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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2018

Registration No. 333-                

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM F-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

America Mobile

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 

 

United Mexican States

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

Not Applicable

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel,

Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo,

11529 Mexico City, Mexico

Telephone: (5255) 2581-4449

(Address and telephone number of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

CT Corporation System

111 Eighth Avenue

New York, New York 10011

Telephone: (212) 894-8940

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Nicolas Grabar

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

One Liberty Plaza

New York, New York 10006

(212) 225-2000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

If only securities being registered on this Form are to be offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box:  ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box:  ☒

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering:  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering:  ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.C. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box:  ☒

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.C. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box:  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

 

     Emerging growth company  

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 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 7(a)(2)(B) under the Securities Act:  ☐

† The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered

  Amount
to be
Registered
 

Proposed

Maximum
Aggregate Price

Per Unit

 

Proposed

Maximum
Aggregate

Offering Price

  Amount of
Registration Fee

Debt securities

  See Note (1)

Warrants

 

 

(1)

The registrant is registering an indeterminate amount of securities for offer and sale from time to time at indeterminate offering prices. In reliance on Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant is deferring payment of all of the registration fee relating to the registration of securities.

 

 

 


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PROSPECTUS

 

 

LOGO

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

DEBT SECURITIES

WARRANTS

 

 

We may from time to time offer debt securities or warrants to purchase debt securities. This prospectus describes some of the general terms that may apply to these securities and the general manner in which they may be offered. When we offer securities, the specific terms of the securities, the offering price and the specific manner in which they may be offered, will be described in supplements to this prospectus.

We may offer and sell these securities to or through one or more underwriters, dealers or agents, or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis. The supplements to this prospectus will provide the specific terms of the plan of distribution. This prospectus may not be used to offer and sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement.

 

 

Investment in the securities involves risks. See “ Risk Factors ” beginning on page 4 of this prospectus and the “Risk Factors” section in any applicable prospectus supplement, for a discussion of the factors you should consider carefully before deciding to purchase our securities.

Neither the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus or any accompanying prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

THIS PROSPECTUS IS SOLELY OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND HAS NOT BEEN REVIEWED OR AUTHORIZED BY THE COMISIÓN NACIONAL BANCARIA Y DE VALORES (THE MEXICAN NATIONAL BANKING AND SECURITIES COMMISSION, OR “CNBV”). THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ANY OFFER OF SECURITIES WILL BE NOTIFIED TO THE CNBV FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND SUCH NOTICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A CERTIFICATION AS TO THE INVESTMENT VALUE OF THE SECURITIES OR OUR SOLVENCY. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN MEXICO, ABSENT AN AVAILABLE EXCEPTION UNDER THE LEY DEL MERCADO DE VALORES (MEXICAN SECURITIES MARKET LAW). IN MAKING AN INVESTMENT DECISION, ALL INVESTORS, INCLUDING ANY MEXICAN CITIZEN WHO MAY ACQUIRE DEBT SECURITIES FROM TIME TO TIME, MUST RELY ON THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF US.

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About This Prospectus

     1  

Forward-Looking Statements

     2  

América Móvil

     3  

Risk Factors

     4  

Use of Proceeds

     6  

Description of Debt Securities

     7  

Description of Warrants

     20  

Form of Debt Securities, Clearing and Settlement

     21  

Taxation

     27  

Plan of Distribution

     32  

Experts

     33  

Validity of Securities

     34  

Enforceability of Civil Liabilities

     35  

Where You Can Find More Information

     36  

Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference

     37  

We are responsible for the information contained in this prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein and therein. We have not authorized any person to provide you any other information, and we take no responsibility for any other information that others may give you. This document may only be used where it is legal to sell these securities. You should not assume that the information contained in this prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference is accurate as of any date other than their respective dates. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since those dates. We are not making an offer of these securities in any state or jurisdiction where the offer is not permitted.

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the SEC using a “shelf” registration process. Under this process, América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. may from time to time offer and sell debt securities or warrants to purchase debt securities in one or more offerings.

As used in this prospectus, “América Móvil,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise specified.

This prospectus only provides a general description of the securities that we may offer. Each time we offer securities, we will prepare a prospectus supplement containing specific information about the particular offering and the terms of those securities. We may also add, update or change other information contained in this prospectus by means of a prospectus supplement or by incorporating by reference information we file with the SEC. The registration statement, which includes this prospectus, that we filed with the SEC also includes exhibits that provide more detail on the matters discussed in this prospectus. Before you invest in any securities offered by this prospectus, you should read this prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement and the related exhibits filed with the SEC, together with the additional information described under the headings “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.”

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although we have based these forward-looking statements on our expectations and projections about future events, it is possible that actual events may differ materially from our expectations. In many cases we include, together with the forward-looking statements themselves, a discussion of factors that may cause actual events to differ from our forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following:

 

   

projections of our commercial, operating or financial performance, our financing, our capital structure or our other financial items or ratios;

 

   

statements of our plans, objectives or goals, including those relating to acquisitions, competition and rates;

 

   

statements concerning regulatory developments;

 

   

statements about our future economic performance or that of Mexico or other countries in which we operate;

 

   

statements about competitive developments in the telecommunications sector;

 

   

other descriptions of factors and trends affecting the telecommunications industry generally and our financial condition in particular; and

 

   

statements of assumptions underlying the foregoing statements.

We use words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “expect,” “intend,” “target,” “estimate,” “project,” “predict,” “forecast,” “guideline,” “should” and other similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements, but they are not the only way we identify such statements.

Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors are discussed under “Risk Factors” in our most recent annual report on 20-F, which is incorporated in this prospectus by reference, any reports on Form 6-K that may be incorporated by reference in this prospectus or a prospectus supplement. They include economic and political conditions and government policies in the countries in which we operate, inflation rates, exchange rates, regulatory developments, technological improvements, customer demand and competition. See “Where You Can Find More Information” for information about how to obtain a copy of these documents. We caution you that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive and that other risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. You should evaluate any statements made by us in light of these important factors.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason.

 

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AMÉRICA MÓVIL

América Móvil provides telecommunications services in 25 countries. We are a leading telecommunications service provider in Latin America. Our largest operations are in Mexico and Brazil, and we also have major wireless, fixed-line or Pay TV operations in 16 other countries in the Americas and seven countries in Central and Eastern Europe. As of June 30, 2018, we had 279 million wireless subscribers and 83.4 million fixed revenue generating units.

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. is a sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable organized under the laws of Mexico with its principal executive offices at Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11529, Mexico City, Mexico. Our telephone number at this location is (5255) 2581-4449.

 

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RISK FACTORS

We have set forth risk factors in our most recent annual report on Form 20-F, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have also set forth below certain additional risk factors that relate specifically to securities we may offer using this prospectus. We may include further risk factors in more recent reports on Form 6-K incorporated by reference in this prospectus or in a prospectus supplement. You should carefully consider all these risk factors in addition to the other information presented or incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

Risks Relating to Debt Securities

There may not be a liquid trading market

If an active market for our debt securities does not develop, the price of our debt securities and the ability of a holder of debt securities to find a ready buyer will be adversely affected. We cannot assure you as to the liquidity of any trading market for our debt securities.

Creditors of our subsidiaries will have priority over the holders of our debt securities in claims to assets of our subsidiaries

Our debt securities will be obligations of América Móvil and not any of our subsidiaries. We conduct substantially all of our business and hold substantially all of our assets through our subsidiaries. Claims of creditors of our subsidiaries, including trade creditors and bank and other lenders, will have priority over the holders of our debt securities in claims to assets of our subsidiaries. Our ability to meet our obligations, including under our debt securities, will depend, in significant part, on our receipt of cash dividends, advances and other payments from our subsidiaries.

Some of our outstanding debt securities that were issued in the Mexican and international markets are guaranteed by our subsidiary Radiomóvil Dipsa, S.A. de C.V. (“Telcel”). Accordingly, the holders of those outstanding debt securities will have priority over the holders of the unguaranteed debt securities offered by this prospectus with respect to claims to the assets of Telcel. In addition, some securities we have issued in the Mexican and international markets provide for a covenant and events of default relating to Telcel (specifically, relating to our continued control of Telcel and to defaults or insolvency events involving Telcel) that are not included in our debt securities offered by this prospectus.

Judgments of Mexican courts enforcing our obligations under the debt securities would be payable only in Mexican pesos

If proceedings were brought in Mexico seeking to enforce in Mexico our obligations in respect of debt securities, we would be required to discharge our obligations in Mexico in Mexican pesos. Under the Mexican Monetary Law ( Ley Monetaria de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ), an obligation denominated in a currency other than Mexican pesos that is payable in Mexico may be satisfied in Mexican pesos at the rate of exchange in effect on the date of payment. This rate is currently determined by Banco de México and published in the Official Gazette of Mexico ( Diario Oficial de la Federación ). As a result, the amount paid by us in Mexican pesos to holders of debt securities may not be readily convertible into the amount of U.S. dollars or other currency that we are obligated to pay under the applicable indenture. In addition, our obligation to indemnify these holders against exchange losses may be unenforceable in Mexico.

Our obligations under the debt securities would be converted in the event of bankruptcy

Under Mexico’s Law on Commercial Reorganization ( Ley de Concursos Mercantiles ), if we were declared bankrupt or in bankruptcy reorganization ( concurso mercantil ), our obligations under our debt securities:

 

   

would be converted into Mexican pesos and then from Mexican pesos into inflation-adjusted units, called Unidades de Inversión ;

 

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would be satisfied at the time claims of all our creditors are satisfied;

 

   

would be subject to the outcome of, and priorities recognized in, the relevant proceedings;

 

   

would cease to accrue interest; and

 

   

would not be adjusted to take into account any depreciation of the Mexican peso against the U.S. dollar or other currency occurring after such declaration.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise disclosed in a prospectus supplement with respect to a particular offering of securities, we intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of the securities for general corporate purposes.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, our debt securities will be issued under a base indenture, dated as of October 1, 2018 (the “base indenture”), and supplemental indentures relating to particular series of debt securities (collectively, the “indenture”). The indenture is an agreement among us, Citibank, N.A., as trustee, registrar and transfer agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as paying agent, and any other applicable party thereto.

Some of our outstanding debt securities that were issued in the Mexican and international markets are guaranteed by Telcel. In addition, some securities we have issued in the Mexican and international markets provide for a covenant and events of default relating to Telcel (specifically, relating to our continued control of Telcel and to defaults or insolvency events involving Telcel) that are not included in our debt securities offered by this prospectus.

This section summarizes the material terms that are common to all series of debt securities issued by América Móvil under the indenture, unless otherwise indicated in this section or in the prospectus supplement relating to a particular series. We will describe the particular terms of each series of debt securities offered in a supplement to this prospectus.

Because this section is a summary, it does not describe every aspect of the debt securities and the indenture. This summary is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to all the provisions of the indenture, including the definition of various terms used in the indenture. For example, we describe the meanings for only the more important terms that have been given special meanings in the indenture. We also include references in parentheses to some sections of the base indenture.

The indenture and the documents relating to each series of debt securities will together contain the full legal text of the matters summarized in this section. We have filed a copy of the base indenture with the SEC as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. We will file a copy of the supplemental indenture relating to each series of debt securities with the SEC. Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of the indenture and supplemental indentures. See “Where You Can Find More Information” for information concerning how to obtain a copy.

In this section, references to “we,” “us” and “our” are to América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. only and not to our subsidiaries or affiliates. References to “holders” mean those who have debt securities registered in their names on the books that we or the trustee maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in debt securities issued in book-entry form through The Depository Trust Company or in debt securities registered in street name. Owners of beneficial interests in debt securities should refer to “Form of Debt Securities, Clearing and Settlement.”

The debt securities will be issued in one or more series. The following discussion of provisions of the debt securities, including, among others, the discussion of provisions described under “—Optional Redemption,” “—Defaults, Remedies and Waiver of Defaults,” “—Modification and Waiver” and “—Defeasance,” applies separately to each individual series of debt securities.

General

Trustee

The trustee has the following two main roles:

 

   

First, the trustee can enforce the rights of holders against us if we default in respect of the debt securities. There are some limitations on the extent to which the trustee acts on behalf of holders, which we describe under “—Defaults, Remedies and Waiver of Defaults.”

 

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Second, the trustee performs administrative duties for us, such as making interest payments and sending notices to holders of debt securities.

Ranking of the Debt Securities

We are a holding company and our principal assets are shares that we hold in our subsidiaries. Our debt securities will not be secured by any of our assets or properties. As a result, by owning the debt securities, holders will be one of our unsecured creditors. The debt securities will not be subordinated to any of our other unsecured debt obligations. In the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation proceeding against us, the debt securities would rank equally in right of payment with all our other unsecured and unsubordinated debt.

Our debt securities will not be guaranteed by any of our subsidiaries. Claims of creditors of our subsidiaries, including trade creditors and bank and other lenders, will have priority over the holders of the debt securities in claims to assets of our subsidiaries. Some of our outstanding debt securities that were issued in the Mexican and international markets are guaranteed by Telcel. Accordingly, the holders of those outstanding debt securities will have priority over the holders of the debt securities with respect to claims to the assets of Telcel. In addition, some securities we have issued in the Mexican and international markets provide for a covenant and events of default relating to Telcel (specifically, relating to our continued control of Telcel and to defaults or insolvency events involving Telcel) that are not included in our debt securities offered by this prospectus.

Stated Maturity and Maturity

The day on which the principal amount of the debt securities is scheduled to become due is called the “stated maturity” of the principal. The principal may become due before the stated maturity by reason of redemption or acceleration after a default. The day on which the principal actually becomes due, whether at the stated maturity or earlier, is called the “maturity” of the principal.

We also use the terms “stated maturity” and “maturity” to refer to the dates when interest payments become due. For example, we may refer to a regular interest payment date when an installment of interest is scheduled to become due as the “stated maturity” of that installment. When we refer to the “stated maturity” or the “maturity” of the debt securities without specifying a particular payment, we mean the stated maturity or maturity, as the case may be, of the principal.

Form and Denominations

The debt securities will be issued only in registered form without coupons and in denominations of U.S.$200,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1,000 in excess thereof, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement. (Section 302)

Except in limited circumstances, the debt securities will be issued in the form of global debt securities. See “Form of Debt Securities, Clearing and Settlement.”

Further Issues

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we reserve the right, from time to time without the consent of holders of the debt securities, to issue additional debt securities on terms and conditions identical to those of the debt securities (except for issue date, issue price and the date from which interest will accrue and, if applicable, the date on which interest will first be paid), which additional debt securities will increase the aggregate principal amount of, and will be consolidated and form a single series with, the debt securities. (Section 203)

 

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Payment Provisions

Payments on the Debt Securities

We will pay interest on the debt securities on the interest payment dates stated in the applicable prospectus supplement and at maturity. Each payment of interest due on an interest payment date or at maturity will include interest accrued from and including the last date to which interest has been paid or made available for payment or, if none has been paid or made available for payment, from the issue date, to but excluding the relevant payment date.

For interest due on a debt security on an interest payment date, we will pay the interest to the holder in whose name the debt security is registered at the close of business on the regular record date relating to the interest payment date. For interest due at maturity but on a day that is not an interest payment date, we will pay the interest to the person or entity entitled to receive the principal of the debt security. For principal due on a debt security at maturity, we will pay the amount to the holder of the debt security against surrender of the debt security at the proper place of payment. (Section 306)

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will compute interest on debt securities bearing interest at a fixed rate on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. (Section 309)

The regular record dates relating to the interest payment dates for any debt security will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Payments on Global Debt Securities . For debt securities issued in global form, we will make payments on the debt securities in accordance with the applicable procedures of the depositary as in effect from time to time. (Section 1002) Under those procedures, we will make payments directly to the depositary, or its nominee, and not to any indirect holders who own beneficial interests in a global debt security. An indirect holder’s right to receive those payments will be governed by the rules and practices of the depositary and its participants.

Payments on Certificated Debt Securities . For debt securities issued in certificated form, we will pay interest that is due on an interest payment date by check mailed on the interest payment date to the holder at the holder’s address shown on the trustee’s records as of the close of business on the regular record date, and we will make all other payments by check to the paying agent described below, against surrender of the debt security. All payments by check may be made in next-day funds, that is, funds that become available on the day after the check is cashed. If we issue debt securities in certificated form, holders of debt securities in certificated form will be able to receive payments of principal and interest on their debt securities at the office of our paying agent maintained in London. (Sections 202 and 306)

Payment When Offices Are Closed

If any payment is due on a debt security on a day that is not a business day, we will make the payment on the day that is the next business day. Payments postponed to the next business day in this situation will be treated under the indenture as if they were made on the original due date. Postponement of this kind will not result in a default under the debt securities or the indenture, and no interest will accrue on the postponed amount from the original due date to the next day that is a business day. (Section 114)

“Business day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is (a) not a day on which banking institutions in New York City, London or Mexico City generally are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close and (b) a day on which banks and financial institutions in Mexico are open for business with the general public. (Section 101)

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maturity. We may add, replace or terminate paying agents from time to time; provided that if any debt securities are issued in certificated form, so long as such debt securities are outstanding, we will maintain a paying agent in London. We may also choose to act as our own paying agent. Initially, we have appointed Citibank, N.A., London Branch, at its corporate trust office in London, as a paying agent. We must notify holders of changes in the paying agents as described under “—Notices.”

Unclaimed Payments

All money paid by us to the trustee or any paying agent that remains unclaimed at the end of two years after the amount is due to a holder will be repaid to us. After that two-year period, the holder may look only to us for payment and not to the trustee, any paying agent or anyone else. (Section 1003)

Payment of Additional Interest

We are required by Mexican law to deduct Mexican withholding taxes from payments of interest to holders of debt securities who are not residents of Mexico for tax purposes as described under “Taxation—Mexican Tax Considerations.”

We will pay to holders of the debt securities all additional interest that may be necessary so that every net payment of interest or principal or premium to the holder will not be less than the amount provided for in the debt securities. By net payment, we mean the amount that we or our paying agent will pay the holder after deducting or withholding an amount for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges imposed or levied with respect to that payment by a Mexican taxing authority.

Our obligation to pay additional interest is, however, subject to several important exceptions. We will not pay additional interest to or on behalf of any holder or beneficial owner, or to the trustee, for or on account of any of the following:

 

   

any taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges imposed solely because at any time there is or was a connection between the holder and Mexico (other than the mere receipt of a payment or the ownership or holding of a debt security);

 

   

any taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges imposed solely because the holder or any other person fails to comply with any certification, identification or other reporting requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with Mexico of the holder or any beneficial owner of a debt security if compliance is required by law, regulation or by an applicable income tax treaty to which Mexico is a party, as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, the tax, assessment or other governmental charge and we have given the holders at least 30 calendar days’ notice prior to the first payment date with respect to which such certification, identification or reporting requirement is required to the effect that holders will be required to provide such information and identification;

 

   

any taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges with respect to a debt security presented for payment more than 15 days after the date on which the payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for and notice thereof given to holders, whichever occurs later, except to the extent that the holders of such debt security would have been entitled to such additional interest on presenting such debt security for payment on any date during such 15-day period;

 

   

any estate, inheritance, gift or other similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed with respect to the debt securities;

 

   

any tax, duty, assessment or other governmental charge payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments on the debt securities;

 

   

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such fiduciary, a member of such a partnership or the beneficial owner of the payment would not have been entitled to the additional interest had the beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the holder of such debt security; and

 

   

any combination of the items in the bullet points above. (Section 1009)

The limitations on our obligations to pay additional interest described in the second bullet point above will not apply if the provision of information, documentation or other evidence described in that bullet point would be materially more onerous, in form, in procedure or in the substance of information disclosed, to a holder or beneficial owner of a debt security, taking into account any relevant differences between U.S. and Mexican law, regulation or administrative practice, than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law (including the United States/Mexico Income Tax Treaty), regulations (including proposed regulations) and administrative practice. (Section 1009(a))

Applicable Mexican laws and regulations (including Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation) currently allow us to withhold at a reduced rate, provided that we comply with certain information reporting requirements. Accordingly, the limitations on our obligations to pay additional interest described in the second bullet point above also will not apply unless (a) the provision of the information, documentation or other evidence described in that bullet point is expressly required by the applicable Mexican laws and regulations (including Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation), (b) we cannot obtain the information, documentation or other evidence necessary to comply with the applicable Mexican laws and regulations on our own through reasonable diligence and (c) we otherwise would meet the requirements for application of the applicable Mexican laws and regulations (including Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation).

In addition, the limitation described in the second bullet point above does not require that any person, including any non-Mexican pension fund, retirement fund or financial institution, register with the Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit ( Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público ) to establish eligibility for an exemption from, or a reduction of, Mexican withholding tax.

We will remit the full amount of any Mexican taxes withheld to the applicable Mexican taxing authorities in accordance with applicable law. We will also provide the trustee with documentation satisfactory to the trustee evidencing the payment of Mexican taxes in respect of which we have paid any additional interest. We will provide copies of such documentation to the holders of the debt securities or the relevant paying agent upon request. (Section 1009(a))

In the event that additional interest actually paid with respect to the debt securities pursuant to the preceding paragraphs is based on rates of deduction or withholding of withholding taxes in excess of the appropriate rate applicable to the holder of such debt securities, and as a result thereof such holder is entitled to make a claim for a refund or credit of such excess from the authority imposing such withholding tax, then such holder shall, by accepting such debt securities, be deemed to have assigned and transferred all right, title and interest to any such claim for a refund or credit of such excess to us. However, by making such assignment, the holder makes no representation or warranty that we will be entitled to receive such claim for a refund or credit and incurs no other obligation with respect thereto. (Section  1009(d))

Any reference in this prospectus, the base indenture, any applicable supplemental indenture or the debt securities to principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount payable in respect of the debt securities by us will be deemed also to refer to any additional interest that may be payable with respect to that amount under the obligations referred to in this subsection. (Section 1009(e))

 

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Optional Redemption

We will not be permitted to redeem the debt securities before their stated maturity, except as set forth below. The debt securities will not be entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund—meaning that we will not deposit money on a regular basis into any separate account to repay the debt securities. In addition, holders will not be entitled to require us to repurchase their debt securities from them before the stated maturity. (Section 1101(a))

Optional Redemption

If so indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will be entitled, at our option, to redeem some or all of the outstanding debt securities from time to time at the redemption price set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement. If the debt securities are redeemable only on or after a specified date or upon the satisfaction of additional conditions, the prospectus supplement will specify the date or describe the conditions. In each case we will also pay holders accrued and unpaid interest, if any, through the redemption date. Debt securities will stop bearing interest on the redemption date, even if holders do not collect their money. (Sections  301,1101 and 1104)

Redemption for Taxation Reasons

If, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of Mexico or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of such laws, rules or regulations, which amendment to or change of such laws, rules or regulations becomes effective on or after the date on which the debt securities of any series are issued, we would be obligated, after taking such measures as we may consider reasonable to avoid this requirement, to pay additional interest in excess of the additional interest attributable to a Mexican withholding tax rate of 4.9% with respect to the debt securities of that series (see “—Payment of Additional Interest” and “Taxation—Mexican Tax Considerations”), then, at our option, all, but not less than all, of the debt securities of that series may be redeemed at any time on giving not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the debt securities being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, any premium applicable in the case of a redemption prior to maturity and any additional interest due thereon up to but not including the date of redemption; provided , however , that (1) no notice of redemption for tax reasons may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which we would be obligated to pay such additional interest if a payment on the debt securities of that series were then due and (2) at the time such notice of redemption is given such obligation to pay such additional interest remains in effect. (Section 1101(c))

Prior to the publication of any notice of redemption for taxation reasons, we will deliver to the trustee:

 

   

a certificate signed by one of our duly authorized representatives stating that we are entitled to effect the redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to our right of redemption for taxation reasons have occurred; and

 

   

an opinion of Mexican legal counsel (which may be our counsel) of recognized standing to the effect that we have or will become obligated to pay such additional interest as a result of such change or amendment. (Section 1101(d))

This notice, after it is delivered to the holders, will be irrevocable. (Section 1102)

Covenants

The following covenants will apply to us and certain of our subsidiaries for so long as any debt security remains outstanding. These covenants restrict our ability and the ability of these subsidiaries to enter into certain transactions. However, these covenants do not limit our ability to incur indebtedness or require us to comply with financial ratios or to maintain specified levels of net worth or liquidity.

 

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Limitation on Liens

We may not, and we may not allow any of our restricted subsidiaries to, create, incur, issue or assume any liens on our restricted property to secure debt where the debt secured by such liens, plus the aggregate amount of our attributable debt and that of our restricted subsidiaries in respect of sale and leaseback transactions, would exceed an amount equal to an aggregate of 15% of our Consolidated Net Tangible Assets unless we secure the debt securities equally with, or prior to, the debt secured by such liens. This restriction will not, however, apply to the following:

 

   

liens on restricted property acquired and existing on the date the property was acquired or arising after such acquisition pursuant to contractual commitments entered into prior to such acquisition;

 

   

liens on any restricted property securing debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing its purchase price or the cost of its construction, improvement or repair; provided that such lien attaches to the restricted property within 12 months of its acquisition or the completion of its construction, improvement or repair and does not attach to any other restricted property;

 

   

liens existing on any restricted property of any restricted subsidiary prior to the time that the restricted subsidiary became a subsidiary of ours or liens arising after that time under contractual commitments entered into prior to and not in contemplation of that event;

 

   

liens on any restricted property securing debt owed by a subsidiary of ours to us or to another of our subsidiaries; and

 

   

liens arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any debt described above; provided that the aggregate principal amount of such debt is not increased and such lien does not extend to any additional restricted property. (Section 1006)

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means total consolidated assets less (1) all current liabilities, (2) all goodwill, (3) all trade names, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property assets and (4) all licenses, each as set forth on our most recent consolidated balance sheet and computed in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). (Section 101)

“Restricted property” means (1) any exchange and transmission equipment, switches, cellular base stations, microcells, local links, repeaters and related facilities, whether owned as of the date of the indenture or acquired after that date, used in connection with the provision of telecommunications services in Mexico, including any land, buildings, structures and other equipment or fixtures that constitute any such facility, owned by us or our restricted subsidiaries and (2) any share of capital stock of any restricted subsidiary. (Section 101)

“Restricted subsidiaries” means our subsidiaries that own restricted property. (Section 101)

Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks

We may not, and we may not allow any of our restricted subsidiaries to, enter into any sale and leaseback transaction without effectively providing that the debt securities will be secured equally and ratably with or prior to the sale and leaseback transaction, unless:

 

   

the aggregate principal amount of all debt then outstanding that is secured by any lien on any restricted property that does not ratably secure the debt securities (excluding any secured indebtedness permitted under “—Limitation on Liens”) plus the aggregate amount of our attributable debt and the attributable debt of our restricted subsidiaries in respect of sale and leaseback transactions then outstanding (other than any sale and leaseback transaction permitted under the following bullet point) would not exceed an amount equal to 15% of our Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; or

 

   

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greater of (1) the net proceeds of the sale or transfer of the property or other assets that are the subject of the sale and leaseback transaction and (2) the fair market value of the restricted property leased. (Section  1008)

“Sale and leaseback transaction” means an arrangement between us or one of our restricted subsidiaries and a bank, insurance company or other lender or investor where we or our restricted subsidiary leases a restricted property for an initial term of three years or more that was or will be sold by us or our restricted subsidiary to that lender or investor for a sale price of U.S.$ 1 million (or its equivalent in other currencies) or more. (Section 101)

“Attributable debt” means, with respect to any sale and leaseback transaction, the lesser of (1) the fair market value of the asset subject to such transaction and (2) the present value, discounted at a rate per annum equal to the discount rate inherent in the applicable lease, of the obligations of the lessee for net rental payments (excluding, amounts on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments and similar charges and contingent rents) during the term of the lease (as determined in good faith by us in accordance with IFRS). (Section  101)

Provision of Information

We will furnish the trustee with copies of our annual report and the information, documents and other reports that we are required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including our annual reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K, within 15 days after we file them with the SEC. In addition, we will make the same information, documents and other reports available, at our expense, to holders who so request in writing. (Section 1005)

In the event that, in the future, we are not required to file such information, documents or other reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, we will furnish on a reasonably prompt basis to the trustee and holders who so request in writing, substantially the same financial and other information that we would be required to include and file in an annual report on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K. (Section 1005)

If we become aware that a default or event of default or an event that with notice or the lapse of time would be an event of default has occurred and is continuing, as the case may be, we will deliver a certificate to the trustee describing the details thereof and the action we are taking or propose to take. (Section 1004)

Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets

We may not consolidate with or merge into any other person or, directly or indirectly, transfer, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets and properties and may not permit any person to consolidate with or merge into us, unless all of the following conditions are met:

 

   

if we are not the successor person in the transaction, the successor is organized and validly existing under the laws of Mexico or the United States or any political subdivision thereof and expressly assumes our obligations under the debt securities or the indenture;

 

   

immediately after the transaction, no default under the debt securities has occurred and is continuing. For this purpose, “default under the debt securities” means an event of default or an event that would be an event of default with respect to the debt securities if the requirements for giving us default notice and for our default having to continue for a specific period of time were disregarded. See “—Defaults, Remedies and Waiver of Defaults”; and

 

   

we have delivered to the trustee an officer’s certificate and opinion of counsel, each stating, among other things, that the transaction complies with the indenture. (Section 801)

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entirety. In addition, these conditions will apply only if we wish to merge into or consolidate with another person or sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets and properties. We will not need to satisfy these conditions if we enter into other types of transactions, including any transaction in which we acquire the stock or assets of another person, any transaction that involves a change of control of our company, but in which we do not merge or consolidate, or any transaction in which we sell or otherwise dispose of less than substantially all our assets.

Defaults, Remedies and Waiver of Defaults

Holders will have special rights if an event of default with respect to the debt securities they hold occurs and is not cured, as described below.

Events of Default

Each of the following will be an “event of default” with respect to the debt securities:

 

   

we fail to pay interest on any debt security within 30 days after its due date;

 

   

we fail to pay the principal or premium, if any, of any debt security on its due date;

 

   

we remain in breach of any covenant in the indenture for the benefit of holders of the debt securities, for 60 days after we receive a notice of default (sent by the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the debt securities) stating that we are in breach;

 

   

we experience a default or event of default under any instrument relating to debt having an aggregate principal amount exceeding U.S.$50 million (or its equivalent in other currencies) that constitutes a failure to pay principal or interest when due or results in the acceleration of the debt prior to its maturity;

 

   

a final judgment is rendered against us in an aggregate amount in excess of U.S.$50 million (or its equivalent in other currencies) that is not discharged or bonded in full within 30 days; or

 

   

we file for bankruptcy, or other events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or similar proceedings occur relating to us.

Remedies Upon Event of Default

If an event of default with respect to the debt securities occurs and is not cured or waived, the trustee, at the written request of holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the debt securities, may declare the entire principal amount of all the debt securities to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the principal, any accrued interest and any additional interest shall become due and payable. If, however, an event of default occurs because of a bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization relating to us, the entire principal amount of all the debt securities and any accrued interest and any additional interest will be automatically accelerated, without any action by the trustee or any holder and any principal, interest or additional interest will become immediately due and payable. (Section 502)

Each of the situations described in the preceding paragraph is called an acceleration of the maturity of the debt securities. If the maturity of the debt securities is accelerated and a judgment for payment has not yet been obtained, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the debt securities may cancel the acceleration for all the debt securities, provided that all amounts then due (other than amounts due solely because of such acceleration) have been paid and all other defaults with respect to the debt securities have been cured or waived. (Section  502)

If any event of default occurs, the trustee will have special duties. In that situation, the trustee will be obligated to use those of its rights and powers under the indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in doing so, that a prudent person would use under the circumstances in conducting his or her own affairs.

 

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Except as described in the prior paragraph, the trustee is not required to take any action under the indenture at the request of any holders unless the holders offer the trustee reasonable protection, known as indemnity and/or security, from expenses and liability. If the trustee receives an indemnity and/or security that is satisfactory to it, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the debt securities may direct the time, method and place of conducting any lawsuit or other formal legal action seeking any remedy available to the trustee. These majority holders may also direct the trustee in performing any other action under the indenture with respect to the debt securities. (Sections  512 and 603(e))

Before holders bypass the trustee and bring their own lawsuit or other formal legal action or take other steps to enforce their rights or protect their interests relating to the debt securities, the following must occur:

 

   

such holders must give the trustee written notice that an event of default has occurred and the event of default has not been cured or waived;

 

   

the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the debt securities must make a written request that the trustee take action with respect to the debt securities because of the default and they or other holders must offer to the trustee indemnity and/or security satisfactory to the trustee against the cost and other liabilities of taking that action;

 

   

the trustee must not have taken action for 60 days after the above steps have been taken; and

 

   

during those 60 days, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the debt securities must not have given the trustee directions that are inconsistent with the written request of the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the debt securities. (Section 507)

Holders will be entitled, however, at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of money due on their debt securities on or after its due date. (Section 508)

Book-entry and other indirect holders should consult their banks or brokers for information on how to give notice or direction to or make a request of the trustee and how to declare or cancel an acceleration of the maturity.

Waiver of Default

The holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the debt securities may waive a past default for all the debt securities. If this happens, the default will be treated as if it had been cured. No one can waive a payment default on any debt security, however, without the approval of the particular holder of that debt security. (Section 513)

Modification and Waiver

There are three types of changes we can make to the indenture and the outstanding debt securities under the indenture.

Changes Requiring Each Holder’s Approval

The following changes cannot be made without the approval of each holder of an outstanding debt security affected by the change:

 

   

a change in the stated maturity of any principal or interest payment on a debt security;

 

   

a reduction in the principal amount, the interest rate or the redemption price for a debt security;

 

   

a change in the obligation to pay additional interest;

 

   

a change in the currency of any payment on a debt security other than as permitted by the debt security;

 

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a change in the place of any payment on a debt security;

 

   

an impairment of the holder’s right to sue for payment of any amount due on its debt security;

 

   

a reduction in the percentage in principal amount of the debt securities needed to change the indenture or the outstanding debt securities under the indenture; and

 

   

a reduction in the percentage in principal amount of the debt securities needed to waive our compliance with the indenture or to waive defaults. (Section 902)

Changes Not Requiring Approval

Some changes will not require the approval of holders of debt securities. These changes are limited to curing any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, making changes to conform the provisions contained in the indentures to the description of debt securities contained in this prospectus or an applicable prospectus supplement and making changes that do not adversely affect the rights of holders of the debt securities in any material respect, such as adding covenants, additional events of default, collateral or successor trustees. (Section 901)

Changes Requiring Majority Approval

Any other change to the indenture or the debt securities will be required to be approved by the holders of a majority in principal amount of the debt securities affected by the change or waiver. The required approval must be given by written consent. (Section 902)

The same majority approval will be required for us to obtain a waiver of any of our covenants in the indenture. Our covenants include the promises we make about merging and creating liens on our interests, which we describe under “—Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets” and “—Covenants.” If the holders approve a waiver of a covenant, we will not have to comply with it. The holders, however, cannot approve a waiver of any provision in a particular debt security or the indenture, as it affects that debt security, that we cannot change without the approval of the holder of that debt security as described under in “—Changes Requiring Each Holder’s Approval,” unless that holder approves the waiver. (Section 1011)

Book-entry and other indirect holders should consult their banks or brokers for information on how approval may be granted or denied if we seek to change the indenture or the debt securities or request a waiver.

Defeasance

We may, at our option, elect to terminate (1) all of our obligations with respect to the debt securities (“legal defeasance”), except for certain obligations, including those regarding any trust established for defeasance and obligations relating to the transfer and exchange of the debt securities, the replacement of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen debt securities and the maintenance of agencies with respect to the debt securities (Sections 1201 and 1202) or (2) our obligations under the covenants in the indenture, so that any failure to comply with such obligations will not constitute an event of default (“covenant defeasance”) in respect of the debt securities. (Sections 1201 and 1203) In order to exercise either legal defeasance or covenant defeasance, we must irrevocably deposit with the trustee U.S. dollars or such other currency in which the debt securities are denominated (the “securities currency”), government obligations of the United States or a government, governmental agency or central bank of the country whose currency is the securities currency, or any combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest (including additional interest) in respect of the debt securities then outstanding on the maturity date of the debt securities, and comply with certain other conditions, including, without limitation, the delivery of opinions of counsel as to specified tax and other matters. (Sections 1201, 1204 and 1205)

If we elect either legal defeasance or covenant defeasance with respect to any debt securities, we must so elect it with respect to all of the debt securities. (Section 1201)

 

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Special Rules for Actions by Holders

When holders take any action under the indenture, such as giving a notice of default, declaring an acceleration, approving any change or waiver or giving the trustee an instruction, we will apply the following rules.

Only Outstanding Debt Securities are Eligible for Action by Holders

Only holders of outstanding debt securities will be eligible to vote or participate in any action by holders. In addition, we will count only outstanding debt securities in determining whether the various percentage requirements for voting or taking action have been met. For these purposes, a debt security will not be “outstanding” if it has been surrendered for cancellation or if we have deposited with the trustee in trust or the paying agent or set aside (if we act as our own paying agent) in trust for its holder, money for its payment or redemption. (Section 101)

Determining Record Dates for Action by Holders

We will generally be entitled to set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the holders that are entitled to take action under the indenture. In some limited circumstances, only the trustee will be entitled to set a record date for action by holders. If we or the trustee set a record date for an approval or other action to be taken by holders, that vote or action may be taken only by persons or entities who are holders on the record date and must be taken during the period that we specify for this purpose, or that the trustee specifies if it sets the record date. We or the trustee, as applicable, may shorten or lengthen this period from time to time. This period, however, may not extend beyond the 180th day after the record date for the action. In addition, record dates for any global debt securities may be set in accordance with procedures established by the depositary from time to time. (Section 104)

Transfer Agents

We may appoint one or more transfer agents, at whose designated offices any debt securities in certificated form may be transferred or exchanged and also surrendered before payment is made at maturity. Initially, we have appointed the trustee, at its corporate trust office in New York City, as transfer agent. We may also choose to act as our own transfer agent. We must notify holders of changes in the transfer agent as described under “—Notices.” If we issue debt securities in certificated form, holders of debt securities in certificated form will be able to transfer their debt securities, in whole or in part, by surrendering the debt securities, with a duly completed form of transfer, for registration of transfer at the office of our transfer agent in New York City. We will not charge any fee for the registration or transfer or exchange, except that we may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any applicable tax or other governmental charge payable in connection with the transfer. (Sections 304 and 1002)

Notices

As long as we issue debt securities in global form, notices to be given to holders will be given to the depositary, in accordance with its applicable policies as in effect from time to time. If we issue debt securities in certificated form, notices to be given to holders will be sent by mail to the respective addresses of the holders as they appear in the trustee’s records, and will be deemed given when mailed. (Section 106)

Neither the failure to give any notice to a particular holder, nor any defect in a notice given to a particular holder, will affect the sufficiency of any notice given to another holder. (Section 106)

Governing Law

The indenture and the debt securities will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, United States of America. (Section 113)

 

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Submission to Jurisdiction

In connection with any legal action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the debt securities or the indenture (subject to the exceptions described below), we have:

 

   

submitted to the jurisdiction of any U.S. federal or New York state court in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and any appellate court thereof;

 

   

agreed that all claims in respect of such legal action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such U.S. federal or New York state court and waived, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding and any right of jurisdiction in such action or proceeding on account of our place of residence or domicile; and

 

   

appointed CT Corporation System, with an office at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011, United States of America, as process agent.

The process agent will receive, on our behalf, service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process which may be served in any such legal action or proceeding brought in such New York state or U.S. federal court sitting in New York City. Service may be made by mailing or delivering a copy of such process to us at the address specified above for the process agent. (Section 115)

A final judgment in any of the above legal actions or proceedings will be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions, in each case, to the extent permitted under the applicable laws of such jurisdiction.

In addition to the foregoing, the holders may serve legal process in any other manner permitted by applicable law. The above provisions do not limit the right of any holder to bring any action or proceeding against us or our properties in other courts where jurisdiction is independently established. (Section 115)

To the extent that we have or hereafter may acquire or have attributed to us any sovereign or other immunity under any law, we have agreed to waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, such immunity from jurisdiction or to service of process in respect of any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the indenture or the debt securities. (Section 115)

Currency Indemnity

Our obligations under the debt securities will be discharged only to the extent that the relevant holder is able to purchase the securities currency with any other currency paid to that holder in accordance with any judgment or otherwise. If the holder cannot purchase the securities currency in the amount originally to be paid, we have agreed to pay the difference. The holder, however, agrees that, if the amount of the securities currency purchased exceeds the amount originally to be paid to such holder, the holder will reimburse the excess to us. The holder will not be obligated to make this reimbursement if we are in default of our obligations under the debt securities. (Section 1010)

Our Relationship with the Trustee

Citibank, N.A. is initially serving as the trustee for the debt securities. Citibank, N.A. or its affiliates may have other business relationships with us from time to time.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF WARRANTS

We may issue warrants, in one or more series, for the purchase of debt securities. Warrants may be issued independently or together with our debt securities and may be attached to or separate from any offered securities. In addition to this summary, you should refer to the detailed provisions of the specific warrant agreement for complete terms of the warrants and the warrant agreement. A form of warrant agreement will be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement.

The warrants will be evidenced by warrant certificates. Unless otherwise specified in the prospectus supplement, the warrant certificates may be traded separately from the debt securities, if any, with which the warrant certificates were issued. Warrant certificates may be exchanged for new warrant certificates of different denominations at the office of an agent that we will appoint. Until a warrant is exercised, the holder of a warrant does not have any of the rights of a holder of our debt securities and is not entitled to any payments on any debt securities issuable upon exercise of the warrants.

A prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus relating to a particular series of warrants will describe the terms of those warrants, including:

 

   

the title and the aggregate number of warrants;

 

   

the debt securities for which each warrant is exercisable;

 

   

the date or dates on which the right to exercise such warrants commence and expire;

 

   

the price or prices at which such warrants are exercisable;

 

   

the currency or currencies in which such warrants are exercisable;

 

   

the periods during which and places at which such warrants are exercisable;

 

   

the terms of any mandatory or optional call provisions;

 

   

the price or prices, if any, at which the warrants may be redeemed at the option of the holder or will be redeemed upon expiration;

 

   

the identity of the warrant agent; and

 

   

the exchanges, if any, on which such warrants may be listed.

Holders may exercise warrants by payment to our warrant agent of the exercise price, in each case in such currency or currencies as are specified in the warrant, and giving their identity and the number of warrants to be exercised. Once holders pay our warrant agent and deliver the properly completed and executed warrant certificate to our warrant agent at the specified office, our warrant agent will, as soon as practicable, forward securities to such holders in authorized denominations or share amounts. If holders exercise less than all of the warrants evidenced by their warrant certificate, holders will be issued a new warrant certificate for the remaining amount of warrants.

 

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FORM OF DEBT SECURITIES, CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT

Global Securities

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the following information relates to the form, clearing and settlement of U.S. dollar-denominated debt securities.

We will issue the securities in global form, without interest coupons. Securities issued in global form will be represented, at least initially, by one or more global debt securities. Upon issuance, global securities will be deposited with the trustee as custodian for The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as DTC’s partnership nominee. Ownership of beneficial interests in each global security will be limited to persons who have accounts with DTC, whom we refer to as DTC participants, or persons who hold interests through DTC participants. We expect that, under procedures established by DTC, ownership of beneficial interests in each global security will be shown on, and transfer of ownership of those interests will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to interests of DTC participants) and the records of DTC participants (with respect to other owners of beneficial interests in the global securities).

Beneficial interests in the global securities may be credited within DTC to Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“Euroclear”) and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (“Clearstream”) on behalf of the owners of such interests.

Investors may hold their interests in the global securities directly through DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream, if they are participants in those systems, or indirectly through organizations that are participants in those systems.

Beneficial interests in the global securities may not be exchanged for securities in physical, certificated form except in the limited circumstances described below.

Book-Entry Procedures for Global Securities

Interests in the global securities will be subject to the operations and procedures of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream. We provide the following summaries of those operations and procedures solely for the convenience of investors. The operations and procedures of each settlement system are controlled by that settlement system and may be changed at any time. We are not responsible for those operations or procedures.

DTC has advised that it is:

 

   

a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law;

 

   

a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law;

 

   

a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve System;

 

   

a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code; and

 

   

a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

DTC was created to hold securities for its participants and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions between its participants through electronic computerized book-entry changes to the accounts of its participants. DTC’s participants include securities brokers and dealers; banks and trust companies; clearing corporations; and certain other organizations. Indirect access to DTC’s system is also available to others such as securities brokers and dealers; banks and trust companies. These indirect participants clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC participant, either directly or indirectly. Investors who are not DTC participants may beneficially own securities held by or on behalf of DTC only through DTC participants or indirect participants in DTC.

 

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So long as DTC or its nominee is the registered owner of a global security, DTC or its nominee will be considered the sole owner or holder of the securities represented by that global security for all purposes under the indenture. Except as provided below, owners of beneficial interests in a global security:

 

   

will not be entitled to have securities represented by the global security registered in their names;

 

   

will not receive or be entitled to receive physical, certificated securities; and

 

   

will not be considered the registered owners or holders of the securities under the indenture for any purpose, including with respect to the giving of any direction, instruction or approval to the trustee under the indenture.

As a result, each investor who owns a beneficial interest in a global security must rely on the procedures of DTC to exercise any rights of a holder of securities under the indenture (and, if the investor is not a participant or an indirect participant in DTC, on the procedures of the DTC participant through which the investor owns its interest).

Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest with respect to the securities represented by a global security will be made by the trustee to DTC’s nominee as the registered holder of the global security. Neither we nor the trustee will have any responsibility or liability for the payment of amounts to owners of beneficial interests in a global security, for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of those interests by DTC, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records of DTC relating to those interests.

Payments by participants and indirect participants in DTC to the owners of beneficial interests in a global security will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of those participants or indirect participants and not of DTC, its nominee or us.

Transfers between participants in DTC will be effected under DTC’s procedures and will be settled in same-day funds. Transfers between participants in Euroclear or Clearstream will be effected in the ordinary way under the rules and operating procedures of those systems.

Cross-market transfers between DTC participants, on the one hand, and Euroclear or Clearstream participants, on the other hand, will be effected within DTC through the DTC participants that are acting as depositaries for Euroclear and Clearstream. To deliver or receive an interest in a global security held in a Euroclear or Clearstream account, an investor must send transfer instructions to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, under the rules and procedures of that system and within the established deadlines of that system. If the transaction meets its settlement requirements, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, will send instructions to its DTC depositary to take action to effect final settlement by delivering or receiving interests in the relevant global securities in DTC, and making or receiving payment under normal procedures for same-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Euroclear and Clearstream participants may not deliver instructions directly to the DTC depositaries that are acting for Euroclear or Clearstream.

Because of time zone differences, the securities account of a Euroclear or Clearstream participant that purchases an interest in a global security from a DTC participant will be credited on the business day for Euroclear or Clearstream immediately following the DTC settlement date. Cash received in Euroclear or Clearstream from the sale of an interest in a global security to a DTC participant will be received with value on the DTC settlement date but will be available in the relevant Euroclear or Clearstream cash account as of the business day for Euroclear or Clearstream following the DTC settlement date.

DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream have agreed to the above procedures to facilitate transfers of interests in the global securities among participants in those settlement systems. However, the settlement systems are not obligated to perform these procedures and may discontinue or change these procedures at any time. Neither we nor the trustee have any responsibility for the performance by DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream or their participants or indirect participants of their obligations under the rules and procedures governing their operations.

 

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Certificated Securities

Beneficial interests in the global securities may not be exchanged for securities in physical, certificated form unless:

 

   

DTC notifies us at any time that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the global securities and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days;

 

   

DTC ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days;

 

   

we, at our option, notify the trustee that we elect to cause the issuance of certificated securities; or

 

   

certain other events provided in the indenture occur, including the occurrence and continuance of an event of default with respect to the securities.

In all cases, certificated securities delivered in exchange for any global security will be registered in the names, and issued in any approved denominations, requested by DTC.

For information concerning paying agents for any securities in certificated form, see “Description of Debt Securities—Payment Provisions—Payments on Certificated Debt Securities.”

Debt Securities Denominated in a Currency other than U.S. Dollars

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the following information relates to the form, clearing and settlement of debt securities denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar.

We will issue the debt securities as one or more global securities registered in the name of a common depositary for Clearstream and Euroclear. Investors may hold book-entry interests in the global securities through organizations that participate, directly or indirectly, in Clearstream and/or Euroclear. Book-entry interests in the debt securities and all transfers relating to the debt securities will be reflected in the book-entry records of Clearstream and Euroclear.

The distribution of the debt securities will be carried out through Clearstream and Euroclear. Any secondary market trading of book-entry interests in the debt securities will take place through participants in Clearstream and Euroclear and will settle in same-day funds. Owners of book-entry interests in the debt securities will receive payments relating to their debt securities in U.S. dollars or such other currency in which the debt securities are denominated, as applicable. Clearstream and Euroclear have established electronic securities and payment transfer, processing, depositary and custodial links among themselves and others, either directly or through custodians and depositaries. These links allow securities to be issued, held and transferred among the clearing systems without the physical transfer of certificates. Special procedures to facilitate clearance and settlement have been established among these clearing systems to trade securities across borders in the secondary market.

The policies of Clearstream and Euroclear will govern payments, transfers, exchange and other matters relating to the investor’s interest in securities held by them. We have no responsibility for any aspect of the records kept by Clearstream or Euroclear or any of their direct or indirect participants. We do not supervise these systems in any way.

Clearstream and Euroclear and their participants perform these clearance and settlement functions under agreements they have made with one another or with their customers. You should be aware that they are not obligated to perform or continue to perform these procedures and may modify them or discontinue them at any time.

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securities in definitive form and will not be considered the owners or holders of the debt securities under the indenture governing the debt securities, including for purposes of receiving any reports delivered by us or the trustee pursuant to the indenture. Accordingly, each person owning a beneficial interest in a debt security must rely on the procedures of the Clearstream and Euroclear and, if that person is not a participant, on the procedures of the participant through which that person owns its interest, in order to exercise any rights of a holder of debt securities.

This description of the clearing systems reflects our understanding of the rules and procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear as they are currently in effect. These systems could change their rules and procedures at any time. We have obtained the information in this section concerning Clearstream and Euroclear and their book-entry systems and procedures from sources that we believe to be reliable, but we take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

Clearstream and Euroclear

Clearstream has advised that: it is a duly licensed bank organized as a société anonyme incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg and is subject to regulation by the Luxembourg Commission for the supervision of the financial sector ( Commission de surveillance du secteur financier ); it holds securities for its customers and facilitates the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among them, and does so through electronic book-entry transfers between the accounts of its customers, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates; it provides other services to its customers, including safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and lending and borrowing of securities; it interfaces with the domestic markets in over 30 countries through established depositary and custodial relationships; its customers include worldwide securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations and may include certain other professional financial intermediaries; its U.S. customers are limited to securities brokers and dealers and banks; and indirect access to the Clearstream system is also available to others that clear through Clearstream customers or that have custodial relationships with its customers, such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies.

Euroclear has advised that: it is incorporated under the laws of Belgium as a bank and is subject to regulation by the Belgian Banking and Finance Commission ( Commission Bancaire et Financiére ) and the National Bank of Belgium ( Banque Nationale de Belgique ); it holds securities for its participants and facilitates the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among them; it does so through simultaneous electronic book-entry delivery against payments, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates; it provides other services to its participants, including credit, custody, lending and borrowing of securities and tri-party collateral management; it interfaces with the domestic markets of several countries; its customers include banks, including central banks, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations and certain other professional financial intermediaries; indirect access to the Euroclear system is also available to others that clear through Euroclear customers or that have custodial relationships with Euroclear customers; and all securities in Euroclear are held on a fungible basis, which means that specific certificates are not matched to specific securities clearance accounts.

Clearance and Settlement Procedures

We understand that investors that hold their debt securities through Clearstream or Euroclear accounts will follow the settlement procedures that are applicable to securities in registered form. Debt securities will be credited to the securities custody accounts of Clearstream and Euroclear participants on the business day following the settlement date for value on the settlement date. They will be credited either free of payment or against payment for value on the settlement date.

We understand that secondary market trading between Clearstream and/or Euroclear participants will occur in the ordinary way following the applicable rules and operating procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear. Secondary market trading will be settled using procedures applicable to securities in registered form.

 

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You should be aware that investors will only be able to make and receive deliveries, payments and other communications involving the debt securities through Clearstream and Euroclear on business days. Those systems may not be open for business on days when banks, brokers and other institutions are open for business in the United States or Mexico.

In addition, because of time zone differences, there may be problems with completing transactions involving Clearstream and Euroclear on the same business day as in the United States or Mexico. U.S. and Mexican investors who wish to transfer their interests in the debt securities, or to make or receive a payment or delivery of the debt securities on a particular day may find that the transactions will not be performed until the next business day in Luxembourg or Brussels, depending on whether Clearstream or Euroclear is used.

Clearstream or Euroclear will credit payments to the cash accounts of participants in Clearstream or Euroclear in accordance with the relevant systemic rules and procedures, to the extent received by its depositary. Clearstream or Euroclear, as the case may be, will take any other action permitted to be taken by a holder under the indenture on behalf of a Clearstream or Euroclear participant only in accordance with its relevant rules and procedures.

Clearstream and Euroclear have agreed to the foregoing procedures in order to facilitate transfers of the debt securities among participants of Clearstream and Euroclear. However, they are under no obligation to perform or continue to perform those procedures, and they may discontinue those procedures at any time.

Same-Day Settlement and Payment

The underwriters will settle the debt securities in immediately available funds. We will make all payments of principal and interest on the debt securities in immediately available funds. Secondary market trading between participants in Clearstream and Euroclear will occur in accordance with the applicable rules and operating procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear and will be settled using the procedures applicable to securities in immediately available funds. See “—Clearstream and Euroclear.”

Certificated Debt Securities

We will issue debt securities to holders in certificated registered form only if:

 

   

Clearstream or Euroclear is no longer willing or able to discharge its responsibilities properly, and neither the trustee nor we have appointed a qualified successor within 90 days; or

 

   

we, at our option, notify the trustee that we elect to cause the issuance of certificated debt securities; or

 

   

certain other events provided in the indenture occur, including the occurrence and continuance of an event of default with respect to the debt securities.

If any of these three events occurs, the trustee will reissue the debt securities in fully certificated registered form and will recognize the registered holders of the certificated debt securities as holders under the indenture.

In the event that we issue certificated securities under the limited circumstances described above, then holders of certificated securities may transfer their debt securities in whole or in part upon the surrender of the certificate to be transferred, together with a completed and executed assignment form endorsed on the definitive debt security, at the offices of the transfer agent in New York City. Copies of this assignment form may be obtained at the offices of the transfer agent in New York City. Each time that we transfer or exchange a new debt security in certificated form for another debt security in certificated form, and after the transfer agent receives a completed assignment form, we will make available for delivery the new definitive debt security at the offices of the transfer agent in New York City. Alternatively, at the option of the person requesting the transfer or exchange, we will mail, at that person’s risk, the new definitive debt security to the address of that person that is

 

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specified in the assignment form. In addition, if we issue debt securities in certificated form, then we will make payments of principal of, interest on and any other amounts payable under the debt securities to holders in whose names the debt securities in certificated form are registered at the close of business on the record date for these payments. If the debt securities are issued in certificated form, we will make payments of principal and any redemption payments against the surrender of these certificated debt securities at the offices of the paying agent in London.

Unless and until we issue the debt securities in fully-certificated, registered form,

 

   

holders will not be entitled to receive a certificate representing our interest in the debt securities;

 

   

all references in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement to actions by holders will refer to actions taken by a depositary upon instructions from their direct participants; and

 

   

all references in this prospectus or in any prospectus supplement to payments and notices to holders will refer to payments and notices to the depositary as the registered holder of the debt securities, for distribution in accordance with its policies and procedures.

 

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TAXATION

The following summary of certain Mexican federal and U.S. federal income tax considerations contains a description of the principal Mexican federal and U.S. federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the debt securities, but does not purport to be a comprehensive description of all the tax considerations that may be relevant to a decision to purchase the debt securities. This summary does not describe any tax consequences arising under the laws of any state, locality or taxing jurisdiction other than the United States and Mexico, or U.S. federal taxes other than income taxes.

This summary is based on the tax laws of Mexico and the United States as in effect on the date of this prospectus (including the tax treaty described below), as well as on rules and regulations of Mexico and regulations, rulings and decisions of the United States available on or before such date and now in effect. All of the foregoing are subject to change, which change could apply retroactively and could affect the continued validity of this summary.

Prospective purchasers of debt securities should consult their own tax advisors as to the Mexican, United States or other tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the debt securities, including, in particular, the application to their particular situations of the tax considerations discussed below, as well as the application of state, local, foreign or other tax laws.

Mexican Tax Considerations

The following is a general summary of the principal consequences under the Mexican Income Tax Law ( Ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta ) and rules and regulations thereunder, as currently in effect, of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the debt securities by a holder that is not a resident of Mexico and that will not hold debt securities or a beneficial interest therein in connection with the conduct of a trade or business through a permanent establishment in Mexico (a “foreign holder”).

For purposes of Mexican taxation, tax residency is a highly technical definition that involves the application of a number of factors. Generally, an individual is a resident of Mexico if he or she has established his or her home in Mexico, and a corporation is considered a resident if it has established its principal place of business management or its effective seat of business management in Mexico. However, any determination of residence should take into account the particular situation of each person or legal entity.

U.S./Mexico and Other Tax Treaties

The United States and Mexico have entered into a Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation (collectively, with subsequent Protocols thereto, referred to as the “tax treaty”). Provisions of the tax treaty that may affect the taxation of certain United States holders are summarized below. The United States and Mexico have also entered into an agreement that covers the exchange of information with respect to tax matters. Mexico has also entered into and is negotiating several other tax treaties that may reduce the amount of Mexican withholding tax to which payments of interest on the debt securities may be subject. Prospective purchasers of debt securities should consult their own tax advisors as to the tax consequences, if any, of such treaties.

Payments of Interest, Principal and Premium in Respect of the Debt Securities

Under the Mexican Income Tax Law, payments of interest we make in respect of the debt securities (including payments of principal in excess of the issue price of such debt securities, which, under Mexican law, are deemed to be interest) to a foreign holder will generally be subject to a Mexican withholding tax assessed at a rate of 4.9% if (1) the debt securities are placed through banks or brokerage houses ( casas de bolsa ) in a country with which Mexico has entered into a tax treaty for the avoidance of double taxation, which is in effect, (2) the CNBV has been notified of the issuance of the debt securities pursuant to the Mexican Income Tax Law and

 

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Article 7 of the Mexican Securities Market Law ( Ley del Mercado de Valores ) and its regulations, and (3) the information requirements specified in the general rules of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit ( Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público ) are satisfied. In case such requirements are not met, the applicable withholding tax rate will be 10%. We believe that because the conditions described in (1) through (3) above will be satisfied, the applicable withholding tax rate will be 4.9%.

A higher income tax withholding rate will be applicable when a party related to us, jointly or individually, directly or indirectly, is the effective beneficiary of more than 5% of the aggregate amount of payments treated as interest on the debt securities, as set forth in the Mexican Income Tax Law.

Payments of interest we make with respect to the debt securities to a non-Mexican pension or retirement fund will be generally exempt from Mexican withholding taxes; provided that (1) the fund is the effective beneficiary of such interest income, (2) the fund is duly established pursuant to the laws of its country of origin and (3) the relevant interest income is exempt from taxation in such country.

We have agreed, subject to specified exceptions and limitations, to pay additional interest to the holders of debt securities in respect of the Mexican withholding taxes mentioned above. If we pay additional interest in respect of such Mexican withholding taxes, any refunds of such additional interest will be for our account. See “Description of Debt Securities—Payment of Additional Interest.”

Holders or beneficial owners of debt securities may be requested to provide certain information or documentation necessary to enable us to establish the appropriate Mexican withholding tax rate applicable to such holders or beneficial owners. In the event that the specified information or documentation concerning the holder or beneficial owner, if requested, is not provided on a timely basis, our obligations to pay additional interest may be limited as set forth under “Description of Debt Securities—Payment of Additional Interest.”

Under the Mexican Income Tax Law, payments of principal we make to a foreign holder of debt securities will not be subject to any Mexican withholding or similar taxes.

Taxation of Disposition of Debt Securities

The application of Mexican tax law provisions to capital gains realized on the disposition of debt securities by foreign holders is unclear. We expect that no Mexican tax will be imposed on transfers of debt securities between foreign holders effected outside of Mexico.

Other Mexican Taxes

A foreign holder will not be liable for estate, gift, inheritance or similar taxes with respect to its holdings of debt securities. There are no Mexican stamp, issue, registration or similar taxes payable by a foreign holder with respect to debt securities.

U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations

The following is a summary of the principal U.S. federal income tax considerations that may be relevant to a beneficial owner of debt securities that is a citizen or resident of the United States or a domestic corporation or otherwise subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis in respect of the debt securities (a “U.S. holder”) and certain U.S. federal income tax considerations that may be relevant to a beneficial owner of debt securities (other than a partnership or other entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) that is not a U.S. holder (a “non-U.S. holder”). It does not purport to be a comprehensive description of all of the tax considerations that may be relevant to a particular investor’s decision to invest in debt securities.

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retroactively, so as to result in U.S. federal income tax consequences different from those summarized below. In addition, except where noted, this summary deals only with investors that are U.S. holders who acquire the debt securities in the United States as part of the initial offering of the debt securities of that series, who will own the debt securities as capital assets, and whose functional currency is the U.S. dollar. It does not address U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to investors who may be subject to special tax rules, such as banks, financial institutions, partnerships (or entities treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) or partners therein, tax-exempt entities, insurance companies, traders in securities that elect to use the mark-to-market method of accounting for their securities, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, U.S. expatriates, nonresident alien individuals present in the United States for more than 182 days in a taxable year, dealers in securities or currencies, certain short-term holders of debt securities, or persons that hedge their exposure in the debt securities or will hold debt securities as a position in a “straddle” or conversion transaction or as part of a “synthetic security” or other integrated financial transaction. U.S. holders should be aware that the U.S. federal income tax consequences of holding the debt securities may be materially different for investors described in the prior sentence. This summary does not address the Medicare tax on net investment income. This discussion also does not address all of the tax considerations that may be relevant to particular issuances of debt securities, such as debt securities offered at a price less or more than their stated principal amount. For information regarding any such special tax considerations relevant to particular issuances, or regarding the issuance of warrants, if any, you should read the applicable prospectus supplement.

U.S. holders that use an accrual method of accounting for tax purposes (“accrual method holders”) generally are required to include certain amounts in income no later than the time such amounts are reflected on certain financial statements (the “book/tax conformity rule”). The application of the book/tax conformity rule thus may require the accrual of income earlier than would be the case under the general tax rules described below, although it is not clear to what types of income the book/tax conformity rule applies. This rule generally is effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 or, for debt securities issued with original issue discount, for tax years beginning after December 31, 2018. Accrual method holders should consult with their tax advisors regarding the potential applicability of the book/tax conformity rule to their particular situation.

Payments of Interest and Additional Interest

Payments of the gross amount of interest and additional interest (as defined in “Description of Debt Securities—Payment of Additional Interest”) with respect to a debt security, i.e. , including amounts withheld in respect of Mexican withholding taxes, will be taxable to a U.S. holder as ordinary interest income at the time that such payments are accrued or are received, in accordance with the U.S. holder’s regular method of tax accounting. Thus, cash method U.S. holders will report interest on the debt security when it is received or unconditionally made available for receipt, and accrual method U.S. holders will report stated interest as it accrues.

In the case of debt securities denominated in a currency other than the U.S. dollar (a “foreign currency debt security”), the amount of interest income realized by a cash method U.S. holder will be the U.S. dollar value of the foreign currency payment based on the exchange rate in effect on the date of receipt, regardless of whether the payment in fact is converted into U.S. dollars. A cash method U.S. holder will not recognize foreign currency gain or loss with respect to the receipt of such payment, but may have foreign currency gain or loss attributable to the actual disposition of the foreign currency so received. An accrual method U.S. holder will accrue interest income on a foreign currency debt security in the foreign currency and translate the amount accrued into U.S. dollars based on the average exchange rate in effect during the interest accrual period (or portion thereof within the U.S. holder’s taxable year), or, at the accrual method U.S. holder’s election, at the spot rate of exchange on the last day of the accrual period (or the last day of the taxable year within such accrual period if the accrual period spans more than one taxable year), or at the spot rate of exchange on the date of receipt, if such date is within five business days of the last day of the accrual period. A U.S. holder that makes such an election must apply it consistently to all debt instruments from year to year and cannot change the election without the consent of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”). An accrual method U.S. holder will recognize foreign currency

 

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gain or loss, as the case may be, on the receipt of an interest payment made with respect to a foreign currency debt security if the exchange rate in effect on the date the payment is received differs from the rate applicable to a previous accrual of that interest income. This foreign currency gain or loss will be treated as ordinary income or loss, and will not be treated as an adjustment to interest income received on a foreign currency debt security. Foreign currency gain or loss recognized by a U.S. holder generally will be U.S.-source gain or loss.

The Mexican withholding tax that is imposed on interest will be treated as a foreign income tax eligible, subject to generally applicable limitations and conditions under the Code, for credit against a U.S. holder’s federal income tax liability or, at the U.S. holder’s election, for deduction in computing the holder’s taxable income ( provided that the U.S. holder elects to deduct, rather than credit, all foreign income taxes paid or accrued for the relevant taxable year). Interest and additional interest paid on the debt securities generally will constitute foreign source passive category income.

The calculation and availability of foreign tax credits and, in the case of a U.S. holder that elects to deduct foreign taxes, the availability of deductions, involves the application of complex rules (including, in the case of foreign tax credits, relating to a minimum holding period) that depend on a U.S. holder’s particular circumstances. U.S. holders should consult their own tax advisors regarding the availability of foreign tax credits and the treatment of additional interest.

Sale or Other Taxable Disposition of Debt Securities

A U.S. holder generally will recognize gain or loss on the sale or other taxable disposition of the debt securities in an amount equal to the difference between (i) the amount realized on such sale or other taxable disposition (other than amounts attributable to accrued but unpaid interest, including any additional interest thereon, which will be taxable as ordinary income to the extent not previously included in income) and (ii) the U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in the debt securities. A U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in a debt security generally will be its cost for that debt security.

In the case of a foreign currency debt security, a U.S. holder’s amount realized generally will be the U.S. dollar value of any foreign currency received, calculated at the exchange rate in effect on the date the foreign currency debt security is sold or otherwise disposed of, and its adjusted tax basis in the foreign currency debt security generally will be the U.S. dollar value of the purchase price for that security on the date of purchase. If the foreign currency debt securities of a series are traded on an established securities market, however, a cash method U.S. holder (and, if it so elects, an accrual method U.S. holder) will determine its adjusted basis in, or amount realized on, a foreign currency debt security of that series by translating the amount paid or received at the spot rate of exchange on the settlement date of the purchase or disposition of the foreign currency debt security, respectively. The election available to accrual method U.S. holders in respect of the purchase and disposition of foreign currency debt securities traded on an established securities market must be applied consistently to all debt instruments from year to year and cannot be changed without the consent of the IRS.

Except as described below with respect to foreign currency gain or loss, gain or loss realized by a U.S. holder on the sale or other taxable disposition of the debt securities generally will be capital gain or loss and will be long-term capital gain or loss if, at the time of the disposition, the debt securities have been held for more than one year. Certain non-corporate U.S. holders (including individuals) may be eligible for preferential rates of taxation in respect of long-term capital gains. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations.

Gain or loss realized by a U.S. holder on the sale or other taxable disposition of a foreign currency debt security generally will be treated as foreign currency gain or loss with respect to the principal amount of such security, which will be taxable as ordinary income or loss, to the extent that the gain or loss is attributable to changes in exchange rates during the period in which the holder held such foreign currency debt security. The foreign currency gain or loss will not be treated as an adjustment to interest income received on the debt security. In addition, upon the sale or other taxable disposition of a foreign currency debt security, an accrual method U.S.

 

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holder may realize foreign currency gain or loss attributable to amounts received in respect of accrued and unpaid interest. The amount of foreign currency gain or loss realized with respect to principal and accrued interest will, however, be limited to the amount of overall gain or loss realized on the sale or other taxable disposition of the security.

Capital gain or loss (and in the case of foreign currency debt securities, foreign currency gain or loss) recognized by a U.S. holder on the sale or other taxable disposition of the debt securities generally will be U.S.-source gain or loss. Consequently, if any such gain would be subject to Mexican income tax, a U.S. holder may not be able to credit the tax against its U.S. federal income tax liability unless such credit can be applied (subject to applicable conditions and limitations) against tax due on other income treated as derived from foreign sources. U.S. holders should consult their own tax advisors as to the foreign tax credit implications of a disposition of the debt securities.

Foreign Currency Debt Securities and Reportable Transactions

A U.S. holder that participates in a “reportable transaction” will be required to disclose its participation to the IRS. The scope and application of these rules is not entirely clear. A U.S. holder may be required to treat a foreign currency exchange loss from foreign currency debt securities as a reportable transaction if the loss exceeds $50,000 in a single taxable year if the U.S. holder is an individual or trust, or higher amounts for other U.S. holders. In the event the acquisition, ownership or disposition of the foreign currency debt securities constitutes participation in a “reportable transaction” for purposes of these rules, a U.S. holder will be required to disclose its investment by filing Form 8886 with the IRS. Prospective purchasers should consult their tax advisors regarding the application of these rules to the acquisition, ownership or disposition of foreign currency debt securities.

Non-U.S. Holders

A non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax on interest received on the debt securities or on gain realized on the sale or other taxable disposition of debt securities.

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Payments on the debt securities, and proceeds of the sale or other disposition of the debt securities, that are paid within the United States or through certain U.S.-related financial intermediaries to a U.S. holder generally are subject to information reporting and backup withholding unless (i) the U.S. holder is a corporation or other exempt recipient and demonstrates this fact when so required or (ii) in the case of backup withholding, the U.S. holder provides an accurate taxpayer identification number, certifies that it is not subject to backup withholding and otherwise complies with applicable requirements of the backup withholding rules.

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules will be allowed as a refund or a credit against the U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.

Although non-U.S. holders generally are exempt from information reporting and backup withholding, a non-U.S. holder may, in certain circumstances, be required to comply with certification procedures to prove entitlement to this exemption.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

At the time of offering any securities, we will supplement the following summary of the plan of distribution with a description of the offering, including the particular terms and conditions thereof, set forth in a prospectus supplement relating to those securities.

We may sell securities in any of three ways: (1) through underwriters or dealers; (2) directly to one or a limited number of institutional purchasers; or (3) through agents. Each prospectus supplement with respect to a series of securities will set forth the terms of the offering of those securities, including the name or names of any underwriters or agents, the price of such securities and the net proceeds to us from such sale, any underwriting discounts, commissions or other items constituting underwriters’ or agents’ compensation, any discount or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers and any securities exchanges on which those securities may be listed.

If underwriters are used in the sale, the securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering price or at varying prices to be determined at the time of sale. We may offer the securities to the public either through underwriting syndicates of investment banking firms represented by managing underwriters, or directly through one or more such investment banking firms or others, as designated. Unless otherwise set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the securities will be subject to certain conditions precedent and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of the securities offered thereby if any are purchased. Any initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.

We may sell securities either directly to one or more institutional purchasers, or through agents designated by us from time to time. Any agent involved in the offer or sale of the securities will be named, and any commissions payable by us to such agent will be set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement. Unless otherwise indicated in such prospectus supplement, any such agent will be acting on a reasonable best efforts basis for the period of its appointment.

If indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will authorize agents, underwriters or dealers to solicit offers by certain specified institutions to purchase the securities from us at the public offering price set forth in the prospectus supplement plus accrued interest, if any, pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on one or more specified dates in the future. Institutions with which such contracts may be made include commercial and saving banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, educational and charitable institutions and others, but in all such cases we must approve such institutions. Such contracts will be subject only to those conditions set forth in such prospectus supplement and the prospectus supplement will set forth the commission payable for solicitation of those contracts.

Agents and underwriters may be entitled under agreements entered into with us to indemnification by us against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or to contribution with respect to payments which the agents or underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof.

Agents and underwriters may engage in transactions with us or perform services for us in the ordinary course of business.

No securities will be publicly offered or traded in Mexico absent an available exception under the Mexican Securities Market Law.

 

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EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. and its subsidiaries appearing in its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017, and the effectiveness of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017, have been audited by Mancera, S.C., a member practice of Ernst & Young Global Limited, an independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their reports thereon, included therein, and incorporated herein by reference. Such consolidated financial statements are incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon such reports given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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VALIDITY OF SECURITIES

Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP will provide an opinion regarding the validity of the securities under New York law, and Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C. will provide an opinion regarding the authorization of the securities under Mexican law.

Mr. Rafael Robles Miaja, our Corporate Pro-Secretary, is a partner at the firm Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C.

 

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ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

América Móvil is a corporation organized under the laws of Mexico, with its principal places of business ( domicilio social ) in Mexico City. In addition, most of our directors, officers and controlling persons, as well as certain experts named in this prospectus, reside outside the United States, and all or a substantial portion of their assets and our assets are located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons or to enforce against them, either inside or outside the United States, judgments obtained against these persons in U.S. courts, or to enforce in U.S. courts judgments obtained against these persons in courts in jurisdictions outside the United States, in each case, in any action predicated upon civil liabilities under the U.S. federal securities laws. Based on the opinion of Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C., our Mexican counsel, there is doubt as to the enforceability against these persons in Mexico, whether in original actions or in actions for enforcement of judgments of U.S. courts, of liabilities predicated solely upon the U.S. federal securities laws.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

This prospectus is part of a registration statement, including exhibits, which we have filed with the SEC on Form F-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement. Statements made in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract, agreement or other document are not necessarily complete. We have filed certain of these documents as exhibits to our registration statement and we refer you to those documents. Each statement in this prospectus relating to a document filed as an exhibit is qualified in all respects by the filed exhibit.

We file reports, including annual reports on Form 20-F, and other information with the SEC pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC that apply to foreign private issuers. You may read and copy any materials filed with the SEC at its Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Any filings we make electronically will be available to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov and at our website at www.americamovil.com. This URL is intended to be an inactive textual reference only. It is not intended to be an active hyperlink to our website. The information on our website, even if it might be accessible through a hyperlink resulting from this URL, is not and shall not be deemed to be incorporated into this prospectus.

 

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INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus, and certain later information that we file with the SEC will automatically update and supersede earlier information filed with the SEC or included in this prospectus or a prospectus supplement. We incorporate by reference the following documents:

 

   

our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC on April 26, 2018 (SEC File No. 001-16269);

 

   

any future annual reports on Form 20-F filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act after the date of this prospectus and prior to the termination of the offering of the securities offered by this prospectus; and

 

   

any future reports on Form 6-K that we furnish to the SEC after the date of this prospectus and prior to the termination of the offering of debt securities offered by this prospectus that are identified in such reports as being incorporated by reference in our Registration Statement on Form F-3.

You may request a copy of any and all of the information that has been incorporated by reference in this prospectus and that has not been delivered with this prospectus, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11529, Mexico City, Mexico, Attention: Investor Relations, telephone (5255) 2581-4449.

 

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 8.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Under Mexican law, when an officer or director of a corporation acts within the scope of his or her authority, the corporation will answer for any resulting liabilities or expenses. The board of directors of the registrant has also expressly determined that the registrant will indemnify its directors and officers against any liability they might incur in connection with the offering of the debt securities.

 

Item 9.

Exhibits.

Reference is made to the Exhibit Index included herewith which is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 10.

Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however , that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of this registration statement;

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering;

(4) To file a post-effective amendment to the registration statement to include any financial statements required by Item 8.A. of Form 20-F at the start of any delayed offering or throughout a continuous offering. Financial statements and information otherwise required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 need

 

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not be furnished provided, that the registrant includes in the prospectus, by means of a post-effective amendment, financial statements required pursuant to this paragraph (a)(4) and other information necessary to ensure that all other information in the prospectus is at least as current as the date of those financial statements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a post-effective amendment need not be filed to include financial statements and information required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 or Item 8.A. of Form 20-F if such financial statements and information are contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the SEC by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement;

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(A) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(B) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of the registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section (10)(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which the prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date; and

(6) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

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(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description of Exhibit

  1.1    Form of Underwriting Agreement-Standard Provisions.
  4.1    Indenture dated as of October 1, 2018 among América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., Citibank, N.A., as trustee, security registrar and transfer agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as paying agent.
  4.2    Form of debt security (included in Exhibit 4.1).
  4.3    Form of warrant*
  5.1    Opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as to the validity of the securities.
  5.2    Opinion of Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C. as to the validity of the securities.
23.1    Consent of Mancera, S.C.
23.2    Consent of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.3    Consent of Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C. (included in Exhibit 5.2).
24.1    Powers of attorney (included in the signature page of this registration statement).
25.1    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility Under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of Citibank, N.A., as trustee under the Base Indenture dated as of October 1, 2018.

 

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To be filed by amendment or incorporated by reference. The registrant will furnish on a Form 6-K and incorporate by reference any related form used in the future and not previously filed by means of an amendment or incorporated by reference.


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SIGNATURES OF AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 30, 2018.

 

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.
By:  

/s/ Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo

Name:   Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo
Title:   Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ Alejandro Cantú Jiménez

Name:   Alejandro Cantú Jiménez
Title:   Attorney-in-Fact

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo and Alejandro Cantú Jiménez, jointly and severally (with full power to each of them to act alone) his/her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement on Form F-3, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he/she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

This power of attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but which taken together shall constitute one instrument.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated in respect of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. on September 30, 2018.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Daniel Hajj Aboumrad

Daniel Hajj Aboumrad

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

/s/ Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo

Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo

  

Chief Financial Officer

/s/ Eutimio Quevedo Rivera

Eutimio Quevedo Rivera

  

Chief Accounting Officer

/s/ Carlos Slim Domit

Carlos Slim Domit

  

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Signature

  

Title

/s/ Patrick Slim Domit

Patrick Slim Domit

  

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

/s/ Carlos Slim Helú

Carlos Slim Helú

  

Director

 

Luis Alejandro Soberón Kuri

  

Director

 

Antonio Cosío Pando

  

Director

 

Ernesto Vega Velasco

  

Director

 

Carlos Bremer Gutiérrez

  

Director

/s/ Pablo Roberto González Guajardo

Pablo Roberto González Guajardo

  

Director

 

David Ibarra Muñoz

  

Director

/s/ Oscar Von Hauske Solís

Oscar Von Hauske Solís

  

Director

/s/ Arturo Elías Ayub

Arturo Elías Ayub

  

Director

 

Louis C. Camilleri

  

Director

 

Francisco Medina Chávez

  

Director

/s/ Rafael Moisés Kalach Mizrahi

Rafael Moisés Kalach Mizrahi

  

Director

/s/ Vanessa Hajj Slim

Vanessa Hajj Slim

  

Director


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Signature of Authorized Representative of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., has signed this registration statement in the City of Newark, State of Delaware, on October 1, 2018.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Donald J. Puglisi

Donald J. Puglisi

  

Authorized Representative in the United States

Exhibit 1.1

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. de C.V.

Debt Securities

 

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

STANDARD PROVISIONS


October 1, 2018

To the Underwriters named in Schedule I to the

Pricing Agreement (as defined below)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “ Company ”), a sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable (corporation) organized under the laws of the United Mexican States (“ Mexico ”), may from time to time enter into one or more pricing agreements (each, a “ Pricing Agreement ”) with one or more underwriters named in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement (the “ Underwriters ”) providing for the sale of the debt securities specified in the Pricing Agreement (such debt securities specified in such Pricing Agreement, the “ Securities ”). Unless otherwise specified in the Pricing Agreement, the Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of October 1, 2018 (the “ Base Indenture ”), among the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), registrar, and transfer agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as paying agent (the “ Paying Agent ”), as further amended, supplemented and otherwise modified as specified in the Pricing Agreement (as so amended, supplemented or modified, the “ Indenture ”).

The Pricing Agreement will consist of an agreement in the form of Exhibit A hereto, or in such other form as the Company and the Underwriters may agree, that incorporates by reference, except as otherwise specified therein, the standard provisions set forth herein.

The following terms are used herein as defined below:

(a) “ affiliate ” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

(b) “ Applicable Time ” has the meaning set forth in the Pricing Agreement.

(c) “ business day ” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City.

(d) “ Clearstream ” means Clearstream Banking, S.A.

(e) “ CNBV ” means the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission ( Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores ).

(f) “ DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company.

(g) “ Exchange Act ” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder.

(h) “ Euroclear ” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.

(i) “ Final Term Sheet ” means a final term sheet, containing solely a description of the Securities, in the form approved by the Representatives.

(j) “ General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus identified in Schedule II to the Pricing Agreement.

(k) “ Investment Company Act ” means the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder.

(l) “ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ” means any issuer free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act) relating to the Securities in the form filed or required to be filed with the SEC or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Securities Act.

 


(m) “ Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

(n) “ Material Adverse Effect ” means a material adverse effect on (i) the business, properties, management, financial position, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or (ii) the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Securities.

(o) “ Preliminary Prospectus ” means any preliminary prospectus (including any preliminary prospectus supplement) relating to the Securities filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act.

(p) “ Pricing Prospectus ” means the base prospectus relating to the Securities in the form most recently filed with the SEC as part of the Registration Statement as amended or supplemented (including any preliminary prospectus supplement) immediately prior to the Applicable Time.

(q) “ Prospectus ” means the final prospectus (including any final prospectus supplement) relating to the Securities filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof.

(r) “ Registration Statement ” means, as of any time, the registration statement on Form F-3 (No. 333-[    ]), including a prospectus, filed by the Company with the SEC, as amended through such time.

(s) “ Registry ” means the National Securities Registry ( Registro Nacional de Valores ) of the CNBV.

(t) “ Representatives ” means any lead manager or joint lead managers of an underwriting syndicate specified in the Pricing Agreement, or, if none is or are so named, to the Underwriter or Underwriters named therein.

(u) “ SEC ” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

(v) “ Securities Act ” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder.

(w) “ subsidiary ” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

(x) “ Time of Sale Disclosure Package ” means the Pricing Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet and any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and any additional information identified in the Pricing Agreement as forming part thereof.

(y) “ Transaction Documents ” means, collectively, the Pricing Agreement, the Base Indenture, each supplemental indenture specified in the Pricing Agreement and the Securities.

(z) “ Trust Indenture Act ” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

(aa) “ Underwriter Information ” means, with respect to any document, statements in or omissions from such document based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use in such document. The Company acknowledges that the statements identified in the Pricing Agreement as “Underwriter Information” constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus.

(bb) any references herein to the terms “ amend ,” “ amendment ” or “ supplement ” with respect to the Registration Statement or any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus refer to and include any document filed under the Securities Act or filed or furnished under the Exchange Act after the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of such prospectus that is incorporated therein by reference.

 

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(cc) any reference herein to any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 6 of Form F-3 under the Securities Act as of the date of such prospectus.

(dd) For purposes of Section 3 and Section 6 hereof, references to “the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus” are to each of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus as a separate or stand-alone document (and not the two such documents taken together), so that representations, warranties, agreements, conditions and legal opinions will be made, given or measured independently in respect of each of the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

1. Purchase and Resale of the Securities.

(a) The Company agrees to issue and sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements and subject to the conditions set forth in the Pricing Agreement, to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Company, at the Purchase Price set forth in the Pricing Agreement, the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement. The Company will not be obligated to deliver any of the Securities except upon payment for all the Securities to be purchased as provided in the Pricing Agreement.

(b) The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Underwriter may offer and sell Securities to or through any of its affiliates and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through such Underwriter.

2. Payment and Delivery.

(a) Payment for and delivery of the Securities will be made on the date and at the time and place specified in the Pricing Agreement or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company may agree in writing. The time and date of such payment and delivery are referred to herein as the “ Closing Date .”

(b) Payment for the Securities will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the accounts specified by the Company to the Representatives against delivery of the Securities to the Representatives for the account of the several Underwriters. Delivery of the Securities will be made as set forth in the Pricing Agreement.

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

(a) Registration Statement . The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined under Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that has been filed with the SEC no earlier than three years prior to the date of the Pricing Agreement; no notice of objection of the SEC to the use of such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company; and no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof has been issued by the SEC and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Securities has been initiated or is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened by the SEC, and any request on the part of the SEC for additional information pertaining to the Registration Statement has been complied with. As of its applicable effective date, the Registration Statement conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act and did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. At the Applicable Time, the Registration Statement and the Pricing Prospectus conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Trust Indenture Act, and neither the Registration Statement (as amended or supplemented by the Pricing Prospectus) nor the Time of Sale Disclosure Package included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Prospectus, as of its date and as of the Closing Date, did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company does not make any representation or warranty with respect to Underwriter Information.

 

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(b) Incorporated Documents . The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, at the time such documents were or are filed with the SEC, complied or will comply, as the case may be, as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

(c) Time of Sale Disclosure Package . At the Applicable Time, neither the Time of Sale Disclosure Package nor any Limited Use Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company does not make any representation or warranty with respect to Underwriter Information.

(d) Eligibility under Certain SEC Rules . The Company meets the requirements for use of Form F-3 under the Securities Act. The Company was, and is, a “well-known seasoned issuer” and was not, and is not, an “ineligible issuer” (in each case as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) at any “determination date” under Rule 164(h) under the Securities Act or Rule 405 under the Securities Act that is relevant to the offering of the Securities.

(e) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus . Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the sale of the Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Representatives as disclosed in Section 4(f) hereof, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company does not make any representation or warranty with respect to Underwriter Information.

(f) Financial Statements . The consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and their consolidated results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and changes in financial position for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, except as disclosed therein; and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus presents fairly the information shown thereby.

(g) No Material Adverse Change . Since the date of the most recent audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any change in the capital stock or increase in the long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in, or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, results of operations or prospects of, the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any governmental or regulatory authority or court, except in the case of clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above, as otherwise disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(h) Organization .

(i) The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable under the laws of Mexico. The Company is duly qualified to do business in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its businesses requires such qualification, and it

 

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has all power and authority (corporate and otherwise) necessary to own or hold its properties and to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company’s principal subsidiaries are as listed under Exhibit 8.1 of the most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed by the Company with the SEC, except as otherwise disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(ii) Each subsidiary of the Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation or company, as the case may be, under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization and is duly qualified to do business in each jurisdiction in which its respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its respective businesses requires such qualification, and it has all power and authority (corporate and otherwise) necessary to own or hold its properties and to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged, except, in each case, as would not individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(i) Capitalization . The Company’s capitalization is as set forth under the caption “Capitalization” in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus, except for shares repurchased by the Company subsequent to the date as of which tabular information is presented under such caption in the Pricing Prospectus and the Prospectus under any then-existing buy-back program as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. All the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each principal subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party, except as set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(j) Due Authorization . The Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to perform its obligations thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been duly and validly taken.

(k) Base Indenture . The Base Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee and the Paying Agent, constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, concurso mercantil , or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (collectively, the “ Enforceability Exceptions ”); and the Base Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

(l) Supplemental Indentures . Each supplemental indenture specified in the Pricing Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

(m) The Securities . The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(n) Pricing Agreement . The Pricing Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(o) Descriptions of the Transaction Documents . Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

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(p) No Violation or Default . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its estatutos sociales , charter, by-laws or similar constitutive documents; (ii) in default in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any governmental or regulatory authority or court, except, in the case of clauses (i) (other than with respect to the Company ), (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

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

(r) No Consents . No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any governmental or regulatory authority or court is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities and compliance by the Company with the terms thereof, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, (i) except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications (A) as have been obtained or made under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act and as may be required under applicable U.S. state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and resale of the Securities by the Underwriters; (B) as may be required under applicable securities laws of jurisdictions outside Mexico and the United States in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters; and (ii) except for the notification by the Company to the CNBV pursuant to Article 7 of the Mexican Securities Market Law ( Ley del Mercado de Valores ) .

(s) Legal Proceedings . Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and, to the best knowledge of the Company, no such investigations, actions, suits or proceedings are threatened by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others.

(t) Independent Accountants . Mancera, S.C., a member practice of Ernst & Young Global, whose reports on the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries are included in the Registration Statement, are independent registered public accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, within the meaning of standards established by the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants and the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.

(u) Title to Real and Personal Property . The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(v) Title to Intellectual Property . The Company and its subsidiaries to the best of their knowledge own or possess adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses; and the conduct of their respective businesses will not conflict in any material respect with any such rights of others, and the Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notice of any claim of infringement of or conflict with any such rights of others, except where the failure to own or possess such patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how or any such conflict, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(w) Investment Company Act . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is, and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as disclosed in the Prospectus, none of them will be, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.

(x) Taxes . Each of the Company and its subsidiaries have paid all Mexican, U.S. and other taxes and filed all tax returns required to be paid or filed through the date of the Pricing Agreement, except with respect to any taxes which are being contested in good faith and as to which appropriate reserves have been established by the Company or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and, except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no material tax deficiency that has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets except for taxes that are being contested in good faith and as to which appropriate reserves have been established by the Company.

(y) Licenses and Permits . The Company and its subsidiaries possess all material concessions, licenses, certificates, permits, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate Mexican, U.S. or other governmental or regulatory authorities, and courts that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such material concession, license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such concession, license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course relating to the conduct of the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ businesses as conducted on the date hereof.

(z) No Labor Disputes . No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the best knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened other than disputes involving employees in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and except for any such labor disturbance or dispute that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa) Compliance with Environmental Laws . The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are, and at all times prior to the date hereof have been, in compliance with any and all applicable Mexican, U.S. or other laws, rules, regulations, decisions and orders relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “ Environmental Laws ”); (ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; and (iii) have not received notice of any actual or potential liability for the investigation or remediation of any disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, except in any such case for any such failure to comply with, or failure to receive required permits, licenses or approvals, or liability, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(bb) Reporting Company . The Company is subject to, and in compliance with, the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and files reports with the SEC on the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) System.

 

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(cc) Stamp and Transfer Taxes . Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, with respect to non-residents of Mexico, there are no stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes payable by or on behalf of any Underwriter to Mexico or to any taxing authority thereof or therein solely as a result of (i) the delivery of the Securities by the Company to the Underwriters in the manner contemplated by the Pricing Agreement; (ii) payments of the principal, interest and other amounts in respect of the Securities to holders of the Securities; or (iii) the sale and delivery of the Securities by the Underwriters to subsequent purchasers thereof in accordance with the terms of the Pricing Agreement.

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

(ee) No Unlawful Payments . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any equivalent provision of Mexican law.

(ff) No Restrictions on Subsidiaries . Except as set forth in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.

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

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

(ii) Compliance with Sarbanes Oxley . The Company and its directors or officers, in their capacities as such, are and have been at all times in compliance in all material respects with each applicable provision of the U.S. Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith.

(jj) Compliance with Money Laundering Laws . The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the U.S. Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, and the money laundering statutes of Mexico, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental or regulatory authorities in such jurisdictions (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory authorities or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(kk) Compliance with OFAC . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best knowledge of the Company, any of its or their directors, officers, employees or agents is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“ OFAC ”); and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds from the offering and sale of the Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC or any activities carried out or to be carried out in any jurisdiction subject to U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

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(ll) Disclosure Controls . The Company and its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

4. Further Agreements of the Company . The Company covenants and agrees with the Underwriters that:

(a) Required Filings . The Company will file the Prospectus with the SEC within the time period specified by Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, and will comply with any filing obligations it may have pursuant to Sections 5(a) and 5(b) hereof in respect of any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined herein).

(b) Payment of Filing Fee . The Company will pay the registration fees required by the SEC relating to the Securities within the time and otherwise in accordance with Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act.

(c) Delivery of Copies . The Company will deliver to the Representatives as many copies of the Registration Statement (including all exhibits thereto) and, during the period when the delivery of a prospectus relating to the Securities (or in lieu thereof, the notice required by Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required to be delivered under the Securities Act in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities by any Underwriter or dealer, as many copies of the Prospectus, any other prospectus relating to the Securities, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any and all amendments and supplements to each such document as the Representatives may reasonably request.

(d) Amendments or Supplements . During the period when the delivery of a prospectus relating to the Securities (or in lieu thereof, the notice required by Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required to be delivered under the Securities Act in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities by the Underwriters or any dealer, before making or distributing any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the Registration Statement, the Company will promptly inform the Underwriters thereof and furnish to the Underwriters and U.S. and Mexican counsel to the Underwriters a copy of the proposed amendment or supplement for review, and will not distribute any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object; and the Company will also advise the Underwriters promptly of the filing of any such amendment or supplement.

(e) Notice to the Underwriters . The Company will advise the Underwriters promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) of the issuance by any governmental or regulatory authority of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any part thereof, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act, (ii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection to the use of the Registration Statement, any amendment or supplement thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, (iii) of any request by the SEC for additional information relating to the Registration Statement, any amendment or supplement thereto, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, (iv) of the occurrence of any event at any time prior to the completion of the initial offering of the Securities as a result of which the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

 

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(f) Ongoing Compliance Matters .

(i) If, at any time when the delivery of a prospectus relating to the Securities (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required to be delivered under the Securities Act in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities by the Underwriters or any dealer, (A) any event will occur or condition will exist as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (B) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or file a new registration statement to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to Section 4(d) hereof, furnish to the Underwriters such amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or new registration statement as may be necessary so that the statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law. Neither the consent to, nor the delivery of, any such amendment or supplement by the Underwriters will constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth herein.

(ii) If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information then contained in the Registration Statement or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at that subsequent time, not misleading, (A) the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Representatives and (B) the Company has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

(g) Blue Sky Qualification . The Company will qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the offering and resale of the Securities; provided that the Company will not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify; (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction; or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.

(h) Use of Proceeds . The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities as disclosed under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.

(i) Information Updates . For a period of two years following the Closing Date, the Company will furnish to the Underwriters copies of such publicly available financial or other information in respect of the Company as may reasonably be requested by the Underwriters from time to time.

(j) Earnings Statements . As soon as practicable, but not later than 18 months, after the date of the Pricing Agreement, the Company will make generally available to its securityholders an earnings statement covering a period of at least 12 months beginning after the date hereof and satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158 of the Securities Act).

(k) Clear Market Provision . During the period beginning on the date of the Pricing Agreement and continuing to and including the business day following the Closing Date, the Company will not offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of, or guaranteed by, the Company which are substantially similar to the Securities.

(l) Listing . The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and complete the necessary documentation and other requirements for, the listing of the Securities as specified in the Pricing Agreement.

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

 

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(n) Process Agent . For so long as any Securities remain outstanding, the Company will maintain an authorized agent upon whom process may be served in any legal suit, action or proceeding based on or arising under the Pricing Agreement, and promptly communicate in writing to the Underwriters of any change of such authorized agent.

(o) Stamp Tax . The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any documentary, stamp or similar issue tax, including any interest and penalties, on the creation, issue and sale of the Securities and on the execution and delivery of the Pricing Agreement.

(p) Renewal of Shelf Registration Statement . If immediately prior to the third anniversary (the “ Renewal Deadline ”) of the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, any of the Securities remain unsold, the Company will, prior to the Renewal Deadline file, if it has not already done so and is eligible to do so, a new automatic shelf registration statement relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to the Representatives. If the Company is no longer eligible to file an automatic shelf registration statement, the Company will, prior to the Renewal Deadline, if it has not already done so, file a new shelf registration statement relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to the Representatives, and will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days after the Renewal Deadline. The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration statement relating to the Securities. References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new automatic shelf registration statement or such new shelf registration statement, as the case may be.

5. Free Writing Prospectuses .

(a) The Company represents, warrants and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives, and each of the Underwriters represents, warrants and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company (including by virtue of the consent provided in Section 5(b) below) and the Representatives, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act). Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company and the Representatives pursuant to the preceding sentence is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents, warrants and agrees that it has treated and will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act), and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely SEC filing where required, legending and record keeping.

(b) The Company will prepare the Final Term Sheet and will file the Final Term Sheet within the period required by Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) under the Securities Act following the date such final terms have been established for all classes of the offering of the Securities. The Final Term Sheet constitutes an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and a Permitted Free Writing Prospectus for purposes of the Pricing Agreement. The Company consents to the use by any Underwriter of a free writing prospectus that (i) would not be required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act or (ii) contains only information that describes, or is consistent with, the final terms of the Securities or their offering and that is included in the Final Term Sheet.

6. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations . The obligation of the Underwriters to purchase Securities on the Closing Date pursuant to the Pricing Agreement is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties . The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein will be true and correct at the Applicable Time and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to the Pricing Agreement will be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.

(b) Filing of Prospectus; etc . The Prospectus, the Final Term Sheet and any other Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will have been filed with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and Section 4(a) hereof; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued, no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC, and no notice of objection of the SEC to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act shall have been received by the Company; and all requests for additional information on the part of the SEC shall have been complied with to the Representatives’ reasonable satisfaction.

 

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(c) No Downgrade . Subsequent to the execution and delivery of the Pricing Agreement, (i) neither Standard & Poor’s Rating Group (“ S&P ”) nor Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“ Moody’s ”) will have downgraded the Securities or any other debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company and (ii) neither S&P nor Moody’s will have announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of the Securities or of any other debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).

(d) No Material Adverse Change . Subsequent to the Applicable Time, no event or condition of a type disclosed in Section 3(g) hereof will have occurred or will exist, which event or condition is not disclosed in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(e) CNBV Notice . The Company will notify the CNBV of the offer of the Securities in accordance with Article 7 of the Mexican Securities Market Law ( Ley del Mercado de Valores ).

(f) Officers’ Certificates . The Underwriters will have received on and as of the Closing Date a certificate of an executive officer of the Company who has specific knowledge of the Company’s financial matters and is satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that such officer has carefully reviewed the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and, to the best knowledge of such officer, the representation set forth in Section 3(a) hereof is true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company in the Pricing Agreement are true and correct and that the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, (iii) that no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (or any part thereof) or any notice that would prevent its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act have been instituted or are, to the knowledge of such officer, threatened, by the SEC and (iv) to the effect set forth in Sections 6(c) and 6(d) hereof.

(g) Comfort Letters . At the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, Mancera, S.C., A member practice of Ernst & Young Global, will have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the Applicable Time and the Closing Date, respectively, and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided that the letters delivered will use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to their respective delivery dates.

(h) Opinions of U.S. Counsel to the Company . Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, special U.S. counsel to the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, their written opinions and letters, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in the form and substance separately agreed to by the Representatives.

(i) Opinions of Mexican Counsel to the Company . Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C., special Mexican counsel to the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, their written opinions and letters, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in the form and substance separately agreed to by the Representatives.

(j) Opinions of U.S. Counsel to the Underwriters . The Underwriters shall have received on and as of the Closing Date the written opinions and letters of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, U.S. counsel to the Underwriters, or such other firm or attorney as may be reasonably acceptable to the Representatives, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

 

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(k) Opinions of Mexican Counsel to the Underwriters . The Underwriters shall have received on and as of the Closing Date the written opinions and letter of Greenberg Traurig, S.C., Mexican counsel to the Underwriters, or such other firm or attorney as may be reasonably acceptable to the Representatives, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(l) No Legal Impediment to Issuance . No action will have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order will have been enacted, adopted or issued by any Mexican, U.S. or other governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any Mexican, U.S. or other court will have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities.

(m) No Event of Default . At the Closing Date, after giving effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, there will exist no default or event of default under the Indenture.

(n) Clearance and Settlement . If the Pricing Agreement specifies that the Securities will clear and settle through one or more clearing systems, the Securities will be eligible for clearance and settlement through such clearing system or systems.

(o) Corporate Proceedings . All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each Transaction Document and all other legal matters relating to the Pricing Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby will be reasonably satisfactory in all respects to the Representatives, and the Company will have furnished to U.S. and Mexican counsel to the Underwriters, all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

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

7. Indemnification and Contribution .

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters . The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and its affiliates and the directors, officers, employees and agents of each Underwriter or any such affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented 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, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the 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 (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, 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, Underwriter Information.

(b) Indemnification of the Company . Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers, and each person, if any, who controls the Company 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 Section 7(a) hereof, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, Underwriter Information.

(c) Notice and Procedures . If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand will be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either Section 7(a) hereof or Section 7(b) hereof, such person (the “ Indemnified Person ”) will 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 will not relieve it from any liability that it may

 

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have under Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof, 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 will not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof. If any such proceeding will be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it will have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person will retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section 7 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and will pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person will have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel will be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person will 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 will have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person will 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 will be reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for the Underwriters, their affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of the Underwriters will be designated in writing by the Representatives on the behalf of the Underwriters, and any such separate firm for the Company and any control persons of the Company will be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person will not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent (which consent will not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees, subject to the provisions of this Section 7, to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person will have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this Section 7(c), the Indemnifying Person will be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person will not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person will, 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 or contribution could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

(d) Contribution . If the indemnification provided for in Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof 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 Sections, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, will 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 on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities 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 on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other will be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Securities and the total discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, as provided in the Pricing Agreement, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other will be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

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

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

8. Termination . The Pricing Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of the Pricing Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally will have been suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ market, the Mexican Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market in the United States or Mexico or minimum prices will have been established on any of such exchanges or such market by such exchange or by any regulatory body having jurisdiction over such exchange or market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company will have been suspended on any exchange or the over-the-counter market in the United States or Mexico; (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States or Mexico will have occurred; (iv) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities will have been declared by U.S. federal or New York State authorities or by Mexican authorities; (v) there will have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that in the judgment of the Representatives is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by the Pricing Agreement and the Prospectus; (vi) any material adverse change or development involving a prospective material adverse change in taxation, exchange controls or other applicable law or regulation in the United States or Mexico directly affecting the Securities or the imposition of restrictions on repatriation of remittances or interest payments or dividends from Mexico, the effect of which change or development on the financial markets of the United States, Mexico or elsewhere is such as to make it inadvisable or impracticable to market the Securities; or (vii) there will have been such a material adverse change in U.S., Mexican or international monetary, general economic, political or financial conditions as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, inadvisable to proceed with the payment for and delivery of the Securities.

9. Payment of Expenses .

(a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by the Pricing Agreement are consummated or the Pricing Agreement is terminated, the Company will, subject to Section 9(b) hereof, pay or cause to be paid all fees, expenses and costs incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including, without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any documentary, stamp, transfer or similar taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation and/or printing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus (including any amendment or supplement thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing each of the Transaction Documents; (iv) the fees and expenses of U.S. and Mexican counsel to the Company; (v) the fees and expenses of the independent public accountants of the Company; (vi) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate; (vii) all expenses and application fees related to the admission to listing, trading and/or quotation of the Securities on any listing authority, exchange or system; (viii) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (ix) the fees

 

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and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties); (x) any expenses and application fees incurred in connection with the approval of the Securities for book-entry transfer by DTC or other depositary; and (xi) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, solely if the transactions contemplated by the Pricing Agreement are consummated, the Underwriters will reimburse the Company for the fees, expenses and costs, if any, specified in the Pricing Agreement.

(b) If (i) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Securities for delivery to the Underwriters or (ii) the Underwriters decline to purchase the Securities for any reason permitted hereunder, the Company agrees to reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with the Pricing Agreement and the offering contemplated thereby.

10. Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement . The Pricing Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Representatives and the Company and their respective successors and any controlling persons referred to in Section 7(b) hereof, and the affiliates, officers and directors of the Underwriters referred to in Section 7(a) hereof. Nothing in the Pricing Agreement is intended or will be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of the Pricing Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Securities from the Underwriters will be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.

11. Process Agent . Each of the parties hereto irrevocably agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon the Pricing Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in any U.S. federal or New York state court located in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and any competent court located in the domicile of such party, with respect to actions brought against it as defendant, and irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding and waives any right to which it may be entitled on account of place of residence or domicile and irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. The Company has appointed CT Corporation System as its authorized agent (the “ Authorized Agent ”) upon which process may be served in any such action arising out of or based on the Pricing Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby which may be instituted in any New York court by any Underwriter or by any person who controls such Underwriter, designates CT Corporation System’s address in New York City as its designated address to receive such process, expressly consents to the jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such action, and waives any other requirements of or objections to personal jurisdiction with respect thereto. Such appointment of the Authorized Agent will not be revoked by any action taken by the Company. The Company represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has agreed to act as said agent for service of process, and the Company agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents, agreement and instruments, that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Personal service of process upon the Authorized Agent in any manner permitted by applicable law and written notice of such service to the Company will be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Company.

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

13. Additional Amounts . If the compensation (including the Underwriters’ commissions and concessions) or any other amounts to be received by the Underwriters under the Pricing Agreement (including, without limitation, indemnification and contribution payments), as a result of entering into the Pricing Agreement, are subject to any present or future taxes, assessments, deductions, withholdings or charges of any nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of Mexico or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein (“ Mexican Taxes ”), then the Company will pay to the Underwriters an additional amount so that the Underwriters will retain, after taking into consideration all such Mexican Taxes, an amount equal to the amounts owed to them as compensation or otherwise under the Pricing Agreement as if such amounts had not been subject to Mexican Taxes. If any Mexican Taxes are collected by deduction or withholding, the Company will upon request provide to the Underwriters copies of documentation evidencing the transmittal to the proper authorities of the amount of Mexican Taxes deducted or withheld.

 

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14. Judgment Currency . The Company will indemnify each Underwriter, jointly and severally, against any loss incurred by them as a result of any judgment or order against the Company, being given or made and expressed and paid in a currency (“ Judgment Currency ”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of such judgment or order and (ii) the spot rate of exchange in New York, New York at which such Underwriter on the date of payment of such judgment or order are able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received by such Underwriter. The foregoing indemnity will constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company and will continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “spot rate of exchange” will include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, U.S. dollars.

15. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship . The Company acknowledges and agrees that:

(a) the Underwriters have been retained solely to act as underwriters in connection with the sale of the Securities and that no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Underwriters has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by the Pricing Agreement, irrespective of whether the Underwriters have advised or are advising the Company on other matters;

(b) the price of the securities set forth in the Pricing Agreement was established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Underwriters, and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding and understands and accepts the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Pricing Agreement;

(c) any review by the Underwriters of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and will not be on behalf of the Company;

(d) it has been advised that the Underwriters and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Underwriters have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and

(e) it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Underwriters for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Underwriters shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.

16. Miscellaneous .

(a) Notices . All notices and other communications hereunder will be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters will be given to the Representatives at the addresses set forth in the Pricing Agreement. Notices to the Company will be given at Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso, Edificio Telcel, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11529, Mexico City, Mexico (fax: 5255-2581-4440); Attention: General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer.

(b) Governing Law . The Pricing Agreement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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

 

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

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

17. Defaulting Underwriter .

(a) If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Securities by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company will be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Securities on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel to the Company or counsel to the Underwriters may be necessary in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package, the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Time of Sale Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement that, pursuant to this Section 17, purchases Securities that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.

(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in Section 17(a) hereof, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, then the Company will have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.

(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in Section 17(a) hereof, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in Section 17(b) hereof, then this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 17 will be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 9(a) hereof and provided that the provisions of Section 7 hereof will not terminate and will remain in effect.

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

 

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Exhibit A—Form of Pricing Agreement

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. de C.V.

[Title of Debt Securities]

 

 

PRICING AGREEMENT

            , 20    

To: The Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This Pricing Agreement incorporates the Underwriting Agreement—Standard Provisions of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “ Company ”), dated October 1, 2018 (the “ Standard Provisions ”), as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2018 as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-3 (No. 333-[                  ]), subject to the specific provisions set forth below.

On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Pricing Agreement, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter named in Schedule I hereto, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company, the principal amount set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule I hereto of the securities described below (the “ Securities ”).

Title of Securities :

Aggregate Principal Amount of Securities :

Interest :

Maturity Date :

Redemption :

Listing :

Settlement :

Public Offering Price :     % of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from                  , 20      .

Purchase Price (payable by the Underwriters):     % of the principal amount, plus accrued interest, if any, from                  , 20      .

[ Exchange Rate for Purchase Price : Ps.                  to U.S.$1.00.]

Applicable Time :                  [a.m./p.m.] (New York City time) on                  , 20      .

Time of Sale Disclosure Package : as defined in the Standard Provisions, plus                  .

Closing : 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on                  , 20      , at the offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

Representative(s) :

Representatives’ Address(es) for Notices :

Indenture : the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the                  Supplemental Indenture to the Base Indenture dated as of the Closing Date (the “ Supplemental Indenture ”).

 

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Payment of Expenses :

Opinions : The opinions and letters to be delivered on the Closing Date for purposes of Sections 6(h) and 6(i) of the Standard Provisions shall be substantially in the forms [attached as Exhibits [                  ] and [                  ] hereto] [previously agreed in principle with you], each of which is in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you.

Underwriter Information :

[ Other Provisions :]

The respective principal amounts of the Securities to be purchased by each of the Underwriters are set forth opposite their names in Schedule I hereto.

The provisions of the Standard Provisions are incorporated herein by reference. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Standard Provisions.

This Pricing Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered shall constitute a duplicate original, but all counterparts together shall constitute a single agreement.

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company one of the counterparts hereof, whereupon it will become a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

By

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

By

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

The foregoing Pricing Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written.
[            ] acting on behalf of [itself][themselves] and as Representative[s] of the several Underwriters named on Schedule I hereto
By  

 

  Name:
  Title:
[By  

 

  Name:
  Title:]

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriters

   Principal Amount
of Securities to be Purchased
 

Total

  
  

 

 

 
  
  

 

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE II

Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Time of Sale Disclosure Package:

 

   

Final Term Sheet, dated                  , 20      in the form to be filed pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

 

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.,

Citibank, N.A.

as Trustee, Registrar, and Transfer Agent

and

Citibank, N.A., London Branch

as Paying Agent

 

 

I NDENTURE

Dated as of October 1, 2018

 

 

Debt Securities

 

 


Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310

through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

 

      Trust

Indenture Act

     Section

  

Indenture

Section

§ 310(a)(1)

   609

(a)(2)

   609

(a)(3)

   Not Applicable

(a)(4)

   Not Applicable

(b)

   608
   610

§ 311(a)

   613

(b)

   613

§ 312(a)

   701
   702

(b)

   702

(c)

   702

§ 313(a)

   703

(b)

   703

(c)

   703

(d)

   703

§ 313(a)

   704

(a)(4)

   101
   1004

(b)

   Not Applicable

(c)(1)

   102

(c)(2)

   102

(c)(3)

   Not Applicable

(d)

   Not Applicable

(e)

   102

§ 315(a)

   601

(b)

   602

(c)

   601

(d)

   601

(e)

   513

§ 316(a)

   101

(a)(1)(A)

   502
   512

(a)(1)(B)

   513

(a)(2)

   Not Applicable

(b)

   508

(c)

   104

§ 317(a)(1)

   503

 

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(a)(2)

   504

(b)

   1003

§ 318(a)

   107

 

Note:

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

 

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Table of Contents

 

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ARTICLE ONE

   DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION      1  

Section 101.

   Definitions      1  

Section 102.

   Compliance Certificates and Opinions      9  

Section 103.

   Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee      10  

Section 104.

   Acts of Holders; Record Dates      11  

Section 105.

   Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Paying Agent and Company      13  

Section 106.

   Notice to Holders; Waiver      13  

Section 107.

   Conflict with Trust Indenture Act      14  

Section 108.

   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents      14  

Section 109.

   Successors and Assigns      14  

Section 110.

   Separability Clause      14  

Section 111.

   Counterparts      15  

Section 112.

   Benefits of Indenture      15  

Section 113.

   Governing Law      15  

Section 114.

   Legal Holidays      15  

Section 115.

   Consent to Service; Jurisdiction      15  

Section 116.

   Language of Notices, Etc.      16  

ARTICLE TWO

   SECURITY FORMS      16  

Section 201.

   Forms Generally      16  

Section 202.

   Form of Face of Security      17  

Section 203.

   Form of Reverse of Security      20  

ARTICLE THREE

   THE SECURITIES      25  

Section 301.

   Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series      25  

Section 302.

   Denominations      28  

Section 303.

   Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating      28  

Section 304.

   Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange      29  

Section 305.

   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities      32  

Section 306.

   Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved      33  

Section 307.

   Persons Deemed Owners      34  

Section 308.

   Cancellation      34  

Section 309.

   Computation of Interest      35  

Section 310.

   CUSIP and ISIN Numbers      35  

ARTICLE FOUR

   SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE      35  

Section 401.

   Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture      35  

Section 402.

   Application of Trust Money      36  

 

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(continued)

 

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ARTICLE FIVE

   REMEDIES      37  

Section 501.

   Events of Default      37  

Section 502.

   Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment      38  

Section 503.

   Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee      39  

Section 504.

   Trustee May File Proofs of Claim      40  

Section 505.

   Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities      40  

Section 506.

   Application of Money Collected      41  

Section 507.

   Limitation on Suits      41  

Section 508.

   Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert      42  

Section 509.

   Restoration of Rights and Remedies      42  

Section 510.

   Rights and Remedies Cumulative      42  

Section 511.

   Delay or Omission Not Waiver      42  

Section 512.

   Control by Holders      43  

Section 513.

   Waiver of Past Defaults      43  

Section 514.

   Undertaking for Costs      43  

Section 515.

   Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws      44  

ARTICLE SIX

   THE TRUSTEE      44  

Section 601.

   Certain Duties and Responsibilities      44  

Section 602.

   Notice of Defaults      45  

Section 603.

   Certain Rights of Trustee      45  

Section 604.

   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities      47  

Section 605.

   May Hold Securities      48  

Section 606.

   Money Held in Trust      48  

Section 607.

   Compensation and Reimbursement      48  

Section 608.

   Conflicting Interests      49  

Section 609.

   Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility      49  

Section 610.

   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor      49  

Section 611.

   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor      51  

Section 612.

   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business      52  

Section 613.

   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company      52  

Section 614.

   Appointment of Authenticating Agent      52  

Section 615.

   Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company      54  

ARTICLE SEVEN

   HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY      54  

Section 701.

   Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders      54  

 

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Section 702.

   Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders      55  

Section 703.

   Reports by Trustee      55  

Section 704.

   Reports by Company      55  

ARTICLE EIGHT

   CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE      56  

Section 801.

   Company May Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms      56  

Section 802.

   Successor Substituted      56  

ARTICLE NINE

   SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES      57  

Section 901.

   Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders      57  

Section 902.

   Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders      58  

Section 903.

   Execution of Supplemental Indentures      59  

Section 904.

   Effect of Supplemental Indentures      60  

Section 905.

   Conformity with Trust Indenture Act      60  

Section 906.

   Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures      60  

ARTICLE TEN

   COVENANTS      60  

Section 1001.

   Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest      60  

Section 1002.

   Maintenance of Office or Agency      60  

Section 1003.

   Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust      61  

Section 1004.

   Statement by Officers as to Default      63  

Section 1005.

   Exchange Act Reports      63  

Section 1006.

   Limitation on Liens      64  

Section 1007.

   [Reserved]      65  

Section 1008.

   Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions      65  

Section 1009.

   Payment of Additional Amounts      66  

Section 1010.

   Indemnification of Judgment Currency      69  

Section 1011.

   Waiver of Certain Covenants      70  

Section 1012.

   Calculation of Original Issue Discount      70  

ARTICLE ELEVEN

   REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES      70  

Section 1101.

   Right of Redemption      70  

Section 1102.

   Notice of Redemption      71  

Section 1103.

   Deposit of Redemption Price      72  

Section 1104.

   Securities Payable on Redemption Date      72  

Section 1105.

   Securities Redeemed in Part      72  

ARTICLE TWELVE

   LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE      73  

Section 1201.

   Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      73  

 

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Section 1202.

   Legal Defeasance and Discharge      73  

Section 1203.

   Covenant Defeasance      74  

Section 1204.

   Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      74  

Section 1205.

   Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions      76  

Section 1206.

   Reinstatement      76  

 

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INDENTURE , dated as of October 1, 2018, among América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “Company”), a sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable organized and existing under the laws of the United Mexican States (“Mexico”), having its principal office at Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso, Edificio Telcel, 4th floor, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, 11529, Mexico City, Mexico, Citibank, N.A., a national banking association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”), registrar and transfer agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, a national banking association, as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”).

RECITALS

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its debt securities (herein called collectively the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase and acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof, as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS

OF GENERAL APPLICATION

SECTION 101.     Definitions .

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

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

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

(3)    all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as in effect from time to time (“IFRS”);

 

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(4)    any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or Section, as the case may be, of this Indenture;

(5)    any reference to a statute, rule or regulation refers to the same (including any successor statute, rule or regulation thereto) as it may be amended from time to time; and

(6)    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.

“Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

“Additional Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

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

“Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Clause (5) of the last paragraph of Section 304.

“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of the Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.

“Attributable Debt” means, with respect to any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, the lesser of (1) the fair market value of the asset subject to such transaction and (2) the present value, discounted at a rate per annum equal to the discount rate inherent in the applicable lease, of the obligations of the lessee for net rental payments (excluding amounts on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments and similar charges and contingent rents) during the term of the lease (as determined in good faith by the Company in accordance with IFRS).

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.

“beneficial owner” has the meaning determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act and the terms “beneficial ownership” and “beneficially owned” have meanings correlative to the definition of beneficial owner.

 

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“Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act for it in respect hereof.

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

“Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is (i) not a day on which banking institutions in New York City, London, or Mexico City generally are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close and (ii) a day on which banks and financial institutions in Mexico are open for business with the general public.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme .

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

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” 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 “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the General Counsel or any head of division of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means total consolidated assets less (i) all current liabilities, (ii) all goodwill, (iii) all trade names, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property assets and (iv) all licenses, each as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with IFRS.

“Corporate Trust Office” means (i) with respect to the Trustee, the principal office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered which office as of the date hereof (i) solely for purposes of surrender for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase or for conversion is located at 480 Washington Boulevard, 30th Floor, Jersey City, New Jersey, Attention: Agency & Trust – América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. , and (ii) for all other purposes is located at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013, Attention: Agency & Trust – América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., or such other office as the Trustee may from time to time designate in writing to the Company, and (ii) with respect to the Paying

 

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Agent, is located at Citibank, N.A., London Branch, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB, United Kingdom, Attention: Agency & Trust – América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., or such other office as the Paying Agent may from time to time designate in writing to the Company.

“corporation” means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock company or business trust.

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 306.

“Depositary” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part of the form of one or more Global Securities, any of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream and their respective nominees and successors.

“Dollar” and “$” mean a U.S. dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, New York.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System, and its successors.

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (including any successor act thereto), as it may be amended from time to time, and (unless the context otherwise requires) includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 104(g).

“Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and is authenticated and delivered to, and registered in the name of, the Depositary for such Securities or a nominee thereof.

“Government Securities” means (i) direct obligations of the United States of America or a government, governmental agency or central bank of the country whose currency is the Security Currency, (ii) obligations the timely payment of the principal of and interest on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or a government, governmental agency or central bank of the country whose currency is the Security Currency, and (iii) certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments which evidence a direct ownership interest in obligations described in Clause (i) or (ii) above or in any specific principal or interest payments due in respect thereof.

 

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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 to 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.

“Holder” means, with respect to any Security, a Person in whose name such Security is registered in the Register.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation, or the guarantee of any obligation, for the payment or repayment of money borrowed or otherwise evidenced by debentures, notes, bonds or similar instruments or any other obligation that would appear or be treated as indebtedness upon a balance sheet if such Person prepared it in accordance with IFRS from time to time.

“Indenture” means this Indenture as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more supplemental indentures hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture, respectively. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.

“Interest Payment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security, the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 1010.

“Lien” means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, hypothecation, security interest or other encumbrance, including, without limitation, any equivalent of the foregoing created under the laws of Mexico or any other jurisdiction.

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

“Mexican Income Tax Law” means the Ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta .

“Mexican Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 1009.

 

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“Mexico” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture.

“Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501(3).

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the General Counsel, the Treasurer or any head of division of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for the Company, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

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

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

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

(iii)    Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 305 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a protected purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.

 

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“Paying Agent” means the Person named as the “Paying Agent” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Paying Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

“Permitted Holder” means, at any time, any Person who, at such time, is the Holder of at least U.S.$5,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Securities.

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

“Place of Payment” means, when used with respect to the Securities of any series and subject to Section 1002, the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.

“Predecessor Security” means, with respect to any particular Security, every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 305 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

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

“Redemption Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture as set forth in such Security.

“Register” and “Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 304.

“Regular Record Date” means, for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series, the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

“Restricted Property” means (i) any exchange and transmission equipment, switches, cellular base stations, microcells, local links, repeaters and related facilities, whether owned as of the date of the indenture or acquired after that date, used in connection with the provision of telecommunications services in Mexico, including any land, buildings, structures and other equipment or fixtures that constitute any such facility, owned by us or our restricted subsidiaries and (ii) any share of capital stock of any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

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“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that owns Restricted Property.

“Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement with a bank, insurance company, or other lender or investor that provides for the leasing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for an initial term of three years or more of any Restricted Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, that is to be sold or transferred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for a sale price of U.S.$1,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in other currencies) or more.

“Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 (including any successor act thereto), as it may be amended from time to time, and (unless the context otherwise requires) includes the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Security Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 1010.

“Special Record Date” means, for the payment of any Defaulted Interest, a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 306.

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

“Subsidiary” means (i) a corporation more than 50% of the combined voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company or by the Company and one or more Subsidiaries thereof or (ii) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which the Company, or one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company or the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries thereof, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority ownership and power to direct the policies, management and affairs thereof.

“tax” means any tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge, including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto, and, for the avoidance of doubt, including any withholding or deduction for or on account of tax. “Taxes” has a meaning correlative to the foregoing.

 

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“Transfer Agent” means the Person named as the “Transfer Agent” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Transfer Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

“transfer” means, with respect to any Security, any sale, pledge, transfer, hypothecation or other disposition of such Security or any interest therein.

“Trust Indenture Act” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (including any successor act thereto), as it may be amended from time to time, and (unless the context otherwise requires) includes the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

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

“UK FCA Client Money Rules” means the FCA Client Money Rules, being the rules in relation to client money issued by the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom from time to time.

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

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, capital stock of or other ownership interest in such Person which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors of (or Persons performing similar functions for) such Person, whether at all times or only as long as no senior class of securities or other ownership interests has such voting power by reason of any contingency. For the purpose of calculating the percentage of (i) the combined voting power of the Voting Stock of any Person that is represented by (ii) any capital stock of or other ownership interests in such Person, all capital stock of and other ownership interests in such Person that are beneficially owned by such Person will be excluded in determining the combined voting power described in Clause (i) but will not be excluded from (if otherwise included in) the capital stock or other ownership interests described in Clause (ii).

SECTION 102.     Compliance Certificates and Opinions .

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be reasonably required hereunder. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.

 

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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include:

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

(2)    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;

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

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

SECTION 103.     Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee .

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

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

 

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SECTION 104.     Acts of Holders; Record Dates .

(a)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section 104.

(b)    The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

(c)    The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Register and the Trustee may rely on such information and shall not be affected by notice to the contrary.

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

(e)    The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series; provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date

 

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previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

(f)    The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and without any action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), nor shall anything in this paragraph be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

(g)    With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 104, the party hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 104, the party hereto that set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.

 

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Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

SECTION 105.     Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Paying Agent and Company .

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

(1)    the Trustee or the Paying Agent by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (which may be by facsimile) to or with the Trustee or the Paying Agent at its Corporate Trust Office, or

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

The Trustee may rely upon and comply with instructions or directions sent by any Holder or by the Company via unsecured facsimile or email transmission and the Trustee shall not be liable for any loss, liability or expense of any kind incurred by the Company or any Holder due to the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions or directions; provided , however , that such losses, liabilities or expenses have not arisen from the negligence or willful misconduct of the Trustee, it being understood that the failure of the Trustee to verify or confirm that the person providing the instructions or directions, is, in fact, an authorized representative of the Holder or the Company does not constitute negligence or willful misconduct.

SECTION 106.     Notice to Holders; Waiver .

Notices to Holders of any securities that are not in the form of a Global Security shall be mailed to them by first-class by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee. Notices to the Holders of any Securities that are not in the form of a Global Security shall be given to the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

Notices shall be deemed to have been given on the date of delivery to the depositary or mailing, as applicable.

Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder of any Securities that are not in the form of a Global Security shall be mailed to such Holder’s address as it appears on the Register and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed.

 

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In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

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.

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

SECTION 107.     Conflict with Trust Indenture Act .

Subsequent to the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, if any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. Subsequent to the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, if any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

SECTION 108.     Effect of Headings and Table of Contents .

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

SECTION 109.     Successors and Assigns .

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

SECTION 110.     Separability Clause .

In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions contained in this Indenture, and to the extent and only to the extent that any such provision is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, this Indenture shall be construed as if such provision had never been contained herein.

 

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SECTION 111.     Counterparts .

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

SECTION 112.     Benefits of Indenture .

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

SECTION 113.     Governing Law; Waiver of Trial by Jury .

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

EACH PARTY HERETO (EXCEPT, FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, THE HOLDERS OF THE SECURITIES) HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INDENTURE.

SECTION 114.     Legal Holidays .

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) 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 Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity, as the case may be; provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

SECTION 115.     Consent to Service; Jurisdiction .

Each party hereto agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture or the Securities may be instituted in any U.S. federal or New York state court in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in the courts of its own corporate domicile, in respect of actions brought against each such party as a defendant, and each waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such legal suit, action or proceeding, waives any immunity from jurisdiction or to service of process in respect of any such suit, action or proceeding, waives any right to which it may be entitled on account of place of residence or domicile

 

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and irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding. The Company hereby designates and appoints CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011, as its authorized agent upon which process may be served in any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture or the Securities which may be instituted in any U.S. federal or New York state court in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, and agrees that service of process upon such agent, and written notice, or notice in any other manner permitted by applicable law, of said service to the Company by the Person serving the same, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company in any such suit, action or proceeding and further designates its domicile, the domicile of CT Corporation System specified above and any domicile CT Corporation System may have in the future as its domicile to receive any notice hereunder (including service of process). If for any reason CT Corporation System (or any successor agent for this purpose) shall cease to act as agent for service of process as provided above, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor agent for this purpose reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The Company agrees to take any and all actions as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such agent in full force and effect.

SECTION 116.     Language of Notices, Etc .

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

ARTICLE TWO

SECURITY FORMS

SECTION 201.     Forms Generally .

The Securities and the Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article Two or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more supplemental indentures hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary thereof or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

 

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The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders 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 202.     Form of Face of Security .

[ INCLUDE IF SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY — THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, WHICH MAY BE TREATED BY AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V., THE TRUSTEE AND ANY AGENT THEREOF AS OWNER AND HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY FOR ALL PURPOSES.]

[ INCLUDE IF SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY AND THE DEPOSITARY IS THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY —UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) TO AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS CERTIFICATE OR ANY PORTION HEREOF IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR A NOMINEE THEREOF IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR REGISTERED SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE REGISTERED FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES REFERRED TO IN THE INDENTURE, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.]

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.

 

 

 

No.

 

CUSIP No.

  U.S.$

ISIN No.

 
   

 

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América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), a sociedad an ó nima burs á til de capital variable organized and existing under the laws of the United Mexican States (“Mexico”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to …… ……, or registered assigns, the principal sum of …… …… Dollars, as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Security attached hereto on ……(unless earlier redeemed, in which case, on the applicable Redemption Date) [ if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert  — , and to pay interest thereon from ……or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, semi-annually in arrears on ……and ……of each year, commencing on ……, at the rate of ……% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [ if applicable, insert  — ; provided that any principal of and any premium and interest on, this Security which is overdue shall bear interest (to the extent that payment thereof shall be legally enforceable) at the rate per annum then borne by this Security from the date such amount is due to but not including the day it is paid or made available for payment, and such overdue interest shall be paid as provided in Section 306 of the Indenture].

[ If applicable, insert Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.] [ If applicable, insert Interest on the Securities shall be calculated on the basis of a 365-day year and 366-day year, as applicable, with the actual number of days elapsed from and including the last Interest Payment Date (or, with respect to interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date, from the issue date of this Security) to but excluding the Interest Payment Date on which the interest payment falls due.]

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the …… (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof by the Trustee shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which this Security may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture ] .

 

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[ If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert  — The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal [ if applicable, insert and any overdue premium] shall bear interest at the rate of ……% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on any overdue principal [ if applicable, insert or premium] shall be payable on demand. ]

Payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, this Security shall be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent or agency of the Company in London or the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose in such 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, against surrender of this Security in the case of any payment due at the Maturity of the principal thereof; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Register. [ If applicable, insert and; provided, further , that all payments of the principal and interest on this Security, the Permitted Holders of which have given wire transfer instructions to the Trustee in writing, the Company or its agent at least 10 Business Days prior to the applicable payment date, shall be required to be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by such Permitted Holders in such instructions]. [ If the Security is a Global Security, then insert – Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment of any amount payable in respect of a Global Security shall be made in accordance with the Applicable Procedures. ]

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

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

I N W ITNESS W HEREOF , the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

Dated: …… ……

 

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. de C.V.
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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SECTION 203.     Form of Reverse of Security .

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2018 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), Registrar and Transfer Agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as Paying Agent, and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The terms, conditions and provisions of this Security are those stated in the Indenture (including those made a part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act). This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof.

Additional securities on terms and conditions identical to those of this Security (except for issue date, issue price and the date from which interest shall accrue and, if applicable, first be paid) may be issued by the Company without the consent of the Holders of the Securities. The amount evidenced by such additional securities shall increase the aggregate principal amount of, and shall be consolidated and form a single series with, the Securities, in which case the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Security attached hereto will be correspondingly adjusted.

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or of the Securities) payment of principal and premium, if any, or interest 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 Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity, as the case may be; provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

[ If applicable, insert  — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than ……days’ nor more than ……days’ notice, at any time [ if applicable, insert  — on or after ……, 20…], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [ if applicable, insert  — on or before ……,…%, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning …… ……of the years indicated,

 

Year

   Redemption
Price
         Year          Redemption
Price
 
        
        
        
        

 

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and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to …… % of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture. ]

[ If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert  — In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof. ]

[ If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert  — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. ]

[ If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert  — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of all of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount . Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate. ]

All payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of the Securities shall be made after withholding or deduction for any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of Mexico or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax (“Mexican Taxes”). To the extent Mexican Taxes are required to be withheld or deducted from any such payment, the Company shall pay, as provided for in and subject to the exceptions set forth in the Indenture, such additional amounts as may be necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Holder after such withholding or deduction is equal to the amount that the Holder would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required.

The Company shall pay all stamp, issue, registration, documentary or other similar duties, if any, which may be imposed by Mexico or any governmental entity or political subdivision therein or thereof, or any taxing authority of or in any of the foregoing, with respect to the Indenture or the issuance of the Securities.

 

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All references herein, in the Indenture, or in one or more supplemental indentures thereto and the Securities to principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount payable in respect of any Security shall be deemed to include all Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of such principal, premium, interest or other amount payable, unless the context otherwise requires, and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts in any provision hereof or thereof shall not be construed as excluding reference to Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

In the event that Additional Amounts actually paid with respect to the Securities pursuant to the preceding paragraphs are based on rates of deduction or withholding of withholding taxes in excess of the appropriate rate applicable to the Holder of such Securities, and, as a result thereof such Holder is entitled to make claim for a refund or credit of such excess from the authority imposing such withholding tax, then such Holder shall, by accepting such Securities, be deemed to have assigned and transferred all right, title, and interest to any such claim for a refund or credit of such excess to the Company. However, by making such assignment, the Holder makes no representation or warranty that the Company will be entitled to receive such claim for a refund or credit and incurs no other obligation with respect thereto.

All references in the Indenture, one or more supplemental indentures thereto and the Securities to principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include any Redemption Price payable in respect of such Security pursuant to any redemption right hereunder (and all such references to the Stated Maturity of the principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include the Redemption Date with respect to any such Redemption Price), and all such references to principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts shall be deemed to mean and include any amount payable in respect hereof pursuant to Section 1009 of the Indenture.

The Company may, at its option, redeem the Securities upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at any time, in whole but not in part, at a Redemption Price equal to the sum of (A) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed, (B) any accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the Redemption Date, (C) any premium applicable in the case of redemption prior to Maturity and (D) any Additional Amounts which would otherwise be payable thereon up to but not including the Redemption Date, solely if, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of Mexico or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of such laws, rules or regulations, which amendment to or change in such laws, rules or regulations becomes effective on or after …… ……, the Company would be obligated, after taking such measures as the Company may consider reasonable to avoid such requirement, to pay Additional Amounts in excess of the Additional Amounts that the Company would be obligated to pay if payments made on the Securities were subject to withholding or deduction of Mexican Taxes at the rate of 4.9%; provided, however , that (1) no notice of redemption pursuant to this paragraph may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Company would but for such redemption be obligated to pay such Additional Amounts if a payment on the Securities were then due and (2) at the time such notice of redemption is given, the Company’s obligation to pay such Additional Amounts remains in effect.

 

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

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity and/or security satisfactory to it, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity and/or security. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or premium, if any, and/or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

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

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth (including, without limitation, the restrictions on transfer under Section 304 of the Indenture), the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office of the Trustee or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this

 

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Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of U.S.$200,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

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

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

[ If the Security is a Global Security, then insert — This Security is a Global Security and is subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to Global Securities, including the limitations in Section 304 of the Indenture on transfers and exchanges of Global Securities. ]

This Security and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

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

 

 

ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Security, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable law:

 

TEN COM - as tenants in common    UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—                         
   (Cust)                                         
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties    Custodian                          under Uniform
   (Minor)                                                                                          
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right    Gifts to Minors Act                         
of survivorship and not as tenants in common    (State)                                                              

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL SECURITY

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

 

Date of

transfer or

exchange

  

Amount of

decrease in

principal

amount of

this Global

Security

  

Amount of

increase in

principal amount

of this Global

Security

  

Principal amount

of this Global

Security

following such

decrease or

increase

  

Signature of authorized
signatory of Trustee or
Registrar

           

 

 

ARTICLE THREE

THE SECURITIES

SECTION 301.     Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series .

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

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more supplemental indentures hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series,

(1)    the title of the Securities, including “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers, of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

 

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(2)    any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, Section 305, Section 906 or Section 1105 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

(3)    the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;

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

(5)    the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;

(6)    the place or places where the principal of and any premium and interest on Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner in which any payment may be made;

(7)    the period or periods within which, the price or prices at 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 Company;

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

(9)    if other than denominations of U.S.$200,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1,000 in excess thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;

(10)    if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;

 

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(11)    if the amount of payments of principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(12)    if the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on Securities of such series as to which such election is made shall be payable, and the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made;

(13)    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 502;

(14)    the applicability, nonapplicability, or variation, of Section 1009 with respect to the Securities of such series;

(15)    if and as applicable, that the Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depositary or Depositaries for such Global Security or Global Securities and any circumstances other than those set forth in Section 304 in which any such Global Security may be transferred to, and registered and exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and in which any such transfer may be registered;

(16)    the terms and conditions, if any, pursuant to which the Securities are convertible into or exchangeable for any other securities;

(17)    any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to the Securities of the series; and

(18)    any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(5)).

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 the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officer’s Certificate referred to above or in any such supplemental indenture hereto.

 

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

SECTION 302.     Denominations .

Except as contemplated by Section 301, the Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in denominations of U.S.$200,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1,000 in excess thereof.

SECTION 303.     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating .

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any two of its Chief Executive Officer, its Treasurer, its Chief Financial Officer, its General Counsel or any head of division. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

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

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Section 201 and Section 301, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating:

(1)    if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

(2)    if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

(3)    that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, shall constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 

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If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if, in the opinion of counsel to the Trustee, the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officer’s Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

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

SECTION 304.     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange .

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and “Transfer Agent” for the purpose of transferring Securities as herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002 for such purpose, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 304, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount. In acting hereunder and in connection with the Securities, the Registrar and the Transfer Agent shall act solely as agents of the Company, and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationships of agency or trust for or with any Holder.

At the option of the Holder, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 304, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of any same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender

 

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of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 304, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 304, entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

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

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 906 or Section 1105 not involving any transfer.

If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of that series (or of that series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1102 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) below shall apply only to Global Securities:

(1)    Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

(2)    Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture or the Securities, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof unless (A) the Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security and a successor Depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing

 

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agency registered under the Exchange Act and a successor Depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security or (C) a request for certificates has been made by the Company upon 60 days’ prior written notice given to the Trustee in accordance with the Depositary’s customary procedures and a copy of such notice has been received by the Company from the Trustee. Any Global Security exchanged pursuant to Clause (A) above shall be so exchanged in whole and not in part and any Global Security exchanged pursuant to Clause (B) or (C) above may be exchanged in whole or from time to time in part as directed by the Depositary. Any Security issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be a Global Security; provided that any such Security so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global Security.

(3)    Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof pursuant to Clause (2) above shall be issued in definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons, shall have an aggregate principal amount equal to that of such Global Security or portion thereof to be so exchanged, shall be registered in such names and be in such authorized denominations as the Depositary shall designate and shall bear any legends required hereunder. Any Global Security to be exchanged in whole shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee, as Registrar. With regard to any Global Security to be exchanged in part, either such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or, if the Trustee is acting as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee with respect to such Global Security, the principal amount thereof shall be reduced, by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Trustee. Upon any such surrender or adjustment and its receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the Security issuable on such exchange to or upon the order of the Depositary or an authorized representative thereof.

(4)    In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Clause (2) above, the Company shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of certificated Securities in definitive, fully registered form, without interest coupons.

(5)    Neither any members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) nor any other Persons on whose behalf Agent Members may act, shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Security, or under any Global Security, and the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and holder of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent Members and any other person on whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any Security.

 

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The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Security, a member of, or a participant in, the Depositary or 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 Securities 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 purchase) or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Securities (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Securities. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Securities shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Security). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

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 the Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any 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 of its agents shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

SECTION 305.     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities .

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

 

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

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 305, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section 305 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section 305 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

SECTION 306.     Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved .

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

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (“Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:

(1)    The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited with the Paying Agent to be held for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than

 

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10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).

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

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 306, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

SECTION 307.     Persons Deemed Owners .

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 306) interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 308.     Cancellation .

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section 308, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures unless otherwise directed by a Company Order.

 

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SECTION 309.     Computation of Interest .

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

SECTION 310.     CUSIP and ISIN Numbers .

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

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 401.     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(1)    either

(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 305 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited with the Trustee in trust or the Paying Agent or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

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

(i)    have become due and payable, or

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

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

 

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and the Company, in the case of Clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose funds in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

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

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

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section 401, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.

SECTION 402.     Application of Trust Money .

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held by the Trustee in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee. All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 (and held by it or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently converted shall be returned to the Company upon Company Request.

 

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ARTICLE FIVE

REMEDIES

SECTION 501.     Events of Default .

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

(1)    default by the Company in the payment of any interest (including any Additional Amounts) upon any Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(2)    default by the Company in the payment of the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Additional Amounts) of or premium on any Security of that series at its Maturity; or

(3)    default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section 501 specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(4)    a default or defaults under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed of the Company, or under any mortgage, indenture, agreement or instrument under which there may be issued or borrowed or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness of the Company, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created; provided that such indebtedness, individually or in the aggregate, has an aggregate principal amount then outstanding in excess of U.S.$50,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in other currencies or currency units) and that such default or defaults, individually or in the aggregate, (A) shall constitute a failure to pay the principal of or interest on such indebtedness (or any portion thereof having an aggregate principal amount in excess of U.S.$50,000,000 or such equivalent thereof) when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with respect thereto or (B) shall have resulted in such indebtedness (or any portion thereof having an aggregate principal amount in excess of U.S.$50,000,000 or such equivalent thereof) becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable; or

(5)    a final judgment or judgments (not subject to appeal) for the payment of money are entered against the Company in an aggregate amount in excess of U.S.$50,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in other currencies or currency units), by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction, which judgment(s) (A) are neither discharged nor bonded in full within 30 days after the right to appeal all such judgments has expired or (B) if bonded in full within such 30-day period, cease to be fully bonded; or

 

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(6)    the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company, in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, suspension of payments, concurso mercantil , reorganization or other similar law, or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, in concurso mercantil or suspending payments, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any applicable law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, s í ndico, conciliador , sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of the property of the Company, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Company, 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

(7)    the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, concurso mercantil , reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, concurso mercantil , suspension of payments, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against the Company of the Company, or the filing by the Company of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable law or the consent by the Company to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, s í ndico , conciliador , sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of the property of the Company, or the making by the Company of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action (evidenced by the adoption of a corporate resolution in favor of any such actions or an action of any of the officers of the Company that similarly binds the Company, as the case may be).

SECTION 502.     Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment .

If an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or Section 501(7)) occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee shall, at the written request of the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by notice in writing to the Company, declare the principal of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration such principal and any accrued interest and any unpaid Additional Amounts thereon shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) and Section 501(7) with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, the principal and any accrued interest, together with any Additional Amounts thereon, on all of the Securities of that series then Outstanding shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable.

 

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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article Five provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if

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

(A) all overdue interest and any Additional Amounts thereon on all of the Securities of that series,

(B) the principal of any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration,

(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities of that series, and

(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 607;

and

(2)    all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.

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

SECTION 503.     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee .

The Company covenants that if:

(1)    default is made in the payment of any interest (including any Additional Amounts) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

(2)    default is made in the payment of the principal (including any Redemption Price) of (or premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,

 

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the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest, and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate borne by such Securities, together with any Additional Amounts thereon, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

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

SECTION 504.     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim .

In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided , however , that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.

SECTION 505.     Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities .

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

 

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SECTION 506.     Application of Money Collected .

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

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;

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

THIRD: Any remaining amounts shall be repaid to the Company.

SECTION 507.     Limitation on Suits .

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 507, each and every Holder of the Outstanding Securities of any series and the Trustee shall be entitled, subject to Section 513, to such relief as can be given at law or in equity.

SECTION 508.     Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert .

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and any premium and (subject to Section 306) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date).

SECTION 509.     Restoration of Rights and Remedies .

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

SECTION 510.     Rights and Remedies Cumulative .

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 305, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 511.     Delay or Omission Not Waiver .

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

 

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SECTION 512.     Control by Holders .

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

(1)    such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,

(2)    the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction, subject to Section 601(d), that the Trustee determines in good faith is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any such directions are unduly prejudicial to the other Holders) or would involve the Trustee in personal liability, and

(3)    the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

SECTION 513.     Waiver of Past Defaults .

Subject to Section 502, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default

(1)    in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of such series, or

(2)    in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

SECTION 514.     Undertaking for Costs .

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, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust

 

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Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section 514 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or the Trustee or to require the Company to repurchase any Security in accordance with its terms.

SECTION 515.     Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws .

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

ARTICLE SIX

THE TRUSTEE

SECTION 601.     Certain Duties and Responsibilities .

(a)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.

(b)    In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise those 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.

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

(d)    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:

(1)    this Section 601(d) shall not be construed to limit the effect of Section 601(a);

 

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

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

(e)    Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 601.

SECTION 602.     Notice of Defaults .

If a default or Event of Default occurs hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, within 90 days of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee becoming aware of the occurrence of such default or Event of Default or written notice is received by the Trustee, the Trustee shall transmit to all of the Holders of Securities of such series notice, with a copy to the Company, of such default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall have been notified; provided, however, that in the case of any default or Event of Default of the character specified in Section 501(3) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section 602, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

SECTION 603.     Certain Rights of Trustee .

Subject to the provisions of Section 601:

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

(b)    any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

 

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

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

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

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

(g)    the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder; provided that the Trustee shall be required to terminate any such agent if it has actual knowledge of any failure by such agent to perform its delegated duties;

(h)    the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless received 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, the Company and this Indenture;

(i)    the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties;

(j)    the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including its right to be compensated and indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Paying Agent and the Trustee in each of its respective capacities hereunder, including as a paying agent, Registrar, Transfer Agent, authentication agent, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed by it to act hereunder;

 

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(k)    the Trustee shall not be required to give any note, bond or surety in respect of the execution of the trusts and powers under this Indenture;

(l)    before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, or both;

(m)    notwithstanding anything else herein contained, no provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Trustee or the Paying Agent to take or omit to take any action, or suffer anything to exist, in the performance of its duties or obligations under this Indenture, or to exercise any right or power hereunder, to the extent that taking or omitting to take such action, suffering such thing to exist, or exercising such right or power, would reasonably be likely to violate applicable law binding upon it. No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Trustee or the Paying Agent to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation, or which would render the Trustee or Paying Agent liable to any Person in any such jurisdiction or the State of New York;

(n)    in no event shall the Trustee be liable for any special, indirect, punitive, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, without limitation, loss of profit), even if the Trustee has been advised as to the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and

(o)    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 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; provided that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

SECTION 604.     Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities .

Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assume any responsibility for the correctness of the recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

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SECTION 605.     May Hold Securities .

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Section 608 and Section 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar or such other agent.

SECTION 606.     Money Held in Trust .

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

SECTION 607.     Compensation and Reimbursement .

The Company agrees

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

(2)    except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable and documented expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable decision); and

(3)    to fully indemnify each of the Trustee and its agents, directors, employees, and officers, including, without limitation, the Paying Agent, and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on its or their part (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable decision), arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, a Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

To secure the Company’s obligation under this Section 607, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all money or property held or collected by the Trustee in its capacity as Trustee or the Paying Agent, except for such money and property which is held in trust by the Trustee or held by the Paying Agent to pay principal (and premium, if any) or interest on particular Securities.

 

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When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(6) or Section 501(7), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

The provisions of this Section 607 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee and the termination of this Indenture.

SECTION 608.     Conflicting Interests .

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series.

SECTION 609.     Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility .

There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 609 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 609, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article Six.

SECTION 610.     Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor .

No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article Six shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.

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within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

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

If at any time:

(1)    the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

(2)    the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or

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

then, in any such case, (A) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year days after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by

 

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Section 611, the Trustee or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, at the expense of the Company, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

SECTION 611.     Acceptance of Appointment by Successor .

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

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver a supplemental indenture hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts

 

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and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.

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

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to Section 610 hereof, the Company’s obligations under Section 607 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it for actions taken or omitted to be taken in accordance with its rights, powers and duties under this Indenture prior to such replacement.

SECTION 612.     Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business .

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder; provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article Six, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.

SECTION 613.     Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .

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

SECTION 614.     Appointment of Authenticating Agent .

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Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than U.S.$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 614, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 614, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section 614.

Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent; provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 614, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 614, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 614.

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 614.

 

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If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section 614, the Securities may have annexed thereto or endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:

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

 

Citibank, N.A.,

as Trustee

By:  

 

  as Authenticating Agent
By:  

 

  Authorized Officer

SECTION 615.     Trustee s Application for Instructions from the Company .

Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than five Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

ARTICLE SEVEN

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

SECTION 701.     Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders .

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

(a)    semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date with respect to each series of Securities, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of such Regular Record Date, and

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

 

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excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar.

SECTION 702.     Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders .

(a)    The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b)    The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.

(c)    Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 703.     Reports by Trustee .

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

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

SECTION 704.     Reports by Company .

The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act.

 

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

ARTICLE EIGHT

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

SECTION 801.     Company May Consolidate, Etc. Only on Certain Terms .

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or, directly or indirectly, transfer, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets and properties and the Company shall not permit any Person to consolidate with or merge into it unless :

(1)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, or an event or condition which, after the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, with respect to any series of Securities shall have occurred and be continuing;

(2)    the Person formed by such consolidation or merger or the Person which acquires by transfer, conveyance, sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets and properties of the Company, if not the Company, shall (a) be organized and validly existing under the laws of Mexico or the United States of America or any political subdivision thereof and (b) shall expressly assume by a supplemental indenture hereto executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture and any applicable supplemental indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; and

(3)    the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article Eight and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

SECTION 802.     Successor  Substituted .

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such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 901.     Supplemental Indentures without Consent of  Holders .

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

(1)    to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or

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

(3)    to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series); or

(4)    to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or

(5)    to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities; provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or

 

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(6)    to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of Article Ten or otherwise; or

(7)    to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Section 201 and Section 301; or

(8)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or

(9)    to modify the restrictions on the transferability of any Securities, and the procedures for resales and other transfers of the Securities to reflect any change in applicable law (or the interpretation thereof) or to provide alternative procedures in compliance with applicable law and practices relating to the resale or other transfer of restricted securities generally; or

(10)    to comply with the requirements of the Commission in connection with qualifying this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; or

(11)    to add one or more guarantors for the benefit of all or any series of Securities; or

(12)    to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture; provided that such action pursuant to this Clause (12) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect.

SECTION 902.     Supplemental Indentures with Consent of  Holders .

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

(1)    change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of any Security that would be due

 

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and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or modify in any way the Company’s obligation to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1009 or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or

(2)    reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or

(3)    modify any of the provisions of this Section 902, Section 513 or Section 1011, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided , however , that this Clause (3) shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section 902 and Section 1011, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Section 611.

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

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

SECTION 903.     Execution of Supplemental Indentures .

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article Nine or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the documents required under Section 102, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and/or an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

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SECTION 904.     Effect of Supplemental Indentures .

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

SECTION 905.     Conformity with Trust Indenture Act .

Subsequent to the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article Nine shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 906.     Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures .

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

ARTICLE TEN

COVENANTS

SECTION 1001.     Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest .

The Company shall duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest (together with any Additional Amounts payable thereon) on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.

SECTION 1002.     Maintenance of Office or Agency .

With respect to any Global Security, and except as otherwise may be specified for such Global Security as contemplated by Section 301, the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent in London shall be the Place of Payment where such Global Security may be presented or surrendered for payment or for registration of transfer or exchange, or where successor Securities may be delivered in exchange therefor; provided , however, that any such payment, presentation, surrender or delivery effected pursuant to the Applicable Procedures for such Global Security shall be deemed to have been effected at the Place of Payment for such Global Security in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

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With respect to any securities that are not in the form of a Global Security, the Company shall maintain, in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent, and the Company hereby appoints the Paying Agent as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies (in or outside the Borough of Manhattan, New York City) where the Securities of one or more series, notices and other items may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fall to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the principal Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

SECTION 1003.     Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust .

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

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it shall, one business day prior to each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Company shall cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 1003, that such Paying Agent shall (1) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (2) during the continuance of any default by the

 

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Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Securities of that series.

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

Any money deposited with the Trustee in trust or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company in trust, for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may, at the expense of the Company, cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in New York City, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be repaid to the Company.

Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, the Company hereby appoints Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as the Paying Agent hereunder. The Company authorizes and directs the Paying Agent, from the amounts paid to it, to make payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities on the due date for payment set forth in this Indenture and the applicable Security.

The Paying Agent is entitled to make payments net of any taxes or other sums required to be withheld or deducted by any applicable law. If the Paying Agent is, in respect of any payment of principal or interest in respect of the Securities, required by applicable law to withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of any taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges, it shall give notice of that fact to the Company as soon as it becomes aware of the obligation to withhold or deduct. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Paying Agent may debit any amount available in any balance held for the Company and apply such amount in satisfaction of taxes. The Paying Agent will timely pay the full amount debited or withheld to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law. If any taxes become payable with respect to any prior credit to the Company by the Paying Agent, the Company acknowledges that the Paying Agent may debit any balance held for it in satisfaction of such prior taxes; provided , that the Paying Agent notifies the Company as soon as it becomes aware of such taxes

 

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payable. The Company shall remain liable for any deficiency and agrees that it shall pay any such deficiency promptly upon notice from the Paying Agent or any authority. If taxes are paid by the Paying Agent or any of its affiliates, the Company agrees that it shall promptly reimburse the Paying Agent for such payment to the extent not covered by withholding from any payment or debited from any balance held for it.

In acting hereunder and in connection with the Securities, the Paying Agent shall act solely as agent of the Company and will not assume any fiduciary duty or other obligation towards, or relationship of agency or trust for or with, any of the beneficial owners or Holders of the Securities. Any funds held by the Paying Agent are held as banker and not subject to the UK FCA Client Money Rules.    In making any payment required hereunder, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (as applicable) shall not be bound to make such payment until satisfied that full payment has been received from or on behalf of the Company by the Trustee or the Paying Agent (as applicable) in cleared funds at the Place of Payment. Upon request, the Company undertakes that it will provide to the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any other agent all documentation and other information required by the Trustee, the Paying Agent or such other agent from time to time needed to comply with applicable law forthwith unless such documentation or information is not reasonably available or cannot be obtained or the provision of such documentation or information or would constitute a breach of applicable law.

SECTION 1004.     Statement by Officers as to Default .

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year (which fiscal year currently ends on December 31) of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officer’s Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 15 days after the Company becomes aware that a default or an Event of Default, or an event that, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default, as the case may be, has occurred and is continuing, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or default and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 1005.     Exchange Act Reports .

The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 15 days after it files the same with the Commission, copies of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, including its annual reports on Form 20-F and its reports on Form 6-K. In addition, the Company shall make the same information,

 

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documents and other reports available, at its expense, to Holders who so request in writing. In the event that, in the future, the Company is not required to file such information, documents or other reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall furnish on a reasonably prompt basis to the Trustee and Holders who so request in writing, substantially the same financial and other information that the Company would be required to include and file in an annual report on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K. To the extent any Securities are issued pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act and solely with respect to such Securities, the Company agrees that if it is not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act at any time when the Securities are “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, then it shall promptly furnish or cause to be furnished financial and other information described in Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto) with respect to the Company to any Holder or to a prospective purchaser of any such Security who is designated by such Holder and is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A), upon the request of such Holder or prospective purchaser, to the extent required to permit such Holder to comply with Rule 144A under the Securities Act in connection with any resale of Securities held by such Holder.

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

SECTION 1006.     Limitation on Liens .

The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, issue or assume any Lien on any Restricted Property to secure Indebtedness without, in any such case, effectively providing that the Securities (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created) shall be secured equally with or prior to such secured Indebtedness for so long as such secured Indebtedness shall be so secured, unless, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of all such secured Indebtedness then outstanding (excluding Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted under subsections (a) through (e) below) plus the aggregate amount of Attributable Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Sale/Leaseback Transactions then outstanding (other than any Sale/Leaseback Transaction permitted by (i) Clause (b) of the first paragraph of Section 1008, (ii) the proviso to the first paragraph of Section 1008 or (iii) the second paragraph of Section 1008) would not exceed an amount equal to an aggregate of 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 1006 shall prevent or restrict:

(a)    any Lien existing on any Restricted Property on the date of acquisition thereof by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Lien arising after such acquisition pursuant to contractual commitments entered into prior to such acquisition;

 

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(b)    any Lien on any Restricted Property securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing the purchase price thereof or the cost of construction, improvement or repair of all or any part thereof; provided that such Lien attaches to such Restricted Property within 12 months after the acquisition thereof or completion of construction, improvement or repair thereof and does not attach to any other Restricted Property;

(c)    any Lien existing on any Restricted Property of any Restricted Subsidiary prior to the time such Restricted Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Company, or any Lien arising after such time pursuant to contractual commitments entered into prior to and not in contemplation thereof;

(d)    any Lien on any Restricted Property securing Indebtedness owed by a Subsidiary to the Company or to another Subsidiary; or

(e)    any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness described in any of subsections (a) through (d) above; provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness is not increased and such Lien does not extend to any additional Restricted Property.

For the purposes of this Section 1006, the giving of a guarantee which is secured by a Lien on a Restricted Property, and the creation of a Lien on a Restricted Property to secure Indebtedness which existed prior to the creation of such Lien, shall be deemed to involve the creation of Indebtedness in an amount equal to the principal amount guaranteed or secured by such Lien; but the amount of Indebtedness secured by Liens on Restricted Properties shall be computed without cumulating the underlying Indebtedness with any guarantee thereof or Lien securing the same.

SECTION 1007.     [Reserved] .

SECTION 1008.     Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions .

The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction without in any such case effectively providing that the Securities (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created) shall be secured equally and ratably with or prior to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, so long as such Sale/Leaseback Transaction shall be outstanding, unless, after giving effect thereto, (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding secured by any Lien on any Restricted Property, which Lien does not equally and ratably secure the Securities (excluding any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted under subsections (a) through (e) of Section 1006) plus the aggregate amount of Attributable Debt of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Sale/Leaseback Transactions then outstanding (other than any Sale/Leaseback Transaction permitted by

 

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(i) Clause (b) of this first paragraph of Section 1008; (ii) the proviso to this first paragraph of Section 1008; or (iii) the second paragraph of this Section 1008) would not exceed an amount equal to 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets or (b) the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, within 12 months after such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, applies to the retirement of secured Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary permitted under Section 1006 which is not subordinate to the Securities an amount equal to the greater of (i) the net proceeds of the sale or transfer of the property or other assets that are the subject of such Sale/Leaseback Transaction and (ii) the fair market value of the Restricted Property so leased (in each case as reasonably determined by the Company); provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 1008 shall prevent or restrict any Sale/Leaseback Transaction in which a Subsidiary of the Company is the lessee and the Company or another Subsidiary is the lessor of such Restricted Property.

In addition, where the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is the lessee in any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, Attributable Debt shall not include any Indebtedness resulting from the guarantee by the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the lessee’s obligation thereunder.

SECTION 1009.     Payment of Additional Amounts .

(a)    All payments of principal, premium and interest in respect of the Securities shall be made after withholding or deduction for any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of Mexico or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax (“Mexican Taxes”). In the event of any withholding or deduction for any Mexican Taxes, the Company shall pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as will result in receipt by the Holders of Securities on the respective due dates of such amounts as would have been received by them had no such withholding or deduction (including for any Mexican Taxes payable in respect of Additional Amounts) been required, except that no such Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to any payment on a Security to the extent:

(i)    that any such taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges are imposed solely because of (A) a connection between the Holder and Mexico other than the ownership or holding of such Security and the mere receipt of payments with respect to such Security or (B) failure by the Holder or any other Person to comply with any certification, identification or other reporting requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with Mexico of the Holder or any beneficial owner of such Security if compliance is required by law, regulation or by an applicable income tax treaty to which Mexico is a party, as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, the tax, assessment or other governmental charge and the Company has given the Holders at least 30 days’ notice prior to the first payment date with respect to which such certification, identification or reporting requirement is required to the effect that Holders will be required to provide such information and identification;

 

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(ii)    of any such taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental charges with respect to a Security presented for payment more than 15 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for and notice thereof given to Holders, whichever occurs later, except to the extent that the Holder of such Security would have been entitled to such Additional Amounts on presenting such Security for payment on any date during such 15-day period;

(iii)    of any estate, inheritance, gift or other similar taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed with respect to a Security;

(iv)    of any tax, duty, assessment or other governmental charge payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments on such Security;

(v)    of any payment on a Security to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or a person other than the sole beneficial owner of any such payment, to the extent that a beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary, a member of such a partnership or the beneficial owner of such payment would not have been entitled to the Additional Amounts had such beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the Holder of such Security; and

(vi)    any combination of the items in Clauses (i) through (v) above.

For purposes of the provisions described in Clause (i) above, the term “Holder” of any Security means the direct nominee of any beneficial owner of such Security, which holds such beneficial owner’s interest in such Security. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the limitations on the Company’s obligation to pay Additional Amounts set forth in Clause (i)(B) above shall not apply if (a) the provision of information, documentation or other evidence described in such Clause (i)(B) would be materially more onerous, in form, in procedure or in the substance of information disclosed, to a Holder or beneficial owner of a Security (taking into account any relevant differences between U.S. and Mexican law, regulation or administrative practice) than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law (including the United States - Mexico Income Tax Treaty), regulations (including proposed regulations) and administrative practice or (b) Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law (or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation) is in effect, unless (1) the provision of the information, documentation or other evidence described in such Clause (i)(B) is expressly required by laws and regulations in order to apply Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law (or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation), (2) the Company cannot obtain such information, documentation or other evidence on its own through reasonable diligence and (3) the Company, as applicable, otherwise would meet the requirements for application of Article 166, Section II, subsection (a) of the Mexican Income Tax Law (or any substantially similar successor provision, whether included in any law or regulation). In addition, such Clause (i)(B) shall not be construed

 

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to require that a non-Mexican pension or retirement fund or a non-Mexican financial institution or any other Person register with the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit for the purpose of establishing eligibility for an exemption from or reduction of Mexican withholding tax.

The Company shall remit the full amount of any Mexican Taxes withheld to the applicable Mexican authorities in accordance with applicable law. The Company shall also provide the Trustee with the constancia or other relevant documentation, if any (which may consist of certified copies of such documentation), satisfactory to the Trustee evidencing the payment of Mexican Taxes in respect of which the Company has paid any Additional Amounts. Copies of such documentation shall be made available to the Holders of the Securities or the Paying Agent, as applicable, upon request therefor.

In respect of the Securities issued hereunder, at least 10 days’ prior to the first date of payment of interest on the Securities and at least 10 days’ prior to each date, if any, of payment of principal or interest thereafter if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officer’s Certificate, the Company shall furnish the Trustee and each Paying Agent with an Officer’s Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent as to whether such payment of principal of or any interest on such Securities shall be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax, duty, assessment or other governmental charge. If any such deduction or withholding shall be required by Mexico or under the federal laws of the United States, then such certificate shall specify, by country, the amount, if any, required to be deducted or withheld on such payment to Holders of such Securities, and the Company shall pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee or such Paying Agent Additional Amounts, if any, required by this Section 1009. The Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee and each Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by them in reliance on any Officer’s Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section 1009.

(b)    The Company shall pay all stamp, issue, registration, documentary or other similar duties, if any, which may be imposed by Mexico or any other governmental entity or political subdivision therein or thereof, or any taxing authority of or in any of the foregoing, with respect to this Indenture or the issuance of the Securities.

(c)    The Company shall provide each Paying Agent and any withholding agent under relevant tax regulations with copies of each certificate received by the Company from a Holder of a Security pursuant to the text of such Security. Each such Paying Agent and withholding agent shall retain each such certificate received by it for as long as any Security is outstanding and in no event for less than four years after its receipt, and for such additional period thereafter, as set forth in an Officer’s Certificate, as such certificate may become material in the administration of applicable tax laws.

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Holder of such Securities, and, as a result thereof such Holder is entitled to make claim for a refund or credit of such excess from the authority imposing such withholding tax, then such Holder shall, by accepting such Securities, be deemed to have assigned and transferred all right, title, and interest to any such claim for a refund or credit of such excess to the Company. However, by making such assignment, the Holder makes no representation or warranty that the Company shall be entitled to receive such claim for a refund or credit and incurs no other obligation with respect thereto.

(e)    All references in this Indenture, one or more supplemental indentures hereto and the Securities to principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount payable in respect of any Security shall be deemed to include all Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect of such principal, premium, interest or other amount payable, unless the context otherwise requires, and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding reference to Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made. All references in this Indenture, one or more supplemental indentures thereto and the Securities to principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include any Redemption Price payable in respect of such Security pursuant to any redemption right hereunder (and all such references to the Stated Maturity of the principal in respect of any Security shall be deemed to mean and include the Redemption Date with respect to any such Redemption Price), and all such references to principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts shall be deemed to mean and include any amount payable in respect hereof pursuant to this Section 1009.

SECTION 1010.     Indemnification of Judgment Currency .

The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and any Holder of a Security against any loss incurred by the Trustee or such Holder, as the case may be, as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due under this Indenture or such Security and being expressed and paid in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than Dollars or such other currency in which such Security is denominated (the “Security Currency”), and as a result of any variation between (i) the rate of exchange at which the Security Currency amount is converted into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of such judgment or order and (ii) the spot rate of exchange in New York City at which the Trustee or such Holder, as the case may be, on the date of payment of such judgment or order is able to purchase the Security Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received by the Trustee or such Holder. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence of this Section 1010, in the event that the amount of the Security Currency purchased by any Holder as a result of such indemnification exceeds the amount originally to be paid to such Holder, such Holder shall reimburse such excess to the Company. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “spot rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the Security Currency.

 

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SECTION 1011.     Waiver of Certain Covenants .

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(18), Section 901(2) or Section 901(7) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Section 1006 or Section 1007, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 1012.     Calculation of Original Issue Discount .

If the Securities of a series are issued with original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods), if any, accrued on Outstanding Securities as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount, if any, as may then be relevant under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

SECTION 1101.     Right of Redemption .

(a)    The Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity may not be redeemed at the election of the Company except in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with the provisions of this Article Eleven.

(b)    The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company, notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed.

(c)    If, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or any rules or regulation thereunder) of Mexico or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of such laws, rules or regulations, which amendment to or

 

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change of such laws, rules or regulations becomes effective on or after the date of issuance of the Securities of any series, the Company would be obligated, after taking such measures as the Company may consider reasonable to avoid such requirement, to pay Additional Amounts in respect of interest payments on the Securities of such series pursuant to the terms and conditions thereof in excess of those attributable to the Mexican withholding tax on the basis of a statutory rate of 4.9% imposed on interest payments with respect to such series of Securities, then, at the Company’s option, the Securities of such series may be redeemed in whole, but not in part, at any time, on giving not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders of such Securities, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof and any premium applicable thereto, together with accrued interest up to but not including the Redemption Date and any Additional Amounts which would otherwise be payable; provided, however, that (1) no notice of such redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Company would but for such redemption be obligated to pay such Additional Amounts were a payment on such Securities then due, and (2) at the time such notice is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Amounts remains in effect.

(d)    Before any notice of redemption pursuant to Section 1101(c) is given to the Trustee or the Holders of Securities of the relevant series, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the condition or conditions precedent to the right of the Company so to redeem have occurred or been satisfied and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel from Mexican legal counsel (which may be the Company’s outside counsel) of recognized standing to the effect that the Company has or shall become obligated to pay such Additional Amounts as a result of such change or amendment. Such notice, once given to the Holders, shall be irrevocable.

SECTION 1102.     Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Register.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(1)    the Redemption Date,

(2)    the Redemption Price and amount of accrued interest, if any,

(3)    that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and any accrued interest shall become due and payable upon each Security to be redeemed and that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,

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(5)    applicable “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company, and such notice, when given to the Holders, shall be irrevocable.

SECTION 1103.     Deposit of Redemption Price .

On the Business Day prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date other than any Securities called for redemption on that date which have been converted prior to the date of such deposit.

If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust (if held by the Trustee) for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the Holder of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 306) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.

SECTION 1104.     Securities Payable on Redemption Date .

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price herein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 306.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security.

SECTION 1105.     Securities Redeemed in Part .

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Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

ARTICLE TWELVE

LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

SECTION 1201.     Applicability of Article; Company s Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .

If pursuant to Section 303 provision is made for either or both of (a) legal defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 1202 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 1203 to apply to Securities of any series, then the provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article Twelve, shall be applicable to the Securities of such series, and the Company may at its option, at any time, with respect to the Securities of such series, elect to have either Section 1202 (if applicable) or Section 1203 (if applicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in Section 1204.

SECTION 1202.     Legal Defeasance and Discharge .

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section 1202, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “legal defeasance”).

For this purpose, such legal defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:

(a)    the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1204 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and interest on and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Securities when such payments are due;

(b)    the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Section 304, Section 305, Section 607, Section 1002, Section 1003 and Section 1009 (but only to the extent that any Additional Amounts payable exceed the amount deposited in respect of such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 1204);

 

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(c)    the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities and other provisions in respect of the Trustee hereunder; and

(d)    this Article Twelve.

Subject to compliance with this Article Twelve, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1202 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1203 with respect to the Securities of such series.

SECTION 1203.     Covenant Defeasance .

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section 1203, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 801, Section 1004, Section 1102, Section 501(3) (as to Sections 801 and Section 1004), Section 501(6) and Section 501(7) with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series 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 such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby. Following a covenant defeasance, payment of the Securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified above in this Section 1203.

SECTION 1204.     Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .

The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1202 or Section 1203 to the Outstanding Securities of such series.

(a)    The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Twelve applicable to it) 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 such Securities, (A) an amount in the Security Currency, or (B) Government Securities which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, within two weeks of the due date of any payment, money in an amount, 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 and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and each

 

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installment of interest on the Outstanding Securities of such series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or interest in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities. Before such a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of any series of Securities at a future date in accordance with any redemption provisions relating to such series, which shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.

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

(c)    Such legal defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee for the Securities of such series to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any Securities of the Company.

(d)    Such legal defeasance or 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 Company is a party or by which it is bound.

(e)    Such legal defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause any Securities of such series then listed on any registered national securities exchange under the Exchange Act to be deleted.

(f)    In the case of an election under Section 1202, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such legal defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such legal defeasance had not occurred.

(g)    In the case of an election under Section 1203, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to U.S. 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.

(h)    Such legal defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301.

(i)    The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to either the legal defeasance under Section 1202 or the covenant defeasance under or Section 1203 (as the case may be) have been complied with.

 

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SECTION 1205.     Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions .

Subject to the provisions of the last two paragraphs of Section 1003, all money and Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively, for purposes of this Section 1205, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1204 in respect of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be held by the Trustee in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (but not including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and interest and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 1204 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.

Anything in this Article Twelve to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Securities held by it as provided in Section 1204 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance.

SECTION 1206.     Reinstatement .

If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or Government Securities in accordance with Section 1204 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Securities of a series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 1204, until such time as the Trustee or such Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money or Government Securities in accordance with Section 1204; provided that, if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on the Securities of such series because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of the Securities of such series to receive such payment from the money or Government Securities held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent.

 

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

 

AMÉRICA MÓVIL, S.A.B. DE C.V.,
       as the Company
By:  

/s/ Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo

  Name: Carlos José García Moreno Elizondo
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
By:  

/s/ Alejandro Cantú Jiménez

  Name: Alejandro Cantú Jiménez
  Title:   General Counsel

CITIBANK, N.A.,

       as Trustee, Registrar and Transfer Agent

By:  

/s/ James Polcari

  Name: James Polcari
  Title:   Senior Trust Officer

CITIBANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH,

       as Paying Agent

By:  

/s/ Beth Kuhn

  Name: Beth Kuhn
  Title:   Vice President

 

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Exhibit 5.1

[CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP LETTERHEAD]

October 1, 2018

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.

Lago Zurich 245

Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel

Colonia Granada Ampliación,

Delegación Miguel Hidalgo

11529 Mexico City, Mexico

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special United States counsel to América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “Company”), a corporation ( sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable ) organized under the laws of the United Mexican States (“Mexico”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of a registration statement on Form F-3 (the “Registration Statement”) relating to the offering from time to time, together or separately and in one or more series (if applicable), of the following securities of the Company: (i) debt securities (the “Debt Securities”) and (ii) warrants for the purchase of Debt Securities (the “Warrants”). The Debt Securities and Warrants, together, are referred to herein as the “Securities.” The Securities being registered under the Registration Statement will be offered on a continuous or delayed basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act.

Unless otherwise provided in a prospectus supplement forming part of the Registration Statement relating to a particular series of the Debt Securities, the Debt Securities are to be issued under an indenture, dated as of October 1, 2018 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company, Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), registrar and transfer agent, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as paying agent, as may be amended and supplemented by supplemental indentures (the Base Indenture, as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”). The Warrants are to be issued under one or more warrant agreements (each, a “Warrant Agreement”) to be entered into by the Company and one or more institutions, as warrant agents (each, a “Warrant Agent”), each to be identified in the applicable Warrant Agreement.

In arriving at the opinions expressed below, we have reviewed the following documents:

 

  (a)

the Registration Statement and the documents incorporated by reference therein; and

 

  (b)

an executed copy of the Base Indenture (including a form of Debt Security included therein), incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

In addition, we have reviewed the originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such other documents, and we have made such investigations of law, as we have deemed appropriate as a basis for the opinions expressed below.


In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. In addition, we have assumed and have not verified (i) the accuracy as to factual matters of each document we have reviewed, (ii) that the Debt Securities will conform to the forms thereof that we have reviewed and (iii) that the Warrants will be substantially as described in the Registration Statement.

Based on the foregoing, and subject to the further assumptions and qualifications set forth below, it is our opinion that:

 

  1.

The Debt Securities to be issued under the Indenture, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and upon due execution and delivery of the Debt Securities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, will be the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

  2.

The Warrants to be issued under the Warrant Agreements, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and upon due and execution and delivery of the Warrants, will be the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company.

Insofar as the foregoing opinions relate to the validity, binding effect or enforceability of any agreement or obligation of the Company, (a) we have assumed that the Company and each other party to such agreement or obligation has satisfied or, prior to the issuance of the Securities, will satisfy those legal requirements that are applicable to it to the extent necessary to make such agreement or obligation enforceable against it (except that no such assumption is made as to the Company regarding matters of the federal law of the United States of America or the law of the State of New York) and (b) such opinions are subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, to general principles of equity and to the effect of judicial application of foreign laws or foreign governmental actions affecting creditors’ rights.

In rendering the opinions expressed above, we have further assumed that (i) a prospectus supplement and any term sheet will have been prepared and filed with the Commission describing the Securities offered thereby and will comply with all applicable laws, (ii) all Securities will be offered, issued, granted, sold and delivered in compliance with applicable law and any requirements therefor set forth in any corporate action authorizing such Securities and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement, the prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement and any term sheet, (iii) the Registration Statement will be effective and will comply with all applicable laws at the time any Securities are offered, issued, granted, sold or delivered as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement and any term sheet, (iv) the terms of all Debt Securities will conform to the forms thereof contained in the Base Indenture, and the terms of all Securities will not violate any applicable law or conflict with any matter of public policy in New York, result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company or violate any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, (v) the Securities will be offered, issued, granted, sold and delivered to, and paid for by, the purchasers thereof at the price specified in, and in accordance with the terms of, an agreement or agreements duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, (vi) the Company will duly authorize the offering and issuance of the Securities and will duly authorize, approve and establish the final terms and conditions of the offering and issuance the Securities, (vii) the Company has duly authorized, executed and delivered, or will duly authorize, execute and deliver, as applicable, the Base Indenture, the supplemental indenture, the Warrant Agreement and any other agreement necessary with respect to the Securities or contemplated by such Securities and will take any other appropriate additional corporate action, and (viii) certificates, if required, representing the Securities, will be duly executed and delivered and, to the extent required by any applicable agreement, duly authenticated and countersigned.

In rendering the opinion in paragraph 1 above, we have assumed that each series of Debt Securities will be issued with an original aggregate principal amount (or in the case of Debt Securities issued at original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) of U.S.$2,500,000 or more.

We express no opinion as to the subject matter jurisdiction of any United States federal court to adjudicate any action relating to the Securities where jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship under 28 U.S.C. §1332 does not exist. We note that the designation in Section 115 of the Base Indenture of the U.S. federal courts sitting in New York City as the venue for actions or proceedings relating to the Debt Securities or the Base Indenture is

 

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(notwithstanding the waiver in Section 115) subject to the power of such courts to transfer actions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1404 (a) or to dismiss such actions or proceedings on the grounds that such a federal court is an inconvenient forum for such an action or proceeding.

We note that by statute New York provides that a judgment or decree rendered in a currency other than the currency of the United States shall be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on the date of entry of the judgment or decree. There is no corresponding federal statute and no controlling federal court decision on this issue. Accordingly, we express no opinion as to whether a federal court would award a judgment in a currency other than U.S. dollars or, if it did so, whether it would order the conversion of the judgment into U.S. dollars.

We express no opinion as to the enforceability of Section 1010 of the Base Indenture providing for indemnification by the Company of the Trustee and the holders of the Debt Securities against any loss in obtaining the currency due to the Trustee or such holders of the Debt Securities from a court judgment in another currency.

The foregoing opinions are limited to the federal law of the United States of America and the law of the State of New York.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement under the heading “Validity of Securities” and in any prospectus supplements related thereto as counsel for the Company who have passed on the validity of the Securities being registered by the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. We assume no obligation to advise you or any other person, or to make any investigations, as to any legal developments or factual matters arising subsequent to the date hereof that might affect the opinions expressed herein.

 

Very truly yours,

 

CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON LLP

By   /s/ Nicolas Grabar
  Nicolas Grabar, a Partner

 

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Exhibit 5.2

[Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C. Letterhead]

October 1, 2018

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.

Lago Zurich 245

Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel

Colonia Ampliación Granada

Delegación Miguel Hidalgo

11529 Mexico City, México

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special Mexican counsel to América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. (the “ Company ”), a corporation ( sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable ) organized under the laws of the United Mexican States (“ Mexico ”), in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), of a registration statement on Form F-3 (the “ Registration Statement ”) relating to the offering from time to time, together or separately and in one or more series (if applicable), of the following securities of the Company: (i) debt securities (the “ Debt Securities ”) and (ii) warrants for the purchase of Debt Securities (the “ Warrants ”) . The Debt Securities and Warrants, together, are referred to herein as the “ Securities .” The Securities being registered under the Registration Statement will be offered on a continuous or delayed basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act.

Unless otherwise provided in a prospectus supplement forming part of the Registration Statement relating to a particular series of the Debt Securities, the Debt Securities are to be issued under an indenture, dated as of October 1, 2018 (the “ Base Indenture ”), among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as paying agent, as may be amended and supplemented by supplemental indentures (the Base Indenture, as so amended and supplemented, the “ Indenture ”). The Warrants are to be issued under one or more warrant agreements (each, a “ Warrant Agreement ”) to be entered into by the Company and one or more institutions, as warrant agents (each, a “ Warrant Agent ”), each to be identified in the applicable Warrant Agreement.

For purposes of rendering this opinion, we have examined (i) the estatutos sociales (by-laws) of the Company and (ii) the Registration Statement and the documents incorporated by reference therein.

In addition, we have reviewed the originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such other documents, and we have made such investigations of law, as we have deemed appropriate as a basis for the opinions expressed below.

In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. In addition, we have assumed and have not verified (i) the accuracy as to factual matters of each document we have reviewed, (ii) that the Debt Securities will conform to the forms thereof that we have reviewed and (iii) that the Warrants will be substantially as described in the Registration Statement.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the further assumptions and qualifications set forth below, we are of the opinion that:

 

  1.

The Company is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Mexico.

 

  2.

The Company has the corporate power to, and all necessary corporate action has been taken to, execute, deliver and file the Registration Statement.

 

  3.

The Debt Securities to be issued under the Indenture, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and upon due execution and delivery of the Debt Securities in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.


  4.

The Warrants to be issued under the Warrant Agreements, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement and upon due and execution and delivery of the Warrants, will be the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Company.

Insofar as the foregoing opinions relate to the validity, binding effect or enforceability of any agreement or obligation of the Company, (a) we have assumed that the Company and each other party to such agreement or obligation has satisfied or, prior to the issuance of the Securities, will satisfy those legal requirements that are applicable to it to the extent necessary to make the Indenture or Securities enforceable against it (except that no such assumption is made as to the Company regarding matters of federal law of Mexico) and (b) such opinions are subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.

In rendering the opinions expressed above, we have further assumed that (i) a prospectus supplement and any term sheet will have been prepared and filed with the Commission describing the Securities offered thereby and will comply with all applicable laws, (ii) all Securities will be offered, issued, granted, sold and delivered in compliance with applicable law and any requirements therefor set forth in any corporate action authorizing such Securities and in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement, the prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement and any term sheet, (iii) the Registration Statement will be effective and will comply with all applicable laws at the time any Securities are offered, issued, granted, sold or delivered as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the prospectus, the applicable prospectus supplement and any term sheet, (iv) the terms of all Debt Securities will conform to the forms thereof contained in the Base Indenture, and the terms of all Securities will not violate any applicable law, result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company or violate any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, (v) the Securities will be offered, issued, granted, sold and delivered to, and paid for by, the purchasers thereof at the price specified in, and in accordance with the terms of, an agreement or agreements duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, (vi) the Company will duly authorize the offering and issuance of the Securities and will duly authorize, approve and establish the final terms and conditions of the offering and issuance or grant of the Debt Securities and Warrants, as the case may be, (vii) the Company will duly authorize, execute and deliver, as applicable, the supplemental indenture, the Warrant Agreement and any other agreement necessary with respect to the Securities or contemplated by such Securities and will take any other appropriate additional corporate action, and (viii) certificates, if required, representing the Securities, will be duly executed and delivered and, to the extent required by any applicable agreement, duly authenticated and countersigned.

This opinion is subject to the following qualifications:

(a) Enforcement may be limited or affected by concurso mercantil , bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally; among other things, interest on principal will not accrue after declaration of bankruptcy, and the obligations of the Company in foreign currency shall be converted into Mexican currency at the rate of exchange published in the Official Daily Gazette of the Federation ( Diario Oficial de la Federación ) by the Central Bank of Mexico ( Banco de México ) in force on the date the declaration of concurso mercantil is made; such Mexican currency obligations shall then be converted into inflation indexed units (“ Unidades de Inversión ” or “ UDIS ”) at the rate of conversion published by the Central Bank of Mexico for such date, because the Securities are unsecured (“ quirografario ”) and therefore no senior status is granted thereto under Mexican law; also pursuant to the laws of Mexico, labor claims, claims of tax authorities for unpaid taxes will have priority over claims of the holders of the Securities;

(b) We note that the payment of interest on interest may not be enforceable under Mexican law;

(c) We note that Article 1093 of the Mexican Commerce Code ( Código de Comercio ), provides that for a choice of jurisdiction to be valid under Mexican Law, such jurisdiction must relate to the domicile of one of the parties to the relevant agreement, to the place where the obligations under such agreement are to be fulfilled, or to the location of the relevant item; and

(d) In the event that proceedings are brought in Mexico seeking performance of the Company’s obligations in Mexico, pursuant to Article 8 of the Mexican Monetary Law ( Ley Monetaria de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ), the Company may discharge its obligations by paying any sums due in a currency other than Mexican currency, in Mexican currency at the rate of exchange fixed by the Central Bank of Mexico for the date when payment is made.

 

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We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than Mexico and we have assumed that there is nothing in any other law that affects our opinion, which is delivered, based upon Mexican law applicable on the date hereof. In particular, we have made no independent investigation of the laws of the United States of America or any state or other political subdivision thereof or therein as a basis for the opinions stated herein and do not express or imply any opinion on or based on such laws. To the extent that the federal laws of the United States of America and the State of New York are relevant to our opinion set forth above, we have, without making any independent investigation with respect thereto, assumed the accuracy of the opinion, dated today, of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, special United States counsel to the Company.

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have relied (i) as to factual matters on certificates of directors and executive officers of the Company and (ii) as to matters of United States federal and New York law on the opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, United States counsel for the Company.

We note that Rafael Robles Miaja, a partner of this firm, is currently Corporate Pro-Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Company and formerly the Corporate Secretary of the Company, without being a member of the Board of Directors.

This opinion is given solely for the purpose of the Company’s application for registration of the Securities with the Commission. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.2 to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement under the headings “Validity of the Securities” and “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities” and in any prospectus supplements related thereto as counsel for the Company who have passed on the validity of the Securities being registered by the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are experts with respect to any part of the Registration Statement, including this exhibit, within the meaning of the term “expert” as used in the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission issued thereunder. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP may rely upon this opinion in rendering their opinion to you.

This opinion is being rendered based on the legal provisions applicable in Mexico as of the date hereof. We assume no obligation to supplement this opinion if any applicable law changes after the date hereof or if we become aware of any facts that might change the opinions expressed herein after the date hereof.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Bufete Robles Miaja, S.C.
BUFETE ROBLES MIAJA, S.C.

 

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Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in this Registration Statement on Form F-3 and related prospectus of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., for the registration of debt securities and warrants and to the incorporation by reference therein of our reports dated April 26, 2018, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. and subsidiaries and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V., included in its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 

/s/ Mancera, S.C.

A member practice of

Ernst & Young Global

 
 

 

  C.P.C. David Sitt Cofradia

Mexico City, Mexico

October 1, 2018

Exhibit 25.1

File No. ————————

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM T-1

 

 

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939

OF A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

 

CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO SECTION 305(B)(2)

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

 

 

13-5266470

(I.R.S. employer identification no.)

701 East 60th Street North

Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104

(Address of principal executive offices)

James Polcari

388 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013

(212) 816-7079

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

 

 

América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

United Mexican States    N/A
(State of incorporation)    (I.R.S. employer identification no.)

Lago Zurich 245, Plaza Carso / Edificio Telcel, Colonia Ampliación Granada, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo,

11529, Mexico City, Mexico

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

 

Debt Securities

(Title of the indenture securities)

 

 

 


Item 1.

GENERAL INFORMATION. Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

 

  (a)

Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Comptroller of Currency, Washington, D.C.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY

 

  (b)

Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

 

Item 2.

AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR. If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each affiliation:

Based upon an examination of the books and records of the trustee and upon information furnished by the obligor, the obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.

 

Item 3 – 15.

Items 3-15 are not applicable because to the best of the Trustee’s knowledge, the obligor is not in default under any Indenture for which the Trustee acts as Trustee.

 

Item 16.

LIST OF EXHIBITS. Listed below are all exhibits filed as part of this Statement of Eligibility and Qualification.

 

  1.

A copy of the Charter for Citibank, N.A., incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1 of Form T-1.

 

  2.

A copy of the Certificate of Corporate Existence and Fiduciary Powers, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2 of Form T-1.

 

  3.

A copy of the Certificate of Corporate Existence and Fiduciary Powers, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2 of Form T-1.

 

  4.

A copy of the existing By-Laws of Trustee, as now in effect, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4 of form T-1.

 

  5.

Not applicable.

 

  6.

The consent of Trustee as required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 6 of Form T-1.

 

  7.

Current Report of the Condition of Trustee, published pursuant to law or the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, attached as Exhibit 7.

 

  8.

Not applicable.

 

  9.

Not applicable.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the trustee, Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this Statement of Eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of New York and State of New York on the 1 st day of October, 2018.

 

CITIBANK, N.A.
By:  

/s/ James Polcari

  Name: James Polcari
  Title: Senior Trust Officer


EXHIBIT 1

CHARTER OF CITIBANK, N.A.


CITIBANK

Articles of Association

As amended effective July 1, 2011


CITIBANK, N.A.

Charter No. 1461

 

 

Articles of Association

AS AMENDED EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011

FIRST. The name and title of this Association shall be Citibank, N.A.; the Association in conjunction with its said legal name may also continue to use, as a trade name, its former name First National City Bank.

SECOND. The Head Office shall be in the City of Sioux Falls, State of South Dakota. The general business of this Association, and its operations of discount and deposit, shall be conducted at its Head Office and its legally established branches.

THIRD. The Board of Directors shall consist of such number of individuals, not less than five nor more than twenty-five, as from time to time shall be determined by a majority of the votes to which all shareholders are at the time entitled.

FOURTH. The regular annual meeting of the shareholders for the election of directors and the transaction of whatever other business may be brought before said meeting shall be held at the Head Office, or such other place as the Board of Directors may designate, on the day of each year specified therefor in the By-Laws of the Association, but if no election shall be held on that day it may be held on any subsequent day according to the provisions of law; and all elections shall be held according to such lawful regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.

FIFTH. A. Designation .

The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Association shall have the authority to issue is Forty One Million Five Hundred Thousand (41,500,000) shares and shall be designated as shares of Common Stock, par value of Twenty Dollars ($20) per share (the “ Common Stock ”). All of the shares of this Association’s Common Stock, which constitute all of the outstanding shares of this Association’s capital stock, shall continue as shares of Common Stock of this Association following the filing hereof. No shares of any class or series of capital stock of this Association shall have any preemptive or special rights or privilege to acquire any shares of capital stock of the Association under any circumstances whatsoever.

The Association, at any time and from time to time, may authorize and issue debt obligations whether or not subordinated without the prior approval of shareholders.

SIXTH. The Board of Directors (a majority of whom shall be a quorum to do business) shall appoint one of its members to be Chairman of the Association, who shall perform such duties as may be designated by it. The Board of Directors shall have the power to appoint one of its members to be President of this Association, who shall perform such duties as may be designated by it. The Board of Directors shall have the power to appoint such other officers and employees as in its judgment may be required to transact the business of the Association.

 

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The Board of Directors shall have the power to define the duties of the officers and employees of the Association; to fix the salaries to be paid to them; to dismiss them; to require bonds from them and to fix the penalty thereof; to regulate the manner in which any increase of the capital of the Association shall be made; to manage and administer the business and affairs of the Association; to make all by-laws that it may be lawful for them to make; and generally to do and perform all acts that it may be legal for a board of directors to do and perform.

The Board of Directors, without the approval of the shareholders, shall have the power to change the location of the Head Office and of any branch or branches of the Association subject to such limitations as from time to time may be provided by law.

SEVENTH. The Association shall have succession from the date of its organization certificate until such time as it may be dissolved by the act of its shareholders owning two-thirds of its stock, or until its franchise becomes forfeited by reason of violation of law, or until terminated by either a general or a special Act of Congress or until its affairs be placed in the hands of a receiver and finally wound up by him.

EIGHTH. The Board of Directors, or the holders of not less than ten percentum of the stock of the Association, may call a special meeting of shareholders at any time: provided, however, that unless otherwise provided by law, not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for any such meeting, a notice of the time, place and purpose of the meeting shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all shareholders of record at their respective addresses as shown upon the books of the Association.

NINTH. (1) The Association shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Association) by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or officer of the Association, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Association, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Association, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

 

  (2)

The Association shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Association to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or officer of the Association, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Association and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Association unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action

 

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  or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court shall deem proper.

 

  (3)

The Association may indemnify any person who is or was an employee of the Association, or is or was serving at the request of the Association as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise to the extent and under the circumstances provided by paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article NINTH with respect to a person who is or was a director or officer of the Association.

 

  (4)

Any indemnification under paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article NINTH (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Association only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth therein. Such determination shall be made (a) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum (as defined in the By-Laws of the Association) consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (b) if such quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (c) by the stockholders.

 

  (5)

Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Association in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director, officer, employee or agent to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Association as authorized in this Article NINTH.

 

  (6)

The indemnification provided by this Article NINTH shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any statute, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

 

  (7)

By action of its Board of Directors, notwithstanding any interest of the directors in the action, the Association may purchase and maintain insurance, in such amounts as the Board of Directors deems appropriate, on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Association, or of any corporation a majority of the voting stock of which is owned by the Association, or is or was serving at the request of the Association as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Association would have the power or would be required to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of

 

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  this Article NINTH; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Association may not purchase or maintain insurance which would cover final orders assessing civil money penalties arising out of administrative actions or proceedings instituted by an appropriate bank regulatory agency.

 

  (8)

Notwithstanding any right or authority granted in subparagraphs (1)-(7) of this Article, no person shall be Indemnified or reimbursed for expenses, penalties, or other payments incurred in an administrative proceeding or action instituted by an appropriate bank regulatory agency if such proceeding or action results in a final order assessing a civil money penalty or requiring affirmative action by an individual or individuals in the form of payments to the Association.

TENTH. Except as provided in these Articles of Association, these Articles of Association may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the shareholders by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the Common Stock, unless the vote of the holders of a greater amount of Common Stock is required by law, and in that case by the vote of the holders of such greater amount.

ELEVENTH. Any action which requires a vote of the shareholders, but that does not specifically require a meeting of this Association, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of all outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon and shall be delivered to this Association by delivery to its registered office in the State of New York, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Association having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of shareholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Association’s registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each shareholder who signs the consent.

 

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STATE OF NEW YORK)

COUNTY OF NEW YORK)

The undersigned duly qualified Assistant Secretary of Citibank, N.A., a national banking association (“Citibank”), hereby certifies that (i) on March 29, 2011 holders of all of the voting shares of Citibank, by unanimous written consent, adopted the Articles of Association as amended effective July 1, 2011 of Citibank and (ii) the foregoing is a true and complete copy of the Articles of Association, as amended, effective July 1, 2011.

 

   /s/Shelly Dropkin
   Shelly Dropkin
   Assistant Secretary
Subscribed and sworn before me    July 1, 2011
   (Date)
   /s/Jacqueline Wood
   (Notary Public)
   Jacqueline Wood
   Notary Public, State of Select a County
   No. 01WO6188144
   Qualified in New York County
   Commission Expires June 2, 2012

 

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STATE OF NEW YORK)

COUNTY OF NEW YORK)

The undersigned duly qualified Assistant Secretary of Citibank, N.A., a national banking association (“Citibank”), hereby certifies that (i) on March 29, 2011 holders of all of the voting shares of Citibank, by unanimous written consent, adopted the Articles of Association as amended effective July 1, 2011 of Citibank and (ii) the foregoing is a true and complete copy of the Articles of Association as amended effective July 1, 2011 of Citibank.

 

   /s/Paula F. Jones
   Paula F. Jones
   Assistant Secretary
Subscribed and sworn before me    July 1, 2011
   (Date)
   /s/Jacqueline Wood
   (Notary Public)
   Jacqueline Wood
   Notary Public, State of Select a County
   No. 01WO6188144
   Qualified in New York County
   Commission Expires June 2, 2012

 

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EXHIBIT 2

 

LOGO


EXHIBIT 4

BY-LAWS OF CITIBANK. N.A.


 

 

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.

BY-LAWS

 

 

 

 

AS AMENDED EFFECTIVE JULY I, 2011



 

  

 

 

INDEX

 

TO

 

BY-LAWS

 

OF

 

CITIBANK, N.A.

 

 

  


INDEX

TO

BY-LAWS

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CITIBANK, N.A.

 

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ARTICLE I Meetings of Shareholders

  

Section 1.

  

Annual Meeting

     1  

Section 2.

  

Special Meetings

     1  

Section 3.

  

Inspector of Election

     1  

Section 4.

  

Quorum and Action by Consent

     1  

ARTICLE II Directors

  

Section 1.

  

Board of Directors

     2  

Section 2.

  

Number

     2  

Section 3.

  

Organization Meeting

     2  

Section 4.

  

Regular Meetings

     2  

Section 5.

  

Special Meetings

     2  

Section 6.

  

Notice

     2  

Section 7.

  

Quorum and Manner of Acting

     2  

Section 8.

  

Vacancies

     3  

Section 9.

  

Directors’ Fees

     3  

ARTICLE III Committees of the Board

  

Section 1.

  

Executive Committee: Powers

     3  

Section 2.

  

Executive Committee: Membership; Meetings; Quorum

     3  

Section 3.

  

Other Committees

     4  


ARTICLE IV Officers and Agents

  

Section 1.

  

Chairman

     4  

Section 2.

  

Chief Executive Officer

     4  

Section 3.

  

President

     4  

Section 4.

  

Vice Chairmen

     4  

Section 5.

  

Executive Vice Presidents

     4  

Section 6.

  

Chairman Credit Policy Committee

     5  

Section 7.

  

Senior Vice Presidents

     5  

Section 8.

  

Secretary

     5  

Section 9.

  

Treasurer

     5  

Section 10.

  

Chief Auditor

     5  

Section 11.

  

Vice Presidents

     5  

Section 12.

  

Other Officers

     6  

Section 13.

  

Attorneys-in-Fact

     6  

Section 14.

  

Clerks and Agents

     6  

Section 15.

  

Tenure of Office

     6  

ARTICLE V Domestic Branches

  

Section 1.

  

Location

     7  

Section 2.

  

Management

     7  

ARTICLE VI Foreign Branches

  

Section 1.

  

Establishment

     7  

Section 2.

  

Management

     7  

Section 3.

  

Custody of Funds

     7  

Section 4.

  

Books, Reports, and Fiscal Periods

     7  

ARTICLE VII Fiduciary Powers

  

Section 1.

  

Assignment of Fiduciary Powers

     8  


Section 2.

  

Authentication and Signature of Instruments

     8  

ARTICLE VIII Stock and Stock Certificates

  

Section 1.

  

Transfers

     8  

Section 2.

  

Stock Certificates

     8  

Section 3.

  

Record Date and Closing Transfer Books

     8  

ARTICLE IX Corporate Seal

  

ARTICLE X Miscellaneous Provisions

  

Section 1.

  

Fiscal Year

     9  

Section 2.

  

Execution of Instruments

     9  

Section 3.

  

Records

     9  

Section 4.

  

Banking Hours

     10  

Section 5.

  

Corporate Governance Procedures

     10  

ARTICLE XI By-Laws

  

Section 1.

  

Inspection

     10  

Section 2.

  

Amendments

     10  

Section 3.

  

Reference to Gender

     10  


CITIBANK, N.A.

BY-LAWS

ARTICLE I

Meetings of Shareholders

Section 1. Annual Meeting . The regular annual meeting of the shareholders, for the election of directors and the transaction of whatever other business may come before the meeting, shall be held at the Head Office of the Association, 701 East 60th Street North, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, County of Minnehaha, or such other place as the Board of Directors may designate, on such date and at such time as may be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors. Notice of such meeting may be waived in writing before, after, or at such meeting.

Section 2. Special Meetings . Except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, special meetings of the shareholders may be called for any purpose at any time by the Board of Directors or by the holders of not less than ten per cent of the stock of the Association. Every such special meeting, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be called by mailing, postage prepaid, not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for such meeting, to each shareholder at his address appearing on the books of the Association, a notice stating the purpose of the meeting. Such notice may be waived in writing before, after, or at, such meeting.

Section 3. Inspector of Election . If the Board of Directors shall so determine, any election of directors shall be managed by one or more inspectors of election, who shall be appointed by the Chairman of the meeting, and who, before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall be duly sworn faithfully to execute the duties of inspector(s) of election with strict impartiality, and according to the best of their ability. The inspector(s) of election shall hold and conduct the election at which they are appointed to serve; and, after the election, they shall file with the Secretary a certificate under their hands, certifying the result thereof and the names of the directors elected. The inspector(s) of election, at the request of the Chairman of the meeting, shall act as tellers of any other vote by ballot taken at such meeting, and shall certify the result thereof.

Section 4. Quorum and Action by Consent . A majority of the outstanding capital stock, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of shareholders, unless otherwise provided by law; but less than a quorum may adjourn any meeting, from time to time, and the meeting may be held, as adjourned, without further notice. A majority of the votes cast shall decide every question or matter submitted to the shareholders at any meeting, unless otherwise provided by law or by the Articles of Association.

Any action which requires a vote of the shareholders, but that does not specifically require a meeting of this Association, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of all outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon and shall be delivered to this Association by delivery to its registered office in the State of New York, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Association having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of shareholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Association’s registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each shareholder who signs the consent.

 

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ARTICLE II

Directors

Section 1. Board of Directors . The Board of Directors shall have power to manage and administer the business and affairs of the Association. Except as expressly limited by law, all corporate powers of the Association shall be vested in and may be exercised by said Board.

Section 2. Number . The Board of Directors shall consist of such number, not less than five nor more than twenty-five, as from time to time shall be determined by a majority of the votes to which all shareholders are at the time entitled.

Section 3. Organization Meeting . The Secretary, upon receiving the certificate of the inspector(s), of the result of any election, shall notify the directors-elect of their election and of the time at which they are required to meet at the Head Office of the Association, or such other place as the Board of Directors may designate, for the purpose of organizing the new Board and electing and appointing officers of the Association for the succeeding year. Such meeting shall be appointed to be held on the day of the election or as soon thereafter as practicable. If, at the time fixed for such meeting, there shall not be a quorum present, the directors present may adjourn the meeting, from time to time, until a quorum is obtained. Any business which may properly be transacted by the Board of Directors may be transacted at any organization meeting thereof.

Section 4. Regular Meetings . A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held quarterly, unless the Board of Directors shall otherwise determine, at the Head Office of the Association, with notice to the directors of the date and time of such meeting, or, may be held at such other time and place as the Board shall have ordered at any previous meeting.

Section 5. Special Meetings . A special meeting of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President, or on the written request of any three members of the Board such meeting shall be called by one of said officers or by the Secretary.

Section 6. Notice . Notice of any special meeting, specifying the time and place of such meeting, or of the time and place or the cancellation of any regular meeting of the Board of Directors may be given in writing, either by mailing the same to each director, at his address appearing on the books of the Association on or before the second day preceding the meeting, or by telegraphing the same to him at such address, or delivering the same to him personally, or leaving the same at his place of business, or at his residence, or by telephone on or before the day preceding the meeting. Notice need not be given to any director if waived by him in writing. Attendance of a director at any meeting of the Board of Directors shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the director attends such meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because such meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

Section 7. Quroum and Manner of Acting . At every meeting of the Board of Directors, a majority shall constitute a quorum, of which a majority must be U.S. citizens, and, except as otherwise required by law, the vote of a majority of the directors present at any such meeting at

 

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which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the directors present may adjourn any meeting from time to time until a quorum is present. No notice of any adjourned meeting need be given other than by announcement at the meeting that is being adjourned. Members of the Board of Directors may participate in meetings through use of conference telephone or similar communications equipment, so long as all members participating in such meetings can hear one another.

Section 8. Vacancies . When any vacancy occurs among the directors, the remaining members of the Board may appoint a director to fill such vacancy at any regular meeting of the Board, or at a special meeting called for that purpose.

Section 9. Directors Fees . The Board of Directors shall have authority to determine from time to time, the amount of compensation which shall be paid to any of its members, provided however that no such compensation be paid to any director who is a salaried officer or employee of the Association or any of its subsidiaries. Directors shall receive transportation and other expenses of attendance.

ARTICLE III

Committees of the Board

Section 1. Executive Committee: Powers . There shall be an Executive Committee of the Board of Directors which shall be constituted as provided in Section 2 of this Article. The Executive Committee shall have and may exercise, when the Board is not in session, all the powers of the Board that may lawfully be delegated. The Executive Committee shall keep minutes of its meetings, and such minutes shall be submitted at the next regular meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present, and any action taken by the Board with respect thereto shall be entered in the minutes of the Board. All acts done and powers conferred by the Executive Committee from time to time shall be deemed to be, and may be certified as being, done or conferred under authority of the Board.

Section 2. Executive Committee: Membership; Meetings; Quorum . The Executive Committee shall hold a regular meeting without notice at the time and place appointed for each regular meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum of the Board shall not be in attendance at said time and place, unless such regular meeting of the Board is cancelled as provided in Article II, Section 6. The directors present at such time and place, if there be not less than three, shall constitute the Executive Committee for such regular meeting, and the vote of a majority of the Committee as so constituted shall suffice for the transaction of business. A special meeting of the Executive Committee may be called at any time by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer or the President. Notice of any such special meeting shall be given to each director in the manner provided in Article II, Section 6, for the giving of notice, or the waiver thereof, of a special meeting of the Board of Directors and shall be sufficient even though such notice refers only to a meeting of the Board of Directors. The directors who shall attend at the time and place fixed in such notice, if there be not less than three, shall constitute the Executive Committee for such special meeting, and the vote of a majority of the Committee as so constituted shall suffice for the transaction of business. Executive Committee meetings may be held through use of conference telephone or similar communications equipment, so long as all members participating in such meetings can hear one another.

 

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Section 3. Other Committees . The Board of Directors may appoint, from time to time, from its own members, other committees of one or more persons, for such purposes and with such powers as the Board may determine. Members of such other committees may participate in meetings of those committees through use of conference telephone or similar communications equipment, so long as all members participating in such meetings can hear one another. Each such committee shall keep minutes of its meetings, and such minutes shall be submitted at the next regular meeting of the Board of Directors, and any action taken by the Board with respect thereto shall be entered into the minutes of the Board. Committees composed of non-members of the Board may also be appointed to consult with the members regularly or from time to time under such rules as the Board may determine but in no event may such Committees have the power of final decision in matters concerning the business of the Association.

ARTICLE IV

Officers and Agents

Section 1. Chairman . The Board of Directors shall appoint one of its members to be Chairman of the Association. The Chairman shall have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. He shall preside at meetings of the shareholders and, in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer and the President, at meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.

Section 2. Chief Executive Officer . The Board of Directors may appoint a Chief Executive Officer of the Association. The Chief Executive Officer shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. The Chief Executive Officer shall also have such powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors. In the absence of the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer shall exercise his powers and duties and shall preside at meetings of the shareholders.

Section 3. President . The Board of Directors may appoint a President of the Association. The President shall have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. In the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, the President shall exercise the powers and duties of the Chief Executive Officer of the Association, including the powers and duties related to meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.

Section 4. Vice Chairmen . The Board of Directors may appoint one or more Vice Chairmen of the Association. In the absence of the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer and the President, and, in the order of their appointment to the office, the Vice Chairmen shall exercise the powers and duties of the Chief Executive Officer related to meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and the powers and duties of the Chairman related to meetings of the shareholders. Each Vice Chairman shall have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. Each of them shall also have such powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President.

Section 5. Executive Vice President s. The Board of Directors may appoint one or more Executive Vice Presidents of the Association, each of whom shall have supervision of such major group or other administrative unit of the Association, or such other primary responsibilities, as

 

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may from time to time be established and defined by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman. Each Executive Vice President shall have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. Each Executive Vice President shall also have such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice Chairman.

Section 6. Chairman Credit Policy Committee . The Board of Directors may appoint a Chairman Credit Policy Committee who shall have general responsibilities in connection with the formulation and administration of the credit policies of the Association. He shall have general executive powers, as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. He shall also have such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

Section 7. Senior Vice Presidents . The Board of Directors may appoint one or more Senior Vice Presidents of the Association. Each Senior Vice President shall have general executive powers as well as the specific powers conferred by these By-Laws. He shall also have such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman.

Section 8. Secretary . The Board of Directors shall appoint a Secretary who shall keep accurate minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Board. He shall attend to the giving of all notices required by these By-Laws to be given. He shall be custodian of the corporate seal, records, documents, and papers of the Association. He shall have and may exercise any and all other powers and duties pertaining by law or regulation to the office of Secretary, or imposed by these By-Laws. He shall also have such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman. The Secretary may appoint one or more Assistant Secretaries with such powers and duties as the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, or the Secretary shall, from time to time, determine.

Section 9. Treasurer . The Treasurer shall have the powers attendant to the office of Treasurer. The Treasurer shall also have such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman.

Section 10. Chief Auditor . The Board of Directors shall appoint a Chief Auditor who shall be the chief auditing officer of the Association. He shall continuously examine the affairs of the Association, and shall report to the Board of Directors. He shall have and may exercise the powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred upon, or assigned to him by the Board of Directors. Subject to the authority granted to him by the Board of Directors, the Chief Auditor may also appoint, dismiss, and fix the salaries of one or more Assistant Vice Presidents, Managers, and Assistant Managers, and such other officers in the Chief Auditor’s Division as, from time to time, appear to him to be required or desirable.

Section 11. Vice Presidents . The Board of Directors may appoint one or more Vice Presidents of the Association. In addition, the Board of Directors may delegate to officers of the rank of

 

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Senior Vice President or higher, as designated by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman, authority to appoint, dismiss and fix salaries to be paid Vice Presidents within the respective officers’ areas of supervision. Each Vice President shall have specific powers conferred by these By-Laws and such further powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or any Vice Chairman.

Section 12. Other Officers . The Board of Directors may establish senior officer positions equivalent to and having duties and powers the same as those officers mentioned in the preceding Sections of this Article IV. The Board of Directors may also appoint one or more Assistant Vice Presidents, Managers, Assistant Managers, and such other officers as, from time to time, may appear to the Board of Directors to be required or desirable to transact the business of the Association. In addition, the Board of Directors may delegate to officers of the rank of Vice President or higher, as designated by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, the Chairman Credit Policy Committee, or any Senior Vice President, the authority to appoint, dismiss, and to fix the salaries to be paid to any such officers other than officers in the Chief Auditor’s Division, within the respective officer’s area of supervision. The officers so appointed shall have such powers and duties as may, from time to time, be conferred upon or assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, or the appointing officer.

Section 13. Attorneys-in-Fact . The Board of Directors may appoint one or more attorneys-in-fact as, from time to time, may appear to the Board of Directors to be required or desirable to transact the business of the Association and, subject to the authority of the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President, or any Vice President designated as Citigroup Country Officer may appoint, dismiss and fix the compensation to be paid to such attorneys-in-fact. In the case of attorneys-in-fact who are otherwise employed by the Association or by any affiliated corporate entity, the authority to appoint or dismiss any such attorneys-in-fact may be exercised by any officer having supervision of a major administrative unit, group, division, or department of the Association as may be specified by the Board of Directors. The attorneys-in-fact appointed pursuant to this Section 13 shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may, from time to time, be conferred upon them by Power of Attorney.

Section 14. Clerks and Agents . The Board of Directors may appoint, from time to time, such Paying Tellers, Receiving Tellers, Note Tellers, Vault Custodians, bookkeepers and other clerks, agents and employees as it may deem advisable for the prompt and orderly transaction of the business of the Association, define their duties, fix the salaries to be paid them and dismiss them. Subject to the authority of the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, or any other officer of the Association authorized by any of them, may appoint and dismiss all or any clerks, agents and employees and prescribe their duties and the conditions of their employment, and from time to time fix their compensation.

Section 15. Tenure of Office . All officers, clerks, agents and employees appointed by the Board of Directors, or under its authority, shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board.

 

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ARTICLE V

Domestic Branches

Section 1. Location . The Board of Directors shall have plenary power to establish, to discontinue, or, from time to time to change the location of, any domestic branch, subject to such limitations as from time to time may be provided by law.

Section 2. Management . Subject to the general supervision and control of the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer and the President, the affairs of the domestic branches shall be under the immediate supervision and control of such officer as the Board, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President may designate and subject to such rules and regulations as such officer shall promulgate from time to time; and such officer is authorized to assign to any domestic branch such officers, agents, and employees as he may deem necessary to conduct the business thereof, and to reassign them as he may find proper.

ARTICLE VI

Foreign Branches

Section 1. Establishment . The Board of Directors shall have plenary power to establish, to discontinue, or, from time to time, to change the location of, any branch in a foreign country or in a dependency of the United States of America, subject to such limitations as from time to time may be provided by law.

Section 2. Management . Subject to the general supervision and control of the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, and the President, the affairs of the foreign branches shall be under the immediate supervision and control of such officer as the Board, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may designate and subject to such rules and regulations as such officer shall promulgate from time to time; and such officer is authorized to assign to any foreign branch such officers, agents, and employees as he may deem necessary to conduct the business thereof, and to reassign them as he may find proper.

Section 3. Custody of Funds . The funds of each branch shall be kept in the custody of the officer, manager, or other agent-in-charge thereof, or in such depositories as he may select, subject to the approval of such officer as may have supervision over the foreign branches of the Association.

Section 4. Books, Reports, and Fiscal Periods . At each branch, the officer, manager or other agent-in-charge thereof shall keep or cause to be kept, full and regular books of account, which shall at all times be open to inspection by the Association, through its proper officers or accountants or by the proper officers of the Government of the United States of America. All the transactions of the Association at the several branches shall be reported promptly to the Association by the officer, manager or other agent-in-charge thereof. Such officer as may have supervision over the foreign branches of the Association, may from time to time specify with respect to each branch the fiscal periods for ascertainment or remittance of profits and, generally, for its accounting purposes.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Fiduciary Powers

Section 1. Assignment of Fiduciary Powers . All fiduciary powers of the Association shall be exercised, subject to such regulations as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shall from time to time establish, by one or more directors, officers, employees or committees as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.

Section 2. Authentication and Signature of Instruments . All authentications or certificates by the Association, as Trustee under any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument securing bonds, debentures, notes, or other obligations of any corporation, and all certificates as Registrar or Transfer Agent and all certificates of deposit for stocks and bonds, and interim certificates and trust certificates, may be signed or countersigned in behalf of the Association by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, the Chairman Credit Policy Committee, any Senior Vice President, the Secretary, any Vice President, or anyone holding a position equivalent to the foregoing pursuant to provisions of these By-Laws, any Assistant Vice President, any Manager, any Senior Trust Officer, any Assistant Manager, any Trust Officer, or any officer with rank equivalent to any of the foregoing as may be designated by the Secretary, or by any other person appointed for that purpose by the Board of Directors or pursuant to these By-Laws. Any such signature or countersignature may be manual or facsimile.

ARTICLE VIII

Stock and Stock Certificates

Section 1. Transfers . Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of the Association, and transfer books shall be kept in which all transfers of stock shall be recorded. Every person becoming a shareholder by such transfer shall, in proportion to his shares, succeed to all the rights and liabilities of the prior holder of such shares. The Board of Directors may, in its discretion, appoint responsible banks or trust companies in such city or cities as the Board may deem advisable, from time to time, to act as transfer agents or co-transfer agents and registrars or co-registrars of the stock of the Association.

Section 2. Stock Certificates . Certificates of stock shall bear the signature of the Chairman or President (which may be engraved, printed or impressed) and shall either (a) bear the engraved, printed or impressed signature of the Secretary, be countersigned manually by a duly authorized transfer agent or co-transfer agent of the stock of the Association and be registered by a duly appointed registrar or co-registrar of the stock of the Association, or (b) be signed manually by the Secretary or by any Assistant Secretary or officer designated as an Authorized Officer of the Association and countersigned by any other Assistant Secretary or officer designated as an Authorized Officer, and, in either case the seal of the Association shall be engraved, printed or impressed thereon. Each certificate shall recite on its face that the stock represented thereby is transferable only upon the books of the Association by the holder thereof or his attorney, upon surrender of the certificate properly endorsed.

Section 3. Record Date and Closing Transfer Books . The Board of Directors may prescribe a period of not more than thirty days during which no transfer of shares of stock on the books of the Association may be made or in lieu thereof may fix a record date and hour, for the purpose of determining the shareholders entitled to any dividend or distribution, or to notice respecting any

 

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meeting of the shareholders or any matter as to which the consent or dissent of shareholders may effectively be expressed without a meeting, and to vote or otherwise act at such meeting or concerning such matter. Any record date thus fixed shall not be prior to the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution or giving notice to the shareholders respecting such meeting or matter, nor shall it be more than thirty days prior to the date fixed for such meeting or expression of such consent or dissent_

ARTICLE IX

Corporate Seal

The Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, or other officer thereunto designated by the Secretary, shall have authority to affix the corporate seal to any document requiring such seal, and to attest the same. Such seal shall be substantially in the following form:

 

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ARTICLE X

Miscellaneous Provisions

Section 1. Fiscal Year . The fiscal year of the Association shall be the calendar year.

Section 2. Execution of Instruments . All agreements, indentures, mortgages, deeds, conveyances, transfers, certificates, declarations, receipts, discharges, releases, satisfactions, settlements, petitions, schedules, accounts, affidavits, bonds, undertakings, proxies and other instruments or documents, may be signed, executed, acknowledged, verified, delivered or accepted in behalf of the Association by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice Chairman, or any Executive Vice President, or the Chairman Credit Policy Committee, or any Senior Vice President, or the Secretary, or the Chief Auditor, or any Vice President, or anyone holding a position equivalent to the foregoing pursuant to provisions of these By-Laws, or, if in connection with the exercise of any of the fiduciary powers of the Association, by any of said officers or by any Senior Trust Officer. Any such instruments may also be executed, acknowledged, verified, delivered or accepted in behalf of the Association in such other manner and by such other officers as the Board of Directors may from time to time direct. The provisions of this Section 2 are supplementary to any other provisions of these By-Laws.

Section 3. Records . The Articles of Association, the By-Laws and the proceedings of all meetings of the shareholders, the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and other standing committees of the Board, shall be recorded in appropriate minute books provided for the purpose. The minutes of each meeting shall be signed by the Secretary or other officer appointed to act as Secretary of the meeting.

 

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Section 4. Banking Hours . The Head Office of the Association and its branch offices shall be open for business on such days and during such hours as the Association shall establish from time to time consistent with applicable law.

Section 5. Corporate Governance Procedures . To the extent not inconsistent with applicable federal banking statutes, the Association has elected to follow the corporate governance procedures contained in the Delaware General Corporation Law.

ARTICLE XI

By-Laws

Section 1. Inspection . A copy of the By-Laws, with all amendments thereto, shall at all times be kept in a convenient place at the Head Office of the Association, and shall be open for inspection to all shareholders, during banking hours.

Section 2. Amendments . These By-Laws may be amended, altered or repealed, at any meeting of the Board of Directors, by a vote of a majority of the whole number of the directors.

Section 3. Reference to Gender . A reference in these By-Laws to one gender, masculine, feminine, or neuter includes the other two; and the singular includes the plural and vice versa unless the context otherwise requires.

 

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EXHIBIT 6

SECTION 321(B) CONSENT

Pursuant to Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, Citibank, N.A. hereby consents that reports of examinations by Federal, State, Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon requests therefor.

 

    CITIBANK, N.A.
Dated: October 1, 2018     By:   /s/ Danny Lee
      Name: Danny Lee
      Title: Senior Trust Officer


EXHIBIT 7

REPORT OF CONDITION

CITIBANK, N.A.

As of the close of business on June 30, 2018

 

ASSETS    Thousands of Dollars  

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:

     196,345,000  

Securities:

     313,477,000  

Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreement to resell:

     60,455,000  

Loans and leases held for sale:

     7,512,000  

Loans and leases net of unearned income, allowance:

     622,913,000  

Trading assets

     107,778,000  

Premises and fixed assets:

     7,072,000  

Other real estate owned:

     77,000  

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies:

     6,047,000  

Direct and indirect investments in real estate ventures:

     0  

Intangible assets:

     15,474,000  

Other assets:

     60,644,000  

Total Assets:

     1,397,497,000  
LIABILITIES    Thousands of Dollars  

Deposits

     1,003,190,000  

Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase

     13,564,000  

Trading liabilities

     51,028,000  

Other borrowed money:

     122,043,000  

Subordinated notes and debentures

     12,000,000  

Other Liabilities:

     47,839,000  

Total Liabilities:

     1,249,664,000  
EQUITY CAPITAL    Thousands of Dollars  

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus

     2,100,000  

Common Stock

     751,000  

Surplus:

     145,188,000  

Retained Earnings:

     21,320,000  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     (21,784,000

Noncontrolling (minority) interests in consolidated subsidiaries

     555,000  

Total Equity Capital

     148,130,000  

Total Liabilities and Equity Capital

     1,397,794,000