UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 1, 2019

 

 

IHEARTMEDIA, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   000-53354   26-0241222

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

20880 Stone Oak Parkway

San Antonio, Texas 78258

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (210) 822-2828

Not Applicable

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

Emerging growth company

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

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

 

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Trading Symbol(s)

 

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Introductory Note

On March 14, 2018, iHeartMedia, Inc. (the Company), iHeartCommunications, Inc. (iHeartCommunications) and certain of their direct and indirect domestic subsidiaries (collectively, the Debtors) filed voluntary petitions for relief (the Chapter 11 Cases) under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the Bankruptcy Code), in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (the Bankruptcy Court). On April 28, 2018, the Debtors filed a plan of reorganization and a related disclosure statement (as amended, the Disclosure Statement) with the Bankruptcy Court, which was subsequently amended by filing the second, third, fourth and fifth amended Plan of Reorganization and amended versions of the Disclosure Statement. On January 22, 2019, the Modified Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc. and Its Debtor Affiliates (as further modified, the Plan of Reorganization) was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court.

On May 1, 2019 (the Effective Date), the conditions to the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization were satisfied and the Company emerged from Chapter 11 through (a) a series of transactions (the Separation) through which Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCOH), its parent Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. (CCH) and its subsidiaries (collectively with CCOH and CCH, the Outdoor Group) were separated from, and ceased to be controlled by, the Company and its subsidiaries (the iHeart Group), and (b) a series of transactions (the Reorganization) through which iHeartCommunications’ debt was reduced from approximately $16 billion to approximately $5.8 billion and a global compromise and settlement among holders of claims (Claimholders) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases was effected. The compromise and settlement involved, among others, (i) the restructuring of iHeartCommunications’ indebtedness by (A) replacing its “debtor-in-possession” credit facility with a $450 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the New ABL Facility) and (B) issuing to certain Claimholders, on account of their claims, approximately $3.5 billion aggregate principal amount of new senior secured term loans (the New Term Loan Facility), approximately $1.45 billion aggregate principal amount of new 8.375% Senior Notes due 2027 (the New Senior Unsecured Notes) and approximately $800 million aggregate principal amount of new 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 (the “New Senior Secured Notes”), (ii) the Company’s issuance of new Class A common stock, new Class B common stock and special warrants to purchase shares of new Class A common stock and Class B common stock (Special Warrants) to Claimholders, subject to ownership restrictions imposed by the Federal Communications’ Commission (FCC), (iii) the settlement of certain intercompany transactions, and (iv) the sale of the preferred stock (the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock) of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary iHeart Operations, Inc. (iHeart Operations) in connection with the Separation.

All of the existing equity of the Company was cancelled on the Effective date pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization. The table below summarizes the type and amount of equity securities that were issued by the Company to Claimholders on the Effective Date:

 

Security

   Number of Shares
or Warrants Issued
to Claimholders
     CUSIP Number      ISIN Number  

Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share

     56,861,941        45174J 509        US45174J5092  

Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share

     6,947,567        45174J 608        US45174J6082  

Special Warrants

     81,453,648        N/A        N/A  

The table below summarizes the type and amount of indebtedness that was issued by iHeartCommunications to Claimholders on the Effective Date:

 

Security

   Principal Amount Issued to
Claimholders
     CUSIP Number      ISIN Number  

Term loans

   $ 3,498,180,274.09        N/A        N/A  

6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026

   $ 799,999,940        45174H BC0        US45174HBC07  

8.375% Senior Notes due 2027

   $ 1,449,999,997        45174H BD8        US45174HBD89  

Pursuant to the Settlement and Separation Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2019, by and between CCH, CCOH, iHeartCommunications and the Company (as amended on April 24, 2019, the Separation Agreement), the Separation was effected, among other transactions, by the merger of CCOH with and into CCH, with CCH being the surviving corporation, which was renamed “Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.” Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., prior to and after the merger, is referred to herein as “CCOH.”

As of the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Company’s Class A common stock, Class B common stock and Class C common stock outstanding prior to effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization was cancelled. The Class A common stock outstanding prior to the Effective Date was registered under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Pursuant to Rule 12g-3(a) of the Exchange Act, the new Class A common stock was deemed to be registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act by operation of law on the Effective Date. The Company, therefore, remains subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and in accordance therewith will continue to file reports and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Copies of the Plan of Reorganization and the Separation Agreement and the amendment to the Separation Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 2.1, 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Plan of Reorganization and the Separation Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of such documents.

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

In connection with the Separation and the Reorganization, the Company and its subsidiaries entered into the agreements described below.

 

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Transition Services Agreement

On the Effective Date, the Company, iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc. (iHM Management Services), iHeartCommunications and CCOH entered into a transition services agreement (the Transition Services Agreement), pursuant to which iHM Management Services has agreed to provide, or cause the Company, iHeartCommunications, iHeart Operations or any member of the iHeart Group to provide, CCOH with certain administrative and support services and other assistance which CCOH will utilize in the conduct of its business as such business was conducted prior to the Separation, for one year from the Effective Date (subject to certain rights of CCOH to extend up to one additional year, as described below). The transition services may include, among other things, (a) treasury, payroll and other financial related services, (b) certain executive officer services, (c) human resources and employee benefits, (d) legal and related services, (e) information systems, network and related services, (f) investment services and (g) procurement and sourcing support.

The charges for the transition services are generally consistent with the Corporate Services Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2005, by and between iHeartMedia Management Services and CCOH (the “Corporate Services Agreement”), which governed the provision of certain services by the iHeart Group to the Outdoor Group prior to the Separation. The allocation of cost is based on various measures depending on the service provided, which measures include relative revenue, employee headcount, number of users of a service or other factors. CCOH may request an extension of the term for all services or individual services for one-month periods for up to an additional 12 months, and the price for transition services provided during such extended term will be increased for any service other than those identified in the schedules to the Transition Services Agreement as an “IT Service” or any other service the use and enjoyment of which requires the use of another IT Service.

CCOH may terminate the Transition Services Agreement with respect to all or any individual service, in whole or in part, upon 30 days’ prior written notice, provided that any co-dependent services must be terminated concurrently.

A copy of the Transition Services Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3 and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Transition Services Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Transition Services Agreement.

New Tax Matters Agreement

On the Effective Date, we entered into a new tax matters agreement (the New Tax Matters Agreement) by and among the Company, iHeartCommunications, iHeart Operations, CCH, CCOH and Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc., to allocate the responsibility of the Company and its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Outdoor Group, on the other, for the payment of taxes arising prior and subsequent to, and in connection with, the Separation.

The New Tax Matters Agreement requires that the Company and iHeartCommunications indemnify CCOH and its subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers and employees, and hold them harmless, on an after-tax basis, from and against (i) any taxes other than transfer taxes or indirect gains taxes imposed on the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than CCOH and its subsidiaries) in connection with the Separation, (ii) any transfer taxes and indirect gains taxes arising in connection with the Separation, and (iii) fifty percent of the amount by which the amount of taxes (other than transfer taxes or indirect gains taxes) imposed on CCOH or any of its subsidiaries in connection with the Separation that are paid to the applicable taxing authority on or before the third anniversary of the separation of CCOH exceeds $5 million, provided that, the obligations of the Company and iHeartCommunications to indemnify CCOH and its subsidiaries with respect taxes (other than transfer taxes or indirect gains taxes) imposed on CCOH or any of its subsidiaries in connection with the Separation will not exceed $15 million. In addition, if the Company or its subsidiaries use certain tax attributes of CCOH and its subsidiaries (including net operating losses, foreign tax credits and other credits) and such use results in a decrease in the tax liability of the Company or its subsidiaries, then the Company is required to reimburse CCOH for the use of such attributes based on the amount of tax benefit realized. The New Tax Matters Agreement provides that any reduction of the tax attributes of CCOH and its subsidiaries as a result of cancellation of indebtedness income realized in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases is not treated as a use of such attributes (and therefore does not require the Company or iHeartCommunications to reimburse CCOH for such reduction).

The New Tax Matters Agreement also requires that (i) CCOH indemnify the Company for any income taxes paid by the Company on behalf of CCOH and its subsidiaries or, with respect to any income tax return for which CCOH or any of its subsidiaries joins with the Company or any of subsidiaries in filing a consolidated, combined or unitary return, the amount of taxes that would have been incurred by CCOH and its subsidiaries if they had filed a separate return, and (ii) except as described in the preceding paragraph, CCOH indemnify the Company and its subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers and employees, and hold them harmless, on an after-tax basis, from and against any taxes other than transfer taxes or indirect gains taxes imposed on CCOH or any of its subsidiaries in connection with the Separation.

 

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Any tax liability of CCH attributable to any taxable period ending on or before the date of the completion of the Separation, other than any such tax liability resulting from CCH’s being a successor of CCOH in connection with the merger of CCOH with and into CCOH or arising from the operation of the business of CCOH and its subsidiaries after the merger of CCOH with and into CCH, will not be treated as a liability of CCOH and its subsidiaries for purposes of the New Tax Matters Agreement.

A copy of the New Tax Matters Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the New Tax Matters Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the New Tax Matters Agreement.

Credit Agreement Governing the New ABL Facility

On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications, as borrower, entered into a Credit Agreement (the “ABL Credit Agreement”) with iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, the direct parent of iHeartCommunications (“Capital I”), as guarantor, certain subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications, as guarantors, Citibank, N.A. as administrative and collateral agent, and the lenders party thereto from time to time, governing a $450.0 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the “New ABL Facility”). The New ABL Facility includes a letter of credit sub-facility and a swingline loan sub-facility.

On the Effective Date, there were no borrowings outstanding under the New ABL Facility.

Size and Availability

The New ABL Facility provides for a senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of up to $450.0 million, with amounts available from time to time (including in respect of letters of credit) equal to the lesser of (A) the borrowing base, which equals the sum of (i) 90.0% of the eligible accounts receivable of iHeartCommunications and the subsidiary guarantors and (ii) 100% of qualified cash, each subject to customary reserves and eligibility criteria, and (B) the aggregate revolving credit commitments. Subject to certain conditions, iHeartCommunications may at any time request one or more increases in the amount of revolving credit commitments, in an amount up to the sum of (x) $150.0 million and (y) the amount by which the borrowing base exceeds the aggregate revolving credit commitments.

Interest Rate and Fees

Borrowings under the New ABL Facility bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the applicable rate plus, at iHeartCommunications’ option, either (1) a base rate or (2) a eurocurrency rate. The applicable margin for borrowings under the New ABL Facility range from 1.25% to 1.75% for eurocurrency borrowings and from 0.25% to 0.75% for base-rate borrowings, in each case, depending on average excess availability under the New ABL Facility based on the most recently delivered borrowing base certificate.

In addition to paying interest on outstanding principal under the New ABL Facility, iHeartCommunications is required to pay a commitment fee to the lenders under the New ABL Facility in respect of the unutilized commitments thereunder. The commitment fee rate ranges from 0.25% to 0.375% per annum dependent upon average unused commitments during the prior quarter. iHeartCommunications may also pay customary letter of credit fees.

Maturity

Borrowings under the New ABL Facility mature, and lending commitments thereunder terminate, on June 14, 2023.

Prepayments

If at any time, the sum of the outstanding amounts under the New ABL Facility exceeds the lesser of (i) the borrowing base and (ii) the aggregate commitments under the facility (such lesser amount, the “line cap”), iHeartCommunications is required to repay outstanding loans and cash collateralize letters of credit in an aggregate amount equal to such excess. iHeartCommunications may voluntarily repay outstanding loans under the New ABL Facility at any time without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurocurrency rate loans. Any voluntary prepayments made by iHeartCommunications will not reduce iHeartCommunications’ commitments under the New ABL Facility.

 

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Guarantees and Security

The New ABL Facility is guaranteed by, subject to certain exceptions, the guarantors of iHeartCommunications’ New Term Loan Facility. All obligations under the New ABL Facility, and the guarantees of those obligations, are secured by a perfected security interest in all of the accounts receivable and related assets of iHeartCommunications’ and all of the guarantors’ accounts receivable, qualified cash and related assets and proceeds thereof that is senior to the security interest of iHeartCommunications’ New Term Loan Facility in such accounts receivable, qualified cash and related assets and proceeds thereof, subject to permitted liens and certain exceptions.

Certain Covenants and Events of Default

If borrowing availability is less than the greater of (a) $40.0 million and (b) 10% of the aggregate commitments under the New ABL Facility, in each case, for two consecutive business days (a Trigger Event), iHeartCommunications is required to comply with a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.00 to 1.00 for fiscal quarters ending on or after the occurrence of the Trigger Event, and must continue to comply with this minimum fixed charge coverage ratio until borrowing availability exceeds the greater of (x) $40.0 million and (y) 10% of the aggregate commitments under the New ABL Facility, in each case, for 20 consecutive calendar days, at which time the Trigger Event shall no longer be deemed to be occurring.

ABL Intercreditor Agreement

On the Effective Date, in connection with the entry into the ABL Credit Agreement, Capital I, iHeartCommunications and the other grantors party thereto entered into an ABL Intercreditor Agreement (the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) with Citibank, N.A., as ABL Collateral Agent, Term Loan Collateral Agent and Designated Junior Priority Representative and U.S. National Bank Association, as Notes Collateral Agent. The ABL Intercreditor Agreement governs the respective rights, obligations and priorities relating to the collateral securing the ABL Credit Agreement.

Copies of the ABL Credit Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.5 and 10.6, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the ABL Credit Agreement, the New ABL Facility and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the ABL Credit Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.

Credit Agreement Governing the New Term Loan Facility

On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications, as borrower, entered into a Credit Agreement (the Term Loan Credit Agreement) with Capital I, as guarantor, certain subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications, as guarantors, and Citibank N.A., as administrative and collateral agent, governing the New Term Loan Facility. On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications issued an aggregate of $3,498,180,274.09 principal amount of senior secured terms loans under the New Term Loan Facility to certain Claimholders pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization. The New Term Loan Facility matures on May 1, 2026.

Interest Rate and Fees

Term loans under the New Term Loan Facility bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the applicable rate plus, at iHeartCommunications’ option, either (1) a base rate or (2) a eurocurrency rate. The applicable rate for such term loans is 3.00% with respect to base rate loans and 4.00% with respect to eurocurrency rate loans.

Collateral and Guarantees

The New Term Loan Facility is guaranteed by Capital I and each of iHeartCommunications’ existing and future material wholly-owned restricted subsidiaries, subject to certain exceptions.

All obligations under the New Term Loan Facility, and the guarantees of those obligations, are secured, subject to permitted liens and other exceptions, by a first priority lien in substantially all of the assets of iHeartCommunications’ and all of the guarantors’ assets, including a lien on the capital stock of iHeartCommunications and certain of its subsidiaries owned by a guarantor, other than the accounts receivable and related assets of iHeartCommunications and all of the subsidiary guarantors, and by a second priority lien on accounts receivable and related assets securing iHeartCommunications’ New ABL Facility.

 

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Prepayments

iHeartCommunications is required to prepay outstanding term loans under the New Term Loan Facility, subject to certain exceptions, with:

 

   

50% (which percentage may be reduced to 25% and to 0% based upon iHeartCommunications’ first lien leverage ratio) of iHeartCommunications’ annual excess cash flow, subject to customary credits, reductions and exclusions;

 

   

100% (which percentage may be reduced to 50% and 0% based upon iHeartCommunications’ first lien leverage ratio) of the net cash proceeds of sales or other dispositions of the assets of iHeartCommunications’ or its wholly owned restricted subsidiaries, subject to reinvestment rights and certain other exceptions; and

 

   

100% of the net cash proceeds of any incurrence of debt, other than debt permitted under the New Term Loan Facility.

iHeartCommunications may voluntarily repay outstanding loans under the New Term Loan Facility at any time, without prepayment premium or penalty, except in connection with a repricing event within nine months of the Effective Date and subject to customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurocurrency loans.

Certain Covenants and Events of Default

The New Term Loan Facility does not include any financial covenants. However, the New Term Loan Facility includes negative covenants that, subject to significant exceptions, limit Capital I’s ability and the ability of its restricted subsidiaries (including iHeartCommunications) to, among other things:

 

   

incur additional indebtedness;

 

   

create liens on assets;

 

   

engage in mergers, consolidations, liquidations and dissolutions;

 

   

sell assets;

 

   

pay dividends and distributions or repurchase Capital I’s capital stock;

 

   

make investments, loans or advances;

 

   

prepay certain junior indebtedness;

 

   

engage in certain transactions with affiliates;

 

   

amend material agreements governing certain junior indebtedness; and

 

   

change lines of business.

The New Term Loan Facility includes certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants and events of default, including but not limited to, payment defaults, breach of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, cross-defaults to certain indebtedness, certain bankruptcy-related events, certain events under ERISA, material judgments and a change of control. If an event of default occurs, the lenders under the New Term Loan Facility are entitled to take various actions, including the acceleration of all amounts due under the New Term Loan Facility and all actions permitted to be taken under the loan documents relating thereto or applicable law.

First Lien Intercreditor Agreement

On the Effective Date, in connection with the entry into the Term Loan Credit Agreement, Capital I, iHeartCommunications and the other grantors party thereto entered into a Term Loan Intercreditor Agreement (the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement) with Citibank, N.A., as Credit Agreement Agent and U.S. National Bank Association, as Senior Notes Collateral Agent. The First Lien Intercreditor Agreement governs the respective rights, obligations and priorities relating to the collateral securing the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Copies of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.7 and 10.8, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the New Term Loan Facility and the First Lien Intercreditor does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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Revolving Loan Agreement Governing the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit

On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications entered into a Revolving Loan Agreement with Clear Channel Outdoor, LLC (CCOL) and Clear Channel International, Ltd., both subsidiaries of CCOH, governing a revolving credit facility that provides for borrowings of up to $200 million (the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit). The iHeartCommunications Line of Credit is unsecured. The facility matures on May 1, 2022, and may be terminated by CCOL earlier at its option.

Borrowings under the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit bear interest at the U.S. prime rate, provided that so long as any event of default has occurred and is continuing, at the option of iHeartCommunications, interest shall accrue at the rate of the prime rate plus 2.0% per annum. Each borrowing under the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit is subject to the condition that, after giving pro forma effect to the proposed borrowing and the substantially concurrent use of proceeds therefor, the Outdoor Group’s consolidated liquidity (as defined by the revolving loan agreement governing the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit) will not exceed $137.5 million. The iHeartCommunications Line of Credit (a) requires prepayments in the event that the Outdoor Group’s consolidated liquidity (as defined by the revolving loan agreement governing the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit) exceeds $137.5 million, in the amount of such excess, (b) contains affirmative covenants requiring the borrowers to deliver monthly unaudited financial information and three-month projected monthly sources and uses of cash, (c) contains negative covenants restricting the ability of the borrowers to repay any indebtedness, subject to certain exceptions and (d) contains customary events of default, including default in the payment of principal or interest and default in the payment of certain other indebtedness.

A copy of the Revolving Loan Agreement governing the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.9 and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Revolving Loan Agreement and the iHeartCommunications Line of Credit does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Revolving Loan Agreement.

Indenture Governing the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026

On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications entered into an indenture (the Senior Secured Notes Indenture) with Capital I, as guarantor, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee and collateral agent, governing the New Senior Secured Notes that were issued to certain Claimholders pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization. The New Senior Secured Notes mature on May 1, 2026 and bear interest at a rate of 6.375% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on November 1, 2019.

The New Senior Secured Notes are guaranteed on a senior secured basis by Capital I and the subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications that guarantee the New Term Loan Facility or other credit facilities or capital markets debt securities. The New Senior Secured Notes and the related guarantees rank equally in right of payment with all of iHeartCommunications’ and the guarantors’ existing and future indebtedness that is not expressly subordinated to the New Senior Secured Notes (including the New Senior Unsecured Notes), effectively equal with iHeartCommunications’ and the guarantors’ existing and future indebtedness secured by a first priority lien on the collateral securing the New Senior Secured Notes, effectively subordinated in right of payment to all of iHeartCommunications’ and the guarantors’ existing and future indebtedness that is secured by assets that are not part of the collateral securing the New Senior Secured Notes, to the extent of the value of such assets, and structurally subordinated in right of payment to all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities of any subsidiary of iHeartCommunications that is not a guarantor of the New Senior Secured Notes.

The New Senior Secured Notes and the related guarantees are secured, subject to permitted liens and certain other exceptions, by a first priority lien on the capital stock of iHeartCommunications and substantially all of the assets of iHeartCommunications and the guarantors, other than accounts receivable and related assets, and by a second priority lien on accounts receivable and related assets securing the New ABL Facility.

iHeartCommunications may redeem the New Senior Secured Notes at its option, in whole or in part, at any time prior to May 1, 2022, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the New Senior Secured Notes being redeemed, plus an applicable premium and plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. iHeartCommunications may redeem the New Senior Secured Notes at its option, in whole or in part, on or after May 1, 2022, at the redemption prices set forth in the New Senior Secured Notes Indenture plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. At any time prior to May 1, 2022, iHeartCommunications redeem at its option, up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the New Senior Secured Notes at a redemption price equal to 106.375% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, with the proceeds of one or more equity offerings.

 

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The Senior Secured Notes Indenture contains covenants that limit the ability of Capital I and its restricted subsidiaries, including iHeartCommunications, to, among other things:

 

   

incur or guarantee additional debt or issue certain preferred stock;

 

   

make certain restricted payments;

 

   

create restrictions on distributions to iHeartCommunications or Capital I;

 

   

sell certain assets;

 

   

create liens on certain assets;

 

   

enter into certain transactions with affiliates; and

 

   

merge or consolidate with another person, or sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of their assets.

A copy of the Senior Secured Notes Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Senior Secured Notes Indenture and the New Senior Secured Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Senior Secured Notes Indenture.

Indenture Governing the 8.375% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2027

On the Effective Date, iHeartCommunications entered into an indenture (the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture) with Capital I, as guarantor, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, governing the $1,449,999,997 aggregate principal amount of 8.375% Senior Notes due 2027 that were issued to certain Claimholders pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization. The New Senior Unsecured Notes mature on May 1, 2027 and bear interest at a rate of 8.375% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, beginning on February 1, 2020.

The New Senior Unsecured Notes are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by Capital I and the subsidiaries of iHeartCommunications that guarantee the New Term Loan Facility or other credit facilities or capital markets debt securities. The New Senior Unsecured Notes and the related guarantees rank equally in right of payment with all of iHeartCommunications’ and the guarantors’ existing and future indebtedness that is not expressly subordinated to the New Senior Unsecured Notes, effectively subordinated in right of payment to all of iHeartCommunications’ and the guarantors’ existing and future indebtedness that is secured (including the New Senior Secured Notes and borrowings under the New ABL Facility and the New Term Loan Facility, to the extent of the value of the collateral securing such indebtedness), and structurally subordinated in right of payment to all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities of any subsidiary of iHeartCommunications that is not a guarantor of the New Senior Unsecured Notes.

iHeartCommunications may redeem the New Senior Unsecured Notes at its option, in whole or in part, at any time prior to May 1, 2022, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the New Senior Unsecured Notes being redeemed, plus an applicable premium and plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. iHeartCommunications may redeem the New Senior Unsecured Notes at its option, in whole or in part, on or after May 1, 2022, at the redemption prices set forth in the New Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date. At any time prior to May 1, 2022, iHeartCommunications redeem at its option, up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the New Senior Unsecured Notes at a redemption price equal to 108.375% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption date, with the proceeds of one or more equity offerings.

The Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture contains covenants that limit the ability of Capital I and its restricted subsidiaries, including iHeartCommunications, to, among other things:

 

   

incur or guarantee additional debt or issue certain preferred stock;

 

   

make certain restricted payments;

 

   

create restrictions on distributions to iHeartCommunications or Capital I;

 

   

sell certain assets;

 

   

create liens on certain assets;

 

   

enter into certain transactions with affiliates; and

 

   

merge or consolidate with another person, or sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of their assets.

 

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A copy of the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.3 and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture and the New Senior Secure Unsecured Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture.

Special Warrant Agreement and Special Warrants

On the Effective Date, the Company entered into a Warrant Agreement with Computershare, Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as warrant agent (the Special Warrant Agreement), governing the Special Warrants, and issued Special Warrants to purchase 81,453,648 shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock thereunder.

Each Special Warrant may be exercised by its holder to purchase one share of Class A common stock or Class B common stock at an exercise price of $0.001 per share, unless the Company in its sole discretion believes such exercise would, alone or in combination with any other existing or proposed ownership of common stock, result in (a) more than 22.5 percent of its capital stock or voting interests being owned directly or indirectly by foreign individuals or entities, (b) the Company exceeding any foreign ownership threshold set by the FCC pursuant to a declaratory ruling or a holder exceeding any specific approval requirement or (c) a violation of (i) any provision of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the Communications Act), (ii) restrictions on ownership or transfer imposed by the A&R Certificate of Incorporation or (iii) the decisions, rules and policies of the FCC. Any holder exercising Special Warrants must complete and timely deliver to the warrant agent the required exercise forms and certifications required under the Special Warrant Agreement. The Company is not required to issue fractional shares in connection with the exercise of Special Warrants, and may either pay an amount in cash in lieu of such fractional shares or round the number of shares received to the nearest whole number. The exercise price is not subject to any adjustment.

To the extent there are any dividends declared or distributions made with respect to the Class A common stock or Class B common stock of the Company, those dividends or distributions will also be made to holders of Special Warrants concurrently and on a pro rata basis based on their ownership of common stock underlying their Special Warrants on an as-exercised basis; provided, that no such distribution will be made to holders of Special Warrants if (x) the Communications Act or an FCC rule prohibits such distribution to holders of Special Warrants or (y) the Company’s FCC counsel opines that such distribution is reasonably likely to cause (i) the Company to violate the Communications Act or any applicable FCC rule or (ii) any such holder not to be deemed to hold a non-cognizable (under FCC rules governing foreign ownership) future equity interest in the Company; provided further, that, if any distribution of common stock or any other securities to a holder of Special Warrants is not permitted pursuant to clauses (x) or (y), the Company will cause economically equivalent warrants to be distributed to such holder in lieu thereof, to the extent that such distribution of warrants would not violate the Communications Act or any applicable FCC rules.

The Company will file a petition for declaratory ruling requesting FCC consent for the Company to exceed the 25 percent foreign ownership and voting benchmarks that apply to the Company under the Communications Act and applicable FCC rules. Pursuant to the Special Warrant Agreement, following receipt of the declaratory ruling from the FCC, the Company is required to exchange common stock for outstanding Special Warrants to the extent permitted by the declaratory ruling and applicable FCC rules, subject to proration among the holders of Special Warrants as set forth in the Special Warrant Agreement.

To the extent within the Company control, any tender or exchange offer subject to Sections 13 or 14 of the Exchange Act for the Company’s Class A common stock, Class B common stock or Special Warrants will be made concurrently and on a pro rata basis (in the case of holders of Special Warrants, based upon their ownership of common stock underlying their Special Warrants on an as-exercised basis) to all holders of the Company’s Class A common stock, Class B common stock and Special Warrants. Distributions to holders of Special Warrants and payments to holders of Special Warrants pursuant to a tender or exchange offer for Special Warrants subject to Sections 13 or 14 of the Exchange Act will be made in compliance with FCC ownership conditions.

Upon the occurrence of any reclassification or recapitalization whereby holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to receive proceeds in cash, stock, securities or other assets or property with respect to or in exchange for common stock, holders who exercise Special Warrants are entitled to receive such proceeds commensurate with the number of shares of common stock they would have received if they had exercised their Special Warrants immediately prior to such reclassification or recapitalization. Upon a change of control in which the only consideration payable to holders of common stock is cash, each Special Warrant will be deemed to be exercised immediately prior to the consummation of such change of control and the holder will receive solely the cash consideration to which such holder would have been entitled as a result of

 

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such change of control. Upon a change of control in which the consideration payable to holders of common stock is other than only cash, at the Company’s option, each Special Warrant will be either (A) assumed by the party surviving such change of control and will continue to be exercisable for the kind and amount of consideration to which such holder would have been entitled as a result of such change of control had the special warrant been exercised immediately prior, or (B) if not assumed by the party surviving such change of control, deemed to be exercised immediately prior to the consummation of such change of control and the holder will receive the consideration to which such holder would have been entitled as a result of such Change of Control, less the exercise price, as though the special warrant had been exercised immediately prior. The Special Warrants expire on the earlier of May 1, 2039 and the occurrence of a change in control of the Company.

A copy of the Special Warrant Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.5 and is incorporated herein by reference to this Current Report on Form 8-K. The foregoing description of the Special Warrant Agreement and the Special Warrants does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Special Warrant Agreement.

iHeart Operations Preferred Stock and Investors Rights Agreement

In accordance with the Plan of Reorganization and a Preferred Equity Commitment Letter, dated April 8, 2019, among the Company, iHeartCommunications, iHeart Operations, CCH and an investor, on the Effective Date, iHeart Operations issued and sold 60,000 shares of its Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, having an aggregate initial liquidation preference of $60 million to CCH, and CCH sold the iHeart Operations Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to the investor for a cash purchase price of $60 million before fees and expenses.

The terms and conditions of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock and the rights of its holders are set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock of iHeart Operations, which became effective on the Effective Date (the Certificate of Designation), and the Series A Investors Rights Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, by and among iHeart Operations, iHeartCommunications, the Company and the investor who purchased the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock (the Investors Rights Agreement).

Holders of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock are entitled to receive in respect of each share, cumulative dividends accruing daily and payable quarterly at a per annum rate equal to the sum of (1) the greater of (a) LIBOR and (b) two percent, plus (2) the applicable margin, which is calculated as a function of the Company’s consolidated total leverage ratio. Dividends will be payable on the liquidation preference. Unless all accrued and unpaid dividends on the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock are paid in full, no dividends or distributions may be paid on any equity interests of the Company or its subsidiaries other than iHeart Operations, and no such equity interests may be repurchased or redeemed (subject to certain exceptions that are specified in the certificate of designations for the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock). Unless prohibited by Section 170 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), dividends will be declared quarterly and will be payable on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year (or on the next business day if such date is not a business day).

Upon consummation of certain equity offerings prior to May 21, 2022, iHeart Operations may, at its option, redeem all or a part of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock for the liquidation preference plus a make-whole premium. iHeart Operations may not otherwise redeem the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock at its option prior to May 1, 2022. At any time on or after May 1, 2022, the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock may be redeemed at the option of iHeart Operations, in whole or in part, for cash at a redemption price equal to the liquidation preference per share.

Upon (i) a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of iHeart Operations, the Company or iHeartCommunications, together with the subsidiaries of such entity, taken as a whole, (ii) a bankruptcy event, (iii) a change of control, (iv) a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of iHeart Operations’, the Company’s or iHeartCommunications’ assets and the assets of such entity’s subsidiaries, taken as a whole in a single transaction (other than to the Company or any of its subsidiaries), or a series of transactions, (v) an acceleration or payment default of indebtedness of iHeart Operations, the Company or any of its subsidiaries of $100 million or more or (vi) consummation of certain equity offerings of the Company, iHeart Operations or iHeartCommunications or certain significant subsidiaries, any holder of shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock may require the Company to purchase such holder’s shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock at a purchase price equal to (a) the liquidation preference plus a make-whole premium, if such purchase is consummated prior to May 1, 2022 or (b) the liquidation preference, if the purchase is consummated on or after May 1, 2022.

The shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock include repurchase rights, pursuant to which the holders may require the Company or iHeartCommunications to purchase the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock on or after May 1, 2024.

 

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On May 1, 2029, the shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock will be subject to mandatory redemption for an amount equal to the liquidation preference, unless waived by the holders.

If dividends payable on the shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock have not been paid in cash for twelve consecutive quarters, the holders of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock will have the right to designate one director to the Company’s board of directors. Such director shall continue in office until (y) the Company’s next annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors for such director’s corresponding class, and their successor shall have been elected by the holders of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock or (z) all dividends accrued on the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock for the past dividend periods shall have been paid in full in cash.

Copies of the Certificate of Designation and the Investors Rights Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.10 and 10.11, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Certificate of Designation, the Investors Rights Agreement and the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Certificate of Designation and the Investors Rights Agreement.

Item 1.02 Termination of Material Definitive Agreement

On the Effective Date, in connection with the Separation and pursuant to the Separation Agreement, certain intercompany notes and intercompany accounts among the Outdoor Group and the iHeart Group were settled, terminated and cancelled. The note payable by iHeartCommunications to CCOH was cancelled, and any agreements or licenses requiring royalty payments to the iHeart Group by the Outdoor Group for trademarks or other intellectual property terminated effective as of December 31, 2018. Furthermore, each of the following were terminated, canceled and of no further force or effect (including any provisions that purport to survive termination): (i) all agreements, arrangements, commitments or understandings, whether or not in writing, between or among members of the Outdoor Group, on the one hand, and members of the iHeart Group, on the other hand, relating to the sweep of the cash balance in CCOH’s concentration account to iHeartCommunications’ master account; (ii) that certain Master Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2005, by and between iHeartCommunications and CCOH; (iii) that certain Employee Matters Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2005, by and between iHeartCommunications and CCOH; (iv) the Corporate Services Agreement; and (v) that certain Amended and Restated License Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2005, by and between iHM Identity, Inc. and Outdoor Management Services, Inc., as amended by that certain First Amendment dated as of January 1, 2011.

On the Effective Date, except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan of Reorganization, all notes, bonds, indentures, certificates, securities, shares, purchase rights, options, warrants, collateral agreements, subordination agreements, intercreditor agreements, or other instruments or documents directly or indirectly evidencing, creating, or relating to any indebtedness or obligations of, or ownership interest in, the Debtors giving rise to any rights or obligations relating to claims against or interests in the Debtors (including the five series of priority guarantee notes, the senior notes due 2021, the legacy notes, and the credit agreement governing iHeartCommunications’ former term loans) were deemed cancelled and surrendered without any need for a holder to take further action with respect thereto, and the obligations of the Debtors and any affiliates thereunder or in any way related thereto were deemed satisfied in full, released, and discharged.

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

The information set forth in the Introductory Note hereto relating to the Separation and the Separation Agreement is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.

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

The information set forth in Item 1.01 above relating to the New ABL Facility, the New Term Loan Facility, the New Senior Secured Notes and the New Senior Unsecured Notes is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Company issued the following classes of equity securities that were distributed to certain Claimholders:

 

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56,861,941 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share;

 

   

6,947,567 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share; and

 

   

Special Warrants to purchase 81,453,648 shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock.

We anticipate that the Class A common stock will be quoted on the OTC Pink Tier under the symbol “IHRT”.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, iHeartCommunications distributed to Claimholders an aggregate of 294,457,155 shares of common stock of CCOH that were held by certain of its subsidiaries prior to the Separation and issued two warrants to two affiliated Claimholders to purchase an aggregate 31,269,762 shares of CCOH. The warrants will be exercised when the Claimholders receive approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, to acquire the shares (the “iHeart Warrants”). Each warrant is exercisable for $1.00 in the aggregate with respect to all shares subject to the warrant.

The Class A common stock, the Class B common stock, the Special Warrants and the iHeart Warrants were issued under the Plan of Reorganization pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), under Section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code.

In addition, on the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, iHeart Operations issued the 60,000 shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock to CCH pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof. CCH then resold such shares pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by the so called Section 4(a)(1-1/2). The information relating to the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock under the heading “iHeart Operations Preferred Stock and Investors Rights Agreement” in Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders

The information set forth under the Introductory Note and Items 1.01, 1.02 and 5.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5.01 Changes in Control of Registrant

The information set forth under the Introductory Note is incorporated herein by reference.

Prior to the Effective Date, private equity funds sponsored by, or co-investors with, Bain Capital Partners, LLC (“Bain Capital”) and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (THL) held all of the Company’s then outstanding shares of Class B common stock and Class C common stock, which collectively represented approximately 65.4% of the voting power of all of the Company’s outstanding capital stock. As a result, Bain Capital and THL had the power to elect all but two of the Company’s directors, appoint new management and approve any action requiring the approval of the holders of the Company’s capital stock.

Pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization and the Separation Agreement, holders of the Company’s capital stock prior to the Effective Date received their pro rata share of 1% of the Company’s capital stock outstanding after effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization, subject to dilution, provided that an amount equal to 0.1% of the capital stock that would have otherwise been distributed to the affiliates of Bain Capital, THL and Abrams Capital Management, L.P. was instead distributed to certain Claimholders. Pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, certain Claimholders received the remaining portion of the Company’s capital stock in exchange for their claims. Consequently, affiliates of Bain Capital and THL no longer control the Company. To the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company’s new shareholders hold more than 20% of the Company’s voting power.

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Board of Directors

On the Effective Date, in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization, the following individuals became the Company’s directors.

Robert W. Pittman, age 65, was appointed as our Chairman and as Chairman of iHeartCommunications in May 17, 2013, prior to adding the Chairmanship he was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of ours and iHeartCommunications and a director of CCOH in October 2011. He also was appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of managers of iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC in April 2013, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CCOH in March, 2015. Prior to October 2011, Mr. Pittman served as Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms for us and iHeartCommunications since November 2010. He was the founding member and investor in the Pilot Group LP, a private equity investment company, since April 2003. Mr. Pittman was formerly Chief Operating Officer of AOL Time Warner, Inc.

 

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from May 2002 to July 2002. He also served as Co-Chief Operating Officer of AOL Time Warner, Inc. from January 2001 to May 2002, and earlier, as President and Chief Operating Officer of America Online, Inc. from February 1998 to January 2001. Earlier in his career, he was the programmer who led the team that created MTV and was later CEO of MTV Networks, Inc. and CEO of Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc., Time Warner Enterprises, Inc. and Century 21 Real Estate Corporation. Mr. Pittman was selected to serve as a member of our Board because of his service as our Chief Executive Officer, as well as his extensive media experience gained through the course of his career.

Gary Barber, age 61, currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spyglass Media Group, LLC. Mr. Barber served as the Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) from 2010 through March 2018 leading its turn-around out of bankruptcy. Prior to his role at MGM, he was Co- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spyglass Entertainment Group, LLC which he co-founded in 1998. Prior to Spyglass Entertainment Group, LLC, Mr. Barber served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Creek Productions and President of Vestron International Group. Mr. Barber received his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and he practiced as a chartered accountant and certified public accountant in both South Africa and the U.S. with Price Waterhouse. Mr. Barber’s extensive experience in finance and media will bring tremendous value to the Board.

Richard J. Bressler, age 61, was appointed as our President and Chief Financial Officer, as President and Chief Financial Officer of iHeartCommunications and iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC and as Chief Financial Officer of CCOH in July 2013 and as our Chief Operating Officer in February 2015. Prior thereto, Mr. Bressler was a Managing Director at THL. Prior to joining THL, Mr. Bressler was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Viacom, Inc. from 2001 through 2005. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Digital Media and, from 1995 to 1999, was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Inc. Prior to joining Time Inc. in 1988, Mr. Bressler was a partner with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP since 1979. Mr. Bressler has been one of our directors since May 2007. Mr. Bressler also currently is a director of iHeartCommunications, Civic Entertainment, Seacrest Global Group, LLC and Gartner, Inc. and a member of the board of managers of iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC. Mr. Bressler previously served as a member of the boards of directors of, Nielsen Holdings B.V. and Warner Music Group Corp. and as a member of the J.P. Morgan Chase National Advisory Board. Mr. Bressler holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Adelphi University. Mr. Bressler was selected to serve as a member of our Board for his experience in and knowledge of the industry gained through his various positions with Viacom and Time Warner as well as his knowledge of finance and accounting gained from his experience at THL and Ernst & Young LLP.

Brad Gerstner, age 47, has served, since 2008, as the CEO and CIO of Altimeter Capital Management, LP, an internet, software, and travel focused investment firm that he founded in 2008. Prior to launching Altimeter, Mr. Gerstner was an internet entrepreneur, co-founding two internet search start-ups. Additionally, Mr. Gerstner previously served as a board member and compensation committee member of Orbitz, Inc. He has also served on the boards of SilverRail Technologies, Duetto Research and HotelTonight. Mr. Gerstner earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in economics and political science from Wabash College in 1993, a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law in 1996 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2000. Mr. Gerstner has advised a broad range of companies on business, financial and value-creation strategies. Mr. Gerstner’s proven financial acumen and background in analyzing financial markets will bring a depth of knowledge and practical experience to the Board.

Sean Mahoney, age 56, has extensive experience in capital markets and business strategy across a wide variety of companies and sectors. Since 2008, Mr. Mahoney has been a private investor in public and private securities. Prior to 2008, Mr. Mahoney spent 17 years in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a partner and head of the Financial Sponsors Group, followed by four years at Deutsche Bank Securities, where he served as Vice Chairman, Global Banking. Mr. Mahoney currently serves on the board of directors of Arconic, Inc. and Aptiv Plc. In addition, Mr. Mahoney has served on the post-bankruptcy board of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. since 2012. He also serves on the Development Committee for the Rhodes Trust, an educational charity whose principal activity is to support the international selection of Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford University in England (which Mr. Mahoney attended as a Rhodes Scholar from 1984 through 1987). Mr. Mahoney was previously a director of Delphi Automotive PLC, Cooper-Standard Holdings, Inc., and Formula One Holdings. Mr. Mahoney holds a Master of Letters Degree from Oxford University and a Bachelor of the Arts from University of Chicago. Mr. Mahoney has advised a broad range of companies on business, financial and value-creation strategies. He has served as senior advisor on a range of major equity, debt and M&A projects during his career. Mr. Mahoney’s proven business and investment acumen brings valuable insight and perspectives to the Board.

James A. Rasulo, age 63, has been the Director at Saban Capital Acquisition Corporation since September 2016. Mr. Rasulo was formerly an executive at Walt Disney Company from 1986 through 2015, having spent his last five years at Disney as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President. During his tenure at Walt Disney, among other

 

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roles, he served as the Chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. Mr. Rasulo serves on numerous charitable organizations, including the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Director and Treasurer of HeritX cancer research foundation. Mr. Rasulo is a graduate of Columbia University and received his MA & MBA from the University of Chicago. Mr. Rasulo’s proven business acumen and extensive experience serving in executive management roles at a large publicly traded company brings tremendous value to the Board.

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, age 43, is the founder and CEO of Drawbridge, the leading identity management company that enables brands and enterprises to create personalized online and offline experiences. Drawbridge uses large-scale AI and machine learning technologies to build democratized solutions for identity, driving the intersect between mar-tech and other categories with applications including advertising, personalization, content management, product recommendations, authentication, and risk detection. Prior to founding Drawbridge in November 2010, Ms. Sivaramakrishnan was a Senior Research Scientist at AdMob, which was acquired by Google in 2010. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan has been named one of Business Insider’s “Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising” for five consecutive years. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan received the Women of Vision ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship from the Anita Borg Institute, and has been named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Admired CEOs and a Mar-Tech Trailblazer by AdWeek. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan also has the unique distinction of her work being onboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the outer planetary system. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan received her PhD in Information Theory and Algorithms from Stanford University Ms. Sivaramakrishnan’s entrepreneurial experience and business acumen bring extensive knowledge to the Board.

Mr. Pittman was appointed Chairman of the board of directors and the new directors were assigned to the board of directors’ committees as set forth below.

 

Name

 

Audit Committee

 

Compensation Committee

 

Nominating and Governance
Committee

Robert W. Pittman

     

Gary Barber

    ✓ (Chair)   ✓            

Richard J. Bressler

     

Brad Gerstner

  ✓ (Chair)    

Sean Mahoney

  ✓                

James A. Rasulo

  ✓               ✓               ✓ (Chair)

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan

    ✓               ✓            

Election of Executive Officers

On the Effective Date, the board of directors appointed the individuals listed below to the officer positions set forth below, with each such officer to hold office until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her death, or his or her resignation or removal from office. The biographies of these officers, other than Messrs. Pittman and Bressler, are set forth below.

 

Name

  

Position

Robert W. Pittman

  

Chief Executive Officer

Richard J. Bressler

  

President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer and Director

Steven J. Macri

  

Senior Vice President-Corporate Finance

Scott D. Hamilton

  

Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary

Paul M. McNicol

  

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Steven J. Macri, age 50, is the Senior Vice President-Corporate Finance of iHeartMedia, iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications and CCOH and the Chief Financial Officer of iHeartMedia’s iHM segment. Mr. Macri was appointed Senior Vice President—Corporate Finance of iHeartMedia, iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications and CCOH in September 2014 and as the Chief Financial Officer of iHeartMedia division in October 2013. Prior to joining

 

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the company, Mr. Macri served as Chief Financial Officer for LogicSource Inc., from March 2012 to September 2013. Prior to joining LogicSource, Mr. Macri was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Warner Music Group Corp. from September 2008 to December 2011 and prior thereto served as Controller and Senior Vice President-Finance from February 2005 to August 2008. Mr. Macri began his career at PwC. He has an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University.

Scott D. Hamilton, age 49, is the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary of iHeartMedia, iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications and CCOH. Mr. Hamilton was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary of iHeartMedia, iHeartCommunications and CCOH in April 2010 and was appointed as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Assistant Secretary of iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC in April 2013. Prior to April 2010, Mr. Hamilton served as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Avaya Inc., a multinational telecommunications company, from October 2008 to April 2010. Prior thereto, Mr. Hamilton served in various accounting and finance positions at Avaya, beginning in October 2004. Prior thereto, Mr. Hamilton was employed by PwC from September 1992 until September 2004 in various roles including audit, global capital markets transaction services based in London, UK and technical accounting consulting services as part of PwC’s national office. Mr. Hamilton earned a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Abilene Christian University.

Paul M. McNicol, age 62, is the current Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for iHeartMedia, Inc., and has held that position since August 2016. Prior to 2016, Mr. McNicol served as the Managing Partner of the private equity firm, Pilot Group LP, from 2003 to 2016. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. McNicol was the Senior Vice President of AOL Corporation Digital Advertising Sales Group. Prior thereto, Mr. McNicol was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the real estate division for HSF Corporation (succeeded by Cendant Corporation) from 1997 to 2000. Prior thereto, Mr. McNicol was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Six Flags Theme Parks from 1994 to 1997. Mr. McNicol was a lawyer in private practice in New York from 1982 to 1994. Mr. McNicol earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1979 and a J.D. from Fordham School of Law in 1982.

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Company filed an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the A&R Certificate of Incorporation) with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. Also on the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Company adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws (the A&R Bylaws).

The A&R Certificate of Incorporation authorizes capital stock consisting of:

 

   

100,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share;

 

   

1,000,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share; and

 

   

1,000,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.001 per share.

As of the Effective Date, the Company had no shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding, and 56,861,941 and 6,947,567 shares of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock issued and outstanding, respectively.

The following summary describes the material provisions of the A&R Certificate of Incorporation and the A&R Bylaws.

Preferred Stock

Under the terms of A&R Certificate of Incorporation, the Company’s board of directors is authorized to direct the Company to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series without stockholder approval. The Company’s board of directors has the discretion to determine the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, of each series of preferred stock.

The purpose of authorizing the Company’s board of directors to issue preferred stock and determine its rights and preferences is to eliminate delays associated with a stockholder vote on specific issuances. The issuance of preferred stock, while providing flexibility in connection with possible acquisitions, future financings and other corporate purposes, could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire, or could discourage a third party from seeking to acquire, a majority of our outstanding voting stock.

 

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Class A Common Stock

Holders of shares of Class A common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Holders of Class A common stock will have the exclusive right to vote for the election of directors. There will be no cumulative voting rights in the election of directors.

Holders of shares of Class A common stock are entitled to receive dividends, on a per share basis, when and if declared by the Company’s board of directors out of funds legally available therefor and whenever any dividend is made on the shares of our Class B common stock subject to certain exceptions set forth in the A&R Certificate of Incorporation.

The Company may not subdivide or combine (by stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or any other transaction) its shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock without subdividing or combining its shares of Class B common stock or Class A common stock, respectively, in a similar manner.

Upon our dissolution or liquidation or the sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, after payment in full of all amounts required to be paid to creditors and to the holders of preferred stock having liquidation preferences, if any, the holders of shares of Class A common stock will be entitled to receive pro rata together with holders of Class B common stock our remaining assets available for distribution.

Class B Common Stock

Holders of shares of Class B common stock are not entitled to vote in the election of directors or any other matter submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Company, except the following: (a) any amendment or modification of any specific rights or obligations of the holders of Class B common stock that does not similarly affect the rights or obligations of the holders of Class A common stock, in which case the holders of Class B Common Stock will be entitled to a separate class vote, with each share of Class B common stock having one vote; and (b) to the extent submitted to a vote of our stockholders, (i) the retention or dismissal of outside auditors by the Company, (ii) any dividends or distributions to our stockholders, (iii) any material sale of assets, recapitalization, merger, business combination, consolidation, exchange of stock or other similar reorganization of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (iv) the adoption of any amendment to the A&R Certificate of Incorporation, (v) other than in connection with any management equity or similar plan adopted by the Company’s board of directors, any authorization or issuance of equity interests, or any security or instrument convertible into or exchangeable for equity interests, in the Company or any of its subsidiaries, and (vi) the liquidation of the Company, in which case in respect to any such vote concerning the matters described in clause (b), the holders of Class B common stock are entitled to vote with the holders of the Class A common stock, with each share of common stock having one vote and voting together as a single class.

Holders of shares of Class B common stock are generally entitled to convert shares of Class B common stock into shares of Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis, subject to the Company’s ability to restrict conversion in order to comply with the Communications Act and FCC regulations.

Holders of shares of Class B common stock are entitled to receive dividends when and if declared by the Company’s board of directors out of funds legally available therefor and whenever any dividend is made on the shares of our Class A common stock subject to certain exceptions set forth in the A&R Certificate of Incorporation.

Upon the Company’s dissolution or liquidation or the sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, after payment in full of all amounts required to be paid to creditors and to the holders of preferred stock having liquidation preferences, if any, the holders of shares of Class B common stock are entitled to receive pro rata with holders of Class A common stock, the Company’s remaining assets available for distribution.

Forum Selection

The A&R Certificate of Incorporation provides that, unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware) will be the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of the Company’s directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (3) any action asserting a claim against the Company or any director or officer of the Company arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, the A&R Certificate of Incorporation or the A&R Bylaws or (4) any other action asserting a claim against the Company or any director or officer of

 

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the Company that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Although we believe these provisions benefit the Company by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law for the specified types of actions and proceedings, the provisions may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against the Company or its directors and officers.

Board of Directors

The Company’s board of directors is divided into three classes of directors, with the classes as nearly equal in number as possible. The term of the first class of directors expires at the Company’s 2020 annual meeting of stockholders, the successors of which directors will be elected for a three-year term; the term of the second class of directors expires at the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, the successors of which directors will be elected for a two-year term; and the term of the third class of directors expires at the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, the successors of which directors will be elected for a one-year term. Following the Company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, the Company’s board of directors will no longer be classified.

Subject to the rights of holders of any outstanding shares of preferred stock, the Company’s directors may be removed, but only for cause, upon the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock.

In addition, if dividends payable on the shares of iHeart Operations Preferred Stock have not been paid in cash for twelve consecutive quarters, the holders of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock will have the right to designate one director to the Company’s board of directors. Such director shall continue in office until (y) the Company’s next annual meeting of stockholders for the election of directors for such director’s corresponding class, and their successor shall have been elected by the holders of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock or (z) all dividends accrued on the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock for the past dividend periods shall have been paid in full in cash.

Action by Written Consent

The A&R Certificate of Incorporation prohibits stockholders from acting by written consent. Stockholders may only take action at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders.

Special Meetings of Stockholders

Except as required by law, special meetings of the Company’s stockholders may called at any time only by or at the direction of a majority of the Company’s board of directors. The A&R Bylaws prohibit the conduct of any business at a special meeting other than as specified in the notice for such meeting. These provisions may have the effect of deferring, delaying or discouraging hostile takeovers, or changes in control or management of the Company.

Advance Notice Procedures

The A&R Bylaws establish an advance notice procedure for stockholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders, including proposed nominations of persons for election to the Company’s board of directors. Stockholders at an annual meeting will only be able to consider proposals or nominations specified in the notice of meeting or brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Company’s board of directors or by a stockholder who was a stockholder of record on the record date for the meeting. Although the bylaws do not give the Company’s board of directors the power to approve or disapprove stockholder nominations of candidates or proposals regarding other business to be conducted at a special or annual meeting, the bylaws may have the effect of precluding the conduct of certain business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed or may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of the Company.

Amendments; Supermajority Approval Requirements

The Company is expressly authorized to adopt, amend, alter or repeal, in whole or in part, the A&R Certificate of Incorporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to May 1, 2022, any amendment, alteration, rescission or repeal of the anti-takeover provisions, which are generally described herein, require the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% in voting power of the outstanding shares of our stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors. Following May 1, 2022, any amendment, alteration, rescission or repeal of the anti-takeover provisions require the affirmative vote of at least a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of our stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

 

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Restrictions Relating to FCC Regulations

Pursuant to the A&R Certificate of Incorporation, the Company may restrict the ownership, or proposed ownership, of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock (collectively, our capital stock), or Special Warrants by any person or entity if such ownership or proposed ownership (a) is or could be inconsistent with, or in violation of, any provision of the Federal Communications Laws (as hereinafter defined), (b) limits or impairs or could limit or impair any of our business activities or proposed business activities under the Federal Communications Laws or (c) subjects or could subject us to any regulation under the Federal Communications Laws to which we would not be subject but for such ownership or proposed ownership (clauses (a), (b) and (c) collectively, “FCC Regulatory Limitations”). The term “Federal Communications Laws” means any law of the United States now or hereafter in effect (and any regulation thereunder), including, without limitation, the Communications Act, and regulations thereunder, pertaining to the ownership and/or operation or regulating the business activities of (x) any television or radio station, cable television system or other medium of mass communications or (y) any provider of programming content to any such medium.

If the Company believes that the ownership or proposed ownership of shares of our capital stock of by any person or entity may result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation, such person or entity must promptly furnish to the Company such information as it may request. If (a) any person or entity from whom information is requested does not comply, or (b) we conclude that a stockholder’s ownership or proposed ownership of, or that a stockholder’s exercise of any rights of ownership with respect to, shares of our capital stock results or could result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation, then, in the case of either clause (a) or clause (b), the Company may (w) refuse to permit the transfer of shares of our capital stock to a proposed stockholder or refuse to permit the conversion of shares, (x) suspend those rights of stock ownership the exercise of which causes or could cause such FCC Regulatory Limitation, (y) redeem such shares of our capital stock held by such stockholder, and/or (z) exercise any and all appropriate remedies, at law or in equity, in any court of competent jurisdiction, against any such stockholder or proposed transferee, with a view towards obtaining such information or preventing or curing any situation which causes or could cause a FCC Regulatory Limitation. Any refusal to transfer, suspension of rights or refusal to convert pursuant to clauses (w) and (x), respectively, of the immediately preceding sentence will remain in effect until the requested information has been received and the Company has determined that such transfer, conversion, or the exercise of such suspended rights, as the case may be, will not result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation.

The terms and conditions of redemption pursuant to the preceding paragraph are as follows:

 

   

the redemption price of any shares to be redeemed shall be equal to the fair market value of such shares;

 

   

the redemption price of the shares may be paid in (x) any debt or equity securities of the Company, any subsidiary of the Company or any other corporation or other entity, or any combination thereof (the redemption securities), having such terms and conditions as shall be approved by the Board and which, together with any cash to be paid as part of the redemption price, in the opinion of any nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Board, has a value, at the time notice of redemption is given at least equal to the fair market value of the shares to be redeemed, assuming the redemption securities were fully distributed and subject only to normal trading activity, (y) cash or (z) any combination of redemption securities or cash;

 

   

if less than all such shares are to be redeemed, the shares to be redeemed shall be selected in such manner as shall be determined by the Board, which may include selection of the most recently purchased shares thereof, selection by lot or selection in any other manner determined by the Board;

 

   

at least 15 days’ written notice of the redemption date will be given to the record holders of the shares selected to be redeemed (unless waived in writing by any such holder);

 

   

from and after the Redemption Date, any and all rights of whatever nature in respect of the shares selected for redemption will cease and terminate and the holders of such shares shall thenceforth be entitled only to receive the cash or redemption securities payable upon redemption; and

 

   

such other terms and conditions as the Board shall reasonably determine are required by law.

Corporate Opportunity Doctrine

To the fullest extent of law, under the A&R Certificate of Incorporation, the Company has renounced and waived any interest or expectancy of the Company in being offered an opportunity to participate in, directly or indirectly, any potential transactions, matters or business opportunities presented to any of its officers, directors or stockholders, other than those officers, directors or stockholders who are employees of the Company. None of its respective officers, directors or stockholders shall be liable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries for breach of any fiduciary or other duty, as a director or officer or otherwise, by reason of the fact that such person pursues, acquires or participates in such business opportunity, directs such business opportunity to another person or fails to present such business opportunity, or information regarding

 

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such business opportunity, to the Company, unless, in the case of any such person who is a director or officer of the Company, such business opportunity is expressly offered to such director or officer in writing solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company.

The doctrine of corporate opportunity shall not apply to the Company or any of its officers or directors in circumstances where its application would conflict with any fiduciary duties or contractual obligations or to any other corporate opportunity with respect to any of the officers or directors of the Company unless such corporate opportunity is offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as an officer or director of the Company and such opportunity is one the Company is financially able and legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for the Company to pursue.

Limitations on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors

The A&R Certificate of Incorporation includes a provision that eliminates the personal liability of directors for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL. The effect of these provisions is to eliminate the rights of us and our stockholders, through stockholders’ derivative suits on our behalf, to recover monetary damages from a director for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, including breaches resulting from grossly negligent behavior. However, exculpation will not apply to any director if the director has acted in bad faith, knowingly or intentionally violated the law, authorized illegal dividends or redemptions or derived an improper benefit from his or her actions as a director.

The A&R Bylaws provide that we must indemnify and advance expenses to our directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL. The Company is also expressly authorized to carry directors’ and officers’ liability insurance providing indemnification for our directors, officers and certain employees for some liabilities.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for our Class A common stock and Class B common stock is Computershare Trust Company.

Copies of each of the A&R Certificate of Incorporation and the A&R Bylaws are attached hereto as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated by reference herein. The description of the A&R Certificate of Incorporation and the A&R Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the A&R Certificate of Incorporation and the A&R Bylaws.

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

On the Effective Date, the Company issued a press release announcing the Company’s emergence from Chapter 11. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(b) Pro Forma Financial Information

The following unaudited pro forma information of the Company giving effect to the Separation will be filed with an amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K within four business days of the Effective Date:

 

   

Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019; and

 

   

Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statements of operation for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

 

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(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit

No.

  

Description

  2.1    Modified Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc. and its Debtor Subsidiaries Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, dated January 22, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to iHeartMedia, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2019).
  3.1    Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of iHeartMedia, Inc.
  3.2    Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of iHeartMedia, Inc.
  4.1    Indenture, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartCommunications, Inc., iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, as guarantor, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee and collateral agent, governing the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026.
  4.2    Form of 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.1 filed herewith).
  4.3    Indenture, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartCommunications, Inc., iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, as guarantor, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, governing the 8.375% Senior Notes due 2027.
  4.4    Form of 8.375% Senior Notes due 2027 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.3 filed herewith).
  4.5    Warrant Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2019, by and between iHeartCommunications and Computershare, Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as warrant agent.
10.1    Settlement and Separation Agreement, dated as of March  27, 2019, between iHeartMedia, Inc., iHeartCommunications, Inc., Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 28, 2019).
10.2    Amendment, dated as of April 24, 2019, to the Settlement and Separation Agreement, dated as of March  27, 2019, by and among Clear Channel Holdings, Inc., Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., iHeartCommunications, Inc. and iHeartMedia, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of iHeartMedia, Inc.’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on April 25, 2019).
10.3    Transition Services Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartMedia, Inc., iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., iHeartCommunications, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 2, 2019).
10.4    Tax Matters Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartMedia, Inc., iHeartCommunications, Inc., iHeart Operations, Inc., Clear Channel Holdings, Inc., Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor, LLC. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 2, 2019).
10.5*    ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications, Inc., as borrower, the other guarantors party thereto from time to time, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and the lenders party thereto, governing the New ABL Facility.
10.6    ABL Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among Citibank, N.A., as Tern Loan Collateral Agent and Designated Junior Priority Representative, U.S. National Bank Association, as Notes Collateral Agent, each additional junior priority representative party thereto, iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications, Inc. and the other grantors party thereto.
10.7*    Credit Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications, Inc., as borrower, the other guarantors party thereto from time to time, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and the lenders party thereto, governing the New Term Loan Facility.

 

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10.8    First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Effective date, by and among Citibank, N.A., as Credit Agreement Agent, U.S. National Bank Association, as Senior Notes Collateral Agent and each additional collateral agent from time to time party thereto, iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, iHeartCommunications, Inc. and the other grantors party thereto.
10.9    Revolving Loan Agreement, dated as of May  1, 2019, by and among iHeartCommunications, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor, LLC and Clear Channel International, Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 2, 2019).
10.10    Certificate of Designation of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock of iHeart Operations filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April  30, 2019 and effective as of May 1, 2019.
10.11    Series A Investors Rights Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2019, by and among iHeart Operations, iHeartCommunications, the Company and the purchaser listed therein.
99.1    Press release of iHeartMedia, Inc. dated May 1, 2019.

 

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Exhibits and schedules have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K and will be provided on a supplemental basis to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

 

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SIGNATURES

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

 

    IHEARTMEDIA, INC.
Date: May 2, 2019     By:   /s/ Paul McNicol
      Paul McNicol
      Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 3.1

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

IHEARTMEDIA, INC.

iHeartMedia, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY AS FOLLOWS:

1. The name under which the Corporation was originally incorporated was BT Triple Crown Capital Holdings III, Inc. The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 11, 2007 and the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 17, 2007. The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 29, 2007. The Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was amended to amend the name of the Corporation to “CC Media Holdings, Inc.” by the filing of a Certificate of Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on July 30, 2007. The Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was amended to amend the name of the Corporation to “iHeartMedia, Inc.” by the filing of a Certificate of Amendment with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 16, 2014. The Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate”), which amended and restated in its entirety the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 26, 2017.

2. This Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (this “Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate”), attached hereto as Exhibit A, which both restates and amends the provisions of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate, is made and filed pursuant to the Modified Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of the Corporation and its debtor affiliates pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code [Docket No. 2521] confirmed by an Order [Docket No. 2525] of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, entered on and dated January 22, 2019, in In re iHeartMedia, Inc., et al., Case No. 18-31274 (MI) under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code and in accordance with Section 303 of the DGCL.

3. This Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate shall become effective as of 12:01 AM, Eastern time, on May 1, 2019.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, iHeartMedia, Inc. has caused this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate to be duly executed and acknowledged in its name and on its behalf by an authorized officer as of this 30th day of April 2019.

 

iHeartMedia, Inc.

 

By:    /s/ Richard J. Bressler
  Name: Richard J. Bressler
  Title: President, Chief Financial Officer

 

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Exhibit A

 

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FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

IHEARTMEDIA, INC.

ARTICLE I

NAME

The name of the corporation is iHeartMedia, Inc.

ARTICLE II

PURPOSE

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.

ARTICLE III

REGISTERED AGENT

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street Corporation Trust Center, Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801 and the name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE IV

CAPITALIZATION

Section 4.1. Authorized Capital Stock. The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock which the Corporation is authorized to issue is 2,100,000,000 shares, consisting of (a) 1,000,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), (b) 1,000,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), and (c) 100,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). The Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall be referred to collectively herein as the “Common Stock.”

Section 4.2. Preferred Stock. The Board is hereby expressly authorized to provide out of the unissued shares of the Preferred Stock for one or more series of Preferred Stock and to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series and to fix the voting rights, if any, designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional, special and other rights, if any, of each such series and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board providing for the issuance of such series and included in a certificate of designation (a “Preferred Stock Designation”) filed pursuant to the DGCL, and the Board is hereby expressly vested with the authority to the full extent provided by law, now or hereafter, to adopt any such resolution or resolutions.

 

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Section 4.3. Common Stock. Except with regard to voting and conversion rights as set forth in this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall be identical in all respects. The preferences, qualifications, limitations, restrictions, and the special or relative rights in respect of the Common Stock and the various classes of Common Stock shall be as follows:

(a) Voting.

(i) Except as otherwise required by law or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), the holders of the shares of Common Stock shall exclusively possess all voting power with respect to the Corporation.

(ii) Except as otherwise required by law or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), the holders of shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each such share on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation on which the holders of the shares of Common Stock are entitled to vote. There shall be no cumulative voting.

(iii) Except as otherwise required by law or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, the holders of the shares of Class A Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to vote for the election of directors and on all other matters properly submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation.

(iv) The holders of Class B Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any matter submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation, except for the following matters: (A) any amendment or modification of any specific rights or obligations of the holders of Class B Common Stock that does not similarly affect the rights or obligations of the holders of Class A Common Stock, in which case the holders of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to a separate class vote, with each share of Class B Common Stock having one vote; and (B) to the extent submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation, (1) the retention or dismissal of outside auditors by the Corporation, (2) any dividends or distributions to the stockholders of the Corporation, (3) any material sale of assets, recapitalization, merger, business combination, consolidation, exchange of stock or other similar reorganization involving the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, (4) the adoption of any amendment to this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, (5) other than in connection with any management equity or similar plan adopted by the Board, any authorization or issuance of equity interests, or any security or instrument convertible into or exchangeable for equity interests, in the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, and (6) the liquidation of the Corporation, in which case in respect to any such vote concerning the matters described in clause (B), the holders of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to vote with the Class A Common Stock, with each share of Common Stock having one vote and voting together as a single class.

(v) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, except as otherwise required by law or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), the holders of the shares of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any amendment to any

 

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Preferred Stock Designation) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series of Preferred Stock are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation) or the DGCL.

(b) Dividends. Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of the Preferred Stock, the holders of the shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and other distributions (payable in cash, property or capital stock of the Corporation) when, as and if declared thereon by the Board from time to time out of any assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor and shall share equally on a per share basis in such dividends and distributions. Whenever any dividend or distribution (including any distribution upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation or upon the reclassification of shares or a recapitalization of the Corporation) is made on the shares of Class A Common Stock, a like dividend or distribution shall be made on the shares of Class B Common Stock, and, whenever any dividend or distribution is made on the shares of Class B Common Stock, a like dividend or distribution shall be made on the shares of Class A Common Stock; provided, however, that at any time when shares of Class B Common Stock are outstanding no dividend or other distribution shall be payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock (including a distribution pursuant to a stock split or a division of such class of stock or a recapitalization of the Corporation), unless only shares of Class A Common Stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire shares of Class A Common Stock shall be distributed with respect to any outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and simultaneously only a like number per share of shares of Class B Common Stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable to acquire shares of Class B Common Stock and otherwise in all material respects having the same powers, privileges and rights as the securities distributed with respect to the shares of Class A Common Stock shall be distributed with respect to any outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock.

(c) Subdivision or Combination of Common Stock. The Corporation shall not subdivide or combine (by stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other transaction) its shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, as the case may be, without in the same manner subdividing or combining its shares of Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock, respectively.

(d) Conversion of Shares of Class B Common Stock. Subject to applicable law and the provisions of Article X, each holder of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to convert, upon written request by such holder to the Corporation (together with such additional information as the Corporation may reasonably request in order to make the determinations contemplated by Article X), such share of Class B Common Stock held by such holder into one share of Class A Common Stock. The conversion rights provided herein shall apply to whole shares of Class B Common Stock only, and the Corporation shall have no obligation to honor a request for conversion of a fraction of a share of Class B Common Stock. The Corporation shall at all times ensure that there is a sufficient number of authorized shares of Class A Common Stock available for issuance upon conversion of all shares of Class B Common Stock.

 

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(e) Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up of the Corporation. Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of the Preferred Stock, in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation, the holders of the shares of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive all the remaining assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders, ratably in proportion to the number of shares of Common Stock held by them.

Section 4.4. Rights and Options. The Corporation has the authority to create and issue rights, warrants and options entitling the holders thereof to acquire from the Corporation any shares of its capital stock of any class or classes, with such rights, warrants and options to be evidenced by or in instrument(s) approved by the Board. The Board is empowered to set the exercise price, duration, times for exercise and other terms and conditions of such rights, warrants or options; provided, however, that the consideration to be received for any shares of capital stock issuable upon exercise thereof may not be less than the par value thereof.

ARTICLE V

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Section 5.1. Board Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by, or under the direction of, the Board. In addition to the powers and authority expressly conferred upon the Board by statute, this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws of the Corporation (“Bylaws”), the Board is hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the DGCL, this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, and the Bylaws adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation; provided, however, that no Bylaws hereafter adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation shall invalidate any prior act of the Board that would have been valid if such Bylaws had not been adopted.

Section 5.2. Number, Election and Term.

(a) The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board shall be the number from time to time fixed by resolution of the Board.

(b) Subject to Section 5.5, the Board shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible and designated Class I, Class II, and Class III. The Board is authorized to assign the members of the Board already in office to Class I, Class II or Class III. The term of the initial Class I Directors shall expire at the first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate and each of the directors to be elected as Class I directors at the first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be elected for a three-year term. The term of the initial Class II Directors shall expire at the second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate and each of the directors to be elected as Class II directors at the second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be elected for a two-year term. The term of the initial Class III Directors shall expire at the third

 

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annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate and each of the directors to be elected as Class III directors at the third annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be elected for a one-year term. From and after the fourth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, the Board shall no longer be classified and at each succeeding annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, each of the directors shall be elected for one-year terms. Subject to Section 5.5, if the number of directors that constitutes the Board is changed prior to the fourth annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation following the effectiveness of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, any increase or decrease in directorships shall be, subject to the rights of any series of Preferred Stock, apportioned by the Board among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board shorten the term of any incumbent director. Subject to the rights of the holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock, voting separately by class or series, to elect directors pursuant to the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock, the election of directors shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon. The Board is hereby expressly authorized, by resolution or resolutions thereof, to assign members of the Board already in office to the aforesaid classes at the time this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (and therefore such classification) becomes effective in accordance with the DGCL.

(c) Subject to Section 5.5, a director shall hold office until the annual meeting for the year in which his or her term expires and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified, subject, however, to such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal. No decrease in the number of directors will shorten the term of any incumbent director.

(d) Unless and except to the extent that the Bylaws shall so require, the election of directors need not be by written ballot.

Section 5.3. Newly Created Directorships and Vacancies. Subject to Section 5.5, newly created directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors and any vacancies on the Board resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal or other cause may be filled solely and exclusively by a majority vote of the remaining directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director (and not by stockholders), and any director so chosen shall hold office for the remainder of the full term in which the vacancy occurred and until his or her successor has been elected and qualified, subject, however, to such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

Section 5.4. Removal. Subject to Section 5.5, any or all of the directors may be removed at any time (a) only as provided in Section 141(k) of the DGCL and (b) only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, voting as a single class.

 

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Section 5.5. Preferred Stock—Directors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article V, and except as otherwise required by law, whenever the holders of one or more series of the Preferred Stock shall have the right, voting separately by class or series, to elect one or more directors, the term of office, the filling of vacancies, the removal from office and other features of such directorships shall be governed by the terms of such series of the Preferred Stock as set forth in this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation) and such directors shall not be included in any of the classes created pursuant to this Article V unless expressly provided by such terms.

Section 5.6. iHeart Operations, Inc.—Preferred Stock Directors The Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), of iHeart Operations, Inc. (“iHO”) shall have the following rights with respect to the Corporation.

(a) If at any time dividends on any Series A Preferred Stock shall be in arrears having not been declared by the iHO Board of Directors (the “iHO Board”) and paid in cash on twelve consecutive dividend payment dates, the Board shall cause the number of directors constituting the Board to be increased by one and, acting under its authority to fill vacancies, elect one individual designated for election to the Board of Directors by a Holder Majority (as that term is defined in the Certificate Of Designation of Cumulative Series A Preferred Stock of iHO (the “iHO CoD”)). The director designated by the Holder Majority shall be elected to a term equal to the term of the class of directors with the longest remaining term. Subject to the provisions of Article X, the Board shall take all action required in this Section 5.6(a) within five (5) business days following receipt of a written consent executed by a Holder Majority designating an individual for election to the Board.

(b) Until the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have exercised their right to designate one director pursuant to this Section 5.6, the Board shall continue to be elected pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof. Following the exercise of the rights under this Section 5.6, the directors so elected by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall continue in office until (y) the next annual meeting of the Corporation’s stockholders for the election of directors for such director’s corresponding class, and their successor shall have been elected by such holders or (z) all dividends accrued on the Series A Preferred Stock for the past dividend periods shall have been paid in full in cash. Any director who shall have been so elected pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.6 may be removed at any time, without cause, only by the affirmative consent of the Holder Majority.

(c) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein and by applicable law, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights and their consent shall not be required for taking any corporate action with respect to the Corporation.

ARTICLE VI

BYLAWS

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by law, the Board shall have the power and is expressly authorized to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws by the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of directors present at a regular or special meeting of the Board at which there is a quorum or by unanimous written consent. The Bylaws also may be adopted, amended, altered or repealed by the stockholders of the Corporation; provided, however, that in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation required by law or by this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any

 

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Preferred Stock Designation), the affirmative vote of the majority of the holders of voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders of the Corporation to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws; and provided further, however, that no Bylaws hereafter adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation shall invalidate any prior act of the Board that would have been valid if such Bylaws had not been adopted.

ARTICLE VII

SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS; ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT

Section 7.1. Special Meetings. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time only by or at the direction of the Board pursuant to a written resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of the majority of the total number of directors that the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies and may not be called by any other person or persons. Business transacted at any special meeting shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice delivered in accordance with Section 7.2.

Section 7.2. Advance Notice. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws.

Section 7.3. Action by Written Consent. Except as may be otherwise provided for or fixed pursuant to this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation) relating to the rights of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected by a duly called annual or special meeting of such stockholders and may not be effected by written consent of the stockholders of the Corporation.

ARTICLE VIII

LIMITED LIABILITY; INDEMNIFICATION

Section 8.1. Limitation of Director Liability. A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL as the same exists or may hereafter be amended unless a director violated its duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, acted in bad faith, knowingly or intentionally violated the law, authorized unlawful payments of dividends, unlawful stock purchases or unlawful redemptions, or derived improper personal benefit from its actions as a director. Any amendment, modification or repeal of the foregoing sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.

 

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Section 8.2. Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses.

(a) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, the Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless each person who is or was made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent, or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes and penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such indemnitee in connection with such proceeding. The Corporation shall to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an indemnitee in defending or otherwise participating in any proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, to the extent required by applicable law, such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking, by or on behalf of the indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section 8.2 or otherwise. The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred by this Section 8.2 shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.2(a), except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses, the Corporation shall indemnify and advance expenses to an indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board.

(b) The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred on any indemnitee by this Section 8.2 shall not be exclusive of any other rights that any indemnitee may have or hereafter acquire under law, this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, the Bylaws, an agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.

(c) Any repeal or amendment of this Section 8.2 by the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in law, or the adoption of any other provision of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate inconsistent with this Section 8.2, shall, unless otherwise required by law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in law permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights on a retroactive basis than permitted prior thereto), and shall not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing at the time of such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision in respect of any proceeding (regardless of when such proceeding is first threatened, commenced or completed) arising out of, or related to, any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.

(d) This Section 8.2 shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the extent and in the manner authorized or permitted by law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than indemnitees.

 

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ARTICLE IX

CORPORATE OPPORTUNITY

To the fullest extent of law, the Corporation, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, renounces and waives any interest or expectancy of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, directly or indirectly, any potential transactions, matters or business opportunities (including, without limitation, any business activities or lines of business that are the same as or similar to those pursued by, or competitive with, the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or any dealings with customers or clients of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries) that are from time to time presented to any of its officers, directors or stockholders, other than those officers, directors or stockholders who are employees of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, even if the transaction, matter or opportunity is one that the Corporation or its subsidiaries might reasonably be deemed to have pursued or had the ability or desire to pursue if granted the opportunity to do so. None of its respective officers, directors or stockholders shall be liable to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries for breach of any fiduciary or other duty, as a director or officer or otherwise, by reason of the fact that such person pursues, acquires or participates in such business opportunity, directs such business opportunity to another person or fails to present such business opportunity, or information regarding such business opportunity, to the Corporation or its subsidiaries, unless, in the case of any such person who is a director or officer of the Corporation, such business opportunity is expressly offered to such director or officer in writing solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation. Without limiting and in addition to the foregoing, the doctrine of corporate opportunity, or any other analogous doctrine, shall not apply with respect to the Corporation or any of its officers or directors in circumstances where the application of any such doctrine to a corporate opportunity would conflict with any fiduciary duties or contractual obligations they or it may have as of the date of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate or in the future. In addition to and without limiting the foregoing, the doctrine of corporate opportunity shall not apply to any other corporate opportunity with respect to any of the officers or directors of the Corporation unless such corporate opportunity is offered to such person solely in his or her capacity as an officer or director of the Corporation and such opportunity is one the Corporation is financially able and legally and contractually permitted to undertake and would otherwise be reasonable for the Corporation to pursue.

This ARTICLE IX shall not limit any protections or defenses available to, or indemnification or advancement rights of, any director or officer of the Corporation under this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate, the Bylaws of the Corporation, applicable law, any agreement or otherwise.

ARTICLE X

STOCK TRANSFER AND CONVERSION RESTRICTIONS

Section 10.1. Restrictions on Stock Ownership, Conversion or Transfer. As contemplated in this ARTICLE X, the Corporation may restrict the ownership, or proposed ownership, of shares of capital stock of the Corporation by any Person if such ownership or proposed ownership (a) is or could be inconsistent with, or in violation of, any provision of the Federal Communications Laws (as hereinafter defined) as applicable to such Person or the Corporation, (b) limits or impairs or could limit or impair any business activities or proposed business activities of the Corporation under the Federal Communications Laws or (c) subjects or

 

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could subject the Corporation to any regulation under the Federal Communications Laws to which the Corporation would not be subject but for such ownership or proposed ownership (clauses (a), (b) and (c) collectively, the “FCC Regulatory Limitations”). For purposes of this ARTICLE X, the term “Federal Communications Laws” shall mean any law of the United States now or hereafter in effect (and any regulation thereunder), including, without limitation, the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the “Communications Act”), and regulations thereunder, pertaining to the ownership and/or operation or regulating the business activities of (x) any television or radio station, cable television system, or other medium of mass communications or video programming distribution or (y) any provider of programming content to any such medium.

Section 10.2. Requests for Information. If the Corporation believes that the ownership or proposed ownership of shares of capital stock of the Corporation by any Person may result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation, such Person shall furnish promptly to the Corporation such information (including, without limitation, information with respect to citizenship, other ownership interests and affiliations) as the Corporation shall request.

Section 10.3. Denial of Rights, Refusal to Transfer or Convert.

(a) If (a) any Person from whom information is requested pursuant to Section 10.2 should not provide all the information requested by the Corporation, or (b) the Corporation shall conclude that a stockholder’s ownership or proposed ownership of, or that a stockholder’s exercise of any rights of ownership with respect to, shares of capital stock of the Corporation results or could result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation, then, in the case of either clause (a) or clause (b), the Corporation may (w) refuse to permit the transfer of shares of capital stock of the Corporation to a proposed stockholder or refuse to permit the conversion of shares, (x) suspend those rights of stock ownership the exercise of which causes or could cause such FCC Regulatory Limitation, (y) redeem such shares of capital stock of the Corporation held by such stockholder in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Section 10.3, and/or (z) exercise any and all appropriate remedies, at law or in equity, in any court of competent jurisdiction, against any such stockholder or proposed transferee, with a view towards obtaining such information or preventing or curing any situation which causes or could cause a FCC Regulatory Limitation. Any such refusal to transfer, suspension of rights or refusal to convert pursuant to clauses (w) and (x), respectively, of the immediately preceding sentence shall remain in effect until the requested information has been received and the Corporation has determined that such transfer, conversion, or the exercise of such suspended rights, as the case may be, will not result in a FCC Regulatory Limitation. The terms and conditions of redemption pursuant to clause (y) of this Section 10.3 shall be as follows:

(i) the redemption price of any shares to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.3 shall be equal to the Fair Market Value (as hereinafter defined) of such shares;

(ii) the redemption price of such shares may be paid in cash, Redemption Securities (as hereinafter defined) or any combination thereof;

(iii) if less than all such shares are to be redeemed, the shares to be redeemed shall be selected in such manner as shall be determined by the Board, which may include selection of the most recently purchased shares thereof, selection by lot or selection in any other manner determined by the Board;

 

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(iv) at least 15 days’ written notice of the Redemption Date (as hereinafter defined) shall be given to the record holders of the shares selected to be redeemed (unless waived in writing by any such holder); provided that the Redemption Date may be the date on which written notice shall be given to record holders if the cash or Redemption Securities necessary to effect the redemption shall have been deposited in trust for the benefit of such record holders and subject to immediate withdrawal by them upon surrender of the stock certificates for their shares to be redeemed;

(v) from and after the Redemption Date, any and all rights of whatever nature in respect of the shares selected for redemption (including, without limitation, any rights to vote or participate in dividends declared on stock of the same class or series as such shares), shall cease and terminate and the holders of such shares shall thenceforth be entitled only to receive the cash or Redemption Securities payable upon redemption; and

(vi) such other terms and conditions as the Board shall reasonably determine are required by law.

(b) The Corporation shall instruct the Corporation’s transfer agent that the shares of capital stock of the Corporation are subject to the restrictions set forth in this ARTICLE X and such restrictions shall be noted conspicuously on the certificate or certificates representing such capital stock or, in the case of uncertificated securities, contained in the notice or notices sent as required by applicable law.

(c) For purposes of this ARTICLE X, the word “regulation” shall include not only regulations but published rules, policies and interpretations of or by an administrative agency or body empowered to administer a statutory provision of the Federal Communications Laws. “Fair Market Value” shall mean, with respect to a share of the Corporation’s capital stock of any class or series, the volume weighted average sales price for such a share on the New York Stock Exchange or, if such stock is not listed on such exchange, on the principal U.S. registered securities exchange on which such stock is listed, during the 30 most recent days on which shares of stock of such class or series shall have been traded preceding the day on which notice of redemption shall be given pursuant to Section 10.3. “Redemption Date” shall mean the date fixed by the Board for the redemption of any shares of stock of the Corporation pursuant to Section 10.3. “Redemption Securities” shall mean any debt or equity securities of the Corporation, any subsidiary of the Corporation or any other corporation or other entity, or any combination thereof, having such terms and conditions as shall be approved by the Board and which, together with any cash to be paid as part of the redemption price, in the opinion of any nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Board (which may be a firm which provides other investment banking, brokerage or other services to the Corporation), has a value, at the time notice of redemption is given pursuant to Section 10.3, at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the shares to be redeemed pursuant to Section 10.3 (assuming, in the case of Redemption Securities to be publicly traded, such Redemption Securities were fully distributed and subject only to normal trading activity).

 

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ARTICLE XI

AMENDMENTS

The Corporation reserves the right at any time and from time to time to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force that may be added or inserted, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate and the DGCL; and, except as set forth in ARTICLE VIII, all rights, preferences and privileges of whatever nature herein conferred upon stockholders, directors or any other persons by and pursuant to this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate in its present form or as hereafter amended are granted subject to the right reserved in this ARTICLE XI; provided that notwithstanding any other provision of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, and in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of the stock of this Corporation required by law or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including any Preferred Stock Designation), (a) prior to May 1, 2022 (the “Sunset Date”), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66-2/3% of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class and (b) on and after the Sunset Date, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal or adopt any provision as part of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate inconsistent with the purpose and intent of this ARTICLE XI, ARTICLE V, ARTICLE VI, ARTICLE VIII, ARTICLE IX or ARTICLE X.

ARTICLE XII

EXCLUSIVE FORUM FOR CERTAIN LAWSUITS

Section 12.1. Forum. Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for any stockholder (including a beneficial owner) to bring (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (c) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation, its directors, officers or employees arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate or the Bylaws, or (d) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation, its directors, officers or employees governed by the internal affairs doctrine, except for, as to each of (a) through (d) above, any claim as to which the Court of Chancery determines that there is an indispensable party not subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (and the indispensable party does not consent to the personal jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery within ten days following such determination), which is vested in the exclusive jurisdiction of a court or forum other than the Court of Chancery, or for which the Court of Chancery does not have subject matter jurisdiction.

 

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Section 12.2. Consent to Jurisdiction. If any action the subject matter of which is within the scope of Section 12.1 immediately above is filed in a court other than a court located within the State of Delaware (a “Foreign Action”) in the name of any stockholder, such stockholder shall be deemed to have consented to (a) the personal jurisdiction of the state courts located within the State of Delaware in connection with any action brought in any such court to enforce Section 12.1 immediately above (an “FSC Enforcement Action”) and (b) having service of process made upon such stockholder in any such FSC Enforcement Action by service upon such stockholder’s counsel in the Foreign Action as agent for such stockholder.

ARTICLE XIII

SEVERABILITY

If any provision or provisions (or any part thereof) of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any person, entity or circumstance for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) and the application of such provision to other persons or entities and circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and (b) the provisions of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate (including, without limitation, each portion of any paragraph of this Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to permit the Corporation to protect its directors, officers, employees and agents from personal liability in respect of their good faith service or for the benefit of the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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Exhibit 3.2

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

IHEARTMEDIA, INC.

(THE “CORPORATION”)

(Amended and Restated May 1, 2019)

ARTICLE I

OFFICES

Section 1.1. Registered Office. The registered office of the Corporation within the State of Delaware shall be located at either (a) the principal place of business of the Corporation in the State of Delaware or (b) the office of the corporation or individual acting as the Corporation’s registered agent in Delaware.

Section 1.2. Additional Offices. The Corporation may, in addition to its registered office in the State of Delaware, have such other offices and places of business, both within and outside the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) may from time to time determine or as the business and affairs of the Corporation may require.

ARTICLE II

STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS

Section 2.1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware and time and on such date as shall be determined by the Board and stated in the notice of the meeting, provided that the Board may in its sole discretion determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5(a). At each annual meeting, the stockholders entitled to vote on such matters shall elect those directors of the Corporation to fill any term of a directorship that expires on the date of such annual meeting and may transact any other business as may properly be brought before the meeting in accordance with these Bylaws.

Section 2.2. Special Meetings. Except as otherwise required by law and subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of the preferred stock of the Corporation (“Preferred Stock”), and to the requirements of applicable law, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time only by or at the direction of the Board by the direction of a majority of the total number of directors that the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies on the Board. Only such business that is specified in the notice of the meeting shall be transacted at a properly called special meeting. Special meetings of stockholders shall be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, and at such and time and on such date as shall be determined by the Board and stated in the Corporation’s notice of the meeting, provided that the Board may in its sole discretion determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5(a).


Section 2.3. Notices. Written notice of each stockholders meeting stating the place, if any, date, and time of the meeting, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting and the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, if such date is different from the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting, shall be given in the manner permitted by Section 9.3 to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting, by the Corporation not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting unless otherwise required by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”). If said notice is for a stockholders meeting other than an annual meeting, it shall in addition state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, and the business transacted at such meeting shall be limited to the matters so stated in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto). Any meeting of stockholders as to which notice has been given may be postponed, and any meeting of stockholders as to which notice has been given may be cancelled, by the Board upon public announcement (as defined in Section 2.7(c)) given before the date previously scheduled for such meeting.

Section 2.4. Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Corporation’s Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as the same may be amended or restated from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) or these Bylaws, the presence, in person or by proxy, at a stockholders meeting of the holders of shares of outstanding capital stock of the Corporation representing a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meeting, except that when specified business is to be voted on by a class or series of stock voting as a class, the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or series shall constitute a quorum of such class or series for the transaction of such business. If a quorum shall not be present or represented by proxy at any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, the chairman of the meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time in the manner provided in Section 2.6 until a quorum shall attend. The stockholders present at a duly convened meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum. Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation or to another corporation, if a majority of the voting power of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors of such other corporation is held, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation, shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not limit the right of the Corporation or any such other corporation to vote shares held by it in a fiduciary capacity.

Section 2.5. Voting of Shares.

(a) Voting Lists. The Secretary of the Corporation (the “Secretary”) shall prepare, or shall cause the officer or agent who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation to prepare and make, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders of record entitled to vote at such meeting; provided, however, that if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than 10 days before the meeting date, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date, arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address and the number and class of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Nothing contained in this Section 2.5(a) shall require the Corporation

 

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to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then the list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. If a meeting of stockholders is to be held solely by means of remote communication as permitted by Section 9.5(a), the list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of meeting. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the list required by this Section 2.5(a) or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

(b) Manner of Voting. At any stockholders meeting, every stockholder entitled to vote may vote in person or by proxy. If authorized by the Board, the voting by stockholders or proxy holders at any meeting conducted by remote communication may be effected by a ballot submitted by electronic transmission (as defined in Section 9.3), provided that any such electronic transmission must either set forth or be submitted with information from which the Corporation can determine that the electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder or proxy holder. The Board, in its discretion, or the chairman of the meeting of stockholders, in such person’s discretion, may require that any votes cast at such meeting shall be cast by written ballot.

(c) Proxies. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. Proxies need not be filed with the Secretary until the meeting is called to order, but shall be filed with the Secretary before being voted. Without limiting the manner in which a stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy, either of the following shall constitute a valid means by which a stockholder may grant such authority. No stockholder shall have cumulative voting rights.

(i) A stockholder may execute a writing authorizing another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy. Execution may be accomplished by the stockholder or such stockholder’s authorized officer, director, employee or agent signing such writing or causing such person’s signature to be affixed to such writing by any reasonable means, including, but not limited to, by facsimile signature.

(ii) A stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of an electronic transmission to the person who will be the holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service organization or like agent duly authorized by the person who will be the holder of the proxy to receive such transmission, provided that any such electronic transmission must either set forth

 

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or be submitted with information from which it can be determined that the electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder. Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission authorizing another person or persons to act as proxy for a stockholder may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used; provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission.

(d) Required Vote. All matters presented to the stockholders at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be determined by the vote of a majority of the votes cast by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon (other than the election of directors (who shall be elected by a plurality of all votes cast)), unless the matter is one upon which, by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws or applicable stock exchange rules, a different vote is required, in which case such provision shall govern and control the decision of such matter.

(e) Inspectors of Election. The Board may, and shall if required by law, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, designate one or more persons as inspectors of election, who may be employees of the Corporation or otherwise serve the Corporation in other capacities, to act at such meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof and to make a written report thereof. The Board may appoint one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspectors of election or alternates are appointed by the Board, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before discharging his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall ascertain and report the number of outstanding shares and the voting power of each; determine the number of shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots; count all votes and ballots and report the results; determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors; and certify their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting and their count of all votes and ballots. No person who is a candidate for an office at an election may serve as an inspector at such election. Each report of an inspector shall be in writing and signed by the inspector or by a majority of them if there is more than one inspector acting at such meeting. If there is more than one inspector, the report of a majority shall be the report of the inspectors.

Section 2.6. Adjournments. Any meeting of stockholders, annual or special, may be recessed or adjourned by the chairman of the meeting, from time to time, whether or not there is a quorum, to reconvene at the same or some other place. Notice need not be given of any such adjourned meeting if the date, time, and place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the recessed or adjourned meeting the stockholders, or the holders of any class or series of stock entitled to vote separately as a class, as the case may be, may transact any business that properly could have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board shall fix a new record date for notice of such adjourned meeting in accordance with Section 9.2, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting as of the record date fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

 

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Section 2.7. Advance Notice for Business.

(a) Annual Meetings of Stockholders. No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of stockholders, other than business that is either (i) specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by or at the direction of the Board or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (x) who is a stockholder of record entitled to vote at such annual meeting on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.7(a) and on the date of such annual meeting and (y) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.7(a). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.7(a) to the contrary, only persons nominated for election as a director to fill any term of a directorship that expires on the date of the annual meeting pursuant to Section 3.2 will be considered for election at such meeting. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing clause (iii) will be the exclusive means for a stockholder to submit business before an annual meeting of stockholders (other than proposals properly made in accordance with Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (such act, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”) and included in the notice of meeting given by or at the direction of the Board).

(i) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business (other than nominations) to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary and such business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. Subject to Section 2.7(a)(iii), a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary with respect to such business, to be timely, must be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received no earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the meeting and not later than the later of (x) the close of business on the 90th day before the meeting or (y) the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting is first made by the Corporation. The public announcement of an adjournment or recess of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described in this Section 2.7(a).

(ii) To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary with respect to any business (other than nominations) must set forth, on the form provided to the stockholder upon written request to the Secretary and verification that the requesting party is a stockholder or is acting on behalf of a stockholder, as to each such matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (A) a description in reasonable detail of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event such business includes a

 

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proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment) and the reasons that such stockholder believes conducting such business at the annual meeting and taking such actions would be in the best interests of the Corporation and its stockholders, (B) the name and record address of such stockholder and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and the name and address of any other Stockholder Associated Person, (C) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder, by the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and by any other Stockholder Associated Person (including any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such stockholder has a right to acquire beneficial ownership, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), (D) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any derivative or short positions, profit interests, options, warrants, stock appreciation or similar rights, hedging transactions, and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into as of the date of the stockholder’s notice, by or on behalf of, such stockholder and any Stockholder Associated Persons, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, such stockholder or such Stockholder Associated Person, with respect to shares of stock of the Corporation, (E) any material interest of such stockholder and any Stockholder Associated Person in such business, (F) any proxy, contract, agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder or any Stockholder Associated Person or any other person representing such stockholder has a right to vote any shares of the Corporation or which has the effect of increasing or decreasing the voting power of such stockholder or person; (G) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding involving the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any of their respective directors or officers, to which such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person is a party; (H) any equity interests, including any convertible, derivative or short interests, in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person; (I) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) to which such person or any affiliate or immediate family member of such person may be entitled as a result of any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or any derivative securities of the Corporation’s equity; (J) a representation that such stockholder (or a qualified representative of such stockholder) intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to bring such business before the meeting; (K) any other information related to such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with the solicitation of proxies or consents (even if a solicitation is not involved) by such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person in support of the business proposed to be brought before the meeting pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act, and the rules, regulations and schedules promulgated thereunder; and (L) a statement as to whether such stockholder or any Stockholder Associated Person intends to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to the holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve the proposal or otherwise to solicit proxies or votes from stockholders in support of the proposal. “Stockholder Associated Person” of any stockholder means (A) any person controlling, directly or indirectly, or acting in concert with, such stockholder, (B) any beneficial owner of shares of stock of the Corporation owned of record or beneficially by such stockholder or (C) any person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Stockholder Associated Person..

 

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(iii) The foregoing notice requirements of this Section 2.7(a) shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder as to any proposal (other than nominations) if the stockholder has notified the Corporation of such stockholder’s intention to present such proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with Rule 14a-8 (or any successor thereof) of the Exchange Act, and such stockholder has complied with the requirements of such rule for inclusion of such proposal in a proxy statement prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting of stockholders except business brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.7(a), provided, however, that once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 2.7(a) shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the Board or the chairman of the annual meeting determines that any stockholder proposal was not made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.7(a) or that the information provided in a stockholder’s notice does not satisfy the information requirements of this Section 2.7(a), such proposal shall not be presented for action at the annual meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.7(a), if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present the proposed business, such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such matter may have been received by the Corporation.

(iv) In addition to the provisions of this Section 2.7(a), a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 2.7(a) shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

(b) Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting only pursuant to Section 3.2.

(c) Public Announcement. For purposes of these Bylaws, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (or any successor thereto).

(d) A stockholder providing notice of business proposed to be brought before an annual meeting pursuant to Section 2.7 or notice of any nomination to be made at an annual meeting pursuant to Section 3.2 must further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to Section 2.7 or Section 3.2, as applicable, is true and correct as of the record date for notice of the meeting and as of the date that is ten days prior to the meeting or any recess, adjournment or postponement thereof. Any such update and supplement must be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation, as promptly as practicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the conclusion of the relevant time period to provide timely notice to the Company pursuant to Section 2.7 or Section 3.2, a stockholder will not be permitted to update the information provided or required to be provided in such notice to substitute or replace a nominee.

 

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Section 2.8. Conduct of Meetings. The chairman of each annual and special meeting of stockholders shall be the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is not a director, the President (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President or if the President is not a director, such other person as shall be appointed by the Board. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the chairman of the meeting. The Board may adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with these Bylaws or such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board, the chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene and to adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (a) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (b) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (c) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (d) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (e) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the chairman of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. The secretary of each annual and special meeting of stockholders shall be the Secretary or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary so appointed to act by the chairman of the meeting. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

Section 2.9. Consents in Lieu of Meeting. Except as may be otherwise provided for or fixed pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation relating to the rights of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected by a duly called annual or special meeting of such stockholders and may not be effected by written consent of the stockholders of the Corporation.

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

Section 3.1. Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board, which may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws required to be exercised or done by the stockholders. Directors need not be stockholders or residents of the State of Delaware.

 

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Section 3.2. Advance Notice for Nomination of Directors.

(a) Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the following procedures shall be eligible for election as directors of the Corporation, except as may be otherwise provided by the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock with respect to the rights of holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock to elect directors. Nominations of persons for election to the Board at any annual meeting of stockholders, or at any special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors as set forth in the Corporation’s notice of such special meeting, may be made (i) by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) or (ii) by any stockholder of the Corporation (A) who is a stockholder of record entitled to vote in the election of directors on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 3.2 and on the date of such meeting and (B) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.2.

(b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for a nomination to be made by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (i) in the case of an annual meeting, not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 30 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received no earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the meeting and not later than the later of (x) the close of business on the 90th day before the meeting or (y) the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was first made by the Corporation; and (ii) in the case of a special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors, not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the special meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or special meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described in this Section 3.2.

(c) Notwithstanding anything in Section 3.2(b) to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is increased effective after the time period for notice of nominations would otherwise be due under Section 3.2(b) and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for the additional directors to be elected or specifying the size of the increased Board before the close of business on the 90th day prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 3.2 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for the additional directorships created by such increase that are to be filled by election at such annual meeting, if it shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the date on which such public announcement was first made by the Corporation.

 

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(d) To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice of a nomination of a person or persons for election as a director or directors to the Secretary must set forth, on the form provided to the stockholder upon written request to the Secretary and verification that the requesting party is a stockholder or is acting on behalf of a stockholder:

(i) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election as a director (A) the name, age, business address and residence address of the person, (B) the principal occupation or employment of the person, (C) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially or of record by the person, (D) any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, (E) a completed questionnaire (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) with respect to the identity, background and qualification of the proposed nominee and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, and (F) a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that the proposed nominee (1) is qualified and if elected intends to serve as a director of the Company for the entire term for which such proposed nominee is standing for election, (2) is not and will not become a party to (x) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how the proposed nominee, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or (y) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with the proposed nominee’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with the proposed nominee’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, (3) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a director that has not been disclosed to the Corporation, (4) if elected as a director of the Corporation, the proposed nominee would be in compliance and will comply, with all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, ethics, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the Corporation, and (5) if elected, as a director of the Corporation, the proposed nominee would not result in a violation of a FCC Regulatory Limitation (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation); and

(ii) as to the stockholder giving the notice (A) the name and record address of such stockholder as they appear on the Corporation’s books and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, and the name and address of any other Stockholder Associated Person, (B) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, and by any other Stockholder Associated Person (including any shares of any class or series of the Corporation as to which such stockholder has a right to acquire beneficial ownership, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), (C) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any arrangements or understandings relating to the nomination to be made by such stockholder, among such stockholder and any Stockholder Associated Person, each proposed nominee and any other person or persons (including their names), (D) a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any derivative or short positions, profit interests, options, warrants, stock appreciation or similar rights, hedging transactions, and

 

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borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into as of the date of the stockholder’s notice, by or on behalf of, such stockholder and such any Stockholder Associated Persons, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, such stockholder or such Stockholder Associated Person, with respect to shares of stock of the Corporation, (E) any proxy, contract, agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder or any Stockholder Associated Person or any other person representing such stockholder has a right to vote any shares of the Corporation or which has the effect of increasing or decreasing the voting power of such stockholder or person, (F) any material pending or threatened legal proceeding involving the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any of their respective directors or officers, to which such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person is a party, (G) any equity interests, including any convertible, derivative or short interests, in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person, (H) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) to which such person or any affiliate or immediate family member of such person may be entitled as a result of any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or any derivative securities of the Corporation’s equity, (I) a representation that such stockholder (or a qualified representative of such stockholder) intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the persons named in its notice, (J) any other information relating to such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules, regulations and schedules promulgated thereunder, and (K) a statement as to whether such stockholder or Stockholder Associated Person intends to deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to elect such stockholder’s nominees or otherwise to solicit proxies or votes from stockholders In support of the nomination. Such notice must be accompanied by a written consent of each proposed nominee to being named as a nominee and to serve as a director if elected.

(e) If the Board or the chairman of the meeting of stockholders determines that any nomination was not made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.2, that the information provided in a stockholder’s notice does not satisfy the information requirements of this Section 3.2 or the election of the proposed nominee as a director of the Corporation would result in a violation of a FCC Regulatory Limitation, then such nomination shall not be considered at the meeting in question. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.2, if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present the nomination, such nomination shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such nomination may have been received by the Corporation.

(f) In addition to the provisions of this Section 3.2, a stockholder shall also comply with all of the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 3.2 shall be deemed to affect any rights of the holders of Preferred Stock to elect directors pursuant to the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

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Section 3.3. Compensation. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be reimbursed their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board, including for service on a committee of the Board, and may be paid either a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board or other compensation as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of committees of the Board may be allowed like compensation and reimbursement of expenses for service on the committee.

ARTICLE IV

BOARD MEETINGS

Section 4.1. Annual Meetings. The Board shall meet as soon as practicable after the adjournment of each annual stockholders meeting at the place of the annual stockholders meeting unless the Board shall fix another time and place and give notice thereof in the manner required herein for special meetings of the Board. No notice to the directors shall be necessary to legally convene this meeting, except as provided in this Section 4.1.

Section 4.2. Regular Meetings. Regularly scheduled, periodic meetings of the Board may be held without notice at such times, dates and places (within or without the State of Delaware) as shall from time to time be determined by the Board.

Section 4.3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, President or Secretary on the written request of at least a majority of directors of the Board assuming no vacancies on the Board, or the sole director, as the case may be, and shall be held at such time, date and place (within or without the State of Delaware) as may be determined by the person calling the meeting or, if called upon the request of directors or the sole director, as specified in such written request. Notice of each special meeting of the Board shall be given, as provided in Section 9.3, to each director (i) at least 24 hours before the meeting if such notice is oral notice given personally or by telephone or written notice given by hand delivery or by means of a form of electronic transmission and delivery; (ii) at least two days before the meeting if such notice is sent for next day delivery by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service; and (iii) at least five days before the meeting if such notice is sent through the United States mail. If the Secretary shall fail or refuse to give such notice, then the notice may be given by the officer who called the meeting or the directors who requested the meeting. Any and all business that may be transacted at a regular meeting of the Board may be transacted at a special meeting. Except as may be otherwise expressly provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting. A special meeting may be held at any time without notice if all the directors are present or if those not present waive notice of the meeting in accordance with Section 9.4.

Section 4.4. Quorum; Required Vote. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board, and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

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Section 4.5. Consent In Lieu of Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions (or paper reproductions thereof) are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

Section 4.6. Organization. The chairman of each meeting of the Board shall be the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is not a director, the President (if he or she shall be a director) or in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President or if the President is not a director, a chairman elected from the directors present. The Secretary shall act as secretary of all meetings of the Board. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary shall perform the duties of the Secretary at such meeting. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.

ARTICLE V

COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS

Section 5.1. Establishment. The Board may by resolution passed by a majority of the Board designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board when required. The Board shall have the power at any time to fill vacancies in, to change the membership of, or to dissolve any such committee.

Section 5.2. Available Powers. Any committee established pursuant to Section 5.1, to the extent permitted by applicable law and by resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise all of the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation.

Section 5.3. Alternate Members. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of such committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of the committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he, she or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member.

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alternate member, unless such alternate member has replaced any absent or disqualified member at the time of, or in connection with, such meeting) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The act of a majority of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the committee, except as otherwise specifically provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws or the Board. If a quorum is not present at a meeting of a committee, the members present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than an announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present. Unless the Board otherwise provides and except as provided in these Bylaws, each committee designated by the Board may make, alter, amend and repeal rules for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board is authorized to conduct its business pursuant to Article III and Article IV of these Bylaws.

ARTICLE VI

OFFICERS

Section 6.1. Officers. The officers of the Corporation elected by the Board shall be a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, a Secretary and such other officers (including without limitation, an executive Chairman of the Board, President, Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers) as the Board from time to time may determine. Officers elected by the Board shall each have such powers and duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the specific provisions of this Article VI or such other authority as may be specifically conferred by the Board upon such election. Such officers shall also have such other powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board. The Chief Executive Officer or President may also appoint such other officers (including without limitation one or more Vice Presidents and Controllers) as may be necessary or desirable for the conduct of the business of the Corporation. Such other officers shall have such powers and duties and shall hold their offices for such terms as may be provided in these Bylaws or as may be prescribed by the Board or, if such officer has been appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or President, as may be prescribed by the appointing officer.

(a) Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors may appoint a Chairman of the Board. If the Board of Directors appoints a Chairman of the Board, he or she shall perform such duties and possess such powers as are assigned to him by the Board of Directors, including as an officer of the Corporation if so designated. Unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors, he or she shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board must be a director of the Corporation. The powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board shall not include supervision or control of the preparation of the financial statements of the Corporation (other than through participation as a member of the Board). The position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer may be held by the same person.

(b) Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation, shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Corporation and general control of all of its business subject to the ultimate authority of the Board, and shall be responsible for the execution of the policies of the Board with respect to such matters, except to the extent any such powers and duties have been prescribed to the Chairman of the Board pursuant to Section 6.1(a) above. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) shall preside when present at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board. The position of Chief Executive Officer and President may be held by the same person.

 

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(c) President. The President shall make recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer on all operational matters that would normally be reserved for the final executive responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, the President (if he or she shall be a director) shall preside when present at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board. The President shall also perform such duties and have such powers as shall be designated by the Board. The position of President and Chief Executive Officer may be held by the same person. If no Chief Executive Officer has been appointed, the President shall be the Chief Executive Officer.

(d) Vice Presidents. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President, the Vice President (or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents in the order designated by the Board) shall perform the duties and have the powers of the President. Any one or more of the Vice Presidents may be given an additional designation of rank or function.

(e) Secretary.

(i) The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the stockholders, the Board and (as required) committees of the Board and shall record the proceedings of such meetings in books to be kept for that purpose. In the absence of the Secretary from any meeting, an Assistant Secretary, or if there be none or he or she be absent, a temporary secretary chosen at the meeting, shall record the proceedings thereof. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer or President. The Secretary shall have custody of the corporate seal of the Corporation and the Secretary, or any Assistant Secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it, and when so affixed, it may be attested by his or her signature or by the signature of such Assistant Secretary. The Board may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest the affixing thereof by his or her signature.

(ii) The Secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the Corporation or at the office of the Corporation’s transfer agent or registrar, if one has been appointed, a stock ledger, or duplicate stock ledger, showing the names of the stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each and, with respect to certificated shares, the number and date of certificates issued for the same and the number and date of certificates cancelled.

(f) Assistant Secretaries. The Assistant Secretary or, if there be more than one, the Assistant Secretaries in the order determined by the Board shall, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, perform the duties and have the powers of the Secretary.

(g) Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer shall perform all duties commonly incident to that office (including, without limitation, the care and custody of the funds and securities of the Corporation, which from time to time may come into the Chief Financial Officer’s hands and the deposit of the funds of the Corporation in such banks or trust companies as the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may authorize).

 

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(h) Treasurer. The Treasurer shall, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chief Financial Officer, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Chief Financial Officer.

(i) Assistant Treasurers. The Assistant Treasurer or, if there be more than one, the Assistant Treasurers in the order determined by the Board shall, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Treasurer, perform the duties and have the powers of the Treasurer.

Section 6.2. Term of Office; Removal; Vacancies. The elected officers of the Corporation shall be appointed by the Board and shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified by the Board or until their earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, or removal from office. Any officer may be removed, with or without cause, at any time by the Board. Any officer appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or President may also be removed, with or without cause, by the Chief Executive Officer or President, as the case may be, unless the Board otherwise provides. Any vacancy occurring in any elected office of the Corporation may be filled by the Board. Any vacancy occurring in any office appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or President may be filled by the Chief Executive Officer, or President, as the case may be, unless the Board then determines that such office shall thereupon be elected by the Board, in which case the Board shall elect such officer.

Section 6.3. Other Officers. The Board may delegate the power to appoint such other officers and agents, and may also remove such officers and agents or delegate the power to remove same, as it shall from time to time deem necessary or desirable.

Section 6.4. Multiple Officeholders; Stockholder and Director Officers. Any number of offices may be held by the same person unless the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws otherwise provide. Officers need not be stockholders or residents of the State of Delaware.

ARTICLE VII

SHARES

Section 7.1. Certificated and Uncertificated Shares. The shares of the Corporation may be certificated or uncertificated, subject to the sole discretion of the Board and the requirements of the DGCL.

Section 7.2. Multiple Classes of Stock. If the Corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, the Corporation shall (a) cause the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights to be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of any certificate that the Corporation issues to represent shares of such class or series of stock or (b) in the case of uncertificated shares, within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of such shares, send to the registered owner thereof a written notice containing the information required to be set forth on certificates as specified in clause (a) above; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided by applicable law, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of such certificate or, in the case of uncertificated shares, on such written notice a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences or rights.

 

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Section 7.3. Signatures. Each certificate representing capital stock of the Corporation shall be signed by or in the name of the Corporation by (a) the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President and (b) the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. Any or all the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, such certificate may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent or registrar on the date of issue.

Section 7.4. Consideration and Payment for Shares.

(a) Subject to applicable law and the Certificate of Incorporation, shares of stock may be issued for such consideration, having in the case of shares with par value a value not less than the par value thereof, and to such persons, as determined from time to time by the Board. The consideration may consist of any tangible or intangible property or any benefit to the Corporation including cash, promissory notes, services performed, contracts for services to be performed or other securities, or any combination thereof.

(b) Subject to applicable law and the Certificate of Incorporation, shares may not be issued until the full amount of the consideration has been paid, unless upon the face or back of each certificate issued to represent any partly paid shares of capital stock or upon the books and records of the Corporation in the case of partly paid uncertificated shares, there shall have been set forth the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon up to and including the time said certificate representing certificated shares or said uncertificated shares are issued.

Section 7.5. Lost, Destroyed or Wrongfully Taken Certificates.

(a) If an owner of a certificate representing shares claims that such certificate has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Corporation shall issue a new certificate representing such shares or such shares in uncertificated form if the owner: (i) requests such a new certificate before the Corporation has notice that the certificate representing such shares has been acquired by a protected purchaser; (ii) if requested by the Corporation, delivers to the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against the Corporation on account of the alleged loss, wrongful taking or destruction of such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares; and (iii) satisfies other reasonable requirements imposed by the Corporation.

(b) If a certificate representing shares has been lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken, and the owner fails to notify the Corporation of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of such loss, apparent destruction or wrongful taking and the Corporation registers a transfer of such shares before receiving notification, the owner shall be precluded from asserting against the Corporation any claim for registering such transfer or a claim to a new certificate representing such shares or such shares in uncertificated form.

 

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Section 7.6. Transfer Agent and Transfers of Stock.

(a) The Board of Directors may appoint one or more bank or trust companies organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof to act as transfer agent or registrar, or both, in connection with the transfer of any class or series of securities of the Corporation

(b) Transfers of shares of stock of the Corporation shall be made only on the stock record of the Corporation by the holder of record thereof or by his, her or its attorney thereunto authorized by the power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of the Corporation or the transfer agent thereof. Certificated shares, if any, shall be transferred only upon surrender of the certificate or certificates representing such shares, properly endorsed or accompanied by a duly executed stock transfer power. Uncertificated shares shall be transferred by delivery of a duly executed stock transfer power. Registration of transfer of any shares shall be subject to applicable provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and applicable law with respect to the transfer of such shares. The Board of Directors may make such additional rules and regulations, subject to any applicable requirement of law, as it may deem necessary and appropriate concerning the issue, transfer and registration of transfer of shares of stock of the Corporation.

(c) Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security and not absolutely, the Corporation shall so record such fact in the entry of transfer if, when the certificate for such shares is presented to the Corporation for transfer or, if such shares are uncertificated, when the instruction for registration of transfer thereof is presented to the Corporation, both the transferor and transferee request the Corporation to do so.

Section 7.7. Registered Stockholders. Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificate representing shares of the Corporation or of an instruction requesting registration of transfer of uncertificated shares, the Corporation may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to inspect for any proper purpose the stock ledger and the other books and records of the Corporation, vote such shares, receive dividends or notifications with respect to such shares and otherwise exercise all the rights and powers of the owner of such shares, except that a person who is the beneficial owner of such shares (if held in a voting trust or by a nominee on behalf of such person) may, upon providing documentary evidence of beneficial ownership of such shares and satisfying such other conditions as are provided under applicable law, may also so inspect the books and records of the Corporation.

Section 7.8. Effect of the Corporation’s Restriction on Transfer.

(a) A written restriction on the transfer or registration of transfer of shares of the Corporation or on the amount of shares of the Corporation that may be owned by any person or group of persons, if permitted by the DGCL and noted conspicuously on the certificate representing such shares or, in the case of uncertificated shares, contained in a notice, offering circular or prospectus sent by the Corporation to the registered owner of such shares within a reasonable time prior to or after the issuance or transfer of such shares, may be enforced against the holder of such shares or any successor or transferee of the holder including an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary entrusted with like responsibility for the person or estate of the holder.

 

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(b) A restriction imposed by the Corporation on the transfer or the registration of shares of the Corporation or on the amount of shares of the Corporation that may be owned by any person or group of persons, even if otherwise lawful, is ineffective against a person without actual knowledge of such restriction unless: (i) the shares are certificated and such restriction is noted conspicuously on the certificate; or (ii) the shares are uncertificated and such restriction was contained in a notice, offering circular or prospectus sent by the Corporation to the registered owner of such shares prior to or within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of such shares.

Section 7.9. Regulations. The Board shall have power and authority to make such additional rules and regulations, subject to any applicable requirement of law, as the Board may deem necessary and appropriate with respect to the issue, transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock or certificates representing shares. The Board may appoint one or more transfer agents or registrars and may require for the validity thereof that certificates representing shares bear the signature of any transfer agent or registrar so appointed.

ARTICLE VIII

INDEMNIFICATION

Section 8.1. Right to Indemnification. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, the Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “Indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent, or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes and penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such Indemnitee in connection with such proceeding; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 8.3 with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify an Indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board.

Section 8.2. Right to Advancement of Expenses. In addition to the right to indemnification conferred in Section 8.1, an Indemnitee shall also have the right to be paid by the Corporation to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law the expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) incurred in defending or otherwise participating in any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that, if the DGCL requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an Indemnitee in his or her

 

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capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such Indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon the Corporation’s receipt of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such Indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VIII or otherwise.

Section 8.3. Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 8.1 or Section 8.2 is not paid in full by the Corporation within 60 days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be 20 days, the Indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Indemnitee shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (a) any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by an Indemnitee to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (b) in any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that, the Indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including a determination by its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the Indemnitee, shall be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the Indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article VIII or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.

Section 8.4. Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to this Article VIII shall not be exclusive of any other right, which such Indemnitee may have or hereafter acquire under applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, an agreement, a vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.

Section 8.5. Insurance. The Corporation shall maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and/or any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.

 

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Section 8.6. Indemnification of Other Persons. This Article VIII shall not limit the right of the Corporation to the extent and in the manner authorized or permitted by law to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than Indemnitees. Without limiting the foregoing, the Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board, grant rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation and to any other person who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article VIII with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of Indemnitees under this Article VIII.

Section 8.7. Amendments. Any repeal or amendment of this Article VIII by the Board or the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provision of these Bylaws inconsistent with this Article VIII, will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in applicable law permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights to Indemnitees on a retroactive basis than permitted prior thereto), and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.

Section 8.8. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Article VIII, (a) references to “other enterprise” shall include any employee benefit plan; (b) references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; (c) references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service that imposes duties on, or involves services by, a person with respect to any employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and (d) a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interest of the Corporation” for purposes of Section 145 of the DGCL.

Section 8.9. Contract Rights. The rights provided to Indemnitees pursuant to this Article VIII shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director, officer, agent or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators.

Section 8.10. Severability. If any provision or provisions of this Article VIII shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Article VIII shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article VIII (including, without limitation, each such portion of this Article VIII containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.

 

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ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 9.1. Place of Meetings. If the place of any meeting of stockholders, the Board or committee of the Board for which notice is required under these Bylaws is not designated in the notice of such meeting, such meeting shall be held at the principal business office of the Corporation; provided, however, if the Board has, in its sole discretion, determined that a meeting shall not be held at any place, but instead shall be held by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5(a), then such meeting shall not be held at any place.

Section 9.2. Fixing Record Dates.

(a) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting, and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 9.2(a) at the adjourned meeting.

(b) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

Section 9.3. Means of Giving Notice.

(a) Notice to Directors. Whenever under applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws notice is required to be given to any director, such notice shall be given either (i) in writing and sent by mail, or by a nationally recognized delivery service, (ii) by means of facsimile telecommunication or other form of electronic transmission, or (iii) by oral notice given personally or by telephone. A notice to a director will be deemed given as follows: (i) if given by hand delivery, orally, or by telephone, when actually received by the director, (ii) if

 

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sent through the United States mail, when deposited in the United States mail, with postage and fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the director at the director’s address appearing on the records of the Corporation, (iii) if sent for next day delivery by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, when deposited with such service, with fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the director at the director’s address appearing on the records of the Corporation, (iv) if sent by facsimile telecommunication, when sent to the facsimile transmission number for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation, (v) if sent by electronic mail, when sent to the electronic mail address for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation, or (vi) if sent by any other form of electronic transmission, when sent to the address, location or number (as applicable) for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation.

(b) Notice to Stockholders. Whenever under applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws notice is required to be given to any stockholder, such notice may be given (i) in writing and sent either by hand delivery, through the United States mail, or by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service for next day delivery, or (ii) by means of a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder, to the extent permitted by, and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 232 of the DGCL. A notice to a stockholder shall be deemed given as follows: (i) if given by hand delivery, when actually received by the stockholder, (ii) if sent through the United States mail, when deposited in the United States mail, with postage and fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the stockholder at the stockholder’s address appearing on the stock ledger of the Corporation, (iii) if sent for next day delivery by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, when deposited with such service, with fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the stockholder at the stockholder’s address appearing on the stock ledger of the Corporation, and (iv) if given by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given and otherwise meeting the requirements set forth above, (A) if by facsimile transmission, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice, (B) if by electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice, (C) if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specified posting, upon the later of (1) such posting and (2) the giving of such separate notice, and (D) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder. A stockholder may revoke such stockholder’s consent to receiving notice by means of electronic communication by giving written notice of such revocation to the Corporation. Any such consent shall be deemed revoked if (1) the Corporation is unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation in accordance with such consent and (2) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or to the Corporation’s transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice; provided, however, the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.

(c) Electronic Transmission. “Electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process, including but not limited to transmission by telex, facsimile telecommunication, electronic mail, telegram and cablegram.

 

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(d) Notice to Stockholders Sharing Same Address. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively by the Corporation to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Corporation under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws shall be effective if given by a single written notice to stockholders who share an address if consented to by the stockholders at that address to whom such notice is given. A stockholder may revoke such stockholder’s consent by delivering written notice of such revocation to the Corporation. Any stockholder who fails to object in writing to the Corporation within 60 days of having been given written notice by the Corporation of its intention to send such a single written notice shall be deemed to have consented to receiving such single written notice.

(e) Exceptions to Notice Requirements. Whenever notice is required to be given, under the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, to any person with whom communication is unlawful, the giving of such notice to such person shall not be required and there shall be no duty to apply to any governmental authority or agency for a license or permit to give such notice to such person. Any action or meeting that shall be taken or held without notice to any such person with whom communication is unlawful shall have the same force and effect as if such notice had been duly given. In the event that the action taken by the Corporation is such as to require the filing of a certificate with the Secretary of State of Delaware, the certificate shall state, if such is the fact and if notice is required, that notice was given to all persons entitled to receive notice except such persons with whom communication is unlawful.

Whenever notice is required to be given by the Corporation, under any provision of the DGCL, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, to any stockholder to whom (1) notice of two consecutive annual meetings of stockholders and all notices of stockholder meetings or of the taking of action by written consent of stockholders without a meeting to such stockholder during the period between such two consecutive annual meetings, or (2) all, and at least two payments (if sent by first-class mail) of dividends or interest on securities during a 12-month period, have been mailed addressed to such stockholder at such stockholder’s address as shown on the records of the Corporation and have been returned undeliverable, the giving of such notice to such stockholder shall not be required. Any action or meeting that shall be taken or held without notice to such stockholder shall have the same force and effect as if such notice had been duly given. If any such stockholder shall deliver to the Corporation a written notice setting forth such stockholder’s then current address, the requirement that notice be given to such stockholder shall be reinstated. In the event that the action taken by the Corporation is such as to require the filing of a certificate with the Secretary of State of Delaware, the certificate need not state that notice was not given to persons to whom notice was not required to be given pursuant to Section 230(b) of the DGCL. The exception in subsection (1) of the first sentence of this paragraph to the requirement that notice be given shall not be applicable to any notice returned as undeliverable if the notice was given by electronic transmission.

Section 9.4. Waiver of Notice. Whenever any notice is required to be given under applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, a written waiver of such notice, signed before or after the date of such meeting by the person or persons entitled to said notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to said notice, shall be deemed equivalent to such required notice. All such waivers shall be kept with the books of the Corporation. Attendance at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a person attends for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.

 

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Section 9.5. Meeting Attendance via Remote Communication Equipment.

(a) Stockholder Meetings. If authorized by the Board in its sole discretion, and subject to such guidelines and procedures as the Board may adopt, stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting and proxy holders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders may, by means of remote communication:

(i) participate in a meeting of stockholders; and

(ii) be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders, whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication, provided that (A) the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a stockholder or proxy holder, (B) the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to provide such stockholders and proxy holders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and, if entitled to vote, to vote on matters submitted to the applicable stockholders, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings, and (C) if any stockholder or proxy holder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such votes or other action shall be maintained by the Corporation.

(b) Board Meetings. Unless otherwise restricted by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, members of the Board or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board or any committee thereof by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.

Section 9.6. Dividends. The Board may from time to time declare, and the Corporation may pay, dividends (payable in cash, property or shares of the Corporation’s capital stock) on the Corporation’s outstanding shares of capital stock, subject to applicable law and the Certificate of Incorporation.

Section 9.7. Reserves. The Board may set apart out of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve.

Section 9.8. Contracts and Negotiable Instruments. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument may be executed and delivered in the name and on behalf of the Corporation by such officer or officers or other employee or employees of the Corporation as the Board may from time to time authorize. Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances as the Board may determine. The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Vice President may execute and deliver any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation. Subject to any restrictions imposed by the Board, the Chairman of the Board

 

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Chief Executive Officer, President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Vice President may delegate powers to execute and deliver any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation to other officers or employees of the Corporation under such person’s supervision and authority, it being understood, however, that any such delegation of power shall not relieve such officer of responsibility with respect to the exercise of such delegated power.

Section 9.9. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board.

Section 9.10. Seal. The Board may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be in such form as the Board determines. The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed, affixed or otherwise reproduced. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no seal shall be required by virtue of this Section.

Section 9.11. Books and Records. The books and records of the Corporation may be kept within or outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may from time to time be designated by the Board.

Section 9.12. Resignation. Any director, committee member or officer may resign by giving notice thereof in writing or by electronic transmission to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Secretary. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or at the time of receipt of such notice if no time is specified or the specified time is earlier than the time of such receipt. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

Section 9.13. Surety Bonds. Such officers, employees and agents of the Corporation (if any) as the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or the Board may direct, from time to time, shall be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of their death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in their possession or under their control belonging to the Corporation, in such amounts and by such surety companies as the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or the Board may determine. The premiums on such bonds shall be paid by the Corporation and the bonds so furnished shall be in the custody of the Secretary.

Section 9.14. Securities of Other Corporations. Powers of attorney, proxies, waivers of notice of meeting, consents in writing and other instruments relating to securities owned by the Corporation may be executed in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, any Vice President or any officers authorized by the Board. Any such officer, may, in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation, take all such action as any such officer may deem advisable to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of security holders of any corporation in which the Corporation may own securities, or to consent in writing, in the name of the Corporation as such holder, to any action by such corporation, and at any such meeting or with respect to any such consent shall possess and may exercise any and all rights and power incident to the ownership of such securities and which, as the owner thereof, the Corporation might have exercised and possessed. The Board may from time to time confer like powers upon any other person or persons.

 

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Section 9.15. Amendments. The Board shall have the power to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws. The affirmative vote of a majority of the Board or the full Board assuming no vacancies on the Board shall be required to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws. The Bylaws also may be adopted, amended, altered or repealed by the stockholders; provided, however, that in addition to any vote of the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation required by applicable law or the Certificate of Incorporation (a) prior to May 1, 2023 (the “Sunset Date”), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66-2/3% of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws and (b) on and after the Sunset Date, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of all then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Bylaws.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

Execution Version

IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS, INC.,

as the Company,

the Guarantors party hereto from time to time

AND

U.S. Bank National Association,

as Trustee and as Collateral Agent

6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026

INDENTURE

Dated as of May 1, 2019


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

     Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1  

SECTION 1.1. Definitions

     1  

SECTION 1.2. Other Definitions

     58  

SECTION 1.3. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act

     59  

SECTION 1.4. Rules of Construction

     59  

ARTICLE II THE NOTES

     60  

SECTION 2.1. Form, Dating and Terms

     60  

SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication

     64  

SECTION 2.3. Registrar and Paying Agent

     65  

SECTION 2.4. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust

     66  

SECTION 2.5. Holder Lists

     66  

SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange

     67  

SECTION 2.7. [Reserved]

     68  

SECTION 2.8. [Reserved]

     68  

SECTION 2.9. [Reserved]

     68  

SECTION 2.10. [Reserved]

     68  

SECTION 2.11. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes

     68  

SECTION 2.12. Outstanding Notes

     69  

SECTION 2.13. Temporary Notes

     70  

SECTION 2.14. Cancellation

     70  

SECTION 2.15. Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest

     71  

SECTION 2.16. CUSIP and ISIN Numbers

     72  

SECTION 2.17. Joint and Several Liability

     72  

ARTICLE III COVENANTS

     72  

SECTION 3.1. Payment of Notes

     72  

SECTION 3.2. Limitation on Indebtedness

     72  

SECTION 3.3. Limitation on Restricted Payments

     78  

SECTION 3.4. Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries

     87  

SECTION 3.5. Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock

     90  

SECTION 3.6. Limitation on Liens

     96  

SECTION 3.7. Limitation on Guarantees

     96  

SECTION 3.8. Limitation on Affiliate Transactions

     99  

SECTION 3.9. Change of Control

     102  

SECTION 3.10. Reports

     105  

SECTION 3.11. Maintenance of Office or Agency

     108  

SECTION 3.12. Compliance Certificate

     108  

SECTION 3.13. Further Instruments and Acts

     109  

 

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SECTION 3.14. Statement by Officers as to Default

     109  

SECTION 3.15. Suspension of Certain Covenants

     109  

SECTION 3.16. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries

     110  

SECTION 3.17. Payment of Taxes

     111  

SECTION 3.18. Business of the Parent Guarantor and Restricted Subsidiaries

     111  

SECTION 3.19. Corporate Existence

     111  

ARTICLE IV SUCCESSOR COMPANY; SUCCESSOR PERSON

     111  

SECTION 4.1. Merger and Consolidation

     111  

ARTICLE V REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     114  

SECTION 5.1. Notices to Trustee

     114  

SECTION 5.2. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased

     115  

SECTION 5.3. Notice of Redemption

     115  

SECTION 5.4. Effect of Notice of Redemption

     116  

SECTION 5.5. Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price

     117  

SECTION 5.6. Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part

     117  

SECTION 5.7. Optional Redemption

     117  

SECTION 5.8. Mandatory Redemption

     118  

ARTICLE VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     118  

SECTION 6.1. Events of Default

     118  

SECTION 6.2. Acceleration

     121  

SECTION 6.3. Other Remedies

     122  

SECTION 6.4. Waiver of Past Defaults

     122  

SECTION 6.5. Control by Majority

     122  

SECTION 6.6. Limitation on Suits

     123  

SECTION 6.7. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment

     123  

SECTION 6.8. Collection Suit by Trustee

     123  

SECTION 6.9. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     124  

SECTION 6.10. Priorities

     124  

SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs

     124  

ARTICLE VII TRUSTEE

     125  

SECTION 7.1. Duties of Trustee

     125  

SECTION 7.2. Rights of Trustee

     126  

SECTION 7.3. Individual Rights of Trustee

     128  

SECTION 7.4. Trustee’s Disclaimer

     128  

SECTION 7.5. Notice of Defaults

     128  

SECTION 7.6. Reports by Trustee to Holders of Notes

     128  

SECTION 7.7. Compensation and Indemnity

     129  

SECTION 7.8. Replacement of Trustee

     130  

SECTION 7.9. Successor Trustee by Merger

     131  

SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification

     131  

 

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SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company

     131  

SECTION 7.12. Trustee’s Application for Instruction from the Company

     131  

SECTION 7.13. Collateral Documents; Intercreditor Agreements

     132  

ARTICLE VIII LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

     132  

SECTION 8.1. Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance; Defeasance

     132  

SECTION 8.2. Legal Defeasance and Discharge

     132  

SECTION 8.3. Covenant Defeasance

     133  

SECTION 8.4. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance

     133  

SECTION 8.5. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

     134  

SECTION 8.6. Repayment to the Company

     135  

SECTION 8.7. Reinstatement

     135  

ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS

     136  

SECTION 9.1. Without Consent of Holders

     136  

SECTION 9.2. With Consent of Holders

     137  

SECTION 9.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act

     139  

SECTION 9.4. Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers

     139  

SECTION 9.5. Notation on or Exchange of Notes

     139  

SECTION 9.6. Trustee and Collateral Agent to Sign Amendments

     140  

ARTICLE X GUARANTEE

     140  

SECTION 10.1. Guarantee

     140  

SECTION 10.2. Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge

     142  

SECTION 10.3. Right of Contribution

     143  

SECTION 10.4. No Subrogation

     143  

ARTICLE XI SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     144  

SECTION 11.1. Satisfaction and Discharge

     144  

SECTION 11.2. Application of Trust Money

     145  

ARTICLE XII COLLATERAL

     145  

SECTION 12.1. Collateral Documents

     145  

SECTION 12.2. Release of Collateral

     146  

SECTION 12.3. Suits to Protect the Collateral

     147  

SECTION 12.4. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Collateral Documents

     148  

SECTION 12.5. Purchaser Protected

     148  

SECTION 12.6. Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee

     148  

SECTION 12.7. Release Upon Termination of the Company’s Obligations

     148  

SECTION 12.8. Collateral Agent

     149  

 

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SECTION 12.9. Designations

     156  

SECTION 12.10. No Impairment of the Security Interests

     157  

SECTION 12.11. Insurance

     157  

SECTION 12.12. After Acquired Property

     157  

SECTION 12.13. Maintenance of Property and Insurance

     157  

SECTION 12.14. Further Assurances

     158  

SECTION 12.15. Filing, Recording and Opinions

     158  

ARTICLE XIII MISCELLANEOUS

     159  

SECTION 13.1. Trust Indenture Act Controls

     159  

SECTION 13.2. Notices

     159  

SECTION 13.3. Communication by Holders with other Holders

     160  

SECTION 13.4. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent

     160  

SECTION 13.5. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion

     160  

SECTION 13.6. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar

     161  

SECTION 13.7. Legal Holidays

     161  

SECTION 13.8. Governing Law

     161  

SECTION 13.9. Jurisdiction

     161  

SECTION 13.10. Waivers of Jury Trial

     162  

SECTION 13.11. USA PATRIOT Act

     162  

SECTION 13.12. No Recourse Against Others

     162  

SECTION 13.13. Multiple Originals

     162  

SECTION 13.14. Table of Contents; Headings

     162  

SECTION 13.15. Force Majeure

     162  

SECTION 13.16. Severability

     163  

SECTION 13.17. FCC

     163  

 

EXHIBIT A

  Form of Global Note

EXHIBIT B

  Form of Supplemental Indenture to add Guarantors

 

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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

TIA

Section

        Indenture
Section
 

310

   (a)(1)      7.10  
   (a)(2)      7.10  
   (a)(3)      N.A.  
   (a)(4)      N.A.  
   (a)(5)      N.A.  
   (b)      7.8; 7.10  

311

   (a)      7.11  
   (b)      7.11  

312

   (a)      2.6  
   (b)      13.3  
   (c)      13.3  

313

   (a)      7.6  
   (b)(1)      N.A.  
   (b)(2)      7.6; 7.7  
   (c)      7.6  
   (d)      3.10  

314

   (a)      3.10; 3.12  
   (b)      N.A.  
   (c)(1)      13.4; 13.5  
   (c)(2)      13.4; 13.5  
   (c)(3)      N.A.  
   (d)      N.A.  
   (e)      13.5  
   (f)      N.A.  

315

   (a)      7.1  
   (b)      7.5  
   (c)      7.1  
   (d)      7.1  
   (e)      6.11  

316

   (a)(last sentence)      2.12  
   (a)(1)(A)      6.5  
   (a)(1)(B)      6.4  
   (a)(2)      N.A.  
   (b)      6.7  

317

   (a)(1)      6.8  
   (a)(2)      6.9  
   (b)      2.4  

318

   (a)      13.1  
   (b)      N.A.  
   (c)      N.A.  

N.A. Means Not Applicable.

Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purposes, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.

 

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INDENTURE dated as of May 1, 2019, among iHeartCommunications, Inc., a Texas corporation (the Company”), the Guarantors party hereto and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) and as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of (i) $799,999,940 aggregate principal amount of its 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 (the “Initial Notes”), issued on the date hereof and (ii) any additional Notes that may be issued after the Issue Date (the “Additional Notes and, together with the Initial Notes, the “Notes”);

WHEREAS, the Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary (i) to make the Notes, when executed and duly issued by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid obligations of the Company, and (ii) to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and the Guarantors have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the acquisition of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.1. Definitions.

“ABL Collateral Agent” means Citibank, N.A. in its capacity as collateral agent under the ABL Credit Agreement.

“ABL Credit Agreement” means the ABL Credit Agreement dated as of the Issue Date among the Company, as borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors party thereto from time to time, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto together with the related documents thereto (including the revolving loans thereunder, any letters of credit and reimbursement obligations related thereto, any Guarantees and security documents), as amended, extended, renewed, restated, refunded, replaced, refinanced, supplemented, modified or otherwise changed (in whole or in part, and without limitation as to amount, terms, conditions, covenants and other provisions) from time to time, and any one or more agreements (and related documents) governing Indebtedness, including indentures, incurred to refinance, substitute, supplement, replace or add to (including increasing the amount available for borrowing or adding or removing any Person as a borrower, issuer or guarantor thereunder, in whole or in part), the borrowings and commitments then outstanding or permitted to be outstanding under such ABL Credit Agreement or one or more successors to the ABL Credit Agreement or one or more new credit agreements.


ABL Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among the Company, as borrower, the other grantors party thereto, the Collateral Agent and the ABL Collateral Agent.”

“Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (x) of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or (y) of a Person assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person, in each case whether or not Incurred by such Person in anticipation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor or such acquisition or (z) of a Person at the time such Person merges or amalgamates with or into or consolidates or otherwise combines with the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary. Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been Incurred, with respect to clause (x) of the preceding sentence, on the date such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and, with respect to clause (y) of the preceding sentence, on the date of consummation of such acquisition of assets and, with respect to clause (z) of the preceding sentence, on the date of the relevant merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other combination.

Additional Assets” means:

(a) any property or assets (other than Capital Stock) used or to be used by the Parent Guarantor, a Restricted Subsidiary or otherwise useful in a Similar Business (it being understood that capital expenditures on property or assets already used in a Similar Business or to replace any property or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition shall be deemed an investment in Additional Assets);

(b) the Capital Stock of a Person that is engaged in a Similar Business and becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor; or

(c) Capital Stock constituting a minority interest in any Person that at such time is a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor.

“Additional Notes” has the meaning ascribed to it in the second introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

“Additional First Lien Obligations” has the meaning ascribed to it in the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date.

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

“Alternative Currency” means any currency (other than Dollars) that is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor).

 

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“Applicable Premium” means the greater of (A) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note and (B) on any redemption date, the excess (to the extent positive) of:

(a) the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of such Note at May 1, 2022 (such redemption price (expressed in percentage of principal amount) being set forth in the table under SECTION 5.7(d) (excluding accrued but unpaid interest)), plus (ii) all required interest payments due on such Note to and including such date set forth in clause (i) (excluding accrued but unpaid interest), computed upon the redemption date using a discount rate equal to the Applicable Treasury Rate at such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over

(b) the outstanding principal amount of such Note;

in each case, as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculations of the Applicable Premium.

“Applicable Treasury Rate” means the weekly average for each Business Day during the most recent week that has ended at least two Business Days prior to the redemption date of the yield to maturity at the time of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H. 15 (or, if such statistical release is not so published or available, any publicly available source of similar market data selected by the Company in good faith)) most nearly equal to the period from the redemption date to May 1, 2022; provided, however, that if the period from the redemption date to May 1, 2022 is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a yield is given, the Applicable Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the redemption date to such applicable date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

Asset Disposition” means:

(a) the voluntary sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, of property or assets (including by way of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (in each case other than Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor) (each referred to in this definition as a “disposition”); or

(b) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries issued in compliance with SECTION 3.2 hereof or directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required under applicable law), whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions; in each case, other than:

(1) a disposition by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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(2) a disposition of cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;

(3) a disposition of inventory, goods or other assets in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including allowing any registrations or any applications for registrations of any intellectual property rights to lapse or go abandoned in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice);

(4) a disposition of obsolete, worn out, uneconomic, damaged, or surplus property, equipment or other assets or property, equipment or other assets that are no longer economically practical or commercially desirable to maintain or used or useful in the business of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries whether now or hereafter owned or leased or acquired in connection with an acquisition or used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries (including by ceasing to enforce, allowing the lapse, abandonment or invalidation of or discontinuing the use or maintenance of or putting into the public domain any intellectual property that is, in the reasonable judgment of the Parent Guarantor or the Restricted Subsidiaries, no longer used or useful, or economically practicable to maintain, or in respect of which the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary determines in its reasonable judgment that such action or inaction is desirable);

(5) transactions permitted under SECTION 4.1 hereof or a transaction that constitutes a Change of Control;

(6) an issuance of Capital Stock by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or to another Restricted Subsidiary or as part of or pursuant to an equity incentive or compensation plan approved by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor;

(7) any dispositions of Capital Stock, properties or assets in a single transaction or series of related transactions with a fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor) of less than the greater of (x) $100 million and (y) 1.0% of Total Assets;

(8) any Restricted Payment that is permitted to be made, and is made, under SECTION 3.3 hereof and the making of any Permitted Payment or Permitted Investment;

(9) dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens and Permitted Tax Restructurings;

(10) dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;

(11) conveyances, sales, transfers, licenses, sublicenses or other dispositions of intellectual property, software or other general intangibles and licenses, sub-licenses, leases or subleases of other property, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, or pursuant to a research or development agreement in which the counterparty to such agreement receives a license in the intellectual property or software that result from such agreement, or as contemplated under the Transition Services Agreement;

 

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(12) the lease, assignment, license, sublease or sublicense of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;

(13) foreclosure, condemnation or any similar action with respect to any property or other assets;

(14) the sale or discount (with or without recourse, and on customary or commercially reasonable terms and for credit management purposes) of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, or the conversion or exchange of accounts receivable for notes receivable;

(15) any issuance or sale of Capital Stock in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any other disposition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a Restricted Subsidiary, which owns an Unrestricted Subsidiary so long as such Restricted Subsidiary owns no assets other than the Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other securities of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(16) (i) dispositions of property to the extent that such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is promptly purchased, (ii) dispositions of property to the extent that the proceeds of such disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property (which replacement property is actually promptly purchased), and (iii) to the extent allowable under Section 1031 of the Code, any exchange of like property (excluding any boot thereon) for use in a Similar Business;

(17) any Sale and Leaseback Transaction and asset securitization permitted or not prohibited by this Indenture; provided that the fair market value of all property so disposed of after the Issue Date shall not exceed 3.5% of Total Assets;

(18) dispositions of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements;

(19) any surrender or waiver of contractual rights or the settlement, release, surrender or waiver of contractual, tort, litigation or other claims of any kind;

(20) the unwinding of any Cash Management Services or Swap Obligations pursuant to its terms;

(21) transfers of property or assets subject to Casualty Events upon receipt of the net proceeds of such Casualty Event; provided that any Cash Equivalents received by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such Casualty Event shall be deemed to be net cash proceeds of an Asset Disposition, and such net cash proceeds shall be applied in accordance with SECTION 3.5 with the understanding that there shall not be a duplication in items deducted or used to reduce the amount contemplated by the definition of “Net Available Cash” (such as, for the avoidance of doubt, the payment of taxes); and

 

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(22) the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of Equity Interests of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. subject to the iHeartCommunications Warrants as a result of the exercise thereof or the cancellation of such Equity Interests upon the expiration of the iHeartCommunications Warrants without exercise, if applicable.

In the event that a transaction (or any portion thereof) meets the criteria of a permitted Asset Disposition and would also be a Permitted Investment or an Investment permitted under SECTION 3.3 hereof, the Parent Guarantor, in its sole discretion, will be entitled to divide and classify such transaction (or a portion thereof) as an Asset Disposition and/or one or more of the types of Permitted Investments or Investments permitted under SECTION 3.3 hereof.

“Associate” means (i) any Person engaged in a Similar Business of which the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries are the legal and beneficial owners of between 20% and 50% of all outstanding Voting Stock and (ii) any joint venture entered into by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor.

Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, in respect of any capitalized lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.

“Bankruptcy Plan” means the Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc. and its Debtor Affiliates Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division on October 18, 2018 [Docket No. 1632] (together with all schedules, documents and exhibits contained therein, as amended, supplemented, modified or waived from time to time).

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

“Board of Directors” means (i) with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any corporation, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, of the corporation, or any duly authorized committee thereof; (ii) with respect to any partnership, the board of directors or other governing body of the general partner of the partnership or any duly authorized committee thereof; (iii) with respect to a limited liability company, the managing member or members or any duly authorized controlling committee thereof; and (iv) with respect to any other Person, the board or any duly authorized committee of such Person serving a similar function.

Broadcast Licenses” means the main station licenses issued by the Federal Communications Commission of the United States (or any Governmental Authority succeeding to the functions of such commission in whole or in part) or any foreign Governmental Authority and held by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for the Broadcast Stations operated by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

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Broadcast Stations” means each full-service AM or FM radio broadcast station or full-service television broadcast station now or hereafter owned and operated by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

“Business Day” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York, United States or the jurisdiction of the place of payment are authorized or required by law to close.

“Business Successor” means (i) any former Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor and (ii) any Person that, after the Issue Date, has acquired, merged or consolidated with a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (that results in such Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor), or acquired (in one transaction or a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of a Subsidiary or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor.

“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares of, rights to purchase, warrants, options or depositary receipts for, or other equivalents of or partnership or other interests in (however designated), equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible, or exchangeable into, such equity.

“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means an obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease (and for the avoidance of doubt, not a straight line or operating lease) for financial reporting purposes on the basis of GAAP; provided that, for purposes of calculations made pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, GAAP will be deemed to treat leases in a manner consistent with its treatment under generally accepted accounting principles as of January 1, 2015, notwithstanding any modifications or interpretive changes thereto that may have occurred thereafter. The amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation will be the capitalized amount of such obligation at the time any determination thereof is to be made as determined on the basis of GAAP, and the Stated Maturity thereof will be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date such lease may be terminated without penalty.

“Capitalized Software Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by a Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of a Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Cash Equivalents” means:

(1) (a) Dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds Sterling, Yen, Euro or any national currency of any member state of the European Union; or (b) any other foreign currency held by the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(2) securities issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the United States, Canadian, United Kingdom or Japanese governments, a member state of the European Union on the Issue Date or, in each case, or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit obligation of such country or such member state is pledged in support thereof), having maturities of not more than two years from the date of acquisition;

 

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(3) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank deposits or bankers’ acceptances having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any lender or by any bank or trust company (a) whose commercial paper is rated at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or if at the time neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization) or (b) (in the event that the bank or trust company does not have commercial paper which is rated) having combined capital and surplus in excess of $100.0 million;

(4) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3), (7) and (8) entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

(5) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Person referenced in clause (3) above;

(6) commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by a bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above (or by the parent company thereof) maturing within one year after the date of creation thereof or any commercial paper and variable or fixed rate note issued by, or guaranteed by a corporation rated at least (A) “A-1” or higher by S&P of “P-1” or higher by Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) maturing within two years after the date of creation thereof or (B) “A-2” or higher by S&P or “P-2” or higher by Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the company) maturing within one year the date of creation thereof, or, in each case, if no rating is available in respect of the commercial paper or variable or fixed rate notes, the issuer of which has an equivalent rating in respect of its long-term debt;

(7) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least “P-2” or “A- 2” from either S&P or Moody’s, respectively (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company), and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation or acquisition thereof;

(8) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, province, commonwealth or territory of the United States of America, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, any member state of the European Union on the Issue Date or any political subdivision, taxing authority or public instrumentality thereof, in each case, having one of the two highest ratings categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P (or, if at that time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company);

 

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(9) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision, taxing authority or public instrumentality thereof, in each case, having one of the two highest ratings categories obtainable by S&P or Moody’s (or, if at the time, neither is issuing comparable ratings, then a comparable rating of another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) with maturities of not more than two years from the date of acquisition;

(10) Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher by Moody’s or the equivalent of such rating by such rating organization (or, if at the time, neither S&P nor Moody’s is rating such obligations, then a comparable rating from another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company);

(11) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in each case maturing within one year after the date of investment therein, (ii) certificates of deposit of, bankers’ acceptance of, or time deposits with, any commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;

(12) Indebtedness or Preferred Stock issued by Persons with a rating of “BBB-” or higher from S&P or “Baa3” or higher by Moody’s or the equivalent of such rating by such rating organization (or, if at the time, neither S&P nor Moody’s is rating such obligations, then a comparable rating from another Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization selected by the Company) with maturities of not more than two years from the date of acquisition;

(13) bills of exchange issued in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan or a member state of the European Union eligible for rediscount at the relevant central bank and accepted by a bank (or any dematerialized equivalent);

(14) investments in money market funds access to which is provided as part of “sweep” accounts maintained with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

(15) investments in industrial development revenue bonds that (i) “re-set” interest rates not less frequently than quarterly, (ii) are entitled to the benefit of a remarketing arrangement with an established broker dealer and (iii) are supported by a direct pay letter of credit covering principal and accrued interest that is issued by any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

 

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(16) investments in pooled funds or investment accounts consisting of investments in the nature described in the foregoing clause (15);

(17) Cash Equivalents or installments similar to those referred to in clauses (1) through (16) above denominated in Dollars or any Alternative Currency;

(18) interests in any investment company, money market, enhanced high yield fund or other investment fund which invests 90% or more of its assets in installments of the types specified in clauses (1) through (17) above; and

(19) any marketable securities portfolio owned by the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries on the Issue Date.

In the case of Investments by any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary or Investments made in a country outside the United States of America, Cash Equivalents shall also include (i) investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (1) through (19) above of foreign obligors, which Investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies and (ii) other short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments analogous to the foregoing investments in clauses (1) through (19) and in this paragraph.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clause (1) above, provided that such amounts are converted into any currency listed in clause (1) as promptly as practicable and in any event within 10 Business Days following the receipt of such amounts. For the avoidance of doubt, any items identified as Cash Equivalents under this definition (other than clause (19) above) will be deemed to be Cash Equivalents for all purposes under this Indenture regardless of the treatment of such items under GAAP.

“Cash Management Services” means any of the following to the extent not constituting a line of credit (other than an overnight draft facility that is not in default): automated clearing house transactions, treasury, depository, credit or debit card, purchasing card, stored value card, electronic fund transfer, treasury services and/or cash management services, including controlled disbursement services, overdraft facilities, foreign exchange facilities, deposit and other accounts and merchant services, or other cash management arrangements in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice.

Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, goods, assets or Real Property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, goods, assets or Real Property.

 

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Change of Control” means:

(1) the Parent Guarantor becomes aware of (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date), other than a Parent Entity, being or becoming the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 of the Exchange Act as in effect on the Issue Date) of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor; provided that so long as the Parent Guarantor is a Subsidiary of any Parent Entity, no Person shall be deemed to be or become a beneficial owner of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor unless such Person shall be or become a beneficial owner of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such Parent Entity (other than a Parent Entity that is a Subsidiary of another Parent Entity); or

(2) the sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a Person (other than the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) and any “person” (as defined in clause (1) above), other than any Parent Entity, is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as so defined) of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the transferee Person in such sale or transfer of assets, as the case may be; provided that so long as the Parent Guarantor is a Subsidiary of any Parent Entity, no Person shall be deemed to be or become a beneficial owner of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor unless such Person shall be or become a beneficial owner of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such Parent Entity (other than a Parent Entity that is a Subsidiary of another Parent Entity).

Notwithstanding the preceding or any provision of Section 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, (i) a Person or group shall not be deemed to beneficially own Voting Stock subject to a stock or asset purchase agreement, merger agreement, option agreement, warrant agreement or similar agreement (or voting or option or similar agreement related thereto) until the consummation of the acquisition of the Voting Stock in connection with the transactions contemplated by such agreement and (ii) the right to acquire Voting Stock (so long as such Person does not have the right to direct the voting of the Voting Stock subject to such right) or any veto power in connection with the acquisition or disposition of Voting Stock will not cause a party to be a beneficial owner.

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

“Collateral” means (i) the “Collateral” as defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement, (ii) all the “Collateral” or “Pledged Assets” or similar term as defined in any other Collateral Document and (iii) any other assets pledged or in which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted, in each case, pursuant to any Collateral Document.

“Collateral Agent” means U.S. Bank National Association in its capacity as collateral agent for the Senior Secured Notes Secured Parties.

“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, any security agreement (including the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement), hypothecs, intellectual property security agreements, mortgages, collateral assignments, security agreement supplements, pledge agreements, bonds or any similar agreements, guarantees and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien or guarantee in favor of the Collateral Agent for its benefit and the benefit of the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes.

 

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Collateral Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:

(1) the Trustee shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Issue Date pursuant to SECTION 12.1 or from time to time pursuant to SECTION 3.7(a)(ii), SECTION 12.12 or SECTION 12.14, subject to the limitations and exceptions of this Indenture, duly executed by each of the Company and each Guarantor party thereto;

(2) the Senior Secured Notes Obligations and the Note Guarantees shall have been secured by a first-priority security interest in (i) all the Equity Interests of the Company and each Guarantor, and (ii) all Equity Interests of each other Restricted Subsidiary (that is not an Excluded Subsidiary), in each case, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Indenture, the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction) and the Intercreditor Agreements;

(3) the Senior Secured Notes Obligations and the Note Guarantees shall have been secured by a perfected security interest in, and Mortgages on, (i) in the case of the Parent Guarantor, the Company and each Domestic Guarantor, substantially all now owned or, in the case of real property, fee owned, or at any time hereafter acquired tangible and intangible assets of each of the Company and the Guarantors thereof (including Equity Interests, intercompany debt, accounts, inventory, equipment, investment property, contract rights, intellectual property in the United States of America, other general intangibles, Material Real Property and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Indenture and the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction) and (ii) in the case of each other Guarantor, a pledge of (x) the applicable Equity Interests referred to in clause (3) above and (y) each intercompany promissory note or similar debt instrument representing intercompany Indebtedness owed from a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor to the Company and/or any Guarantor, as applicable, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Indenture and the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction), in each case with the priority required by the Collateral Documents, the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement;

(4) subject to limitations and exceptions of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents, to the extent a security interest in and Mortgages on any Material Real Property are required pursuant to clause (3) above or under SECTION 12.12 or 12.14 (each, a “Mortgaged Property”), the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to such Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property, together with evidence such Mortgage has been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each party thereto, in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Parent Guarantor may reasonably deem necessary or desirable in a manner consistent with the procedures outlined in the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable, in order to create a valid and subsisting perfected Lien (subject only to Liens described in clause (ii) below) on the property and/or rights described therein in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Secured Notes Secured Parties, and evidence that all filing and recording taxes and fees have been paid or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (it being understood that if a mortgage tax will be owed on

 

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the entire amount of the indebtedness evidenced hereby, then the amount secured by the Mortgage shall, to the extent permitted pursuant to applicable law, be limited to 100% of the fair market value of the property (as reasonably determined by the Parent Guarantor in a manner consistent with the procedures outlined in the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable) at the time the Mortgage is entered into if such limitation results in such mortgage tax being calculated based upon such fair market value), (ii) fully paid American Land Title Association Lender’s policies of title insurance (or marked-up title insurance commitments having the effect of policies of title insurance) on the Mortgaged Property naming the Collateral Agent as the insured for its benefit and that of the Senior Secured Notes Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns (the “Mortgage Policies”) issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent in form and substance and in an amount reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent (not to exceed 100% of the fair market value of the real properties covered thereby), insuring the Mortgages to be valid subsisting first priority Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all Liens other than Liens permitted pursuant to SECTION 3.6 and other Liens reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, each of which shall (A) to the extent reasonably necessary, include such coinsurance and reinsurance arrangements (with provisions for direct access, if reasonably necessary) as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, (B) contain a “tie-in” or “cluster” endorsement, if available under applicable law (i.e., policies which insure against losses regardless of location or allocated value of the insured property up to a stated maximum coverage amount), and (C) have been supplemented by such endorsements as shall be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent (including endorsements on matters relating to usury, first loss, last dollar, zoning, contiguity, doing business, non-imputation, public road access, variable rate, environmental lien, subdivision, mortgage recording tax, separate tax lot, revolving credit and so-called comprehensive coverage over covenants and restrictions, to the extent such endorsements are available in the applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates), (iii) opinions of local counsel to the Company and the Guarantors in states in which the Mortgaged Properties are located, with respect to the enforceability and perfection of the Mortgages and any related fixture filings, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and (iv) no later than three Business Days prior to the date on which a Mortgage is executed and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, a completed “life of the loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination with respect to each Mortgaged Property on which any “building” (as defined in the Flood Insurance Laws) is located, duly executed and acknowledged by the appropriate party among the Company and the Guarantors, together with evidence of flood insurance as and to the extent required under Section 6.07 of the Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall not enter into any Mortgage in respect of any real property acquired by the Company or the Guarantors after the Issue Date until (1) the date that occurs 45 days after the Trustee has delivered to the Senior Secured Holders (which may be delivered electronically) the following documents in respect of such real property: (i) a completed flood hazard determination from a third party vendor; (ii) if such real property is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, (A) a notification to the Company (or applicable party among the Company and the Guarantors) of that fact and (if applicable) notification to the Company (or applicable party among the Company and the Guarantors) that flood insurance coverage is not available and (B) evidence of the receipt by the Company (or applicable party among the Company and the Guarantors) of such notice; and (iii) if such notice is required to be provided to the Company (or applicable party among the Company and the

 

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Guarantors) and flood insurance is available in the community in which such real property is located, evidence of required flood insurance and (2) the Trustee shall have received written confirmation from the Senior Secured Holders the that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance has been completed by the Senior Secured Holders (such written confirmation not to be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed); and

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if any fee owned real property owned by the Company or any Guarantor becomes subject to a Lien (other than a Lien permitted under clauses (2), (3), (4), (5), (7) or (15) of the definition of Permitted Lien or any non-consensual Lien arising by operation of Law), as promptly as practicable, deliver to the Collateral Agent with respect to each such parcel of real property, a mortgage, any existing title reports, abstracts or environmental assessment reports, to the extent available and in the possession or control of the Company or any Guarantor, except for any environmental assessment report whose disclosure to the Collateral Agent would require the consent of a Person other than the Company or any Guarantor or one of their respective Subsidiaries, where, despite the commercially reasonable efforts of the Company and the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries to obtain such consent, such consent cannot be obtained.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Indenture or any other Note Document to the contrary:

(A) the foregoing definition shall not require, unless otherwise stated in this clause (A), the creation or perfection of pledges of, security interests in, Mortgages on, or the obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions with respect to the following: (i) other than in the case of any Electing Guarantors, any property or assets owned by any Excluded Subsidiary, (ii) any lease, license or agreement or any property subject to a purchase money security interest or similar arrangement to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or purchase money arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law, other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or other applicable Law notwithstanding such prohibition, (iii) any interest in fee-owned real property other than Material Real Properties, (iv) Excluded Contracts, Excluded Equipment and any interest in leased real property (it being understood that no action shall be required with respect to creation or perfection of security interests with respect to leases, including any requirement to obtain or deliver landlord waivers, estoppels or collateral access letters), (v) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title except to the extent perfection of a security interest therein may be accomplished by filing of financing statements in appropriate form in the applicable jurisdiction under the Uniform Commercial Code, (vi) margin stock and Equity Interests of any Person other than wholly-owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, (vii) any trademark application filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the basis of the Company’s or any Guarantor’s “intent to use” such mark and for which a form evidencing use of the mark has not yet been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, to the extent that granting a security interest in such trademark application prior to such filing would impair the enforceability or validity of such trademark application or any registration that issues therefrom under applicable federal Law, (viii) the creation or perfection of pledges of, or security interests in, any property or assets that would result in

 

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material adverse tax consequences to the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor, as determined in the reasonable judgment of the Parent Guarantor in a manner consistent with the procedures outlined in the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable, (ix) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent a security in any such license, franchise, charter or authorization is prohibited or restricted thereby after giving effect to the anti-assignment provisions of the UCC and other applicable Law, (x) pledges and security interests prohibited or restricted by applicable Law whether on the Issue Date or thereafter (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority or third party), (xi) all commercial tort claims in an amount less than $15,000,000 in the aggregate, (xii) letter of credit rights, except to the extent constituting a supporting obligation for other Collateral as to which perfection of the security interest in such other Collateral is accomplished solely by the filing of a UCC financing statement (it being understood that no actions shall be required to perfect a security interest in letter of credit rights, other than the filing of a UCC financing statement), (xiii) any particular assets if, in the reasonable judgment of the Parent Guarantor in a manner consistent with the procedures outlined in the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable, the burden, cost or consequences of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance is excessive in relation to the benefits to be obtained therefrom by the Holders, (xiv) cash and cash equivalents, deposit and securities accounts (including securities entitlements and related assets), in each case, other than proceeds of Collateral as to which perfection may be accomplished solely by the filing of a UCC financing statement, (xv) any segregated funds held in escrow for the benefit of an unaffiliated third party (including such funds in Escrow), (xvi) any FCC Authorizations to the extent (but only to the extent) that at such time the Collateral Agent may not validly possess a security interest therein pursuant to applicable Communications Laws, but the Collateral shall include, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all rights incident or appurtenant to the FCC Authorizations (except to the extent requiring approval of the FCC, unless such approval has first been secured consistent with SECTION 13.17), the economic value of the FCC Authorizations, and the right to receive all proceeds derived from or in connection with the direct or indirect sale, assignment or transfer of the FCC Authorizations, (xvii) the Identified Assets (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and (xviii) any Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of the Company in excess of the maximum amount of such Capital Stock that could be included in the Collateral without creating a requirement pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act for separate financial statements of such Subsidiary to be included in reports by the Parent Guarantor, any Subsidiary or Parent Entity of the Parent Guarantor with the SEC (or any other governmental agency); (xix) any Equity Interests of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.; and (xx) proceeds from any and all of the foregoing assets described in the clauses above to the extent such proceeds would otherwise be excluded pursuant the clauses above;

(B) (i) the foregoing definition shall not require control agreements with respect to any cash, deposit accounts or securities accounts or any other assets requiring perfection through control agreements; (ii) other than with respect to an Electing Guarantor organized in a jurisdiction other than the U.S. or a Foreign Subsidiary that is not an Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary that is required to join as a Guarantor hereunder, no actions in any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S., or to perfect such security interests (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements, or share charge (or mortgage) agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction, other than, with respect to an Electing Guarantor

 

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organized in a jurisdiction other than the U.S. or a Foreign Subsidiary that is not an Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary that is required to join as a Guarantor hereunder, a security agreement, pledge agreement or share charge governed by the laws of such jurisdiction in which such Subsidiary is organized) and (iii) except to the extent that perfection and priority may be achieved by the filing of a financing statement under the UCC with respect to the Company or a Guarantor or delivery of possessory Collateral required to be delivered pursuant to the Collateral Documents, the Note Documents shall not contain any requirements as to perfection or priority with respect to any assets or property described in this clause (B);

(C) the Collateral Agent in its discretion may grant extensions of time for the creation or perfection of security interests in, and Mortgages on, or obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions with respect to, particular assets (including extensions beyond the Issue Date) or any other compliance with the requirements of this definition where it reasonably determines in writing, in consultation with the Company, that the creation or perfection of security interests and Mortgages on, or obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions, or any other compliance with the requirements of this definition cannot be accomplished without undue delay, burden or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Indenture or the Collateral Documents;

(D) Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to the Collateral Requirement shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in this Indenture and the Collateral Documents; and

(E) general statutory limitations, financial assistance, corporate benefit, capital maintenance rules, fraudulent preference, “thin capitalization” rules, retention of title claims and similar principles may limit the ability of a Foreign Subsidiary to provide Collateral or may require that the Collateral be limited by an amount or otherwise, in each case as reasonably determined by the Parent Guarantor in a manner consistent with the procedures outlined in the Credit Agreement, to the extent applicable.

Communications Laws” means the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the FCC’s rules, regulations, published orders and published and promulgated policy statements, all as may be amended from time to time.

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:

(1) increased (without duplication) by, in each case (other than with respect to clauses (h), (j) and (n)) to the extent deducted (and not added back) in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period:

(a) provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital gains of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, federal, state, franchise and similar taxes (such as the Delaware franchise tax) and foreign withholding (including any future taxes or other levies which replace or are intended to be in lieu of such taxes and any penalties and interest relating to such taxes or arising from tax examinations), and the net tax expense associated with any adjustments made pursuant to clauses (1) through (15) of the definition of Consolidated Net Income; plus

 

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(b) Fixed Charges of such Person for such period (including (x) net losses on any Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, (y) bank fees and other financing fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, plus amounts excluded from the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense” as set forth in clauses (i) to (vii) thereof); plus

(c) the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of intangible assets, deferred financing costs, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and Capitalized Software Expenditures of Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP; plus

(d) the amount of any restructuring charges or reserves, equity-based or non-cash compensation charges or expenses including any such charges or expenses arising from grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock or other rights, retention charges (including charges or expenses in respect of incentive plans), costs and expenses for Permitted Tax Restructurings, start-up or initial costs for any project or new production line, division or new line of business or other business optimization expenses or reserves including, without limitation, severance costs, costs relating to initiatives aimed at profitability improvement, costs or reserves associated with improvements to IT and accounting functions, integration and facilities opening costs or any one-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions and investments and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities; plus

(e) any other non-cash charges, non-cash write-offs, write-downs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period (provided that if any such non-cash charge, write-down or item to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for potential cash items for a future period (A) Parent Guarantor may elect not to add back such non-cash charge in the current period and (B) to the extent Parent Guarantor elects to add back such non-cash charge, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period); plus

(f) the amount of any non-controlling interest or minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority Equity Interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary; plus

(g) the amount of fees, compensation and indemnities and expenses paid to members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Parent Entities; plus

 

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(h) the amount of (x) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to the Transactions generated from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Parent Guarantor) within 24 months after the Issue Date (including from any actions taken in whole or in part prior to the Issue Date), net the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions and (y) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to mergers and other business combinations, acquisitions, investments, dispositions, divestitures, restructurings, operating improvements, cost savings initiatives and other transactions or similar initiatives generated from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken (in each case, including prior to the Issue Date) or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Parent Guarantor) within 24 months after a merger or other business combination, acquisition, investment, disposition or divestiture is consummated or generated by actions (including restructurings, operating improvements, cost savings initiatives and other transactions or similar initiatives) that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Parent Guarantor), in each case, calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period, as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies were realized during the entirety of such period, net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (A) such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable in the good faith judgment of the Parent Guarantor and (B) no cost savings, operating expense reductions or synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause (h) to the extent duplicative of any synergies, expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period or any period; provided further that the aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to this clause (h)(y) shall not exceed an amount equal to 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the determination date (calculated before giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to this clause (h)(y) and excluding amounts in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act); plus

(i) any costs or expense incurred by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary or a Parent Entity of the Parent Guarantor to the extent paid by the Parent Guarantor pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement, or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Parent Guarantor or Net Cash Proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor solely to the extent that such Net Cash Proceeds are excluded from the calculation set forth in SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii) hereof; plus

(j) cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such receipts were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (2) below for any previous period and not added back; plus

 

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(k) any net losses, charges, expenses, costs or other payments (including all fees, expenses or charges related thereto) (i) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations, (ii) in respect of facilities no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries, abandoned, closed, disposed or discontinued operations and any losses on disposal of abandoned, closed or discontinued operations and (iii) attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions (other than in the ordinary course of business) as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor; plus

(l) 100% of the increase in the amount of long or short term deferred revenue of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP, as of the end of such period from the amount of long or short term deferred revenue of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP, as of the beginning of such period (or minus 100% of any such decrease); plus

(m) amortization of development advance payments which were made with the objective of increasing the number of clients or customers; plus

(n) the amount of net cost savings and net cash flow effect of revenue enhancements related to any binding new agreements or amendments to existing agreements with customers, projected by the Parent Guarantor in good faith to be realized as a result of specified actions taken or to be taken prior to or during such period (which cost savings or revenue enhancements shall be subject only to certification by management of the Parent Guarantor and shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings or revenue enhancements had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (A) such cost savings or revenue enhancements are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable, (B) such actions have been taken or are to be taken within 12 months after the date of determination to take such action and (C) no cost savings or revenue enhancements shall be added pursuant to this clause (n) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges relating to such cost savings or revenue enhancements that are included in clause (d) above with respect to such period; provided that the aggregate amount of add backs made relating to any binding new agreements or amendments to existing agreements with customers in respect of which no revenues have been received during such period pursuant to this clause (n) shall not exceed an amount equal to 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the determination date (without giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to this clause (n));

(2) decreased (without duplication) by the following, in each case to the extent included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period:

(a) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period so long as such cash did not increase Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period; plus

 

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(b) any net income from disposed, abandoned, closed or discontinued operations or attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions (other than in the ordinary course of business) as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor.

“Consolidated First Lien Secured Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) Consolidated Total Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes as of such date to (y) LTM EBITDA.

“Consolidated Interest Expense” means for any period, without duplication, the sum of:

(1) consolidated interest expense of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including (a) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (b) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers acceptances, (c) non-cash interest payments (but excluding any non-cash interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark to market valuation of any Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments pursuant to GAAP), (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, (e) net payments, if any, made (less net payments, if any, received) pursuant to interest rate Swap Obligations with respect to Indebtedness, and (f) cash interest expense of Indebtedness for which the proceeds are held in any escrow, trust, collateral or similar account or arrangement holding proceeds of Indebtedness (except, excluding the interest expense in respect thereof that is covered by such proceeds held into such escrow, trust, collateral or similar account or arrangement holding proceeds of Indebtedness), and excluding (i) costs associated with obtaining Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments, (ii) any expense resulting from the discounting of any Indebtedness in connection with the application of recapitalization accounting or, if applicable, purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any acquisition, (iii) penalties and interest relating to taxes, (iv) any “additional interest” or “liquidated damages” with respect to securities for failure to timely comply with registration rights obligations, (v) amortization or expensing of deferred financing fees, amendment and consent fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and discounted liabilities, (vi) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees relating to the Transactions or any acquisitions after the Issue Date, including annual agency fees paid pursuant to administrative agents and trustees under the Credit Agreement or other Credit Facilities, and (vii) any accretion of accrued interest on discounted liabilities and any prepayment premium or penalty; plus

(2) consolidated capitalized interest of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; less

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For purposes of this definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for any period, the net income (loss) of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis on the basis of GAAP; provided, however, that there will not be included in such Consolidated Net Income:

(1) any after-tax effect of extraordinary, non-recurring or unusual losses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), charges or expenses (including relating to any multi-year strategic initiatives), Transaction Expenses, restructuring and duplicative running costs, relocation costs, integration costs, facility consolidation and closing costs, severance costs and expenses, one-time compensation charges, costs and expenses for Permitted Tax Restructurings, costs relating to pre-opening and opening costs for facilities, signing, retention and completion bonuses, costs incurred in connection with strategic initiatives, transition costs, costs incurred in connection with acquisitions and non-recurring product and intellectual property development, other business optimization expenses (including costs and expenses relating to business optimization programs and new systems design, retention charges, system establishment costs and implementation costs) and operating expenses attributable to the implementation of cost-savings initiatives, and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans;

(2) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles and changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period;

(3) any net after-tax effect on gains or losses on disposal, abandonment or discontinuance of disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations, as applicable;

(4) any net after-tax effect of gains or losses (less all fees, expenses and charges relating thereto) attributable to asset dispositions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, bulk subscriber contract sales) or abandonments or the sale or other disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person other than in the ordinary course of business;

(5) the net income for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of Parent Guarantor, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments (other than Excluded Contributions) that are actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or to the extent converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period;

(6) any net income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Company or any Guarantor) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of its net income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule, or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or

 

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its stockholders (other than restrictions pursuant to this Indenture), unless such restriction with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions has been legally waived; provided that the Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or to the extent converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period, to the extent not already included therein (other than Excluded Contributions);

(7) [Reserved];

(8) any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or conversion of (i) Indebtedness, (ii) Swap Obligations or (iii) other derivate instruments;

(9) any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down, including impairment charges or asset write-offs or write-downs related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, investments in debt and equity securities and investments recorded using the equity method or as a result of a change in law or regulation, in each case, pursuant to GAAP, and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to GAAP;

(10) any equity-based or non-cash compensation charge or expense, including any such charge or expense arising from grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock, profits interests or other rights or equity or equity-based incentive programs (“equity incentives”), any one-time cash charges associated with equity incentives or other long-term incentive compensation plans, roll-over, acceleration, or payout of Capital Stock by management, other employees or business partners of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Parent Entities;

(11) any fees and expenses or charges incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any acquisition, recapitalization, Investment, disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness (including such fees, expenses or charges related to the issuance of the Notes, the Senior Secured Notes, the syndication and incurrence of loans under the Credit Agreement, the ABL Credit Agreement and other securities and the syndication and incurrence of any Credit Facility), issuance of Equity Interests, refinancing transaction or amendment or modification of any debt instrument (including any amendment or other modification of the Notes, the Senior Secured Notes, the Credit Agreement, the ABL Credit Agreement, other securities and any Credit Facility) and including, in each case, any such transaction consummated on or prior to the Issue Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed, and any charges or non-recurring merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such transaction, in each case whether or not successful or consummated (including, for avoidance of doubt, the effects of expensing all transaction-related expenses in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Codification No. 805);

(12) accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted within 12 months after the Issue Date that are so required to be established or adjusted as a result of the Transactions (or within twenty-four months after the closing of any acquisition that are so required to be established as a result of such acquisition) in accordance with GAAP or changes as a result of modifications of accounting policies; provided that amounts paid in respect of such accruals and reserves shall be deducted from Consolidated Net Income when paid in cash;

 

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(13) any expenses, charges or losses to the extent covered by insurance or indemnity and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Parent Guarantor has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer or indemnifying party and only to the extent that such amount is in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of the insurable or indemnifiable event (net of any amount so added back in any prior period to the extent not so reimbursed within the applicable 365-day period);

(14) any non-cash compensation expense resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 718;

(15) the following items:

(a) any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from Swap Obligations and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 815,

(b) any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from currency translation gains or losses including those related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including any net loss or gain resulting from Swap Obligations for currency exchange risk) and any other foreign currency translation gains and losses, to the extent such gains or losses are non-cash items,

(c) any adjustments resulting for the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 460, or any comparable regulation,

(d) effects of adjustments to accruals and reserves during a prior period relating to any change in the methodology of calculating reserves for returns, rebates and other chargebacks,

(e) earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, and

(f) restructuring-related or other similar charges, fees, costs, commissions and expenses or other charges incurred during such period in connection with this Indenture, the Bankruptcy Plan, and any and all transactions contemplated by the foregoing, including the write-off of any receivables, the termination or settlement of executory contracts, professional and accounting costs fees and expenses, management incentive, employee retention or similar plans (in each case to the extent such plan is approved by the Bankruptcy Court to the extent required), litigation costs and settlements, asset write-downs, income and gains recorded in connection with the corporate reorganization of the debtors under the Bankruptcy Plan;

(16) [Reserved];

 

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(17) if such Person is treated as a disregarded entity or partnership for U.S. federal, state and/or local income tax purposes for such period or any portion thereof, the amount of distributions actually made to any Parent Entity of such Person in respect of such period in accordance with SECTION 3.3(b)(9)(i) shall be included in calculating Consolidated Net Income as though such amounts had been paid as taxes directly by such Person for such period.

In addition, to the extent not already included in the Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall include the amount of proceeds received from business interruption insurance and reimbursements of any expenses and charges that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any acquisition, Investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted under this Indenture to the extent such expenses and charges reduced Consolidated Net Income.

“Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than Indebtedness with respect to Cash Management Services and intercompany Indebtedness), of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, minus (b) the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents included in the consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recent fiscal period for which internal financial statements of the Parent Guarantor are available with such pro forma adjustments as are consistent with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio” and as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor.

“Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) Consolidated Total Indebtedness as of such date to (y) Consolidated EBITDA of such Person for the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending immediately prior to such determination date for which internal consolidated financial statements are available. In the event that the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs, assumes, Guarantees, redeems, defeases, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced) or issues or redeems Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio is made (the “Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio Calculation Date”), then the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence, assumption, Guarantee, redemption, defeasance, retirement or extinguishment of Indebtedness, or such issuance or redemption of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.

For purposes of making the computation referred to above, any Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and disposed operations that have been made by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or simultaneously with the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio Calculation Date shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, amalgamations,

 

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consolidations and disposed or discontinued operations (and the change in any associated obligations and the change in Consolidated EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period. If since the beginning of such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged or amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or disposed or discontinued operation that would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or disposed operation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.

Notwithstanding anything in this definition or anything else to the contrary, when calculating the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio or Consolidated First Lien Secured Leverage Ratio, as applicable, in each case in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, (1) the date of determination of such ratio and of any condition requiring that no Default or Event of Default under this Indenture shall then exist shall, at the option of the Company, be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into; (2) such ratios shall be calculated on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they occurred at the beginning of the four-quarter reference period; (3) for the avoidance of doubt if any such ratios are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio (including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Guarantor or the target company) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant Limited Condition Acquisition, (x) such ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the Limited Condition Acquisition is permitted hereunder and (y) such ratios shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition or related transactions; and (4) if the Parent Guarantor elects to have such determinations occur at the time of entry into such definitive agreement, any such transaction shall be deemed to have occurred on the date the definitive agreements are entered and outstanding thereafter for purposes of subsequently calculating any ratios under this Indenture after the date of such agreement and before the consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition and to the extent baskets were utilized in satisfying any covenants, such baskets shall be deemed utilized, but any calculation of Total Assets or Consolidated Net Income for purposes of other incurrences of Indebtedness or Liens or making of Restricted Payments (not related to such Limited Condition Acquisition) shall not reflect such Limited Condition Acquisition until it is closed.

For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or chief accounting officer of the Company (including cost savings and synergies; provided that (x) such cost savings and synergies are reasonably identifiable, reasonably attributable to the action specified and reasonably anticipated to result from such actions and (y) such actions have been taken or initiated and the benefits resulting therefrom are anticipated by the Parent Guarantor. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into

 

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account any Swap Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness). Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. For purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed with a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period except as set forth in the first paragraph of this definition. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Company may designate.

“Contingent Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person guaranteeing in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, any operating lease, dividend or other obligation that does not constitute Indebtedness (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”), including any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent:

(1) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor;

(2) to advance or supply funds:

(a) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation; or

(b) to maintain the working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor; or

(3) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof.

“Controlled Investment Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person, which directly or indirectly is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person and is organized by such Person (or any Person controlling such Person) primarily for making direct or indirect equity or debt investments in the Parent Guarantor and/or other companies.

“Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of the Issue Date among the Company, as borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors party thereto from time to time, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto together with the related documents thereto (including the revolving loans thereunder, any letters of credit and reimbursement obligations related thereto, any Guarantees and security documents), as amended, extended, renewed, restated, refunded, replaced, refinanced, supplemented, modified or otherwise changed (in whole or in part, and without limitation as to amount, terms, conditions, covenants and other provisions) from time to time, and any one or more agreements (and related documents) governing Indebtedness, including indentures, incurred to refinance, substitute, supplement, replace or add to (including increasing

 

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the amount available for borrowing or adding or removing any Person as a borrower, issuer or guarantor thereunder, in whole or in part), the borrowings and commitments then outstanding or permitted to be outstanding under such Credit Agreement or one or more successors to the Credit Agreement or one or more new credit agreements.

“Credit Agreement Collateral Agent” means Citibank, N.A. in its capacity as collateral agent for the Credit Agreement Secured Parties.

“Credit Agreement Obligations” has the meaning assigned to the term “Obligations” in the Credit Agreement, together with any Refinancing thereof.

Credit Agreement Secured Parties” has the meaning ascribed to it in the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date.

“Credit Facility” means, with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities, indentures or other arrangements (commercial paper facilities and overdraft facilities) with banks, other financial institutions or investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, notes, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such institutions or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such institutions against such receivables), letters of credit or other Indebtedness, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, refinanced, repaid, increased or extended in whole or in part from time to time (and whether in whole or in part and whether or not with the original administrative agent and lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other banks or institutions and whether provided under the original Credit Agreement, the original ABL Agreement or one or more other credit or other agreements, indentures, financing agreements or otherwise) and in each case including all agreements, instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with the foregoing (including any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any Guarantee and collateral agreement, patent and trademark security agreement, mortgages or letter of credit applications and other Guarantees, pledges, agreements, security agreements and collateral documents). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Credit Facility” shall include any agreement or instrument (1) changing the maturity of any Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (2) adding Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder, (3) increasing the amount of Indebtedness Incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder or (4) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof.

“Credit Facility Documents” means the collective reference to any Credit Facility, any notes issued pursuant thereto and the guarantees thereof, and the collateral documents relating thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid, refinanced or otherwise modified, in whole or in part, from time to time.

“Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default; provided that any Default that results solely from the taking of an action that would have been permitted but for the continuation of a previous Default will be deemed to be cured if such previous Default is cured prior to becoming an Event of Default.

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“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor) of non-cash consideration received by the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Disposition that is so designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent payment, redemption, retirement, sale or other disposition of such Designated Non- Cash Consideration. A particular item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration will no longer be considered to be outstanding when and to the extent it has been paid, redeemed or otherwise retired or sold or otherwise disposed of in compliance with SECTION 3.5 hereof.

“Designated Preferred Stock” means, with respect to the Parent Guarantor, Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) (a) that is issued for cash (other than to the Parent Guarantor, the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Parent Guarantor or such Subsidiary) and (b) that is designated as “Designated Preferred Stock” pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate of the Parent Guarantor at or prior to the issuance thereof the Net Cash Proceeds of which are excluded from the calculation set forth in SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii) hereof.

“Disinterested Director” means, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction, a member of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor having no material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such Affiliate Transaction. A member of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor shall be deemed not to have such a financial interest by reason of such member’s holding Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any options, warrants or other rights in respect of such Capital Stock.

“Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event:

(1) matures or is mandatorily redeemable for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise; or

(2) is or may become (in accordance with its terms) upon the occurrence of certain events or otherwise redeemable or repurchasable for cash or in exchange for Indebtedness at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock in whole or in part,

in each case on or prior to the earlier of (a) the Stated Maturity of the Notes or (b) the date on which there are no Notes outstanding; provided, however, that (i) only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date will be deemed to be Disqualified Stock and (ii) any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale (howsoever defined or referred to) shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if any such redemption or repurchase obligation is subject to compliance by the relevant Person with SECTION 3.3 hereof; provided, however, that if such Capital Stock is issued to any future,

 

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current or former employee, director, officer, contractor or consultant (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Subsidiaries, any Parent Entity or any other entity in which the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary has an Investment and is designated in good faith as an “affiliate” (within the meaning of the Securities Act or Exchange Act) by the Board of Directors (or the compensation committee thereof) or any other plan for the benefit of current, former or future employees (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by the Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.

“Dollars” or “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

“Domestic Guarantor” means each Domestic Subsidiary that is a Guarantor.

“Domestic Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person other than a Foreign Subsidiary.

“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company or any successor securities clearing agency.

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).

“Equity Offering” means any public or private sale of Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any of its direct or indirect parent companies (excluding Disqualified Stock), other than:

(1) public offerings with respect to the Parent Guarantor’s or any direct or indirect parent company’s Capital Stock registered on Form S-4 or Form S-8;

(2) issuances to any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor; and

(3) any such public or private sale that constitutes an Excluded Contribution.

“Euro” means the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union.

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

 

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“Excluded Contract” means, at any date, any rights or interest of the Company or any Guarantor under any agreement, contract, license, instrument, document or other general intangible (referred to solely for purposes of this definition as a “Contract”) to the extent that such Contract by the terms of a restriction in favor of a Person who is not the Company or any Guarantor, or any requirement of law, prohibits, or requires any consent or establishes any other condition for or would terminate because of an assignment thereof or a grant of a security interest therein by the Company or a Guarantor; provided that (i) rights under any such Contract otherwise constituting an Excluded Contract by virtue of this definition shall be included in the Collateral to the extent permitted thereby or by Section 9-406 or Section 9-408 of the UCC and (ii) all proceeds paid or payable to any of the Company or any Guarantor from any sale, transfer or assignment of such Contract and all rights to receive such proceeds shall be included in the Collateral.

“Excluded Contribution” means Net Cash Proceeds or property or assets received by the Parent Guarantor as capital contributions to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Parent Guarantor after the Issue Date or from the issuance or sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Parent Guarantor, in each case, to the extent designated as an Excluded Contribution pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate of the Company delivered within 180 days of the date such capital contribution, issuance or sale.

“Excluded Equipment” means, at any date, any equipment or other assets of the Company or any Guarantor which is subject to, or secured by, a Capitalized Lease Obligation or a purchase money obligation if and to the extent that (i) a restriction in favor of a Person who is not the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor contained in the agreements or documents granting or governing such Capitalized Lease Obligation or purchase money obligation prohibits, or requires any consent or establishes any other conditions for or would result in the termination of such agreement or document because of an assignment thereof, or a grant of a security interest therein, by the Company or any Guarantor and (ii) such restriction relates only to the asset or assets acquired by the Company or any Guarantor with the proceeds of such Capitalized Lease Obligation or purchase money obligation and attachments thereto, improvements thereof or substitutions therefor; provided that all proceeds paid or payable to any of the Company or any Guarantor from any sale, transfer or assignment or other voluntary or involuntary disposition of such assets and all rights to receive such proceeds shall be included in the Collateral to the extent not otherwise required to be paid to the holder of any Capitalized Lease Obligations or purchase money obligations secured by such assets.

Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is not, directly or indirectly, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, (b) any Subsidiary of a Guarantor that does not have total assets in excess of 5.0% of Total Assets or 5.0% of revenues of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, in each case, individually or in the aggregate with all other Subsidiaries that are excluded pursuant to this clause (b), (c) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law or contractual obligations (other than any contractual obligation in favor of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) existing on the Issue Date (or, in the case of any newly acquired Subsidiary, in existence at the time of acquisition but not entered into in contemplation thereof) from guaranteeing the Senior Secured Notes Obligations or if guaranteeing the Senior Secured Notes

 

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Obligation would require governmental or regulatory consent, approval, license or authorization (unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been obtained), (d) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Parent Guarantor, the burden or cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Holders therefrom, (e) [reserved], (f) any not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (g) any Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (h) any Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary, (i) any Foreign Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Parent Guarantor, the burden or cost or other consequences (including any material adverse tax consequences) of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Holders therefrom, (j) [reserved], (k) any captive insurance subsidiaries, and (l) special purpose entities; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, “Excluded Subsidiary” shall not include (i) the Company, (ii) any Electing Guarantor for so long as such Electing Guarantor constitutes an Electing Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, or (iii) any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is a guarantor under any Credit Facility Documents or any Junior Priority Indebtedness.

“fair market value” may be conclusively established by means of an Officer’s Certificate or resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor setting out such fair market value as determined by such Officer or such Board of Directors in good faith.

FCC” means the Federal Communications Commission of the United States or any Governmental Authority succeeding to the functions of such commission in whole or in part.

FCC Authorizations” means all Broadcast Licenses and other licenses, permits and other authorizations issued by the FCC and held by Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries.

FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.

“First Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among the Company, as borrower, the other grantors party thereto, the Collateral Agent and the Credit Agreement Collateral Agent.

“First Priority Credit Obligations” means (i) any and all amounts payable under or in respect of any Credit Facility and the other Credit Facility Documents as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced, restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time (including after termination of the Credit Agreement), including principal, premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Parent Guarantor whether or not a claim for Post-Petition Interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, guarantees and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect of, in each case, to the extent secured by a Permitted Lien incurred or deemed incurred to secure Indebtedness under the Credit Facilities constituting First Priority Obligations pursuant to clause (19) and subclause (a) of the provision in clause (30) of the definition of “Permitted Liens,” and (ii) all other Obligations of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Swap Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash management services in each case owing to a Person that is a holder of Indebtedness described in clause (i) above or an Affiliate of such holder at the time of entry into such Swap Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash management services.

 

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“First Priority Liens” means all Liens that secure the First Priority Obligations.

“First Priority Notes Obligations” means all Obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under the Notes and the Collateral Documents.

“First Priority Obligations” means (a) all the Credit Agreement Obligations, (b) all the Senior Secured Notes Obligations and (c) all the Additional First Lien Obligations.

“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings, Inc. or any of its successors or assigns that is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.

“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of:

(1) Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for such Period;

(2) all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person during such period; and

(3) all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Stock during this period.

“Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that is not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and any Subsidiary of such Subsidiary.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that (i) if the Parent Guarantor notifies the Trustee that the Parent Guarantor elects to amend any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Issue Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision, regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective and (ii) GAAP shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under FASB ASC Topic 825 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries at “fair value,” as defined therein, and Indebtedness shall be measured at the aggregate principal amount thereof.

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, territory or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.

 

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“Guarantee” means, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person, including any such obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person:

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

(2) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation;

(3) entered into primarily for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); or

(4) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien);

provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” will not include (x) endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and (y) standard contractual indemnities or product warranties provided in the ordinary course of business, and provided further that the amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by such Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“Guarantor” means, collectively, (i) the Parent Guarantor, (ii) any Electing Guarantor, and (iii) any Restricted Subsidiary that Guarantees the Notes, until, in each case, such Note Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

“Holder” means each Person in whose name the Notes are registered on the Registrar’s books, which shall initially be the nominee of DTC.

iHeartCommunications Warrants” means the warrants issued by the Company to a Claimholder (as defined in the Bankruptcy Plan) on the Issue Date to purchase shares of common stock of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.

“iHeartMedia” means iHeartMedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

iHeart Operations” means iHeart Operations, Inc., a Delaware corporation, all of whose Capital Stock, other than Preferred Stock, is owned by the Company as of the Issue Date.

 

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“iHeart Operations Preferred Stock” means the Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of iHeart Operations issued to the holders thereof in accordance with the Bankruptcy Plan.

Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that, together with its consolidated Subsidiaries, does not have (i) revenues exceeding 15.0% of total revenues for the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or (ii) total assets exceeding 15.0% of Total Assets.

“Immediate Family Members” means, with respect to any individual, such individual’s child, stepchild, grandchild or more remote descendant, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, qualified domestic partner, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law (including adoptive relationships) and any trust, partnership or other bona fide estate-planning vehicle the only beneficiaries of which are any of the foregoing individuals or any private foundation or fund that is controlled by any of the foregoing individuals or any donor-advised fund of which any such individual is the donor.

“Incur” means issue, create, assume, enter into any Guarantee of, incur, extend or otherwise become liable for; provided, however, that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, amalgamation, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) will be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and the terms “Incurred” and “Incurrence” have meanings correlative to the foregoing and any Indebtedness pursuant to any revolving credit or similar facility shall only be “Incurred” at the time any funds are borrowed thereunder.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication):

(1) the principal of indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;

(2) the principal of obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

(3) all reimbursement obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds or other similar instruments (the amount of such obligations being equal at any time to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such letters of credit or other instruments plus the aggregate amount of drawings thereunder that have not been reimbursed) (except to the extent such reimbursement obligations relate to trade payables and such obligations are satisfied within 30 days of Incurrence);

(4) the principal component of all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property (except (i) trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any earn out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and (iii) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course), which purchase price is due more than one year after the date of placing such property in service or taking final delivery and title thereto;

 

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(5) Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person;

(6) the liquidation preference or the principal component of all obligations of such Person with respect to any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends and any obligations in respect of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock);

(7) the principal component of all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(8) Guarantees by such Person of the principal component of Indebtedness and the other clauses of this definition of other Persons to the extent Guaranteed by such Person;

(9) all Attributable Indebtedness; and

(10) net obligations of such Person under Swap Obligations;

if and to the extent that the foregoing would constitute indebtedness or a liability in accordance with GAAP; provided that Indebtedness of any direct or indirect parent of the Parent Guarantor appearing upon the balance sheet of Parent Guarantor solely by reason of push down accounting under GAAP shall be excluded.

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any time in the case of a revolving credit or similar facility shall be the total amount of funds borrowed and then outstanding. The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date shall be (a) the accreted value thereof in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount and (b) the principal amount of Indebtedness, or liquidation preference thereof, in the case of any other Indebtedness. Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 815 and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise expressly limited.

The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (7) of this definition shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.

 

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Notwithstanding the above provisions, in no event shall the following constitute Indebtedness:

(i) Contingent Obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, other than Guarantees or other assumptions of Indebtedness;

(ii) obligations under Cash Management Services;

(iii) any lease, concession or license of property (or Guarantee thereof) which would be considered an operating lease under GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date or any prepayments of deposits received from clients or customers in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(iv) obligations under any license, permit or other approval (or Guarantees given in respect of such obligations) incurred prior to the Issue Date or in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(v) in connection with the purchase by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of any business, any post-closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of such business after the closing; provided, however, that, at the time of closing, the amount of any such payment is not determinable and, to the extent such payment thereafter becomes fixed and determined, the amount is paid in a timely manner;

(vi) for the avoidance of doubt, any obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement or termination obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations or contributions or social security or wage Taxes;

(vii) amounts owed to dissenting stockholders in connection with, or as a result of, their exercise of appraisal rights and the settlement of any claims or action (whether actual, contingent or potential) with respect thereto (including any accrued interest), with respect to any consolidation, amalgamation, merger or transfer of assets that complies with ARTICLE IV;

(viii) Indebtedness of any Parent Entity appearing on the balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor solely by reason of push down accounting under GAAP; or

(ix) Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock).

“Indenture” means this Indenture, dated as of the Issue Date, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

“Independent Financial Advisor” means an investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm or a consultant to Persons engaged in Similar Businesses of national standing or any third party appraiser of national standing; provided, however, that such firm or appraiser is not an Affiliate of the Company.

“Initial Notes” has the meaning ascribed to it in the second introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

 

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Intellectual Property Security Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement.

“Intercreditor Agreements” means the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, and any intercreditor agreement with respect to Junior Priority Indebtedness on terms that are customary for such financings as determined by the Parent Guarantor in good faith reflecting the subordination of such Liens to the Liens securing the Notes and the Note Guarantees.

“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of advances, loans or other extensions of credit (other than advances or extensions of credit to customers, suppliers, directors, officers or employees of any Person in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, and excluding any debt or extension of credit represented by a bank deposit other than a time deposit) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or the Incurrence of a Guarantee of any obligation of, or any purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar instruments issued by, such other Persons and all other items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared on the basis of GAAP; provided, however, that endorsements of negotiable instruments and documents in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice will not be deemed to be an Investment. If the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary issues, sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital Stock of a Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect thereto, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, any Investment by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Person remaining after giving effect thereto will be deemed to be a new Investment at such time.

For purposes of SECTIONS 3.3 and 3.16 hereof:

(1) “Investment” will include the portion (proportionate to the Parent Guarantor’s Equity Interest in a Restricted Subsidiary to be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the fair market value of the net assets of such Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

(2) any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be valued at its fair market value at the time of such transfer, in each case as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor.

Investment Grade Securities” means:

(1) securities issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the United States or Canadian government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);

(2) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by a member of the European Union, the Japanese government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);

 

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(3) debt securities or debt instruments with a rating of “BBB” or higher from S&P or “Baa3” or higher by Moody’s or the equivalent of such rating by such rating organization or, if no rating of Moody’s or S&P then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any other Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organization, but excluding any debt securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries; and

(4) investments in any fund that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in clauses (1), (2) and (3) above which fund may also hold cash and Cash Equivalents pending investment or distribution.

“Investment Grade Status” shall occur when the Notes receive two of the following:

(1) a rating of “BBB-” or higher from S&P;

(2) a rating of “Baa3” or higher from Moody’s; or

(3) a rating of “BBB-” or higher from Fitch,

or the equivalent of such rating by either any rating organization or, if no rating of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch then exists, the equivalent of such rating by any other Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organization.

“Issue Date” means the date the Notes are first issued.

“Junior Priority Indebtedness” means other Indebtedness of the Company and/or the Guarantors that is secured by Liens on the Collateral ranking junior in priority to the Liens securing the Notes as permitted by this Indenture.

Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, constitutions, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes, common law and administrative or judicial precedents, orders, decrees, injunctions or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien, hypothecation or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof); provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.

“Limited Condition Acquisition” means any acquisition, including by means of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation, by the Parent Guarantor or one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the consummation of which is not conditioned upon the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing; provided that for purposes of determining compliance with SECTION 3.3 hereof, the Consolidated Net Income (and any other financial defined term derived therefrom) shall not include any Consolidated Net Income of or attributable to the target company or assets associated with any such Limited Condition Acquisition unless and until the closing of such Limited Condition Acquisition shall have actually occurred.

 

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Loan Documents” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Credit Agreement in effect as of the Issue Date, including with respect to any additional defined terms included in such definition.

“LTM EBITDA” means Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Guarantor measured for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor are available (which may be internal consolidated financial statements), in each case with such pro forma adjustments giving effect to such Indebtedness, acquisition or Investment, as applicable, since the start of such four quarter period and as are consistent with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio.”

“Management Advances” means loans or advances made to, or Guarantees with respect to loans or advances made to, directors, officers, employees, contractors or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates) of any Parent Entity, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary:

(1) in respect of travel, entertainment or moving related expenses Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; or

(2) not exceeding $15 million in the aggregate outstanding at any time for purposes of funding any such person’s purchase of Capital Stock (or similar obligations) of the Parent Guarantor, its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity or for any other purpose not described in clause (1) above.

“Material Real Property” means any fee owned Real Property located in the United States that is owned by the Company or any Guarantor with a fair market value in excess of $15,000,000 (at the Issue Date or, with respect to Real Property acquired after the Issue Date, at the time of acquisition, in each case, as reasonably estimated by the Company in good faith).

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any of its successors or assigns that is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.

Mortgage Policies” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral Requirement.”

Mortgaged Property” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral Requirement.”

Mortgages” means collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, hypothecs and mortgages made by the Company or any Guarantor in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Senior Secured Notes Secured Parties creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent with such terms and provisions as may be required by the applicable Laws of the relevant jurisdiction, and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to SECTION 12.12 or 12.14, in each case, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified.

 

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“Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization” means a nationally recognized statistical rating organization within the meaning of Rule 436 under the Securities Act.

“Net Available Cash” from an Asset Disposition means cash payments received (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise and net proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any securities received as consideration, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring person of Indebtedness or other obligations relating to the properties or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition or received in any other non-cash form) therefrom, in each case net of:

(1) all legal, accounting, investment banking, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses Incurred, and all Taxes paid, reasonably estimated to be actually payable or accrued as a liability under GAAP (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other Taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to the Parent Guarantor and after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing agreements), as a consequence of such Asset Disposition;

(2) all payments made on any Indebtedness which is secured by any assets subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon such assets, or which by applicable law be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Disposition;

(3) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders (other than any Parent Entity, the Parent Guarantor or any of its respective Subsidiaries) in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Disposition;

(4) the deduction of appropriate amounts required to be provided by the seller as a reserve, on the basis of GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition and retained by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Disposition; and

(5) any funded escrow established pursuant to the documents evidencing any such sale or disposition to secure any indemnification obligations or adjustments to the purchase price associated with any such Asset Disposition.

“Net Cash Proceeds,” with respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock, means the cash proceeds of such issuance or sale net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually Incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net of Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable as a result of such issuance or sale (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other Taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to the Parent Guarantor and after taking into account any available tax credit or deductions and any tax sharing agreements).

 

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“Non-Guarantor” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is not a Guarantor (other than the Company).

“Note Documents” means the Notes (including Additional Notes), the Note Guarantees, this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements.

“Notes” has the meaning ascribed to it in the second introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

“Notes Custodian” means the custodian with respect to the Global Notes (as appointed by DTC), or any successor Person thereto and shall initially be the Trustee.

“Obligations” means any principal, interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Parent Guarantor or any Guarantor whether or not a claim for Post-Petition Interest is allowed in such proceedings), penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, (1) the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Managing Director, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (a) of such Person or (b) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity, or (2) any other individual designated as an “Officer” for the purposes of this Indenture by the Board of Directors of such Person.

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of a Person by an Officer of such Person, who must be an executive officer, a financial officer, the treasurer or an accounting officer of such Person that meets the requirements set forth in this Indenture.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiaries.

“Parent Entity” means any direct or indirect parent of the Company.

Parent Entity Expenses” means:

(1) costs (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses) Incurred by any Parent Entity in connection with reporting obligations under or otherwise Incurred in connection with compliance with applicable laws, rules or regulations of any governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory body or stock exchange, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument relating to the Notes, the Guarantees or any other Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, including in respect of any reports filed or delivered with respect to the Securities Act or Exchange Act;

 

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(2) customary salary, bonus, severance, indemnity, insurance (including premiums therefor), other benefits and indemnification obligations of any Parent Entity owing to directors, officers, employees or other Persons under its articles, charter, by-laws, partnership agreement or other organizational documents or pursuant to written agreements with any such Person to the extent relating to the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries;

(3) obligations of any Parent Entity in respect of director and officer insurance (including premiums therefor) to the extent relating to the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries;

(4) (x) general corporate operating and overhead expenses, including professional fees and expenses and (y) other operational expenses of any Parent Entity related to the ownership or operation of the business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(5) expenses Incurred by any Parent Entity in connection with any offering, sale, conversion or exchange of Capital Stock or Indebtedness; and

(6) amounts to finance Investments that would otherwise be permitted to be made pursuant to SECTION 3.3 hereof if made by the Parent Guarantor; provided, that (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment, (B) such direct or indirect parent company shall, immediately following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Equity Interests) to be contributed to the capital of the Parent Guarantor or one of the Restricted Subsidiaries or (2) the merger, consolidation or amalgamation of the Person formed or acquired into the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent not prohibited by SECTION 4.1 hereof) in order to consummate such Investment, (C) such Parent Entity and its Affiliates (other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) receives no consideration or other payment in connection with such transaction except to the extent the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary could have given such consideration or made such payment in compliance with this Indenture and such consideration or other payment is included as a Restricted Payment under this Indenture, (D) any property received by the Parent Guarantor shall not increase amounts available for Restricted Payments pursuant to SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii) hereof and (E) such Investment shall be deemed to be made by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to another provision of this covenant or pursuant to the definition of “Permitted Investments.”

“Parent Guarantor” means iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Pari Passu Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor which ranks equally in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee, as applicable (without regard to whether such Indebtedness is secured or guaranteed).

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

“Permitted Asset Swap” means the concurrent purchase and sale or exchange of assets used or useful in a Similar Business or a combination of such assets and cash, Cash Equivalents between the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that any cash or Cash Equivalents received in excess of the value of any cash or Cash Equivalents sold or exchanged must be applied in accordance with SECTION 3.5 hereof.

 

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“Permitted Investment” means (in each case, by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries):

(1) Investments in (a) a Restricted Subsidiary (including the Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary) or the Parent Guarantor or (b) a Person (including the Capital Stock of any such Person) that will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary;

(2) Investments in another Person if such Person is engaged, directly or through entities that will be Restricted Subsidiaries, as of the date of the Investment, in any Similar Business and as a result of such Investment such other Person, in one transaction or a series of transactions, is merged, amalgamated, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its assets to, the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, and any Investment held by such Person;

(3) Investments in cash, Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;

(4) Investments in receivables owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary created or acquired in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(5) Investments in payroll, travel, entertainment, moving related and similar advances that are made in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(6) Management Advances;

(7) Investments received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice and owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable, in each case, of equivalent value held by the Parent Guarantor or any such Restricted Subsidiary, or as a result of foreclosure, perfection or enforcement of any Lien, or in satisfaction of judgments or pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement including upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of a debtor or otherwise with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default;

(8) Investments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a sale or other disposition of property or assets, including an Asset Disposition; provided that such Investments shall be pledged as Collateral to the extent the assets subject to such Asset Disposition constituted Collateral;

(9) Investments existing or pursuant to arrangements, agreements or instruments in effect on the Issue Date and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof; provided that the amount of any such Investment may not be increased except (a) as required by the terms of such Investment as in existence on the Issue Date or (b) as otherwise permitted under this Indenture;

(10) Swap Obligations, which transactions or obligations are Incurred in compliance with SECTION 3.2 hereof;

 

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(11) pledges or deposits with respect to leases or utilities provided to third parties in the ordinary course of business or Liens otherwise described in the definition of “Permitted Liens” or made in connection with Liens permitted under SECTION 3.6 hereof;

(12) any Investment to the extent made using Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) or Capital Stock of any Parent Entity as consideration, provided that any such Investment does not constitute or give rise to a Change of Control;

(13) any transaction to the extent constituting an Investment that is permitted by and made in accordance with SECTION 3.8(b) hereof (except those described in SECTIONS 3.8(b)(1), (3), (6), (7), (8), (9), (12) and (14) hereof);

(14) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or licenses or leases of intellectual property, in any case, in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with this Indenture;

(15) (i) Guarantees not prohibited by SECTION 3.2 hereof and (other than with respect to Indebtedness) guarantees, keepwells and similar arrangements in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) performance guarantees with respect to obligations that are permitted by this Indenture;

(16) Investments consisting of earnest money deposits required in connection with a purchase agreement, or letter of intent, or other acquisitions to the extent not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture;

(17) Investments of a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Issue Date or of an entity merged or amalgamated into the Parent Guarantor or merged or amalgamated into or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation;

(18) [Reserved];

(19) contributions to a “rabbi” trust for the benefit of employees or other grantor trust subject to claims of creditors in the case of a bankruptcy of the Parent Guarantor;

(20) Investments in joint ventures and Unrestricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate fair market value, when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause that are at the time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $100 million and 1.0% of Total Assets (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), plus the amount of any returns (including dividends, payments, interest, distributions, returns of principal, profits on sale, repayments, income and similar amounts) in respect of such Investments (without duplication for purposes of SECTION 3.3 hereof of any amounts applied pursuant to SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii) hereof) with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value; provided, however, that if any Investment pursuant to this clause is made in any Person that is not the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary at the

 

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date of the making of such Investment and such person becomes the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary after such date, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (1) or (2) above and shall cease to have been made pursuant to this clause for so long as such Person continues to be the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(21) additional Investments having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (21) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $375 million and 40.0% of LTM EBITDA (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), plus the amount of any returns (including dividends, payments, interest, distributions, returns of principal, profits on sale, repayments, income and similar amounts) in respect of such Investments (without duplication for purposes of SECTION 3.3 hereof of any amounts applied pursuant to SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii) hereof with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value; provided, however, that if any Investment pursuant to this clause is made in any Person that is not the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary at the date of the making of such Investment and such person becomes the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary after such date, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (1) or (2) above and shall cease to have been made pursuant for so long as such Person continues to be the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(22) any Investment in another Person if such Person is engaged in a Similar Business having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $100 million and 10.0% of LTM EBITDA (with the fair market value of each Investment being measured at the time made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value);

(23) [Reserved];

(24) [Reserved;]

(25) repurchases of Notes;

(26) [Reserved];

(27) transactions entered into in order to consummate a Permitted Tax Restructuring;

(28) guaranty and indemnification obligations arising in connection with surety bonds issued in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(29) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of assets or services made in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, in connection with obtaining, maintaining or renewing client, customer and provider contracts and loans or advances, extensions of credit or prepayments made to, and guarantees with respect to obligations of, suppliers, lessors, licensors, licensees, distributors, advisors, hosts and producers in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

 

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(30) Investments in prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers compensation, performance and similar deposits entered into as a result of the operations of the business in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(31) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of UCC Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and Article 4 customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices; and

(32) any other Investment so long as, immediately after giving pro forma effect to the Investment and the Incurrence of any Indebtedness the net proceeds of which are used to make such Investment, the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 4.75 to 1.00.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Broadcast Licenses, Broadcast Stations or material intellectual property or other material property or asset necessary at such time to the operation of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are, in each of the foregoing cases, owned by a Guarantor, may be contributed as an Investment or otherwise, whether directly or indirectly or by one or more transactions, by any Guarantor to any Person that is not a Guarantor.

“Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any Person:

(1) Liens on assets or property of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not the Company or a Guarantor securing Indebtedness and other Obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not the Company or a Guarantor;

(2) pledges, deposits or Liens under workmen’s compensation laws, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance laws, social security laws or similar legislation, or in connection with bids, tenders, completion guarantees (other than for borrowed money), contracts (other than for borrowed money) or leases, or to secure utilities, licenses, public or statutory obligations, or to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, government contracts and leases, statutory obligations, surety, stay, indemnity, judgment, customs, appeal or performance bonds, guarantees of government contracts, return-of-money bonds, bankers’ acceptance facilities (or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations), obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments that have been posted to support the same, or as security for contested taxes or import or customs duties or for the payment of rent, or other obligations of like nature, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(3) Liens imposed by law, including carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, construction contractors’ or other like Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more than 60 days or that are bonded or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review if, in each case, adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(4) Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges which are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

(5) encumbrances, charges, ground leases, easements (including reciprocal easement agreements), survey exceptions, restrictions, encroachments, protrusions, by-law, regulation, zoning restrictions or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances) as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries or to the ownership of their properties, which do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(6) Liens (a) on assets or property of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary securing Swap Obligations or Cash Management Services permitted under this Indenture; (b) that are contractual rights of set-off or, in the case of clause (i) or (ii) below, other bankers’ Liens (i) relating to treasury, depository and cash management services or any automated clearing house transfers of funds in the ordinary course of business and not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (c) encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice and not for speculative purposes; and/or (d) (i) of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the UCC on items in the course of collection and (ii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the maintenance of such accounts and (iii) arising under customary general terms of the account bank in relation to any bank account maintained with such bank and attaching only to such account and the products and proceeds thereof;

(7) leases, licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets (including real property and intellectual property rights), in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(8) Liens securing or otherwise arising out of judgments, decrees, attachments, orders or awards not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as (a) any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment, decree, order or award have not been finally terminated, (b) the period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired or (c) no more than 60 days have passed after (i) such judgment, decree, order or award has become final or (ii) such period within which such proceedings may be initiated has expired;

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(10) Liens perfected or evidenced by UCC financing statement filings, including precautionary UCC financing statements, (or similar filings in other applicable jurisdictions) regarding operating leases entered into by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(11) Liens existing on the Issue Date, excluding Liens securing the Credit Agreement and the ABL Credit Agreement;

(12) Liens on property, other assets or shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (or at the time the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary acquires such property, other assets or shares of stock, including any acquisition by means of a merger, amalgamation, consolidation or other business combination transaction with or into the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary); provided, however, that such Liens are not created, Incurred or assumed in anticipation of or in connection with such other Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary (or such acquisition of such property, other assets or stock); provided, further, that such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property, other assets or stock (plus improvements, accession, proceeds or dividends or distributions in connection with the original property, other assets or stock) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which such Liens arose, could secure) the obligations to which such Liens relate;

(13) Liens on assets or property of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary securing Indebtedness or other obligations of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary, or Liens in favor of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(14) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance Indebtedness that was previously so secured, and permitted to be secured under this Indenture; provided that any such Lien is limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure) the Indebtedness or other Obligations being refinanced or is in respect of property that is or could be the security for or subject to a Permitted Lien hereunder;

(15) (a) mortgages, liens, security interests, restrictions, encumbrances or any other matters of record that have been placed by any government, statutory or regulatory authority, developer, landlord or other third party on property over which the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor has easement rights or on any leased property and subordination or similar arrangements relating thereto and (b) any condemnation or eminent domain proceedings affecting any real property;

(16) any encumbrance or restriction (including put and call arrangements) with respect to Capital Stock of any joint venture or similar arrangement pursuant to any joint venture or similar agreement;

(17) Liens on property or assets under construction (and related rights) in favor of a contractor or developer or arising from progress or partial payments by a third party relating to such property or assets;

 

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(18) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, hire purchase, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(19) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred under Credit Facilities, including any letter of credit facility relating thereto, that was permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be Incurred pursuant to SECTIONS 3.2(b)(1) or 3.2(b)(14) hereof;

(20) Liens securing Indebtedness and other Obligations under SECTION 3.2(b)(5) hereof; provided that such Liens shall only be permitted if (x) such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property or assets, including Capital Stock (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof, or replacements of any thereof) acquired, or of any Person acquired or merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, in any transaction to which such Indebtedness or other Obligation relates and (y) on the date of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness after giving effect to such Incurrence, the Consolidated First Lien Secured Leverage Ratio would equal or be less than the Consolidated First Lien Secured Leverage Ratio immediately prior to giving effect thereto;

(21) Liens securing Indebtedness and other Obligations under SECTION 3.2(b)(7), (10) and (14);

(22) any security granted over the marketable securities portfolio described in clause (8) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents” in connection with the disposal thereof to a third party;

(23) Liens on (i) goods the purchase price of which is financed by a documentary letter of credit issued for the account of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or Liens on bills of lading, drafts or other documents of title arising by operation of law or pursuant to the standard terms of agreements relating to letters of credit, bank guarantees and other similar instruments and (ii) specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

(24) Liens on equipment of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(25) Liens on assets or securities deemed to arise in connection with and solely as a result of the execution, delivery or performance of contracts to sell such assets or securities if such sale is otherwise permitted by this Indenture;

(26) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof to secure premiums thereunder, and Liens, pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for premiums or reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefits of) insurance carriers;

(27) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

 

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(28) Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to Permitted Investments to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment, and (ii) consisting of an agreement to sell any property in an asset sale permitted under SECTION 3.5, in each case, solely to the extent such Investment or asset sale, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;

(29) Liens securing Indebtedness and other Obligations in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (a) $300 million and (b) 30.0% of LTM EBITDA at any one time outstanding;

(30) Liens Incurred to secure Obligations in respect of any Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2; provided that (a) in the case of Liens Incurred pursuant to this clause (30) securing Indebtedness constituting First Priority Obligations, at the time of Incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto, the Consolidated First Lien Secured Leverage Ratio would be no greater than 4.50 to 1.00 and the holders of such Indebtedness or their duly appointed agent, shall become a party to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (b) in the case of Liens Incurred pursuant to this clause (30) securing any Junior Priority Indebtedness, the holders of such Junior Priority Indebtedness, or their duly appointed agent, shall become a party to an Intercreditor Agreement with the Collateral Agent on terms that are customary for such financings as determined by the Parent Guarantor in good faith reflecting the subordination of such Liens to the Liens securing the Notes and Note Guarantees;

(31) [Reserved];

(32) Liens securing any Obligations in respect of the Notes issued on the Issue Date or this Indenture, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Additional Notes;

(33) rights of recapture of unused real property in favor of the seller of such property set forth in customary purchase agreements and related arrangements with any government, statutory or regulatory authority;

(34) the rights reserved to or vested in any Person or government, statutory or regulatory authority by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit held by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or by a statutory provision, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or periodic payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;

(35) Liens arising in connection with any Permitted Tax Restructuring;

(36) [Reserved];

(37) Liens on Capital Stock or other securities or assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that secure Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

(38) (a) any Lien permitted to remain outstanding under the Bankruptcy Plan and (b) any Lien arising in connection with the Transactions.

 

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For purposes of this definition, the term Indebtedness shall be deemed to include interest on such Indebtedness including interest which increases the principal amount of such Indebtedness. In the event that a Permitted Lien meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Permitted Liens (at the time of incurrence or at a later date), the Company in its sole discretion may divide, classify or from time to time reclassify all or any portion of such Permitted Lien in any manner that complies with this Indenture and such Permitted Lien shall be treated as having been made pursuant only to the clause or clauses of the definition of “Permitted Lien” to which such Permitted Lien has been classified or reclassified.

Permitted Tax Distribution” means, if and for so long as the Parent Guarantor is a member (or disregarded from a member for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of a group filing a consolidated or combined tax return with any Parent Entity, any dividends or other distributions to fund (a) any income Taxes for which such Parent Entity is liable up to an amount not to exceed with respect to such Taxes the amount of any such Taxes that the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries would have been required to pay on a separate company basis or on a consolidated basis calculated as if the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries had paid Tax on a consolidated, combined, group, affiliated or unitary basis on behalf of an affiliated group consisting only of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries or (b) franchise or similar non-income Taxes of such Parent Entity that are required either (i) in order to maintain its corporate existence under applicable law or (ii) to comply with applicable tax law.

Permitted Tax Restructuring” means any reorganizations and other activities entered into after the Issue Date among the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the purpose of tax planning and optimizing the tax payments of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that:

(a) after giving effect to any such reorganization and other activities (i) the priority and perfection of the Liens on the Collateral shall be maintained for the benefit of the Holders as in effect prior to such reorganizations and other activities and as required under the Note Documents, (ii) any outstanding Lien that is required to be created pursuant to the terms of the Note Documents shall not be terminated or subordinated, (iii) security interests of the Holders shall not be impaired and (iv) no intervening Lien shall be created, incurred or assumed that would directly or indirectly be adverse to the Holders, in their capacities as such;

(b) after giving effect to such Permitted Tax Restructuring, each of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries otherwise comply with Section 6.11 of the Credit Agreement, as in effect as of the Issue Date (or as otherwise amended in accordance with the terms thereof) and SECTION 3.7(a)(ii) of this Indenture;

(c) to the extent that any Permitted Tax Restructuring would, directly or indirectly, in one step or a series of steps, (i) transfer or dispose of assets or Equity Interests from the Company or any Guarantor to a Non-Guarantor or (ii) merge or consolidate the Company or any Guarantor into a Non-Guarantor, then the Parent Guarantor shall cause such a Non-Guarantor to sell, assign, convey or otherwise transfer any assets or equity received in any such transaction to a Guarantor, cause such a Non-Guarantor to merge or consolidate with and into a Guarantor or otherwise cause such transfer or merger or consolidation to be reversed or unwound as soon as reasonably practicable but in no event more than 60 days after such transaction, and cause the applicable Subsidiary to comply with the terms of Section 6.11 of the Credit Agreement, as in effect as of the Issue Date (or as otherwise amended in accordance with the terms thereof) and SECTION 3.7(a)(ii) of this Indenture; and

 

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(d) for the avoidance of doubt, no such Permitted Tax Restructuring may allow the incurrence of, and neither the Parent Guarantor nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may incur, Indebtedness other than Indebtedness permitted hereunder (other than intercompany Indebtedness which is otherwise repaid).

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

Pledged Debt” means, collectively, (a) “Pledged Debt” (as defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement) and (b) any other Collateral constituting “Pledged Debt,” “Receivables,” “Intercompany Debt Documents” or terms of similar import (as defined in any other Collateral Document).

Pledged Equity” means, collectively, (a) “Pledged Equity” (as defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement) and (b) any other Collateral consisting of Equity Interests. For the avoidance of doubt, Pledged Equity shall not include any Equity Interests included in the definition of “Excluded Assets” (as defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement).

“Post-Petition Interest” means any interest or entitlement to fees or expenses or other charges that accrue after the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

“Preferred Stock,” as applied to the Capital Stock of any Person, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of such Person.

“Purchase Money Obligations” means any Indebtedness Incurred to finance or refinance the acquisition, leasing, construction or improvement of property (real or personal) or assets (including Capital Stock), and whether acquired through the direct acquisition of such property or assets or the acquisition of the Capital Stock of any Person owning such property or assets, or otherwise.

“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned or leased by any Person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.

“refinance” means refinance, refund, replace, renew, repay, modify, restate, defer, substitute, supplement, reissue, resell, extend or increase (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism) and the terms “refinances,” “refinanced” and “refinancing” as used for any purpose in this Indenture shall have a correlative meaning.

 

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“Refinancing Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that is Incurred to refund, refinance, replace, exchange, renew, repay or extend (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism) any Indebtedness (or unutilized commitment in respect of Indebtedness) existing on the Issue Date or Incurred (or established) in compliance with this Indenture (including Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary) including Indebtedness that refinances Refinancing Indebtedness, and Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to a commitment that refinances any Indebtedness or unutilized commitment; provided, however, that:

(1) to the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness refinances Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, such Refinancing Indebtedness is Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, and in the case of Subordinated Indebtedness, is subordinated to the Notes on terms at least as favorable to the Holders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being refinanced.

(2) Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include:

(i) Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is not the Company or a Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or a Guarantor; or

(ii) Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; and

(3) such Refinancing Indebtedness has an aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding (plus customary fees and expenses, including premiums, accrued and unpaid interest, and defeasance costs) under the Indebtedness being Refinanced, plus (y) an amount equal to any unutilized commitment relating to the Indebtedness being refinanced or otherwise then outstanding under a Credit Facility or other financing arrangement being refinanced to the extent the unutilized commitment being refinanced could be drawn in compliance with SECTION 3.2 immediately prior to such refinancing, plus (z) fees, underwriting discounts, accrued and unpaid interest, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees and similar fees) Incurred or payable in connection with such refinancing;

provided, that clause (1) above will not apply to any extension, replacement, refunding, refinancing, renewal or defeasance of any Credit Facilities. Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Credit Facility or any other Indebtedness may be incurred from time to time after the termination, discharge or repayment of any such Credit Facility or other Indebtedness.

 

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“Restricted Investment” means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

“S&P” means Standard& Poor’s Investors Ratings Services or any of its successors or assigns that is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any arrangement providing for the leasing by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any real or tangible personal property, which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary to a third Person in contemplation of such leasing.

“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.

“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness secured by a Lien other than Indebtedness with respect to Cash Management Services.

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

Senior Notes” means the Company’s 8.375% Senior Notes due 2027 to be issued on the Issue Date under an indenture, by and among the Company, the Parent Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee.

“Senior Secured Notes Obligations” means the “Secured Obligations” as such term is defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement.

“Senior Secured Notes Secured Parties” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement.

“Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement” means the security agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among the Parent Guarantor, the Company, the other Guarantors party thereto, the Collateral Agent and the other parties thereto, as amended, restated, amended and restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning set forth in the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement.

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02(w)(2) of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.

“Similar Business” means (a) any businesses, services or activities engaged in by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or any Associates on the Issue Date and (b) any businesses, services and activities engaged in by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries or any Associates that are related, complementary, incidental, ancillary or similar to any of the foregoing or are extensions or developments of any thereof.

 

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“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision, but shall not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.

“Subordinated Indebtedness” means, with respect to any person, any Indebtedness which is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or any Note Guarantee pursuant to a written agreement.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person:

(1) any corporation, association, or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity) of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof; or

(2) any partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity of which:

(a) more than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general or limited partnership interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise; and

(b) such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means any Guarantor other than the Parent Guarantor.

Swap” means, any agreement, contract, or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

 

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Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation to pay or perform under any Swap.

“Taxes” means all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, duties and withholdings and any charges of a similar nature (including interest, penalties and other liabilities with respect thereto) that are imposed by any government or other taxing authority.

Tax Matters Agreement” means the tax matters agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, by and among iHeartMedia, the Company, iHeart Operations, Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., as amended from time to time.

“Total Assets” means, as of any date, the total consolidated assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, determined on a pro forma basis in a manner consistent with the pro forma basis contained in the definition of “Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio.”

“Transaction Expenses” means any fees or expenses incurred or paid by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions, this Indenture and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, to be paid on, prior or subsequent to the Issue Date.

“Transactions” means the transactions contemplated by or in connection with the Bankruptcy Plan or necessary to effectuate the Bankruptcy Plan, including, without limitation, (i) the borrowing of Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement and the use of proceeds therefrom, the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents entered into in each case, as of the Issue Date on the Issue Date, and (ii) the issuance of the Notes, the Senior Secured Notes, in each case, as of the Issue Date, (iii) the issuance of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock and the execution and delivery of the documents relating to that preferred stock in each case, as of the Issue Date, (iv) the separation of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries from iHeartMedia, (v) the borrowing of loans under the ABL Credit Agreement and the execution and delivery of the ABL Documents (as defined in the Credit Agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date), in each case as of the Issue Date, (vi) the payment of the Transaction Expenses, (vii) the execution, delivery and performance of the Tax Matters Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, any employee matters agreement, or other agreement as contemplated by the Bankruptcy Plan, (viii) any and all transactions referred to in Bankruptcy Plan or necessary to effectuate the Bankruptcy Plan, (ix) the issuance of the iHeartCommunications Warrants, and (x) in each case, the other transactions contemplated by or entered into in connection with the foregoing clauses (i) through (ix).

“Transition Services Agreement” means the transition services agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, by and among iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., iHeartMedia, the Company and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., as amended from time to time.

 

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“Trustee” means U.S. Bank National Association in its capacity as “Trustee” under this Indenture or any successor or assign thereto in such capacity.

“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture.

“Trust Officer” shall mean, when used with respect to the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, any vice president, assistant vice president, any trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee, within the corporate trust department of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee), who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that at any time, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of a collateral agent’s security interest in any item or portion of the collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, at such time, in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or priority and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means:

(1) any Subsidiary (other than the Parent Guarantor, the Company or any direct or indirect parent entity of the Company) of the Parent Guarantor that at the time of determination is an Unrestricted Subsidiary (as designated by the Company in the manner provided herein); and

(2) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

As of the Issue Date, there are no Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor.

“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities that are (1) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (2) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally Guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuers thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligations evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

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“Voting Stock” of a Person means all classes of Capital Stock of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled to vote in the election of directors.

“Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary” means a Domestic Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares or shares required by any applicable law or regulation to be held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or another Domestic Subsidiary) is owned by the Parent Guarantor or another Domestic Subsidiary.

“Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary” of any specified Person means a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares) will at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries of such Person.

SECTION 1.2. Other Definitions.

 

Terms

  

Defined in Section

Affiliate Transaction    3.8(a)
Agent Members    2.1(g)(2)
Approved Foreign Bank    “Cash Equivalents”
Asset Disposition Offer    3.5(b)
Authenticating Agent    2.2
Bankruptcy provisions    6.1(a)(5)
Change of Control Offer    3.9(a)
Change of Control Payment Date    3.9(a)(2)
Company Order    2.2
Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio Calculation Date    “Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio”
Covenant Defeasance    8.3
cross acceleration provision    6.1(a)(4)(ii)
Defaulted Interest    2.15
Event of Default    6.1
Excess Proceeds    3.5(b)
Global Notes    2.1(b)
Guaranteed Obligations    10.1
Initial Agreement    3.4(b)(16)
judgment default provisions    6.1(a)(7)
Legal Defeasance    8.2
Legal Holiday    13.7
New Restricted Subsidiary    3.7(a)
Note Guarantee    10.1
Notes Register    2.3
payment default    6.1(a)(4)(i)
Permitted Payments    3.3(b)
protected purchaser    2.11
Refunding Capital Stock    3.3(b)(2)

 

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Restricted Payment    3.3(a)(4)
Reversion Date    3.15(b)
Special Interest Payment Date    2.15(a)
Special Record Date    2.15(a)
Successor Company    4.1(a)(1)
Security default provisions    6.1(a)(10)
Collateral Document Order    12.8(s)
Suspended Covenants    3.15(a)
Suspension Period    3.15(b)
Unrestricted Global Note    2.1(b)

SECTION 1.3. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated in and made part of this Indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act terms have the following meanings:

indenture securities” means the Notes and the Guarantees.

indenture security holder” means a holder.

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

obligor” on the indenture securities means each of the Company and the Guarantors and any other obligor on the Notes.

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

SECTION 1.4. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) a term has the meaning ascribed to it;

(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning ascribed to it in accordance with GAAP;

(3) “of” is not exclusive;

(4) “including” means including without limitation;

(5) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;

(6) “will” shall be interpreted to express a command;

 

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(7) all amounts expressed in this Indenture or in any of the Notes in terms of money refer to the lawful currency of the United States of America;

(8) 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; and

(9) unless otherwise specifically indicated, the term “consolidated” with respect to any Person refers to such Person consolidated with its Restricted Subsidiaries, and excludes from such consolidation any Unrestricted Subsidiary as if such Unrestricted Subsidiary were not an Affiliate of such Person.

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

SECTION 2.1. Form, Dating and Terms.

(a) The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof will be in an aggregate principal amount of $799,999,940. In addition, the Company may issue, from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, Additional Notes (as provided herein). Furthermore, Notes may be authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer, exchange or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to SECTIONS 2.2, 2.6, 2.11, 2.13, 5.6 or 9.5, in connection with an Asset Disposition Offer pursuant to SECTION 3.5 or in connection with a Change of Control Offer pursuant to SECTION 3.9.

With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in (i) an Officer’s Certificate or (ii) one or more indentures supplemental hereto, the following information:

(A) the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture; and

(B) the issue price and the issue date of such Additional Notes, including the date from which interest shall accrue.

In authenticating and delivering Additional Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel and Officer’s Certificate required by SECTION 13.4, an Opinion of Counsel as to the validity and enforceability of such Additional Notes.

The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes shall be considered collectively as a single class for all purposes of this Indenture. Holders of the Initial Notes and the Additional Notes will vote and consent together on all matters to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent as one class, and none of the Holders of the Initial Notes and the Additional Notes shall have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent; provided that if the Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes and other Additional Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such Additional Notes shall bear a separate CUSIP number.

 

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(b) The Initial Notes shall be issued in the form of a permanent global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A, which is hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture, including the legend set forth in SECTION 2.1(e) (“Unrestricted Global Note”), deposited with the Notes Custodian, as custodian for DTC, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The Unrestricted Global Note may be represented by more than one certificate, if so required by DTC’s rules regarding the maximum principal amount to be represented by a single certificate. The aggregate principal amount of the Unrestricted Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Notes Custodian, as custodian for DTC or its nominee, as hereinafter provided. Any Unrestricted Global Note and other global Notes issued under this Indenture shall be sometimes referred to as a “Global Note.”

Additional Notes may be offered and sold by the Company from time to time pursuant to one or more purchase agreements in accordance with applicable law, with the understanding that the Company may only sell Additional Notes to the extent they may be Incurred under SECTION 3.2.

The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of Paying Agent designated by the Company maintained for such purpose (which shall initially be the office of the Trustee maintained for such purpose), or at such other office or agency of the Company as may be maintained for such purpose pursuant to SECTION 2.3; provided, however, that, at the option of the Paying Agent, each installment of interest may be paid by (i) check mailed to addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear on the Notes Register or (ii) wire transfer to an account located in the United States maintained by the payee, subject to the last sentence of this paragraph. Payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by DTC. Payments in respect of Notes represented by Definitive Notes (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) held by a Holder of at least $1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by Definitive Notes will be made in accordance with the Notes Register or by wire transfer to a Dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 15 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).

The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage, in addition to those set forth on Exhibit A and in SECTION 2.1(e). The Company shall approve any notation, endorsement or legend on the Notes. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to be bound by such terms.

(c) Denominations. The Notes shall be in minimum denominations of $100.00 and integral multiples of $1.00.

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(e) Global Note Legend.

Each Global Note, whether or not an Initial Note, shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:

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

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

(f) [Reserved].

(g) Book Entry Provisions. This SECTION 2.1(g) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with the Notes Custodian, as custodian for DTC.

(1) Each Global Note initially shall (x) be registered in the name of DTC or the nominee of DTC, (y) be delivered to the Notes Custodian for DTC and (z) bear legends as set forth in SECTION 2.1(e). Transfers of a Global Note (but not a beneficial interest therein) will be limited to transfers thereof in whole, but not in part, to DTC, its successors or its respective nominees, except as set forth in SECTION 2.1(g)(4) and 2.1(h). If a beneficial interest in a Global Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Notes Custodian will (x) record a decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note being transferred or exchanged equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (y) record a like increase in the principal amount of the other Global Note. Any beneficial interest in one Global Note that is transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in another Global Note, or exchanged for an interest in another Global Note, will, upon transfer or exchange, cease to be an interest in such Global Note and become an interest in the other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject to all transfer and exchange restrictions, if any, and other procedures applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Note for as long as it remains such an interest.

 

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(2) Members of, or participants in, DTC (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by DTC or by the Notes Custodian as the custodian of DTC or under such Global Note, and DTC may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note 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 DTC or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of DTC governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

(3) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interest in a Global Note pursuant to SECTION 2.1(h) to beneficial owners who are required to hold Definitive Notes, the Notes Custodian shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more Definitive Notes of like tenor and amount.

(4) In connection with the transfer of an entire Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to SECTION 2.1(h), such Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to each beneficial owner identified by DTC in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations.

(5) The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

(6) Any Holder of a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such Global Note, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Note may be effected only through a book entry system maintained by (i) the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent) or (ii) any holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Note, and that ownership of a beneficial interest in such Global Note shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.

(h) Definitive Notes. Except as provided below, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes will not be entitled to receive Definitive Notes. Definitive Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note if (A) DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Global Note or DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, at a time when DTC is required to be so registered in order to act as Depositary, and in each case the Company fail to appoint a successor depositary within 90 days of such notice or (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Notes under this Indenture and DTC shall have requested in writing the issuance of Definitive Notes. In the event

 

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of the occurrence of any of the events specified in the second preceding sentence or in clause (A) or (B) of the preceding sentence, the Company shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes. In addition, any Note transferred to an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or evidencing a Note that has been acquired by an affiliate in a transaction or series of transactions not involving any public offering must, until one year after the last date on which either the Company or any affiliate of the Company was an owner of the Note, be in the form of a Definitive Note and bear a legend regarding transfer restrictions. If required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or regulation, beneficial owners may also obtain Definitive Notes in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note upon written request in accordance with DTC’s and the Registrar’s procedures.

(1) [Reserved].

(2) If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Trustee will (x) cancel such Definitive Note, (y) record an increase in the principal amount of such Global Note equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (z) in the event that such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to the transferring Holder a new Definitive Note representing the principal amount not so transferred.

(3) If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for another Definitive Note, (x) the Trustee will cancel the Definitive Note being transferred or exchanged, (y) the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more new Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange to the transferee (in the case of a transfer) or the Holder of the canceled Definitive Note (in the case of an exchange), registered in the name of such transferee or Holder, as applicable, and (z) if such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, one or more Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the untransferred or unexchanged portion of the canceled Definitive Notes, registered in the name of the Holder thereof.

(4) [Reserved].

SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication. One Officer of the Company shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual, facsimile or PDF signature. If the Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.

A Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually authenticates the Note. The signature of the Trustee on a Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Note has been duly and validly authenticated and issued under this Indenture. A Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery: (1) Initial Notes for original issue on the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount of $799,999,940 and (2) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Notes for original issue in an unlimited principal amount, in each case upon a written order of the Company signed by one Officer (the “Company Order”). Such Company Order shall specify whether the Notes will be in the form of Definitive Notes or Global Notes, the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be authenticated, the holder of the Notes and whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes or Additional Notes.

The Trustee may appoint an agent (the “Authenticating Agent”) reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Notes. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Company. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, any such Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by the Authenticating Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands.

In case the Company or any Guarantor, pursuant to ARTICLE IV or SECTION 10.2, as applicable, shall be consolidated or merged with or into any other Person or shall convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the successor Person resulting from such consolidation, or surviving such merger, or into which the Company or any Guarantor shall have been merged, or the Person which shall have received a conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition as aforesaid, shall have executed an indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee pursuant to ARTICLE IV, any of the Notes authenticated or delivered prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition may (but shall not be required), from time to time, at the request of the successor Person, be exchanged for other Notes executed in the name of the successor Person with such changes in phraseology and form as may be appropriate to reflect such successor Person, but otherwise in substance of like tenor as the Notes surrendered for such exchange and of like principal amount; and the Trustee, upon the Company Order of the successor Person, shall authenticate and make available for delivery Notes as specified in such order for the purpose of such exchange. If Notes shall at any time be authenticated and delivered in any new name of a successor Person pursuant to this SECTION 2.2 in exchange or substitution for or upon registration of transfer of any Notes, such successor Person, at the option of the Holders but without expense to them, shall provide for the exchange of all Notes at the time outstanding for Notes authenticated and delivered in such new name.

SECTION 2.3. Registrar and Paying Agent. The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”) and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange (the “Notes Register”). The Company may have one or more co registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent and the term “Registrar” includes any co registrar.

 

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The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of each such agent. If the Company fail to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to SECTION 7.7. The Company or any Guarantor may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or transfer agent.

The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes. The Company initially appoints the Trustee as the Registrar and Paying Agent for the Notes and the Company may remove any Registrar or Paying Agent without prior notice to the Holders, but upon written notice to such Registrar or Paying Agent and to the Trustee; provided, however, that no such removal shall become effective until (i) acceptance of any appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement entered into by the Company and such successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee and the passage of any waiting or notice periods required by DTC procedures or (ii) written notification to the Trustee that the Trustee shall serve as Registrar or Paying Agent until the appointment of a successor in accordance with clause (i) above. The Registrar or Paying Agent may resign at any time upon written notice to the Company and the Trustee.

SECTION 2.4. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. By 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note is due and payable, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient in immediately available funds to pay such principal, premium, if any, or interest when due. The Company shall require the Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Company or other obligors on the Notes), shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company or any Guarantor in making any such payment and shall during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment in respect of the Notes, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith deliver to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Notes together with a full accounting thereof. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds or assets disbursed by such Paying Agent. Upon complying with this SECTION 2.4, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee. Upon any bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding with respect to any of the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.

SECTION 2.5. Holder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company, on their own behalf and on behalf of each of the Guarantors, shall furnish or cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five (5) Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders.

 

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SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange.

(a) A Holder may transfer a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) to another Person or exchange a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) for another Note or Notes of any authorized denomination by presenting to the Trustee a written request therefor stating the name of the proposed transferee or requesting such an exchange, accompanied by any certification, opinion or other document required by this SECTION 2.6. The Trustee will promptly register any transfer or exchange that meets the requirements of this SECTION 2.6 by noting the same in the Notes Register maintained by the Trustee for the purpose, and no transfer or exchange will be effective until it is registered in such Notes Register. The transfer or exchange of any Note (or a beneficial interest therein) may only be made in accordance with this SECTION 2.6 and SECTIONS 2.1(g) and 2.1(h), as applicable, and, in the case of a Global Note (or a beneficial interest therein), the applicable rules and procedures of DTC, Euroclear Bank S.A./N. V. or Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme. The Trustee shall refuse to register any requested transfer or exchange that does not comply with this paragraph.

(b) Retention of Written Communications. The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to SECTION 2.1 or this SECTION 2.6. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable prior written notice to the Registrar.

(c) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall, subject to the other terms and conditions of this ARTICLE II, execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Company’s and Registrar’s written request.

No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require the Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax assessments or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to SECTIONS 2.2, 2.6, 2.11, 2.13, 3.5, 5.6 or 9.5).

The Company (and the Registrar) shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (A) for a period beginning (1)15 calendar days before the sending of a notice of an offer to repurchase or redeem Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such sending or (2) 15 calendar days before an interest payment date and ending on such interest payment date or (B) called for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to paragraph 2 of the forms of Notes attached hereto as Exhibits A, B and C) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, including without limitation the transfer or exchange of such Note, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

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

(d) No Obligation of the Trustee. The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in, DTC or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of DTC or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than DTC) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or purchase) or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Notes (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be DTC or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through DTC subject to the applicable rules and procedures of DTC. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by DTC with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have any 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 Note (including any transfers between or among DTC participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. None of the Trustee, the Registrar or any of their respective agents shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by DTC.

SECTION 2.7. [Reserved]

SECTION 2.8. [Reserved]

SECTION 2.9. [Reserved]

SECTION 2.10. [Reserved]

SECTION 2.11. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, such that the Holder (a) satisfies the Company and the Trustee that such Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully

 

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taken within a reasonable time after such Holder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Registrar has not registered a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Company and the Trustee prior to the Note being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8-303 of the UCC (a “protected purchaser”) and (c) satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee; provided, however, if after the delivery of such replacement Note, a protected purchaser of the Note for which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment or registration such replaced Note, the Trustee and/or the Company shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note from the Person to whom it was issued and delivered or any Person taking therefrom, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Company or the Trustee in connection therewith. Such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the (i) Trustee to protect the Trustee and (ii) the Company to protect the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar, from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced, and, in the absence of notice to the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this SECTION 2.11, the Company may require that such Holder pay 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 counsel and of the Trustee) in connection therewith.

Subject to the proviso in the initial paragraph of this SECTION 2.11, every new Note issued pursuant to this SECTION 2.11, in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, any Guarantor (if applicable) and any other obligor upon the Notes, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this SECTION 2.11 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 Notes.

SECTION 2.12. Outstanding Notes. Notes outstanding at any time are all Notes authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those paid pursuant to SECTION 2.11 and those described in this Section as not outstanding.

If a Note is replaced pursuant to SECTION 2.11 (other than a mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement pursuant to SECTION 2.11.

 

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If the Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, on a redemption date or maturity date, an amount of money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest payable on that date with respect to the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, and the Paying Agent is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

SECTION 2.13. Temporary Notes. In the event that Definitive Notes are to be issued under the terms of this Indenture, until such Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form, and shall carry all rights, of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company consider appropriate for temporary Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency maintained by the Company for that purpose and such exchange shall be without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor, one or more Definitive Notes representing an equal principal amount of Notes. Until so exchanged, the Holder of temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as a Holder of Definitive Notes.

SECTION 2.14. Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and dispose of such Notes in accordance with its internal policies and customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act and the Trustee). If the Company or any Guarantor acquires any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this SECTION 2.14. The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for any reason other than in connection with a transfer or exchange.

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

 

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SECTION 2.15. Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest. Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such payment at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to SECTION 2.3.

Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not paid when the same becomes due and payable and such nonpayment continues for a period of 30 days shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the regular record date, and such defaulted interest and (to the extent lawful) interest on such defaulted interest at the rate borne by the Notes (such defaulted interest and interest thereon herein collectively called “Defaulted Interest”) shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date (as defined below) 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 Note and the date (not less than 30 days after such notice) of the proposed payment (the “Special Interest Payment Date”), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this SECTION 2.15(a). Thereupon the Company shall fix a record date (the “Special Record Date”) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which date shall be not more than 20 calendar days and not less than 15 calendar days prior to the Special Interest Payment Date and not less than 10 calendar days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such Special Record Date, and in the name of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor to be given in the manner provided for in SECTION 13.2, not less than 10 calendar days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor having been so given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid on the Special Interest Payment Date to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the provisions in SECTION 2.15(b).

(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this SECTION 2.15(b), such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

 

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Subject to the foregoing provisions of this SECTION 2.15, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of, transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

SECTION 2.16. CUSIP and ISIN Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” and “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption or purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or purchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or purchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such CUSIP and ISIN numbers. The Company shall notify the Trustee, in writing, of any changes in the CUSIP or ISIN numbers.

SECTION 2.17. Joint and Several Liability. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Company and the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally liable for the performance of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture, the Notes and the Collateral Documents.

ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

SECTION 3.1. Payment of Notes. The Company shall promptly pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture. Principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if by 11:00 a.m. New York City time on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds in accordance with this Indenture an amount of money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due and the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Notes, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company may, to the extent required to do so by law, deduct or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from principal or interest payments hereunder.

SECTION 3.2. Limitation on Indebtedness.

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) and the Parent Guarantor will not issue any shares of Disqualified Stock and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue any shares of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; provided that the Parent Guarantor may Incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) or issue shares of Disqualified Stock, and any Restricted Subsidiary may incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness), issue shares of Disqualified Stock and issue shares of Preferred Stock, if

 

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the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries is at least 6.25 to 1.00, determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect thereto (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom); provided, further, that Non-Guarantors may not Incur Indebtedness if, after giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), more than an aggregate of the greater of (a) $100 million and (b) 1.0% of Total Assets of Indebtedness of Non-Guarantors would be outstanding pursuant to this paragraph.

(b) SECTION 3.2(a) will not prohibit the Incurrence of the following:

(1) Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to any Credit Facility (including letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances issued or created under any Credit Facility), in a maximum aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not exceeding (i) the sum of (a) $3,950 million plus (b) the greater of $960 million and 100% of LTM EBITDA; plus (ii) any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(2) Guarantees by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary so long as the Incurrence of such Indebtedness or other obligations is not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture; provided that if the Indebtedness being Guaranteed constitutes Pari Passu Indebtedness or Subordinated Indebtedness, the Guarantees must be pari passu with or subordinated to the same extent as the Notes or Note Guarantees;

(3) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor owing to and held by any Restricted Subsidiary or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to and held by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that:

(i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Indebtedness being beneficially held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary; and

(ii) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary;

shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be;

(4) Indebtedness represented by (a) the Notes (other than any Additional Notes), including any Guarantee thereof, (b) any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clauses (1) and (3) above) outstanding on the Issue Date, and any Guarantee thereof, (c) Refinancing Indebtedness (including, with respect to the Notes and any Guarantee thereof) Incurred in respect of any Indebtedness described in this clause (4) or clauses (2), (5), (10) or (19) of this SECTION 3.2(b) or Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2(a), and (d) Management Advances;

 

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(5) Indebtedness of (x) the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurred or issued to finance an acquisition or (y) Persons that are acquired by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiaries or merged into or consolidated with the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; provided that on the date the acquisition, merger or consolidation, as applicable, is consummated, and after giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, either (A) the total amount of Indebtedness Incurred and outstanding under this clause (5) is in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $200 million and (y) 2.5% of Total Assets, or (B) any of the following are satisfied as of the date of incurrence (i) the Parent Guarantor would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to SECTION 3.2(a), (ii) the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries would not be higher than that immediately prior to such acquisition, merger or consolidation, or (iii) such Indebtedness constitutes Acquired Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness Incurred in contemplation of the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary); provided that the only obligors with respect to such Indebtedness shall be those Persons who were obligors of such Indebtedness prior to such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

(6) Swap Obligations (excluding Swap Obligations entered into for speculative purposes (as determined in the good faith judgment of the Parent Guarantor));

(7) Indebtedness represented by Capitalized Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Obligations in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause and then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (a) $200 million and (b) 2.5% of Total Assets and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(8) Indebtedness in respect of (a) workers’ compensation claims, self-insurance obligations, performance, indemnity, surety, judgment, appeal, advance payment (including progress premiums), customs, value added or other tax or other guarantees or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations and completion guarantees and warranties provided by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary or relating to liabilities, obligations or guarantees Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (b) the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five (5) Business Days of Incurrence; (c) customer deposits and advance payments (including progress premiums) received in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice from customers for goods or services purchased in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (d) letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, warehouse receipts, guarantees or other similar instruments or obligations issued or relating to liabilities or obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; and (e) Cash Management Services;

 

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(9) Indebtedness arising from agreements providing for guarantees, indemnification, obligations in respect of earn-outs or other adjustments of purchase price or, in each case, similar obligations, in each case, Incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business or assets or Person or any Capital Stock of a Subsidiary (other than Guarantees of Indebtedness Incurred by any Person acquiring or disposing of such business or assets or such Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition or disposition); provided that the maximum liability of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of all such Indebtedness in connection with a disposition shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds, including the fair market value of non-cash proceeds (measured at the time received and without giving effect to any subsequent changes in value), actually received by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;

(10) Indebtedness in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause and then outstanding, will not exceed 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Parent Guarantor from the issuance or sale (other than to a Restricted Subsidiary) of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock, Designated Preferred Stock or an Excluded Contribution) or otherwise contributed to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock, Designated Preferred Stock or an Excluded Contribution) of the Parent Guarantor, in each case, subsequent to the Issue Date, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided, however, that (i) any such Net Cash Proceeds that are so received or contributed shall not increase the amount available for making Restricted Payments to the extent the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries Incur Indebtedness in reliance thereon and (ii) any Net Cash Proceeds that are so received or contributed shall be excluded for purposes of Incurring Indebtedness pursuant to this clause to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds or cash have been applied to make Restricted Payments;

(11) Indebtedness of Non-Guarantors in an aggregate amount, together with any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, not to exceed the greater of (a) $100 million and (b) 1.0% of Total Assets and at any time outstanding;

(12) Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries to any current or former employee, director or consultant of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity (or permitted transferees, assigns, estates or heirs of such employee, director or consultant), to finance the purchase or redemption of Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity that is permitted by SECTION 3.3;

(13) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(14) Indebtedness in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof and the principal amount of all other Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause and then outstanding, will not exceed the greater of (a) $300 million and (b) 3.5% of Total Assets;

 

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(15) [Reserved];

(16) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Guarantor arising pursuant to any Permitted Tax Restructuring, subject to complying with the express terms and conditions of the definition of “Permitted Tax Restructuring”;

(17) Indebtedness owed to the seller of any business or assets permitted to be acquired by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary under this Indenture; provided that the aggregate amount of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause and then outstanding will not exceed $80 million;

(18) obligations in respect of Disqualified Stock in an amount not to exceed $75 million outstanding at any time;

(19) up to $60 million of liquidation preference or stated value of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the $60 million of liquidation preference or stated value cannot increase due to any anti-dilution or other similar terms of such preferred stock;

(20) Indebtedness permitted to remain outstanding under the Bankruptcy Plan, the Company’s guarantee of performance under the Transition Services Agreement and Indebtedness arising therefrom as well as Indebtedness from the Company’s indemnification obligations under the Tax Matters Agreement, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; and

(21) Indebtedness incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent that the net proceeds thereof are deposited with the Trustee within five (5) Business Days to satisfy or discharge the Notes or exercise the Company’s legal defeasance or covenant defeasance, in each case, in accordance with this Indenture.

(c) For purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding amount of any particular Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, Incurred or issued pursuant to and in compliance with, this SECTION 3.2:

(1) in the event that all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in SECTIONS 3.2(a) and 3.2(b), the Parent Guarantor, in its sole discretion, will classify, and may from time to time reclassify, such item of Indebtedness and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in SECTION 3.2(a) or one of the clauses of SECTION 3.2(b); provided that Indebtedness outstanding on the Issue Date under the Credit Agreement shall be treated as incurred under SECTION 3.2(b)(1) and may not be reclassified;

(2) additionally, except as set forth in SECTION 3.2(c)(1) above, all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness may later be reclassified as having been Incurred pursuant to any type of Indebtedness described in SECTIONS 3.2(a) and 3.2(b) so long as such Indebtedness is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to such provision at the time of reclassification;

 

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(3) in the case of any Refinancing Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall not include the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, accrued and unpaid interest, premiums (including, without limitation, tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including, without limitation, original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) Incurred in connection with such refinancing;

(4) Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relating to, or Liens securing, Indebtedness that is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included;

(5) if obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments are Incurred pursuant to any Credit Facility and are being treated as Incurred pursuant to of SECTION 3.2(a) or SECTION 3.2(b) and the letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included;

(6) the amount of any Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, will be equal to the liquidation preference thereof on the date of issuance;

(7) Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, permitted by this SECTION 3.2 need not be permitted solely by reference to one provision permitting such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, but may be permitted in part by one such provision and in part by one or more other provisions of this SECTION 3.2 permitting such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; and

(8) the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price less than the principal amount thereof will be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined on the basis of GAAP.

(d) Accrual of interest, accrual of dividends, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness, the payment of dividends in the form of additional shares of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock or the reclassification of commitments or obligations not treated as Indebtedness due to a change in GAAP, will not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness or the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock for purposes of this SECTION 3.2.

(e) If at any time an Unrestricted Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor as of such date (and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as of such date under this SECTION 3.2, the Parent Guarantor shall be in default of this SECTION 3.2).

(f) For purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the Dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term debt, or first

 

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committed, in the case of revolving credit debt; provided, that if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed (a) the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced plus (b) the aggregate amount of fees, underwriting discounts, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this SECTION 3.2, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary may Incur pursuant to this SECTION 3.2 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies. The principal amount of any Indebtedness Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if Incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.

(h) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) that is subordinated or junior in right of payment to any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee to the extent and in the same manner as such Indebtedness is subordinated to other Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be.

SECTION 3.3. Limitation on Restricted Payments.

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to:

(1) declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on or in respect of the Parent Guarantor’s, any Parent Entity’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s Capital Stock (including any such payment in connection with any merger, amalgamation or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) except:

(i) dividends or distributions payable in Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase such Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor; and

(ii) dividends or distributions payable to the Parent Guarantor, any Parent Entity or a Restricted Subsidiary (and, in the case of any such Restricted Subsidiary making such dividend or distribution, to holders of its Capital Stock other than the Parent Guarantor, any Parent Entity or another Restricted Subsidiary on no more than a pro rata basis);

 

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(2) purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for value any Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity of the Parent Guarantor held by Persons other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor;

(3) purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Subordinated Indebtedness other than (i) any such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case, due within one year of the date of purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement and (ii) any Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2(b)(3)); or

(4) make any Restricted Investment;

(any such dividend, distribution, purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, other acquisition, retirement or Restricted Investment referred to in clauses (1) through (4) is referred to herein as a “Restricted Payment”), if at the time the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment:

(i) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result immediately thereafter therefrom);

(ii) the Parent Guarantor is not able to Incur an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to SECTION 3.2(a) immediately after giving effect, on a pro forma basis, to such Restricted Payment; or

(iii) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date (and not returned or rescinded) (including Permitted Payments made pursuant to SECTION 3.3(b)(1) (without duplication) but excluding all other Restricted Payments permitted by SECTION 3.3(b)) would exceed the sum of (without duplication):

(a) 100% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Guarantor for the period (treated as one accounting period) from the first day of the first fiscal quarter in which the Issue Date occurs to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending prior to the date of such Restricted Payment for which internal consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor are available (or, in the case such Consolidated EBITDA is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit) less 1.4 times Fixed Charges for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the same period, provided that immediately after giving effect, on a pro forma basis, to such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be 6.25 to 1.00;

 

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(b) 100% of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Parent Guarantor since the Issue Date (a) from the issue or sale of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) or (b) as the result of a merger or consolidation with another Person subsequent to the Issue Date or (c) otherwise contributed to the equity (in each case other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary (including the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary contributed to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary for cancellation) or that becomes part of the capital of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary through consolidation or merger subsequent to the Issue Date (other than (x) Net Cash Proceeds or property or assets or marketable securities received from an issuance or sale of such Capital Stock to a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor for the benefit of its employees to the extent funded by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, (y) Net Cash Proceeds or property or assets or marketable securities to the extent that any Restricted Payment has been made from such proceeds in reliance on SECTION 3.3(b)(6), and (z) Excluded Contributions);

(c) 100% of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary from the issuance or sale (other than to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary) by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary subsequent to the Issue Date of any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock that has been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) plus, without duplication, the amount of any cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary upon such conversion or exchange;

(d) 100% of the aggregate amount received in cash and the fair market value, as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor, of marketable securities or other property received by means of: (i) the sale or other disposition (other than to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) of Restricted Investments made by the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repurchases and redemptions of such Restricted Investments from the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repayments of loans or advances, and releases of guarantees, which constitute Restricted Investments by the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case after the Issue Date;

 

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or (ii) the sale (other than to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) of the stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a distribution from an Unrestricted Subsidiary (other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment and will increase the amount available under the applicable clause of the definition of “Permitted Investment”) or a dividend in cash from an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date; and

(e) in the case of the redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or the merger, amalgamation or consolidation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary or the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date, the fair market value of the Investment in such Unrestricted Subsidiary (or the assets transferred), as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor at the time of the redesignation of such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of such merger, amalgamation or consolidation or transfer of assets (after taking into consideration any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted Subsidiary so designated or merged, amalgamated or consolidated or Indebtedness associated with the assets so transferred), other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment.

(b) SECTION 3.3(a) will not prohibit any of the following (collectively, “Permitted Payments”):

(1) the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture or the redemption, repurchase or retirement of Indebtedness if, at the date of any redemption notice, such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture as if it were and is deemed at such time to be a Restricted Payment at the time of such notice;

(2) (a) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Capital Stock (“Treasury Capital Stock”) or Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange (including any such exchange pursuant to the exercise of a conversion right or privilege in connection with which cash is paid in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares) for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) (“Refunding Capital Stock”) or a substantially concurrent contribution to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or through an Excluded Contribution) of the Parent Guarantor; and (b) if immediately prior to the retirement of Treasury Capital Stock, the declaration and payment of dividends thereon was permitted under clause (15) of this SECTION 3.3(b), the declaration and payment of dividends on the Refunding Capital Stock (other than Refunding Capital Stock the proceeds of which were used to redeem, repurchase, retire or otherwise acquire any Capital Stock of a Parent Entity) in an aggregate amount per year no greater than the aggregate amount of dividends per annum that were declarable and payable on such Treasury Capital Stock immediately prior to such retirement;

 

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(3) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Subordinated Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2;

(4) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Preferred Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, which in the case of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock shall not exceed $60 million of liquidation preference or stated value of that preferred stock plus any applicable premium and accrued and unpaid dividends, made by exchange for or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of Preferred Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that, in each case, is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2;

(5) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, which in the case of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock shall not exceed $60 million of liquidation preference or stated value of such preferred stock plus any applicable premium and accrued and unpaid dividends:

(i) from Net Available Cash to the extent permitted under SECTION 3.5, but only if the Parent Guarantor shall have first complied with the terms described under SECTION 3.5 and purchased all Notes tendered pursuant to any offer to repurchase all the Notes required thereby, prior to purchasing, repurchasing, redeeming, defeasing or otherwise acquiring or retiring such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; or

(ii) to the extent required by the agreement governing such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, following the occurrence of (i) a Change of Control (or other similar event described therein as a “change of control”) or (ii) an Asset Disposition (or other similar event described therein as an “asset disposition” or “asset sale”) but only if the Parent Guarantor shall have first complied with the terms described under SECTION 3.5 or SECTION 3.9, as applicable, and purchased all Notes tendered pursuant to the offer to repurchase all the Notes required thereby, prior to purchasing, repurchasing, redeeming, defeasing or otherwise acquiring or retiring such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; or

(iii) consisting of Acquired Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness Incurred (A) to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary or (B) otherwise in connection with or contemplation of such acquisition);

 

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(6) a Restricted Payment to pay for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor or of any Parent Entity held by any future, present or former employee, director or consultant of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Subsidiaries or of any Parent Entity (or permitted transferees, assigns, estates, trusts or heirs of such employee, director, contractor or consultant) either pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or upon the termination of such employee, director, contractor or consultant’s employment or directorship; provided, however, that the aggregate Restricted Payments made under this clause (6) do not exceed $40 million in any calendar year (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years); provided further that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed:

(i) the cash proceeds from the sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or Excluded Contributions) of the Parent Guarantor and, to the extent contributed to the capital of the Parent Guarantor (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock or an Excluded Contribution), Capital Stock of any Parent Entity, in each case to members of management, directors or consultants of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity that occurred after the Issue Date, to the extent the cash proceeds from the sale of such Capital Stock have not otherwise been applied to the payment of Restricted Payments by virtue of SECTION 3.3(a)(4)(iii); plus

(ii) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date; less

(iii) the amount of any Restricted Payments made in previous calendar years pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (6); and provided further that cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary from any future, present or former members of management, directors, employees, contractors or consultants of the Parent Guarantor, or any Parent Entity or Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Indenture;

(7) the declaration and payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, Incurred in accordance with the terms of SECTION 3.2;

 

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(8) payments made or expected to be made by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of withholding or similar taxes payable upon exercise of Capital Stock by any future, present or former employee, director, officer, contractor or consultant (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and purchases, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances or other acquisitions or retirements of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of stock options, warrants or other rights in respect thereof if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise price thereof and payments in respect of withholding or similar taxes payable upon exercise or vesting thereof or payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional Capital Stock;

(9) dividends, loans, advances or distributions to any Parent Entity or other payments by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in amounts equal to (without duplication):

(i) the amounts required for any Parent Entity to pay any Parent Entity Expenses;

(ii) amounts required for iHeartMedia to make payments of Tax Benefits (as defined in the Tax Matters Agreement) to Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. under the Tax Matters Agreement; and

(iii) amounts constituting or to be used for purposes of making payments to the extent specified in SECTIONS 3.8(b)(2), 3.8(b)(3) and 3.8(b)(5);

(10) Permitted Tax Distributions;

(11) the declaration and payment of dividends in an amount not to exceed in any fiscal quarter the amount per share of dividends on the common stock or common equity interests of the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity paid by the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity in the prior fiscal quarter;

(12) the declaration and payment by the Parent Guarantor of, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions to any Parent Entity to make, quarterly dividends on such Parent Entity’s common stock or common equity interests or to pay for the purchase, repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement of Capital Stock of such Parent Entity in an amount not to exceed $75 million per annum;

(13) payments by the Parent Guarantor of, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions to any Parent Entity to make payments, to holders of Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of such Capital Stock, provided, however, that any such payment, loan, advance, dividend or distribution shall not be for the purpose of evading any limitation of this SECTION 3.3 or otherwise to facilitate any dividend or other return of capital to the holders of such Capital Stock (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor);

(14) Restricted Payments that are made with Excluded Contributions;

 

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(15) (i) the declaration and payment of dividends on Designated Preferred Stock of the Parent Guarantor issued after the Issue Date and (ii) the declaration and payment of dividends on Refunding Capital Stock that is Preferred Stock; provided, however, that, in the case of clause (i) hereof, the amount of all dividends declared or paid pursuant to this clause shall not exceed the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Parent Guarantor or the aggregate amount contributed in cash to the equity (other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or an Excluded Contribution of the Parent Guarantor), from the issuance or sale of such Designated Preferred Stock; provided further, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), that for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Designated Preferred Stock or declaration of such dividends on such Refunding Capital Stock, after giving effect to such payment on a pro forma basis the Parent Guarantor would be permitted to Incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the test set forth in SECTION 3.2(a);

(16) distributions, by dividend or otherwise, or other transfer or disposition of shares of Capital Stock or Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness owed to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary by, Unrestricted Subsidiaries (unless the Unrestricted Subsidiary’s principal asset is cash or Cash Equivalents) or proceeds thereof;

(17) [Reserved];

(18) any Restricted Payment made in connection with the Transactions and any costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses) related thereto or used to fund amounts owed to Affiliates in connection with the Transactions (including dividends to any Parent Entity of the Parent Guarantor to permit payment by such Parent Entity of such amounts);

(19) any Restricted Payments, so long as, immediately after giving pro forma effect to the payment of any such Restricted Payment and the Incurrence of any Indebtedness the net proceeds of which are used to make such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 4.25 to 1.00;

(20) mandatory redemptions of Disqualified Stock issued as a Restricted Payment or as consideration for a Permitted Investment;

(21) the redemption, defeasance, repurchase, exchange or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Guarantor in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding taken together with all other redemptions, defeasances, repurchases, exchanges or other acquisitions or retirements of Subordinated Indebtedness made pursuant to this clause not to exceed the greater of $170 million and 17.5% of LTM EBITDA at the time of such redemption, defeasance, repurchase, exchange or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness;

 

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(22) payments or distributions to dissenting stockholders pursuant to applicable law (including in connection with, or as a result of, exercise of appraisal rights and the settlement of any claims or action (whether actual, contingent or potential)), pursuant to or in connection with a consolidation, merger or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that complies with SECTION 4.1 hereof;

(23) Restricted Payments to a Parent Entity to finance Investments that would otherwise be permitted to be made pursuant to this covenant if made by the Parent Guarantor; provided that (a) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment, (b) such Parent Entity shall, promptly following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Capital Stock) to be contributed to the capital of the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or (2) the merger or amalgamation of the Person formed or acquired into the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent not prohibited by SECTION 4.1) to consummate such Investment, (c) such Parent Entity and its Affiliates (other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) receives no consideration or other payment in connection with such transaction except to the extent the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary could have given such consideration or made such payment in compliance with this Indenture, (d) any property received by the Parent Guarantor shall not increase amounts available for Restricted Payments pursuant to clause (c) of the preceding paragraph and (e) such Investment shall be deemed to be made by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to another provision of this SECTION 3.3(b) (other than pursuant to SECTION 3.3(b)(14) hereof) or pursuant to the definition of “Permitted Investment” (other than pursuant to clause (12) thereof);

(24) Restricted Payments (including loans or advances) in an aggregate amount outstanding at the time made not to exceed the greater of $200 million and 2.5% of Total Assets; provided that, there shall not exist any Default or Event of Default at the time of the making of any such Restricted Payment or which would result from the making of any such Restricted Payment;

(25) any Restricted Payment made in connection with the declaration and payment of dividends payable under the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock (provided that the liquidation preference or stated value of such preferred stock does not exceed $60 million), and any accrued unpaid dividend, or premium thereon, or any securities issued as a replacement therefor so long as such securities do not exceed $60 million in liquidation preference, stated value or principal amount, and their terms, taken as a whole, are not materially adverse to the Holders as compared to the terms of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock or a replacement thereof (as determined in good faith by the Company);

(26) any Restricted Payment made for the redemption of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock in an amount up to $60 million of stated or liquidation preference of such iHeart Operations Preferred Stock as of the date of issuance or any securities issued as a replacement therefor so long as such securities do not exceed $60 million in liquidation preference, stated value or principal amount, and their terms taken as a whole, are not materially adverse to the Holders as compared to the terms of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock or a replacement thereof, and accrued and unpaid dividends thereon to the redemption date thereof, and any underwriting discounts, fees, costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) related thereto; and

 

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(27) any Restricted Payment made in connection with a Permitted Tax Restructuring subject to complying with the express terms and conditions of the definition of “Permitted Tax Restructuring.”

(c) For purposes of determining compliance with this SECTION 3.3, in the event that a Restricted Payment (or portion thereof) meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Payments described in clauses (1) through (27) of SECTION 3.3(b), or is permitted pursuant to SECTION 3.3(a), and/or one or more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investments,” the Parent Guarantor will be entitled to classify such Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) on the date of its payment or later reclassify (based on circumstances existing on the date of such reclassification) such Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this SECTION 3.3, including as an Investment pursuant to one or more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investments.”

(d) The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the fair market value on the date of such Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be paid, transferred or issued by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to such Restricted Payment. The fair market value of any cash Restricted Payment shall be its face amount, and the fair market value of any non-cash Restricted Payment, property or assets other than cash shall be determined conclusively by the Parent Guarantor acting in good faith.

(e) [Reserved].

(f) For the avoidance of doubt, this covenant shall not restrict the making of any so-called “AHYDO catch-up payment” with respect to, and required by the terms of, any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture.

SECTION 3.4. Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries.

(a) The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary (that is not the Company) to, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

(1) pay dividends or make any other distributions in cash or otherwise on its Capital Stock or pay any Indebtedness or other Obligations owed to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(2) make any loans or advances to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; or

(3) sell, lease or transfer any of its property or assets to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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provided that (x) the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock and (y) the subordination of (including the application of any standstill requirements to) loans or advances made to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness Incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed to constitute such an encumbrance or restriction.

(b) SECTION 3.4(a) shall not prohibit:

(1) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to (a) any Credit Facility, (b) the Senior Notes or (c) any other agreement or instrument, in each case, in effect at or entered into on the Issue Date;

(2) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to the Note Documents, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements;

(3) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to applicable law, rule, regulation or order;

(4) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument of a Person or relating to any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of a Person, entered into on or before the date on which such Person was acquired by or merged, amalgamated, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, or on which such agreement or instrument is assumed by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets (other than Capital Stock or Indebtedness Incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was acquired by the Parent Guarantor or was merged, amalgamated, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or entered into in contemplation of or in connection with such transaction) and outstanding on such date, which encumbrance or restriction only applies to the Person so acquired and its Subsidiaries (or their respective property or assets) or the property or assets so acquired; provided that, for the purposes of this clause, if another Person is the Successor Company, any Subsidiary thereof or agreement or instrument of such Person or any such Subsidiary shall be deemed acquired or assumed by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary when such Person becomes the Successor Company;

(5) any encumbrance or restriction:

(i) that restricts in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license or similar contract or agreement, or the assignment or transfer of any lease, license or other contract or agreement;

 

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(ii) contained in mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements permitted under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents or securing Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary permitted under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents to the extent such encumbrances or restrictions restrict the transfer or encumbrance of the property or assets subject to such mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements;

(iii) restrictions or conditions contained in any trading, netting, operating, construction, service, supply, purchase, sale or other agreement to which the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; provided that such agreement prohibits the encumbrance of solely the property or assets of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary that are subject to such agreement, the payment rights arising thereunder or the proceeds thereof and does not extend to any other asset or property of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary or the assets or property of another Restricted Subsidiary; or

(iv) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of Real Property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreements of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(6) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Purchase Money Obligations and Capitalized Lease Obligations permitted under this Indenture and the Collateral Documents, in each case, that impose encumbrances or restrictions on the property so acquired;

(7) any encumbrance or restriction imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition to a Person of all or substantially all the Capital Stock or assets of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (or the property or assets that are subject to such restriction) pending the closing of such sale or disposition;

(8) customary provisions in leases, licenses, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements and other similar agreements, organizational documents and instruments;

(9) encumbrances or restrictions arising or existing by reason of applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order, or required by any regulatory authority;

(10) any encumbrance or restriction on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(11) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Swap Obligations;

(12) other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of Foreign Subsidiaries permitted to be Incurred or issued subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to SECTION 3.2 that impose restrictions solely on the Foreign Subsidiaries party thereto or their Subsidiaries;

 

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(13) [Reserved];

(14) any encumbrance or restriction arising pursuant to an agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2 if the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such agreement or instrument taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Holders than (i) the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Credit Agreement, the ABL Credit Agreement or the Senior Notes Indenture, in each case, together with the security documents associated therewith as in effect on the Issue Date or (ii) in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor) and where, in the case of clause (ii), either (a) the Parent Guarantor determines in good faith at the time of entry into such agreement or instrument that such encumbrances or restrictions will not adversely affect, in any material respect, the Company’s ability to make principal, premium (if applicable) or interest payments on the Notes or (b) such encumbrance or restriction applies only during the continuance of a default relating to such agreement or instrument;

(15) any encumbrance or restriction existing by reason of any Lien permitted under SECTION 3.6; or

(16) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument effecting a refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to, or that otherwise refinances, an agreement or instrument referred to in clauses (1) to (15) of this SECTION 3.4(b) or this clause (16) (an “Initial Agreement”) or contained in any amendment, supplement or other modification to an agreement referred to in clauses (1) to (15) of this SECTION 3.4(b) or this clause (16); provided, however, that the encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such Restricted Subsidiary contained in any such agreement or instrument are no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders taken as a whole than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Initial Agreement or Initial Agreements to which such refinancing or amendment, supplement or other modification relates (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor).

SECTION 3.5. Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock.

(a) The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Disposition unless:

(1) the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise) at least equal to the fair market value (such fair market value to be determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset Disposition), as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor, of the shares and assets subject to such Asset Disposition (including, for the avoidance of doubt, if such Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap);

 

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(2) in any such Asset Disposition, or series of related Asset Dispositions (except to the extent the Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap) with a purchase price in excess of $100 million and 10.0% of LTM EBITDA, at least 75% of the consideration from such Asset Disposition (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any liabilities, contingent or otherwise) received by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; provided, however, to the extent that any assets subject to an Asset Disposition were Collateral, the non-cash consideration received is pledged as Collateral under the Collateral Documents substantially simultaneously with such sale, in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents; and

(3) an amount equal to 100% of the Net Available Cash from such Asset Disposition is applied, either:

(i) within 365 days from the later of (A) the date of such Asset Disposition and (B) the receipt of such Net Available Cash,

(a) to prepay, repay or purchase any Indebtedness that is secured by a First Priority Lien (including, to the extent secured by a First Priority Lien, the Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement or ABL Credit Agreement incurred pursuant to SECTION 3.2(a) (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof)); or

(b) to reduce Obligations under the Notes as provided under SECTION 5.7, through open market purchases or by making an Asset Disposition Offer; or

(c) to prepay, repay or purchase Pari Passu Indebtedness; provided that the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, shall equally and ratably reduce Obligations under the Notes (A) through open market purchases, (B) by redeeming Notes as provided under SECTION 5.7, or (C) by making an Asset Disposition Offer; or

(ii) to the extent the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary elects to invest in or commit to invest in Additional Assets (including by means of an investment in Additional Assets by a Restricted Subsidiary equal to the amount of Net Available Cash received by the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary) within 365 days from the later of (a) the date of such Asset Disposition and (b) the receipt of such Net Available Cash; provided, however, that a binding agreement shall be treated as a permitted application of Net Available Cash from the date of such commitment with the good faith expectation that an amount equal to Net Available Cash will be applied to satisfy such commitment within 180 days of such commitment (an “Acceptable Commitment”) and, in the event of any Acceptable Commitment is later cancelled or terminated for any reason before such amount is applied in

 

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connection therewith, the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary enters into another Acceptable Commitment (a “Second Commitment”) within 180 days of such cancellation or termination; provided further that if any Second Commitment is later cancelled or terminated for any reason before such amount is applied, then such Net Available Cash shall constitute Excess Proceeds;

provided that, (1) pending the final application of the amount of any such Net Available Cash in accordance with clauses (i) and (ii) of SECTION 3.5(a)(3), the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may temporarily reduce Indebtedness or otherwise use such Net Available Cash in any manner not prohibited by this Indenture; and (2) the Parent Guarantor (or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be) may elect to invest in Additional Assets prior to receiving the Net Available Cash attributable to any given Asset Disposition (provided that if the assets subject to the disposition constituted Collateral, such Additional Assets are pledged as Collateral under the Collateral Documents substantially simultaneously with such acquisition in accordance with the requirements of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents) such investment shall be made no earlier than the earliest of written notice to the Trustee of the relevant Asset Disposition, execution of a definitive agreement for the relevant Asset Disposition, and consummation of the relevant Asset Disposition) and deem the amount so invested to be applied pursuant to and in accordance with SECTION 3.5(a)(3)(ii) with respect to such Asset Disposition.

(b) The amount of any Net Available Cash from Asset Dispositions that is not applied or invested or committed to be applied or invested as provided in the preceding paragraph will be deemed to constitute “Excess Proceeds” under this Indenture. On the day following 18 months after the later of an Asset Disposition or the receipt of such Net Available Cash, or earlier if the Parent Guarantor elects, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds under this Indenture exceeds $75 million, the Parent Guarantor will within 10 Business Days be required to make an offer (“Asset Disposition Offer”) to all Holders of Notes issued under this Indenture and, to the extent the Parent Guarantor elects, to all holders of other outstanding Pari Passu Indebtedness, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and any such Pari Passu Indebtedness to which the Asset Disposition Offer applies that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in respect of the Notes in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness, in each case, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the date of purchase, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Indenture or the agreements governing the Pari Passu Indebtedness, as applicable, and, with respect to the Notes, in minimum denominations of $100.00 and in integral multiples of $1.00. The Parent Guarantor will deliver notice of such Asset Disposition Offer electronically or by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes at the address of such Holder appearing in the security register or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of DTC, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Asset Disposition and offering to repurchase the Notes for the specified purchase price on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is delivered, pursuant to the procedures required by this Indenture and described in such notice. The Parent Guarantor may satisfy the foregoing obligations with respect to any Net Available Cash from an Asset Disposition by making an Asset Disposition Offer with respect to all Net Available Cash within the relevant 365 day period (or such longer period provided above) or with respect to any unapplied Excess Proceeds.

 

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(c) To the extent that the aggregate amount of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to an Asset Disposition Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Parent Guarantor may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of the Notes surrendered in any Asset Disposition Offer by Holders and other Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Excess Proceeds shall be allocated among the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness, provided that no Notes or other Pari Passu Indebtedness will be selected and purchased in an unauthorized denomination. Upon completion of any Asset Disposition Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero. Additionally, the Parent Guarantor may, at its option, make an Asset Disposition Offer using proceeds from any Asset Disposition at any time after the consummation of such Asset Disposition. Upon consummation or expiration of any Asset Disposition Offer, any remaining Net Available Cash shall not be deemed Excess Proceeds and the Parent Guarantor may use such Net Available Cash for any purpose not prohibited by this Indenture.

(d) To the extent that any portion of Net Available Cash payable in respect of the Notes is denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the amount thereof payable in respect of the Notes shall not exceed the net amount of funds in Dollars that is actually received by the Parent Guarantor upon converting such portion into Dollars.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of SECTION 3.5,

(i) (A) to the extent that any of or all the Net Available Cash of any Asset Disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (a “Foreign Disposition”) is prohibited or delayed by applicable local law or subject to other onerous organizational or administrative impediments (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor), from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Available Cash so affected will not be required to be applied in compliance with this covenant, and such amounts may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law, documents or administrative impediments will not permit repatriation to the United States, provided that the Parent Guarantor hereby agrees to use reasonable efforts to otherwise cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to within one year following the date on which the respective payment would otherwise have been required, promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law or other impediment to permit such repatriation; and (B) if within one year following the date on which the respective payment would otherwise have been required, such repatriation of any of such affected Net Available Cash is permitted under the applicable local law or other impediment, such repatriation will be promptly effected and the amount of such repatriated Net Available Cash will be promptly (and in any event not later than five (5) Business Days after such repatriation could be made) applied (whether or not repatriation actually occurs) in compliance with this covenant; and

(ii) to the extent that the Parent Guarantor has determined in good faith that repatriation of any of or all the Net Available Cash of any Foreign Disposition would have an adverse Tax consequence (which for the avoidance of doubt, includes, but is not limited to, any prepayment whereby doing so the Parent Guarantor, any Restricted Subsidiary, or any of their respective

 

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affiliates and/or equity owners would incur a tax liability, including as a result of a tax dividend, deemed dividend or a withholding tax, but taking into account any corresponding or related foreign tax credit or other similar benefit that may be available, the Net Available Cash so affected may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary. The non-application of any prepayment amounts as a consequence of the foregoing provisions will not, for the avoidance of doubt, constitute a Default or an Event of Default.

(e) For the purposes of SECTION 3.5(a)(2) hereof, the following will be deemed to be cash:

(1) the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities contingent or otherwise of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or a Guarantor) and the release of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such Asset Disposition;

(2) securities, notes or other obligations received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor from the transferee that are converted by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of such Asset Disposition;

(3) Indebtedness (other than the Subordinated Indebtedness) of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Asset Disposition, to the extent that the Parent Guarantor and each other Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of payment of such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition;

(4) consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) received after the Issue Date from Persons who are not the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; and

(5) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Dispositions having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this SECTION 3.5 that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $150 million and 15.0% of LTM EBITDA (with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value).

(f) Upon the commencement of an Asset Disposition Offer, the Company shall send, or cause to be sent, a written notice to the Trustee and to each Holder at its registered address, or deliver otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holder to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer. Any Asset Disposition Offer shall be made to all Holders. The notice, which shall govern the terms of the Asset Disposition Offer, shall state:

(1) that the Asset Disposition Offer is being made pursuant to this SECTION 3.5 and that, to the extent lawful, all Notes tendered and not withdrawn shall be accepted for payment (unless prorated);

 

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(2) the Asset Disposition payment amount, the Asset Disposition offered price, and the date on which Notes tendered and accepted for payment shall be purchased, which date shall be at least 30 days and not later than 60 days from the date such notices are delivered (the “Asset Sale Payment Date”);

(3) that any Notes not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest in accordance with the terms thereof;

(4) that, unless the Company default in making such payment, any Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer shall cease to accrue interest on and after the Asset Sale Payment Date;

(5) that Holders electing to have any Notes purchased pursuant to any Asset Disposition Offer shall be required to surrender the Notes, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Note completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days before the Asset sale Payment Date;

(6) that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Paying Agent receives, not later than two Business Days prior to the Asset Sale Payment Date, a notice setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Note purchased;

(7) that if the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders exceeds the Asset Disposition payment amount, the Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in minimum denominations of $100.00 or integral multiples of $1.00 shall be purchased); and

(8) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry).

(g) If the Asset Sale Payment Date is on or after a record date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date, and no additional interest shall be payable to Holders who tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer.

(h) On the Asset Sale Payment Date, the Company will, to the extent permitted by law,

(1) accept for payment all Notes issued by it or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer,

 

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(2) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the aggregate Asset Disposition payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered, and

(3) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee stating that such Notes or portions thereof have been tendered to and purchased by the Company.

(i) To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations, including Rule 14e-l under the Exchange Act, conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws, rules and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Indenture by virtue thereof.

SECTION 3.6. Limitation on Liens. The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien (except Permitted Liens) (each, an “Initial Lien”) that secures obligations under any Indebtedness or any related guarantee of Indebtedness, upon any asset or property of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, unless:

(1) in the case of Liens securing Subordinated Indebtedness, the Notes and related Guarantees are secured by a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such Liens; or

(2) in all other cases, the Notes or the Guarantees are equally and ratably secured,

except that the foregoing shall not apply to Liens securing the Notes and the Note Guarantees.

Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the preceding sentence shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Initial Lien.

With respect to any Lien securing Indebtedness that was permitted to secure such Indebtedness at the time of the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness. The “Increased Amount” of any Indebtedness shall mean any increase in the amount of such Indebtedness in connection with any accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, accretion of original issue discount or liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or increases in the value of property securing Indebtedness.

SECTION 3.7. Limitation on Guarantees.

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not permit any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (and non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries if such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries guarantee, or are a co-issuer of, other capital markets debt securities of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or guarantee all or a portion of, or are a co-borrower

 

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under, any Credit Facility), other than the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, including upon (x) the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) by the Parent Guarantor, (y) any Excluded Subsidiary ceasing to constitute an Excluded Subsidiary or (z) the designation in accordance with SECTION 3.14 of an Unrestricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) as a Restricted Subsidiary (any such subsidiary, a “New Restricted Subsidiary”), to Guarantee the payment of, or incur, (A) any Indebtedness under any Credit Facility or (B) any capital markets debt securities of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case, unless such Restricted Subsidiary within 60 days after such formation, acquisition, cessation or designation:

(i) executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing for a senior Guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary, except that with respect to a guarantee of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or any Guarantor, if such Indebtedness is by its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee, any such guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary with respect to such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to such Guarantee substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Guarantee of the Notes; and

(ii) to the extent any of such New Restricted Subsidiary’s assets would constitute Collateral, executes and delivers a supplement or joinder to the Collateral Documents or new Collateral Documents and takes all actions required thereunder to perfect the Liens created thereunder:

(A) to cause each such New Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to this SECTION 3.7 to duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent joinders to the Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement Supplements (with respect to any Domestic Guarantor), Intellectual Property Security Agreements, Mortgages, each Intercreditor Agreement, if applicable, and other security agreements and documents (including, with respect to such Mortgages, the documents listed in SECTION 12.14), as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (consistent with the Mortgages, Senior Secured Notes Security Agreement and other Collateral Documents in effect on the Issue Date), in each case granting Liens required by the Collateral Requirement;

(B) to cause each such New Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to this SECTION 3.7 to deliver any and all certificates representing Equity Interests in such New Restricted Subsidiary (to the extent certificated or constituting “certificated securities”) and intercompany notes that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank;

 

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(C) to take and cause any such New Restricted Subsidiary that is a new Guarantor pursuant to this SECTION 3.7 to take whatever action (including the recording of Mortgages, the filing of UCC financing statements and Intellectual Property Security Agreements, and delivery of Pledged Equity and Pledged Debt, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank) as may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent to vest in the Collateral Agent valid and perfected Liens securing the Senior Secured Notes Obligations to the extent required by the Collateral Requirement, and to otherwise comply with the requirements of the Collateral Requirement;

(iii) if reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, within sixty (60) days after such request (or such longer period as the Trustee may agree in writing in its discretion), delivers to the Trustee a signed copy of an Opinion of Counsel;

(iv) as promptly as practicable after the request therefor by the Collateral Agent, delivers to the Collateral Agent with respect to each Material Real Property, any existing title reports, abstracts or environmental assessment reports, to the extent available and in the possession or control of the Company or any Guarantor or their respective Subsidiaries; provided, however, that there shall be no obligation to deliver to the Trustee any existing environmental assessment report whose disclosure to the Trustee would require the consent of a Person other than the Company, a Guarantor, or one of their respective Subsidiaries, where, despite the commercially reasonable efforts of the Company, such Guarantor or such Subsidiary to obtain such consent, such consent cannot be obtained; and

(v) if reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, within sixty (60) days after such request (or such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree in writing in its discretion), delivers to the Collateral Agent any other items necessary from time to time to satisfy the Collateral Requirement with respect to perfection and existence of security interests with respect to After-Acquired Property of any Guarantor acquired after the Issue Date and subject to the Collateral Requirement, but not specifically covered by the preceding clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) or clause (b) below;

provided that this SECTION 3.7 shall not be applicable to any guarantee of any Restricted Subsidiary that existed at the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary.

(b) The Parent Guarantor may elect, in its sole discretion, to cause any Restricted Subsidiary that is not otherwise required to be a Guarantor to become a Guarantor (an “Electing Guarantor”), in which case, such Subsidiary shall not be required to comply with the time periods described in this SECTION 3.7 and in the definition of “Collateral Requirement” and such Guarantee may be released at any time in the Company’s sole discretion, if, at the time of release, such Subsidiary would not be required to Guarantee the Notes.

 

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SECTION 3.8. Limitation on Affiliate Transactions.

(a) The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $25 million, unless:

(1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable, as determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Parent Guarantor, to the Parent Guarantor or its relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction or the execution of the agreement provided for such transaction by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis; and

(2) in the event any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involves an aggregate value in excess of $50 million, the terms of such transaction have been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors.

(b) SECTION 3.8(a) shall not apply to:

(1) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to SECTION 3.3 or any Permitted Investment;

(2) any issuance or sale of Capital Stock, options, other equity-related interests or other securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, or entering into, or maintenance of, any employment, consulting, collective bargaining or benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement, related trust or other similar agreement and other compensation arrangements, options, warrants or other rights to purchase Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor, any Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity, restricted stock plans, long-term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans, participation plans or similar employee benefits or consultants’ plans (including valuation, health, insurance, deferred compensation, severance, retirement, savings or similar plans, programs or arrangements) or indemnities provided on behalf of officers, employees, directors or consultants approved by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor;

(3) any Management Advances and any waiver or transaction with respect thereto;

(4) (a) any transaction between or among the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiary (or entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction), or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation with any Parent Entity, provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise permitted under this Indenture;

 

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(5) the payment of compensation, fees and reimbursement of expenses to, and customary indemnities (including under customary insurance policies), employment and severance arrangements, and employee benefit and pension expenses provided on behalf of, or for the benefit of, future, current and former directors, officers or employees of any Parent Entity, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(6) the entry into and performance of obligations of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries under the terms of any transaction arising out of, and any payments pursuant to or for purposes of funding, any agreement or instrument in effect as of or on the Issue Date, as these agreements and instruments may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or refinanced from time to time in accordance with the other terms of this SECTION 3.8 or to the extent not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;

(7) [Reserved];

(8) transactions with customers, clients, joint venture partners, suppliers, contractors, distributors or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice, which are fair to the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors or the senior management of the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary, or are on terms, taken as a whole, no less favorable than those that could reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party;

(9) any transaction between or among the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor or an Associate that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary owns an Equity Interest in or otherwise controls such Affiliate or Associate;

(10) issuances or sales of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Parent Guarantor, any Parent Entity or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or options, warrants or other rights to acquire such Capital Stock and the granting of registration and other customary rights (and the performance of the related obligations) in connection therewith or any contribution to capital of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(11) the Transactions and the payment of all costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses) related to the Transactions;

(12) transactions in which the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or meets the requirements of SECTION 3.8(a)(1);

 

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(13) the existence of, or the performance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any equityholders agreement (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreements related thereto) to which it is party as of the Issue Date and any similar agreement that it may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of its obligations under any future amendment to the equityholders’ agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date will only be permitted under this clause to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respects;

(14) any purchases by the Parent Guarantor’s Affiliates of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries the majority of which Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock is purchased by Persons who are not the Parent Guarantor’s Affiliates; provided that such purchases by the Parent Guarantor’s Affiliates are on the same terms as such purchases by such Persons who are not the Parent Guarantor’s Affiliates;

(15) (i) investments by Affiliates in securities of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and payment of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Affiliates in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary generally to other non-Affiliated third party investors on the same or more favorable terms and (ii) payments to Affiliates in respect of securities of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in subclause (i) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities;

(16) [Reserved];

(17) payments made, Indebtedness and Disqualified Stock issued (and cancellation of any thereof) of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries and Preferred Stock (and cancellation of any thereof) of any Restricted Subsidiary issued to any future, current or former employee, director, officer, contractor or consultant (or Immediate Family Members) of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its Parent Entities pursuant to any management equity plan, stock option plan, any other management, employee benefit plan or agreement, any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, any employment agreements, other compensatory arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or agreements with any such employees, directors, officers, contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members) that are, in each case, approved by the Parent Guarantor in good faith;

(18) the issuance of the iHeartCommunications Warrants and the sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of the Equity Interests of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. subject to the iHeartCommunications Warrants upon the exercise thereof;

 

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(19) any transition services arrangement, supply arrangement or similar arrangement entered into in connection with or in contemplation of the disposition of assets or Capital Stock in any Restricted Subsidiary permitted under SECTION 3.5 hereof or entered into with any Business Successor, in each case, that the Parent Guarantor determines in good faith is either fair to the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries or otherwise on customary terms for such type of arrangements in connection with similar transactions;

(20) transactions pursuant to the Tax Matters Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, or any employee matters agreement contemplated by the Bankruptcy Plan;

(21) any Permitted Tax Restructuring subject to complying with the express terms and conditions of the definition of “Permitted Tax Restructuring”;

(22) any lease entered into between the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee, and any Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor, as lessor, which is approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors; and

(23) a joint venture which would constitute a transaction with an Affiliate solely as a result of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary owning an equity interest or otherwise controlling such joint venture or similar entity.

SECTION 3.9. Change of Control.

(a) If a Change of Control occurs, unless the Company has previously or substantially concurrently therewith delivered a redemption notice with respect to all the outstanding Notes as described under SECTION 5.7, the Company shall make an offer to purchase all of the Notes pursuant to the offer described below (the “Change of Control Offer”) at a price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the date of repurchase; provided that (1) if the repurchase date is on or after the record date and on or before the corresponding interest payment date, then Holders in whose name the Notes are registered at the close of business on such record date will receive interest on the repurchase date; and (2) if the Company delivered a redemption notice but subsequently did not redeem all outstanding Notes pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then the Company shall make a Change of Control Offer and otherwise comply with the terms of this SECTION 3.9. Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company will deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of such Change of Control Offer, electronically in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC or by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder of Notes at the address of such Holder appearing in the security register or otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Change of Control and offering to repurchase the Notes for the specified purchase price on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is delivered, pursuant to the procedures required by this Indenture and described in such notice, except in the case of a conditional Change of Control Offer made in advance of a Change of Control as described below:

(1) that a Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this SECTION 3.9, and that all Notes properly tendered pursuant to such Change of Control Offer will be accepted for payment by the Company;

 

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(2) the purchase price and the purchase date, which will be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is delivered (the “Change of Control Payment Date”);

(3) that any Note not properly tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest;

(4) that unless the Company default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer will cease to accrue interest, on the Change of Control Payment Date;

(5) that Holders electing to have any Notes purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender such Notes, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of such Notes completed, to the Paying Agent specified in the notice at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date;

(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their tendered Notes and their election to require the Company to purchase such Notes; provided that the Paying Agent receives, not later than the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the expiration date of the Change of Control Offer, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder of the Notes, the principal amount of Notes tendered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its tendered Notes and its election to have such Notes purchased;

(7) that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in part will be issued new Notes and such new Notes will be equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered. The unpurchased portion of the Notes must be equal to at least $100.00 or any integral multiple of $1.00;

(8) if such notice is delivered prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control, stating that the Change of Control Offer is conditional on the occurrence of such Change of Control; and

(9) the other instructions, as determined by the Company, consistent with this SECTION 3.9, that a Holder must follow.

The Paying Agent will promptly deliver to each Holder of the Notes tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each such new Note will be in a principal amount of $100.00 or an integral multiple of $1.00. The Company will publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

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If the Change of Control Payment Date is on or after an interest record date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid on the relevant interest payment date to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date.

(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company will, to the extent permitted by law,

(1) accept for payment all Notes issued by it or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer,

(2) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the aggregate Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered, and

(3) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation the Notes so accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee stating that such Notes or portions thereof have been tendered to and purchased by the Company.

(c) The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control if (i) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer or (ii) a notice of redemption of all outstanding Notes has been given pursuant to SECTION 5.7 hereof, unless and until there is a default in the payment of the redemption price on the applicable redemption date or the redemption is not consummated due to the failure of a condition precedent contained in the applicable redemption notice to be satisfied. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this SECTION 3.9, a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, conditional upon such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making the Change of Control Offer.

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, in connection with any tender offer for the Notes, including a Change of Control Offer or Asset Disposition Offer, if Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in such tender offer and the Company, or any third party making a such tender offer in lieu of the Company, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party will have the right upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ prior Company notice, given not more than 30 days following such purchase date, to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the price offered to each other Holder in such tender offer plus, to the extent not included in the tender offer payment, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon, to, but not including, the date of such redemption.

(e) While the Notes are in global form and the Company make an offer to purchase all of the Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, a Holder may exercise its option to elect for the purchase of the Notes through the facilities of DTC, subject to its rules and regulations.

 

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(f) To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws, rules or regulations, including Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations described in this Indenture by virtue thereof. The Company may rely on any no-action letters issued by the SEC indicating that the staff of the SEC will not recommend enforcement action in the event a tender offer satisfies certain conditions.

SECTION 3.10. Reports.

(a) Notwithstanding that the Parent Guarantor may not be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or otherwise report on an annual and quarterly basis on forms provided for such annual and quarterly reporting pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, from and after the Issue Date, the Parent Guarantor will furnish to the Trustee, within 10 days after the time periods specified below:

(1) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, all financial information that would be required to be contained in an annual report on Form 10-K, or any successor or comparable form, filed with the SEC, including a “Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations” and a report on the annual financial statements by the Parent Guarantor’s independent registered public accounting firm;

(2) within 60 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2019), all financial information that would be required to be contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q, or any successor or comparable form, filed with the SEC; and

(3) promptly after the occurrence of any of the following events, all current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K or any successor or comparable form (if the Parent Guarantor had been a reporting company under Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act); provided, that the foregoing shall not obligate the Parent Guarantor to (i) make available any information otherwise required to be included on a Form 8-K regarding the occurrence of any such events if the Parent Guarantor determines in its good faith judgment that such event that would otherwise be required to be disclosed is not material to the Holders of the Notes or the business, assets, operations, financial positions or prospects of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (ii) make available copies of any agreements, financial statements or other items that would be required to be filed as exhibits to a current report on Form 8-K:

(i) the entry into or termination of material agreements;

(ii) significant acquisitions or dispositions (which shall only be with respect to acquisitions or dispositions that are “significant” pursuant to the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Rule 1-02(w)(2) of Regulation S-X;

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(iv) bankruptcy;

(v) cross-default under direct material financial obligations;

(vi) a change in the Parent Guarantor’s certifying independent auditor;

(vii) the appointment or departure of directors or executive officers (but only to the extent required by Form 8-K);

(viii) non-reliance on previously issued financial statements;

(ix) change of control transactions;

(x) triggering events that accelerate or increase a direct financial obligation or an obligation under an off-balance sheet arrangement; and

(xi) material impairments;

in each case, in a manner that complies in all material respects with the requirements specified in such form, except as described above or below; provided, however, that the Parent Guarantor shall not be required to (i) comply with Regulation G under the Exchange Act or Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K with respect to any “non-GAAP” financial information contained therein or (ii) provide separate financial statements or other information contemplated by Rule 3-09, 3-10 or 3-16 of Regulation S-X, or in each case any successor provisions; provided that, if the Parent Guarantor has designated any of its Subsidiaries as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and such Unrestricted Subsidiary or group of Unrestricted Subsidiaries, if taken together as one Subsidiary, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, then the annual and quarterly information required by clauses (1) and (2) above shall include a presentation of selected financial metrics of such Unrestricted Subsidiaries as a group in the “Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations.” In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parent Guarantor will not be required to (i) comply with Sections 302, 906 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, or (ii) otherwise furnish any information, certificates or reports required by Items 307 or 308 of Regulation S-K. To the extent any such information is not so filed or furnished, as applicable, within the time periods specified above and such information is subsequently filed or furnished, as applicable, the Parent Guarantor will be deemed to have satisfied its obligations with respect thereto at such time and any Default with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been cured; provided that such cure shall not otherwise affect the rights of the Holders under SECTION 6.1 if Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then total outstanding Notes have declared the principal, premium, if any, interest and any other monetary obligations on all the then outstanding Notes to be due and payable immediately and such declaration shall not have been rescinded or cancelled prior to such cure. In addition, to the extent not satisfied by the foregoing, the Parent Guarantor shall, for so long as any Notes are outstanding, furnish to Holders and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

 

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(b) Substantially concurrently with the furnishing or making such information available to the Trustee pursuant to SECTION 3.10(a), the Parent Guarantor shall post copies of such information required by SECTION 3.10(a) on a website (which may be nonpublic and may be maintained by the Parent Guarantor or a third party) to which access will be given to Holders, prospective investors in the Notes and securities analysts and market making financial institutions that are reasonably satisfactory to the Parent Guarantor. To the extent the Parent Guarantor determines in good faith that it cannot make such reports available in the manner described in the preceding sentence after the use of its commercially reasonable efforts, furnish such reports to the Holders of the Notes, upon their request. The Parent Guarantor may condition the delivery of any such reports to such Holders, prospective investors in the Notes and securities analysts and market making financial institutions on the agreement of such Persons to (i) treat all such reports (and the information contained there) and information as confidential, (ii) not use such reports (and the information contained therein) and information for any purpose other than their investment or potential investment in the Notes and (iii) not publicly disclose any such reports (and the information contained therein) and information.

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 for information contained therein, including the Company’s and any Guarantor’s compliance with any of the covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the failure to comply with the reporting obligations described under this covenant, will for the 365 days after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively, to the extent permitted by applicable law, of the right to receive additional interest on the principal amount of the Notes at a rate equal to 0.50% per annum. This additional interest will be payable in the same manner and subject to the same terms as other interest payable under this Indenture. This additional interest will accrue on all outstanding Notes from and including the date on which an Event of Default relating to a failure to comply with the reporting obligations described above under this covenant first occurs to, but excluding, the 365th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which the Event of Default relating to such reporting obligations is cured or waived). If the Event of Default resulting from such failure to comply with the reporting obligations is continuing on such 365th day, such additional interest will cease to accrue and the Notes will be subject to the other remedies provided in SECTION 6.1.

(c) The Parent Guarantor will also hold quarterly conference calls for the Holders of Notes to discuss financial information for the previous quarter (it being understood that such quarterly conference call may be the same conference call as with the Parent Guarantor’s (or as applicable, any of any Parent Entity’s) equity investors and analysts). The conference call will be following the last day of each fiscal quarter of the Parent Guarantor and not later than 20 Business Days from the time that the Parent Guarantor distributes the financial information as set forth in SECTION 3.10(a). The Parent Guarantor will issue a press release announcing the time and date of such conference call (which date may be the same date on which the press release is issued) and providing instructions for Holders, securities analysts and prospective investors to obtain access to such call provided however that such press release can be distributed solely to certified users of the website described in the second preceding paragraph.

 

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(d) The Parent Guarantor may satisfy its obligations under SECTION 3.10 with respect to financial information relating to the Parent Guarantor by furnishing financial information relating to a Parent Entity; provided that the same is accompanied by an explanation of the material differences, if any, between the information relating to such Parent Entity, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand. For the avoidance of doubt, the consolidating information referred to in the proviso in the preceding sentence need not be audited.

(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth above, if the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity of the Parent Guarantor has furnished the Holders of Notes and filed with the SEC the reports described in the preceding paragraphs with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any Parent Entity, the Parent Guarantor shall be deemed to be in compliance with SECTION 3.10(a).

SECTION 3.11. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain an office or agency in the United States where the Notes will be payable and where, if applicable, the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made. The corporate trust office of the Trustee, which initially shall be located at 333 Commerce Street, Suite 800, Nashville, Tennessee, shall be such office or agency of the Company unless the Company shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for one or more of such purposes. The Company will give written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any 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 and surrenders may be made at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoint the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations and surrenders.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind any such designation. The Company will give written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The office of the Trustee shall not be an office or agency of the Company for service of process on the Company or any Guarantor.

SECTION 3.12. Compliance Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company an Officer’s Certificate, stating that in the course of the performance by the signer of his or her duties as an Officer of the Company he or she would normally have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default, that a review of the activities of the Company during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and whether or not the signer knows of any Default or Event of Default that occurred during the previous fiscal year; provided that no such Officer’s Certificate shall be required for any fiscal year ended prior to the Issue Date. If such Officer does have such knowledge, the certificate shall describe the Default or Event of Default, its status and the action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. The Company shall comply with Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act.

 

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SECTION 3.13. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee or as necessary to comply with future developments or requirements, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.14. Statement by Officers as to Default. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Company become aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the actions which the Company is taking or propose to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 3.15. Suspension of Certain Covenants.

(a) Following the first day: (1) the Notes have achieved Investment Grade Status; and (2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, then, beginning on that day and continuing until the Reversion Date (as defined below), the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not be subject to SECTIONS 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8 and 4.1(a)(3) (collectively, the “Suspended Covenants”).

(b) If at any time the Notes cease to have such Investment Grade Status, then the Suspended Covenants will thereafter be reinstated as if such covenants had never been suspended (such date, the “Reversion Date”) and be applicable pursuant to the terms of this Indenture (including in connection with performing any calculation or assessment to determine compliance with the terms of this Indenture), unless and until the Notes subsequently attain Investment Grade Status and no Default or Event of Default is in existence (in which event the Suspended Covenants shall no longer be in effect for such time that the Notes maintain an Investment Grade Status); provided, however, that, on the Reversion Date, no Default, Event of Default or breach of any kind shall be deemed to exist under this Indenture, the Notes or the Notes Guarantees with respect to the Suspended Covenants during the Suspension Period (as defined below) based on, and none of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries shall bear any liability for, any actions taken or events occurring during the Suspension Period solely with respect to the Suspended Covenants, or any actions taken at any time pursuant to any contractual obligation arising prior to the Reversion Date, regardless of whether such actions or events would have been permitted if the applicable Suspended Covenants remained in effect during such period. The period of time between the date of suspension of the covenants and the Reversion Date is referred to as the “Suspension Period.”

(c) On the Reversion Date, all Indebtedness Incurred during the Suspension Period will be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date, so that it is classified as permitted under SECTION 3.2(b)(4). On the Reversion Date, all Liens created during the Suspension Period will be considered Permitted Liens. Calculations made after the Reversion Date of the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under SECTION 3.3 will be made as though SECTION 3.3 had been in effect since the Issue Date and prior to, but not during the Suspension Period. Accordingly, Restricted Payments made during the Suspension Period will not reduce the amount available to be made as Restricted Payments under SECTION 3.3(a). All obligations to grant Guarantees shall be reinstated upon the Reversion Date.

 

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(d) The Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the ratings of the Notes, shall not be deemed to have any knowledge of the ratings of the Notes and shall have no duty to notify Holders if the Notes achieve Investment Grade Status. The Company or the Parent Guarantor shall give the Trustee written notice upon the occurrence of a covenant suspension or any Reversion Date.

SECTION 3.16. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

(a) The Parent Guarantor may designate any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Company and other than as set forth in clause (b) below) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary provided that any such designation would not cause a Default. If a Restricted Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate fair market value of all outstanding Investments owned by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be deemed to be an Investment made as of the time of the designation and will reduce the amount available for Restricted Payments pursuant to SECTION 3.3 or under one or more clauses of the definition of Permitted Investments, as determined by the Parent Guarantor. That designation will only be permitted if the Investment would be permitted at that time and if the Restricted Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Parent Guarantor may redesignate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary provided that any such redesignation would not cause a Default. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Parent Guarantor may not designate the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(b) No Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries owns any Broadcast Licenses, Broadcast Stations or material intellectual property or other material property or assets necessary at such time to the operation of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, and no Unrestricted Subsidiary may own Capital Stock, or hold Indebtedness, of the Parent Guarantor, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.

(c) Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such designation complies with the preceding conditions and was permitted by SECTION 3.3. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary will be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as of such date under SECTION 3.2, the Parent Guarantor will be in default of SECTION 3.2.

 

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(d) The Parent Guarantor may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor; provided that such designation will be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, and such designation will only be permitted if (1) such Indebtedness is permitted under SECTION 3.2 (including pursuant to clause (b)(5) thereof treating such redesignation as an acquisition for the purposes of such clause), calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable reference period; and (2) no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation. Any such designation by the Parent Guarantor shall be evidenced to the Trustee by an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such designation complies with the preceding conditions.

SECTION 3.17. Payment of Taxes. The Parent Guarantor shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, all income and other material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon or with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or any of their income, profits or assets; provided, however, that the Parent Guarantor shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim the amount, applicability or validity of which is being contested in good faith by appropriate actions and for which appropriate reserves, are being maintained as and to the extent required in accordance with GAAP.

SECTION 3.18. Business of the Parent Guarantor and Restricted Subsidiaries. The Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will not materially alter their business from the business conducted by the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, on the Issue Date and other business activities which are extensions thereof or otherwise similar, incidental, complementary, synergistic, reasonably related, or ancillary to any of the foregoing or constitute any Similar Business, in each case as determined by the Parent Guarantor in good faith.

SECTION 3.19. Corporate Existence. Except as otherwise provided in ARTICLE IV and subject to the ability of the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to convert (or similar action) to another form of legal entity under the laws of the jurisdiction under which the Parent Guarantor or such Subsidiary then exists, as applicable, the Parent Guarantor will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other existence of each Restricted Subsidiary unless otherwise permitted by this Indenture.

ARTICLE IV

SUCCESSOR COMPANY; SUCCESSOR PERSON

SECTION 4.1. Merger and Consolidation.

(a) The Company will not consolidate with or merge or amalgamate with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all its assets to any Person, unless:

(1) the resulting surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”) will be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company (if not the Company) will expressly assume via a supplemental indenture all the obligations of Company under the Notes, this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements;

 

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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the applicable Successor Company or any Subsidiary of the applicable Successor Company as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the applicable Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(3) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and the related financing transaction (including the use of proceeds therefrom), either (i) the applicable Successor Company would be able to Incur at least an additional $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to SECTION 3.2(a) or (ii) the Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries would not be higher than it was immediately prior to giving effect to such transaction; and

(4) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (on which the Trustee may conclusively and exclusively rely), each stating that such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or transfer and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such supplemental indenture (if any) is a legal, valid and binding agreement enforceable against the applicable Successor Company (in each case, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee), provided that in giving an Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate as to any matters of fact.

For purposes of SECTION 4.1, the sale, lease, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company. Any reference to the merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Company or any other entity, or the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or any other entity, shall include any such transaction by way of a plan of arrangement and any arrangement having a similar effect.

(b) The Successor Company will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the Notes and this Indenture but in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, the predecessor company will not be released from its obligations under such Notes or this Indenture.

(c) Notwithstanding SECTIONS 4.1(a)(2), 4.1(a)(3) and 4.1(a)(4) (which do not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence), (a) the Company may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to a Guarantor, (b) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge or amalgamate into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Company, provided the Company is the Successor company in any such transaction, (c) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge or amalgamate into or transfer all or part of its

 

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properties and assets to any other Restricted Subsidiary and (d) the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may complete any Permitted Tax Restructuring. Notwithstanding SECTIONS 4.1(a)(2) and 4.1(a)(3) (which do not apply to the transactions referred to in this sentence), the Company may consolidate or otherwise combine with or merge or amalgamate into an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of changing the legal domicile of the Company, reincorporating the Company in another jurisdiction, or changing the legal form of the Company.

(d) The foregoing provisions (other than the requirements of SECTION 4.1(a)(2)) shall not apply to the creation of a new Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.

(e) The Parent Guarantor may not

(1) consolidate with or merge or amalgamate with or into any Person, or

(2) sell, convey, transfer or dispose of, all or substantially all its assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to any Person, or

(3) permit any Person to merge or amalgamate with or into the Parent Guarantor, unless:

(i) the Parent Guarantor is the continuing Person,

(ii) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Parent Guarantor under the Parent Guarantee, and

(iii) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(f) Notwithstanding SECTION 4.1(e) (which does not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence) (i) the Parent Guarantor may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge or amalgamate with or into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to a Guarantor and (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor may consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge or amalgamate with or into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Parent Guarantor. Notwithstanding SECTION 4.1(e) (which does not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence), the Parent Guarantor may consolidate or otherwise combine with or merge or amalgamate into an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of changing the legal domicile of the Parent Guarantor, reincorporating the Parent Guarantor in another jurisdiction, or changing the legal form of the Parent Guarantor, provided, in each case, that any such transaction does not lessen or negatively alter the form and substance of the Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor or the obligations of the Parent Guarantor and the Company under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees, as the case may be.

(g) [Reserved].

(h) No Subsidiary Guarantor may

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(2) sell, convey, transfer or dispose of, all or substantially all its assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to any Person, or

(3) permit any Person to merge or amalgamate with or into such Subsidiary Guarantor, unless

(i) the other Person is the Parent Guarantor, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary Guarantor or becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor concurrently with the transaction; or

(ii) (1) either (x) the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor is the continuing Person or (y) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture; and (2) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; or

(iii) the transaction constitutes a sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation, merger or amalgamation) of the Subsidiary Guarantor or the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the assets of the Subsidiary Guarantor (in each case other than to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) otherwise permitted by this Indenture.

(i) Notwithstanding SECTION 4.1(h) (which does not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence), any Subsidiary Guarantor may (i) consolidate or otherwise combine with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to another Guarantor or the Company, (ii) consolidate or otherwise combine with or merge into an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of changing the legal domicile of the Subsidiary Guarantor, reincorporating the Subsidiary Guarantor in another jurisdiction, or changing the legal form of the Subsidiary Guarantor, which purpose is evidenced in a board resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Subsidiary Guarantor, and (iii) complete any Permitted Tax Restructuring, subject to complying with the express terms and conditions of the definition of “Permitted Tax Restructuring.” Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in SECTION 4.1(h) (which does not apply to transactions referred to in this sentence), the Parent Guarantor may contribute Capital Stock of any or all of its Subsidiaries to any Guarantor provided, in each case, that, except as otherwise permitted under SECTION 10.2(b) or other provisions of this Indenture, any such transaction does not lessen or negatively alter the form and substance of the Guarantee of the Subsidiary Guarantor or the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantor and the Company under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees, as the case may be.

ARTICLE V

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

SECTION 5.1. Notices to Trustee. If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of SECTION 5.7 hereof, it must furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the following, at least five (5) days before the notice of redemption is sent to Holders of the Notes pursuant to SECTION 5.3 (or such shorter period as the Trustee may agree):

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(2) the redemption date;

(3) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed; and

(4) the redemption price.

The Company may cancel any optional redemption referenced in such Officer’s Certificate at any time prior to notice of redemption being sent to any Holder and thereafter such Officer’s Certificate shall be null and void.

SECTION 5.2. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased. If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed or purchased at any time, the Trustee will select the Notes for redemption or purchase in compliance with the requirements of the principal securities exchange, if any, on which such Notes are listed and in compliance with the requirements of DTC in the case of global notes, or if Notes are not so listed or such exchange prescribes no method of selection and such Notes are not held through DTC or DTC prescribes no method of selection, on a pro rata basis, subject to adjustments so that no Note in an unauthorized denomination remains outstanding after such redemption; provided, however, that no Note of $1.00 in aggregate principal amount or less shall be redeemed in part.

SECTION 5.3. Notice of Redemption.

(a) At least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company will send or cause to be sent, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at the address of such Holder appearing in the Notes Register or otherwise in accordance with the procedures of DTC, except that redemption notices may be delivered more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a legal or covenant defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to ARTICLES VIII or XI hereof.

The notice will identify the Notes (including the CUSIP or ISIN number) to be redeemed and will state:

(1) the redemption date;

(2) the redemption price;

(3) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion will be issued upon cancellation of the original Note;

(4) the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(5) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

 

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(6) that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment, interest, if any, on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;

(7) the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed;

(8) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP or ISIN number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes; and

(9) any conditions to redemption.

(b) Notice of any redemption of the Notes may, at the Company’s discretion, be given prior to the completion of a transaction (including an Equity Offering, an incurrence of Indebtedness, a Change of Control or other transaction) and any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a related transaction. If such redemption or purchase is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption or purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed. In addition, the Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Company’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.

(c) If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to that Note shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed, in which case a portion of the original Note will be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Note. In the case of a global note, an appropriate notation will be made on such Note to decrease the principal amount thereof to an amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof. Subject to the terms of the applicable redemption notice (including any conditions contained therein), Notes called for redemption become due on the date fixed for redemption. On and after the redemption date, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest ceases to accrue on Notes or portions of them called for redemption.

(d) At the Company’s request, the Trustee will give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense; provided, however, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee at least five (5) days prior to the date that such notice of redemption is to be delivered to Holders (or such shorter period as the Trustee may agree), an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in SECTION 5.3(a) in the form of such notice.

SECTION 5.4. Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is sent in accordance with hereof, Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price stated in such notice, as such date may be delayed, unless such redemption is cancelled as set forth in SECTION 5.3(b).

 

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SECTION 5.5. Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price. By 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption or purchase date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent an amount of money sufficient in immediately available funds to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued interest, if any, on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased on that date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent will promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption or purchase price of, and accrued interest, if any, on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased.

If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the redemption or purchase date, interest, if any, will cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption or purchase. If a Note is redeemed or purchased on or after an interest record date but on or prior to the related interest payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest up to the redemption date shall be paid on the redemption date to the Person in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business on such record date. If any Note called for redemption or purchase is not so paid upon surrender for redemption or purchase because of the failure of the Company to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption or purchase date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in SECTION 3.1 hereof.

SECTION 5.6. Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part. Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the Company will issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee will authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Company a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered; provided, that each such new Note will be in a principal amount of $100.00 or integral multiples of $1.00.

SECTION 5.7. Optional Redemption.

(a) At any time prior to May 1, 2022, the Company may redeem the Notes in whole or in part, at its option, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the redemption date.

(b) At any time and from time to time prior to May 1, 2022, the Company may redeem Notes, at its option, with the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company from any Equity Offering at a redemption price equal to 106.375% plus accrued and unpaid interest, to but excluding the redemption date, in an aggregate principal amount for all such redemptions not to exceed 40% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (including Additional Notes); provided that (1) in each case the redemption takes place not later than 180 days after the closing of the related Equity Offering, and (2) not less than 50% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes issued under this Indenture (including Additional Notes) remains outstanding immediately thereafter, excluding Notes held by the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, unless all such Notes are redeemed substantially concurrently. The Trustee shall select the Notes to be purchased in the manner described under SECTIONS 5.1 through 5.6.

 

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(c) Except pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) of this SECTION 5.7 or as otherwise set forth below, the Notes will not be redeemable at the Company’s option prior to May 1 , 2022. The Company will not, however, be prohibited from acquiring the Notes by means other than a redemption, whether pursuant to a tender offer, open market purchase or otherwise, so long as the acquisition does not violate the terms of this Indenture.

(d) At any time and from time to time on or after May 1, 2022, the Company may redeem the Notes in whole or in part, at its option, at a redemption price equal to the percentage of principal amount set forth below plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes redeemed, to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on May 1 of the year indicated below:

 

Year

   Percentage  

2022

     103.1875

2023

     101.5938

2024 and thereafter

     100.0000

(e) If the optional redemption date is on or after a record date and on or before the corresponding interest payment date, the accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the redemption date will be paid on the redemption date to the Holder in whose name the Note is registered at the close of business on such record date in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, and no additional interest will be payable to Holders whose Notes will be subject to redemption by the Company.

(f) Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

SECTION 5.8. Mandatory Redemption. The Company is not required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes; provided however, that under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to offer to purchase Notes under SECTION 3.5 and SECTION 3.9. The Company and its Affiliates, may from time to time seek to purchase the Company’s outstanding debt securities or loans, including the Notes, in privately negotiated or open market transactions, by tender offer or otherwise.

ARTICLE VI

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.1. Events of Default. Each of the following is an “Event of Default”:

(1) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, continued for 30 days;

(2) default in the payment of the principal amount of or premium, if any, on any Note when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

 

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(3) failure by the Company or any Guarantor to comply for 60 days after written notice by the Trustee on beh