, to the fullest extent that it lawfully may do so, that, as between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 4.01 hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or prohibition extant under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law of any jurisdiction preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby.

 

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Section 12.04 Reinstatement . This Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment on any Security, in whole or in part, is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to the Issuer or the Guarantor upon the bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise.

Section 12.05 Subrogation . The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holder of any Security against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holder by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be entitled to enforce, or to receive any payments arising out of or based upon, such right of subrogation until the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any additional amounts and sinking fund payments required with respect to, all Securities shall have been paid in full.

Section 12.06 Assumption by Guarantor .

(a) The Guarantor may, without the consent of the Holders, assume all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series if, after giving effect to such assumption, no Event of Default or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing. Upon such an assumption, the Guarantor shall execute a supplemental indenture evidencing its assumption of all such rights and obligations of the Issuer and the Issuer shall be released from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such Series.

(b) The Guarantor shall assume all of the rights and obligations of the Issuer hereunder with respect to a series of Securities and under the Securities of such series if, upon a default by the Issuer in the due and punctual payment of the principal, sinking fund payment, if any, premium, if any, or interest on such Securities, the Guarantor is prevented by any court order or judicial proceeding from fulfilling its obligations under Section 12.01 with respect to such series of Securities. Such assumption shall result in the Securities of such series becoming the direct obligations of the Guarantor and shall be effected without the consent of the Holders of the Securities of any Series. Upon such an assumption, the Guarantor shall execute a supplemental indenture evidencing its assumption of all such rights and obligations of the Issuer, and the Issuer shall be released from its liabilities hereunder and under such Securities as obligor on the Securities of such Series.

 

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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.

 

Very truly yours,
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V., AS ISSUER
By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

  Name: Richard Daniell
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

  Name: David Vrhovec
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, AS GUARANTOR
By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

  Name: Eran Ezra
  Title: Senior Vice President, Head of Global Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance
By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

  Name: Michael McClellan
  Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

 

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
  AS TRUSTEE
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

  Name: Wanda Camacho
  Title: Vice President

 

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Exhibit 4.6

Execution Version

 

 

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.,

as Issuer,

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED,

as Guarantor,

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

as Trustee

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, LONDON BRANCH,

as Paying Agent

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL SENIOR INDENTURE

Dated as of March 14, 2018

to the Senior Indenture dated as of March 14, 2018

 

 

Creating the series of Securities (as defined herein) designated

3.250% Senior Notes due 2022

and

4.500% Senior Notes due 2025

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1  

Section 1.1

  Definitions      1  

Section 1.2

  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act      11  

Section 1.3

  Rules of Construction      11  

ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEE

     12  

Section 2.1

  Title and Terms      12  

Section 2.2

  Forms of Notes      13  

Section 2.3

  Selling Restrictions; Legends      14  

Section 2.4

  Form of Guarantee      18  

Section 2.5

  Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Notes      19  

Section 2.6

  Transfer and Exchange      20  

Section 2.7

  Defaulted Interest      25  

Section 2.8

  Execution of Guarantees      25  

Section 2.9

  Add On Notes      26  

Section 2.10

  ISIN Numbers      27  

ARTICLE 3 ADDITIONAL COVENANTS

     28  

Section 3.1

  Payment of Additional Tax Amounts      28  

Section 3.2

  Stamp Tax      29  

Section 3.3

  Corporate Existence      29  

Section 3.4

  Certificates of the Issuer and the Guarantor      30  

Section 3.5

  Guarantor To Be the Sole Equityholder of the Issuer      30  

Section 3.6

  Limitation on Liens      30  

Section 3.7

  Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks      30  

Section 3.8

  Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws      31  

ARTICLE 4 REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     31  

Section 4.1

  Optional Redemption      31  

Section 4.2

  Notice of Redemption      31  

Section 4.3

  Deposit of Redemption Price      32  

Section 4.4

  Tax Redemption      32  

ARTICLE 5 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     33  

Section 5.1

  Satisfaction and Discharge      33  

ARTICLE 6 APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT

     33  

Section 6.1

  Paying Agent      33  

 

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ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     34  

Section 7.1

  Scope of Supplemental Indenture      34  

Section 7.2

  Provisions of Supplemental Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Notes      34  

Section 7.3

  Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Supplemental Indenture      34  

Section 7.4

  Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee, Paying Agent and Holders of Notes      34  

Section 7.5

  Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein      37  

Section 7.6

  Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays      38  

Section 7.7

  Conflict of any Provisions of Supplemental Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939      38  

Section 7.8

  New York Law to Govern      38  

Section 7.9

  Counterparts      38  

Section 7.10

  Effect of Headings      38  

Section 7.11

  Submission to Jurisdiction      38  

Section 7.12

  Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities      39  

ARTICLE 8 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     39  

Section 8.1

  Without Consent of Holders      39  

Section 8.2

  With Consent of Each Affected Holder      40  
EXHIBIT A  -   FORM OF NOTE      A-1  
EXHIBIT B -   FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO REGULATION S      B-1  
EXHIBIT C  -   FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER TO QIB      C-1  
EXHIBIT D -   FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO RULE 144      D-1  

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL SENIOR INDENTURE, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee and the Paying Agent a Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ Base Indenture ”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of its senior unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the “ Securities ”);

WHEREAS, Section 7.01(h) of the Base Indenture provides that the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental thereto to establish the form or terms of Securities of a new series;

WHEREAS, the Issuer, pursuant to the foregoing authority, proposes in and by this First Supplemental Senior Indenture (this “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”) to amend and supplement the Base Indenture insofar as it will apply only to the 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “ 2022 Notes ”) and the 4.500% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “ 2025 Notes ”) issued hereunder (and not to any other series of Securities). Unless the context otherwise suggests, the 2022 Notes and 2025 Notes are collectively referred to as the “ Notes ”; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done to make the Notes, when executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Issuer, the valid obligations of the Issuer, and to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Issuer, in accordance with their and its terms;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the holders thereof, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions .

Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Base Indenture unless otherwise indicated. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes, the following terms are defined as follows:

 

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2022 Notes ” has the meaning specified in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

2025 Notes ” has the meaning specified in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

Additional Interest ” means all additional interest then owing pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Add On Notes ” means any notes originally issued after the date hereof pursuant to Section 2.9, including any replacement notes as specified in the relevant Add On Note Board Resolutions, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture issued therefor in accordance with the Base Indenture.

Additional Tax Amounts ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1.

Agent Members ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.5.

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Common Depositary for such Global Note, Euroclear or Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Authorized Agent ” has the meaning specified in Section 7.11.

Business Day ” means any day on which commercial banks and foreign exchange markets are open for business in New York and London; provided that , for purposes of payments on the Notes, a “Business Day” must be a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System (TARGET) is operating.

Capital Stock ” means:

 

  (1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

 

  (2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

 

  (3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and

 

  (4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.

Clearstream ” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme.

 

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Common Depositary ” means The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AL, United Kingdom, as common depositary for Euroclear and/or Clearstream, or any successor Person thereto.

Consolidated Net Worth ” means the stockholders’ equity of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, as shown on the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor’s latest annual report to stockholders, prepared in accordance with GAAP.

corporation ” means corporations, associations, limited liability companies, companies and business trusts or any other similar entity.

Default ” means an event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

Definitive Note ” means a certificated Initial Note, Add On Note or Exchange Note issued pursuant to the Indenture (bearing the Restricted Notes Legend if the transfer of such Note is restricted by applicable law) that does not include the Global Notes Legend, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto (“Exhibit A”).

Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.7.

Distribution Compliance Period ,” with respect to any Note, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (a) the day on which such Note is first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the Issuer to the Trustee, and (b) the date of issuance with respect to such Note or any predecessor of such Note.

Euro ” means the lawful single currency of the participating states of the European Union as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Euroclear ” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.

Event of Default ” with respect to the Notes of each series shall not have the meaning assigned to such term by Section 4.01 of the Base Indenture. An Event of Default with respect to the Notes of each series means each one of the following events which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) the Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal and premium, if any, of any of the Notes of such series when it becomes due and payable at Maturity or upon redemption;

(b) the Issuer defaults in the payment of interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on any of the Notes of such series when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

 

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(c) the Guarantor fails to perform its obligations under the Guarantee relating to the Notes of such series;

(d) except as otherwise permitted by the Indenture, the Guarantee with respect to such series of Notes is held in any final, non-appealable judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of the Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under the Guarantee;

(e) either the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Notes of such series or this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture and the default continues for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure, requiring the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series;

(f) (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to make by the end of the applicable grace period, if any, any payment of principal or interest due in respect of any Indebtedness for borrowed money, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is an amount in excess of $250,000,000; or (ii) there is an acceleration of any Indebtedness for borrowed money in an amount in excess of $250,000,000 because of a default with respect to such Indebtedness, without, in the case of either (i) or (ii) above, such Indebtedness having been discharged or such non-payment or acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled, for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series;

(g) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the Issuer or the Guarantor as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

(h) the commencement by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Issuer to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Issuer or the Guarantor in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable U.S. federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Issuer or the Guarantor, or the filing by the Issuer or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief

 

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under any applicable U.S. federal or state law, or the consent by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or the taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by the Issuer or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer or the Guarantor in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Issuer or the Guarantor expressly in furtherance of any such action.

Except as otherwise provided herein, with respect to the Notes, the references in Section 4.01 of the Base Indenture to “clauses 4.01(a), 4.01(b), 4.01(c) or 4.01(f) above” shall be construed as references to clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this definition and references to Sections 4.01(d) and (e) in the Base Indenture shall be construed as references to clauses (g) and (h) of this definition.

Exchange Notes ” means any notes issued in exchange for Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Exchange Offer ” has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

GAAP ” has the meaning given to “generally accepted accounting principles” in the Base Indenture; provided , however , that any change in GAAP that would cause the Guarantor to record an existing item as a liability upon that entity’s balance sheet, which item was not previously required by GAAP to be so recorded, shall not constitute an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Supplemental Indenture.

Global Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(b).

guarantee ” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person, directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:

 

  (1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or

 

  (2) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided , however , that the term “guarantee” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Guarantees ” means the guarantees of the Guarantor in respect of the Notes in the form provided in Section 2.4.

 

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Guarantor ” means Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Israel, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Guarantor” shall mean such successor Person.

Holder ,” “ Holder of Notes ” or other similar terms means the registered holder of any Note.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person:

 

  (1) any liability for borrowed money, or evidenced by an instrument for the payment of money, or incurred in connection with the acquisition of any property, services or assets (including securities), or relating to a capitalized lease obligation, other than accounts payable or any other indebtedness to trade creditors created or assumed by such Person in the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services;

 

  (2) obligations under exchange rate contracts or interest rate protection agreements;

 

  (3) any obligations to reimburse the Issuer of any letter of credit, surety bond, performance bond or other guarantee of contractual performance;

 

  (4) any liability of another Person of the type referred to in clause (1), (2) or (3) of this definition which has been assumed or guaranteed by such Person; and

 

  (5) any obligations described in clauses (1) through (3) of this definition secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or other encumbrance existing on property which is owned or held by such Person, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby shall have been assumed by such Person.

Independent Investment Banker ” means a bank appointed by the Issuer which is a primary European government security dealer, and any of its successors, or a market maker in pricing corporate bond issues.

Initial Notes ” means the aggregate principal amount of each series of Notes issued on the date hereof, as specified in Section 2.1(a).

Interest Payment Date ” means, (a) for the 2022 Notes, each of April 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning October 15, 2018 and (b) for the 2025 Notes, each of March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning September 1, 2018; provided, however, in each case, that if any such date is not a Business Day, the payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no interest shall accrue thereon on account of such delay.

 

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Interest Rate ” means (a) 3.250% per annum in the case of the 2022 Notes and (b) 4.500% per annum in the case of the 2025 Notes, plus in each case Additional Interest, if any.

Issuer ” means Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law, until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter “Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.

Issuer Order ” means a written order signed in the name of the Issuer by any Officer of the Issuer or a duly authorized Attorney-in-Fact of the Issuer, and delivered to the Trustee.

Lien ” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction.

Maturity ” means the date on which the principal of the Notes of a given series becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

Note ” or “ Notes ” has the meaning specified to it in the third recital paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

Officer ” has the meaning given to “Officer” in the Base Indenture..

Par Call Date ” means (i) with respect to the 2022 Notes, January 15, 2022 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity of such Notes) and (ii) with respect to the 2025 Notes, December 1, 2024 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity of such Notes).

Paying Agent ” means an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment, including The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.

Permitted Liens ” means:

 

  (1) Liens existing as of the date when the Issuer first issues such series of Notes pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture;

 

  (2) Liens on property created, incurred or assumed prior to, at the time of or within 120 days after the date of acquisition, completion of construction or completion of improvement of such property to secure all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving all or any part of such property;

 

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  (3) landlord’s, material men’s, carriers’, workmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations which are not overdue or which are being contested in good faith in appropriate proceedings;

 

  (4) Liens existing on any property of any Person at the time such Person became or becomes a subsidiary of the Guarantor (provided that the Lien has not been created or assumed in contemplation of such Person becoming a subsidiary of the Guarantor);

 

  (5) Liens securing debt owing by a subsidiary to the Guarantor or to one or more of its subsidiaries;

 

  (6) Liens in favor of any governmental authority of any jurisdiction securing the obligation of the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any contract or payment owed to that entity pursuant to applicable laws, regulations or statutes; or

 

  (7) any extension, renewal, substitution or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) to (6), inclusive, or the Indebtedness secured thereby; provided , however , that (i) the principal amount of Indebtedness secured thereby and not otherwise authorized by said clauses (1) to (6), inclusive, shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal, substitution or replacement; and (ii) any such extension, renewal, substitution or replacement Lien shall be limited to the property covered by the Lien extended, renewed, substituted or replaced.

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

Purchase Agreement ” means the Purchase Agreement, dated March 7, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers named in Schedule I thereto.

QIB ” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

Record Date ” means either a Regular Record Date or a Special Record Date, as the case may be.

Redemption Date ,” when used with respect to any Note of any series to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption.

 

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Redemption Price ” when used (a) with respect to any Notes of any series to be redeemed pursuant to Section 4.1 of this Supplemental Indenture, means an amount that is equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of such series to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments of the Notes of such series being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at the applicable Reinvestment Rate, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date, provided that if the Redemption Date is on or after the applicable Par Call Date with respect to any series of Notes, the Redemption Price for such Notes will be equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date; and (B) with respect to any Notes of such series to be redeemed pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Supplemental Indenture, means an amount that is equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

Reference Bund ” means, with respect to the 2022 Notes, the 0.000% Federal Government Bond of Bundesrepublik Deutschland due April 8, 2022, with ISIN DE0001141752 and, with respect to the 2025 Notes, the 0.500% Federal Government Bond of Bundesrepublik Deutschland due February 15, 2025, with ISIN DE0001102374.

Reference Dealers ” means the Independent Investment Banker and each of the three other banks selected by the Issuer which are primary European government security dealers, and their respective successors, or market makers in pricing corporate bond issues.

Registrar ” means the office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange.

Registration Rights Agreement ” means (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers set forth on Schedule I thereto and (ii) with respect to any Add On Notes, one or more registration rights agreements entered into in connection with the issuance of such Add On Notes in a private offering by the Issuer after the date hereof, as such agreements may be amended from time to time.

Regular Record Date ” means (i) with respect to the 2022 Notes, the close of business on the preceding April 1 and October 1, and (ii) with respect to the 2025 Notes, the close of business on the preceding February 15 and August 15, in each case whether or not a Business Day.

Regulation S ” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

Reinvestment Rate ” means, with respect to the 2022 Notes, 0.5%, and, with respect to the 2025 Notes, 0.5%, plus, in each case, the greater of (i) the average of the four quotations given by the Reference Dealers of the mid-market semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable Reference Bund at 11:00 a.m. (Central European time (“CET”)) on the fourth Business Day preceding the applicable Redemption Date and if the applicable Reference Bund is no longer outstanding, a Similar Security will be chosen by the Independent Investment Banker at 11:00 a.m. (CET) on the third Business Day in London preceding such Redemption Date, quoted in writing by the Independent Investment Banker to the Issuer and (ii) zero.

 

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Remaining Scheduled Payments ” means, with respect to each Note of a given series to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on such Note as if redeemed on the applicable Par Call Date. If the applicable Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to such Note, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment on such Note will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on such Note to such Redemption Date.

Restricted Notes Legend ” means the Rule 144A Restricted Notes Legend or the Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend, as applicable.

Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Sale-Leaseback Transaction ” means the sale or transfer by the Guarantor or any subsidiary of any property to a Person and the taking back by the Guarantor or any subsidiary, as the case may be, of a lease of such property.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Similar Security ” means a reference bond or reference bonds issued by the German Federal Government having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable with the Par Call Date of the applicable series of Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the Par Call Date of such series of Notes.

Special Record Date ” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.7.

Stated Maturity ” means the date specified in any Note as the fixed date for the payment of principal on such Note.

subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more other subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition only, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

Taxing Jurisdiction ” means, with respect to the Notes, The Netherlands, Israel or any jurisdiction where a successor to the Issuer or the Guarantor is incorporated or organized or considered to be a resident, if other than The Netherlands or Israel, respectively, or any jurisdiction through which payments will be made.

TIA ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect on the date of this Supplemental Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the TIA is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent such amendment is applicable to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended, or any successor statute.

 

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Transfer Restricted Notes ” means Definitive Notes and any Notes in global form that bear or are required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

Trustee ” means The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.

Unrestricted Global Note ” means any Note in global form that does not bear or is not required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

U.S. Person ” means a U.S. Person as defined in Regulation S.

Section 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act .

Whenever the Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Supplemental Indenture.

The following TIA terms used in the Indenture have the following meanings:

indenture securities ” means the Notes of each series and the Guarantees; and

obligor ” on the Notes of each series means the Issuer and on the Guarantee means the Guarantor and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Supplemental Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

Section 1.3 Rules of Construction .

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

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

(2) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them under GAAP;

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

(4) whenever in this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, principal, interest or any other amount payable under or with respect to any Notes, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Interest, to the extent that, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the Notes.

 

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ARTICLE 2

THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEE

Section 2.1 Title and Terms .

(a) The 2022 Notes and 2025 Notes shall be known and designated as the “3.250% Senior Notes due 2022” and the “4.500% Senior Notes due 2025” of the Issuer, respectively. The aggregate principal amount that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture of (i) the 2022 Notes is limited to €700,000,000 and (ii) the 2025 Notes is limited to €900,000,000; except, in each case, for Add On Notes of the applicable series issued in accordance with Section 2.9 and Notes of any series authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the same series pursuant to Section 2.5. The Notes of each series shall be issuable in minimum denominations of €100,000 principal amount and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess of €100,000.

(b) The 2022 Notes shall mature on April 15, 2022 and the 2025 Notes shall mature on March 1, 2025.

(c) Interest on the Notes shall accrue from March 14, 2018, at the Interest Rate applicable to Notes of such series until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date.

(d) Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

(e) A Holder of any Note at the close of business on a Regular Record Date shall be entitled to receive interest on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

(f) Payments on the Global Notes will be made through the Paying Agent. Payments on the Notes will be made in Euros at the specified office or agency of the Paying Agent; provided that all such payments with respect to Notes represented by one or more Global Notes deposited with and registered in the name of the Common Depositary or its nominee for the accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream, will be by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified in writing by the holder or holders thereof to the Common Depositary.

(g) Payments on Definitive Notes, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose, initially the specified office or agency of the Paying Agent and, at the option of the Issuer, may be made by wire transfer to the account specified by the Holder or Holders thereof as notified to the Paying Agent in writing at least 15 days prior to the relevant payment date.

(h) The Notes shall be redeemable at the option of the Issuer as provided in Article 4.

 

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Section 2.2 Forms of Notes .

(a) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to this Section 2.2, the Notes are issuable in fully registered form without coupons in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto with such applicable legends as are provided for in Section 2.3. The Notes are not issuable in bearer form. The terms and provisions contained in the form of Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends and endorsements as the Officers executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes of any series may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage.

(b) The Notes and the Guarantees are being (i) initially offered and sold by the Issuer to the initial purchasers thereof pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A (“ Rule 144A Notes ”) and (2) non-U.S. Persons in offshore transactions in accordance with Regulation S (“ Regulation S Notes ”). Add On Notes may also be considered to be Rule 144A Notes or Regulation S Notes, as applicable. The Rule 144A and the Regulation S Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, each with the applicable legends as provided in Section 2.3 (each referred to as the “ Rule 144A Global Note ” and the “ Regulation S Global Note ,” respectively). The Rule 144A Global Note, the Regulation S Global Note and any Unrestricted Global Note are each referred to herein as a “ Global Note ” and are collectively referred to herein as “ Global Notes .” Each Global Note shall be duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, shall have endorsed thereon the applicable Guarantee executed by the Guarantor and shall be deposited with and registered in the name of the Common Depositary or its nominee for the accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream. The aggregate principal amount of each Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Registrar or the Paying Agent, at the direction of the Trustee, as hereinafter provided.

(c) At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Common Depositary to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee at the written direction of the Issuer. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee, to reflect such reduction.

 

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Section 2.3 Selling Restrictions; Legends .

(a) Each Global Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Global Notes Legend ”):

THIS IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREINAFTER.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMON DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE COMMON DEPOSITARY OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMON DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO THE COMMON DEPOSITARY OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMON DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, THE COMMON DEPOSITARY HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF THE COMMON DEPOSITARY OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

(b) Except as permitted by this Section 2.3, Section 2.6(d) and Section 2.6(g), each Rule 144A Global Note and each Definitive Note, if applicable, shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following applicable form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Rule 144A Restricted Notes Legend ”):

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

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THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V. (THE “ISSUER”) OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS NOTE) ONLY (A) TO THE ISSUER, TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (THE “GUARANTOR”) OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO NON- U.S. PERSONS IN OFFSHORE TRANSACTIONS IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES TO ANY REQUIREMENT OF LAW THAT THE DISPOSITION OF ITS PROPERTY OR THE PROPERTY OF SUCH INVESTOR ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS BE AT ALL TIMES WITHIN ITS OR THEIR CONTROL AND TO COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND ANY APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AND FURTHER SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHTS PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER (I) PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, (II) IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, TO REQUIRE THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS NOTE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE AND (III) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.

THIS LEGEND SHALL ONLY BE REMOVED AT THE OPTION OF THE ISSUER.

(c) The Regulation S Global Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following applicable form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend ”):

 

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THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT IN CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THIS LEGEND SHALL CEASE TO APPLY UPON THE EXPIRY OF THE PERIOD OF 40 DAYS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ALL THE NOTES OF THE TRANCHE OF WHICH THIS NOTE FORMS A PART.

(d) Each Definitive Note shall bear a legend on the face thereof substantially in the following form (the “ Definitive Notes Legend ”):

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

(e) Each Note shall bear a legend substantially in the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only) (the “ ERISA Legend ”):

BY ITS ACQUISITION OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, THE HOLDER THEREOF WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (A) SUCH HOLDER IS NOT ACQUIRING, HOLDING OR DISPOSING OF THE NOTES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WITH THE ASSETS OF (I) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”)) THAT IS SUBJECT TO ERISA, (II) A PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAWS”), OR (III) ANY ENTITY OR ACCOUNT WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS ARE CONSIDERED TO INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT; OR (B)(1) THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND SUBSEQUENT DISPOSITION OF THE NOTES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY SUCH HOLDER WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A SIMILAR VIOLATION UNDER ANY APPLICABLE SIMILAR LAWS AND (2) IF SUCH PURCHASER IS SUBJECT TO ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, THE DECISION TO ACQUIRE THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) HAS BEEN MADE

 

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BY A DULY AUTHORIZED FIDUCIARY (A “PLAN FIDUCIARY”) WHO IS INDEPENDENT OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTOR, THE TRUSTEE, THE INITIAL PURCHASERS AND ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “TRANSACTION PARTIES”), WHICH PLAN FIDUCIARY (I) IS A FIDUCIARY UNDER ERISA, THE CODE OR BOTH WITH RESPECT TO THE PURCHASER’S DECISION TO PURCHASE THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (II) IS NOT, IN THE CASE OF AN IRA, THE IRA OWNER, (III) IS CAPABLE OF EVALUATING INVESTMENT RISKS INDEPENDENTLY, BOTH IN GENERAL AND WITH REGARD TO THE INVESTMENT IN THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (IV) HAS EXERCISED INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT IN EVALUATING WHETHER TO INVEST THE ASSETS OF SUCH PURCHASER IN THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN), (V) IS A BANK, INSURANCE CARRIER, REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISER, REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR AN INDEPENDENT FIDUCIARY WITH AT LEAST $50 MILLION OF ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, AND (VI) THE PLAN FIDUCIARY IS NOT (NOR IS THE PURCHASER) PAYING ANY FEE OR OTHER COMPENSATION TO THE TRANSACTION PARTIES FOR INVESTMENT ADVICE (AS OPPOSED TO OTHER SERVICES) IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF THE NOTES (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN).

(f) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Definitive Note that does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend and the Definitive Notes Legend and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange is in respect of a transfer made in reliance on Rule 144 and provides such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer or the Trustee may reasonably request.

(g) After a transfer of any Initial Notes or Add On Notes during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) with respect to such Initial Notes or Add On Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Notes Legend on such Initial Notes or Add On Notes shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Notes or Add On Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(h) Upon the consummation of an Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes or Add On Notes pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Notes or Add On Notes are offered Exchange Notes in exchange for their Initial Notes or Add On Notes, all requirements pertaining to Initial Notes or Add On Notes that Initial Notes or Add On Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Notes in global form without the Restricted Notes Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes or Add On Notes in such Exchange Offer.

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(j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, in no event shall a Definitive Note be delivered upon exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in a Note subject to the Regulation S Restricted Notes Legend prior to the end of the Distribution Compliance Period.

Section 2.4 Form of Guarantee .

A Guarantee substantially in the following form shall be endorsed on the reverse of each Note:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the “ Guarantor ”) hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Holder of this Note (the “ Guarantee ”) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), on this Note, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at Maturity or upon redemption or upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of this Note and of the Indenture. The Guarantor agrees that in the case of default by the Issuer in the payment of any such principal or interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), the Guarantor shall duly and punctually pay the same. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of any extension of the time for payment of this Note, any modification of this Note, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of this Note or the Indenture, any failure to enforce the same or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted to the Issuer with respect thereto by the Holder of this Note or the Trustee, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a demand or proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to this Note or the indebtedness evidenced hereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged as to this Note except by payment in full of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note.

The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees or the Indenture; provided , however , that the Guarantor hereby waives any and all rights to which it may be entitled, by operation of law or otherwise, upon making any payment hereunder (i) to be subrogated to the rights of a Holder against the Issuer with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated by the Issuer in respect thereof or (ii) to receive any payment in the nature of contribution or for any other reason, from any other obligor with respect to such payment, in each case, until the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note shall have been paid in full.

The Guarantee shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to this Note until the certificate of authentication on this Note shall have been signed by the Trustee.

 

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has caused the Guarantee to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized Officer.

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

By                                                                              

Section 2.5 Book-Entry Provisions for the Global Notes .

(a) The Global Notes initially shall be deposited with and registered in the name of the Common Depositary or its nominee for the accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream.

(b) Members of, or participants in, Euroclear or Clearstream (“ Agent Members ”) shall have no rights under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by Euroclear or Clearstream, or the Common Depositary, or under such Global Note, and the Common Depositary may be treated by the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee. the Paying Agent and any of their respective agents as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any of their respective agents from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by Euroclear or Clearstream or impair, as between Euroclear or Clearstream and the Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of Euroclear or Clearstream governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note. With respect to any Global Note deposited on behalf of the subscribers for the Notes represented thereby with the Common Depositary for credit to their respective accounts (or to such other accounts as they may direct) at Euroclear or Clearstream, the provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” and the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “Management Regulations” and “Instructions to Participants” of Clearstream, respectively, shall be applicable to the Global Notes.

(c) The Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Euroclear or Clearstream or its nominee, Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or the Notes of any series.

(d) A Global Note may not be transferred, in whole or in part, to any Person other than the Common Depositary (or its nominee by a nominee of the Common Depositary to the Common Depositary or to another nominee of the Common Depositary, or by the Common Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Common Depositary or a nominee of such successor Common Depositary), and no such transfer to any such other Person may be registered. Beneficial interests in a Global Note may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures of Euroclear or Clearstream.

 

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(e) Except as provided in Sections 2.5(f) and 2.6, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes shall not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes.

(f) If at any time:

(1) either Euroclear or Clearstream notifies the Issuer in writing that it is no longer willing or able to continue to act as depositary for the Global Notes of any series and a successor depositary for the Global Notes of such series is not appointed by the Issuer within 120 days of such notice;

(2) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and enforcement action is being taken in respect thereof under their Indenture and the Registrar has received a request from Euroclear or Clearstream on behalf of their Agent Members for the issuance of Definitive Notes in exchange for such Global Note or Global Notes; or

(3) the Issuer, at its option, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to exchange in whole, but not in part, the Global Note for Definitive Notes;

such Global Note or Global Notes shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for such Global Note or Global Notes, Definitive Notes of the applicable series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Note or Global Notes. Such Definitive Notes shall be registered in such names as Euroclear or Clearstream shall identify in writing as the beneficial owners of the Notes represented by such Global Note or Global Notes (or any nominee thereof).

(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with any transfer of beneficial interests in a Global Note to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to Section 2.5(f), the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interests in such Global Note to be transferred.

Section 2.6 Transfer and Exchange .

(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes . When Definitive Notes are presented to the Registrar with a written request:

(i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes, or

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the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided , however , that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

(1) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing; and

(2) in the case of Transfer Restricted Notes, they are being transferred or exchanged pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to Section 2.6(b) or otherwise in accordance with the Restricted Notes Legend, and are accompanied by a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto.

(b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note . A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar, together with:

(i) a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto, and

(ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to make an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Common Depositary account to be credited with such increase,

the Paying Agent shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If the applicable Global Note is not then outstanding, the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee or its authenticating agent shall authenticate, upon written order of the Issuer in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new applicable Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes .

(i) The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth in Section 2.6(d), if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the Registrar a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing

 

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information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note, or another Global Note, and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred.

(ii) If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

(iii) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.6 (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.5(f)), a Global Note may not be transferred except as a whole and not in part if the transfer is 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.

(iv) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein to a QIB shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit B or any additional certification.

(v) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein to a Non-U.S. Person shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit C or any additional certification.

(vi) A registration of transfer of a Rule 144A Note or a Regulation S Note of a beneficial interest therein pursuant to Rule 144 shall be made upon receipt by the Registrar or its agent of a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit D from the proposed transferee; provided that after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Note may be transferred in accordance with applicable law without requiring the certification set forth in Exhibit D or any additional certification.

(d) Restrictions on Transfer of Global Notes; Voluntary Exchange of Interests in Transfer Restricted Global Notes for Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes .

 

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(i) Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through another Transfer Restricted Global Note shall be made in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the Restricted Notes Legend and only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification from the transferor in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers and, as applicable, delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as may be requested pursuant thereto.

(ii) During the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, the Restricted Notes Legend on such Regulation S Global Note and any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States of America. Prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note shall be made only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the Restricted Notes Legend and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for exchange or registration of transfers. Such written certifications shall no longer be required after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period. Upon the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of this Supplemental Indenture.

(iii) Upon the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note upon certification in the form provided on the reverse side of the Form of Note in Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture for an exchange from a Regulation S Global Note to an Unrestricted Global Note.

(iv) Beneficial interests in a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Rule 144A Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange is in respect of a transfer made in reliance on Rule 144 under the Securities Act and/or upon delivery of such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer or the Trustee may reasonably request.

(v) If no Unrestricted Global Note is outstanding at the time of a transfer contemplated by the preceding clauses (iii) and (iv), the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee or its authenticating agent shall authenticate, upon written order of the Issuer in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new Unrestricted Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(e) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes .

(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar’s request.

(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.08, 2.09, 2.11 and 11.02 of the Base Indenture).

 

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(iii) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(iv) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of the Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

(v) In order to effect any transfer or exchange of an interest in any Transfer Restricted Note for an interest in a Note that does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend and has not been registered under the Securities Act, if the Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an opinion of counsel, in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that no registration under the Securities Act is required in respect of such exchange or transfer or the re-sale of such interest by the beneficial holder thereof, shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar and the Trustee.

(f) No Obligation of the Trustee .

(i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

(ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under the Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of the Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

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(iii) Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

(g) Exchange Offer . Upon the occurrence of the Exchange Offer in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, the Issuer shall issue and, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate or an Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate (i) one or more Global Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amounts of the beneficial interests in the Global Notes tendered for acceptance by Persons that provide in the applicable letters of transmittal such certifications as are required by the Registration Rights Agreement and applicable law, and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer and (ii) Definitive Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Notes tendered for acceptance by Persons that provide in the applicable letters of transmittal such certification as are required by the Registration Rights Agreement and applicable law, and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer. Concurrently with the issuance of such Notes, the Trustee shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Notes with the Restricted Notes Legend to be reduced accordingly, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Persons designated by the Holders of the Definitive Notes so accepted Definitive Notes without the Restricted Notes Legend in the applicable principal amount. Any Notes that remain outstanding after the consummation of the Exchange Offer, and Exchange Notes issued in connection with the Exchange Offer, shall be treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture.

Section 2.7 Defaulted Interest .

If the Issuer fails to make a payment of interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on any Note when due and payable (“ Defaulted Interest ”), it shall pay such Defaulted Interest plus (to the extent lawful) any interest payable on the Defaulted Interest, in any lawful manner. It may elect to pay such Defaulted Interest, plus any such interest payable on it, to the Persons who are Holders of such Notes on which the interest is due on a subsequent Special Record Date. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Note. The Issuer shall fix any such Special Record Date and payment date for such payment. At least 15 days before any such Special Record Date, the Issuer shall deliver to Holders affected thereby, with a copy to the Trustee and the Paying Agent, a notice that states the Special Record Date, the Interest Payment Date and amount of such interest to be paid.

Section 2.8 Execution of Guarantees .

The Guarantor hereby agrees to execute the Guarantees in substantially the form above recited to be endorsed on each Note. If the Issuer shall execute Definitive Notes in accordance with Section 2.5, the Guarantor shall execute the Guarantees in substantially the form above recited to be endorsed on each such Note. Such Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of the Guarantor by an Officer of the Guarantor. The signature of any Officer on the Guarantees may be manual or facsimile.

 

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In case any Officer of the Guarantor who shall have signed the Guarantee endorsed on a Note shall cease to be such Officer before the Note so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, such Note nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Guarantee had not ceased to be such Officer of the Guarantor; and any Guarantee endorsed on a Note may be signed on behalf of the Guarantor by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Guarantee, shall be the proper Officers of the Guarantor, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.

Section 2.9 Add On Notes .

The Issuer may, from time to time, subject to compliance with any other applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, without the consent of the Holders, create and issue pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture Add On Notes having terms identical to those of the Outstanding Notes of any series, except that Add On Notes:

(a) may have a different issue date from other Outstanding Notes;

(b) may have a different first Interest Payment Date after issuance than other Outstanding Notes of such series;

(c) may have a different amount of interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date after issuance than is payable on other Outstanding Notes of such series;

(d) may have a different issue price;

(e) may have a different CUSIP or ISIN number if such Add On Notes are not fungible with the Notes of such series then outstanding for United States federal income tax purposes; and

(f) may have terms specified in Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture for such Add On Notes making appropriate adjustments to this Article 2 and Exhibit A (and related definitions), as the case may be, applicable to such Add On Notes in order to conform to and ensure compliance with the Securities Act (or other applicable securities laws) and any registration rights or similar agreement applicable to such Add On Notes, which are not adverse in any material respect to the Holder of any Outstanding Notes of such series (other than such Add On Notes) and which shall not affect the rights, benefits, immunities or duties of the Trustee.

In authenticating any Add On Notes, and accepting the additional responsibilities under the Indenture in relation to such Add On Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon:

(a) the Add On Note Board Resolutions, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture relating thereto, setting forth the form and terms of the Add On Notes;

(b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 7.5; and

 

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(c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 7.5 stating,

(1) that the forms of such Notes have been established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, as permitted by this Section 2.9 and in conformity with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture;

(2) that the terms of such Notes have been established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, as permitted by this Section 2.9 and in conformity with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture; and

(3) that such Notes and the related Guarantees, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Issuer and the Guarantor in the manner provided for herein and in the Base Indenture and the Guarantee, respectively, subject to any customary conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantor, respectively, entitled to the benefits provided in this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that the enforcement of such obligations may be subject to bankruptcy laws or insolvency laws or other similar laws, general principles of equity and such other qualifications as such counsel shall conclude are customary or do not materially affect the rights of the Holders of such Notes.

If such forms or terms have been so established by or pursuant to Add On Note Board Resolutions, an Officer’s Certificate or a supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Notes:

(1) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken;

(2) if the Trustee in good faith determines that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any Outstanding Notes; or

(3) if the issue of such Add On Notes pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, benefits and immunities under the Notes, this Supplemental Indenture and the Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.9, the Issuer may not issue Add On Notes if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Section 2.10 ISIN Numbers and Common Codes.

The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use “ISIN” Numbers (if then generally in use) and common codes, and, if so, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall use “ISIN” numbers and common codes in notices of redemption and other notices to the Holders as a convenience to

 

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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 Notes of a given series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes of a given series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent of any change in the “ISIN” numbers or common codes.

ARTICLE 3

ADDITIONAL COVENANTS

In addition to the covenants set forth in Article 3 of the Base Indenture, the Notes shall be subject to the additional covenants set forth in this Article 3.

Section 3.1 Payment of Additional Tax Amounts .

With respect to the Notes, Section 12.02 of the Base Indenture is not applicable. All payments of interest and principal by the Issuer under the Notes of any series and by the Guarantor under the Guarantees shall be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future Taxes unless such withholding or deduction is required by law. In the event that the Issuer or the Guarantor is required to withhold or deduct on account of any such Taxes from any payment made under or with respect to the Notes, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will (a) withhold or deduct such amounts, (b) pay such additional tax amounts so that the net amounts received by each Holder or beneficial owner of the relevant Notes will equal the amount such Holder or beneficial owner would have received if such Taxes had not been required to be withheld or deducted (“Additional Tax Amounts”) and (c) pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant tax or other authority in accordance with applicable law, except that no such Additional Tax Amounts shall be payable in respect of any Note:

(1) to the extent that such Taxes are imposed or levied by reason of such Holder (or the beneficial owner) having some present or former connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction other than the mere holding (or beneficial ownership) of such Note or receiving principal or interest payments on the Notes (including but not limited to citizenship, nationality, residence, domicile, or the existence of a business, permanent establishment, a dependent agent, a place of business or a place of management present or deemed present in the Taxing Jurisdiction);

(2) in respect of any Taxes that would not have been so withheld or deducted but for the failure by the Holder or the beneficial owner of the Notes to make a declaration of non-residence, or any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled or otherwise comply with any reasonable certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement concerning nationality, residence, identity or connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction if (a) compliance is required by applicable law, regulation, administrative practice or treaty as a precondition to exemption from all or part of the Taxes, (b) the Holder (or beneficial owner) is able to comply with these requirements without undue hardship and (c) the Issuer has given the Holders (or beneficial owners) at least 30 calendar days prior notice that they will be required to comply with such requirement;

 

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(3) to the extent that such Taxes are imposed by reason of any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or personal property taxes imposed with respect to the Notes, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture;

(4) to the extent that any such Taxes would not have been imposed but for the presentation of such Notes, where presentation is required, for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to Additional Tax Amounts had the Notes been presented for payment on any date during such 30-day period;

(5) in respect of any Taxes imposed under Sections 1471-1474 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, any applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, or any judicial or administrative interpretations of any of the foregoing; or

(6) any combination of items 1 through 5 above.

For purposes of this Section 3.1, “Taxes” means, with respect to payments on the Notes, all taxes, withholdings, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or any authority or agency therein or thereof having power to tax.

Section 3.2 Stamp Tax .

The Issuer and the Guarantor will pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from the execution, delivery, enforcement or registration of the Notes of any series or any other document or instrument in relation thereto.

Section 3.3 Corporate Existence .

Subject to Article 8 of the Base Indenture and subject to the ability of the Issuer or the Guarantor to convert (or similar action) to another form of legal entity under the laws of the jurisdiction under which the Issuer or the Guarantor then exists, each of the Guarantor and the Issuer will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Issuer and the Guarantor shall not be required to preserve any such existence, right or franchise if the Issuer and the Guarantor determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuer or the Guarantor and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

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Section 3.4 Certificates of the Issuer and the Guarantor .

The Issuer will furnish to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer as to the signer’s knowledge of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture (such compliance to be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under this Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture). In the event the Issuer comes to have actual knowledge of an Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, regardless of the date, the Issuer shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee specifying such Default and the nature and status thereof.

Section 3.5 Guarantor To Be the Sole Equityholder of the Issuer .

So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Guarantor or its successor will directly or indirectly own all of the outstanding Capital Stock of the Issuer.

Section 3.6 Limitation on Liens .

The Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, upon any of its property (including any shares of Capital Stock or Indebtedness of any subsidiary) to secure any other Indebtedness incurred by the Guarantor or any subsidiary, without in any such case making effective provision whereby all of the Notes outstanding (together with, if the Guarantor so determines, any other Indebtedness by the Guarantor or any subsidiary ranking equally with the Notes or the Guarantees) shall be secured equally and ratably with, or prior to, such Indebtedness for so long as such other Indebtedness shall be so secured unless, after giving effect to such Lien, the aggregate amount of secured Indebtedness then outstanding (excluding Indebtedness secured solely by Permitted Liens) plus the value (as defined in Section 3.7) of all Sale-Leaseback Transactions (other than those described in clause (a) or clause (b) of Section 3.7) then outstanding would not exceed 10% of the Guarantor’s Consolidated Net Worth.

Section 3.7 Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks .

The Guarantor will not, and will not permit any subsidiary to, enter into any Sale-Leaseback Transaction after the date of this Supplemental Indenture unless:

(a) the Sale-Leaseback Transaction:

(1) involves a lease for a period, including renewals, of not more than five years;

(2) occurs within 270 days after the date of acquisition, completion of construction or completion of improvement of such property; or

(3) is with the Guarantor or one of its subsidiaries; or

 

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(b) the Guarantor or any subsidiary, within 270 days after the Sale-Leaseback Transaction shall have occurred, applies or causes to be applied an amount equal to the value of the property so sold and leased back at the time of entering into such arrangement to the prepayment, repayment, redemption, reduction or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Guarantor or any subsidiary that is not subordinated to the Notes and that has a Stated Maturity of more than twelve months; or

(c) the Guarantor or such subsidiary would be entitled pursuant to Section 3.6 to create, incur, issue or assume Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the property without equally and ratably securing the Notes.

As used in this Section 3.7, the term “value” shall mean, with respect to a Sale-Leaseback Transaction, as of any particular time an amount equal to the greater of (i) the net proceeds of sale of the property leased pursuant to such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, or (ii) the fair value of such property at the time of entering into such Sale-Leaseback Transaction as determined by the Board of Directors of the Guarantor, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator is the number of full years of remaining term of the lease (without regard to renewal options) and the denominator is the full years of the full term of the lease (without regard to renewal options).

Section 3.8 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws .

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

ARTICLE 4

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

Section 4.1 Optional Redemption .

The Issuer may at its option redeem the Notes of any series, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, on any date prior to the Stated Maturity, upon notice as set forth in Section 4.2, at the Redemption Price.

Section 4.2 Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption to the Holders of the Notes of any series to be redeemed shall be given by delivering notice of such redemption, on at least 20 days’, but not more than 60 days’, prior notice delivered to the registered address of each Holder of the Notes of such series, with a copy of such notice delivered to the Trustee and the Paying Agent. The notice of redemption of the Notes of any series to be redeemed at the option of the Issuer shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request, delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

 

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Notice of any redemption of any series of Notes in connection with a corporate transaction (including an equity offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or a change of control) may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given prior to the completion thereof and any such redemption or notice may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of the related transaction. If such redemption or purchase is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded or the Redemption Date delayed in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date. In addition, the Issuer may provide in such notice that payment of the Redemption Price and performance of its obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.

Section 4.3 Deposit of Redemption Price .

On or prior to the Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price in respect of all the Notes to be redeemed on that Redemption Date. If less than all of the Notes (or any series thereof) are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and subject to the rules of the applicable depositary.

Section 4.4 Tax Redemption .

(a) If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or in any Taxing Jurisdiction affecting taxation or any change in official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective or, in the case of a change in official position, is announced on or after the date of this Supplemental Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, is or will be obligated to pay any Additional Tax Amounts with respect to the Notes (or any series thereof), and if the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, determines that such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, after taking reasonable measures available to it, then at the option of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, the Notes (or any series thereof) may be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time, upon the giving not less than 20 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders of such Notes, at the Redemption Price; provided, however, that (1) no notice of such tax redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, would, but for such redemption, be obligated to pay such Additional Tax Amounts were a payment on such Notes then due, and (2) at the time such notice is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Tax Amounts remains in effect. The notice of tax redemption shall be given by the Issuer or, at the Issuer’s request delivered to the Trustee at least five Business Days before the date such notice is to be given to Holders (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer.

 

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(b) Not less than five Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee) before any notice of tax redemption pursuant to Section 4.4(a) is given to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes (or any series thereof), the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, shall deliver to the Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, to so redeem have occurred or have been satisfied and (ii) an opinion of independent legal counsel of recognized standing to that effect based on the statement of facts. Such notice, once given to the Trustee, shall be irrevocable.

ARTICLE 5

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 5.1 Satisfaction and Discharge .

(a) With respect to the Notes, Section 9.01 of the Base Indenture is not applicable.

(b) The Issuer and the Guarantor may satisfy and discharge their obligations under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to any series of Notes while such Notes remain outstanding, if (a) all Outstanding Notes of such series have become due and payable at their scheduled Maturity, or (b) all Outstanding Notes of such series have been called for redemption, and in either case, the Issuer has deposited with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay and discharge all Outstanding Notes of such series on the date of their scheduled Maturity or the scheduled Redemption Date.

ARTICLE 6

APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT

Section 6.1 Paying Agent .

The Issuer hereby appoints The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, to act as Paying Agent. In connection with its appointment and acting hereunder, the Paying Agent is entitled to all the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits and indemnities provided to the Trustee under the Indenture.

 

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ARTICLE 7

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 7.1 Scope of Supplemental Indenture .

(a) The changes, modifications and supplements to the Base Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall only be applicable with respect to, and govern the terms of, the Notes and shall not apply to any other Securities that may be issued by the Issuer under the Base Indenture. Other than such, changes, modifications and supplements, the Base Indenture is incorporated by reference herein and affirmed in all respects.

Section 7.2 Provisions of Supplemental Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders of Notes .

Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or in the Notes or the Guarantees, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their successors and the Holders of the Notes, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture or under any covenant or provision herein contained, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Notes.

Section 7.3 Successors and Assigns of Issuer and Guarantor Bound by Supplemental Indenture .

All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 7.4 Notices and Demands on Issuer, Trustee, Paying Agent and Holders of Notes .

Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Supplemental Indenture is required or permitted to be given or delivered to or by the Trustee, the Paying Agent or by the Holders of Notes to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be in writing in the English language and may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until another address is filed with the Trustee and the Paying Agent) as follows:

If to the Issuer:

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V.

Piet Heinkade 107, 1019 GM

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Attention: Managing Director

Fax: +972-3-9062501

 

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with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark

Fax: +1 (215) 293-6499

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

If to the Guarantor:

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

5 Basel Street, P.O. Box 3190

Petach Tikva 4951033 Israel

Attention: Michael McClellan and Eran Ezra

Facsimile: +972-3-914-8678

with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

1090 Horsham Road

North Wales, PA 19454

Attention: David M. Stark

Fax: +1 (215) 591-8811

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attention: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

Ross M. Leff

Fax: +1 (212) 446-4900

Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Issuer, the Guarantor or any Holder of Notes to or upon the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail as follows:

If to the Trustee:

The Bank of New York Mellon

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

 

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New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Global Finance Unit

Fax: (212) 815-2830

If to the Paying Agent:

The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch

One Canada Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 5AL

United Kingdom

Attn: Manager Corporate Trust Services

Fax: +44 207 964 2536

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to the Trustee.

The Trustee also agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to the Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods.

The Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee by written notice to each other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication to the Issuer or the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered or if delivered electronically, in pdf format or if telecopied; and seven 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). Any notice or communication to the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall be deemed delivered upon receipt.

Where this Supplemental Indenture provides for notice to Holders, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing, in the English language, and delivered to each Holder entitled thereto, at his last address as it appears in the register of the Notes of the applicable series. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, personal delivery, telecopy or electronic delivery, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed or delivered, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Supplemental 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 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.

In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Issuer, the Guarantor or Holders of Notes when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Supplemental Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

 

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the Base Indenture or in the Notes, where this Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption or purchase) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to Euroclear or Clearstream electronically or by other method in accordance with the procedures thereof.

Section 7.5 Officer s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein .

Upon any application or demand by the Issuer or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate or Guarantor’s Officer’s Certificate, as the case may be, stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Supplemental 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 have been complied with.

Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Supplemental Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Supplemental Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (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 such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such Officer knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the possession of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by an Officer of Officers of the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the 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, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Issuer or the Guarantor or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Issuer, 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.

 

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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 7.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays .

If the date of maturity of interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) on or principal of the Notes of any series or the date fixed for redemption or repayment of any such Note shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) or principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) shall accrue for the period after such date.

Section 7.7 Conflict of any Provisions of Supplemental Indenture with Trust Indenture Act of 1939 .

If and to the extent that any provision of this Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Supplemental Indenture by operation of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the TIA (an “incorporated provision”), such incorporated provision shall control.

Section 7.8 New York Law to Govern .

This Supplemental Indenture, each 2022 Note and each 2025 Note shall be deemed to be a contract under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of such State.

Section 7.9 Counterparts .

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

Section 7.10 Effect of Headings .

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

Section 7.11 Submission to Jurisdiction .

Each of the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Supplemental Indenture may be instituted in any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of

 

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such court in any law suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor, as long as any of the Notes remain Outstanding or the parties hereto have any obligation under this Supplemental Indenture, shall have an authorized agent (the “ Authorized Agent ”) in the United States upon whom process may be served in any such legal action or proceeding. Service of process upon such agent and written notice of such service mailed or delivered to it shall to the extent permitted by law be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon it in any such legal action or proceeding. The Issuer and the Guarantor each hereby appoints Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (1090 Horsham Road, North Wales, PA 19454) as its agent for such purposes, and covenants and agrees that service of process in any legal action or proceeding may be made upon it at such office of such agent. The Issuer will provide written notice to the Trustee of any change in the Authorized Agent. In the event that any Authorized Agent resigns, is removed or becomes incapable of so acting, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Authorized Agent and shall notify the Trustee in writing of such change in Authorized Agent.

Section 7.12 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities .

The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer and the Guarantor, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of Notes or the proceeds thereof.

ARTICLE 8

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 8.1 Without Consent of Holders .

(a) Sections 7.01(d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (k), (l), (m), (n), (q) and (r) of the Base Indenture are not applicable with respect to the Notes.

(b) In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 7.01 of the Base Indenture as amended by Section 7.1(a) above, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes of any series without the consent of any Holder for one or more of the following purposes:

(1) to cure any ambiguity, supply any omission or correct or supplement any provision contained herein, in the Base Indenture, in any supplemental indenture or in the Notes of any series which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture; provided that such amendment, modification or supplement shall not, in the good faith opinion of the Issuer’s managing and supervisory directors, adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes in any material respect; provided , further , that any amendment made solely to conform the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture to the description of the Notes contained in the Issuer’s Offering Memorandum dated March 7, 2018 will not be deemed to adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;

 

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(2) to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Issuer or the Guarantor hereunder;

(3) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the TIA;

(4) to authorize the issuance of Add On Notes of either series of Notes pursuant to Section 2.9; and

(5) to add or modify any other provision of the Indenture which the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable and which will not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes of such series.

Section 8.2 With Consent of Each Affected Holder .

In addition to the provisions set forth in Section 7.02 of the Base Indenture, the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee may not amend, modify or supplement the Base Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes of any series for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of each Holder so affected:

(a) to modify the Guarantor’s obligation to own, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding Capital Stock or membership interests, as applicable, of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.5 of this Supplemental Indenture;

(b) to modify any provision of Article 4 relating to redemption of such series of Notes;

(c) to modify the Guarantee in a manner that would adversely affect the interests of the Holders of such series of Notes; and

(d) to reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then Outstanding necessary (i) to modify, amend or supplement the Base Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or (ii) to waive any past default or Event of Default pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Base Indenture.

 

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

 

Very truly yours,
TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V., AS ISSUER
By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

Name:   Richard Daniell
Title:   Attorney-in -Fact
By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

Name:   David Vrhovec
Title:   Attorney-in -Fact

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES         LIMITED, AS GUARANTOR
By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

Name:   Eran Ezra
Title:   Senior Vice President, Head of Global Treasury, Risk Management and Insurance

 

By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

Name:   Michael McClellan
Title:   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

[ Signature page to Supplemental Indenture ]


THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, LONDON BRANCH, AS PAYING AGENT
By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

Name:   Wanda Camacho
Title:   Vice President

[ Signature page to Supplemental Indenture ]


EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE OF GLOBAL NOTE]

[Insert Global Notes Legend, Restricted Notes Legend, Definitive Notes Legend and ERISA Legend, as applicable]

 

No.[•]   

€[•] [as revised by the Schedule of Increases or

Decreases in the Global Note attached hereto] 1

ISIN No. [•]

GLOBAL NOTE

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.

[•]% Senior Notes due 20[•]

Payment of Principal, Interest and Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in

each case, if any, Unconditionally

Guaranteed By

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

This Global Note is in respect of an issue of [•]% Senior Notes due 20[•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ), incorporated under Dutch law (the “ Issuer ”, which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), and issued pursuant to a base indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Issuer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”). Unless the context otherwise requires, the capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings specified in the Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture.

The Issuer, for value received, hereby promises to pay to The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, or its registered assigns, the principal amount of [•] Euros (€[•]) on [•], and to pay interest on such principal amount in Euros at the rate of [•]% per annum, computed on a basis of a 360 day year consisting of twelve 30 day months, from the date hereof until payment of such principal amount has been made or duly provided for, such interest to be paid semi-annually in arrears on [•] and [•] of each year, commencing [•], 2018. The

 

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Insert in Global Notes only.

 

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interest so payable on [•] and [•] (each an “ Interest Payment Date ”) will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Supplemental Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the immediately preceding [•] and [•], respectively (whether or not a Business Day).

The Issuer shall also pay all Additional Interest, if any, on the applicable Interest Payment Date in the same manner as interest is paid on the Notes and in the amounts set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

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

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly executed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.

By:  

 

Name :  
Title :  
By:  

 

Name :  
Title :  

 

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Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the [•]% Senior Notes due 20[•]

described in the within-named Indenture.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

as Trustee

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

 

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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the “Guarantor”) hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Holder of this Note (the “Guarantee”) the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), on this Note, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at Maturity or upon redemption or upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of this Note and of the Indenture. The Guarantor agrees that in the case of default by the Issuer in the payment of any such principal or interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any), the Guarantor shall duly and punctually pay the same. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of any extension of the time for payment of this Note, any modification of this Note, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of this Note or the Indenture, any failure to enforce the same or any waiver, modification, consent or indulgence granted to the Issuer with respect thereto by the Holder of this Note or the Trustee, or any other circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. The Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a demand or proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with respect to this Note or the indebtedness evidenced hereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged as to this Note except by payment in full of the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note.

The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees or the Indenture; provided, however, that the Guarantor hereby waives any and all rights to which it may be entitled, by operation of law or otherwise, upon making any payment hereunder (i) to be subrogated to the rights of a Holder against the Issuer with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated by the Issuer in respect thereof or (ii) to receive any payment in the nature of contribution or for any other reason, from any other obligor with respect to such payment, in each case, until the principal of and interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on this Note shall have been paid in full.

The Guarantee shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose with respect to this Note until the certificate of authentication on this Note shall have been signed by the Trustee.

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

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has caused the Guarantees to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
By  

 

Name :  
Title :  
By  

 

Name :  
Title :  

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.

[•]% Senior Note due 20[•]

Payment of Principal, Interest and Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in

each case, if any, Unconditionally

Guaranteed By

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

1. Principal and Interest.

Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) , incorporated under Dutch law (the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at [•]% per annum from March 14, 2018 until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on each [•] and [•] of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing [•], 2018. If an Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, interest will be payable on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no interest shall accrue thereon on account of such delay.

Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

A Holder of any Note at the close of business on a Regular Record Date shall be entitled to receive interest on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

2. Payment of Additional Interest.

The Issuer shall pay all Additional Interest, if any, on the applicable Interest Payment Date in the same manner as interest is paid on the Notes and in the amounts set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

For purposes of the foregoing discussion of Additional Interest, the following definitions are applicable:

“Additional Interest” means all additional interest then owing pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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“Registration Rights Agreement” means (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the representatives of the initial purchasers set forth on Schedule I thereto and (ii) with respect to any Add On Notes, one or more registration rights agreements entered into in connection with the issuance of such Add On Notes in a private offering by the Issuer after the date hereof, as such agreements may be amended from time to time.

3. Method of Payment.

Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Date for such interest.

Payments on the Global Notes will be made through the Paying Agent. Payments on the Notes of this series will be made in Euros at the specified office or agency of the Paying Agent; provided that all such payments with respect to Notes represented by one or more Global Notes deposited with and registered in the name of the Common Depositary or its nominee for the accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream, will be by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified in writing by the holder or holders thereof to the Common Depositary.

4. Paying Agent and Registrar.

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, the Trustee under the Supplemental Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuer may change the Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Issuer has appointed The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AL, United Kingdom as Paying Agent.

5. Supplemental Indenture and Indenture.

The Issuer issued this Note under a Base Indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture (the “ Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”). The terms of the Note include those stated in the Indenture, and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (“ TIA ”). This Note is subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of all such terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of this Note and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall control.

6. Optional Redemption.

The Issuer may at its option redeem this Note, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, on any date prior to the Stated Maturity, upon notice as set forth in Section 4.2 of the Supplemental Indenture, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the

 

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Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in the Supplemental Indenture) of the Notes being redeemed discounted, on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at the applicable Reinvestment Rate, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date (as defined in the Supplemental Indenture); provided that if the Redemption Date is on or after [•] (three months prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes), the Redemption Price for such Notes will be equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any (including Additional Interest, if any), to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

On and after the Redemption Date, interest (including Additional Interest, if applicable) shall cease to accrue on Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption, unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price.

Notice of redemption will be given by the Issuer to the Holders as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

7. Tax Redemption.

If, as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of any Taxing Jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or in any Taxing Jurisdiction affecting taxation or any change in official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment becomes effective or, in the case of a change in official position, is announced on or after the issuance of the Notes, the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, is or will be obligated to pay any Additional Tax Amount with respect to the Notes (or any series thereof), and if the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, determines that such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, after taking reasonable measures available to it, then at the option of the Issuer or the Guarantor (or any of their respective successors), as the case may be, the Notes (or any series thereof) may be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time, upon the giving not less than 20 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders of such Notes, at the Redemption Price; provided, however, that (1) no notice of such tax redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer or the Guarantor (or their respective successors), as the case may be, would, but for such redemption, be obligated to pay such Additional Tax Amounts were a payment on such Notes then due, and (2) at the time such notice is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Tax Amounts remains in effect.

8. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.

The Notes are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of €100,000 principal amount and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess of €100,000. A Holder may register the transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Issuer or the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and the Issuer may require a Holder to pay any taxes or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes.

 

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The Issuer shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Note for a period of 15 days next preceding the first delivery of notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed, (b) any Notes selected, called or being called for redemption except, in the case of any Note where notice has been given that such Note is to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not so to be redeemed or (c) any Notes between a record date and the next succeeding payment date.

In the event of redemption of the Notes in part only, in the case of a Global Note, the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes may be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Depositary or, if necessary, a new Note or Notes for the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof.

9. Holders to be Treated as Owners.

The registered Holder of this Note shall be treated as its owner for all purposes.

10. Unclaimed Money.

Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Issuer and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Issuer by the Trustee or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of such Note shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Issuer for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

11. Satisfaction and Discharge.

The Issuer and the Guarantor may satisfy and discharge their obligations under the Indenture while the Notes remain outstanding, if (a) all Outstanding Notes have become due and payable at their scheduled Maturity, or (b) all Outstanding Notes have been called for redemption, and in either case, the Issuer has deposited with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay and discharge all Outstanding Notes on the date of their scheduled Maturity or the scheduled Redemption Date.

12. Supplement; Waiver.

Without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Notes, the Indenture and the Notes may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee as provided in the Indenture. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer

 

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and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (or such lesser amount as shall have acted at a meeting pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note or such other Note.

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

13. Defaults and Remedies.

The Indenture provides that an Event of Default with respect to the Notes occurs when any of the following occurs:

(a) the Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal and premium, if any, of any of the Notes when it becomes due and payable at Maturity or upon redemption;

(b) the Issuer defaults in the payment of interest (including Additional Tax Amounts and Additional Interest, in each case, if any) on any of the Notes when it becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days;

(c) the Guarantor fails to perform its obligations under the Guarantee;

(d) except as otherwise permitted by the Indenture, the Guarantee is held in any final, non-appealable judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or shall cease for any reason to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor, or any person acting on behalf of the Guarantor, shall deny or disaffirm its obligations under the Guarantee;

(e) either the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in the Notes or the Indenture and the default continues for a period of 60 days after written notice of such failure, requiring the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or to the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;

(f) (i) the Issuer or the Guarantor fails to make by the end of the applicable grace period, if any, any payment of principal or interest due in respect of any Indebtedness for borrowed money, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is an amount in excess of $250,000,000; or (ii) there is an acceleration of any Indebtedness for borrowed money in an amount in excess of $250,000,000 because of a default with respect to such Indebtedness, without, in the case of either (i) or (ii) above, such Indebtedness having been discharged or such non-payment or acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series; or

 

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(g) the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Issuer or Guarantor as specified in the Supplemental Indenture.

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

14. Authentication.

This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee (or authenticating agent) executes the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

15. ISIN Numbers and Common Codes.

The Issuer has caused ISIN numbers and Common Codes to be printed on this Note and, therefore, the Trustee shall use ISIN numbers and Common Codes in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. Any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

16. Governing Law.

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

17. Successor Corporation.

In the event a successor corporation legal entity assumes all the obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantor under this Note, pursuant to the terms hereof and of the Indenture, the Issuer or Guarantor, as the case may be, will be released from all such obligations.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:

 

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

 

 

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

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

 

Dated:  

 

     Your Name:  

 

       (Print your name exactly as it appears on the face of this Note)
       Your Signature:  

 

       (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)
       Signature Guarantees * :
        

 

 

*   Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR

REGISTRATION OF TRANSFERS OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED NOTES

This certificate relates to €             principal amount of Notes held in (check applicable space)              book-entry or              definitive form by the undersigned.

The undersigned (check one box below):

 

has requested the Trustee or its agent by written order to deliver in exchange for its beneficial interest in a Global Note held by the Depositary a Note or Notes in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Note (or the portion thereof indicated above) in accordance with the Indenture; or

 

has requested the Trustee or its agent by written order to exchange or register the transfer of a Note or Notes.

In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)       to the Issuer, the Guarantor or any subsidiary thereof; or
(2)       to the Registrar for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer; or
(3)       pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); or
(4)       to a Person that the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“ Rule 144A ”)) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer and to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A; or
(5)       pursuant to offers and sales to non-U.S. persons that occur outside the United States of America within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act (and if the transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, the Notes shall be held immediately thereafter through Euroclear or Clearstream); or
(6)       pursuant to another available exemption from registration under the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee or its agent will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided , however , that if box (6) is checked, the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee or its agent may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

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      Your Signature   
Date: ________________      

 

      Signature of Signature Guarantor

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Issuer as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Date: ________________      

 

      NOTICE: To be executed by an executive officer
      Name:   
      Title:   
   Signature Guarantee*: _____________

 

* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN THE GLOBAL NOTE

The initial outstanding principal amount of this Global Note is €[•]. The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:

 

Date of

Exchange

   Amount of
decrease in
Principal
Amount of this
Global Note
   Amount of
increase in
Principal
Amount of this
Global Note
   Principal
Amount of this
Global Note
following such
decrease or
increase
   Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER

PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

                                             [Date]

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (together with the Base Indenture, and as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as Paying Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

In connection with our proposed sale of U.S.$                 aggregate principal amount of the Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a 144A Global Note :                 , which represent an interest in a 144A Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), and, accordingly, we represent that:

(a) the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States

(b) either (i) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States or (ii) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated off-shore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States;

(c) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of Regulation S, as applicable;

(d) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

(e) we are the beneficial owner of the principal amount of Notes being transferred.

 

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In addition, if the sale is made during a Distribution Compliance Period and the provisions of Rule 904(b)(1) or Rule 904(b)(2) of Regulation S are applicable thereto, we confirm that such sale has been made in accordance with the applicable provisions of Rule 904(b)(1) or Rule 904(b)(2), as the case may be.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this letter have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By:  

 

  Authorized Signature

 

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EXHIBIT C

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER TO QIB

                                                 [Date]

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (the “ Base Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (together with the Base Indenture, and as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as Paying Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

This letter relates to U.S.$                 aggregate principal amount of Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note :                 , which represents an interest in a Regulation S Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned (the “ Transferor ”) to effect the transfer of such Notes in exchange for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note.

In connection with such request, and with respect to such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Rule 144A”), to a transferee that the Transferor reasonably believes is purchasing the Notes for its own account or an account with respect to which the transferee exercises sole investment discretion, and the transferee, as well as any such account, is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]

By: __________________

Authorized Signature

 

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EXHIBIT D

FORM OF CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER

PURSUANT TO RULE 144

The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee

101 Barclay Street, Floor 7E

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust – Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V.

 

Re: [•]% Senior Notes due [•] (the “ Notes ”) of Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V. (the “ Company ”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is hereby made to the Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018, among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018 (together with the Base Indenture, and as may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as Paying Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

In connection with our proposed sale of U.S.$                 aggregate principal amount of the Notes [ in the case of a transfer of an interest in a 144A Global Note :                 , which represent an interest in a 144A Global Note beneficially owned by] the undersigned, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]

By: _________________

Authorized Signature

 

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Exhibit 4.8

Execution Version

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of March 14, 2018 (this “ Agreement ”), is entered into by and among Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Netherlands II B.V., a private company with limited liability ( besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid ) organized under the laws of the Netherlands (the “ Company ”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, a company organized under the laws of Israel (the “ Guarantor ”), and the initial purchasers listed on Schedule I hereto (each an “ Initial Purchaser ” and collectively, the “ Initial Purchasers ”), for which Barclays Bank PLC., BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited, HSBC Bank plc and Merrill Lynch International are acting as representatives (each a “Representative” and collectively, the “Representatives”).

The Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers listed in Schedule I hereto are parties to the Purchase Agreement dated March 7, 2018 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of €700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022 and €900,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.500% Senior Notes due 2025 (collectively, the “ Notes ” and, together with the Guarantee (as defined below), the “ Securities ”).

As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Guarantor have agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.

The Notes will be issued by the Company and guaranteed by the Guarantor on a senior unsecured basis.

In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Business Day ” shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

Closing Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

Company ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include the Company’s successors.


Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

Exchange Dates ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof.

Exchange Offer ” shall mean the exchange offer by the Company and the Guarantor of Exchange Securities for Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration ” shall mean a registration under the Securities Act effected pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration Statement ” shall mean an exchange offer registration statement on Form S-4 (or, if applicable, on another appropriate form) and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Exchange Securities ” shall mean senior unsecured notes issued under the Indenture by the Company and guaranteed by the Guarantor containing terms identical to the Securities (except that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to restrictions on transfer or to any increase in annual interest rate for failure to comply with this Agreement) and to be offered to Holders of the applicable Registrable Securities in exchange for Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer.

FINRA ” shall mean the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

Free Writing Prospectus ” shall mean each free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or used or referred to by the Company in connection with the sale of the Securities or the Exchange Securities.

Guarantee ” shall mean the guarantee of the Notes and guarantee of the Exchange Securities, by the Guarantor under the Indenture.

“Guarantor” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Holder Notice ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Holders ” shall mean the Initial Purchasers, for so long as they own any Registrable Securities, and each of their successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners of Registrable Securities under the Indenture; provided that for purposes of Sections 4 and 5 of this Agreement, the term “Holders” shall include Participating Broker-Dealers.

Indemnified Person ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

Indemnifying Person ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

 

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Indenture ” shall mean the Senior Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture relating to the Securities, dated as of March 14, 2018, by and among the Company, the Guarantor The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, and The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as paying agent, as may be amended and supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

Initial Purchasers ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

Inspector ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xiv) hereof.

Issuer Information ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.

Majority Holders ” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities; provided that whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, any Registrable Securities owned directly or indirectly by the Company or any of its affiliates shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage or amount; and provided , further , that if the Company shall issue any additional Securities under the Indenture prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement, such additional Securities and the Registrable Securities to which this Agreement relates shall be treated together as one class for purposes of determining whether the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities has been obtained.

Participating Broker-Dealers ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

“Paying Agent” shall mean any paying agent appointed under the Indenture.

Person ” shall mean an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.

Prospectus ” shall mean the prospectus included in, or, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, deemed a part of, a Registration Statement, including (i) any preliminary prospectus and (ii) any such prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including a prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other amendments and supplements to such prospectus, and in each case including any document incorporated by reference therein.

Purchase Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

 

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Registrable Securities ” shall mean the Securities; provided that the Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when (i) a Registration Statement with respect to such Securities has become effective under the Securities Act and such Securities have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such Registration Statement, (ii) such Securities become eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act by a Person that is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or the Guarantor, (iii) such Securities are sold under circumstances in which any legend borne by such Securities relating to restrictions on transferability thereof, under the Securities Act or otherwise, is removed by the Company or (iv) such Securities cease to be outstanding.

Registration Expenses ” shall mean any and all expenses incident to the performance of or compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with this Agreement, including without limitation: (i) all SEC, stock exchange or FINRA registration and filing fees, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel for any Underwriters or Holders in connection with blue sky qualification of any Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, which firm shall be selected by the Underwriters or the Majority Holders), (iii) the costs incident to the preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, any underwriting agreements, securities sales agreements or other similar agreements and any other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all rating agency fees, (v) all fees and disbursements relating to the qualification of the Indenture under applicable securities laws, (vi) the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Trustee, any Paying Agent and their counsel, (vii) the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and the Guarantor and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Holders (which counsel shall be selected by the Majority Holders and which counsel may also be counsel for the Initial Purchasers) and (viii) the fees and disbursements of the independent public accountants of the Company and the Guarantor, including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, but excluding any or all fees and expenses of advisors or counsel to the Underwriters (other than fees and expenses set forth in clause (ii) above) or the Holders and underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder.

Registration Statement ” shall mean any registration statement of the Company and the Guarantor that covers any of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and all amendments and supplements to any such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

SEC ” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities ” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

 

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Securities Act ” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf Additional Interest Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.

Shelf Effectiveness Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Shelf Registration ” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof.

Shelf Registration Statement ” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company and the Guarantor that covers all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (but no other securities unless approved by a majority of the Holders whose Registrable Securities are to be covered by such Shelf Registration Statement) on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Shelf Request ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Staff ” shall mean the staff of the SEC.

Target Registration Date ” shall mean the date which is 365 days after the Closing Date.

Trigger Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(d) hereof.

Trust Indenture Act ” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.

Trustee ” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under the Indenture.

Underwriter ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(e) hereof.

Underwritten Offering ” shall mean an offering in which Registrable Securities are sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public.

2. Registration Under the Securities Act.

(a) To the extent not prohibited by any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) cause to be filed with the SEC an Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering an offer to the Holders to exchange all the Registrable Securities for Exchange Securities and (ii) have such Registration Statement remain effective until 180

 

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days after the date the Exchange Offer Registration Statement became effective for use by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers. The Company and the Guarantor shall commence the Exchange Offer promptly after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC and use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer not later than the Target Registration Date (or if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).

The Company and the Guarantor shall commence the Exchange Offer by mailing the related Prospectus, appropriate letters of transmittal and other accompanying documents to each Holder stating, in addition to such other disclosures as are required by applicable law, substantially the following:

(i) that the Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to this Agreement and that all Registrable Securities validly tendered and not properly withdrawn will be accepted for exchange;

(ii) the dates of acceptance for exchange (which shall be a period of at least 20 Business Days (in accordance with the Exchange Act) from the date such notice is mailed) (the “ Exchange Dates ”);

(iii) that any Registrable Security not tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest but will not retain any rights under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein;

(iv) that any Holder electing to have a Registrable Security exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer will be required to (A) surrender such Registrable Security, together with the appropriate letters of transmittal, to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) and in the manner specified in the notice, or (B) effect such exchange otherwise in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for such Registrable Security, in each case prior to the close of business on the last Exchange Date; and

(v) that any Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election, not later than the close of business on the last Exchange Date, by (A) sending to the institution and at the address (located in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York) specified in the notice a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Registrable Securities delivered for exchange, such other information as may be reasonably required to identify the Securities to be withdrawn and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Securities exchanged or (B) effecting such withdrawal in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for the Registrable Securities.

As a condition to participating in the Exchange Offer, a Holder will be required to represent to the Company and the Guarantor prior to the consummation of the Exchange Offer that (i) any Exchange Securities to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary

 

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course of its business, (ii) at the time of the commencement of the Exchange Offer it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, and has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Securities in violation of the Securities Act, (iii) it is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or any Guarantor or, if it is such an “affiliate,” such Holder will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable in connection with any resale of the Exchange Securities and (iv) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Registrable Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, then such Holder will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable, in connection with any resale of the Exchange Securities. Each Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that any broker-dealer and any such Holder using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the securities to be acquired in the Exchange Offer (1) could not under SEC policy as in effect on the date of this Agreement rely on the position of the SEC enunciated in the Morgan Stanley and Co., Inc. no-action letter (available June 5, 1991) and the Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation no-action letter (available May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the SEC’s letter to Shearman  & Sterling dated July 2, 1993, and similar no-action letters, and (2) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction and that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 or 508, as applicable, of Regulation S-K if the resales are of Exchange Securities obtained by such Holder in exchange for Registrable Securities acquired by such Holder directly from the Company.

As soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date, the Company and the Guarantor shall:

(i) accept for exchange Registrable Securities or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer; and

(ii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities or portions thereof so accepted for exchange by the Company and issue, and cause the Trustee to promptly authenticate and deliver to each Holder, Exchange Securities equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the Registrable Securities validly tendered by such Holder and accepted for exchange pursuant to the Exchange Offer.

The Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer as provided above and shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and other applicable laws and regulations in connection with the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other than that the Exchange Offer does not violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff and customary conditions relating to the delivery of Securities or other actions customarily taken by Holders participating in the Exchange Offer or the execution and delivery of customary documentation relating to the Exchange Offer.

 

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(b) In the event that (i) the Company and the Guarantor determine that the Exchange Offer Registration provided for in Section 2(a) above is not available or the Exchange Offer may not be completed as soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date because it would violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, (ii) a Holder participating in the Exchange Offer does not receive Exchange Securities on the date of the exchange that may be sold without restriction under state and federal securities laws (other than due solely to the status of such Holder as an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act) and notifies (a “ Holder Notice ”) the Company within 30 days after such Holder first becomes aware of such restrictions, (iii) the Exchange Offer is not for any other reason completed by the Target Registration Date or (iv) upon receipt of a written request (a “ Shelf Request ”) from any Initial Purchaser representing that it holds Registrable Securities that are or were ineligible to be exchanged in the Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause to be filed, as soon as practicable after such determination, date, Holder Notice or Shelf Request, as the case may be, a Shelf Registration Statement providing for the sale of all the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and to have such Shelf Registration Statement become effective.

In the event that the Company and the Guarantor are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iv) of the preceding sentence, the Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to file and have become effective both an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) above with respect to all Registrable Securities and a Shelf Registration Statement (which may be a combined Registration Statement with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) with respect to offers and sales of Registrable Securities held by the Initial Purchasers after completion of the Exchange Offer.

The Company and the Guarantor agree to use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective for a period of one year from the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement or such shorter period that will terminate when the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement cease to be Registrable Securities (the “ Shelf Effectiveness Period ”). The Company and the Guarantor further agree to supplement or amend the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration Statement or by the Securities Act or by any other rules and regulations thereunder or if reasonably requested by a Holder of Registrable Securities with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to use their reasonable best efforts to cause any such amendment to become effective, if required, and such Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to become usable as soon as thereafter practicable. The Company and the Guarantor agree to furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities registered on such Shelf Registration Statement copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC.

 

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(c) The Company and the Guarantor shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) hereof. Each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.

(d) An Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC. A Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective upon filing with the SEC as provided by Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

In the event that either the Exchange Offer is not consummated by the Target Registration Date or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required pursuant to Section 2(b)(i) or 2(b)(iii) hereof, is not effective by the Target Registration Date, the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Target Registration Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Exchange Offer is completed or the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, becomes effective, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum. In the event that the Company receives a Holder Notice or Shelf Request pursuant to Section 2(b)(ii) or 2(b)(iv), and the Shelf Registration Statement required to be filed thereby has not become effective by the later of the Target Registration Date or (y) 90 days after delivery of such Holder Notice or Shelf Request (such later date, the “ Shelf Additional Interest Date ”), then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period payable commencing from one day after the Shelf Additional Interest Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum.

If the Shelf Registration Statement, if required hereby, is effective and thereafter either ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable, in each case whether or not permitted by this Agreement, at any time during the Shelf Effectiveness Period, and such failure to remain effective or usable exists for more than 60 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period (the 60th such date, the “ Trigger Date ”), then the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.250% per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the Trigger Date and (ii) an additional 0.250% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, up to a maximum total increase of 0.500% per annum, and ending on such date that the Shelf Registration Statement is again effective or the Prospectus again becomes usable. Such additional interest shall accrue as liquidated damages on the principal amount of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be. Any additional interest required to be paid by the Company pursuant to Section 2(d) shall be referred to as “Additional Interest.”

 

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(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Additional Interest is the sole and exclusive remedy available to Holders due to a registration default, so long as the Company and the Guarantor are acting in good faith hereunder, including, without limitation, with respect to satisfying their obligations.

3. Registration Procedures.

(a) In connection with their obligations pursuant to Section 2(a) and Section 2(b) hereof, the Company and the Guarantor shall as soon as reasonably practicable possible:

(i) use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form (x) shall be selected by the Company and the Guarantor, (y) shall, in the case of a Shelf Registration, be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and (z) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include all financial statements required by the SEC to be filed therewith; and use their reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof;

(ii) use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act; and keep each Prospectus current during the period described in Section 4(3) of and Rule 174 under the Securities Act that is applicable to transactions by brokers or dealers with respect to the Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities;

(iii) to the extent any Free Writing Prospectus is used, file with the SEC any Free Writing Prospectus that is required to be filed by the Company or the Guarantor with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and to retain any Free Writing Prospectus not required to be filed;

(iv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, use their reasonable best efforts, upon written request, to furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement, to counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to counsel for such Holders and to each Underwriter of an Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, as such Holder, counsel or Underwriter may reasonably request in writing in order to facilitate the sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities thereunder; and the Company and the Guarantor consent to the use of such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law by each of the Holders of Registrable Securities and any such

 

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Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by and in the manner described in such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law;

(v) in the case of an Exchange Offer Registration Statement, use their reasonable best efforts to register and qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, cooperate with the selling Holders and their counsel to register or qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement shall reasonably request in writing by the time the applicable Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective; cooperate with such Holders in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA; and use their reasonable best efforts to do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable each Holder to complete the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder; provided that neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to (1) 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, (2) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (3) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not so subject;

(vi) notify counsel for the Initial Purchasers and, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement and counsel for such Holders promptly and, if requested by any such Holder or counsel, confirm such advice in writing (1) when a Registration Statement has become effective, when any post-effective amendment thereto has been filed and becomes effective, when any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed, (2) of any request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information after the Registration Statement has become effective, (3) of the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, including the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the SEC to the use of a Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, (4) if, between the applicable effective date of a Shelf Registration Statement and the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities covered thereby, the Company or any Guarantor receives any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose, (5) of the happening of any event during the period a Registration Statement is effective that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such

 

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Registration Statement or Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) and (6) of any determination by the Company or any Guarantor that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus would be required;

(vii) use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, the resolution of any objection of the SEC pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2), including by filing an amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement on the proper form, as promptly as practicable and provide prompt notice to each Holder of the withdrawal of any such order or such resolution;

(viii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Holder of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto (without any documents incorporated therein by reference or exhibits thereto, unless requested in writing);

(ix) in the case of a Shelf Registration, cooperate with the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends and enable such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and registered in such names (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) as such Holders may reasonably request at least three Business Days prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;

(x) in the case of a Shelf Registration, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(a)(vi)(5) hereof, use their reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a supplement or post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available) to purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit 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 the Company and the Guarantor shall notify the Holders of Registrable Securities to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, and such Holders hereby agree to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, until the Company and the Guarantor have amended or supplemented the Prospectus or the Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to correct such misstatement or omission;

 

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(xi) a reasonable time prior to the filing of any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment to a Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus after initial filing of a Registration Statement and does not name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), provide copies of such document to the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, to the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement and their counsel) and make such of the representatives of the Company and the Guarantor as shall be reasonably requested by the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities included on such Shelf Registration Statement or their counsel) available for discussion of such document; and the Company and the Guarantor shall not, at any time after initial filing of a Registration Statement, use or file any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment of or supplement to a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, (other than any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus and does not name the Holders of Registrable Securities in their capacity as such), of which the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities and their counsel) shall not have previously been advised and furnished a copy or to which the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (if the Initial Purchasers hold any Registrable Securities) (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Holders of Registrable Securities or their counsel) shall reasonably object in writing within five Business Days after receipt thereof;

(xii) use reasonable best efforts to obtain a CUSIP number for all Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be, not later than the initial effective date of a Registration Statement;

(xiii) use reasonable best efforts to cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the registration of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be; cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for the Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee and any Paying Agent to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;

 

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(xiv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, make available for inspection by a representative of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration (an “ Inspector ”), any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, any attorneys and one firm of accountants designated by a majority of the Holders of Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration and any attorneys (but no more than one counsel acting for all such Holders) and accountants designated by such Underwriter, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, all pertinent financial and other records, documents and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, and cause the respective officers, directors and employees of the Company and the Guarantor to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant to conduct reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement; provided that the foregoing investigation and information gathering shall be coordinated on behalf of such parties by one counsel designated by and on behalf of such parties; and provided further that if any such information is identified by the Company or any Guarantor as being confidential or proprietary, each Person receiving such information shall take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information to the extent such action is otherwise not inconsistent with, an impairment of or in derogation of the rights and interests of any Inspector, Holder or Underwriter;

(xv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, use their reasonable best efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on any securities exchange or any automated quotation system on which similar securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor are then listed if requested by the Majority Holders, to the extent such Registrable Securities satisfy applicable listing requirements;

(xvi) if reasonably requested by any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, promptly include in a Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information with respect to such Holder as such Holder reasonably requests to be included therein and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company has received notification of the matters to be so included in such filing; and

(xvii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, enter into such customary agreements and take all such other actions in connection therewith (including those reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement) in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities including, but not limited to, in an Underwritten Offering and in such connection, (1) to the extent possible, make such representations and warranties to the Holders and any Underwriters of such Registrable Securities with respect to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and the Registration Statement, Prospectus any Free Writing Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference, if any, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings and

 

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confirm the same if and when required by the applicable underwriting agreement, (2) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and the Guarantor (which counsel and opinions, in form, scope and substance, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold and such Underwriters and their respective counsel) addressed to each selling Holder and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings, (3) obtain “comfort” letters from the independent certified public accountants of the Company and the Guarantor (and, if necessary, any other certified public accountant of any subsidiary of the Company or any Guarantor, or of any business acquired by the Company or any Guarantor for which financial statements and financial data are or are required to be included in the Registration Statement) addressed to each selling Holder (to the extent permitted by applicable professional standards) and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings, including but not limited to financial information contained in any preliminary prospectus, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, and (4) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold or the Underwriters, and which are customarily delivered in underwritten offerings, to evidence the continued validity of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor made pursuant to clause (1) above and to evidence compliance with any customary conditions contained in an underwriting agreement; it being agreed that the representations and warranties, opinions of counsel and comfort letters delivered in connection with the initial offering of the Securities are customary.

(b) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require each Holder of Registrable Securities to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Holder and the proposed disposition by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company and the Guarantor may from time to time reasonably request in writing; provided that if such Holder fails to provide the requested information within 15 Business Days, the Company may exclude such Holder’s Registrable Securities from such Shelf Registration Statement until such time as the information is provided.

(c) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder of Registrable Securities covered in such Shelf Registration Statement agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company and the Guarantor of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(a)(vi)(3), 3(a)(vi)(5) or 3(a)(vi)(6)hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(a)(x) hereof and, if so directed by the Company and the Guarantor, such Holder will deliver to the Company and the Guarantor all copies in its possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that is current at the time of receipt of such notice.

 

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(d) If the Company and the Guarantor shall give any notice to suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantor shall extend the period during which such Registration Statement shall be maintained effective pursuant to this Agreement by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Holders of such Registrable Securities shall have received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus necessary to resume such dispositions. The Company and the Guarantor may give any such notice only twice during any 365-day period, any such suspensions shall not exceed 60 days for each suspension and there shall not be more than two suspensions in effect during any 365-day period.

(e) The Holders of Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement who desire to do so may sell such Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering. In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment bank or investment banks and manager or managers (each an “ Underwriter ”) that will administer the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities included in such offering and reasonably acceptable to the Company. However, each Holder agrees that, neither such Holder nor any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to any Registration Statement on such Holder’s behalf, will make any offer relating to the Registrable Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act) or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 of the Securities Act, unless it has obtained the prior written consent of the Company. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, no Underwritten Offering hereunder may be conducted without the Company’s written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided that any request for an Underwritten Offering must be made by written request of Holders of at least 20% of the principal amount of the then outstanding Registrable Securities; provided further, that the Company shall not be required to complete more than one Underwritten Offering pursuant to the terms hereof

4. Participation of Broker-Dealers in Exchange Offer.

(a) The Company has been advised that the Staff has taken the position that any broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in the Exchange Offer in exchange for Securities that were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities (a “ Participating Broker-Dealer ”) may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

The Company and the Guarantor have been advised that it is the Staff’s position that if the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution containing a statement to the above effect and the means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities, without naming the

 

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Participating Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Securities owned by them, such Prospectus may be delivered by Participating Broker-Dealers (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available to purchasers) to satisfy their prospectus delivery obligation under the Securities Act in connection with resales of Exchange Securities for their own accounts, so long as the Prospectus otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.

(b) In light of the above, and notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantor agree to use their reasonable best efforts to amend or supplement the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 180 days after the date the Exchange Offer Registration Statement becomes effective (as such period may be extended pursuant to Section 3(d) of this Agreement) and (ii) the date on which each Participating Broker-Dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities, in each case to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales. The Company and the Guarantor further consent to the delivery of such Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, agree to make available) by Participating Broker-Dealers during such period in connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.

(c) The Initial Purchasers shall have no liability to the Company, any Guarantor or any Holder with respect to any such request that they may make pursuant to Section 4(b) above.

5. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Initial Purchaser and each Holder, their respective affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and each Person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser or any Holder 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, that arise out of, or are based upon, (1) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement or 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, or (2) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or any supplement thereto, any Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” (“ Issuer Information ”) filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or 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, in each case 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 Initial Purchaser or information relating to any Holder furnished to the Company in writing, or any selling

 

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Holder, respectively, expressly for use therein. In connection with any Underwritten Offering permitted by Section 3, the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, will also indemnify the Underwriters, if any, their respective affiliates and each Person who controls such Persons (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the Holders, if requested in connection with any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Information.

(b) Each Holder agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor, the Initial Purchasers and the other selling Holders, the directors of the Company and the Guarantor, each officer of the Company and the Guarantor who signed the Registration Statement and each Person, if any, who controls the Company, the Guarantor, any Initial Purchaser and any other selling Holder 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 (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) 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 Holder furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus.

(c) 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 paragraph (a) or (b) above 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 paragraph (a) or (b). 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 5 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the 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)

 

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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 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 (x) for any Initial Purchaser or its respective affiliates, directors and officers and any control Persons of such Initial Purchaser shall be designated in writing such Initial Purchasers, (y) for any Holder, its directors and officers and any control Persons of such Holder shall be designated in writing by the Majority Holders and (z) in all other cases 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. 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 (A) 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 (B) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

(d) 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 Guarantor from the offering of the Securities and the Exchange Securities, on the one hand, and by the Holders from receiving Securities or Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act, on the other hand, 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 Guarantor on the one hand and the Holders 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 fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Holders 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 Guarantor or by the Holders and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

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(e) The Company, the Guarantor and the Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders 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. 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 5, in no event shall a Holder be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities or Exchange Securities sold by such Holder exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder 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 Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5 are several and not joint.

(f) The remedies provided for in this Section 5 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.

(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers or any Holder or any Person controlling any Initial Purchaser or any Holder, or by or on behalf of the Company or the Guarantor or the officers or directors of or any Person controlling the Company or the Guarantor, (iii) acceptance of any of the Exchange Securities and (iv) any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement.

6. General.

(a) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company and the Guarantor represent, warrant and agree that (i) the rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of any other outstanding securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any Guarantor under any other agreement and (ii) neither the Company nor any Guarantor has entered into, or on or after the date of this Agreement will enter into, any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.

(b) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company and the Guarantor have obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent; provided that no

 

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amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent to any departure from the provisions of Section 5 hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registrable Securities unless consented to in writing by such Holder. Any amendments, modifications, supplements, waivers or consents pursuant to this Section 7(b) shall be by a writing executed by each of the parties hereto.

(c) Notices. Except as otherwise specified herein, all notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail, telex, telecopier or any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery (i) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c), which address initially is, with respect to the Initial Purchasers, the address set forth in the Purchase Agreement; (ii) if to the Company and the Guarantor, initially at the Company’s address set forth in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c); and (iii) if to such other persons, at their respective addresses as provided in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7(c). All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and on the next Business Day if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery. Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee, at the address specified in the Indenture.

(d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof. The Initial Purchasers (in their capacity as Initial Purchasers) shall have no liability or obligation to the Company or the Guarantor with respect to any failure by a Holder to comply with, or any breach by any Holder of, any of the obligations of such Holder under this Agreement.

(e) Third-Party Beneficiaries. Each Holder shall be a third-party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights or the rights of other Holders hereunder.

 

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(f) Bail-in Powers. Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement or any other agreement, arrangement, or understanding between the Initial Purchasers and the Company or the Guarantor, the Company and the Guarantor acknowledge, accept, and agree to be bound by:

(i) the effect of the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority in relation to any BRRD Liability of the Initial Purchasers to the Company under this Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof, (i) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon; (ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability into shares, other securities or other obligations of the Initial Purchasers or another person (and the issue to or conferral on the Company of such shares, securities or obligations); (iii) the cancellation of the BRRD Liability; and (iv) the amendment or alteration of any interest, if applicable, thereon, the maturity or the dates on which any payments are due, including by suspending payment for a temporary period; and

(ii) the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the Relevant Resolution Authority, to give effect to the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority.

(iii) As used in this paragraph (f), (i) “ Bail-in Legislation ” means in relation to a member state of the European Economic Area which has implemented, or which at any time implements, the BRRD, the relevant implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement as described in the EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule from time to time; (ii) “ Bail-in Powers ” means any Write-down and Conversion Powers as defined in the EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule, in relation to the relevant Bail-in Legislation; (iii) “ BRRD ” means Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms; (iv) “ BRRD Liability ” means a liability in respect of which the relevant Write-down and Conversion Powers in the applicable Bail-in Legislation may be exercised; (v) “ EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule ” means the document described as such, then in effect, and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time at http://www.lma.eu.com/; and (vi) “ Relevant Resolution Authority ” means the resolution authority with the ability to exercise any Bail-in Powers in relation to the Initial Purchasers.

(g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed on 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.

(h) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

 

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(i) Waiver of Immunity . To the extent that the Company or the Guarantor has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from jurisdiction of any court or from set-off or any legal process (whether service or notice, attachment in aid or otherwise) with respect to itself or any of its property, each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Agreement.

(j) Jurisdiction. Each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees that any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or the Guarantor brought by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in any State or Federal court in The City of New York, New York, and waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding, and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Guarantor has appointed Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (“Teva USA”) as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) upon whom process may be served in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein which may be instituted in any State or Federal court in The City of New York, New York, by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, and expressly accepts the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as said agent for service of process, and each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action arising out of or based upon this Agreement may be instituted by any Initial Purchaser, the directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates of any Initial Purchaser, or by any person who controls any Initial Purchaser, in any court of competent jurisdiction in Israel. THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTOR AND EACH OF THE INITIAL PURCHASERS 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 AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(k) Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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(l) Entire Agreement; Severability. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all oral statements and prior writings with respect thereto. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable or against public policy, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated. The Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of such invalid, void or unenforceable provisions.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V.
By:  

/s/ Richard Daniell

  Name: Richard Daniell
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact

 

By:  

/s/ David Vrhovec

  Name: David Vrhovec
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact

 

TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL

INDUSTRIES LIMITED

By:  

/s/ Eran Ezra

  Name: Eran Ezra
 

Title: Senior Vice President, Head of

Global Treasury, Risk Management

and Insurance

By:  

/s/ Michael McClellan

  Name: Michael McClellan
 

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief

Financial Officer

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


Confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written:

 

For itself and on behalf of the several Initial

Purchasers listed in Schedule I hereto.

BARCLAYS BANK PLC
By:  

/s/ Sean White

  Name: Sean White
 

Title: Legal UK & Europe

         Authorised to Sign

 

BNP PARIBAS
By:  

/s/ Maya Mehta

  Name: Maya Mehta
  Title: Authorised Signatory

 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Simi Alabi

  Name: Simi Alabi
  Title: Delegated Signatory

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (EUROPE) LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Dhiren Shah

  Name: Dhiren Shah
  Title: Director
By:  

/s/ Richard Johnson

  Name: Richard Johnson
  Title: Director

 

HSBC BANK PLC
By:  

/s/ Mary Guo

  Name: Mary Guo
 

Title: Associate Director,

         Transaction Management

         Group, EMEA Debt Capital

         Markets

 

MERRILL LYNCH INTERNATIONAL
By:  

/s/ Itay Singer

  Name: Itay Singer
  Title: Managing Director

[ Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement ]


Schedule I

Initial Purchasers Party to the Purchase Agreement

Barclays Bank PLC

BNP Paribas

Citigroup Global Markets Limited

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited

HSBC Bank plc

Merrill Lynch International

Mizuho International plc

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

MUFG Securities EMEA plc

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited