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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): June 22, 2020
 
AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.
AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         
Delaware
 
1-8400
 
75-1825172
Delaware
 
1-2691
 
13-1502798
(State or other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
 
(Commission
File Number)
 
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
 
     
1 Skyview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas
 
76155
1 Skyview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas
 
76155
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
(817)
963-1234
(817)
963-1234
N/A
(Former name or former address if changed since last report.)
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form
8-K
filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule
14a-12
under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14a-12)
 
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule
14d-2(b)
under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14d-2(b))
 
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule
13e-4(c)
under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13e-4(c))
 
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
         
Title of each class
 
Trading
Symbol(s)
 
Name of each exchange
on which registered
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
 
AAL
 
The Nasdaq Global Select Market
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule
12b-2
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Emerging growth company  ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  
 
 

ITEM 
1
.01.
ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.
 
Public Offering of Common Stock
On June 25, 2020, American Airlines Group Inc. (“AAG”) completed the public offering of 74,100,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of AAG (the “Common Stock”), at a public offering price of $13.50 per share (the “Common Stock Offering”).
In connection with the Common Stock Offering, on June 22, 2020, AAG and American Airlines, Inc. (“AAI” and, together with AAG, the “Companies”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Common Stock Underwriting Agreement”) with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, relating to the issuance and sale of the shares as described above. Under the terms of the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement, AAG granted the underwriters a
30-day
option to purchase up to 11,115,000 additional shares of Common Stock on the same terms solely to cover over-allotments, which over-allotment option the underwriters exercised in full on June 23, 2020. The issuance and sale of the full 85,215,000 shares of Common Stock was completed on June 25, 2020. AAG expects to use the net proceeds from the Common Stock Offering for general corporate purposes and to enhance the Companies’ liquidity position.
Public Offering of Convertible Senior Notes
On June 25, 2020, AAG completed the public offering of $1,000.0 million aggregate principal amount of AAG’s 6.50% convertible senior notes due 2025 (the “Notes,” and such offering, the “Convertible Notes Offering”). The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by AAI (the “Guarantee”).
In connection with the Convertible Notes Offering, on June 22, 2020, the Companies entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Convertible Notes Underwriting Agreement,” and together with the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement the “Underwriting Agreements”) with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, relating to the issuance and sale of the Notes and the Guarantee. Under the terms of the Convertible Notes Underwriting Agreement, AAG granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes solely to cover over-allotments. AAG expects to use the net proceeds from the Convertible Notes Offering for general corporate purposes and to enhance AAG’s liquidity position.
The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), between AAG and Wilmington Trust, National Association as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by that certain first supplemental indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020, among AAG, AAI and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Notes will mature on July 1, 2025. Interest on the Notes will accrue at a rate of 6.50% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2021.
The Notes were priced to investors in the offering at 100% of their principal amount. The Notes and the Guarantee will rank pari passu in right of payment with all of AAG’s and AAI’s respective existing and future senior indebtedness and senior in right of payment to all of AAG’s and AAI’s respective future subordinated indebtedness. The Notes and the Guarantee will be effectively subordinated to all of AAG and AAI’s respective existing and future secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets pledged to secure those obligations. The Notes will also be structurally subordinated to all existing and future indebtedness of AAG’s
non-guarantor
subsidiaries.
Upon conversion, AAG will pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at AAG’s election. The initial conversion rate is 61.7284 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $16.20 per share of Common Stock). The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in some events as described in the Indenture.

Holders may convert their Notes at their option only in the following circumstances: (1) during any calendar quarter (and only during such calendar quarter) commencing after the calendar quarter ending on September 30, 2020, if the last reported sale price per share of Common Stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price for each of at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter; (2) during the five consecutive business days immediately after any 10 consecutive trading day period (such 10 consecutive trading day period, the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price per share of Common Stock on such trading day and the conversion rate on such trading day; (3) upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions on Common Stock; (4) if AAG calls such Notes for redemption; and (5) at any time from, and including, April 1, 2025 until the close of business on the scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date.
In addition, following certain corporate events that occur prior to the maturity date or upon AAG’s issuance of a notice of redemption, AAG will increase the conversion rate for a holder who elects to convert its Notes in connection with such corporate event or during the related redemption period in certain circumstances by a specified number of shares of Common Stock as described in the Indenture.
AAG will not have the right to redeem the Notes prior to July 5, 2023. On or after July 5, 2023 and on or before the 20th scheduled trading day immediately before the maturity date, AAG may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, if the last reported sale price of Common Stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect on (1) each of at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date AAG sends the related redemption notice; and (2) the trading day immediately before the date AAG sends such notice. In the case of any optional redemption, AAG will redeem the Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date.
If AAG undergoes a fundamental change described in the Indenture prior to the maturity date of the Notes, except as described in the Indenture, holders of the Notes may require AAG to repurchase for cash all or part of their Notes at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date.
The Indenture provides for customary terms and covenants, including that upon certain events of default, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the unpaid principal amount of the Notes and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon immediately due and payable. In the case of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, the principal amount of the Notes together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon will automatically become and be immediately due and payable.
General
The Common Stock Offering and the Convertible Notes Offering are being made pursuant to AAG’s effective registration statement on Form
S-3
(File No.
 333-236503),
initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 19, 2020, and prospectus supplements and accompanying prospectus filed with the SEC.
The Underwriting Agreements contain customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Companies, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Companies and the underwriters, including for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreements were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties.
The foregoing descriptions of the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement, Convertible Notes Underwriting Agreement, the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantee are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement, Convertible Notes Underwriting Agreement, the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture and the form of the certificate representing the Notes, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively, to this report and are incorporated by reference herein. Copies of the opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of Common Stock in the Common Stock Offering and of Notes in the Convertible Notes Offering are attached as Exhibits 5.1 and 5.2, respectively, to this report.

ITEM 9.01.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.
 
(d)
Exhibits.
         
Exhibit
No.
 
 
Description
 
 
 
 
 
 
    1.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    1.2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    4.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    4.2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    4.3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    5.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    5.2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  23.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  23.2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
104.1
 
 
Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
 

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, American Airlines Group Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
             
 
 
American Airlines Group Inc.
             
Date: June 25, 2020
 
 
By:
 
/s/ Derek J. Kerr
 
 
 
Derek J. Kerr
 
 
 
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, American Airlines, Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
             
 
 
American Airlines, Inc.
             
Date: June 25, 2020
 
 
By:
 
/s/ Derek J. Kerr
 
 
 
Derek J. Kerr
 
 
 
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
 

Exhibit 1.1

Execution version

 

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

74,100,000 Shares of Common Stock

(par value $0.01 per share)

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

 

Dated: As of June 22, 2020


AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

74,100,000 Shares of Common Stock

(par value $0.01 per share)

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

June 22, 2020

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representatives of the several Underwriters

listed in Schedule I hereto

c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

c/o BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

Ladies and Gentlemen:

American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”) for whom you are acting as Representatives (the “Representatives”), an aggregate of 74,100,000 newly-issued shares (the “Initial Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company and, at the option of the Representatives, up to an additional 11,115,000 newly-issued shares of Common Stock (the “Option Shares” and together with the Initial Shares, the “Shares”) if and to the extent that the Representatives shall have determined to exercise the option to purchase such Option Shares granted to the Underwriters in Section 2 hereof, on the terms and conditions stated herein.

 

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To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule I other than you, the term Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires.

The Company and American Airlines, Inc. (“American”) have prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-236503 and 333-236503-01) relating to the Company’s Common Stock (including the Shares) and other securities (collectively, the “Securities”) and the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such registration statement, at any given time, including the amendments thereto at such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act at such time and the documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act, is herein called the “Registration Statement.” The Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective is herein called the “Original Registration Statement.” As provided in Section 3(a) hereof, promptly after execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company will prepare and file a Final Prospectus (as defined herein) relating to the Shares in accordance with the provisions of Rule 430B under the Securities Act (“Rule 430B”) and paragraph (b) of Rule 424 under the Securities Act (“Rule 424”). Any information included in such final prospectus that was omitted from the Original Registration Statement, but that is deemed to be part of and included in such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B(f) is referred to as the “Rule 430B Information.”

The term “Statutory Prospectus” means the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Shares that omits Rule 430B Information, together with the base prospectus relating to the Company’s Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants, Rights, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees (the “base prospectus”) included in the Original Registration Statement, and including the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below).

The term “Final Prospectus” means the final prospectus supplement relating to the Shares and the base prospectus, collectively, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the execution of this Agreement, which includes the Rule 430B Information, including the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act.

The term “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (“Rule 433”), relating to the public offering of the Shares.

The term “Applicable Time” shall mean 5:30 p.m. (New York Time) on June 22, 2020.

The terms of the public offering of any of the Shares are set forth in the General Disclosure Package relating thereto and the Final Prospectus. The term “General Disclosure Package” means the Statutory Prospectus and the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses identified in Item 1 of Schedule II hereto, all considered together.

 

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Any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any document incorporated by reference after the date of such Final Prospectus. Any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to include any document incorporated by reference after the effective date of such Registration Statement.

1. Representations and Warranties. (a) The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter that:

(i) Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act.

(ii) Effective Registration Statement. The Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (“Rule 405”)) eligible to use the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement; the Registration Statement has been filed with the Commission, became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act and is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in Rule 405; the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the Company’s knowledge threatened by the Commission; the Company has complied with no order preventing or suspending the use of the Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission; any request on the part of the Commission for additional information, and the Final Prospectus containing the Rule 430B Information shall be filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) (or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been filed and become effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430B). At the respective times the Original Registration Statement and each amendment thereto became effective, at any deemed effective date pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) and at each Closing Date (as defined below), the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Securities Act Regulations”) and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), and the rules and regulations under the TIA. At the deemed effective date, pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2), the Registration Statement did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this Section 1(a)(ii) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriters expressly for use therein (it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information separately identified to the Company in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B) or to those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the TIA (Form T-1) of a trustee pursuant to an indenture.

 

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(iii) Final Prospectus and General Disclosure Package. Neither the Final Prospectus nor any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement is issued and at each Closing Date, will include an untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Final Prospectus will comply when filed with the Commission in all material respects with the Securities Act Regulations and each of the Statutory Prospectus and the Final Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this offering was or will be, as the case may be, identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T or required under Rule 424(e) under the Securities Act; the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Statutory Prospectus or that will conflict with the information contained in the Final Prospectus that has not been superseded or modified; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this Section 1(a)(iii) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriters expressly for use therein (it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information separately identified to the Company in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B) or to those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the TIA (Form T-1) of a trustee pursuant to an indenture.

(iv) Incorporated Documents. The General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus as delivered from time to time shall incorporate by reference (A) the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed by the Company with the Commission, (B) the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2020, filed by the Company with the Commission (C) each Current Report on Form 8-K filed (not furnished) by the Company with the Commission on or after January 1, 2020 and (D) such other reports as are specifically incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (the “Incorporated Documents”). The Incorporated Documents filed on or before the date hereof or hereafter are referred to herein as the “SEC Reports.” The Incorporated Documents at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, or if amended, as so amended, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “Exchange Act Regulations”).

 

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(v) Financial Statements. The consolidated financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, included in the SEC Reports and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Statutory Prospectus and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus, present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries throughout the periods specified; and said financial statements have been or will be prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect in the United States of America (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as indicated in the footnotes to such financial statements). The supporting schedules included in the SEC Reports and incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus present fairly in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is or will be prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(vi) Independent Accountants. KPMG LLP, who audited the annual consolidated financial statements of the Company for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 that are incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

(vii) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein or contemplated thereby, (A) there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, results of operations or general affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”) and (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(viii) Good Standing of the Company. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under, or as contemplated by, this Agreement. The Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Other than American, the Company has no “significant subsidiaries” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X).

 

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(ix) Good Standing of American. American is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under, or as contemplated by, this Agreement. American is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. American has no “significant subsidiaries” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X).

(x) Capitalization. The Company had, as of the dates indicated in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the duly authorized capitalization as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; all of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear of any recorded liens, encumbrances, equities or claims and have not been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right or other similar right of stockholders; and except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there are no outstanding (i) securities or obligations of the Company convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock of the Company, (ii) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Company any such capital stock or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or (iii) obligations of the Company to issue or sell any shares of capital stock, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or any such warrants, rights or options.

(xi) Air Carrier Certification. American, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, (A) is an “air carrier” within the meaning of 49 U.S.C. Section 40102(a)(2), (B) holds an air carrier operating certificate issued by the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Chapter 447 of Title 49 of the United States Code for aircraft capable of carrying 10 or more individuals or 6,000 pounds or more of cargo and (C) is a “citizen of the United States” as defined in 49 U.S.C. Section 40102(a)(15). All of the outstanding capital stock of American has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, free and clear of any recorded liens, encumbrances, equities or claims.

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

(xiii) The Shares. The Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and sale by the Company pursuant to this Agreement and such Shares, when issued and delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth herein, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not be subject to preemptive or other similar rights; and the Common Stock conforms in all material respects to the description thereof and contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

 

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(xiv) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. The Company is not in violation of its charter or by-laws or other constituting or organizational document or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, except for such defaults that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement, the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated herein, and the compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder and the terms hereof do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, (i) conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or a Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company pursuant to, any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company (except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances that, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect), (ii) result in a violation of the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws, as amended, or other constituting or organizational document of the Company, or (iii) result in a violation of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its assets, properties or operations, except, in each case of this clause (iii), for such violations or defaults, that, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment prior to the stated maturity or date of mandatory redemption or repayment thereof of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company.

(xv) Absence of Labor Dispute. Other than as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent, which the Company expects to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(xvi) Absence of Proceedings. Other than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries which, in the judgment of the Company, is likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(xvii) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, order or license of, or filing with or notice to, any government, governmental instrumentality, regulatory body or authority or court, domestic or foreign, is required for the valid authorization, issuance and delivery of the Shares, for the valid authorization, execution,

 

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delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, or for the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except (A) such as has been already obtained or made, (B) such as are required under the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations or securities or “blue sky” or similar laws of the various states and of foreign jurisdictions or rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), and (C) as are disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(xviii) Investment Company Act. The Company is not, nor upon the issuance and sale of the Shares as contemplated by this Agreement and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus will be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).

(xix) Environmental Laws. There has been no storage, disposal, generation, manufacture, refinement, transportation, handling or treatment of toxic wastes, medical wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances by the Company (or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its predecessors in interest), or at, upon or from any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company in violation of, and the Company has no liability under, any applicable law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would require remedial action under any applicable law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit applicable to the Company, except for any violation, liability or remedial action which would not have, or could not be reasonably likely to have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations, liabilities and remedial actions, a Material Adverse Effect; there has been no spill, discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release of any kind by the Company onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic wastes, medical wastes, solid wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances due to or caused by the Company or with respect to which the Company has knowledge, except for any such spill, discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release which would not have or would not be reasonably likely to have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such spills, discharges, leaks, emissions, injections, escapes, dumpings and releases, a Material Adverse Effect. The terms “hazardous wastes,” “toxic wastes,” “hazardous substances” and “medical wastes” shall have the meanings specified in any applicable local, state, federal and foreign laws or regulations with respect to environmental protection or human health. In the ordinary course of its business, the Company conducts a periodic review of the effect of any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment, and hazardous and toxic substances and wastes, pollutants and contaminants (“Environmental Laws”) on the business, operations and properties of the Company, in the course of which it identifies and evaluates associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties). On the basis of such review, the Company has reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities have not had and would not, singularly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(xx) Insurance. Each of the Company and American carries, or is covered by, insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of its respective business and the value of its respective properties.

(xxi) Internal Controls. The Company maintains internal accounting controls which pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of its assets and that provide reasonable assurance (i) that transactions are executed in accordance with management’s authorization in all material respects, (ii) that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of its financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for its assets, (iii) regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of its assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements and (iv) that interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. The Company is not aware of any material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting that is reasonably likely to adversely affect its ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information.

(xxii) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

(xxiii) No Unlawful Payments. Neither of the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has materially violated in the past five years or is in material violation of (1) laws relating to the use of any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (2) laws relating to direct or indirect unlawful payments to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds, (3) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or the rules and regulations thereunder or (4) laws relating to bribes, rebates, payoffs, influence payments, kickbacks or other unlawful payments. The Company has implemented compliance programs for purposes of (a) informing the appropriate officers and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries of the Company’s policies to ensure compliance with the laws described under (1) through (4) above, and (b) requiring such officers and employees to report to the Company any knowledge they may have of violations of the Company’s policies referred to above and no such reports have been made.

(xxiv) No Brokerage Commission; Finder’s Fee. To the best of the Company’s knowledge after due inquiry, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any of the Underwriters for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.

 

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(xxv) Reporting Company. The Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

(xxvi) Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (A)(i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), and (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) under the Securities Act) made any offer relating to the Shares in reliance on the exemption provided by Rule 163 under the Securities Act, the Company was a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405, including not having been an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405; and (B) at the time of filing the Original Registration Statement, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Shares and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405.

(xxvii) Possession of Licenses and Permits. Each of the Company and American possesses such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies and third parties, governmental or otherwise necessary to conduct the business now operated by it as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, except for such failures to possess Licenses as would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and American is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Licenses or the failure of such Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; and neither the Company nor American has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(xxviii) Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

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(xxix) Sanctions. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of the Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any of its subsidiaries, joint venture partners or any other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(xxx) Listing. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act. The Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the “Exchange”).

(b) The parties hereto agree that any certificate signed by any officer of the Company delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby as of the date or dates indicated in such certificate.

2. Purchase and Sale; Closing. (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price to the Underwriters of $13.06125 per share (the “Purchase Price”), the number of Initial Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto.

(b) In addition, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell the Option Shares to the Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and the Underwriters shall have the option to purchase all or a portion of the Option Shares, severally and not jointly, from the Company at the Purchase Price.

(c) If any Option Shares are to be purchased, the number of Option Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters shall be the number of Option Shares which bears the same ratio to the aggregate number of Option Shares being purchased as the number of Initial Shares set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto (or such amount increased as set forth in Section 5 hereof) bears to the aggregate number of Initial Shares being purchased from the Company by the several Underwriters.

 

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(d) The Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters may exercise their option to purchase the Option Shares at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, by written notice from the Representatives to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the number of Option Shares and the date and time when the Option Shares are to be delivered and paid for which may be the same date and time as the Initial Closing Date (as defined herein) but shall not be earlier than the Initial Closing Date nor later than the 30th (thirtieth) day following, and including, the date of the Final Prospectus. The option may be exercised solely to cover over-allotments in the sale of the Initial Shares by the Underwriters. Any such notice with respect to the exercise of the option shall be given at least two business days prior to the Initial Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date (as defined herein), as the case may be.

(e) Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of, the Initial Shares, and any Option Shares to be purchased on the Initial Closing Date, shall be made at the date, time and location or locations specified in Schedule IV hereto, or at such other date, time or location or locations as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representatives, and, in the case of any other Option Shares, on the date and at the time and place specified by the Representative in the written notice of the Underwriters’ election to purchase such Option Shares. The time and date of such initial payment and delivery is referred to herein as the “Initial Closing Date” and the time and date for such payment for any other Option Shares, if other than the Initial Closing Date, is herein referred to as the “Additional Closing Date”. The Initial Closing Date together with the Additional Closing Date are hereinafter each referred to as a “Closing Date”. Payment on any Closing Date shall be made to the Company by federal funds wire transfer or transfer of other immediately available funds against delivery to the Representatives for the accounts of the several Underwriters of the Shares to be purchased by them. Delivery of the Initial Shares and the Option Shares shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct.

3. Covenants. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) Immediately following the execution of this Agreement, the Company will (x) prepare the Final Prospectus that complies with the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations and which sets forth the aggregate number of the Shares to be purchased, the name of each Underwriter participating in the offering and the aggregate number of the Shares that each severally, and not jointly, has agreed to purchase, the name of each Underwriter, if any, acting as Representative of the Underwriters in connection with the offering, the price at which the Shares are to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company, the initial public offering price of the Shares, any selling concession and reallowance, and such other information as the Representatives and the Company deem appropriate in connection with the offering of the Shares and (y) file all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule. The Company will promptly transmit copies of the Final Prospectus to the Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424 and will furnish to the Underwriters as many copies of the Final Prospectus as you shall reasonably request. The Company will prepare a final term sheet, in the form approved by the Representatives and attached as Schedule III hereto and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule.

 

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(b) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act (“Rule 173(a)”) relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly advise you of (i) the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any supplement to the Final Prospectus or any document that would as a result thereof be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus, (iii) any request by the Commission for any amendment of the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information relating thereto or to any document incorporated by reference therein, (iv) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (v) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or suspension and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(c) If, at any time when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, any event occurs as a result of which the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to paragraph (d) of this Section 3, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment or supplement which will effect such compliance and the Company will use its reasonable efforts to have any such amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable (if it is not an automatic shelf registration statement with respect to the Shares). Neither the Representatives’ consent to, nor the Underwriters’ delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 4 hereof.

(d) At any time when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will give you notice of its intention to file any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus, whether pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or otherwise, will furnish you with copies of any such amendment or supplement or other documents proposed to be filed within a reasonable time in advance of filing, and will not file any such amendment or supplement or other documents in a form to which you shall reasonably object.

(e) The Company has furnished or will furnish, if requested, to the Representatives and their counsel, without charge, conformed copies of the Original Registration Statement and of all amendments thereto, whether filed before or after such Registration Statement originally became effective (including exhibits thereto and the documents incorporated therein by reference) and the copies of the Original Registration Statement and each amendment thereto

 

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furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. So long as delivery of a Final Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) by the Underwriters may be required by the Securities Act, the Company will furnish as many copies of any Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and any amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request and the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to each Underwriter will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T or required under Rule 424(e).

(f) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts, in cooperation with the Underwriters, to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Underwriters may reasonably designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required in connection with the distribution of the Shares; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any such jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.

(g) The Company shall use the proceeds received by it from the sale of the Shares in the manner to be indicated in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”

(h) An application for the listing of the Shares shall have been submitted to the Exchange.

(i) The Company, during the period when a Final Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) relating to the Shares is required to be delivered, will file promptly all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations.

(j) The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives, and each Representative represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405. Any such free writing prospectus, including any investor presentation on any “road show”, consented to by the Company and the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 as applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping.

 

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

(l) The Company will make generally available to its security holders an earnings statement or statements of the Company which will satisfy the requirements of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 under the Securities Act.

(m) For a period of 60 days after the applicable Closing Date (the “Restricted Period”), the Company will not (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or submit to, or file with, the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (other than any registration statement on Form S-8 or any successor forms thereto, or relating solely to any of the employee benefit plans of the Company, as described in the Statutory Prospectus), or publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing, or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities or publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the Representatives.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, such limitations shall not apply to: (i) the Shares to be sold hereunder; (ii) the Concurrent Convertible Notes Offering (as defined in the General Disclosure Package) and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such notes; (iii) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued (or withheld) upon the exercise or conversion of any options, warrants or other securities or restricted stock units outstanding on the date hereof or other equity-based awards under existing equity compensation plans and incentive retention plans, each as described in the Statutory Prospectus; (iv) any options, restricted stock units or other equity-based awards granted under existing equity compensation plans and incentive retention plans; (v) any warrants of the Company issued to the United States government, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or any similar agency under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or any other similar government aid program (and any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise thereof); (vi) any of the actions described in the above paragraph with respect to the issuance of up to 10% of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for such shares) in connection with any acquisitions, strategic partnerships or other commercial relationships, provided that the recipient of any such issuances described in this clause and (vii) shall sign a lock-up agreement in the form attached hereto at Exhibit A.

 

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4. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Initial Shares and any applicable Option Shares on the Initial Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the accuracy of and compliance with the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein as of the date hereof and as of each applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made in any certificates furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) At the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.

(b) At the applicable Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received:

(1) Opinions and a negative assurance letter, each dated as of the applicable Closing Date, of Latham & Watkins LLP, as counsel for the Company, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(2) An opinion, dated as of the applicable Closing Date, of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, as regulatory counsel for the Company, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(3) An opinion and a negative assurance letter, each dated as of the applicable Closing Date, from Milbank LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(c) At each applicable Closing Date, there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, and you shall have received a certificate of the President, an Executive Vice President, a Senior Vice President or a Vice President of the Company, dated as of such applicable Closing Date, to the effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change, (ii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 1(a) hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as though made at such applicable Closing Date and (iii) the Company has complied in all material respects with all of the agreements applicable to it contemplated herein and satisfied in all material respects all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the applicable Closing Date.

 

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(d) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Initial Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, neither Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business nor Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. shall have downgraded the rating accorded the Company or American of any of the securities of the Company, American or any of their respective subsidiaries (except for any pass through certificates) or announced that any probable downgrading of such rating is about to occur in the near future.

(e) Promptly after the execution of this Agreement and also at each applicable Closing Date, the Underwriters shall have received from KPMG LLP a letter or letters, dated as of the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to certain financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(f) The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between you and certain officers and directors of the Company listed in Exhibit C hereto, relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to you on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date and each Closing Date, as the case may be.

(g) The Exchange has completed its review of a Listing of Additional Shares application concerning the Underlying Securities and has not provided comments.

(h) The Underwriters shall have received a letter, dated as of the date hereof and each Closing Date, from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in all respects satisfactory to the Underwriters and their counsel.

If any condition specified in this Section 4 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, other than by reason of any default by any Underwriter, such failure to fulfill a condition may be waived by the Underwriters, or this Agreement may be terminated by the Underwriters by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the applicable Closing Date, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Sections 5, 6 and 8 hereof, which provisions shall remain in effect notwithstanding such termination.

5. Payment of Expenses. The Company shall, upon demand, pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) expenses relating to the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus, the Registration Statement and each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, (ii) expenses relating to the preparation,

 

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printing and distribution of this Agreement, any Underwriter’s Questionnaire or related matters, (iii) expenses relating to the issuance and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel and accountants, (v) expenses of qualifying the Shares under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws in accordance with Section 3(f) hereof, including filing fees and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with the “blue sky” survey and any legal investment survey, (vi) all costs and expenses related to review by FINRA of the offering (including filing fees and the fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to review), (vii) any costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the Shares and (viii) the fees and expenses, if any, incurred in connection with the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or other national securities exchange.

If this Agreement is terminated by you in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 or Section 9(i) hereof, the Company shall, upon demand, reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters, incurred by them in connection with the offering contemplated by this Agreement.

6. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates and their respective directors and officers, and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) (1) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment to the Registration Statement), or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (2) arise out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the General Disclosure Package or in the Final Prospectus or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment thereof, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and, in each case, agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission (a) made therein in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter specifically for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment thereto) or the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or (b) made in those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility under the TIA of a trustee on Form T-1, and (ii) the Company shall not be liable for any loss, liability or expense of any

 

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settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened litigation or any pending or threatened governmental agency investigation or proceeding if such settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect thereto is effected without the prior written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent that such consent is not required pursuant to Section 6(d) hereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have.

(b) Each Underwriter severally, and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses described in the indemnity contained in Section 6(a) hereof, but only with respect to untrue statements or alleged untrue statements or omissions or alleged omissions made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter specifically for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information provided by any Underwriter consists of the information in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached here to as Exhibit B; provided, however, that the Underwriters shall not be liable for any loss, liability or expense of any settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened litigation or any pending or threatened governmental agency investigation or proceeding if such settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect thereto is effected without the prior written consent of the Underwriters (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent that such consent is not required pursuant to Section 6(d) hereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that any Underwriter may otherwise have.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under Section 6(a) or (b) hereof of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under Section 6(a) or (b) hereof, notify the indemnifying party or parties in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party or parties will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under Section 6(a) or (b) hereof. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party or parties of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party or parties will be entitled to participate therein, and to the extent that such indemnifying party or parties may elect, by written notice delivered to such indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, that if, in the reasonable judgment of such indemnified party, a conflict of interest exists where it is advisable for such indemnified party to be represented by separate counsel, the indemnified party shall have the right, to employ separate counsel in any such

 

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action, in which event the fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the indemnifying party or parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party or parties to such indemnified party of the election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party or parties will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 6 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the next preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party or parties shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one such separate counsel representing the indemnified parties under subparagraph (a) or (b), as applicable) of this Section 6 who are parties to such action in addition to one local counsel in each jurisdiction), (ii) the indemnifying party or parties shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party or parties have authorized the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties; and except that, if clause (i) or (iii) is applicable, such liability shall be only in respect of the counsel referred to in such clause (i) or (iii). It is understood that all such fees and expenses of counsel for the indemnified party for which the indemnifying party is liable shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), effect any settlement or compromise of, or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement or compromise of, or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(d) If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel payable pursuant to this Section 6, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment of the nature contemplated by clause (ii) of the proviso in Section 6(a) hereof and the proviso in Section 6(b) hereof effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid notice of request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into, and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment.

(e) If the indemnification provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 6 is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from

 

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the offering of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total proceeds from the offering of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement (net of underwriting discounts and commissions paid to the Underwriters but before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in each case as set forth on the cover of the Final Prospectus, bears to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Shares as set forth on such cover. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 6. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 6 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 6, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares purchased by it hereunder and distributed to investors exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 6, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 6 are several in proportion to the number of Shares set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I hereto and not joint.

7. Default. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail at the applicable Closing Date to purchase and pay for any of the Shares agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally, and not jointly, to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the aggregate number of Shares specified to be purchased by each of them in Schedule I

 

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hereto bears to the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased by all the remaining Underwriters) the Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate number of Shares that the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased pursuant to this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right within 36 hours thereafter, to make arrangements to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Shares, and if such non-defaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Shares, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company. In the event of any such termination, the provisions of Sections 5, 6 and 8 hereof shall remain in effect. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 7 that does not result in a termination of this Agreement, the applicable Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding seven days, as the Representatives or the Company shall determine in order that the required changes in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company and to any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.

8. Representations, Warranties, Covenants, Indemnities and Agreements to Survive Delivery. All representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and agreements contained in this Agreement, or contained in Shares of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company or any Underwriter, its affiliates, their respective directors and officers or any controlling person of either and shall survive delivery of any Shares to the Underwriters.

9. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated immediately upon notice from you to the Company at any time at or prior to the applicable Closing Date (i) if there has been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there has occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or in the international financial markets or any other calamity or crisis the effect of any of which on the financial markets is such as to make it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Shares or enforce contracts for the sale of the Shares, or (iii) if trading in the securities of the Company has been suspended by the Commission, the Exchange, or if trading generally on the Exchange has been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by said exchange or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities. In the event of any such termination, the provisions of Sections 5, 6 and 8 hereof shall remain in effect.

 

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10. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt, and, (i) if sent to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, will be mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication to you in care of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Control Room, in care of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013, Attention: General Counsel, Facsimile: ###, in care of BofA Securities, Inc., One Bryant Park, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Syndicate Department, Facsimile: ### with a copy to Attention: ECM Legal, Facsimile: ### and in care of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Eugene Sohn, Facsimile: ### and (ii) if sent to the Company, will be mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication to the Company at 1 Skyview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76155, facsimile no. ###, attention of the Treasurer.

11. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriters and the Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Section 6 hereof and their successors, heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties and their respective successors and said controlling persons, affiliates and officers and directors and their successors, heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Shares from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.

12. No Fiduciary Duty. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Underwriter is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of Shares contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of such offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any of its subsidiaries. Additionally, no Underwriter is advising the Company or any of its subsidiaries as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction with respect to the offering of the Shares or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Underwriter has advised or is advising American or the Company on other matters). Each Underwriter advises that it and its affiliates are engaged in a broad range of securities and financial services and that it and its affiliates may enter into contractual relationships with purchasers or potential purchasers of the securities of the Company or its affiliates and that some of these services or relationships may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and need not be disclosed to the Company, unless otherwise required by law. The Company has consulted with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and no Underwriter shall have any responsibility or liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates with respect thereto. Any review by any Underwriter of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of such Underwriter and shall not be on behalf of the Company. The Company waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against each Underwriter for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that no Underwriter shall have any liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim.

 

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13. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

14. Submission to Jurisdiction; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a) The Company agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this Agreement or the Underwriters’ engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and the Company agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts. Each of the parties to this Agreement agrees that a final action in any such suit or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other lawful manner.

(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and agrees not to assert, by stay of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any legal action or proceeding brought hereunder in any of the above-named courts, that such action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, or that venue for the action or proceeding is improper.

(c) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

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

16. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolutions Regimes.

(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity (as defined below) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime (as defined below), the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate (as defined below) of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights (as defined below) under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

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For purposes of this section, a “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k). “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b). “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable. “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

17. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

18. Counterparts; Electronic Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and when a counterpart has been executed by each party hereto all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier, facsimile or other electronic transmission (i.e., a “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof. A party’s electronic signature (complying with the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (N.Y. State Tech. §§ 301-309), as amended from time to time, or other applicable law) of this Agreement shall have the same validity and effect as a signature affixed by the party’s hand.

19. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Shares, represents the entire agreement among the Company and the Underwriters with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument will become a binding agreement between the Company and each Underwriter in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,
AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.
By:   /s/ Thomas T. Weir
  Name: Thomas T. Weir
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

[Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]


The foregoing Underwriting Agreement

is hereby confirmed and accepted as of

the date first above written:

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc,

and

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Acting on behalf of themselves and as the Representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

By: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

 

  /s/ Raffael Fiumara
  Name: Raffael Fiumara
  Title: Vice President

By: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

  /s/ Rohith Adavikolanu
  Name: Rohith Adavikolanu
  Title: Director

By: BofA Securities, Inc.

 

  /s/ Christie MacDonald
  Name: Christie MacDonald
  Title: Managing Director

By: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

  /s/ Jin Izawa
  Name: Jin Izawa
  Title: Vice President

 

[Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]


SCHEDULE I

to

Underwriting

Agreement

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

 

     Initial Shares      Option Shares  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

     11,194,650        1,679,198  

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

     11,194,650        1,679,198  

BofA Securities, Inc.

     11,194,650        1,679,198  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

     11,194,650        1,679,198  

Barclays Capital Inc.

     5,418,963        812,845  

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

     5,929,997        889,500  

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

     3,594,488        539,173  

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

     3,594,488        539,173  

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

     3,594,488        539,173  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

     1,797,244        269,586  

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

     1,797,244        269,586  

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

     1,797,244        269,586  

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

     1,797,244        269,586  

Total

     74,100,000        11,115,000  


SCHEDULE II

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Schedule of Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses

 

1.

The Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated June 21, 2020, announcing the proposed offerings of the Shares and the Convertible Notes.

 

2.

The Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated June 22, 2020, containing the terms of the offering of the Shares and the terms of the Convertible Notes (in the form attached as Schedule III hereto).


SCHEDULE III

to

Underwriting

Agreement

PRICING TERM SHEET


PRICING TERM SHEET

June 22, 2020

 

American Airlines Group Inc.

Offerings of

$1,000,350,000 of Shares of Common Stock (74,100,000 Shares)

$1,000,000,000 6.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 2025

 

The information in this pricing term sheet supplements (i) American Airlines Group Inc.’s (“AAG”) preliminary prospectus
supplement, dated June 21, 2020 (the “Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), relating to an offering of common stock
(the “Common Stock Offering”), and (ii) AAG’s preliminary prospectus supplement, dated June 21, 2020 (the “Convertible Notes
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), relating to an offering of convertible senior notes (the “Convertible Notes Offering”), and, in
each case, the accompanying prospectus, dated February 19, 2020, each filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). This pricing term sheet supersedes the information in the Common Stock Preliminary
Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, to the extent inconsistent with the information
in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, respectively.
Terms used, but not defined, in this pricing term sheet have the respective meanings set forth in the Common Stock Preliminary
Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. As used in this pricing term sheet, “we,” “our”
and “us” refer to AAG.

 

Common Stock Offering

 

Issuer:

   American Airlines Group Inc.

Securities:

   74,100,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of American Airlines Group Inc. (the “Common Stock”) (or, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares solely to cover over-allotments, 85,215,000 shares of Common Stock)

Offering Size:

   $1,000,350,000, which constitutes an increase of $250,350,000 from the amount to be issued disclosed in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement (or, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares, $1,150,402,500)

Ticker/Exchange for the Issuer’s Shares:

   AAL / Nasdaq Global Select Market

Last Reported Sale Price per Share of the Common Stock on June 22, 2020:

   $14.92

Public Offering Price per Share of Common Stock

   $13.50

Underwriting Discount:

   $0.43875 per share of Common Stock, and $32,511,375 in the aggregate (or $37,388,081.25 in the aggregate, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock)

Trade Date:

   June 23, 2020


Settlement Date:

  

T + 2; June 25, 2020

Use of Proceeds:

  

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the Common Stock Offering will be approximately $966.8 million (or approximately $1,112.0 million if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock), after deducting the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses. We intend to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and to enhance our liquidity position.

Bookrunners:

  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

  

Barclays Capital Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

Co-Managers:

  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

CUSIP / ISIN:

   CUSIP: 02376R102 / ISIN: US02376R1023

 

Convertible Notes Offering

 

Issuer:

   American Airlines Group Inc.

Guarantor:

   American Airlines, Inc.

Ticker/Exchange for the Issuer’s Shares:

   AAL / Nasdaq Global Select Market

Securities:

   6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes” and together with the Guarantee, the “Securities”)

Size:

   $1,000,000,000, which constitutes an increase of $250,000,000 from the principal amount to be issued disclosed in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, plus up to an additional $150,000,000 principal amount pursuant to the Underwriters’ option to purchase additional Notes

Maturity Date:

   July 1, 2025

Coupon:

   6.50% per annum, accruing from, and including, the Settlement Date

Issue Price:

   100.000% of principal amount per Note, plus accrued interest, if any, from, and including, the Settlement Date


Underwriting Discount:

   2.96% of the principal amount of the Securities, and $29,600,000 in the aggregate (or $34,040,000 in the aggregate, if the underwriters of the Convertible Notes Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional Securities)

Interest Payment Dates:

  

January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing January 1, 2021

Record Dates:

  

December 15 and June 15 of each year

Trade Date:

   June 23, 2020

Settlement Date:

   T+2; June 25, 2020

Use of Proceeds:

   We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the Convertible Notes Offering will be approximately $969.4 million (or approximately $1,115.0 million if the underwriters of the Convertible Notes Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional Notes), after deducting the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses. We intend to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and to enhance our liquidity position.

CUSIP / ISIN:

  

CUSIP: 02376R AF9 / ISIN: US02376RAF91

Denominations/Multiple:

  

$1,000 x $1,000

Last Reported Sale Price per Share of the Common Stock on June 22, 2020:

   $14.92

Initial Conversion Rate:

   61.7284 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes

Initial Conversion Price:

   Approximately $16.20 per share of Common Stock

Conversion Premium:

   Approximately 20% above the Public Offering Price per Share of Common Stock in the Common Stock Offering

Bookrunners:

  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

  

Barclays Capital Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

ICBC Standard Bank Plc

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

Co-Managers:

  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Standard Chartered Bank

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

BOK Financial Securities, Inc.


Optional Redemption:

  

We may not redeem the Notes at our option at any time before July 5, 2023. Subject to the terms of the indenture, the Notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part, at our option at any time, and from time to time, on or after July 5, 2023 and on or before the 20th scheduled trading day immediately before the Maturity Date, at a cash redemption price equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, but only if the last reported sale price per share of Common Stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price on (i) each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date we send the related redemption notice; and (ii) the trading day immediately before the date we send such notice. In addition, calling any Note for redemption will constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to that Note, in which case the conversion rate applicable to the conversion of that Note will be increased in certain circumstances if it is converted after it is called for redemption. If we elect to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes, then the redemption will not constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to the Notes not called for redemption, and holders of the Notes not called for redemption will not be entitled to an increased conversion rate for such Notes as described above on account of the redemption, except in certain circumstances. See “Description of Notes—Optional Redemption” in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

Increase to Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

   If a make-whole fundamental change occurs and the conversion date for the conversion of a Note occurs during the related make-whole fundamental change conversion period, then, subject to the provisions described in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Increase in Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change,” the conversion rate applicable to such conversion will be increased by a number of shares of Common Stock set forth in the table below corresponding (after interpolation as described below) to the make-whole fundamental change effective date and the stock price of such make-whole fundamental change:

Stock Price

 

Make-Whole
Fundamental

Change

Effective

Date

   $13.50      $15.00      $16.20      $18.00      $20.00      $21.06      $25.00      $30.00      $35.00      $40.00      $50.00      $75.00      $100.00      $125.00  

June 25, 2020

     12.3456        10.7487        9.7173        8.4567        7.3420        6.8409        5.3600        4.0450        3.1086        2.4120        1.4630        0.3557        0.0099        0.0000  

July 1, 2021

     12.3456        9.6800        8.6963        7.5294        6.5235        6.0779        4.7736        3.6230        2.8029        2.1900        1.3462        0.3361        0.0081        0.0000  

July 1, 2022

     12.3456        8.3927        7.4222        6.3383        5.4545        5.0745        3.9876        3.0437        2.3717        1.8680        1.1674        0.3024        0.0052        0.0000  

July 1, 2023

     12.3456        6.9360        5.8790        4.8322        4.0815        3.7806        2.9636        2.2743        1.7857        1.4188        0.9044        0.2469        0.0025        0.0000  

July 1, 2024

     12.3456        5.4453        4.0025        2.8833        2.3075        2.1187        1.6564        1.2800        1.0126        0.8118        0.5298        0.1573        0.0013        0.0000  

July 1, 2025

     12.3456        4.9380        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000  


If such make-whole fundamental change effective date or stock price is not set forth in the table above, then:

 

•  if such stock price is between two stock prices in the table above or the make-whole fundamental change effective date is between two dates in the table above, then the number of additional shares will be determined by straight-line interpolation between the numbers of additional shares set forth for the higher and lower stock prices in the table above or the earlier and later dates in the table above, based on a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable; and

 

•  if the stock price is greater than $125.00 (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above are adjusted, as described in the Convertibles Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Increase in Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change—Adjustment of Stock Prices and Number of Additional Shares”), or less than $13.50 (subject to adjustment in the same manner), per share, then no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event will the conversion rate be increased to an amount that exceeds 74.0740 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which amount is subject to adjustment in the same manner as, and at the same time and for the same events for which, the conversion rate is required to be adjusted pursuant to the provisions described in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Conversion Rate Adjustments—Generally.”

 

We have filed a registration statement (including a prospectus), the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement with the SEC for the offerings to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement or the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, as applicable, and the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents we have filed with the SEC for more complete information about us and these offerings. You may get these documents free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, we, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the applicable offering will arrange to send you the applicable Preliminary Prospectus Supplement (or, when available, the applicable final prospectus supplement) and the accompanying prospectus upon request to: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, or by telephone at (866) 471-2526 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (800) 831-9146; BofA Securities, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by email at: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Attn: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or telephone: 1-866-803-9204.

 

The information in this pricing term sheet is not a complete description of the Common Stock, the Common Stock Offering, the Securities or the Convertible Notes Offering. You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as supplemented by this pricing term sheet, in making an investment decision with respect to the Common Stock or the Securities.

 

ANY DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED. SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION BEING SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.


SCHEDULE IV

to

Underwriting

Agreement

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

 

Closing date, time and location:   

10:00 A.M. on June 25, 2020 at the offices of

Milbank LLP, 55 Hudson Yards, New York,

New York 10001-2163.


EXHIBIT A

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Form of Lock-up Agreement

June 21, 2020

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representatives of

the several Underwriters listed in

Schedule I to the Underwriting

Agreement referred to below

c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

c/o BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

Re: American Airlines Group Inc. — Proposed Public Offering

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that you, as Representatives of the underwriters, propose to enter into (i) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Notes Underwriting Agreement”) with American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and American Airlines, Inc. (the “Guarantor”), providing for the public offering (the “Notes Offering”) of the Company’s Convertible Senior Notes due 2025, of the Company (the “Notes”) and (ii) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Shares Underwriting Agreement” and, together with the Notes Underwriting Agreement, the “Underwriting Agreements”) with the Company, providing for the public offering (the “Shares Offering” and, together with the Notes Offering, the “Offerings”) of the common stock, par value $0.01, of the Company (the “Common Stock”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreements.


In consideration of the Representatives’ agreement to purchase the Notes and the Common Stock and conduct the Offerings, and for other good and valuable consideration receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, the undersigned will not, during the period beginning on the date of this letter agreement (this “Letter Agreement”) and ending at the close of business 60 days after the date of the Underwriting Agreements (the “Restricted Period”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (including without limitation, Common Stock or such other securities which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and securities which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant) (collectively with the Common Stock, the “Lock-Up Securities”), (2) enter into any hedging, swap or other agreement or transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Lock-Up Securities, in cash or otherwise, (3) make any demand for, or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any Lock-Up Securities, or (4) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing. The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing precludes the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transactions or arrangements (including, without limitation, any short sale or the purchase or sale of, or entry into, any put or call option, or combination thereof, forward, swap or any other derivative transaction or instrument, however described or defined) designed or intended, or which could reasonably be expected to lead to or result in, a sale or disposition or transfer (whether by the undersigned or any other person) of any economic consequences of ownership, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, of any Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction or arrangement (or instrument provided for thereunder) would be settled by delivery of Lock-up Securities, in cash or otherwise.

The foregoing paragraph shall not apply to:

(a) any disposition of shares of Common Stock, any other class of the Company’s capital stock, or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock by bona fide gift, by will or by intestacy;

(b) transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock acquired in open market transactions after the completion of the offering (provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Restricted Period in connection with subsequent sales of Common Stock or other securities acquired in such open market transactions);

(c) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock to partnerships or limited liability companies for the benefit of the immediate family of the undersigned and the partners and members of which are only the undersigned and the immediate family of the undersigned (for the purposes of this Letter Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, current or former marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin) or to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned or to a trustor or beneficiary of such trust;

(d) distributions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a court or regulatory agency order, a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement;


(e) dispositions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock to the Company to satisfy tax withholding or exercise price obligations in connection with the exercise of options to purchase Common Stock on a “cashless” or “net exercise” basis (provided that the net underlying shares issued thereunder shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer to the Company set forth in this Letter Agreement);

(f) the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (provided that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock during the Restricted Period and to the extent a public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required of or voluntarily made by or on behalf of the undersigned or the Company regarding the establishment of such plan, such announcement or filing shall include a statement to the effect that no transfer of Common Stock may be made under such plan during the Restricted Period);

(g) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act that was in effect as of, and only shares scheduled for sale thereunder on, the date hereof;

(h) the exercise or settlement of equity-based compensation awards of the Company granted under any stock incentive plan or stock purchase plan described (including through incorporation by reference) in the offering memorandum, including the withholding or sale of shares to satisfy exercise price, tax withholding obligations or both (provided that the net underlying shares issued thereunder shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer to the Company set forth in this Letter Agreement, and provided further, that any public report or filing shall clearly indicate in footnotes the reason for such transfer and that no public filings or reports would be made voluntarily during the Restricted Period); and

(i) transfers of shares of Common Stock, any other class of the Company’s capital stock, or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction made to all holders of the Common Stock involving a change of control of the Company approved by the board of director of the Company (provided that any shares not transferred, sold or tendered remain subject to the restrictions contained in this agreement and further provided that in the event that the tender offer, merger, consolidation or other such transaction is not completed, the securities owned by the undersigned shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this agreement).

In the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (a)or (c); (i) each donee, transferee or distributee shall sign and deliver an agreement substantially in the form of this Letter Agreement and (ii) no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Restricted Period. For purposes of clause (i) above, “change of control” shall mean the consummation of any bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction the result of which is that any “person” (as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), or group of persons, becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 of the Exchange Act) of 50% of total voting power of the voting stock of the Company.

In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company, and any duly appointed transfer agent for the registration or transfer of the securities described herein, are hereby authorized to decline to make any transfer of securities if such transfer would constitute a violation or breach of this Letter Agreement.


The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Letter Agreement. All authority herein conferred or agreed to be conferred and any obligations of the undersigned shall be binding upon the successors, assigns, heirs or personal representatives of the undersigned.

The undersigned understands that, if the Underwriting Agreements do not become effective by July 1, 2020, or if the Underwriting Agreements (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the Common Stock to be sold thereunder, the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this Letter Agreement. The undersigned understands that the Underwriters are entering into the Underwriting Agreements and proceeding with the Offerings in reliance upon this Letter Agreement.

This Letter Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

[Signature page follows]


Very truly yours,

[NAME OF STOCKHOLDER]
By:    
  Name:
  Title:


EXHIBIT B

to

Underwriting

Agreement

FORM OF BLOOD LETTER

June 22, 2020

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, TX 76155

 

  Re:

American Airlines Group Inc.

74,100,000 shares of common stock (par value $0.01 per share)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This letter is delivered by the undersigned to American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated June 21, 2020, and the Final Prospectus Supplement, dated June 22, 2020 (together, the “Prospectus Supplement”), relating to the issuance and sale by the Company of 74,100,000 shares of common stock (par value $0.01 per share).

For purposes of Section 6(b) of the Underwriting Agreement, dated June 22, 2020 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company, American Airlines, Inc., as guarantor, and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (collectively, the “Representatives” of the several underwriters listed in Schedule I thereto, the “Underwriters”), we hereby confirm that we have furnished to you the following information for use in the Prospectus Supplement:

The twelfth and thirteenth paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus Supplement, concerning purchases to cover positions created by short sales and stabilization transactions by the Underwriters, respectively.

Other than as described above, we have not furnished you with any other information for use in the Prospectus Supplement, the General Disclosure Package, or any Incorporated Documents (or any amendment or supplement thereto). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Underwriting Agreement.

[Signature page follows]


Very truly yours,
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
By:    
Name.  
Title:  

 

[Signature Page to Blood letter (Equity Offering)]


Very truly yours,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
By:    
Name.  
Title:  

 

[Signature Page to Blood letter (Equity Offering)]


Very truly yours,
BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
By:    
Name.  
Title:  

 

[Signature Page to Blood letter (Equity Offering)]


Very truly yours,
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
By:    
Name.  
Title:  

 

[Signature Page to Blood letter (Equity Offering)]


EXHIBIT C

to

Underwriting

Agreement

LOCK-UP PARTIES

James F. Albaugh

Jeffrey D. Benjamin

John T. Cahill

Michael J. Embler

Matthew J. Hart

Susan D. Kronick

Martin H. Nesbitt

Denise M. O’Leary

W. Douglas Parker

Ray M. Robinson

Robert D. Isom

Derek J. Kerr

Maya Leibman

Stephen L. Johnson

Elise R. Eberwein

Exhibit 1.2

Execution version

 

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

$1,000,000,000 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

 

Dated: As of June 22, 2020


AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

$1,000,000,000 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Underwriting Agreement

June 22, 2020

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representatives of the several Underwriters

listed in Schedule I hereto

c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

c/o BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

Ladies and Gentlemen:

American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters listed in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as representatives (together, the “Representatives”), an aggregate of $1,000,000,000 principal amount of its 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Initial Securities” and, together with the Option Securities (as defined below), the “Notes”) and, at the option of the Underwriters, up to an additional $150,000,000 principal amount of its 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Option Securities” and, together with the Initial Securities and the Guarantee (as defined below), the “Securities”) if and to the extent that the Underwriters shall have determined to exercise their option to purchase such Option Securities granted to the Underwriters in Section 2 hereof, on the terms and conditions stated herein. The Notes will be convertible, as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (each as defined below), at the option of the Company, into shares (the “Underlying Securities”) of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), cash or a combination thereof.

 

2


The Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), by and among the Company, American Airlines, Inc. (the “Guarantor”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (the “Indenture”), and will be guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis by the Guarantor pursuant to the Indenture (the “Guarantee”).

To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule I other than you, the term Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the term Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires.

The Company and the Guarantor have prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Files No. 333-236503 and 333-236503-01) relating to the Company’s Debt Securities and Guarantees of such Debt Securities (including the Securities), Common Stock (including the Underlying Securities) and other securities and the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Such registration statement, at any given time, including the amendments thereto at such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act at such time and the documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein by the rules and regulations under the Securities Act, is herein called the “Registration Statement.” The Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective is herein called the “Original Registration Statement.” As provided in Section 3(a) hereof, promptly after execution and delivery of this underwriting agreement (the “Agreement”), the Company will prepare and file a Final Prospectus (as defined herein) relating to the Securities in accordance with the provisions of Rule 430B under the Securities Act (“Rule 430B”) and paragraph (b) of Rule 424 under the Securities Act (“Rule 424”). Any information included in such Final Prospectus that was omitted from the Original Registration Statement, but that is deemed to be part of and included in such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B(f) is referred to as the “Rule 430B Information.”

The term “Statutory Prospectus” means the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that omits Rule 430B Information, together with the base prospectus relating to the Company’s Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Debt Securities, Warrants, Rights, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees (the “base prospectus”) included in the Original Registration Statement, and including the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below).

The term “Final Prospectus” means the final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities and the base prospectus, collectively, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the execution of this Agreement, which includes the Rule 430B Information, including the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act.

 

3


The term “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (“Rule 433”), relating to the public offering of the Shares.

The term “Applicable Time” shall mean 5:30 P.M. (New York Time) on June 22, 2020.

The terms of the public offering of any of the Securities are set forth in the General Disclosure Package relating thereto and the Final Prospectus. The term “General Disclosure Package” means the Statutory Prospectus and the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses identified in Item 1 of Schedule III hereto, all considered together.

Any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any document incorporated by reference after the date of such Final Prospectus. Any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to include any document incorporated by reference after the effective date of such Registration Statement.

1. Representations and Warranties. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Underwriters that:

(a) Form S-3 Eligibility. Each of the Company and the Guarantor meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act.

(b) Effective Registration Statement. The Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (“Rule 405”)) eligible to use the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement; the Registration Statement has been filed with the Commission, became effective upon filing under Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act and is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in Rule 405; the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission; no order preventing or suspending the use of the Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission; the Company has complied with any request on the part of the Commission for additional information, and the Final Prospectus containing the Rule 430B Information shall be filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) (or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been filed and become effective in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430B). At the respective times the Original Registration Statement and each amendment thereto became effective, at any deemed effective date pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) and at each Closing Date (as defined below), the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “Securities Act Regulations”) and the Trust


Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), and the rules and regulations under the TIA. At the deemed effective date, pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2), the Registration Statement did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this Section 1(b) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriters expressly for use therein (it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information separately identified to the Company in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A) or to those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the TIA (Form T-1) of a trustee pursuant to an indenture.

(c) Final Prospectus and General Disclosure Package. Neither the Final Prospectus nor any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement is issued and at each Closing Date, will include an untrue statement of a material fact or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; the Final Prospectus will comply when filed with the Commission in all material respects with the Securities Act Regulations and each of the Statutory Prospectus and the Final Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this offering was or will be, as the case may be, identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T or required under Rule 424(e) under the Securities Act; the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Statutory Prospectus or that will conflict with the information contained in the Final Prospectus that has not been superseded or modified; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this Section 1(c) shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Underwriters expressly for use therein (it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information separately identified to the Company in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A) or to those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the TIA (Form T-1) of a trustee pursuant to an indenture.

 

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(d) Incorporated Documents. The General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus as delivered from time to time shall incorporate by reference (A) the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed by the Company and the Guarantor with the Commission, (B) the most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2020, filed by the Company and the Guarantor with the Commission, (C) each Current Report on Form 8-K filed (not furnished) by the Company and the Guarantor with the Commission on or after January 1, 2020 and (D) such other reports as are specifically incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (the “Incorporated Documents”). The Incorporated Documents filed on or before the date hereof or hereafter are referred to herein as the “SEC Reports.” The Incorporated Documents at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, or if amended, as so amended, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “Exchange Act Regulations”).

(e) Financial Statements. The consolidated financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, included in the SEC Reports and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Statutory Prospectus and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus, present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries throughout the periods specified; and said financial statements have been or will be prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect in the United States of America (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as indicated in the footnotes to such financial statements). The consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor, together with the related schedules and notes, included in the SEC Reports and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Statutory Prospectus and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus, present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and the statement of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries throughout the periods specified; and said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as indicated in the footnotes to such financial statements). The supporting schedules included in the SEC Reports and incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus present fairly in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and to be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is or will be prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(f) Independent Accountants. KPMG LLP, who audited the annual consolidated financial statements of each of the Company and the Guarantor for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 that are incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.


(g) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein or contemplated thereby, (A) there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, results of operations or general affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”) and (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(h) Good Standing of the Company and the Guarantor. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under, or as contemplated by, this Agreement. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has no “significant subsidiaries” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) other than the Guarantor.

(i) Capitalization. The Company had, as of the dates indicated in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the duly authorized capitalization as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, and have not been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right or other similar right of stockholders; and except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there are no outstanding (i) securities or obligations of the Company or the Guarantor convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock of the Company or the Guarantor, (ii) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Company or the Guarantor any such capital stock or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or (iii) obligations of the Company or the Guarantor to issue or sell any shares of capital stock, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or any such warrants, rights or options (other than, in the case of the Guarantor, for any such securities or obligations held by the Company). All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Guarantor has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, free and clear of any recorded liens, encumbrances, equities or claims.

(j) Air Carrier Certification. The Guarantor (A) is an “air carrier” within the meaning of 49 U.S.C. Section 40102(a)(2), (B) holds an air carrier operating certificate issued by the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Chapter 447 of Title 49 of the United States Code for aircraft capable of carrying 10 or more individuals or 6,000 pounds or more of cargo and (C) is a “citizen of the United States” as defined in 49 U.S.C. Section 40102(a)(15).

 

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(k) Authorization of Agreements; Binding Obligations. This Agreement, the Indenture, the Guarantee, the Initial Securities and the Option Securities to which the Company or the Guarantor is, or is to be, a party have been duly authorized by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor. The Indenture and the Securities will be, at or prior to the applicable Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor. The Initial Securities and the Option Securities, as the case may be, when duly executed and delivered by the Company, and when duly authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. The Indenture, when duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor, assuming that such document constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of each other party thereto will constitute a valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. The Guarantee, when the Initial Securities and the Option Securities, as the case may be, have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture, will be a valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. The Securities will, upon execution and delivery thereof, conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(l) Authorization of Underlying Securities. The maximum number of Underlying Securities (assuming (i) full physical settlement of the Securities upon conversion, (ii) the maximum conversion rate under any “make-whole” adjustment applies, as described in the Indenture and (iii) the Underwriters exercise their option to purchase the Option Securities in full) (the “Maximum Number of Underlying Securities”) has been duly authorized by the Company, reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Securities and, if and when issued upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of the Underlying Securities will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights. No holder of the Underlying Securities will be subject to personal liability by reason of being such a holder. The Underlying Securities conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(m) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor is in violation of its charter or by-laws or other constituting or organizational document or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or the Guarantor or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or the Guarantor is subject, except for such defaults that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect


and that would not affect the validity of the Securities or the Underlying Securities; and the execution and delivery by the Company and the Guarantor of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes, as applicable, the consummation by the Company and the Guarantor of the transactions herein and therein contemplated (including the issuance of any Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Notes), and the compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with their respective obligations hereunder and thereunder and the terms hereof and thereof do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, (i) conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or a Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or the Guarantor pursuant to, any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or the Guarantor (except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances that, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that would not affect the validity of the Securities), (ii) result in a violation of the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws, as amended, or other constituting or organizational documents of the Company and the Guarantor, or (iii) result in a violation of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective assets, properties or operations, except, in each case of this clause (iii), for such violations that, singly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that would not affect the validity of the Securities. As used herein, “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment prior to the stated maturity or date of mandatory redemption or repayment thereof of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or the Guarantor.

(n) Absence of Labor Dispute. Other than as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no labor dispute with the employees of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantor, is imminent, which the Company or the Guarantor expects to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(o) Absence of Proceedings. Other than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantor, threatened, against the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries which, in the judgment of the Company or the Guarantor, is likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, order or license of, or filing with or notice to, any government, governmental instrumentality, regulatory body or authority or court, domestic or foreign, is required for the valid authorization, issuance and delivery of the Securities, for the valid authorization, execution, delivery and performance by the Company and the Guarantor of this Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes to which the Company and the Guarantor is, or is to be, a party or for the consummation by the Company and the Guarantor of the transactions contemplated by

 

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this Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes to which the Company and the Guarantor is, or is to be, a party, except (i) such as has been already obtained, (ii) such as are required under the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations or securities or “blue sky” or similar laws of the various states and of foreign jurisdictions or rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), (iii) with respect to the listing of the Underlying Securities on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and (iv) as are disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(q) Investment Company Act. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is not, nor upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus will be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(r) Environmental Laws. There has been no storage, disposal, generation, manufacture, refinement, transportation, handling or treatment of toxic wastes, medical wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances by the Company or the Guarantor (or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, any of its predecessors in interest), or at, upon or from any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or the Guarantor in violation of, and the Company and the Guarantor have no liability under, any applicable law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would require remedial action under any applicable law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit applicable to the Company and the Guarantor, except for any violation, liability or remedial action which would not have, or could not be reasonably likely to have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations, liabilities and remedial actions, a Material Adverse Effect; there has been no spill, discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release of any kind by the Company or the Guarantor onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic wastes, medical wastes, solid wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances due to or caused by the Company or the Guarantor or with respect to which the Company or the Guarantor has knowledge, except for any such spill, discharge, leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release which would not have or would not be reasonably likely to have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such spills, discharges, leaks, emissions, injections, escapes, dumpings and releases, a Material Adverse Effect. The terms “hazardous wastes,” “toxic wastes,” “hazardous substances” and “medical wastes” shall have the meanings specified in any applicable local, state, federal and foreign laws or regulations with respect to environmental protection or human health. In the ordinary course of their business, the Company and the Guarantor conduct a periodic review of the effect of any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment, and hazardous and toxic substances and wastes, pollutants and contaminants (“Environmental Laws”) on the business, operations and properties of the Company and the Guarantor, in the course of which it identifies and evaluates associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties). On the basis of such review, the Company and the Guarantor has reasonably concluded that such associated costs and liabilities have not had and would not, singularly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


(s) Insurance. Each of the Company and the Guarantor carries, or is covered by, insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of its respective business and the value of its respective properties.

(t) Internal Controls. Each of the Company and the Guarantor maintains internal accounting controls which pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of its assets and that provide reasonable assurance (i) that transactions are executed in accordance with management’s authorization in all material respects, (ii) that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of its financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for its assets, (iii) regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of its assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements, and (iv) that interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in each of the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is not aware of any material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting that is reasonably likely to adversely affect its ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information.

(u) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. Each of the Company and the Guarantor maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, by others within those entities; such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

(v) No Unlawful Payments. Neither of the Company, the Guarantor nor any of their respective subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantor, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries has materially violated in the past five years or is in material violation of (1) laws relating to the use of any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (2) laws relating to direct or indirect unlawful payments to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds, (3) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or the rules and regulations thereunder or (4) laws relating to bribes, rebates, payoffs, influence payments, kickbacks or other unlawful payments. Each of the Company and the Guarantor has implemented compliance programs for purposes of (a) informing the appropriate officers and employees of the Company, the Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s policies to ensure compliance with the laws described under (1) through (4) above, and (b) requiring such officers and employees to report to the Company and the Guarantor any knowledge they may have of violations of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s policies referred to above and no such reports have been made.

 

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(w) No Brokerage Commission; Finder’s Fee. To the best of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s knowledge after due inquiry, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or the Guarantor and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company, the Guarantor or the Underwriters for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.

(x) Reporting Company. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

(y) Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (A)(i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), and (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) under the Securities Act) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption provided by Rule 163 under the Securities Act, the Company was a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405, including not having been an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405; and (B) at the time of filing the Original Registration Statement, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Shares and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer” as defined in Rule 405.

(z) Possession of Licenses and Permits. Each of the Company and the Guarantor possesses such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies and third parties, governmental or otherwise necessary to conduct the business now operated by it as described in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, except for such failures to possess Licenses as would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and the Guarantor is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Licenses or the failure of such Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company and the Guarantor have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa) Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company, the Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company, the Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules,


regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries with respect to the Anti- Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, threatened.

(bb) Sanctions. None of the Company, the Guarantor, any of their respective subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantor, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); the Company and the Guarantor will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the sale of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any of its subsidiaries or joint venture partners or any other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(cc) Listing. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act. The Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the “Exchange”).

The parties hereto agree that any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or the Guarantor delivered to the Underwriters or to counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby as of the date or dates indicated in such certificate.

2. Purchase and Sale; Closing. (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and the Guarantor agree to sell the Initial Securities to the Underwriters, and the Underwriters agree, to purchase, severally and not jointly from the Company and the Guarantor, the Initial Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule I hereto, at a purchase price of 97.04% of the principal amount thereof (the “Purchase Price”), $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Initial Securities plus accrued and interest, if any, from June 25, 2020 to the Initial Closing Date, if the Initial Closing Date (as defined below) occurs thereafter.

(b) In addition, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company and the Guarantor agree to sell the Option Securities to the Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and the Underwriters shall have the option to purchase all or a portion of the Option Securities, severally and not jointly, from the Company and the Guarantor at the Purchase Price, plus accrued and interest, if any, in respect of the Option Securities, from June 25, 2020 to the applicable Additional Closing Date, if such Additional Closing Date occurs thereafter.

 

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(c) If any Option Securities are to be purchased, the principal amount of Option Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters shall be the principal amount of Option Securities which bears the same ratio to the aggregate principal amount of Option Securities being purchased as the principal amount of Initial Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto (or such amount increased as set forth in Section 5 hereof) bears to the aggregate principal amount of Initial Securities being purchased from the Company by the several Underwriters, subject, however, to such adjustments to eliminate Securities in denominations other than $1,000 as the Representatives in their sole discretion shall make.

(d) The Representatives, on behalf of the Underwriters, may exercise the option to purchase the Option Securities at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, by written notice from the Representatives to the Company. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate principal amount of Option Securities plus accrued interest, if any, in respect of the Option Securities as to which the option is being exercised and the date and time when the Option Securities are to be delivered and paid for which may be the same date and time as the Initial Closing Date but shall not be earlier than the Initial Closing Date nor later than the 30th (thirtieth) day following and including, the date of the Final Prospectus. The option may be exercised solely to cover over-allotments in the sale of the Initial Securities by the Underwriters. Any such notice with respect to the exercise of the option shall be given at least two business days prior to the Initial Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

(e) Payment of the purchase price for, and delivery of, the Initial Securities, and any Option Securities to be purchased on the Initial Closing Date, shall be made at the date, time and location or locations specified in Schedule II hereto, or at such other date, time or location or locations as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representatives, and, in the case of any other Option Securities, on the date and at the time and place specified by the Representatives in the written notice of the Representatives’ election to purchase such Option Securities. The time and date of such initial payment and delivery is referred to herein as the “Initial Closing Date” and the time and date for such payment and delivery for any other Option Securities, if other than the Initial Closing Date, is herein referred to as an “Additional Closing Date”. The Initial Closing Date together with any Additional Closing Date are hereinafter each referred to as a “Closing Date”. Payment shall be made for the Initial Securities and any Option Securities to the Company by federal funds wire transfer or transfer of other immediately available funds against delivery of the Securities to the account of the Underwriters at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters. The Notes shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other names, and in such authorized denominations as the Representatives may request in writing at least two full business days before the applicable Closing Date.

(f) Each Underwriter has authorized the Representatives, on its behalf and for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Securities that it has agreed to purchase. Each Representative, individually and not as a Representative, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price for the Securities to be purchased by any Underwriter whose payment shall not have been received by the Initial Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be


3. Covenants. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, covenant with the Underwriters as follows:

(a) Immediately following the execution of this Agreement, the Company will (x) prepare the Final Prospectus that complies with the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations and which sets forth the aggregate number of the Securities to be purchased, the name of each Underwriter participating in the offering and the aggregate number of the Securities that each severally, and not jointly, has agreed to purchase, the name of each Underwriter, if any, acting as representative of the Underwriters in connection with the offering, the price at which the Securities are to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company, the initial public offering price of the Securities, any selling concession and reallowance, and such other information as the Representatives and the Company deem appropriate in connection with the offering of the Securities and (y) file all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule. The Company and the Guarantor will promptly transmit copies of the Final Prospectus to the Commission for filing pursuant to Rule 424 and will furnish to the Underwriters as many copies of the Final Prospectus as you shall reasonably request. The Company and the Guarantor will prepare a final term sheet, in the form approved by the Representatives and attached as Annex A hereto and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule.

(b) During the period when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act (“Rule 173(a)”) relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly advise you of (i) the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any supplement to the Final Prospectus or any document that would as a result thereof be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus, (iii) any request by the Commission for any amendment of the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information relating thereto or to any document incorporated by reference therein, (iv) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (v) the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or suspension and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(c) If, at any time when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, any event occurs as a result of which the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to paragraph (d) of this Section 3, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or

 

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an amendment or supplement which will effect such compliance and the Company will use its reasonable efforts to have any such amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable (if it is not an automatic shelf registration statement with respect to the Securities). Neither the Representatives’ consent to, nor the Underwriters’ delivery of, any such amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the conditions set forth in Section 4 hereof.

(d) At any time when a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company and the Guarantor will give you notice of its intention to file any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Final Prospectus, whether pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or otherwise, will furnish you with copies of any such amendment or supplement or other documents proposed to be filed within a reasonable time in advance of filing, and will not file any such amendment or supplement or other documents in a form to which you shall reasonably object.

(e) The Company has furnished or will furnish, if requested, to the Representatives and their counsel, without charge, conformed copies of the Original Registration Statement and of all amendments thereto, whether filed before or after such Registration Statement originally became effective (including exhibits thereto and the documents incorporated therein by reference) and the copies of the Original Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. So long as delivery of a Final Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, a notice referred to in Rule 173(a)) by the Underwriters may be required by the Securities Act, the Company will furnish as many copies of any Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and any amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request and the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to each Underwriter will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T or required under Rule 424(e).

(f) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts, in cooperation with the Underwriters, to qualify the Securities for sale under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Underwriters may reasonably designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required in connection with the distribution of such Securities; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any such jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.

(g) The Company shall use the proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities in the manner indicated in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”

(h) The Company shall cooperate with the Underwriters and use its reasonable efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC.


(i) The Company, during the period after the date hereof and to the later of the Initial Closing Date and any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, will file promptly all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations.

(j) The Company and Guarantor represent and agree that unless it obtains the prior consent of the Representatives, and each Representative represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company and the Guarantor, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405. Any such free writing prospectus, including any investor presentation on any “road show”, consented to by the Company and the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” Each of the Company and the Guarantor represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 as applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping.

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

(l) The Company will make generally available to its security holders an earnings statement or statements of the Company which will satisfy the requirements of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 under the Securities Act.

(m) For a period of 60 days after the date of the offering of the Securities (the “Restricted Period”), the Company and the Guarantor will not (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or submit to, or file with, the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or

 

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exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (other than any registration statement on Form S-8 or any successor forms thereto, or relating solely to any of the employee benefit plans of the Company and/or the Guarantor, as described in the Statutory Prospectus), or publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing, or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities or publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the Representatives. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such limitations shall not apply to: (i) the Securities to be sold hereunder; (ii) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the conversion thereof; (iii) any Common Stock of the Company to be offered and sold pursuant to the Concurrent Common Stock Offering (as defined in the General Disclosure Package); (iv) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued (or withheld) upon the exercise or conversion of any options, warrants or other securities or restricted stock units outstanding on the date hereof or other equity-based awards under existing equity compensation plans and incentive retention plans, each as described in the Statutory Prospectus; (v) any options, restricted stock units or other equity-based awards granted under existing equity compensation plans and incentive retention plans; (vi) any warrants of the Company issued to the United States government, the U.S Department of Treasury or any similar agency under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or any other similar government aid program (and any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise thereof); (vii) any of the actions described in the above paragraph with respect to the issuance of up to 10% of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for such shares) in connection with any acquisitions, strategic partnerships or other commercial relationships, provided that the recipient of any such issuances described in this clause (vii) shall sign a lock-up agreement in the form attached hereto at Exhibit B.

(n) The Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of pre-emptive rights, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Maximum Number of Underlying Securities for the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy all obligations to issue the Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Securities. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Underlying Securities to be listed on the Exchange, subject to notice of issuance.

(o) The Company shall use its reasonable efforts to maintain the listing of the Underlying Securities on the Exchange for so long as the Common Stock is so listed.

(p) The Company shall maintain a transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock.

(q) Between the date hereof and the Initial Closing Date, the Company will not do or authorize any act or thing that would result in an adjustment of the conversion price (as defined in the Indenture) of the Notes assuming they are outstanding.


4. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligation of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Initial Securities and any applicable Option Securities on the Initial Closing Date or any Option Securities on any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the accuracy of and compliance with the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor contained herein as of the date hereof, the Initial Closing Date and as of any such Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, to the accuracy of the statements of the officers of the Company and the Guarantor made in any certificates furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) At the Initial Closing Date and any such Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.

(b) At the Initial Closing Date and any such Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the Underwriters shall have received:

(1) Opinions and a negative assurance letter, dated as of the Initial Closing Date and each such Additional Closing Date, of Latham & Watkins LLP, as counsel for the Company and the Guarantor, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(2) An opinion, dated as of the Initial Closing Date and each such Additional Closing Date, of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, as regulatory counsel for the Company and the Guarantor, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(3) An opinion and negative assurance letter, dated as of the Initial Closing Date and each Additional Closing Date, of Milbank LLP, as counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as may be reasonably requested by the Representatives.

(c) At the Initial Closing Date and each Additional Closing Date, there shall not have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, and the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of the President, an Executive Vice President, a Senior Vice President or a Vice President of the Company and the Guarantor, dated as of the Initial Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as applicable, to the effect that (i) there has been no such material adverse change, (ii) the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor, as applicable, contained in Section 1 hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as though made at the Initial Closing Date or such Additional Closing Date, as applicable, and (iii) each of the Company and the Guarantor has complied in all material respects with all of the agreements and satisfied in all material respects all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Initial Closing Date and each Additional Closing Date, as applicable.

 

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(d) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, neither Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business nor Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. shall have downgraded the rating accorded the Company or the Guarantor of any of the securities of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries (except for any pass through certificates) or announced that any probable downgrading of such rating is about to occur in the near future.

(e) On the date hereof, the Initial Closing Date and each Additional Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP a letter or letters, dated as of the respective dates of delivery thereof, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to the underwriters with respect to certain financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(f) At the Initial Closing Date, each of the Indenture and the Securities shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor, as applicable.

(g) The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, between the Representatives and certain officers and directors of the Company listed in Exhibit C hereto relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to you on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Initial Closing Date or Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

(h) The Exchange has completed its review of a Listing of Additional Shares application concerning the Underlying Securities and has not provided comments.

(i) The Underwriters shall have received a letter, dated as of the date hereof and each Closing Date, from the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(j) The Company and the Guarantor shall have furnished to the Representatives and their counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to them, such other documents, certificates and opinions as such counsel may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such counsel to pass upon the matters referred to in subsection (b)(3) of this Section 4 and in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations, warranties or statements, the performance of any covenant by the Company and the Guarantor theretofore to be performed, or the compliance with any of the conditions herein contained.

All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in all respects satisfactory to the Representatives and their counsel.


If any condition specified in this Section 4 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, other than by reason of any default by the Underwriters, such failure to fulfill a condition may be waived by the Representatives, or this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company and the Guarantor at any time at or prior to the Initial Closing Date, or, in the case of the Option Securities, prior to any Additional Closing Date, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Sections 5, 7 and 9 hereof, which provisions shall remain in effect notwithstanding such termination.

5. Payment of Expenses. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, shall pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of their respective obligations under this Agreement, including (i) expenses relating to the preparation, printing, filing and distribution of the Statutory Prospectus, the Final Prospectus, the Registration Statement and each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments thereof or supplements thereto, (ii) expenses relating to the preparation, printing and distribution of this Agreement, any Underwriter’s Questionnaire or related matters, (iii) expenses relating to the issuance and delivery of the Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel and accountants, (v) expenses of qualifying the Securities under the applicable securities or “blue sky” laws in accordance with Section 3(f), including filing fees and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with the “blue sky” survey, (vi) all costs and expenses related to review by FINRA of the offering (including filing fees and the fees and expenses of of counsel for the Underwriters relating to review), (vii) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities, (viii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, and the fees and disbursements of its counsel, (ix) all expenses and application fees related to the listing of the Underlying Securities on the Exchange and (x) any costs and expenses of the Company and the Guarantor relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the Securities. The Company and the Guarantor will also cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of their obligations under the Indenture and each of the other agreements and instruments referred to therein.

If this Agreement is terminated by the Underwriters in accordance with the provisions of Section 4, Section 10(i) or Section 10(iii) hereof, the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, shall reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters, incurred by them in connection with the offering contemplated by this Agreement.

6. [Reserved].

7. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters, their affiliates, and their respective directors and officers and each person who controls the Underwriters within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) (1) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement

 

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or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment to the Registration Statement), or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (2) arise out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the General Disclosure Package or in the Final Prospectus or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment thereof, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and, in each case, agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that (i) the Company and the Guarantor shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission (a) made therein in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter specifically for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment thereto) or the General Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or (b) made in those parts of the Registration Statement constituting a Statement of Eligibility under the TIA of a trustee on Form T-1, and (ii) the Company and the Guarantor shall not be liable for any loss, liability or expense of any settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened litigation or any pending or threatened governmental agency investigation or proceeding if such settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect thereto is effected without the prior written consent of the Company and the Guarantor (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent that such consent is not required pursuant to Section 7(d) hereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that the Company and the Guarantor may otherwise have.

(b) Each Underwriter severally, and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Guarantor, each of their directors, each of their officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses described in the indemnity contained in Section 7(a) hereof, but only with respect to untrue statements or alleged untrue statements or omissions or alleged omissions made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company and the Guarantor by or on behalf of such Underwriter specifically for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information provided by any Underwriter consists of the information in the letter from the Representatives, dated as of the date of this Agreement, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A; provided, however, that the Underwriters shall not be liable for any loss, liability or expense of any settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened litigation or any pending or threatened


governmental agency investigation or proceeding if such settlement or compromise of or consent to entry of judgment with respect thereto is effected without the prior written consent of the Underwriters (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent that such consent is not required pursuant to Section 7(d) hereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that any Underwriter may otherwise have.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under Sections 7(a) or (b) of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under Sections 7(a) or (b), notify the indemnifying party or parties in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party or parties will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under Sections 7(a) or (b). In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party or parties of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party or parties will be entitled to participate therein, and to the extent that such indemnifying party or parties may elect, by written notice delivered to such indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, that if, in the reasonable judgment of such indemnified party, a conflict of interest exists where it is advisable for such indemnified party to be represented by separate counsel, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action, in which event the fees and expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the indemnifying party or parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party or parties to such indemnified party of the election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party or parties will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 7 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the next preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party or parties shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one such separate counsel representing the indemnified parties under subparagraph (a) or (b), as applicable) of this Section 7 who are parties to such action in addition to one local counsel in each jurisdiction), (ii) the indemnifying party or parties shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party or parties have authorized the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties; and except that, if clause (i) or (iii) is applicable, such liability shall be only in respect of the counsel referred to in such clause (i) or (iii). It is understood that all such fees and expenses of counsel for the indemnified party for which the indemnifying party is liable shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), effect any settlement or compromise of, or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement or compromise of, or consent to entry of judgment with respect to, includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

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(d) If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel payable pursuant to this Section 7, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment of the nature contemplated by clause (ii) of the proviso in Section 7(a) and the proviso in Section 7(b) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid notice of request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into, and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement, compromise or consent to entry of judgment.

(e) If the indemnification provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 7 is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (net of underwriting discounts and commissions paid to the Underwriters but before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Guarantor and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in each case as set forth on the cover of the Final Prospectus, bears to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Securities as set forth on such cover. The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantor or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 7. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (e), the Underwriters shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities purchased by it hereunder and distributed to investors exceeds the amount of any damages which such


Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company and the Guarantor, each officer of the Company and the Guarantor who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company and the Guarantor. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the number of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I hereto and not joint.

8. Defaulting Underwriter.

(a) If on the Initial Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Securities that it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate principal amount of Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally, and not jointly, in the proportions that the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as may be specified by the Representatives with the consent of the non-defaulting Underwriters, to purchase the Securities that such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on the Initial Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be; provided that in no event shall the principal amount of Securities that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 9 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such principal amount of Securities without the written consent of such Underwriter.

(b) If on the Initial Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities which it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date and the aggregate principal amount of Securities with respect to which such default occurs is more than 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on the Initial Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and arrangements satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company for the purchase of such Securities are not made within 36 hours after such default, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons reasonably satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Securities.

(c) If, after giving effect to any such arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased exceeds 10% of the total principal amount of the Securities, then this Agreement, or, with respect to any Additional Closing Date, the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase Securities on the

 

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Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except that the provisions of Sections 5 and 7 hereof shall at all times be effective and shall survive such termination. In any such case the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Initial Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the General Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” shall be deemed to include any person substituted for a defaulting Underwriter under this Section 8. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

9. Representations, Warranties, Covenants, Indemnities and Agreements to Survive Delivery. All representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and agreements contained in this Agreement, or contained in certificates of officers of the Company and the Guarantor submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantor or the Underwriters, their affiliates, and their respective directors and officers or any controlling person of any of such persons and shall survive delivery of any Securities to the Underwriters.

10. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated immediately upon notice from the Representatives to the Company at any time at or prior to the Initial Closing Date or, in the case of the Option Securities, prior to any Additional Closing Date, (i) if there has been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement), any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company, the Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company, the Guarantor and their respective subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there has occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or in the international financial markets or any other calamity or crisis the effect of any of which on the financial markets is such as to make it, in the Representatives’ judgment, impracticable to market the Securities or enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities, or (iii) if trading in the securities of the Company or the Guarantor has been suspended by the Commission or the Exchange, or if trading generally on the Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange has been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by said exchange or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities. In the event of any such termination, the provisions of Sections 5, 7 and 9 hereof shall remain in effect.

11. Miscellaneous; Notices.

(a) Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.


(b) All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt, and, (i) if sent to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, will be mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication to you in care of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282-2198, Attention: Control Room, in care of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013, Attention: General Counsel, Facsimile: ###, in care of BofA Securities, Inc., One Bryant Park, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Syndicate Department, Facsimile: ### with a copy to Attention: ECM Legal, Facsimile: ### and in care of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Eugene Sohn, Facsimile: ### and (ii) if sent to the Company, will be mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication to the Company at 1 Skyview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76155, facsimile no. ###, attention of the Treasurer.

12. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriters, the Company, the Guarantor and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons, affiliates and officers and directors referred to in Section 7 hereof and their successors, heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties and their respective successors and said affiliates, directors and officers and controlling persons and their successors, heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Securities from the Underwriters shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.

13. No Fiduciary Duty. Each of the Company and the Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters are acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company and the Guarantor with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of such offering) and not as financial advisors or a fiduciaries to, or agents of, the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries. Additionally, the Underwriters are not advising the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction with respect to the offering of the Securities or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Underwriters have advised or are advising the Company or the Guarantor on other matters). The Underwriters advise that they and their affiliates are engaged in a broad range of securities and financial services and that they and their affiliates may enter into contractual relationships with purchasers or potential purchasers of the securities of the Company or the Guarantor or their respective affiliates and that some of these services or relationships may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and the Guarantor and need not be disclosed to the Company and the Guarantor, unless otherwise required by law. The Company and the Guarantor have consulted with their own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making their own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall not have any responsibility or liability to the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates with respect thereto. Any review by the Underwriters of the Company, the Guarantor, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be

 

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performed solely for the benefit of such Underwriters and shall not be on behalf of the Company or the Guarantor. Each of the Company and the Guarantor waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Underwriters for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Underwriters shall not have any liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company or the Guarantor in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim.

14. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

15. Submission to Jurisdiction; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a) Each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this Agreement or the Underwriters’ engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and each of the Company and the Guarantor agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts. Each of the parties to this Agreement agrees that a final action in any such suit or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other lawful manner.

(b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and agrees not to assert, by stay of motion, as a defense, or otherwise, in any legal action or proceeding brought hereunder in any of the above-named courts, that such action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, or that venue for the action or proceeding is improper.

(c) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

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

17. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a) In the event that the Underwriters that are a Covered Entity (as defined below) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime (as defined below), the transfer from such Underwriters of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.


(b) In the event that the Underwriters that are a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate (as defined below) of such Underwriters become subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights (as defined below) under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriters are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

For purposes of this section, a “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k). “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b). “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable. “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

18. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the Company and Standard Chartered Bank (“SC”), each of the Company and SC acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution (as defined below) arising under this Agreement, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority (as defined below) and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(1) the application of any write-down or conversion powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be

(2) the effects of any Bail-in Action (as defined below) on any such liability, including, if applicable;

(1) a reduction, in full or in part, of any such liability

(2) conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent, or a bridge institution and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement; or;

(3) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.;

“Bail-in Action” means the application of any write-down or conversion powers by an EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

 

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“EEA Financial Institution” means (1) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, including SC, (2) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (1) of this definition, or (3) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (1) or (2) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.”

19. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

20. Counterparts; Electronic Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and when a counterpart has been executed by each party hereto all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier, facsimile or other electronic transmission (i.e., a “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof. A party’s electronic signature (complying with the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (N.Y. State Tech. §§ 301-309), as amended from time to time, or other applicable law) of this Agreement shall have the same validity and effect as a signature affixed by the party’s hand.

21. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Securities, represents the entire agreement among the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters with respect to the subject matter hereof.


If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument will become a binding agreement between the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,
AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.
By:   /s/ Thomas T. Weir
  Name: Thomas T. Weir
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
By:   /s/ Thomas T. Weir
  Name: Thomas T. Weir
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer

[Signature page to Underwriting Agreement]


The foregoing Underwriting Agreement

is hereby confirmed and accepted as of

the date first above written:

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc,

and

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Acting on behalf of themselves and as the Representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

 

By: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
  /s/ Raffael Fiumara
  Name: Raffael Fiumara
  Title: Vice President

 

By: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  /s/ Rohith Adavikolanu
  Name: Rohith Adavikolanu
  Title: Director

 

By: BofA Securities, Inc.
  /s/ Christie MacDonald
  Name: Christie MacDonald
  Title: Managing Director

 

By: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  /s/ Jin Izawa
  Name: Jin Izawa
  Title: Vice President

[Signature page to Underwriting Agreement]


ANNEX A

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Pricing Term Sheet


Annex A to the

Underwriting Agreement

PRICING TERM SHEET

June 22, 2020

American Airlines Group Inc.

Offerings of

$1,000,350,000 of Shares of Common Stock (74,100,000 Shares)

$1,000,000,000 6.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 2025

The information in this pricing term sheet supplements (i) American Airlines Group Inc.’s (“AAG”) preliminary prospectus supplement, dated June 21, 2020 (the “Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), relating to an offering of common stock (the “Common Stock Offering”), and (ii) AAG’s preliminary prospectus supplement, dated June 21, 2020 (the “Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”), relating to an offering of convertible senior notes (the “Convertible Notes Offering”), and, in each case, the accompanying prospectus, dated February 19, 2020, each filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). This pricing term sheet supersedes the information in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, to the extent inconsistent with the information in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, respectively. Terms used, but not defined, in this pricing term sheet have the respective meanings set forth in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. As used in this pricing term sheet, “we,” “our” and “us” refer to AAG.

Common Stock Offering

 

 

Issuer:

   American Airlines Group Inc.

Securities:

   74,100,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of American Airlines Group Inc. (the “Common Stock”) (or, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares solely to cover over-allotments, 85,215,000 shares of Common Stock)

Offering Size:

   $1,000,350,000, which constitutes an increase of $250,350,000 from the amount to be issued disclosed in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement (or, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares, $1,150,402,500)

Ticker/Exchange for the Issuer’s Shares:

  

AAL / Nasdaq Global Select Market

Last Reported Sale Price per Share of the Common Stock on June 22, 2020:

   $14.92

Public Offering Price per Share of Common Stock

   $13.50

Underwriting Discount:

   $0.43875 per share of Common Stock, and $32,511,375 in the aggregate (or $37,388,081.25 in the aggregate, if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock)

Trade Date:

  

June 23, 2020


Annex A to the

Underwriting Agreement

 

Settlement Date:

  

T + 2; June 25, 2020

Use of Proceeds:

  

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the Common Stock Offering will be approximately $966.8 million (or approximately $1,112.0 million if the underwriters of the Common Stock Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock), after deducting the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses. We intend to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and to enhance our liquidity position.

Bookrunners:

  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

  

Barclays Capital Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

Co-Managers:

  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

CUSIP / ISIN:

   CUSIP: 02376R102 / ISIN: US02376R1023

 

Convertible Notes Offering

 

Issuer:

  

American Airlines Group Inc.

Guarantor:

  

American Airlines, Inc.

Ticker/Exchange for the Issuer’s Shares:

  

AAL / Nasdaq Global Select Market

Securities:

   6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes” and together with the Guarantee, the “Securities”)

Size:

   $1,000,000,000, which constitutes an increase of $250,000,000 from the principal amount to be issued disclosed in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, plus up to an additional $150,000,000 principal amount pursuant to the Underwriters’ option to purchase additional Notes

Maturity Date:

  

July 1, 2025

Coupon:

   6.50% per annum, accruing from, and including, the Settlement Date

Issue Price:

   100.000% of principal amount per Note, plus accrued interest, if any, from, and including, the Settlement Date


Annex A to the

Underwriting Agreement

 

Underwriting Discount:

   2.96% of the principal amount of the Securities, and $29,600,000 in the aggregate (or $34,040,000 in the aggregate, if the underwriters of the Convertible Notes Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional Securities)

Interest Payment Dates:

 

Record Dates:

  

January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing January 1, 2021

 

December 15 and June 15 of each year

Trade Date:

  

June 23, 2020

Settlement Date:

   T+2; June 25, 2020

Use of Proceeds:

   We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the Convertible Notes Offering will be approximately $969.4 million (or approximately $1,115.0 million if the underwriters of the Convertible Notes Offering fully exercise their option to purchase additional Notes), after deducting the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and our estimated offering expenses. We intend to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes and to enhance our liquidity position.

CUSIP / ISIN:

 

Denominations/Multiple:

  

CUSIP: 02376R AF9 / ISIN: US02376RAF91

 

$1,000 x $1,000

Last Reported Sale Price per Share of the Common Stock on June 22, 2020:

   $14.92

Initial Conversion Rate:

   61.7284 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes

Initial Conversion Price:

   Approximately $16.20 per share of Common Stock

Conversion Premium:

   Approximately 20% above the Public Offering Price per Share of Common Stock in the Common Stock Offering

Bookrunners:

  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Barclays Capital Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

ICBC Standard Bank Plc

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

Co-Managers:

  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

Standard Chartered Bank

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

BOK Financial Securities, Inc.


Annex A to the

Underwriting Agreement

 

Optional Redemption:

   We may not redeem the Notes at our option at any time before July 5, 2023. Subject to the terms of the indenture, the Notes will be redeemable, in whole or in part, at our option at any time, and from time to time, on or after July 5, 2023 and on or before the 20th scheduled trading day immediately before the Maturity Date, at a cash redemption price equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, but only if the last reported sale price per share of Common Stock exceeds 130% of the conversion price on (i) each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the trading day immediately before the date we send the related redemption notice; and (ii) the trading day immediately before the date we send such notice. In addition, calling any Note for redemption will constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to that Note, in which case the conversion rate applicable to the conversion of that Note will be increased in certain circumstances if it is converted after it is called for redemption. If we elect to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes, then the redemption will not constitute a make-whole fundamental change with respect to the Notes not called for redemption, and holders of the Notes not called for redemption will not be entitled to an increased conversion rate for such Notes as described above on account of the redemption, except in certain circumstances. See “Description of Notes—Optional Redemption” in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.

Increase to Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

   If a make-whole fundamental change occurs and the conversion date for the conversion of a Note occurs during the related make-whole fundamental change conversion period, then, subject to the provisions described in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Increase in Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change,” the conversion rate applicable to such conversion will be increased by a number of shares of Common Stock set forth in the table below corresponding (after interpolation as described below) to the make-whole fundamental change effective date and the stock price of such make-whole fundamental change:

Stock Price

 

Make-Whole
Fundamental

Change

Effective Date

   $13.50      $15.00      $16.20      $18.00      $20.00      $21.06      $25.00      $30.00      $35.00      $40.00      $50.00      $75.00      $100.00      $125.00  

June 25, 2020

     12.3456        10.7487        9.7173        8.4567        7.3420        6.8409        5.3600        4.0450        3.1086        2.4120        1.4630        0.3557        0.0099        0.0000  

July 1, 2021

     12.3456        9.6800        8.6963        7.5294        6.5235        6.0779        4.7736        3.6230        2.8029        2.1900        1.3462        0.3361        0.0081        0.0000  

July 1, 2022

     12.3456        8.3927        7.4222        6.3383        5.4545        5.0745        3.9876        3.0437        2.3717        1.8680        1.1674        0.3024        0.0052        0.0000  

July 1, 2023

     12.3456        6.9360        5.8790        4.8322        4.0815        3.7806        2.9636        2.2743        1.7857        1.4188        0.9044        0.2469        0.0025        0.0000  

July 1, 2024

     12.3456        5.4453        4.0025        2.8833        2.3075        2.1187        1.6564        1.2800        1.0126        0.8118        0.5298        0.1573        0.0013        0.0000  

July 1, 2025

     12.3456        4.9380        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000        0.0000  


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Underwriting Agreement

If such make-whole fundamental change effective date or stock price is not set forth in the table above, then:

 

   

if such stock price is between two stock prices in the table above or the make-whole fundamental change effective date is between two dates in the table above, then the number of additional shares will be determined by straight-line interpolation between the numbers of additional shares set forth for the higher and lower stock prices in the table above or the earlier and later dates in the table above, based on a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable; and

 

   

if the stock price is greater than $125.00 (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above are adjusted, as described in the Convertibles Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Increase in Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change—Adjustment of Stock Prices and Number of Additional Shares”), or less than $13.50 (subject to adjustment in the same manner), per share, then no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event will the conversion rate be increased to an amount that exceeds 74.0740 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which amount is subject to adjustment in the same manner as, and at the same time and for the same events for which, the conversion rate is required to be adjusted pursuant to the provisions described in the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of Notes—Conversion Rights—Conversion Rate Adjustments—Generally.”

We have filed a registration statement (including a prospectus), the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement with the SEC for the offerings to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement or the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, as applicable, and the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents we have filed with the SEC for more complete information about us and these offerings. You may get these documents free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, we, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the applicable offering will arrange to send you the applicable Preliminary Prospectus Supplement (or, when available, the applicable final prospectus supplement) and the accompanying prospectus upon request to: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, or by telephone at (866) 471-2526 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (800) 831-9146; BofA Securities, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by email at: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Attn: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or telephone: 1-866-803-9204.

The information in this pricing term sheet is not a complete description of the Common Stock, the Common Stock Offering, the Securities or the Convertible Notes Offering. You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Common Stock Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Convertible Notes Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as supplemented by this pricing term sheet, in making an investment decision with respect to the Common Stock or the Securities.

ANY DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED. SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION BEING SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.


SCHEDULE I

to

Underwriting Agreement

 

Underwriters

   Principal Amount of
Initial Securities
     Principal Amount of
Option Securities
 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

   $ 127,437,000      $ 19,115,000  

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

   $ 127,436,000      $ 19,115,000  

BofA Securities, Inc.

   $ 127,436,000      $ 19,115,000  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

   $ 127,436,000      $ 19,115,000  

Barclays Capital Inc.

   $ 59,512,000      $ 8,927,000  

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

   $ 67,146,000      $ 10,072,000  

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

   $ 42,705,000      $ 6,406,000  

ICBC Standard Bank Plc

   $ 96,398,000      $ 14,460,000  

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

   $ 42,705,000      $ 6,405,000  

SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc.

   $ 42,705,000      $ 6,405,000  

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

   $ 21,352,000      $ 3,203,000  

Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

   $ 21,352,000      $ 3,203,000  

Standard Chartered Bank

   $ 48,199,000      $ 7,230,000  

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

   $ 21,352,000      $ 3,203,000  

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

   $ 21,352,000      $ 3,203,000  

BOK Financial Securities, Inc.

   $ 5,477,000      $ 823,000  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total:

   $ 1,000,000,000      $ 150,000,000  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 


SCHEDULE II

to

Underwriting

Agreement

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

 

Closing date, time and location:

   10:00 A.M. on June 25, 2020 at the offices of Milbank LLP, 55 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001-2163


SCHEDULE III

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Schedule of Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses

 

1.

The Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated June 21, 2020, announcing the proposed offerings of the Notes and the Common Stock.

 

2.

The Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, dated June 22, 2020, containing the terms of the offering of the Notes and the terms of the Common Stock (in the form attached as Annex A hereto).


EXHIBIT A

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Form of Blood Letter

June 22, 2020

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, TX 76155

 

  Re:

American Airlines Group Inc.

  $1,000,000,000

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This letter is delivered by the undersigned to American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated June 21, 2020, and the Final Prospectus Supplement, dated June 22, 2020 (together, the “Prospectus Supplement”), relating to the issuance and sale by the Company of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025.

For purposes of Section 7(b) of the underwriting agreement, dated June 22, 2020 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company, American Airlines, Inc., as guarantor, and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (collectively, the “Representatives” of the several underwriters listed in Schedule I thereto, the “Underwriters”), we hereby confirm that we have furnished to you the following information for use in the Prospectus Supplement:

 

  1.

The third sentence of the twelfth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus Supplement, concerning market-making activities by the Underwriters; and

 

  2.

The thirteenth and fourteenth paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus Supplement, concerning purchases to cover positions created by short sales and stabilization transactions by the Underwriters, respectively.


Other than as described above, we have not furnished you with any other information for use in the Prospectus Supplement, the General Disclosure Package, or any Incorporated Documents (or any amendment or supplement thereto). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Underwriting Agreement.

[Signature page follows]


Very truly yours,
[REPRESENTATIVE]
By:    
Name.  
Title:  


EXHIBIT B

to

Underwriting

Agreement

Form of Lock-up Agreement

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representatives of

the several Underwriters listed in

Schedule I to the Underwriting

Agreement referred to below

c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282-2198

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

c/o BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

June 20, 2020

 

  Re:

American Airlines Group Inc. – Proposed Public Offering

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that you, as Representatives of the underwriters, propose to enter into (i) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Notes Underwriting Agreement”) with American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and American Airlines, Inc. (the “Guarantor”), providing for the public offering (the “Notes Offering”) of the Company’s Convertible Senior Notes due 2025, of the Company (the “Notes”) and (ii) an Underwriting Agreement (the “Shares Underwriting Agreement” and, together with the Notes Underwriting Agreement, the “Underwriting Agreements”) with the Company, providing for the public offering (the “Shares Offering” and, together with the Notes Offering, the “Offerings”) of the common stock, par value $0.01, of the Company (the “Common Stock”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Underwriting Agreements.


In consideration of the Representatives’ agreement to purchase the Notes and the Common Stock and conduct the Offerings, and for other good and valuable consideration receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, the undersigned will not, during the period beginning on the date of this letter agreement (this “Letter Agreement”) and ending at the close of business 60 days after the date of the Underwriting Agreements (the “Restricted Period”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock, or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (including without limitation, Common Stock or such other securities which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and securities which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant) (collectively with the Common Stock, the “Lock-Up Securities”), (2) enter into any hedging, swap or other agreement or transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Lock-Up Securities, in cash or otherwise, (3) make any demand for, or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any Lock-Up Securities, or (4) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing. The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing precludes the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transactions or arrangements (including, without limitation, any short sale or the purchase or sale of, or entry into, any put or call option, or combination thereof, forward, swap or any other derivative transaction or instrument, however described or defined) designed or intended, or which could reasonably be expected to lead to or result in, a sale or disposition or transfer (whether by the undersigned or any other person) of any economic consequences of ownership, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, of any Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction or arrangement (or instrument provided for thereunder) would be settled by delivery of Lock-up Securities, in cash or otherwise.

The foregoing paragraph shall not apply to:

(a) any disposition of shares of Common Stock, any other class of the Company’s capital stock, or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock by bona fide gift, by will or by intestacy;

(b) transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock acquired in open market transactions after the completion of the offering (provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Restricted Period in connection with subsequent sales of Common Stock or other securities acquired in such open market transactions);

(c) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock to partnerships or limited liability companies for the benefit of the immediate family of the undersigned and the partners and members of which are only the undersigned and the immediate family of the undersigned (for the purposes of this Letter Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, current or former marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin) or to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned or to a trustor or beneficiary of such trust;

(d) distributions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a court or regulatory agency order, a qualified domestic order or in connection with a divorce settlement;


(e) dispositions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock to the Company to satisfy tax withholding or exercise price obligations in connection with the exercise of options to purchase Common Stock on a “cashless” or “net exercise” basis (provided that the net underlying shares issued thereunder shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer to the Company set forth in this Letter Agreement);

(f) the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock (provided that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock during the Restricted Period and to the extent a public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required of or voluntarily made by or on behalf of the undersigned or the Company regarding the establishment of such plan, such announcement or filing shall include a statement to the effect that no transfer of Common Stock may be made under such plan during the Restricted Period);

(g) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act that was in effect as of, and only shares scheduled for sale thereunder on, the date hereof;

(h) the exercise or settlement of equity-based compensation awards of the Company granted under any stock incentive plan or stock purchase plan described (including through incorporation by reference) in the offering memorandum, including the withholding or sale of shares to satisfy exercise price, tax withholding obligations or both (provided that the net underlying shares issued thereunder shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer to the Company set forth in this Letter Agreement, and provided further, that any public report or filing shall clearly indicate in footnotes the reason for such transfer and that no public filings or reports would be made voluntarily during the Restricted Period); and

(i) transfers of shares of Common Stock, any other class of the Company’s capital stock, or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction made to all holders of the Common Stock involving a change of control of the Company approved by the board of director of the Company (provided that any shares not transferred, sold or tendered remain subject to the restrictions contained in this Letter Agreement and further provided that in the event that the tender offer, merger, consolidation or other such transaction is not completed, the securities owned by the undersigned shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this Letter Agreement).

In the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (a) or (c); (i) each donee, transferee or distributee shall sign and deliver an agreement substantially in the form of this Letter Agreement and (ii) no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the Restricted Period. For purposes of clause (i) above, “change of control” shall mean the consummation of any bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction the result of which is that any “person” (as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), or group of persons, becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 of the Exchange Act) of 50% of total voting power of the voting stock of the Company.

In furtherance of the foregoing, the Company, and any duly appointed transfer agent for the registration or transfer of the securities described herein, are hereby authorized to decline to make any transfer of securities if such transfer would constitute a violation or breach of this Letter Agreement.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Letter Agreement. All authority herein conferred or agreed to be conferred and any obligations of the undersigned shall be binding upon the successors, assigns, heirs or personal representatives of the undersigned.


The undersigned understands that, if the Underwriting Agreements do not become effective by July 1, 2020 or if the Underwriting Agreements (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the Common Stock to be sold thereunder, the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this Letter Agreement. The undersigned understands that the Underwriters are entering into the Underwriting Agreements and proceeding with the Offerings in reliance upon this Letter Agreement.

This Letter Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Letter Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

[Signature page follows]


Very truly yours,
[NAME OF STOCKHOLDER]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  


EXHIBIT C

to

Underwriting

Agreement

LOCK-UP PARTIES

James F. Albaugh

Jeffrey D. Benjamin

John T. Cahill

Michael J. Embler

Matthew J. Hart

Susan D. Kronick

Martin H. Nesbitt

Denise M. O’Leary

W. Douglas Parker

Ray M. Robinson

Robert D. Isom

Derek J. Kerr

Maya Leibman

Stephen L. Johnson

Elise R. Eberwein

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.,

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of June 25, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1  

Section 1.1

  Definitions      1  

Section 1.2

  Other Definitions      4  

Section 1.3

  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act      5  

Section 1.4

  Rules of Construction      5  

ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES

     5  

Section 2.1

  Issuable in Series      5  

Section 2.2

  Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities      6  

Section 2.3

  Execution and Authentication      8  

Section 2.4

  Registrar and Paying Agent      9  

Section 2.5

  Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust      10  

Section 2.6

  Securityholder Lists      10  

Section 2.7

  Transfer and Exchange      10  

Section 2.8

  Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities      11  

Section 2.9

  Outstanding Securities      12  

Section 2.10

  Treasury Securities      12  

Section 2.11

  Temporary Securities      12  

Section 2.12

  Cancellation      13  

Section 2.13

  Defaulted Interest      13  

Section 2.14

  Global Securities      13  

Section 2.15

  CUSIP Numbers      15  

ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION

     15  

Section 3.1

  Notice to Trustee      15  

Section 3.2

  Selection of Securities to be Redeemed      15  

Section 3.3

  Notice of Redemption      16  

Section 3.4

  Effect of Notice of Redemption      16  

Section 3.5

  Deposit of Redemption Price      17  

Section 3.6

  Securities Redeemed in Part      17  
ARTICLE IV. COVENANTS      17  

Section 4.1

  Payment of Principal and Interest      17  

Section 4.2

  SEC Reports      17  

Section 4.3

  Compliance Certificate      18  

Section 4.4

  Stay, Extension and Usury Laws      18  

ARTICLE V. SUCCESSORS

     18  

Section 5.1

  When Company May Merge, Etc      18  

Section 5.2

  Successor Corporation Substituted      19  

 

i


ARTICLE VI. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     19  

Section 6.1

  Events of Default      19  

Section 6.2

  Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment      20  

Section 6.3

  Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee      21  

Section 6.4

  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim      22  

Section 6.5

  Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities      22  

Section 6.6

  Application of Money Collected      23  

Section 6.7

  Limitation on Suits      23  

Section 6.8

  Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest      24  

Section 6.9

  Restoration of Rights and Remedies      24  

Section 6.10

  Rights and Remedies Cumulative      24  

Section 6.11

  Delay or Omission Not Waiver      24  

Section 6.12

  Control by Holders      24  

Section 6.13

  Waiver of Past Defaults      25  

Section 6.14

  Undertaking for Costs      25  

ARTICLE VII. TRUSTEE

     26  

Section 7.1

  Duties of Trustee      26  

Section 7.2

  Rights of Trustee      27  

Section 7.3

  Individual Rights of Trustee      28  

Section 7.4

  Trustee’s Disclaimer      29  

Section 7.5

  Notice of Defaults      29  

Section 7.6

  Reports by Trustee to Holders      29  

Section 7.7

  Compensation and Indemnity      29  

Section 7.8

  Replacement of Trustee      30  

Section 7.9

  Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc      31  

Section 7.10

  Eligibility; Disqualification      31  

Section 7.11

  Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company      32  

ARTICLE VIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

     32  

Section 8.1

  Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture      32  

Section 8.2

  Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification      33  

Section 8.3

  Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series      33  

Section 8.4

  Covenant Defeasance      35  

Section 8.5

  Repayment to Company      36  

Section 8.6

  Reinstatement      36  

ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

     37  

Section 9.1

  Without Consent of Holders      37  

Section 9.2

  With Consent of Holders      37  

Section 9.3

  Limitations      38  

Section 9.4

  Compliance with Trust Indenture Act      39  

Section 9.5

  Revocation and Effect of Consents      39  

Section 9.6

  Notation on or Exchange of Securities      39  

Section 9.7

  Trustee Protected      39  

 

ii


ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS

     40  

Section 10.1

  Trust Indenture Act Controls      40  

Section 10.2

  Notices      40  

Section 10.3

  Communication by Holders with Other Holders      41  

Section 10.4

  Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent      41  

Section 10.5

  Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion      41  

Section 10.6

  Rules by Trustee and Agents      42  

Section 10.7

  Legal Holidays      42  

Section 10.8

  No Recourse Against Others      42  

Section 10.9

  Counterparts      42  

Section 10.10

  Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial; Consent to Jurisdiction      43  

Section 10.11

  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements      43  

Section 10.12

  Successors      43  

Section 10.13

  Severability      43  

Section 10.14

  Table of Contents, Headings, Etc      44  

Section 10.15

  Securities in a Foreign Currency      44  

Section 10.16

  Judgment Currency      44  

Section 10.17

  Force Majeure      45  

Section 10.18

  U.S.A. Patriot Act      45  

ARTICLE XI. SINKING FUNDS

     45  

Section 11.1

  Applicability of Article      45  

Section 11.2

  Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities      46  

Section 11.3

  Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund      46  

 

iii


AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and

Indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020

 

§ 310(a)(1)

     7.10  

(a)(2)

     7.10  

(a)(3)

     Not Applicable  

(a)(4)

     Not Applicable  

(a)(5)

     7.10  

(b)

     7.10  

§ 311(a)

     7.11  

(b)

     7.11  

(c)

     Not Applicable  

§ 312(a)

     2.6  

(b)

     10.3  

(c)

     10.3  

§ 313(a)

     7.6  

(b)(1)

     7.6  

(b)(2)

     7.6  

(c)(1)

     7.6  

(d)

     7.6  

§ 314(a)

     4.2, 10.5  

(b)

     Not Applicable  

(c)(1)

     10.4  

(c)(2)

     10.4  

(c)(3)

     Not Applicable  

(d)

     Not Applicable  

(e)

     10.5  

(f)

     Not Applicable  

§ 315(a)

     7.1  

(b)

     7.5  

(c)

     7.1  

(d)

     7.1  

(e)

     6.14  

§ 316(a)

     2.10  

(a)(1)(A)

     6.12  

(a)(1)(B)

     6.13  

(b)

     6.8  

§ 317(a)(1)

     6.3  

(a)(2)

     6.4  

(b)

     2.5  

§ 318(a)

     10.1  

 

Note:

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


Indenture dated as of June 25, 2020 between American Airlines Group Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of Delaware (“Company”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (“Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture.

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1    DEFINITIONS.

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

Affiliate” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise.

Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent.

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

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

Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by supplemental indenture hereto, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York, New York (or in connection with any payment, the place of payment) on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock.

Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and thereafter means the successor.

Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer.

 

1


Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business related to this Indenture shall be principally administered.

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

Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as Depositary for such Series by the Company, which Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of such Series.

Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

Dollars” and “$” means the currency of The United States of America.

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

Foreign Currency” means any currency or currency unit issued by a government other than the government of The United States of America.

Foreign Government Obligations” means, with respect to Securities of any Series that are denominated in a Foreign Currency, direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the government that issued or caused to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.

GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the date of determination.

Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security or Securities, as the case may be, established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered.

 

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Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.

interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

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

Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and any Vice President of the Company, whether or not designated by a number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”.

Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by any Officer.

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company. The opinion may contain customary limitations, conditions and exceptions.

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

principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security.

Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office having responsibility for administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

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

Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.

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

 

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Subsidiary” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business 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 owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof.

TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.

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

U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are direct obligations of, or guaranteed by, The United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depositary receipt.

Section 1.2    OTHER DEFINITIONS.

 

TERM

   DEFINED IN
SECTION

Bankruptcy Law

   6.1

Custodian

   6.1

Event of Default

   6.1

Judgment Currency

   10.16

Legal Holiday

   10.7

mandatory sinking fund payment

   11.1

New York Banking Day

   10.16

Notice Agent

   2.4

optional sinking fund payment

   11.1

Paying Agent

   2.4

Registrar

   2.4

Required Currency

   10.16

Specified Courts

   10.10

successor person

   5.1

 

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Section 1.3    INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TRUST INDENTURE ACT.

Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

Commission” means the SEC.

default means Event of Default.

indenture securities” means the Securities.

indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities.

All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.

Section 1.4    RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

Unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)    a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(b)    an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

(c)    “or” is not exclusive;

(d)    words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; and

(e)    provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

ARTICLE II.

THE SECURITIES

Section 2.1    ISSUABLE IN SERIES.

The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the

 

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manner provided in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

Section 2.2    ESTABLISHMENT OF TERMS OF SERIES OF SECURITIES.

At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through 2.2.23) by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate:

2.2.1    the title (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series) and ranking (including the terms of any subordination provisions) of the Series;

2.2.2    the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

2.2.3    any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6);

2.2.4    the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;

2.2.5    the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;

2.2.6    the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, where the Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be delivered, and the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other means;

 

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2.2.7    if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

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

2.2.9    the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations;

2.2.10    if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;

2.2.11    the forms of the Securities of the Series and whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities;

2.2.12    if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2;

2.2.13    the currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may be Dollars or any Foreign Currency, and if such currency of denomination is a composite currency, the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite currency;

2.2.14    the designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be made;

2.2.15    if payments of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are denominated, the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments will be determined;

2.2.16    the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index;

2.2.17    the provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series;

2.2.18    any addition to, deletion of or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2;

 

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2.2.19    any addition to, deletion of or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or V which applies to Securities of the Series;

2.2.20    any Depositaries, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein;

2.2.21    the provisions, if any, relating to conversion or exchange of any Securities of such Series, including if applicable, the conversion or exchange price, the conversion or exchange period, provisions as to whether conversion or exchange will be mandatory, at the option of the Holders thereof or at the option of the Company, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price or exchange price and provisions affecting conversion or exchange if such Series of Securities are redeemed;

2.2.22    any other terms of the Series (which may supplement, modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series), including any terms that may be required under applicable law or regulations or advisable in connection with the marketing of Securities of that Series; and

2.2.23    whether any of the Company’s direct or indirect Subsidiaries will guarantee the Securities of that Series, including the terms of subordination, if any, of such guarantees.

All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate referred to above.

Section 2.3    EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.

An Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual, facsimile or other electronic signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.

A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.

The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.

 

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Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4.

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or vice-presidents or a Responsible Officer shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities; or (c) if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that the terms of any such Securities as set forth in the Board Resolutions, supplemental indenture or the Officer’s Certificate would adversely affect it.

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

Section 2.4    REGISTRAR AND PAYING AGENT.

The Company shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be delivered (“Notice Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands; provided, however, that any appointment of the Trustee as the Notice Agent shall exclude the appointment of the Trustee or any office of the Trustee as an agent to receive the service of legal process on the Company.

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional notice agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner

 

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relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent in each place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional notice agent. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Notice Agent” includes any additional notice agent. The Company or any of its Affiliates may serve as Registrar or Paying Agent.

The Company hereby appoints the Trustee the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued.

Section 2.5    PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST.

The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company) shall have no further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent. Upon any bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding with respect to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Securities.

Section 2.6    SECURITYHOLDER 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 Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA § 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten 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 Securityholders of each Series of Securities.

Section 2.7    TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.

Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the

 

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Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6).

Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the sending of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day such notice is sent, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.

Section 2.8    MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.

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

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity bond as may be required by each of them to hold itself and any of its agents harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

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

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

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Section 2.9    OUTSTANDING SECURITIES.

The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding.

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser.

If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

The Company may purchase or otherwise acquire the Securities, whether by open market purchases, negotiated transactions or otherwise. A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security (but see Section 2.10 below).

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.

Section 2.10    TREASURY SECURITIES.

In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver only Securities of a Series that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.

Section 2.11    TEMPORARY SECURITIES.

Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon receipt of a Company Order shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.

 

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Section 2.12    CANCELLATION.

The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall destroy such canceled Securities (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act and the Trustee) and deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Company upon written request of the Company. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 2.13    DEFAULTED INTEREST.

If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix the record date and payment date. At least 10 days before the special record date, the Company shall send to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner.

Section 2.14    GLOBAL SECURITIES.

2.14.1    Terms of Securities. A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities.

2.14.2    Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depositary for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days of such event or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable. Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms.

Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depositary, by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such a successor Depositary.

 

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2.14.3    Legends. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

“THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”

In addition, so long as the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) is the Depositary, each Global Note registered in the name of DTC or its nominee shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

“UNLESS THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY GLOBAL NOTE 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.”

2.14.4    Acts of Holders. The Depositary, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture.

2.14.5    Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof.

2.14.6    Consents, Declaration and Directions. The Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depositary or by the applicable procedures of such Depositary with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this Indenture.

 

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Section 2.15     CUSIP NUMBERS.

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

Section 2.16    TRUSTEE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITIES LAWS.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions of or exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or other applicable laws.

ARTICLE III.

REDEMPTION

Section 3.1    NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.

The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice at least 15 days before the redemption date, unless a shorter period is satisfactory to the Trustee.

Section 3.2    SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.

Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, if less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Securities of the Series to be redeemed will be selected as follows: (a) if the Securities are in the form of Global Securities, in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary, (b) if the Securities are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Securities are listed, or (c) if not otherwise provided for under clause (a) or (b), in the manner that the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, including by lot or other method, unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange requirements, subject, in the case of Global Securities, to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Securities to be redeemed shall be selected from Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption. Securities of the Series and portions of them selected for redemption shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination

 

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for each Series and the authorized integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption.

Section 3.3    NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.

Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Company shall send or cause to be sent by first-class mail or electronically, in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed. The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state:

(a)    the redemption date;

(b)    the redemption price;

(c)    the name and address of the Paying Agent;

(d)    if any Securities are being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Securities to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the original Security shall be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Security;

(e)    that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;

(f)    that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date unless the Company defaults in the deposit of the redemption price;

(g)    the CUSIP number, if any; and

(h)    any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.

At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall 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 10 days (unless a shorter time shall be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the notice date, an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice.

Section 3.4    EFFECT OF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.

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or Officer’s Certificate for a Series, a notice of redemption may not be conditional. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

Section 3.5    DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.

On or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date.

Section 3.6    SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.

Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.

ARTICLE IV.

COVENANTS

Section 4.1    PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST.

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture. On or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the applicable payment date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of each Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.

Section 4.2    SEC REPORTS.

To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a). Reports, information and documents filed with the SEC via the EDGAR system will be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee as of the time of such filing via EDGAR for purposes of this Section 4.2. The Trustee shall have no obligation to monitor EDGAR or to determine whether such filings have been made.

Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section 4.2 are for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive or actual notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of their covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

 

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Section 4.3    COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE.

To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, 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 a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which the Officer may have knowledge).

The Company will provide the Trustee written notice of any Default or Event of Default within 30 days of becoming aware of the occurrence of such Default or Event of Default, which notice will describe in reasonable detail the status of such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take in respect thereof.

Section 4.4    STAY, EXTENSION AND USURY LAWS.

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

ARTICLE V.

SUCCESSORS

Section 5.1    WHEN COMPANY MAY MERGE, ETC.

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”) unless:

(a)    the Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if other than the Company) is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes the Company’s obligations on the Securities and under the Indenture; and

(b)    immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

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The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.

Notwithstanding the above, any Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties to the Company. Neither an Officer’s Certificate nor an Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection therewith.

Section 5.2    SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.

Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.

ARTICLE VI.

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 6.1    EVENTS OF DEFAULT.

Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:

(a)    default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the 30th day of such period); or

(b)    default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its Maturity and such default continues for a period of 10 days; or

(c)    default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than defaults pursuant to paragraphs (a) or (b) above or pursuant to a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other than that Series), which default continues uncured for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

 

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(d)    the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

(i)    commences a voluntary case,

(ii)    consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,

(iii)    consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property,

(iv)    makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or

(v)    generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or

(e)    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(i)    is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case,

(ii)    appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or

(iii)    orders the liquidation of the Company,

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days; or

(f)    any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.18.

The term “Bankruptcy Law” means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Section 6.2    ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(d) or (e)) then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or (e) shall occur, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

 

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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest, if any, of Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.

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

Section 6.3    COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE.

The Company covenants that if

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

(b)    default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof and such default continues for a period of 10 days, or

(c)    default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, if any, when and as due by the terms of a Security,

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

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

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Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

Section 6.4    TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.

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

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

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

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.

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

Section 6.5    TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.

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

 

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Section 6.6    APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED.

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

First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and

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

Third: To the Company.

Section 6.7    LIMITATION ON SUITS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

it being understood, intended and expressly covenanted by the Holder of every Security with every other Holder and the Trustee that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders of the applicable Series (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to determine whether any direction is prejudicial to any Holder).

 

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Section 6.8    UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Security on the Maturity of such Security, including the Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 6.9    RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.

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

Section 6.10    RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 6.11    DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.

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

Section 6.12    CONTROL BY HOLDERS.

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

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

(c)    subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability, and

(d)    prior to taking any action as directed under this Section 6.12, the Trustee shall be entitled to request and, if requested, be provided indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

Section 6.13    WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series, by written notice to the Trustee and the Company, waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration). Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 6.14    UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.

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

 

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ARTICLE VII.

TRUSTEE

Section 7.1    DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.

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

(b)    Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(i)    The Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others.

(ii)    In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the form requirements of this Indenture.

(c)    The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i)    This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.

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

(iii)    The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series in accordance with Section 6.12.

(d)    Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to this Section 7.1 and Section 7.2.

 

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(e)    The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in performing such duty or exercising such right or power.

(f)    The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(g)    No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if adequate indemnity against such risk is not assured to the Trustee in its satisfaction.

(h)    The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be entitled to the protections and immunities as are set forth in paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of this Section and in Section 7.2, each with respect to the Trustee.

Section 7.2    RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.

(a)    The Trustee may rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b)    Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

(c)    The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. No Depositary shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depositary.

(d)    The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or negligence.

(e)    The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder without willful misconduct or negligence, and in reliance thereon.

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

 

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(g)    The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

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

(i)    In no event shall the Trustee be liable to any person for special, punitive, indirect, incidental, consequential or incidental loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage.

(j)    The permissive right of the Trustee to take the actions permitted by this Indenture shall not be construed as an obligation or duty to do so.

(k)    The Trustee is not responsible for monitoring the performance of other persons or for the failure of others to perform their duties.

(l)    Any action taken, or omitted to be taken, by the Trustee in good faith pursuant to this Indenture upon the request or authority or consent of any person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon future Holders of Notes, and upon Notes executed and delivered in exchange therefor or in place thereof.

(m)    The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect to the execution of trusts and powers under this Indenture.

(n)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, in no event shall the Trustee or the Paying Agent be liable for interest on any money received by it (including, but not limited to, any negative interest) except as the Trustee or the Paying Agent may otherwise agree in writing with the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, the compensation, reimbursement and indemnification protections afforded to the Trustee and the Paying Agent under Section 7.7 of this Indenture shall cover any interest-related expenses incurred by the Trustee or the Paying Agent in the performance of their duties hereunder.

Section 7.3    INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

 

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Section 7.4    TRUSTEES DISCLAIMER.

The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication. The Trustee represents and warrants that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; that the statements made by it in a Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied or to be supplied to the Company in connection with the registration of any Securities are and will be true and accurate subject to the qualifications set forth therein; and that such Statement complies and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the TIA and the Securities Act.

Section 7.5    NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.

If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall send to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default; provided that, in the case of any default or breach of the character specified in Section 6.1(c) with respect to that Series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.

Section 7.6    REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS.

Within 60 days after each anniversary of this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar, a brief report dated as of such anniversary date, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA § 313.

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each national securities exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing when Securities of any Series are listed on any national securities exchange.

Section 7.7    COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY.

The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

 

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The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (including for the cost of defending itself or enforcing this indemnity) and hold it harmless against any cost, expense or liability, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it as Trustee or Agent under this Indenture except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture as Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any third party claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder, unless and to the extent that the Company is materially prejudiced thereby. The Company shall defend any third party claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have one separate counsel (plus local counsel, if applicable) and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee.

The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer, director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee through willful misconduct or negligence.

To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Securities of that Series.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or (e) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute administrative expenses for purposes of priority under any Bankruptcy Law.

The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

Section 7.8    REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.

A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.

The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of the proposed resignation. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing at least 30 days’ prior to the date of the proposed removal. The Company may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:

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(b)    the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

(c)    a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(d)    the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the expense of the Company), the Company or the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it for actions taken or omitted to be taken in accordance with its rights, powers and duties under this Indenture prior to such replacement.

Section 7.9    SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER, ETC.

If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee, subject to Section 7.10.

Section 7.10    ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION.

This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA § 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b).

 

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Section 7.11    PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.

The Trustee is subject to TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE VIII.

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE

Section 8.1    SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.

This Indenture shall upon Company Order be discharged with respect to the Securities of any Series and cease to be of further effect as to all Securities of such Series (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

(a)    either

(i)    all Securities of such Series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

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

(1)    have become due and payable by reason of sending a notice of redemption or otherwise, or

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

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

(4)    are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable;

and the Company, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount of money or U.S. Government Obligations, which amount shall be sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging each installment of principal (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments) of and interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest are due;

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(c)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.7, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive.

Section 8.2    APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; INDEMNIFICATION.

(a)    Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money and U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4.

(b)    The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.

(c)    The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Order any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations or money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held under this Indenture.

Section 8.3    LEGAL DEFEASANCE OF SECURITIES OF ANY SERIES.

Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this

 

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Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, execute instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:

(a)    the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series;

(b)    the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 7.7, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5 and 8.6; and

(c)    the rights, powers, trusts and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company’s obligations in connection therewith;

provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

(d)    the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on the Trustee with respect to such deposit), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest and such sinking fund payments are due;

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

(f)    no Default or Event of Default under Section 6.1(d) or Section 6.1(e) with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date;

(g)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall

 

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confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;

(h)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and

(i)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with.

Section 8.4    COVENANT DEFEASANCE.

Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 5.1 and, unless otherwise specified therein, any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default hereunder, with respect to the Securities of such Series, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities will be unaffected thereby; provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:

(a)    with reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency), money and/or Foreign Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on the Trustee with respect to such deposit), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments) of and interest on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of principal or interest are due;

 

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

(c)    no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;

(d)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred; and

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

Section 8.5    REPAYMENT TO COMPANY.

Subject to applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

Section 8.6    REINSTATEMENT.

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money deposited with respect to Securities of any Series in accordance with Section 8.1 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the obligations of the Company under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series and under the Securities of such Series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.1 until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.1; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent after payment in full to the Holders.

 

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ARTICLE IX.

AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 9.1    WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder:

(a)    to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

(b)    to comply with Article V;

(c)    to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;

(d)    to add guarantees with respect to Securities of any Series or secure Securities of any Series;

(e)    to surrender any of the Company’s rights or powers under this Indenture;

(f)    to add covenants or events of default for the benefit of the holders of Securities of any Series;

(g)    to comply with the applicable procedures of the applicable depositary;

(h)    to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder;

(i)    to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;

(j)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee or a separate Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or

(k)    to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

Section 9.2    WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture, with the Securities of each Series voting as a class (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any

 

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supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall send to the Holders of Securities affected thereby, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the Company to send such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.

Section 9.3    LIMITATIONS.

Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not:

(a)    reduce the principal amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

(b)    reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;

(c)    reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;

(d)    reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;

(e)    waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security (except, subject to Section 6.2, a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

(f)    make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;

(g)    make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13 or 9.3 (this sentence); or

(h)    waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security, provided that such redemption is made at the Company’s option.

 

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Section 9.4    COMPLIANCE WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.

Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

Section 9.5    REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF CONSENTS.

Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental indenture or a waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (h) of Section 9.3. In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.

The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the second immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 120 days after such record date.

Section 9.6    NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES.

The Company or the Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.3 new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.

Section 9.7    TRUSTEE PROTECTED.

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both complying with Section 10.4. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures upon delivery of such an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel or both, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture.

 

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ARTICLE X.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 10.1    TRUST INDENTURE ACT CONTROLS.

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

Section 10.2    NOTICES.

Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission, email or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address:

if to the Company:

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, Texas 76155

Attention: VP – Treasurer

Telephone: ###

Email: ###

with a copy to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, California

Attention: Tony Richmond and Greg Rodgers

Telephone: ###

if to the Trustee:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: American Airlines Group Inc., Administrator

Email: ###

Telephone: ###

The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

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accordance with the procedures of the Depositary. Failure to send a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.

If a notice or communication is sent or published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it.

If the Company sends a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall send a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security, where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a Global Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given to the Depositary for such Security (or its designee) pursuant to the customary procedures of such Depositary.

Section 10.3    COMMUNICATION BY HOLDERS WITH OTHER HOLDERS.

Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

Section 10.4    CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.

Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

(a)    an Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(b)    an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

Section 10.5    STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.

Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA § 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA § 314(e) and shall include:

(a)    a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

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

 

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

(d)    a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

Section 10.6    RULES BY TRUSTEE AND AGENTS.

The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

Section 10.7    LEGAL HOLIDAYS.

Unless otherwise provided by supplemental indenture hereto, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

Section 10.8    NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.

A director, officer, employee or stockholder (past or present), as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 10.9    COUNTERPARTS; ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES.

This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. For the avoidance of doubt, the words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery” and words of like import in or relating to this Indenture or any document to be signed in connection with this Indenture shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means, provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustee and Notes Collateral Agent is not under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless agreed to by it pursuant to reasonable procedures approved by such parties.

 

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Section 10.10    GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.

THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, INCLUDING ANY CLAIM OR CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE OR THE SECURITIES, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE HOLDERS (BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SECURITIES) EACH HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City of New York or the courts of the State of New York in each case located in the City of New York (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail (to the extent allowed under any applicable statute or rule of court) to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court. The Company, the Trustee and the Holders (by their acceptance of the Securities) each hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim any such suit, action or other proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

Section 10.11    NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.

This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

Section 10.12    SUCCESSORS.

All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.

Section 10.13    SEVERABILITY; ENTIRE AGREEMENT.

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

 

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Section 10.14    TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.

The Table of Contents, Cross Reference Table, and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 10.15    SECURITIES IN A FOREIGN CURRENCY.

Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any Series which are denominated in more than one currency, then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of taking such action shall be determined by converting any such other currency into a currency that is designated upon issuance of any particular Series of Securities. Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, such conversion shall be at the spot rate for the purchase of the designated currency as published in The Financial Times in the “Currency Rates” section (or, if The Financial Times is no longer published, or if such information is no longer available in The Financial Times, such source as may be selected in good faith by the Company) on any date of determination. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a Series denominated in currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

All decisions and determinations provided for in the preceding paragraph shall, in the absence of manifest error, to the extent permitted by law, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Trustee and all Holders.

Section 10.16    JUDGMENT CURRENCY.

The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest or other amount on the Securities of any Series (the “REQUIRED CURRENCY”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “JUDGMENT CURRENCY”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not

 

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entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

Section 10.17    FORCE MAJEURE.

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

Section 10.18    U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT.

The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Trustee is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

ARTICLE XI.

SINKING FUNDS

Section 11.1    APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series if so provided by the terms of such Securities pursuant to Section 2.2 and except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such Series.

 

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Section 11.2    SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.

The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company or redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Company.

Section 11.3    REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.

Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date will be selected in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and the Company shall send or cause to be sent a notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in and in accordance with Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.

 

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

 

American Airlines Group Inc.
By:  

/s/ Thomas T. Weir

Name:   Thomas T. Weir
Its:   Vice President and Treasurer
Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee,
By:  

/s/ Hallie E. Field

Name:   Hallie E. Field
Its:   Vice President

 

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Exhibit 4.2

Execution Version

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.,

THE GUARANTOR PARTY HERETO

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of June 25, 2020

 

 

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 


CROSS REFERENCE TABLE*

 

Trust

Indenture

Act

Section    

   Indenture
Section
 

310(a)(1)

     N/A  

(a)(2)

     N/A  

(a)(3)

     N/A  

(a)(4)

     N/A  

(a)(5)

     N/A  

(b)

     N/A  

(c)

     N/A  

311(a)

     N/A  

(b)

     N/A  

(c)

     N/A  

312(a)

     2.08  

(b)

     N/A  

(c)

     N/A  

313(a)

     N/A  

(b)(1)

     N/A  

(b)(2)

     N/A  

(c)

     N/A  

(d)

     N/A  

314(a)

     3.02(A)  

(b)

     N/A  

(c)(1)

     11.02(A)  

(c)(2)

     11.02(B)  

(c)(3)

     N/A  

(d)

     N/A  

(e)

     11.02(A), 11.02(B)  

(f)

     N/A  

315(a)

     N/A  

(b)

     N/A  

(c)

     N/A  

(d)

     N/A  

(e)

     7.12  

316(a) (last sentence)

     2.15  

(a)(1)(A)

     7.06  

(a)(1)(B)

     7.05  

(a)(2)

     N/A  

(b)

     7.08  

(c)

     N/A  

317(a)(1)

     7.09  

(a)(2)

     7.10  

(b)

     2.07  

318(a)

     N/A  

(b)

     11.17  

(c)

     N/A  

N/A means not applicable.

 

*

This Cross Reference Table is not part of the Indenture.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

Article 1.     Definitions; Rules of Construction; Scope and Interpretation of Base Indenture

     1  

Section 1.01.

 

Definitions

     1  

Section 1.02.

 

Other Definitions

     11  

Section 1.03.

 

Rules of Construction

     12  

Section 1.04.

 

Interpretation; Scope of Supplemental Indenture; Supersession of Base Indenture

     13  

Article 2.     The Notes

     14  

Section 2.01.

 

Form, Dating and Denominations

     14  

Section 2.02.

 

Execution, Authentication and Delivery

     15  

Section 2.03.

 

Initial Notes and Additional Notes

     16  

Section 2.04.

 

Method of Payment

     16  

Section 2.05.

 

Accrual of Interest; Defaulted Amounts; When Payment Date is Not a Business Day

     17  

Section 2.06.

 

Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent

     17  

Section 2.07.

 

Paying Agent and Conversion Agent to Hold Property in Trust

     18  

Section 2.08.

 

Holder Lists

     19  

Section 2.09.

 

Legends

     19  

Section 2.10.

 

Transfers and Exchanges; Certain Transfer Restrictions

     19  

Section 2.11.

 

Exchange and Cancellation of Notes to Be Converted or to Be Repurchased Pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption

     23  

Section 2.12.

 

Replacement Notes

     24  

Section 2.13.

 

Registered Holders; Certain Rights with Respect to Global Notes

     24  

Section 2.14.

 

Cancellation

     25  

Section 2.15.

 

Notes Held by the Company or its Affiliates

     25  

Section 2.16.

 

Temporary Notes

     25  

Section 2.17.

 

Outstanding Notes

     25  

Section 2.18.

 

Repurchases by the Company

     26  

Section 2.19.

 

CUSIP and ISIN Numbers

     26  

Article 3.     Covenants

     26  

Section 3.01.

 

Payment on Notes

     26  

Section 3.02.

 

Exchange Act Reports

     27  

Section 3.03.

 

Compliance and Default Certificates

     27  

Section 3.04.

 

Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

     27  

Section 3.05.

 

Acquisition of Notes by the Company and its Affiliates

     28  

Section 3.06.

 

Further Instruments and Acts

     28  

Section 3.07.

 

Existence

     28  

Section 3.08.

 

Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office

     28  

 

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Article 4.     Repurchase and Redemption

     28  

Section 4.01.

 

No Sinking Fund

     28  

Section 4.02.

 

Right of Holders to Require the Company to Repurchase Notes upon a Fundamental Change

     28  

Section 4.03.

 

Right of the Company to Redeem the Notes

     33  

Article 5.     Conversion

     36  

Section 5.01.

 

Right to Convert

     36  

Section 5.02.

 

Conversion Procedures

     40  

Section 5.03.

 

Settlement upon Conversion

     41  

Section 5.04.

 

Reserve; Status of Common Stock Issued upon Conversion; compliance with securities laws

     45  

Section 5.05.

 

Adjustments to the Conversion Rate

     45  

Section 5.06.

 

Voluntary Adjustments

     56  

Section 5.07.

 

Adjustments to the Conversion Rate in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change

     56  

Section 5.08.

 

Exchange in Lieu of Conversion

     57  

Section 5.09.

 

Effect of Common Stock Change Event

     58  

Section 5.10.

 

Responsibility of the Trustee

     60  

Article 6.     Successors

     61  

Section 6.01.

 

When the Company May Merge, Etc.

     61  

Section 6.02.

 

Successor Entity Substituted

     61  

Section 6.03.

 

When the Guarantor May Merge, Etc.

     62  

Section 6.04.

 

Exclusion for Asset Transfers with Wholly Owned Subsidiaries

     62  

Article 7.     Defaults and Remedies

     62  

Section 7.01.

 

Events of Default

     62  

Section 7.02.

 

Acceleration

     64  

Section 7.03.

 

Sole Remedy for a Failure to Report

     65  

Section 7.04.

 

Other Remedies

     66  

Section 7.05.

 

Waiver of Past Defaults

     66  

Section 7.06.

 

Control by Majority

     66  

Section 7.07.

 

Limitation on Suits

     67  

Section 7.08.

 

Absolute Right of Holders to Receive Payment and Conversion Consideration and to Institute Suit for the Enforcement of such Right

     67  

Section 7.09.

 

Collection Suit by Trustee

     68  

Section 7.10.

 

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     68  

Section 7.11.

 

Priorities

     68  

Section 7.12.

 

Undertaking for Costs

     69  

Section 7.13.

 

Trustee’s Obligation to Provide Notice of Defaults to Holders

     69  

Article 8.     Amendments, Supplements and Waivers

     69  

Section 8.01.

 

Without the Consent of Holders

     69  

Section 8.02.

 

With the Consent of Holders

     71  

Section 8.03.

 

Notice of Amendments, Supplements and Waivers

     72  

Section 8.04.

 

Revocation, Effect and Solicitation of Consents; Special Record Dates; Etc.

     72  

Section 8.05.

  Notations and Exchanges      72  

Section 8.06.

  Trustee to Execute Supplemental Indentures      73  

 

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Article 9.     Guarantees

     73  

Section 9.01.

  Guarantees      73  

Section 9.02.

  Limitation on Guarantor Liability      76  

Article 10.     Satisfaction and Discharge

     76  

Section 10.01.

  Termination of Company’s Obligations      76  

Section 10.02.

  Repayment to Company      77  

Section 10.03.

  Reinstatement      77  

Article 11.     Miscellaneous

     77  

Section 11.01.

  Notices      77  

Section 11.02.

  Delivery of Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as to Conditions Precedent      79  

Section 11.03.

  Statements Required in Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel      79  

Section 11.04.

  Rules by the Trustee, the Registrar and the Paying Agent      80  

Section 11.05.

  No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders      80  

Section 11.06.

  Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial      80  

Section 11.07.

  Submission to Jurisdiction      80  

Section 11.08.

  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements      81  

Section 11.09.

  Successors      81  

Section 11.10.

  Force Majeure      81  

Section 11.11.

  U.S.A. PATRIOT Act      81  

Section 11.12.

  Calculations      81  

Section 11.13.

  Severability; Entire Agreement      81  

Section 11.14.

  Counterparts      82  

Section 11.15.

  Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.      82  

Section 11.16.

  Withholding Taxes      82  

Section 11.17.

  Trust Indenture Act Controls      82  

Exhibits

    

Exhibit A: Form of Note

     A-1  

Exhibit B-1: Form of Global Note Legend

     B1-1  

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of June 25, 2020, among American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company”), American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as guarantor, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), to the Base Indenture (as defined below).

This Supplemental Indenture (as defined below) is being executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 of the Base Indenture to establish the terms, and provide for the issuance, of a new series of Securities (as defined in the Base Indenture) constituting the Company’s 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”).

Each party to this Supplemental Indenture agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders (as defined below) of the Notes.

Article 1.     DEFINITIONS; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION;

SCOPE AND INTERPRETATION OF BASE INDENTURE

Section 1.01.    DEFINITIONS.

Subject to the last paragraph of Section 1.03, capitalized terms used in this Supplemental Indenture without definition have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Base Indenture. For purposes of the Notes, the following additional definitions will apply and supersede any conflicting definitions in the Base Indenture.

Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 144 as in effect on the Issue Date.

Authorized Denomination” means, with respect to a Note, a minimum principal amount thereof equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

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

Base Indenture” means that certain Indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020, between the Company and the Trustee.

Bid Solicitation Agent” means the Person who is required to obtain bids for the Trading Price in accordance with Section 5.01(C)(i)(2) and the definition of “Trading Price.” The initial Bid Solicitation Agent on the Issue Date will be the Company; provided, however, that the Company may appoint any other Person (including any of the Company’s Subsidiaries) to be the Bid Solicitation Agent at any time after the Issue Date without prior notice.

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act on behalf of such board.

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or any day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed.

 

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Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares of, interests in, rights to purchase, warrants or options for, participations in, or other equivalents of, in each case however designated, the equity of such Person, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.

Close of Business” means 5:00 p.m., New York City time.

Common Stock” means the common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company, subject to Section 5.09.

Company” means the Person named as such in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture and, subject to Article 6, its successors and assigns.

Company Order” means a written request or order signed on behalf of the Company by one (1) of its Officers and delivered to the Trustee.

Conversion Date” means, with respect to a Note, the first Business Day on which the requirements set forth in Section 5.02(A) to convert such Note are satisfied, subject to Section 5.03(C).

Conversion Price” means, as of any time, an amount equal to (A) one thousand dollars ($1,000) divided by (B) the Conversion Rate in effect at such time.

Conversion Rate” initially means 61.7284 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that the Conversion Rate is subject to adjustment pursuant to Article 5; provided, further, that whenever the Indenture refers to the Conversion Rate as of a particular date without setting forth a particular time on such date, such reference will be deemed to be to the Conversion Rate immediately after the Close of Business on such date.

Conversion Share” means any share of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of any Note.

Daily Cash Amount” means, with respect to any VWAP Trading Day, the lesser of (A) the applicable Daily Maximum Cash Amount; and (B) the Daily Conversion Value for such VWAP Trading Day.

Daily Conversion Value” means, with respect to any VWAP Trading Day, one-twentieth (1/20th) of the product of (A) the Conversion Rate on such VWAP Trading Day; and (B) the Daily VWAP per share of Common Stock on such VWAP Trading Day.

Daily Maximum Cash Amount” means, with respect to the conversion of any Note, the quotient obtained by dividing (A) the Specified Dollar Amount applicable to such conversion by (B) twenty (20).

 

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Daily Share Amount” means, with respect to any VWAP Trading Day, the quotient obtained by dividing (A) the excess, if any, of the Daily Conversion Value for such VWAP Trading Day over the applicable Daily Maximum Cash Amount by (B) the Daily VWAP for such VWAP Trading Day. For the avoidance of doubt, the Daily Share Amount will be zero for such VWAP Trading Day if such Daily Conversion Value does not exceed such Daily Maximum Cash Amount.

Daily VWAP” means, for any VWAP Trading Day, the per share volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “AAL<EQUITY> AQR” (or, if such page is not available, its equivalent successor page) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such VWAP Trading Day (or, if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of Common Stock on such VWAP Trading Day, determined, using a volume-weighted average price method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company, which may include any of the Underwriters). The Daily VWAP will be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session.

Default” means any event that is (or, after notice, passage of time or both, would be) an Event of Default.

Default Settlement Method” means Combination Settlement with a Specified Dollar Amount of $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that (x) subject to Section 5.03(A)(iii), the Company may, from time to time, change the Default Settlement Method by sending notice of the new Default Settlement Method to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee); and (y) the Default Settlement Method will be subject to Section 5.03(A)(ii).

Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company or its successor.

Depositary Participant” means any member of, or participant in, the Depositary.

Depositary Procedures” means, with respect to any conversion, transfer, exchange or other transaction involving a Global Note or any beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary applicable to such conversion, transfer, exchange or transaction.

Ex-Dividend Date” means, with respect to an issuance, dividend or distribution on the Common Stock, the first date on which shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive such issuance, dividend or distribution (including pursuant to due bills or similar arrangements required by the relevant stock exchange). For the avoidance of doubt, any alternative trading convention on the applicable exchange or market in respect of the Common Stock under a separate ticker symbol or CUSIP number will not be considered “regular way” for this purpose.

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

 

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Exempted Fundamental Change” means any Fundamental Change with respect to which, in accordance with Section 4.02(I), the Company does not offer to repurchase any Notes.

Fundamental Change” means any of the following events:

(A)    a “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, or any of their respective employee benefit plans, files any report with the SEC indicating that such person or group has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner” (as defined below) of shares of the Common Stock representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of all of the Common Stock;

(B)    the consummation of (i) any sale, lease or other transfer, in one transaction or a series of transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person, other than solely to one or more of the Company’s Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) any transaction or series of related transactions in connection with which (whether by means of merger, consolidation, share exchange, combination, reclassification, recapitalization, acquisition, liquidation or otherwise) all of the Common Stock is exchanged for, converted into, acquired for, or constitutes solely the right to receive, other securities, cash or other property; provided, however, that any merger, consolidation, share exchange or combination of the Company pursuant to which the Persons that directly or indirectly “beneficially owned” (as defined below) all classes of the Company’s common equity immediately before such transaction directly or indirectly “beneficially own,” immediately after such transaction, more than fifty percent (50%) of all classes of common equity of the surviving, continuing or acquiring company or other transferee, as applicable, or the parent thereof, in substantially the same proportions vis-à-vis each other as immediately before such transaction will be deemed not to be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (B);

(C)    the Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or

(D)    the Common Stock (or other Reference Property Unit underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Market or The NASDAQ Global Select Market (or any of their respective successors);

provided, however, that a transaction or event described in clause (A) or (B) above will not constitute a Fundamental Change if at least ninety percent (90%) of the consideration received or to be received by the holders of Common Stock (excluding cash payments for fractional shares or pursuant to dissenters rights), in connection with such transaction or event, consists of shares of common stock or other corporate common equity interests listed on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Market or The NASDAQ Global Select Market (or any of their respective successors), or that will be so listed when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or event, and such transaction or event constitutes a Common Stock Change Event whose Reference Property consists of such consideration.

For the purposes of this definition, (x) any transaction or event described in both clause (A) and in clause (B)(i) or (ii) above (without regard to the proviso in clause (B)) will be

 

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deemed to occur solely pursuant to clause (B) above (subject to such proviso); and (y) whether a Person is a “beneficial owner,” whether shares are “beneficially owned,” and percentage beneficial ownership, will be determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.

Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” means the date fixed for the repurchase of any Notes by the Company pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change.

Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” means a notice (including a notice substantially in the form of the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” set forth in Exhibit A) containing the information, or otherwise complying with the requirements, set forth in Section 4.02(F)(i) and Section 4.02(F)(ii).

Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” means the cash price payable by the Company to repurchase any Note upon its Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, calculated pursuant to Section 4.02(D).

Global Note” means a Note that is represented by a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee, and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary.

Global Note Legend” means a legend substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B-1.

Guarantee” means the guarantee by the Guarantor of the Company’s obligations under the Notes, and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes, pursuant to Article 9.

Guarantor” means the Person named as such in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture and, subject to Section 6.03, its successors and assigns.

Holder” means a person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

Indenture” means the Base Indenture, as amended by this Supplemental Indenture, and as the same may be further amended or supplemented from time to time with respect to the Notes.

Interest Payment Date” means, with respect to a Note, each January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing on January 1, 2021 (or commencing on such other date specified in the certificate representing such Note). For the avoidance of doubt, the Maturity Date is an Interest Payment Date.

Issue Date” means June 25, 2020.

Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock for any Trading Day means the closing sale price per share (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the last bid price and the last ask price per share or, if more than one in either case, the average of the

 

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average last bid prices and the average last ask prices per share) of Common Stock on such Trading Day as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed. If the Common Stock is not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on such Trading Day, then the Last Reported Sale Price will be the last quoted bid price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day in the over-the-counter market as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted on such Trading Day, then the Last Reported Sale Price will be the average of the mid-point of the last bid price and the last ask price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day from a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company, which may include any of the Underwriters. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent will have any duty to determine the Last Reported Sale Price.

Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means (A) a Fundamental Change (determined after giving effect to the proviso immediately after clause (D) of the definition thereof, but without regard to the proviso to clause (B)(ii) of such definition); or (B) the sending of a Redemption Notice pursuant to Section 4.03(F); provided, however, that, subject to Section 4.03(I), the sending of a Redemption Notice will constitute a Make-Whole Fundamental Change only with respect to the Notes called for Redemption pursuant to such Redemption Notice and not with respect to any other Notes.

Make-Whole Fundamental Change Conversion Period” has the following meaning:

(A)    in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (A) of the definition thereof, the period from, and including, the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change to, and including, the thirty fifth (35th) Trading Day after such Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date (or, if such Make-Whole Fundamental Change also constitutes a Fundamental Change (other than an Exempted Fundamental Change), to, but excluding, the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date); and

(B)    in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (B) of the definition thereof, the period from, and including, the Redemption Notice Date for the related Redemption to, and including, the Business Day immediately before the related Redemption Date;

provided, however, that if the Conversion Date for the conversion of a Note that has been called (or deemed, pursuant to Section 4.03(I), to be called) for Redemption occurs during the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Conversion Period for both a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurring pursuant to clause (A) of the definition of “Make-Whole Fundamental Change” and a Make-Whole Fundamental Change resulting from such Redemption pursuant to clause (B) of such definition, then, solely for purposes of such conversion, (x) such Conversion Date will be deemed to occur solely during the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Conversion Period for the Make-Whole Fundamental Change with the earlier Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date; and (y) the Make-Whole Fundamental Change with the later Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date will be deemed not to have occurred.

 

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Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date” means (A) with respect to a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (A) of the definition thereof, the date on which such Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective; and (B) with respect to a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (B) of the definition thereof, the applicable Redemption Notice Date.

Market Disruption Event” means, with respect to any date, the occurrence or existence, during the one-half hour period ending at the scheduled close of trading on such date on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or other market on which the Common Stock is listed for trading or trades, of any material suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock.

Maturity Date” means July 1, 2025.

Note Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.

Note Security” means any Note or Conversion Share.

Notes” means the 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 issued by the Company pursuant to the Indenture.

Observation Period” means, with respect to any Note to be converted, (A) subject to clause (B) below, if the Conversion Date for such Note occurs before April 1, 2025, the twenty (20) consecutive VWAP Trading Days beginning on, and including, the third (3rd) VWAP Trading Day immediately after such Conversion Date; (B) if such Conversion Date occurs on or after the date the Company has sent a Redemption Notice calling such Note for Redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(F) and on or before the Business Day before the related Redemption Date, the twenty (20) consecutive VWAP Trading Days beginning on, and including, the twenty first (21st) Scheduled Trading Day immediately before such Redemption Date; and (C) subject to clause (B) above, if such Conversion Date occurs on or after April 1, 2025, the twenty (20) consecutive VWAP Trading Days beginning on, and including, the twenty first (21st) Scheduled Trading Day immediately before the Maturity Date.

Officer” means the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or any Vice-President of the Company, whether or not designated by a number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”.

Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate that is signed on behalf of the Company by one (1) of its Officers and that meets the requirements of Section 11.03.

Open of Business” means 9:00 a.m., New York City time.

 

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Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion, from legal counsel (including an employee of, or counsel to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 11.03, subject to customary qualifications and exclusions.

Person” or “person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or other agency or political subdivision thereof. Any division or series of a limited liability company, limited partnership or trust will constitute a separate “person” under the Indenture.

Physical Note” means a Note (other than a Global Note) that is represented by a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, registered in the name of the Holder of such Note and duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee.

Redemption” means the repurchase of any Note by the Company pursuant to Section 4.03.

Redemption Date” means the date fixed, pursuant to Section 4.03(D), for the settlement of the repurchase of any Notes by the Company pursuant to a Redemption.

Redemption Notice Date” means, with respect to a Redemption, the date on which the Company sends the Redemption Notice for such Redemption pursuant to Section 4.03(F).

Redemption Price” means the cash price payable by the Company to redeem any Note upon its Redemption, calculated pursuant to Section 4.03(E).

Regular Record Date” has the following meaning with respect to an Interest Payment Date: (A) if such Interest Payment Date occurs on January 1, the immediately preceding December 15; and (B) if such Interest Payment Date occurs on July 1, the immediately preceding June 15.

Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change” means the repurchase of any Note by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02.

Responsible Officer” means (A) any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee) or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of such officers; and (B) with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of, and familiarity with, the particular subject and, in each case, who will have direct responsibility for the administration of this Supplemental Indenture.

Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.

Scheduled Trading Day” means any day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed

 

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or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then traded. If the Common Stock is not so listed or traded, then “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.

SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

Settlement Method” means Cash Settlement, Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement.

Shoe Option” means the Underwriters’ option to purchase up to one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) aggregate principal amount of additional Notes as provided for in the Purchase Agreement.

Significant Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that constitutes a “significant subsidiary” (as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act) of such Person.

Special Interest” means any interest that accrues on any Note pursuant to Section 7.03.

Specified Dollar Amount” means, with respect to the conversion of a Note to which Combination Settlement applies, the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of such Note deliverable upon such conversion (excluding cash in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock).

Stock Price” has the following meaning for any Make-Whole Fundamental Change: (A) if the holders of Common Stock receive only cash in consideration for their shares of Common Stock in such Make-Whole Fundamental Change and such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is pursuant to clause (B) of the definition of “Fundamental Change,” then the Stock Price is the amount of cash paid per share of Common Stock in such Make-Whole Fundamental Change; and (B) in all other cases, the Stock Price is the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the five (5) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (A) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership or limited liability company) of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency, but after giving effect to any voting agreement or stockholders’ agreement that effectively transfers voting power) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees, as applicable, of such corporation, association or other business entity is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person; and (B) any partnership or limited liability company where (i) more than fifty percent (50%) of the capital accounts, distribution rights, equity and voting interests, or of the general and limited partnership interests, as applicable, of such partnership or limited liability company

 

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are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person, whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership or limited liability company interests or otherwise; and (ii) such Person or any one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person is a controlling general partner of, or otherwise controls, such partnership or limited liability company.

Supplemental Indenture” means this First Supplemental Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Trading Day” means any day on which (A) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then traded; and (B) there is no Market Disruption Event. If the Common Stock is not so listed or traded, then “Trading Day” means a Business Day.

Trading Price” of the Notes on any Trading Day means the average of the secondary market bid quotations, expressed as a cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent for one million dollars ($1,000,000) (or such lesser amount as may then be outstanding) in principal amount of Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Trading Day from three (3) nationally recognized independent securities dealers selected by the Company, which may include any of the Underwriters; provided, however, that, if three (3) such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent but two (2) such bids are obtained, then the average of the two (2) bids will be used, and if only one (1) such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent, then that one (1) bid will be used. If, on any Trading Day, (A) the Bid Solicitation Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one (1) bid for one million dollars ($1,000,000) (or such lesser amount as may then be outstanding) in principal amount of Notes from a nationally recognized independent securities dealer; (B) the Company is not acting as the Bid Solicitation Agent and the Company fails to instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent to obtain bids when required; or (C) the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to solicit bids when required, then, in each case, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on such Trading Day will be deemed to be less than ninety eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day.

Trust Indenture Act” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

Trustee” means the Person named as such in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and, thereafter, means such successor.

Underwriters” means Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, ICBC Standard Bank Plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., MUFG Securities Americas Inc., BOK Financial Securities, Inc.

 

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Underwriting Agreement” means that certain Underwriting Agreement, dated June 22, 2020, between the Company and the representatives of the Underwriters.

VWAP Market Disruption Event” means, with respect to any date, (A) the failure by the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed, or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then traded, to open for trading during its regular trading session on such date; or (B) the occurrence or existence, for more than one half hour period in the aggregate, of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock, and such suspension or limitation occurs or exists at any time before 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on such date.

VWAP Trading Day” means a day on which (A) there is no VWAP Market Disruption Event; and (B) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then traded. If the Common Stock is not so listed or traded, then “VWAP Trading Day” means a Business Day.

Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of a Person means any Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares) are owned by such Person or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

Section 1.02.    OTHER DEFINITIONS.

 

Term

   Defined in
Section
 

“Additional Shares”

     5.07(A)  

“Business Combination Event”

     6.01(A)  

“Cash Settlement”

     5.03(A)  

“Combination Settlement”

     5.03(A)  

“Common Stock Change Event”

     5.09(A)  

“Conversion Agent”

     2.06(A)  

“Conversion Consideration”

     5.03(B)  

“Default Interest”

     2.05(B)  

“Defaulted Amount”

     2.05(B)  

“Event of Default”

     7.01(A)  

“Expiration Date”

     5.05(A)(v)  

“Expiration Time”

     5.05(A)(v)  

“Fundamental Change Notice”

     4.02(E)  

“Fundamental Change Repurchase Right”

     4.02(A)  

 

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“Guarantee Obligations”

     9.01(A)6.03(A)  

“Guarantor Business Combination Event”

     6.03(A)  

“Initial Notes”

     2.03(A)  

“Measurement Period”

     5.01(C)(i)(2)  

“Paying Agent”

     2.06(A)  

“Physical Settlement”

     5.03(A)  

“Redemption Notice”

     4.03(F)  

“Reference Property”

     5.09(A)  

“Reference Property Unit”

     5.09(A)  

“Register”

     2.06(B)  

“Registrar”

     2.06(A)  

“Reporting Event of Default”

     7.03(A)  

“Specified Courts”

     11.07  

“Spin-Off”

     5.05(A)(iii)(2)  

“Spin-Off Valuation Period”

     5.05(A)(iii)(2)  

“Stated Interest”

     2.05(A)  

“Successor Entity”

     6.01(A)  

“Successor Guarantor Entity”

     6.03(A)  

“Successor Person”

     5.09(A)  

“Tender/Exchange Offer Valuation Period”

     5.05(A)(v)  

“Trading Price Condition”

     5.01(C)(i)(2)  

Section 1.03.    RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.

For purposes of the Indenture:

(A)    “or” is not exclusive;

(B)    “including” means “including without limitation”;

(C)    “will” expresses a command;

(D)    the “average” of a set of numerical values refers to the arithmetic average of such numerical values;

(E)    a merger involving, or a transfer of assets by, a limited liability company, limited partnership or trust will be deemed to include any division of or by, or an allocation of assets to a series of, such limited liability company, limited partnership or trust, or any unwinding of any such division or allocation;

(F)    words in the singular include the plural and in the plural include the singular, unless the context requires otherwise;

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

 

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(H)    each Article, Section, clause or paragraph reference in this Supplemental Indenture that is in bolded typeface refers to the referenced Article, Section, clause or paragraph, as applicable, of this Supplemental Indenture;

(I)    references to currency mean the lawful currency of the United States of America, unless the context requires otherwise;

(J)    the exhibits, schedules and other attachments to this Supplemental Indenture are deemed to form part of the Indenture; and

(K)    the term “interest,” when used with respect to a Note, includes any Special Interest, unless the context requires otherwise.

For purposes of the Indenture, the following terms of the Trust Indenture Act have the following meanings:

(i)    “Commission” means the SEC;

(ii)    “default” means Event of Default;

(iii)    “indenture securities” means the Notes;

(iv)    “indenture security holder” means a Holder;

(v)    “indenture to be qualified” means the Indenture;

(vi)    “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee; and

(vii)    “obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company.

All other terms used in the Indenture that are defined by the Trust Indenture Act (including by reference to another statute) or the related rules of the SEC, and not defined in the Indenture, have the respective meanings so defined by the Trust Indenture Act or such rules.

Section 1.04.    INTERPRETATION; SCOPE OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE; SUPERSESSION OF BASE INDENTURE.

(A)    Generally. The amendments to the Base Indenture made by this Supplemental Indenture will apply solely with respect to the Notes and not with respect to any other class or series of Securities. For purposes of the Notes, if any provision of this Supplemental Indenture conflicts with any provision of the Base Indenture, then this Supplemental Indenture will control to the extent of such conflict.

(B)    Applicability of Base Indenture. For purposes of the Notes, each of:

(i)    Sections 2.3 through 2.15, inclusive, of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with the corresponding provisions of Article 2;

 

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(ii)    Articles III and XI of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Article 4;

(iii)    Sections 4.1 through 4.4, inclusive, of the of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with the corresponding provisions of Article 3;

(iv)    Article V of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Article 6;

(v)    Article VI of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Article 7;

(vi)    Article VIII of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Article 10;

(vii)    Article IX of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Article 8;

(viii)    Section 7.5 of the Base Indenture will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Section 7.13; and

(ix)    Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.17 and 10.18 will not apply to the Notes and will instead be deemed to be replaced with Sections 11.17, 11.01, 11.02, 11.03, 11.04, 2.05(C), 11.05 and 11.14, 11.08, 11.09, 11.13, 11.10 and 11.11 respectively.

Each reference in the Base Indenture to any Articles or Sections of the Base Indenture referred to in the preceding clauses (i) through (ix), inclusive, of this Section 1.04(B) will, for purposes of the Notes, be deemed instead to be a reference to the respective Articles and Sections (or corresponding part of the respective Articles or Sections) of this Supplemental Indenture referred to such clauses.

Article 2.     THE NOTES

Section 2.01.    FORM, DATING AND DENOMINATIONS.

The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication will be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A. The Notes will bear the legends required by Section 2.09 and may bear notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage or the Depositary. Each Note will be dated as of the date of its authentication.

Except to the extent otherwise provided in a Company Order delivered to the Trustee in connection with the issuance and authentication thereof, the Notes will be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes. Global Notes may be exchanged for Physical Notes, and Physical Notes may be exchanged for Global Notes, only as provided in Section 2.10.

 

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The Notes will be issuable only in registered form without interest coupons and only in Authorized Denominations.

Each certificate representing a Note will bear a unique registration number that is not affixed to any other certificate representing another outstanding Note.

The terms contained in the Notes constitute part of the Indenture, and, to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, agree to such terms and to be bound thereby; provided, however, that, to the extent that any provision of any Note conflicts with the provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will control for purposes of the Indenture and such Note.

Section 2.02.    EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY.

(A)    Due Execution by the Company. At least one (1) duly authorized Officer will sign the Notes on behalf of the Company by manual, facsimile or other electronic signature. A Note’s validity will not be affected by the failure of any Officer whose signature is on any Note to hold, at the time such Note is authenticated, the same or any other office at the Company.

(B)    Authentication by the Trustee and Delivery.

(i)    No Note will be valid until it is authenticated by the Trustee. A Note will be deemed to be duly authenticated only when an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or a duly appointed authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication of such Note.

(ii)    The Trustee will cause an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or a duly appointed authenticating agent) to manually sign the certificate of authentication of a Note only if (1) the Company delivers such Note to the Trustee; (2) such Note is executed by the Company in accordance with Section 2.02(A); and (3) the Company delivers a Company Order to the Trustee that (a) requests the Trustee to authenticate such Note; and (b) sets forth the name of the Holder of such Note and the date as of which such Note is to be authenticated. If such Company Order also requests the Trustee to deliver such Note to any Holder or to the Depositary, then the Trustee will promptly deliver such Note in accordance with such Company Order.

(iii)    The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. A duly appointed authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so under the Indenture, and a Note authenticated as provided in the Indenture by such an agent will be deemed, for purposes of the Indenture, to be authenticated by the Trustee. Each duly appointed authenticating agent will have the same rights to deal with the Company as the Trustee would have if it were performing the duties that the authentication agent was validly appointed to undertake.

 

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Section 2.03.    INITIAL NOTES AND ADDITIONAL NOTES.

(A)    Initial Notes. On the Issue Date, there will be originally issued one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) aggregate principal amount of Notes, subject to the provisions of the Indenture (including Section 2.02). If the Underwriters exercise the Shoe Option, then there will be originally issued up to an additional one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) principal amount of Notes pursuant to such exercise, subject to the provisions of the Indenture (including Section 2.02). Notes issued pursuant to this Section 2.03(A), and any Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, are referred to in the Indenture as the “Initial Notes.”

(B)    Additional Notes. The Company may, subject to the provisions of the Indenture (including Section 2.02), originally issue additional Notes with the same terms as the Initial Notes (except, to the extent applicable, with respect to the date as of which interest begins to accrue on such additional Notes and the first Interest Payment Date of such additional Notes), which additional Notes will, subject to the foregoing, be considered to be part of the same series of, and rank equally and ratably with all other, Notes issued under the Indenture; provided, however, that if any such additional Notes are not fungible with other Notes issued under the Indenture for federal income tax or federal securities laws purposes, then such additional Notes will be identified by a separate CUSIP number or by no CUSIP number.

Section 2.04.    METHOD OF PAYMENT.

(A)    Global Notes. The Company will pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, the principal (whether due upon maturity on the Maturity Date, Redemption on a Redemption Date or repurchase on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or otherwise) of, interest on, and any cash Conversion Consideration for, any Global Note to the Depositary by wire transfer of immediately available funds no later than the time the same is due as provided in the Indenture.

(B)    Physical Notes. The Company will pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, the principal (whether due upon maturity on the Maturity Date, Redemption on a Redemption Date or repurchase on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or otherwise) of, interest on, and any cash Conversion Consideration for, any Physical Note no later than the time the same is due as provided in the Indenture as follows: (i) if the principal amount of such Physical Note is at least five million dollars ($5,000,000) (or such lower amount as the Company may choose in its sole and absolute discretion) and the Holder of such Physical Note entitled to such payment has delivered to the Paying Agent or the Trustee, no later than the time set forth in the immediately following sentence, a written request that the Company make such payment by wire transfer to an account of such Holder within the United States, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account; and (ii) in all other cases, by check mailed to the address of the Holder of such Physical Note entitled to such payment as set forth in the Register. To be timely, such written request must be so delivered no later than the Close of Business on the following date: (x) with respect to the payment of any interest due on an Interest Payment Date, the immediately preceding Regular Record Date; (y) with respect to any cash Conversion Consideration, the relevant Conversion Date; and (z) with respect to any other payment, the date that is fifteen (15) calendar days immediately before the date such payment is due.

 

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Section 2.05.    ACCRUAL OF INTEREST; DEFAULTED AMOUNTS; WHEN PAYMENT DATE IS NOT A BUSINESS DAY.

(A)    Accrual of Interest. Each Note will accrue interest at a rate per annum equal to 6.50% (the “Stated Interest”), plus any Special Interest that may accrue pursuant to Section 7.03. Stated Interest on each Note will (i) accrue from, and including, the most recent date to which Stated Interest has been paid or duly provided for (or, if no Stated Interest has theretofore been paid or duly provided for, the date set forth in the certificate representing such Note as the date from, and including, which Stated Interest will begin to accrue in such circumstance) to, but excluding, the date of payment of such Stated Interest; and (ii) be, subject to Sections 4.02(D), 4.03(E) and 5.02(D) (but without duplication of any payment of interest), payable semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, beginning on the first Interest Payment Date set forth in the certificate representing such Note, to the Holder of such Note as of the Close of Business on the immediately preceding Regular Record Date. Special Interest will accrue from the dates and during the periods specified in Section 7.03 and at the rates specified in such section. Stated Interest, and, if applicable, Special Interest, on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

(B)    Defaulted Amounts. If the Company fails to pay any amount (a “Defaulted Amount”) payable on a Note on or before the due date therefor as provided in the Indenture, then, regardless of whether such failure constitutes an Event of Default, (i) such Defaulted Amount will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder of such Note otherwise entitled to such payment; (ii) to the extent lawful, interest (“Default Interest”) will accrue on such Defaulted Amount at a rate per annum equal to the rate per annum at which Stated Interest accrues, from, and including, such due date to, but excluding, the date of payment of such Defaulted Amount and Default Interest; (iii) such Defaulted Amount and Default Interest will be paid on a payment date selected by the Company to the Holder of such Note as of the Close of Business on a special record date selected by the Company, provided that such special record date must be no more than fifteen (15), nor less than ten (10), calendar days before such payment date; and (iv) at least fifteen (15) calendar days before such special record date, the Company will send notice to the Trustee and the Holders that states such special record date, such payment date and the amount of such Defaulted Amount and Default Interest to be paid on such payment date.

(C)    Delay of Payment when Payment Date is Not a Business Day. If the due date for a payment on a Note as provided in the Indenture is not a Business Day, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, such payment may be made on the immediately following Business Day and no interest will accrue on such payment as a result of the related delay. Solely for purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, a day on which the applicable place of payment is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed will be deemed not to be a “Business Day.”

Section 2.06.    REGISTRAR, PAYING AGENT AND CONVERSION AGENT.

(A)    Generally. The Company will maintain (i) an office or agency in the continental United States where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”); (ii) an office or agency in the continental United States where Notes may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”); and (iii) an office or agency in the continental

 

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United States where Notes may be presented for conversion (the “Conversion Agent”). If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, then the Trustee will act as such. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent.

(B)    Duties of the Registrar. The Registrar will keep a record (the “Register”) of the names and addresses of the Holders, the Notes held by each Holder and the transfer, exchange, repurchase, Redemption and conversion of Notes. Absent manifest error, the entries in the Register will be conclusive and the Company and the Trustee may treat each Person whose name is recorded as a Holder in the Register as a Holder for all purposes. The Register will be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form reasonably promptly.

(C)    Co-Agents; Company’s Right to Appoint Successor Registrars, Paying Agents and Conversion Agents. The Company may appoint one or more co-Registrars, co-Paying Agents and co-Conversion Agents, each of whom will be deemed to be a Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, under the Indenture. Subject to Section 2.06(A), the Company may change any Registrar, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent (including appointing itself or any of its Subsidiaries to act in such capacity) without notice to any Holder. The Company will notify the Trustee (and, upon request, any Holder) of the name and address of each Note Agent, if any, not a party to the Indenture and will enter into an appropriate agency agreement with each such Note Agent, which agreement will implement the provisions of the Indenture that relate to such Note Agent.

(D)    Initial Appointments. The Company appoints the Trustee as the initial Paying Agent, the initial Registrar and the initial Conversion Agent.

Section 2.07.    PAYING AGENT AND CONVERSION AGENT TO HOLD PROPERTY IN TRUST.

The Company will require each Paying Agent or Conversion Agent that is not the Trustee to agree in writing that such Note Agent will (A) hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money and other property held by such Note Agent for payment or delivery due on the Notes; and (B) notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment or delivery. The Company, at any time, may, and the Trustee, while any Default continues, may, require a Paying Agent or Conversion Agent to pay or deliver, as applicable, all money and other property held by it to the Trustee, after which payment or delivery, as applicable, such Note Agent (if not the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) will have no further liability for such money or property. If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acts as Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, then (A) it will segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders or the Trustee all money and other property held by it as Paying Agent or Conversion Agent; and (B) references in the Indenture or the Notes to the Paying Agent or Conversion Agent holding cash or other property, or to the delivery of cash or other property to the Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, in each case for payment or delivery to any Holders or the Trustee or with respect to the Notes, will be deemed to refer to cash or other property so segregated and held separately, or to the segregation and separate holding of such cash or other property, respectively. Upon the occurrence of any event pursuant to clause (ix) or (x) of Section 7.01(A) with respect to the Company (or with respect to any Subsidiary of the Company acting as Paying Agent or Conversion Agent), the Trustee will serve as the Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, as applicable, for the Notes.

 

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Section 2.08.    HOLDER LISTS.

If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company will furnish to the Trustee, no later than seven (7) Business Days before each Interest Payment Date, and at such other times as the Trustee may request, a list, in such form and as of such date or time as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders.

Section 2.09.    LEGENDS.

(A)    Global Note Legend. Each Global Note will bear the Global Note Legend (or any similar legend, not inconsistent with the Indenture, required by the Depositary for such Global Note).

(B)    Other Legends. A Note may bear any other legend or text, not inconsistent with the Indenture, as may be required by applicable law or by any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which such Note is traded or quoted.

(C)    Acknowledgement and Agreement by the Holders. A Holder’s acceptance of any Note bearing any legend required by this Section 2.09 will constitute such Holder’s acknowledgement of, and agreement to comply with, the restrictions set forth in such legend.

Section 2.10.    TRANSFERS AND EXCHANGES; CERTAIN TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS.

(A)    Provisions Applicable to All Transfers and Exchanges.

(i)    Subject to this Section 2.10, Physical Notes and beneficial interests in Global Notes may be transferred or exchanged from time to time and the Registrar will record each such transfer or exchange in the Register.

(ii)    Each Note issued upon transfer or exchange of any other Note (such other Note being referred to as the “old Note” for purposes of this Section 2.10(A)(ii)) or portion thereof in accordance with the Indenture will be the valid obligation of the Company, evidencing the same indebtedness, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as such old Note or portion thereof, as applicable.

(iii)    The Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Note Agents will not impose any service charge on any Holder for any transfer, exchange or conversion of Notes, but the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Registrar and the Conversion Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, exchange or conversion of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.11, 2.16 or 8.05 not involving any transfer.

(iv)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, a Note may not be transferred or exchanged in part unless the portion to be so transferred or exchanged is in an Authorized Denomination.

 

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(v)    The Trustee will have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any transfer restrictions imposed under the Indenture or applicable law with respect to any Note Security, other than to require the delivery of such certificates or other documentation or evidence as expressly required by the Indenture and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the requirements of the Indenture.

(vi)    Each Note issued upon transfer of, or in exchange for, another Note will bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09.

(vii)    Upon satisfaction of the requirements of the Indenture to effect a transfer or exchange of any Note, the Company will cause such transfer or exchange to be effected as soon as reasonably practicable but in no event later than the second (2nd) Business Day after the date of such satisfaction.

(B)    Transfers and Exchanges of Global Notes.

(i)    Subject to the immediately following sentence, no Global Note may be transferred or exchanged in whole except (x) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary; (y) by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the Depositary; or (z) by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary. No Global Note (or any portion thereof) may be transferred to, or exchanged for, a Physical Note; provided, however, that a Global Note will be exchanged, pursuant to customary procedures, for one or more Physical Notes if:

(1)    (x) the Depositary notifies the Company or the Trustee that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for such Global Note or (y) the Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under Section 17A of the Exchange Act and, in each case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary within ninety (90) days of such notice or cessation;

(2)    an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar has received a written request from the Depositary, or from a holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Note, to exchange such Global Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, for one or more Physical Notes; or

(3)    the Company, in its sole discretion, permits the exchange of any beneficial interest in such Global Note for one or more Physical Notes at the request of the owner of such beneficial interest.

(ii)    Upon satisfaction of the requirements of the Indenture to effect a transfer or exchange of any Global Note (or any portion thereof):

(1)    the Trustee will reflect any resulting decrease of the principal amount of such Global Note by notation on the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” forming part of such Global Note (and, if such

 

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notation results in such Global Note having a principal amount of zero, the Company may (but is not required to) instruct the Trustee to cancel such Global Note pursuant to Section 2.14);

(2)    if required to effect such transfer or exchange, then the Trustee will reflect any resulting increase of the principal amount of any other Global Note by notation on the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” forming part of such other Global Note;

(3)    if required to effect such transfer or exchange, then the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, a new Global Note bearing each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09; and

(4)    if such Global Note (or such portion thereof), or any beneficial interest therein, is to be exchanged for one or more Physical Notes, then the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Physical Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note to be so exchanged; (y) are registered in such name(s) as the Depositary specifies (or as otherwise determined pursuant to customary procedures); and (z) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09.

(iii)    Each transfer or exchange of a beneficial interest in any Global Note will be made in accordance with the Depositary Procedures.

(C)    Transfers and Exchanges of Physical Notes.

(i)    Subject to this Section 2.10, a Holder of a Physical Note may (x) transfer such Physical Note (or any portion thereof in an Authorized Denomination) to one or more other Person(s); (y) exchange such Physical Note (or any portion thereof in an Authorized Denomination) for one or more other Physical Notes in Authorized Denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Physical Note (or portion thereof) to be so exchanged; and (z) if then permitted by the Depositary Procedures, transfer such Physical Note (or any portion thereof in an Authorized Denomination) in exchange for a beneficial interest in one or more Global Notes; provided, however, that, to effect any such transfer or exchange, such Holder must surrender such Physical Note to be transferred or exchanged to the office of the Registrar, together with any endorsements or transfer instruments reasonably required by the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar.

(ii)    Upon the satisfaction of the requirements of the Indenture to effect a transfer or exchange of any Physical Note (such Physical Note being referred to as the “old Physical Note” for purposes of this Section 2.10(C)(ii)) of a Holder (or any portion of such old Physical Note in an Authorized Denomination):

(1)    such old Physical Note will be promptly cancelled pursuant to Section 2.14;

 

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(2)    if such old Physical Note is to be so transferred or exchanged only in part, then the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Physical Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such old Physical Note not to be so transferred or exchanged; (y) are registered in the name of such Holder; and (z) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09;

(3)    in the case of a transfer:

(a)    to the Depositary or a nominee thereof that will hold its interest in such old Physical Note (or such portion thereof) to be so transferred in the form of one or more Global Notes, the Trustee will reflect an increase of the principal amount of one or more existing Global Notes by notation on the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” forming part of such Global Note(s), which increase(s) are in Authorized Denominations and aggregate to the principal amount to be so transferred, and which Global Note(s) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09; provided, however, that if such transfer cannot be so effected by notation on one or more existing Global Notes (whether because no Global Notes bearing each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09 then exist, because any such increase will result in any Global Note having an aggregate principal amount exceeding the maximum aggregate principal amount permitted by the Depositary or otherwise), then the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Global Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount to be so transferred; and (y) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09; and

(b)    to a transferee that will hold its interest in such old Physical Note (or such portion thereof) to be so transferred in the form of one or more Physical Notes, the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Physical Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount to be so transferred; (y) are registered in the name of such transferee; and (z) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09; and

(4)    in the case of an exchange, the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Physical Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount to be so exchanged; (y) are registered in the name of the Person to whom such old Physical Note was registered; and (z) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09.

 

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(D)    Transfers of Notes Subject to Redemption, Repurchase or Conversion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Registrar will not be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note that (i) has been surrendered for conversion, except to the extent that any portion of such Note is not subject to conversion; (ii) is subject to a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice validly delivered, and not withdrawn, pursuant to Section 4.02(F), except to the extent that any portion of such Note is not subject to such notice or the Company fails to pay the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Price when due; or (iii) has been selected for Redemption pursuant to a Redemption Notice, except to the extent that any portion of such Note is not subject to Redemption or the Company fails to pay the applicable Redemption Price when due.

Section 2.11.    EXCHANGE AND CANCELLATION OF NOTES TO BE CONVERTED OR TO BE REPURCHASED PURSUANT TO A REPURCHASE UPON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE OR REDEMPTION.

(A)    Partial Conversions of Physical Notes and Partial Repurchases of Physical Notes Pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption. If only a portion of a Physical Note of a Holder is to be converted pursuant to Article 5 or repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption, then, as soon as reasonably practicable after such Physical Note is surrendered for such conversion or repurchase, as applicable, the Company will cause such Physical Note to be exchanged, pursuant and subject to Section 2.10(C), for (i) one or more Physical Notes that are in Authorized Denominations and have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Physical Note that is not to be so converted or repurchased, as applicable, and deliver such Physical Note(s) to such Holder; and (ii) a Physical Note having a principal amount equal to the principal amount to be so converted or repurchased, as applicable, which Physical Note will be converted or repurchased, as applicable, pursuant to the terms of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Physical Note referred to in this clause (ii) need not be issued at any time after which such principal amount subject to such conversion or repurchase, as applicable, is deemed to cease to be outstanding pursuant to Section 2.17.

(B)    Cancellation of Notes that Are Converted and Notes that Are Repurchased Pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption.

(i)    Physical Notes. If a Physical Note (or any portion thereof that has not theretofore been exchanged pursuant to Section 2.11(A)) of a Holder is to be converted pursuant to Article 5 or repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption, then, promptly after the later of the time such Physical Note (or such portion) is deemed to cease to be outstanding pursuant to Section 2.17 and the time such Physical Note is surrendered for such conversion or repurchase, as applicable, (1) such Physical Note will be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.14; and (2) in the case of a partial conversion or repurchase, as applicable, the Company will issue, execute and deliver to such Holder, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, one or more Physical Notes that (x) are in Authorized Denominations and

 

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have an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Physical Note that is not to be so converted or repurchased, as applicable; (y) are registered in the name of such Holder; and (z) bear each legend, if any, required by Section 2.09.

(ii)    Global Notes. If a Global Note (or any portion thereof) is to be converted pursuant to Article 5 or repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or Redemption, then, promptly after the time such Note (or such portion) is deemed to cease to be outstanding pursuant to Section 2.17, the Trustee will reflect a decrease of the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note to be so converted or repurchased, as applicable, by notation on the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” forming part of such Global Note (and, if the principal amount of such Global Note is zero following such notation, cancel such Global Note pursuant to Section 2.14).

Section 2.12.    REPLACEMENT NOTES.

If a Holder of any Note claims that such Note has been mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, then the Company will issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, a replacement Note upon surrender to the Trustee of such mutilated Note, or upon delivery to the Trustee of evidence of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company. In the case of a lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Note, the Company and the Trustee may require the Holder thereof to provide such security or indemnity that is reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee to protect the Company and the Trustee from any loss that any of them may suffer if such Note is replaced.

Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.12 will be an additional obligation of the Company and will be entitled to all of the benefits of the Indenture equally and ratably with all other Notes issued under the Indenture.

Section 2.13.    REGISTERED HOLDERS; CERTAIN RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO GLOBAL NOTES.

Only the Holder of a Note will have rights under the Indenture as the owner of such Note. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Depositary Participants will have no rights as such under the Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary or its nominee, or by the Trustee as its custodian, and the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Note Agents, and their respective agents, may treat the Depositary as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever; provided, however, that (A) the Holder of any Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Depositary Participants and Persons that hold interests in Notes through Depositary Participants, to take any action that such Holder is entitled to take with respect to such Global Note under the Indenture or the Notes; and (B) the Company and the Trustee, and their respective agents, may give effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary.

 

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Section 2.14.    CANCELLATION.

The Company may at any time deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent will forward to the Trustee each Note duly surrendered to them for transfer, exchange, payment or conversion. The Trustee will promptly cancel all Notes so surrendered to it in accordance with its customary procedures. Without limiting the generality of Section 2.03(B), the Company may not originally issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have been cancelled upon transfer, exchange, payment or conversion.

Section 2.15.    NOTES HELD BY THE COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES.

Without limiting the generality of Section 2.17, in determining whether the Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Company or any of its Affiliates will be deemed not to be outstanding; provided, however, that, for purposes of determining whether the Trustee is protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes that the Trustee actually knows are so owned will be so disregarded.

Section 2.16.    TEMPORARY NOTES.

Until definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may issue, execute and deliver, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, temporary Notes. Temporary Notes will be substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes. The Company will promptly prepare, issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes. Until so exchanged, each temporary Note will in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as definitive Notes.

Section 2.17.    OUTSTANDING NOTES.

(A)    Generally. The Notes that are outstanding at any time will be deemed to be those Notes that, at such time, have been duly executed and authenticated, excluding those Notes (or portions thereof) that have theretofore been (i) cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.14; (ii) assigned a principal amount of zero by notation on the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” forming part of any a Global Note representing such Note; (iii) paid in full (including upon conversion) in accordance with the Indenture; or (iv) deemed to cease to be outstanding to the extent provided in, and subject to, clause (B), (C) or (D) of this Section 2.17.

(B)    Replaced Notes. If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.12, then such Note will cease to be outstanding at the time of its replacement, unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof reasonably satisfactory to them that such Note is held by a “bona fide purchaser” under applicable law.

(C)    Maturing Notes and Notes Called for Redemption or Subject to Repurchase. If, on a Redemption Date, a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or the Maturity Date, the Paying Agent holds money sufficient to pay the aggregate Redemption Price, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or principal amount, respectively, together, in each case, with the aggregate

 

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interest, in each case due on such date, then (unless there occurs a Default in the payment of any such amount) (i) the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or repurchased, or that mature, on such date will be deemed, as of such date, to cease to be outstanding, except to the extent provided in Sections 4.02(D), 4.03(E) or 5.02(D); and (ii) the rights of the Holders of such Notes (or such portions thereof), as such, will terminate with respect to such Notes (or such portions thereof), other than the right to receive the Redemption Price, Fundamental Change Repurchase Price or principal amount, as applicable, of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, such Notes (or such portions thereof), in each case as provided in the Indenture.

(D)    Notes to Be Converted. At the Close of Business on the Conversion Date for any Note (or any portion thereof) to be converted, such Note (or such portion) will (unless there occurs a Default in the delivery of the Conversion Consideration or interest due, pursuant to Section 5.03(B) or Section 5.02(D), upon such conversion) be deemed to cease to be outstanding, except to the extent provided in Section 5.02(D) or Section 5.08.

(E)    Cessation of Accrual of Interest. Except as provided in Sections 4.02(D), 4.03(E) or 5.02(D), interest will cease to accrue on each Note from, and including, the date that such Note is deemed, pursuant to this Section 2.17, to cease to be outstanding, unless there occurs a default in the payment or delivery of any cash or other property due on such Note.

Section 2.18.    REPURCHASES BY THE COMPANY.

The Company may, from time to time, repurchase Notes in open market purchases or in negotiated transactions without delivering prior notice to Holders.

Section 2.19.    CUSIP AND ISIN NUMBERS.

The Company may use one or more CUSIP or ISIN numbers to identify any of the Notes, and, if so, the Company and the Trustee will use such CUSIP or ISIN number(s) in notices to Holders; provided, however, that (i) the Trustee makes no representation as to the correctness or accuracy of any such CUSIP or ISIN number; and (ii) the effectiveness of any such notice will not be affected by any defect in, or omission of, any such CUSIP or ISIN number. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP or ISIN number(s) identifying any Notes.

Article 3.     COVENANTS

Section 3.01.    PAYMENT ON NOTES.

(A)    Generally. The Company will pay or cause to be paid all the principal of, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and Redemption Price for, interest on, and other amounts due with respect to, the Notes on the dates and in the manner set forth in the Indenture and the Notes.

(B)    Deposit of Funds. Before 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on each Redemption Date, Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or Interest Payment Date, and on the Maturity Date or any other date on which any cash amount is due on the Notes, the Company will deposit, or will cause there to be deposited, with the Paying Agent cash, in funds immediately available on such date, sufficient to pay the cash amount due on the applicable Notes on such date. The Paying Agent will return to the Company, as soon as practicable, any money not required for such purpose.

 

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Section 3.02.    EXCHANGE ACT REPORTS.

(A)    Generally. The Company will send to the Trustee copies of all reports that the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act within fifteen (15) calendar days after the date that the Company is required to file the same (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods under the Exchange Act); provided, however, that the Company need not send to the Trustee any material for which the Company has received, or is seeking in good faith and has not been denied, confidential treatment by the SEC. Any report that the Company files with the SEC through the EDGAR system (or any successor thereto) will be deemed to be sent to the Trustee at the time such report is so filed via the EDGAR system (or such successor). Upon the written request of any Holder, the Trustee will provide to such Holder a copy of any report that the Company has sent the Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.02(A), other than a report that is deemed to be sent to the Trustee pursuant to the preceding sentence. The Company will also comply with all of its obligations under Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act.

(B)    Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee need not determine whether the Company has filed any material via the EDGAR system (or such successor). The sending or filing of reports pursuant to Section 3.02(A) is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such reports will not be deemed to actual or constitute constructive notice to the Trustee of any information contained, or determinable from information contained, therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants under the Indenture (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on Officer’s Certificates).

Section 3.03.    COMPLIANCE AND DEFAULT CERTIFICATES.

(A)    Annual Compliance Certificate. Within ninety (90) days after December 31, 2020 and each fiscal year of the Company ending thereafter, the Company will deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee stating (i) that the signatory thereto has supervised a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year with a view towards determining whether any Default or Event of Default has occurred; and (ii) whether, to such signatory’s knowledge, a Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing (and, if so, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto).

(B)    Default Certificate. If a Default or Event of Default occurs, then the Company will, within thirty (30) days after its first occurrence, deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee describing the same and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Section 3.04.    STAY, EXTENSION AND USURY LAWS.

To the extent that it may lawfully do so, the Company (A) agrees that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of,

 

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any stay, extension or usury law (wherever or whenever enacted or in force) that may affect the covenants or the performance of the Indenture; and (B) expressly waives all benefits or advantages of any such law and agrees that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power granted to the Trustee by the Indenture, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

Section 3.05.    ACQUISITION OF NOTES BY THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES.

Without limiting the generality of Section 2.17, Notes that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have purchased or otherwise acquired will be deemed to remain outstanding (except to the extent provided in Section 2.15) until such time as such Notes are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

Section 3.06.    FURTHER INSTRUMENTS AND ACTS.

At the Trustee’s request, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to more effectively carry out the purposes of this Supplemental Indenture.

Section 3.07.    EXISTENCE.

Subject to Article 6, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.

Section 3.08.    APPOINTMENTS TO FILL VACANCIES IN TRUSTEES OFFICE.

The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Article VII of the Base Indenture, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.

Article 4.     REPURCHASE AND REDEMPTION

Section 4.01.    NO SINKING FUND.

No sinking fund is required to be provided for the Notes.

Section 4.02.    RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO REQUIRE THE COMPANY TO REPURCHASE NOTES UPON A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE.

(A)    Right of Holders to Require the Company to Repurchase Notes Upon a Fundamental Change. Subject to the other terms of this Section 4.02, if a Fundamental Change occurs, then each Holder will have the right (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Right”) to require the Company to repurchase such Holder’s Notes (or any portion thereof in an Authorized Denomination) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for such Fundamental Change for a cash purchase price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.

 

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(B)    Repurchase Prohibited in Certain Circumstances. If the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded on or before the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change (including a rescission as a result of the payment of the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, and any related interest pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.02(D), on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date), then (i) the Company may not repurchase any Notes pursuant to this Section 4.02; and (ii) the Company will cause any Notes theretofore surrendered for such Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change to be returned to the Holders thereof (or, if applicable with respect to Global Notes, cancel any instructions for book-entry transfer to the Company, the Trustee or the Paying Agent of the applicable beneficial interest in such Notes in accordance with the Depositary Procedures).

(C)    Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. The Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for any Fundamental Change will be a Business Day of the Company’s choosing that is no more than thirty five (35), nor less than twenty (20), Business Days after the date the Company sends the related Fundamental Change Notice pursuant to Section 4.02(E).

(D)    Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. The Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for any Note to be repurchased upon a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change following a Fundamental Change is an amount in cash equal to the principal amount of such Note plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Note to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for such Fundamental Change; provided, however, that if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the next Interest Payment Date, then (i) the Holder of such Note at the Close of Business on such Regular Record Date will be entitled, notwithstanding such Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change, to receive, on or, at the Company’s election, before such Interest Payment Date, the unpaid interest that would have accrued on such Note to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date (assuming, solely for these purposes, that such Note remained outstanding through such Interest Payment Date, if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is before such Interest Payment Date); and (ii) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price will not include accrued and unpaid interest on such Note to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. For the avoidance of doubt, if an Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day within the meaning of Section 2.05(C) and such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date occurs on the Business Day immediately after such Interest Payment Date, then (x) accrued and unpaid interest on Notes to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date will be paid, in accordance with Section 2.05(C), on the next Business Day to Holders as of the Close of Business on the immediately preceding Regular Record Date; and (y) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price will include interest on Notes to be repurchased from, and including, such Interest Payment Date.

(E)    Fundamental Change Notice. On or before the twentieth (20th) calendar day after the effective date of a Fundamental Change, the Company will send to each Holder, the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent a notice of such Fundamental Change (a “Fundamental Change Notice”).

Such Fundamental Change Notice must state:

(i)    briefly, the events causing such Fundamental Change;

 

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(ii)    the effective date of such Fundamental Change;

(iii)    the procedures that a Holder must follow to require the Company to repurchase its Notes pursuant to this Section 4.02, including the deadline for exercising the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right and the procedures for submitting and withdrawing a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice;

(iv)    the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for such Fundamental Change;

(v)    the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for such Fundamental Change (and, if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the next Interest Payment Date, the amount, manner and timing of the interest payment payable pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.02(D));

(vi)    the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;

(vii)    the Conversion Rate in effect on the date of such Fundamental Change Notice and a description and quantification of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate that may result from such Fundamental Change (including pursuant to Section 5.07);

(viii)    that Notes for which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been duly tendered and not duly withdrawn must be delivered to the Paying Agent for the Holder thereof to be entitled to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;

(ix)    that Notes (or any portion thereof) that are subject to a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice that has been duly tendered may be converted only if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice is withdrawn in accordance with the Indenture; and

(x)    the CUSIP and ISIN numbers, if any, of the Notes.

Neither the failure to deliver a Fundamental Change Notice nor any defect in a Fundamental Change Notice will limit the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right of any Holder or otherwise affect the validity of any proceedings relating to any Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change.

(F)    Procedures to Exercise the Fundamental Change Repurchase Right.

(i)    Delivery of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and Notes to Be Repurchased. To exercise its Fundamental Change Repurchase Right for a Note following a Fundamental Change, the Holder thereof must deliver to the Paying Agent:

(1)    before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or such later time as may be required by law), a duly completed, written Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect to such Note; and

 

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(2)    such Note, duly endorsed for transfer (if such Note is a Physical Note) or by book-entry transfer (if such Note is a Global Note).

The Paying Agent will promptly deliver to the Company a copy of each Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice that it receives.

(ii)    Contents of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notices. Each Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect to a Note must state:

(1)    if such Note is a Physical Note, the certificate number of such Note;

(2)    the principal amount of such Note to be repurchased, which must be an Authorized Denomination; and

(3)    that such Holder is exercising its Fundamental Change Repurchase Right with respect to such principal amount of such Note;

provided, however, that if such Note is a Global Note, then such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must comply with the Depositary Procedures (and any such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice delivered in compliance with the Depositary Procedures will be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 4.02(F)).

(iii)    Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice. A Holder that has delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect to a Note may withdraw such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice by delivering a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent at any time before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. Such withdrawal notice must state:

(1)    if such Note is a Physical Note, the certificate number of such Note;

(2)    the principal amount of such Note to be withdrawn, which must be an Authorized Denomination; and

(3)    the principal amount of such Note, if any, that remains subject to such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which must be an Authorized Denomination;

provided, however, that if such Note is a Global Note, then such withdrawal notice must comply with the Depositary Procedures (and any such withdrawal notice delivered in compliance with the Depositary Procedures will be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 4.02(F)).

Upon receipt of any such withdrawal notice with respect to a Note (or any portion thereof), the Paying Agent will (x) promptly deliver a copy of such withdrawal notice to the Company; and (y) if such Note is surrendered to the Paying Agent, cause such Note

 

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(or such portion thereof in accordance with Section 2.11, treating such Note as having been then surrendered for partial repurchase in the amount set forth in such withdrawal notice as remaining subject to repurchase) to be returned to the Holder thereof (or, if applicable with respect to any Global Note, cancel any instructions for book-entry transfer to the Company, the Trustee or the Paying Agent of the applicable beneficial interest in such Note in accordance with the Depositary Procedures).

(G)    Payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Without limiting the Company’s obligation to deposit the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price within the time proscribed by Section 3.01(B), the Company will cause the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for a Note (or portion thereof) to be repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change to be paid to the Holder thereof on or before the later of (i) the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and (ii) the date (x) such Note is delivered to the Paying Agent (in the case of a Physical Note) or (y) the Depositary Procedures relating to the repurchase, and the delivery to the Paying Agent, of such Holder’s beneficial interest in such Note to be repurchased are complied with (in the case of a Global Note). For the avoidance of doubt, interest payable pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.02(D) on any Note to be repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change must be paid pursuant to such proviso regardless of whether such Note is delivered or such Depositary Procedures are complied with pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 4.02(G).

(H)    Third Party May Conduct Repurchase Offer In Lieu of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.02, the Company will be deemed to satisfy its obligations under this Section 4.02 if (i) one or more third parties conduct any Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change and related offer to repurchase Notes otherwise required by this Section 4.02 in a manner that would have satisfied the requirements of this Section 4.02 if conducted directly by the Company and (ii) an owner of a beneficial interest in any Note repurchased by such third party or parties will not receive a lesser amount (as a result of taxes, additional expenses or for any other reason) than such owner would have received had the Company repurchased such Note.

(I)    No Requirement to Conduct an Offer to Repurchase Notes if the Fundamental Change Results in the Notes Becoming Convertible into an Amount of Cash Exceeding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.02, the Company will not be required to send a Fundamental Change Notice pursuant to Section 4.02(E), or offer to repurchase or repurchase any Notes pursuant to this Section 4.02, in connection with a Fundamental Change occurring pursuant to clause (B)(ii) (or pursuant to clause (A) that also constitutes a Fundamental Change occurring pursuant to clause (B)(ii)) of the definition thereof, if (i) such Fundamental Change constitutes a Common Stock Change Event whose Reference Property consists, entirely or in part, of cash in U.S. dollars; (ii) immediately after such Fundamental Change, the Notes become convertible, pursuant to Section 5.09(A) and, if applicable, Section 5.07, into consideration that includes such cash in an amount per $1,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes that equals or exceeds the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price per $1,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes (calculated assuming that the same includes accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the latest possible Fundamental Change Repurchase Date for such Fundamental Change); and (iii) the Company timely sends the notice relating to such Fundamental Change required pursuant to Section 5.01(C)(i)(3)(b) and includes, in such notice, a statement that the Company is relying on this Section 4.02(I).

 

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(J)    Compliance with Applicable Securities Laws. To the extent applicable, the Company will comply, in all material respects, with all federal and state securities laws in connection with a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change (including complying with Rules 13e-4 and 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and filing any required Schedule TO, to the extent applicable) so as to permit effecting such Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change in the manner set forth in the Indenture; provided, however, that, to the extent that the Company’s obligations pursuant to this Section 4.02 conflict with any law or regulation that is applicable to the Company and enacted after the Issue Date, the Company’s compliance with such law or regulation will not be considered to be a Default of such obligations.

(K)    Repurchase in Part. Subject to the terms of this Section 4.02, Notes may be repurchased pursuant to a Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change in part, but only in Authorized Denominations. Provisions of this Section 4.02 applying to the repurchase of a Note in whole will equally apply to the repurchase of a permitted portion of a Note.

(L)    The Paying Agent. For purposes of this Section 4.02, the Paying Agent may be any agent, depositary, tender agent, paying agent or other agent appointed by the Company to accomplish the purposes set forth herein.

Section 4.03.    RIGHT OF THE COMPANY TO REDEEM THE NOTES.

(A)    No Right to Redeem Before July 5, 2023. The Company may not redeem the Notes at its option at any time before July 5, 2023.

(B)    Right to Redeem the Notes on or after July 5, 2023. Subject to the terms of this Section 4.03, the Company has the right, at its election, to redeem all, or any portion in an Authorized Denomination, of the Notes, at any time, and from time to time, on a Redemption Date on or after July 5, 2023 and on or before the twentieth (20th) Scheduled Trading Day immediately before the Maturity Date, for a cash purchase price equal to the Redemption Price, but only if the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock exceeds one hundred and thirty percent (130%) of the Conversion Price on (i) each of at least twenty (20) Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the thirty (30) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the Redemption Notice Date for such Redemption; and (ii) the Trading Day immediately before such Redemption Notice Date. For the avoidance of doubt, the calling of any Notes for Redemption will constitute a Make-Whole Fundamental Change with respect to such Notes pursuant to clause (B) of the definition thereof.

(C)    Redemption Prohibited in Certain Circumstances. If the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated and such acceleration has not been rescinded on or before the Redemption Date (including a rescission as a result of the payment of the related Redemption Price, and any related interest pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.03(E), on such Redemption Date), then (i) the Company may not call for Redemption or otherwise redeem any Notes pursuant to this Section 4.03; and (ii) the Company will cause any Notes theretofore surrendered for such Redemption to be returned to the Holders thereof (or, if applicable with respect to Global Notes, cancel any instructions for book-entry transfer to the Company, the Trustee or the Paying Agent of the applicable beneficial interests in such Notes in accordance with the Depositary Procedures).

 

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(D)    Redemption Date. The Redemption Date for any Redemption will be a Business Day of the Company’s choosing that is no more than forty five (45), nor less than twenty five (25), Scheduled Trading Days after the Redemption Notice Date for such Redemption; provided, however, that if, in accordance with Section 5.03(A)(i)(3), the Company has elected to settle all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after such Redemption Notice Date and on or before the Business Day immediately before the Redemption Date by Physical Settlement, then the Company may instead elect to choose a Redemption Date that is a Business Day no more than sixty (60), nor less than thirty (30), calendar days after such Redemption Notice Date.

(E)    Redemption Price. The Redemption Price for any Note called for Redemption is an amount in cash equal to the principal amount of such Note plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Note to, but excluding, the Redemption Date for such Redemption; provided, however, that if such Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the next Interest Payment Date, then (i) the Holder of such Note at the Close of Business on such Regular Record Date will be entitled, notwithstanding such Redemption, to receive, on or, at the Company’s election, before such Interest Payment Date, the unpaid interest that would have accrued on such Note to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date (assuming, solely for these purposes, that such Note remained outstanding through such Interest Payment Date, if such Redemption Date is before such Interest Payment Date); and (ii) the Redemption Price will not include accrued and unpaid interest on such Note to, but excluding, such Redemption Date. For the avoidance of doubt, if an Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day within the meaning of Section 2.05(C) and such Redemption Date occurs on the Business Day immediately after such Interest Payment Date, then (x) accrued and unpaid interest on Notes to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date will be paid, in accordance with Section 2.05(C), on the next Business Day to Holders as of the Close of Business on the immediately preceding Regular Record Date; and (y) the Redemption Price will include interest on Notes to be redeemed from, and including, such Interest Payment Date.

(F)    Redemption Notice. To call any Notes for Redemption, the Company must send to each Holder of such Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent a written notice of such Redemption (a “Redemption Notice”) containing the information set forth in the Redemption Notice.

Such Redemption Notice must state:

(i)    that such Notes have been called for Redemption, briefly describing the Company’s Redemption right under the Indenture;

(ii)    the Redemption Date for such Redemption;

(iii)    the Redemption Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for such Redemption (and, if the Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the next Interest Payment Date, the amount, manner and timing of the interest payment payable pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.03(E));

 

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(iv)    the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent;

(v)    that Notes called for Redemption may be converted at any time before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before the Redemption Date (or, if the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price due on such Redemption Date in full, at any time until such time as the Company pays such Redemption Price in full);

(vi)    the Conversion Rate in effect on the Redemption Notice Date for such Redemption and a description and quantification of any adjustments to the Conversion Rate that may result from such Redemption (including pursuant to Section 5.07);

(vii)    the Settlement Method that will apply to all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after such Redemption Notice Date and on or before the Business Day before such Redemption Date; and

(viii)    the CUSIP and ISIN numbers, if any, of the Notes.

On or before the Redemption Notice Date, the Company will send a copy of such Redemption Notice to the Trustee and the Paying Agent.

(G)    Selection and Conversion of Notes to Be Redeemed in Part. If less than all Notes then outstanding are called for Redemption, then:

(i)    the Notes to be redeemed will be selected by the Company as follows: (1) in the case of Global Notes, in accordance with the Depositary Procedures; and (2) in the case of Physical Notes, pro rata, by lot or by such other method the Company considers fair and appropriate; and

(ii)    if only a portion of a Note is subject to Redemption and such Note is converted in part, then the converted portion of such Note will be deemed to be from the portion of such Note that was subject to Redemption.

(H)    Payment of the Redemption Price. Without limiting the Company’s obligation to deposit the Redemption Price by the time proscribed by Section 3.01(B), the Company will cause the Redemption Price for a Note (or portion thereof) subject to Redemption to be paid to the Holder thereof on or before the applicable Redemption Date. For the avoidance of doubt, interest payable pursuant to the proviso to Section 4.03(E) on any Note (or portion thereof) subject to Redemption must be paid pursuant to such proviso.

(I)    Special Provisions for Partial Calls. If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the outstanding Notes pursuant to this Section 4.03, and the Holder of any Note, or any owner of a beneficial interest in any Global Note, is reasonably not able to determine, before the Close of Business on the twenty second (22nd) Scheduled Trading Day (or, if, in accordance with Section 5.03(A)(i)(3), the Company has elected to settle all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after the Redemption Notice Date for such Redemption and on or before the Business Day immediately before the Redemption Date by Physical Settlement,

 

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the tenth (10th) calendar day) immediately before the Redemption Date for such Redemption, whether such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, is to be redeemed pursuant to such Redemption, then such Holder or owner, as applicable, will be entitled to convert such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, at any time before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before such Redemption Date, and each such conversion will be deemed to be of a Note called for Redemption for purposes of this Section 4.03 and Sections 5.01(C)(i)(4) and 5.07;

Article 5.     CONVERSION

Section 5.01.    RIGHT TO CONVERT.

(A)    Generally. Subject to the provisions of this Article 5, each Holder may, at its option, convert such Holder’s Notes into Conversion Consideration.

(B)    Conversions in Part. Subject to the terms of the Indenture, Notes may be converted in part, but only in Authorized Denominations. Provisions of this Article 5 applying to the conversion of a Note in whole will equally apply to conversions of a permitted portion of a Note.

(C)    When Notes May Be Converted.

(i)    Generally. Subject to Section 5.01(C)(ii), a Note may be converted only in the following circumstances:

(1)    Conversion upon Satisfaction of Common Stock Sale Price Condition. A Holder may convert its Notes during any calendar quarter (and only during such calendar quarter) commencing after the calendar quarter ending on September 30, 2020 if the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock exceeds one hundred and thirty percent (130%) of the Conversion Price for each of at least twenty (20) Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the thirty (30) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter.

(2)    Conversion upon Satisfaction of Note Trading Price Condition. A Holder may convert its Notes during the five (5) consecutive Business Days immediately after any ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period (such ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period, the “Measurement Period”) if the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, as determined following a request by a Holder in accordance with the procedures set forth below, for each Trading Day of the Measurement Period was less than ninety eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day. The condition set forth in the preceding sentence is referred to in the Indenture as the “Trading Price Condition.”

The Trading Price will be determined by the Bid Solicitation Agent pursuant to this Section 5.01(C)(i)(2) and the definition of “Trading Price.” The Bid

 

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Solicitation Agent (if not the Company) will have no obligation to determine the Trading Price of the Notes unless the Company has requested such determination in writing and provided the names and contact information of the nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company, and the Company will have no obligation to make such request (or seek bids itself) unless a Holder provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes would be less than ninety eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock and the Conversion Rate. If a Holder provides such evidence, then the Company will (if acting as Bid Solicitation Agent), or will instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent to, determine the Trading Price of the Notes, in accordance with the bids solicited by the Bid Solicitation Agent, beginning on the next Trading Day and on each successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to ninety eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day. If the Trading Price Condition has been met as set forth above, then the Company will notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the same. If, on any Trading Day after the Trading Price Condition has been met as set forth above, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to ninety eight percent (98%) of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day, then the Company will notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the same.

(3)    Conversion upon Specified Corporate Events.

(a)    Certain Distributions. If the Company elects to:

(I)    distribute, to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, any rights, options or warrants (other than rights issued pursuant to a stockholder rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than sixty (60) calendar days after the record date of such distribution, to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the date such distribution is announced (determined in the manner set forth in the third paragraph of Section 5.05(A)(ii)); or

(II)    distribute, to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, assets or securities of the Company or rights to purchase the Company’s securities, which distribution per share of Common Stock has a value, as reasonably determined by the Board of Directors, exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately before the date such distribution is announced,

 

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then, in either case, (x) the Company will send notice of such distribution, and of the related right to convert Notes, to Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent at least twenty five (25) Scheduled Trading Days before the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and (y) once the Company has sent such notice, Holders may convert their Notes at any time until the earlier of the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before such Ex-Dividend Date and the Company’s announcement that such distribution will not take place; provided, however, that the Notes will not become convertible pursuant to clause (y) above (but the Company will be required to send notice of such distribution pursuant to clause (x) above) on account of such distribution if each Holder participates, at the same time and on the same terms as holders of Common Stock, and solely by virtue of being a Holder, in such distribution without having to convert such Holder’s Notes and as if such Holder held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the Conversion Rate in effect on the record date for such distribution; and (ii) the aggregate principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder on such record date; provided, further, that if the Company is then otherwise permitted to settle conversions of Notes by Physical Settlement (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company has not elected another Settlement Method to apply, including pursuant to Section 5.03(A)(i)(1)), then the Company may instead elect to provide such notice at least ten (10) Scheduled Trading Days before such Ex-Dividend Date, in which case (x) the Company must settle all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date occurring on or after the date the Company provides such notice and on or before the Business Day immediately before the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution (or any earlier announcement by the Company that such distribution will not take place) by Physical Settlement; and (y) such notice must state that all such conversions will be settled by Physical Settlement.

(b)    Certain Corporate Events. If a Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change (other than a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (B) of the definition thereof) or Common Stock Change Event occurs (other than (i) a merger or other business combination transaction that is effected solely to change the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation or (ii) an internal reorganization among the Company and one or more of its wholly owned Subsidiaries or a parent entities of the Company (in each case, direct or indirect) such that, following such reorganization, such Subsidiaries or parent entities directly or indirectly own 100% of the Company’s outstanding equity and, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 1.01(A)(i)(1)(b), that (x) does not constitute a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change and (y) results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding Common Stock solely into shares of Common

 

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Stock of the surviving entity and such common stock becomes Reference Property, then, in each case, Holders may convert their Notes at any time from, and including, the effective date of such transaction or event to, and including, the thirty fifth (35th) Trading Day after such effective date (or, if such transaction or event also constitutes a Fundamental Change (other than an Exempted Fundamental Change), to, but excluding, the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date); provided, however, that if the Company does not provide the notice referred to in the immediately following sentence by such effective date, then the last day on which the Notes are convertible pursuant to this sentence will be extended by the number of Business Days from, and including, such effective date to, but excluding, the date the Company provides such notice. No later than such effective date, the Company will send notice to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such transaction or event, such effective date and the related right to convert Notes.

(4)    Conversion upon Redemption. If the Company calls any Note for Redemption, then the Holder of such Note may convert such Note at any time before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before the related Redemption Date (or, if the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price due on such Redemption Date in full, at any time until such time as the Company pays such Redemption Price in full).

(5)    Conversions During Free Convertibility Period. A Holder may convert its Notes at any time from, and including, April 1, 2025 until the Close of Business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately before the Maturity Date.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Notes may become convertible pursuant to any one or more of the preceding sub-paragraphs of this Section 5.01(C)(i) and the Notes ceasing to be convertible pursuant to a particular sub-paragraph of this Section 5.01(C)(i) will not preclude the Notes from being convertible pursuant to any other sub-paragraph of this Section 5.01(C)(i).

(ii)    Limitations and Closed Periods. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes:

(1)    Notes may be surrendered for conversion only after the Open of Business and before the Close of Business on a day that is a Business Day;

(2)    in no event may any Note be converted after the Close of Business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately before the Maturity Date;

(3)    if the Company calls any Note for Redemption pursuant to Section 4.03, then the Holder of such Note may not convert such Note after the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately before the applicable Redemption Date, except to the extent the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price for such Note in accordance with the Indenture; and

 

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(4)    if a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice is validly delivered pursuant to Section 4.02(F) with respect to any Note, then such Note may not be converted, except to the extent (a) such Note is not subject to such notice; (b) such notice is withdrawn in accordance with Section 4.02(F); or (c) the Company fails to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for such Note in accordance with the Indenture.

Section 5.02.    CONVERSION PROCEDURES.

(A)    Generally.

(i)    Global Notes. To convert a beneficial interest in a Global Note that is convertible pursuant to Section 5.01(C), the owner of such beneficial interest must (1) comply with the Depositary Procedures for converting such beneficial interest (at which time such conversion will become irrevocable); and (2) pay any amounts due pursuant to Section 5.02(D) or Section 5.02(E).

(ii)    Physical Notes. To convert all or a portion of a Physical Note that is convertible pursuant to Section 5.01(C), the Holder of such Note must (1) complete, manually sign and deliver to the Conversion Agent the conversion notice attached to such Physical Note or a facsimile of such conversion notice; (2) deliver such Physical Note to the Conversion Agent (at which time such conversion will become irrevocable); (3) furnish any endorsements and transfer documents that the Company or the Conversion Agent may require; and (4) pay any amounts due pursuant to Section 5.02(D) or Section 5.02(E).

(B)    Effect of Converting a Note. At the Close of Business on the Conversion Date for a Note (or any portion thereof) to be converted, such Note (or such portion) will (unless there occurs a Default in the delivery of the Conversion Consideration or interest due, pursuant to Section 5.03(B) or 5.02(D), upon such conversion) be deemed to cease to be outstanding (and, for the avoidance of doubt, no Person will be deemed to be a Holder of such Note (or such portion thereof) as of the Close of Business on such Conversion Date), except to the extent provided in Section 5.02(D).

(C)    Holder of Record of Conversion Shares. The Person in whose name any share of Common Stock is issuable upon conversion of any Note will be deemed to become the holder of record of such share as of the Close of Business on (i) the Conversion Date for such conversion, in the case of Physical Settlement; or (ii) the last VWAP Trading Day of the Observation Period for such conversion, in the case of Combination Settlement.

(D)    Interest Payable upon Conversion in Certain Circumstances. If the Conversion Date of a Note is after a Regular Record Date and before the next Interest Payment Date, then (i) the Holder of such Note at the Close of Business on such Regular Record Date will be entitled, notwithstanding such conversion (and, for the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything set forth in the proviso to this sentence), to receive, on or, at the Company’s election, before such Interest Payment Date, the unpaid interest that would have accrued on such Note to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date (assuming, solely for these purposes, that such Note

 

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remained outstanding through such Interest Payment Date); and (ii) the Holder surrendering such Note for conversion must deliver to the Conversion Agent, at the time of such surrender, an amount of cash equal to the amount of such interest referred to in clause (i) above; provided, however, that the Holder surrendering such Note for conversion need not deliver such cash (w) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after such Regular Record Date and on or before the Business Day immediately after such Interest Payment Date; (x) if such Conversion Date occurs after the Regular Record Date immediately before the Maturity Date; (y) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after such Regular Record Date and on or before the Business Day immediately after such Interest Payment Date; or (z) to the extent of any overdue interest or interest that has accrued on any overdue interest. For the avoidance of doubt, as a result of, and without limiting the generality of, the foregoing, if a Note is converted with a Conversion Date that is after the Regular Record Date immediately before the Maturity Date, then the Company will pay, as provided above, the interest that would have accrued on such Note to, but excluding, the Maturity Date. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Conversion Date of a Note to be converted is on an Interest Payment Date, then the Holder of such Note at the Close of Business on the Regular Record Date immediately before such Interest Payment Date will be entitled to receive, on or, at the Company’s election, before such Interest Payment Date, the unpaid interest that has accrued on such Note to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date, and such Note, when surrendered for conversion, need not be accompanied by any cash amount pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 5.02(D).

(E)    Taxes and Duties. If a Holder converts a Note, the Company will pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or duty due on the issue or delivery of any shares of Common Stock upon such conversion; provided, however, that if any tax or duty is due because such Holder requested such shares to be registered in a name other than such Holder’s name, then such Holder will pay such tax or duty and, until having received a sum sufficient to pay such tax or duty, the Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver any such shares to be issued in a name other than that of such Holder.

(F)    Conversion Agent to Notify Company of Conversions. If any Note is submitted for conversion to the Conversion Agent or the Conversion Agent receives any notice of conversion with respect to a Note, then the Conversion Agent will promptly (and, in any event, no later than the date the Conversion Agent receives such Note or notice) notify the Company and the Trustee of such occurrence, together with any other information reasonably requested by the Company, and will cooperate with the Company to determine the Conversion Date for such Note.

Section 5.03.    SETTLEMENT UPON CONVERSION.

(A)    Settlement Method. Upon the conversion of any Note, the Company will settle such conversion by paying or delivering, as applicable and as provided in this Article 5, either (x) shares of Common Stock, together, if applicable, with cash in lieu of fractional shares as provided in Section 5.03(B)(i)(1) (a “Physical Settlement”); (y) solely cash as provided in Section 5.03(B)(i)(2) (a “Cash Settlement”); or (z) a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, together, if applicable, with cash in lieu of fractional shares as provided in Section 5.03(B)(i)(3) (a “Combination Settlement”).

 

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(i)    The Company’s Right to Elect Settlement Method. The Company will have the right to elect the Settlement Method applicable to any conversion of a Note; provided, however, that:

(1)    all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after April 1, 2025 will be settled using the same Settlement Method, and the Company will send notice of such Settlement Method to Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) no later than the Open of Business on April 1, 2025;

(2)    subject to clause (3) below, if the Company elects a Settlement Method with respect to the conversion of any Note whose Conversion Date occurs before April 1, 2025, then the Company will send notice of such Settlement Method to the Holder of such Note, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) no later than the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately after such Conversion Date;

(3)    if any Notes are called for Redemption, then (1) the Company will specify, in the related Redemption Notice sent pursuant to Section 4.03(F), the Settlement Method that will apply to all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after the related Redemption Notice Date and before the related Redemption Date; and (2) if such Redemption Date occurs on or after April 1, 2025, then such Settlement Method must be the same Settlement Method that, pursuant to clause (1) above, applies to all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after April 1, 2025;

(4)    the Company will use the same Settlement Method for all conversions of Notes with the same Conversion Date (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company will not be obligated to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions of Notes with different Conversion Dates, except as provided in clause (1) or (3) above);

(5)    if the Company does not timely elect a Settlement Method with respect to the conversion of a Note, then the Company will be deemed to have elected the Default Settlement Method (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the failure to timely make such election will not constitute a Default or Event of Default);

(6)    if the Company timely elects Combination Settlement with respect to the conversion of a Note but does not timely notify the Holder of such Note of the applicable Specified Dollar Amount, then the Specified Dollar Amount for such conversion will be deemed to be $1,000 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the failure to timely send such notification will not constitute a Default or Event of Default); and

(7)    the Settlement Method will be subject to Sections 4.03(D), 5.09(A)(2) and 5.01(C)(i)(3)(a).

 

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(ii)    The Companys Right to Irrevocably Fix the Settlement Method. The Company will have the right, exercisable at its election by sending notice of such exercise to the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee)), to irrevocably fix the Settlement Method that will apply to all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after the date such notice is sent to Holders, provided that (x) such Settlement Method must be a Settlement Method that the Company is then permitted to elect (for the avoidance of doubt, including pursuant to, and subject to, the other provisions of this Section 5.03(A)); (y) no such irrevocable election will affect any Settlement Method theretofore elected (or deemed to be elected) with respect to any Note pursuant to the other provisions of this Section 5.03(A); and (z) upon any such irrevocable election, the Default Settlement Method will automatically be deemed to be set to the Settlement Method so fixed. Such notice, if sent, must set forth the applicable Settlement Method and expressly state that the election is irrevocable and applicable to all conversions of Notes with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after the date such notice is sent to Holders. For the avoidance of doubt, such an irrevocable election, if made, will be effective without the need to amend the Indenture or the Notes, including pursuant to Section 8.01(G) (it being understood, however, that the Company may nonetheless choose to execute such an amendment at its option).

(iii)    Requirement to Publicly Disclose the Fixed or Default Settlement Method. If the Company changes the Default Settlement Method pursuant to clause (x) of the proviso to the definition of such term or irrevocably fixes the Settlement Method pursuant Section 5.03(A)(ii), then the Company will either post the Default Settlement Method or fixed Settlement Method, as applicable, on its website or disclose the same in a Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) that is filed with the SEC.

(B)    Conversion Consideration.

(i)    Generally. Subject to Section 5.03(B)(ii) and Section 5.03(B)(iii), the type and amount of consideration (the “Conversion Consideration”) due in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of a Note to be converted will be as follows:

(1)    if Physical Settlement applies to such conversion, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date for such conversion;

(2)    if Cash Settlement applies to such conversion, cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each VWAP Trading Day in the Observation Period for such conversion; or

(3)    if Combination Settlement applies to such conversion, consideration consisting of (a) a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Daily Share Amounts for each VWAP Trading Day in the Observation Period for such conversion; and (b) an amount of cash equal to the sum of the Daily Cash Amounts for each VWAP Trading Day in such Observation Period.

 

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(ii)    Cash in Lieu of Fractional Shares. If Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement applies to the conversion of any Note and the number of shares of Common Stock deliverable pursuant to Section 5.03(B)(i) upon such conversion is not a whole number, then such number will be rounded down to the nearest whole number and the Company will deliver, in addition to the other consideration due upon such conversion, cash in lieu of the related fractional share in an amount equal to the product of (1) such fraction and (2) (x) the Daily VWAP on the Conversion Date for such conversion (or, if such Conversion Date is not a VWAP Trading Day, the immediately preceding VWAP Trading Day), in the case of Physical Settlement; or (y) the Daily VWAP on the last VWAP Trading Day of the Observation Period for such conversion, in the case of Combination Settlement.

(iii)    Conversion of Multiple Notes by a Single Holder. If a Holder converts more than one (1) Note on a single Conversion Date, then the Conversion Consideration due in respect of such conversion will (in the case of any Global Note, to the extent permitted by, and practicable under, the Depositary Procedures) be computed based on the total principal amount of Notes converted on such Conversion Date by such Holder.

(iv)    Notice of Calculation of Conversion Consideration. If Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement applies to the conversion of any Note, then the Company will determine the Conversion Consideration due thereupon promptly following the last VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period and will promptly thereafter send notice to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent of the same and the calculation thereof in reasonable detail. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent will have any duty to make any such determination.

(C)    Delivery of the Conversion Consideration. Except as set forth in Sections 5.05(A) and 5.09, the Company will pay or deliver, as applicable, the Conversion Consideration due upon the conversion of any Note to the Holder as follows: (i) if Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement applies to such conversion, on or before the second (2nd) Business Day immediately after the last VWAP Trading Day of the Observation Period for such conversion; and (ii) if Physical Settlement applies to such conversion, on or before the second (2nd) Business Day immediately after the Conversion Date for such conversion; provided however, if Physical Settlement applies with respect to a conversion of any Note with a Conversion Date that is after the regular Record Date immediately before the Maturity Date, then, solely for the purposes of such conversion, the Company will pay or deliver, as applicable, the consideration due upon such conversion no later than the Maturity Date (or, if the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, the next Business Day) and the Conversion Date will instead be deemed to be the second Business Day immediately before the Maturity Date.

(D)    Deemed Payment of Principal and Interest; Settlement of Accrued Interest Notwithstanding Conversion. If a Holder converts a Note, then the Company will not adjust the Conversion Rate to account for any accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, and, except as provided in Section 5.02(D), the Company’s delivery of the Conversion Consideration due in respect of such conversion will be deemed to fully satisfy and discharge the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, such Note to, but excluding the Conversion Date. As a result, except as provided in Section 5.02(D), any accrued and unpaid interest on a converted Note will be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled,

 

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extinguished or forfeited. In addition, subject to Section 5.02(D), if the Conversion Consideration for a Note consists of both cash and shares of the Common Stock, then accrued and unpaid interest that is deemed to be paid therewith will be deemed to be paid first out of such cash.

Section 5.04.    RESERVE; STATUS OF COMMON STOCK ISSUED UPON CONVERSION; COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS.

(A)    Stock Reserve. At all times when any Notes are outstanding, the Company will reserve, out of its authorized but unissued and unreserved shares of Common Stock, a number of shares of Common Stock sufficient to permit the conversion of all then-outstanding Notes, assuming (x) Physical Settlement will apply to such conversion; and (y) the Conversion Rate is increased by the maximum amount pursuant to which the Conversion Rate may be increased pursuant to Section 5.07. To the extent the Company delivers shares of Common Stock held in its treasury in settlement of the conversion of any Notes, each reference in the Indenture or the Notes to the issuance of shares of Common Stock in connection therewith will be deemed to include such delivery, mutatis mutandis.

(B)    Status of Conversion Shares; Listing. Each Conversion Share, if any, delivered upon conversion of any Note will be a newly issued or treasury share (except that any Conversion Share delivered by a designated financial institution pursuant to Section 5.08 need not be a newly issued or treasury share) and will be duly and validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable, free from preemptive rights and free of any lien or adverse claim (except to the extent of any lien or adverse claim created by the action or inaction of the Holder of such Note or the Person to whom such Conversion Share will be delivered). If the Common Stock is then listed on any securities exchange, or quoted on any inter-dealer quotation system, then the Company use will cause each Conversion Share, when delivered upon conversion of any Note, to be admitted for listing on such exchange or quotation on such system.

Section 5.05.    ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CONVERSION RATE.

(A)    Events Requiring an Adjustment to the Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate will be adjusted from time to time as follows:

(i)    Stock Dividends, Splits and Combinations. If the Company issues solely shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on all or substantially all shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a stock split or a stock combination of the Common Stock (in each case excluding an issuance solely pursuant to a Common Stock Change Event, as to which Section 5.09 will apply), then the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

 

OS1

  
  OS0   

 

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where:     
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately before the Open of Business on the effective date of such stock split or stock combination, as applicable;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or effective date, as applicable;
OS0   =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or effective date, as applicable, without giving effect to such dividend, distribution, stock split or stock combination; and
OS1   =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, stock split or stock combination.

For the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(i) will become effective as of the time set forth in the definition of CR1 above. If any dividend, distribution, stock split or stock combination of the type described in this Section 5.05(A)(i) is declared or announced, but not so paid or made, then the Conversion Rate will be readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution or to effect such stock split or stock combination, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had such dividend, distribution, stock split or stock combination not been declared or announced.

(ii)    Rights, Options and Warrants. If the Company distributes, to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, rights, options or warrants (other than rights issued or otherwise distributed pursuant to a stockholder rights plan, as to which Sections 5.05(A)(iii)(1) and 5.05(F) will apply) entitling such holders, for a period of not more than sixty (60) calendar days after the record date of such distribution, to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the date such distribution is announced, then the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×  

OS + X

  
  OS + Y   

 

where:     
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

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OS   =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
X   =    the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and
Y   =    a number of shares of Common Stock obtained by dividing (x) the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants by (y) the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the date such distribution is announced.

Any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(ii) will be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are distributed and, for the avoidance of doubt, will become effective as of the time set forth in the definition of CR1 above. To the extent such rights, options or warrants are not so distributed, the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase to the Conversion Rate for such distribution been made on the basis of only the rights, options or warrants, if any, actually distributed. In addition, to the extent that shares of Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants (including as a result of such rights, options or warrants not being exercised), the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase to the Conversion Rate for such distribution been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered upon exercise of such rights, option or warrants.

For purposes of this Section 5.05(A)(ii) and Section 5.01(C)(i)(3)(a)(I), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle holders of Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before the date the distribution of such rights, options or warrants is announced, and in determining the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, there will be taken into account any consideration the Company receives for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise thereof, with the value of such consideration, if not cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.

(iii)    Spin-Offs and Other Distributed Property.

(1)    Distributions Other than Spin-Offs. If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness or other assets or property of the Company, or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock of the Company or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, excluding:

(u)    dividends, distributions, rights, options or warrants for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required (or would be required without regard to Section 5.05(C)) pursuant to Section 5.05(A)(i) or 5.05(A)(ii);

 

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(v)    dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required (or would be required without regard to Section 5.05(C)) pursuant to Section 5.05(A)(iv);

(w)    rights issued or otherwise distributed pursuant to a stockholder rights plan, except to the extent provided in Section 5.05(F);

(x)    Spin-Offs for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is required (or would be required without regard to Section 5.05(C)) pursuant to Section 5.05(A)(iii)(2);

(y)    a distribution solely pursuant to a tender offer or exchange offer for shares of Common Stock, as to which Section 5.05(A)(v) will apply; and

(z)    a distribution solely pursuant to a Common Stock Change Event, as to which Section 5.09 will apply,

then the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×   

SP

  
   SP FMV   

 

where:
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
SP   =    the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately before such Ex-Dividend Date; and
FMV   =    the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors), as of such Ex-Dividend Date, of the shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets, property, rights, options or warrants distributed per share of Common Stock pursuant to such distribution.

 

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For the avoidance of doubt, any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(iii)(2) will become effective as of the time set forth in the definition of CR1 above. However, if FMV is equal to or greater than SP, then, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment to the Conversion Rate, each Holder will receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held by such Holder on the record date for such distribution, at the same time and on the same terms as holders of Common Stock, the amount and kind of shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets, property, rights, options or warrants that such Holder would have received if such Holder had owned, on such record date, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on such record date.

To the extent such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the adjustment been made on the basis of only the distribution, if any, actually made or paid.

(2)    Spin-Offs. If the Company distributes or dividends shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interests, of or relating to an Affiliate, a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock (other than solely pursuant to (x) a Common Stock Change Event, as to which Section 5.09 will apply; or (y) a tender offer or exchange offer for shares of Common Stock, as to which Section 5.05(A)(v) will apply), and such Capital Stock or equity interests are listed or quoted (or will be listed or quoted upon the consummation of the transaction) on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), then the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×  

FMV + SP

  
 

SP

  

 

where:
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such Spin-Off;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
FMV   =    the product of (x) the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share or unit of the Capital Stock or equity interests distributed in such Spin-Off over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period (the “Spin-Off Valuation Period”) beginning on, and including, such Ex-Dividend Date (such average to be determined as if references to Common Stock in the definitions of Last Reported Sale Price, Trading Day and Market Disruption Event were instead references to such Capital Stock or equity interests); and (y) the number of shares or units of such Capital Stock or equity interests distributed per share of Common Stock in such Spin-Off; and
SP   =    the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for each Trading Day in the Spin-Off Valuation Period.

 

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The adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(iii)(2) will be calculated as of the Close of Business on the last Trading Day of the Spin-Off Valuation Period but will be given effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for the Spin-Off, with retroactive effect. If a Note is converted and the Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) or any VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement) occurs during the Spin-Off Valuation Period, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, the Company will, if necessary, delay the settlement of such conversion until the second (2nd) Business Day after the last day of the Spin-Off Valuation Period.

To the extent any dividend or distribution of the type set forth in this Section 5.05(A)(iii)(2) is declared but not made or paid, the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the adjustment been made on the basis of only the dividend or distribution, if any, actually made or paid.

(iv)    Cash Dividends or Distributions. If any cash dividend or distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, then the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×  

SP

  
  SP D   

 

where:
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
SP   =    the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately before such Ex-Dividend Date; and
D   =    the cash amount distributed per share of Common Stock in such dividend or distribution;

 

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provided, however, that if D is equal to or greater than SP, then, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment to the Conversion Rate, each Holder will receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held by such Holder on the record date for such dividend or distribution, at the same time and on the same terms as holders of Common Stock, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder had owned, on such record date, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on such record date.

To the extent such dividend or distribution is declared but not made or paid, the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the adjustment been made on the basis of only the dividend or distribution, if any, actually made or paid.

(v)    Tender Offers or Exchange Offers. If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for shares of Common Stock (other than solely pursuant to an odd-lot tender offer pursuant to Rule 13e-4(h)(5) under the Exchange Act), and the value (determined as of the Expiration Time by the Board of Directors) of the cash and other consideration paid per share of Common Stock in such tender or exchange offer exceeds the Last Reported Sale Price per share of Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately after the last date (the “Expiration Date”) on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended), then the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×  

AC + (SP × OS1)

  
  SP × OS0   

 

where:     
CR0   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the time (the “Expiration Time”) such tender or exchange offer expires;
CR1   =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Expiration Time;
AC   =    the aggregate value (determined as of the Expiration Time by the Board of Directors) of all cash and other consideration paid for shares of Common Stock purchased or exchanged in such tender or exchange offer;
OS0   =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before the Expiration Time (including all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer);
OS1   =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Expiration Time (excluding all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and
SP   =    the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices per share of Common Stock over the ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period (the “Tender/Exchange Offer Valuation Period”) beginning on, and including, the Trading Day immediately after the Expiration Date;

 

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provided, however, that the Conversion Rate will in no event be adjusted down pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(v), except to the extent provided in the immediately following paragraph. The adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 5.05(A)(v) will be calculated as of the Close of Business on the last Trading Day of the Tender/Exchange Offer Valuation Period but will be given effect immediately after the Expiration Time, with retroactive effect. If a Note is converted and the Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) or any VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement) occurs on the Expiration Date or during the Tender/Exchange Offer Valuation Period, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, the Company will, if necessary, delay the settlement of such conversion until the second (2nd) Business Day after the last day of the Tender/Exchange Offer Valuation Period.

To the extent such tender or exchange offer is announced but not consummated (including as a result of the Company being precluded from consummating such tender or exchange offer under applicable law), or any purchases or exchanges of shares of Common Stock in such tender or exchange offer are rescinded, the Conversion Rate will be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the adjustment been made on the basis of only the purchases or exchanges of shares of Common Stock, if any, actually made, and not rescinded, in such tender or exchange offer.

(B)    No Adjustments in Certain Cases.

(i)    Where Holders Participate in the Transaction or Event Without Conversion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 5.05(A), the Company will not be obligated to adjust the Conversion Rate on account of a transaction or other event otherwise requiring an adjustment pursuant to Section 5.05(A) (other than a stock split or combination of the type set forth in Section 5.05(A)(i) or a tender or exchange offer of the type set forth in Section 5.05(A)(v)) if each Holder participates, at the same time and on the same terms as holders of Common Stock, and solely by virtue of being a Holder of Notes, in such transaction or event without having to convert such Holder’s Notes and as if such Holder held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (i) the Conversion Rate in effect on the related record date; and (ii) the aggregate principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder on such date.

 

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(ii)    Certain Events. The Company will not be required to adjust the Conversion Rate except as provided in Section 5.05 or Section 5.07. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company will not be obligated to adjust the Conversion Rate on account of:

(1)    except as otherwise provided in Section 5.05, the sale of shares of Common Stock for a purchase price that is less than the market price per share of Common Stock or less than the Conversion Price;

(2)    the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any such plan;

(3)    the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of, or assumed by, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(4)    the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or convertible or exchangeable security of the Company outstanding as of the Issue Date;

(5)    solely a change in the par value of the Common Stock; or

(6)    accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes.

(C)    Adjustment Deferral. If an adjustment to the Conversion Rate otherwise required by this Article 5 would result in a change of less than one percent (1%) to the Conversion Rate, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 5, the Company may, at its election, defer such adjustment, except that all such deferred adjustments must be given effect immediately upon the earliest of the following: (i) when all such deferred adjustments would result in a change of at least one percent (1%) to the Conversion Rate; (ii) the Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) of, or any VWAP Trading Day of an Observation Period (in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement) for, any Note; (iii) the date a Fundamental Change or Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs; (iv) the date the Company calls any Notes for Redemption; and (v) April 1, 2025.

(D)    Adjustments Not Yet Effective. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, if:

(i)    a Note is to be converted pursuant to Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement;

(ii)    the record date, effective date or Expiration Time for any event that requires an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 5.05(A) has occurred on or before the Conversion Date for such conversion (in the case of Physical Settlement) or on or before any VWAP Trading Day in the Observation Period for such conversion (in the case of Combination Settlement), but an adjustment to the Conversion Rate for such event has not yet become effective as of such Conversion Date or VWAP Trading Day, as applicable;

 

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(iii)    the Conversion Consideration due upon such conversion includes any whole shares of Common Stock (in the case of Physical Settlement) or due in respect of such VWAP Trading Day includes any whole or fractional shares of Common Stock (in the case of Combination Settlement); and

(iv)    such shares are not entitled to participate in such event (because they were not held on the related record date or otherwise),

then, solely for purposes of such conversion, the Company will, without duplication, give effect to such adjustment on such Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) or such VWAP Trading Day (in the case of Combination Settlement). In such case, if the date on which the Company is otherwise required to deliver the consideration due upon such conversion is before the first date on which the amount of such adjustment can be determined, then the Company will delay the settlement of such conversion until the second (2nd) Business Day after such first date.

(E)    Conversion Rate Adjustments where Converting Holders Participate in the Relevant Transaction or Event. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, if:

(i)    a Conversion Rate adjustment for any dividend or distribution becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date pursuant to Section 5.05(A);

(ii)    a Note is to be converted pursuant to Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement;

(iii)    the Conversion Date for such conversion (in the case of Physical Settlement) or any VWAP Trading Day in the Observation Period for such conversion (in the case of Combination Settlement) occurs on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or before the related record date;

(iv)    the Conversion Consideration due upon such conversion includes any whole shares of Common Stock (in the case of Physical Settlement) or due in respect of such VWAP Trading Day includes any whole or fractional shares of Common Stock (in the case of Combination Settlement), in each case based on a Conversion Rate that is adjusted for such dividend or distribution; and

(v)    such shares would be entitled to participate in such dividend or distribution (including pursuant to Section 5.02(C)),

then (x) in the case of Physical Settlement, such Conversion Rate adjustment will not be given effect for such conversion and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion based on such unadjusted Conversion Rate will not be entitled to participate in such dividend or distribution, but there will be added, to the Conversion Consideration otherwise due upon such conversion, the same kind and amount of consideration that would have been delivered in such

 

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dividend or distribution with respect to such shares of Common Stock had such shares been entitled to participate in such dividend or distribution; and (y) in the case of Combination Settlement, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date will be made for such conversion in respect of such VWAP Trading Day, but the shares of Common Stock issuable with respect to such VWAP Trading Day based on such adjusted Conversion Rate will not be entitled to participate in such dividend or distribution.

(F)    Stockholder Rights Plans. If any shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon conversion of any Note and, at the time of such conversion, the Company has in effect any stockholder rights plan, then the Holder of such Note will be entitled to receive, in addition to, and concurrently with the delivery of, the Conversion Consideration otherwise payable under the Indenture upon such conversion, the rights set forth in such stockholder rights plan, unless such rights have separated from the Common Stock at such time, in which case, and only in such case, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted pursuant to Section 5.05(A)(iii)(1) on account of such separation as if, at the time of such separation, the Company had made a distribution of the type referred to in such Section to all holders of the Common Stock, subject to readjustment in accordance with such Section if such rights expire, terminate or are redeemed.

(G)    Limitation on Effecting Transactions Resulting in Certain Adjustments. The Company will not engage in or be a party to any transaction or event that would require the Conversion Rate to be adjusted pursuant to Section 5.05(A) or Section 5.07 to an amount that would result in the Conversion Price per share of Common Stock being less than the par value per share of Common Stock.

(H)    Equitable Adjustments to Prices. Whenever any provision of the Indenture requires the Company to calculate the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices, or any function thereof, over a period of multiple days (including to calculate the Stock Price or an adjustment to the Conversion Rate), or to calculate Daily VWAPs over an Observation Period, the Company will make proportionate adjustments, if any, to such calculations to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 5.05(A)(i) that becomes effective, or any event requiring such an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date or effective date, as applicable, of such event occurs, at any time during such period or Observation Period, as applicable.

(I)    Calculation of Number of Outstanding Shares of Common Stock. For purposes of Section 5.05(A), the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at any time will (i) include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock; and (ii) exclude shares of Common Stock held in the Company’s treasury (unless the Company pays any dividend or makes any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in its treasury).

(J)    Calculations. All calculations with respect to the Conversion Rate and adjustments thereto will be made to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock (with 5/100,000ths rounded upward).

(K)    Certain Notices. (i) Upon the effectiveness of any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 5.05(A), the Company will promptly send notice to the Holders, the

 

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Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) containing (1) a brief description of the transaction or other event on account of which such adjustment was made; (2) the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such adjustment; and (3) the effective time of such adjustment.

Section 5.06.    VOLUNTARY ADJUSTMENTS.

(A)    Generally. To the extent permitted by law and applicable stock exchange rules, the Company, from time to time, may (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate by any amount if (i) the Board of Directors determines that such increase is either (x) in the best interest of the Company; or (y) advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax imposed on holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase Common Stock as a result of any dividend or distribution of shares (or rights to acquire shares) of Common Stock or any similar event; (ii) such increase is in effect for a period of at least twenty (20) Business Days; and (iii) such increase is irrevocable during such period.

(B)    Notice of Voluntary Increases. If the Board of Directors determines to increase the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 5.06(A), then, no later than the first Business Day of the related twenty (20) Business Day period referred to in Section 5.06(A), the Company will send notice to each Holder, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent of such increase, the amount thereof and the period during which such increase will be in effect.

Section 5.07.    ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CONVERSION RATE IN CONNECTION WITH A MAKE-WHOLE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE.

(A)    Generally. If a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs and the Conversion Date for the conversion of a Note occurs during the related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Conversion Period, then, subject to this Section 5.07, the Conversion Rate applicable to such conversion will be increased by a number of shares (the “Additional Shares”) set forth in the table below corresponding (after interpolation as provided in, and subject to, the provisions below) to the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date and the Stock Price of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

 

Stock Price

 

Make-Whole

Fundamental Change

Effective Date

  $13.50     $15.00     $16.20     $18.00     $20.00     $21.06     $25.00     $30.00     $35.00     $40.00     $50.00     $75.00     $100.00     $125.00  

June 25, 2020

    12.3456       10.7487       9.7173       8.4567       7.3420       6.8409       5.3600       4.0450       3.1086       2.4120       1.4630       0.3557       0.0099       0.0000  

July 1, 2021

    12.3456       9.6800       8.6963       7.5294       6.5235       6.0779       4.7736       3.6230       2.8029       2.1900       1.3462       0.3361       0.0081       0.0000  

July 1, 2022

    12.3456       8.3927       7.4222       6.3383       5.4545       5.0745       3.9876       3.0437       2.3717       1.8680       1.1674       0.3024       0.0052       0.0000  

July 1, 2023

    12.3456       6.9360       5.8790       4.8322       4.0815       3.7806       2.9636       2.2743       1.7857       1.4188       0.9044       0.2469       0.0025       0.0000  

July 1, 2024

    12.3456       5.4453       4.0025       2.8833       2.3075       2.1187       1.6564       1.2800       1.0126       0.8118       0.5298       0.1573       0.0013       0.0000  

July 1, 2025

    12.3456       4.9380       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000       0.0000  

 

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If such Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date or Stock Price is not set forth in the table above, then:

(i)    if such Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table above or the Make-Whole Fundamental Change Effective Date is between two dates in the table above, then the number of Additional Shares will be determined by straight-line interpolation between the numbers of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices in the table above or the earlier and later dates in the table above, based on a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable; and

(ii)    if the Stock Price is greater than $125.00 (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above are adjusted pursuant to Section 5.07(B)), or less than $13.50 (subject to adjustment in the same manner), per share, then no Additional Shares will be added to the Conversion Rate.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, in no event will the Conversion Rate be increased to an amount that exceeds 74.0740 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which amount is subject to adjustment in the same manner as, and at the same time and for the same events for which, the Conversion Rate is required to be adjusted pursuant to Section 5.05(A).

For the avoidance of doubt, but subject to Section 4.03(I), (x) the sending of a Redemption Notice will constitute a Make-Whole Fundamental Change only with respect to the Notes called for Redemption pursuant to such Redemption Notice, and not with respect to any other Notes; and (y) the Conversion Rate applicable to the Notes not so called for Redemption will not be subject to increase pursuant to this Section 5.07 on account of such Redemption Notice.

(B)    Adjustment of Stock Prices and Number of Additional Shares. The Stock Prices in the first row (i.e., the column headers) of the table set forth in Section 5.07(A) will be adjusted in the same manner as, and at the same time and for the same events for which, the Conversion Price is adjusted as a result of the operation of Section 5.05(A). The numbers of Additional Shares in the table set forth in Section 5.07(A) will be adjusted in the same manner as, and at the same time and for the same events for which, the Conversion Rate is adjusted pursuant to Section 5.05(A).

(C)    Notice of the Occurrence of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change. The Company will notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of each Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurring pursuant to (i) clause (A) of the definition thereof in accordance with Section 5.01(C)(i)(3)(b) and (ii) clause (B) of the definition thereof in accordance with Section 4.03(F).

Section 5.08.    EXCHANGE IN LIEU OF CONVERSION.

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such Note exchanged in lieu of conversion by a financial institution designated by the Company. To make such election, the Company must send notice of such election to the Holder of such Note, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) before the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately following the Conversion Date for such Note. If the Company has made such election, then:

(A)    no later than the Business Day immediately following such Conversion Date, the Company must deliver (or cause to be delivered) such Note, together with delivery instructions for the Conversion Consideration due upon such conversion (including wire instructions, if applicable), to a financial institution designated by the Company that has agreed to deliver such Conversion Consideration in the manner and at the time the Company would have had to deliver the same pursuant to this Article 5;

(B)    if such Note is a Global Note, then (i) such designated institution will send written confirmation to the Company promptly after wiring the cash Conversion Consideration, if any, and delivering any other Conversion Consideration, due upon such conversion to the Holder of such Note; and

(C)    such Note will not cease to be outstanding by reason of such exchange in lieu of conversion;

provided, however, that if such financial institution does not accept such Note or fails to timely deliver such Conversion Consideration, then the Company will be responsible for delivering such Conversion Consideration in the manner and at the time provided in this Article 5 as if the Company had not elected to make an exchange in lieu of conversion. The Company, the Conversion Agent and the Holders surrendering the Notes for conversion will cooperate to cause such Notes to be delivered to the designated financial institution and the Conversion Agent will be entitled to conclusively rely on the Company’s instructions in connection with effecting any exchange election and will have no liability for such exchange election outside of its control. Any Notes exchanged by the designated financial institution will remain outstanding, notwithstanding the surrender of such Notes and will be subject to the Depositary Procedures.

Section 5.09.    EFFECT OF COMMON STOCK CHANGE EVENT.

(A)    Generally. If there occurs any:

(i)    recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than (x) changes solely resulting from a subdivision or combination of the Common Stock, (y) a change only in par value or from par value to no par value or no par value to par value and (z) stock splits and stock combinations that do not involve the issuance of any other series or class of securities);

(ii)    consolidation, merger, combination or binding or statutory share exchange involving the Company;

(iii)    sale, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person; or

 

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(iv)    other similar event,

and, as a result of which, the Common Stock is converted into, or is exchanged for, or represents solely the right to receive, other securities, cash or other property, or any combination of the foregoing (such an event, a “Common Stock Change Event,” and such other securities, cash or property, the “Reference Property,” and the amount and kind of Reference Property that a holder of one (1) share of Common Stock would be entitled to receive on account of such Common Stock Change Event (without giving effect to any arrangement not to issue or deliver a fractional portion of any security or other property), a “Reference Property Unit”), then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes,

(1)    from and after the effective time of such Common Stock Change Event, (I) the Conversion Consideration due upon conversion of any Note, and the conditions to any such conversion, will be determined in the same manner as if each reference to any number of shares of Common Stock in this Article 5 (or in any related definitions) were instead a reference to the same number of Reference Property Units; (II) for purposes of Section 4.03, each reference to any number of shares of Common Stock in such Section (or in any related definitions) will instead be deemed to be a reference to the same number of Reference Property Units; and (III) for purposes of the definition of “Fundamental Change” and “Make-Whole Fundamental Change,” the terms “Common Stock” and “common equity” will be deemed to mean the common equity (including depositary receipts representing common equity), if any, forming part of such Reference Property;

(2)    if such Reference Property Unit consists entirely of cash, then the Company will be deemed to elect Physical Settlement in respect of all conversions whose Conversion Date occurs on or after the effective date of such Common Stock Change Event and will pay the cash due upon such conversions no later than the second (2nd) Business Day after the relevant Conversion Date; and

(3)    for these purposes, (I) the Daily VWAP of any Reference Property Unit or portion thereof that consists of a class of common equity securities will be determined by reference to the definition of “Daily VWAP,” substituting, if applicable, the Bloomberg page for such class of securities in such definition; and (II) the Daily VWAP of any Reference Property Unit or portion thereof that does not consist of a class of common equity securities, and the Last Reported Sale Price of any Reference Property Unit or portion thereof that does not consist of a class of securities, will be the fair value of such Reference Property Unit or portion thereof, as applicable, determined in good faith by the Company (or, in the case of cash denominated in U.S. dollars, the face amount thereof).

If the Reference Property consists of more than a single type of consideration to be determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election, then the composition of the Reference Property Unit will be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received, per share of Common Stock, by the holders of Common Stock. The Company will notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such weighted average as soon as practicable after such determination is made.

 

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At or before the effective time of such Common Stock Change Event, the Company and the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (if not the Company) of such Common Stock Change Event (the “Successor Person”) will execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 8.01(F), which supplemental indenture will (x) provide for subsequent conversions of Notes in the manner set forth in this Section 5.09; (y) provide for subsequent adjustments to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 5.05(A) in a manner consistent with this Section 5.09; and (z) contain such other provisions, if any, that the Company reasonably determines are appropriate to preserve the economic interests of the Holders and to give effect to the provisions of this Section 5.09(A). If the Reference Property includes shares of stock or other securities or assets (other than cash) of a Person other than the Successor Person, then such other Person will also execute such supplemental indenture and such supplemental indenture will contain such additional provisions, if any, that the Company reasonably determines are appropriate to preserve the economic interests of the Holders.

(B)    Notice of Common Stock Change Events. The Company will provide notice of each Common Stock Change Event to Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent no later than the second (2nd) Business Day after the effective date of such Common Stock Change Event.

(C)    Compliance Covenant. The Company will not become a party to any Common Stock Change Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 5.09.

Section 5.10.    RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TRUSTEE.

The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent will not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent will not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, monitoring the Company’s Common Stock trading price or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent will be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article 5. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent will be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 5.09 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of Common Stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 5.09 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to Section 7.1 of the Base Indenture, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and will be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate (which the Company will be obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution

 

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of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent will be responsible for determining whether any event contemplated by Section 5.01(C) has occurred that makes the Notes eligible for conversion or no longer eligible therefor until the Company has delivered to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent the notices referred to in Section 5.01(C) with respect to the commencement or termination of such conversion rights, on which notices the Trustee and the Conversion Agent may conclusively rely.

Article 6.    SUCCESSORS

Section 6.01.    WHEN THE COMPANY MAY MERGE, ETC.

(A)    Generally. The Company will not consolidate with or merge with or into, or (directly, or indirectly through one or more of its Subsidiaries) sell, lease or otherwise transfer, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person (a “Business Combination Event”), unless:

(i)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person either (x) is the Company or (y) if not the Company, is (1) a corporation or (2) if such Business Combination Event constitutes an Exempted Fundamental Change, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or similar entity (in each case, the “Successor Entity”) duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia that expressly assumes (by executing and delivering to the Trustee, at or before the effective time of such Business Combination Event, a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 8.01(E)) all of the Company’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes; and

(ii)    immediately after giving effect to such Business Combination Event, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing.

(B)    Delivery of Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee. Before the effective time of any Business Combination Event, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that (i) such Business Combination Event (and, if applicable, the related supplemental indenture) comply with Section 6.01(A); and (ii) all conditions precedent to such Business Combination Event provided in the Indenture have been satisfied.

Section 6.02.    SUCCESSOR ENTITY SUBSTITUTED.

At the effective time of any Business Combination Event that complies with Section 6.01, the Successor Entity (if not the Company) will succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under the Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company in the Indenture and the Notes, and, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Company will be discharged from its obligations under the Indenture and the Notes.

 

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Section 6.03.    WHEN THE GUARANTOR MAY MERGE, ETC.

(A)    Generally. The Guarantor will not consolidate with or merge with or into, or sell, lease or otherwise transfer, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or substantially all of the assets of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person (a “Guarantor Business Combination Event”), unless:

(i)    the resulting, surviving or transferee Person either (x) is the Guarantor or (y) if not the Guarantor, is a Person (the “Successor Guarantor Entity”) duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia that expressly assumes (by executing and delivering to the Trustee, at or before the effective time of such Guarantor Business Combination Event, a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 8.01(E)) all of the Guarantor’s obligations under the Notes or under the Indenture with respect to the Notes; and

(ii)    immediately after giving effect to such Guarantor Business Combination Event, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing.

(B)    Delivery of Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee. Before the effective time of any Guarantor Business Combination Event, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that (i) such Guarantor Business Combination Event (and, if applicable, the related supplemental indenture) comply with Section 6.03(A); and (ii) all conditions precedent to such Guarantor Business Combination Event provided in the Indenture have been satisfied.

(C)    Successor Guarantor Entity Substituted. At the effective time of any Guarantor Business Combination Event that complies with Section 6.03(A) the Successor Guarantor Entity (if not the Guarantor) will succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor under the Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such Successor Guarantor Entity had been named as the Guarantor in the Indenture and the Notes, and, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Guarantor will be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes.

Section 6.04.    EXCLUSION FOR ASSET TRANSFERS WITH WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARIES.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 6, this Article 6 will not apply to any transfer of assets between or among the Company and any one or more of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries not effected by merger or consolidation.

Article 7.    DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 7.01.    EVENTS OF DEFAULT.

(A)    Definition of Events of Default. “Event of Default” means the occurrence of any of the following:

(i)    a default in the payment when due (whether at maturity, upon Redemption, Repurchase Upon Fundamental Change or otherwise) of the principal of, or the Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for, any Note;

 

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(ii)    a default for thirty (30) consecutive days in the payment when due of interest on any Note;

(iii)    the Company’s failure to deliver, when required by the Indenture, a Fundamental Change Notice, or a notice pursuant to Section 5.01(C)(i)(3), if (in the case of any notice other than a notice pursuant to Section 5.01(C)(i)(3)(a)) such failure is not cured within five (5) Business Days after its occurrence;

(iv)    a default in the Company’s obligation to convert a Note in accordance with Article 5 upon the exercise of the conversion right with respect thereto, if such default is not cured within five (5) Business Days after its occurrence;

(v)    a default in the Company’s obligations under Article 6 or in the Guarantor’s obligations under Section 6.03;

(vi)    a default in any of the Company’s obligations or agreements, or in the Guarantor’s obligations or agreements, under the Indenture or the Notes (other than a default set forth in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) of this Section 7.01(A)) where such default is not cured or waived within sixty (60) days after notice to the Company by the Trustee, or to the Company and the Trustee by Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, which notice must specify such default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “Notice of Default”;

(vii)    a default by the Company or the Guarantor with respect to any one or more mortgages, agreements or other instruments under which there is outstanding, or by which there is secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed of at least one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company or the Guarantor, whether such indebtedness exists as of the Issue Date or is thereafter created, where such default:

(1)    constitutes a failure to pay the principal of such indebtedness when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, in each case after the expiration of any applicable grace period; or

(2)    results in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable before its stated maturity,

in each case where such default is not cured or waived within thirty (30) days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding;

(viii)    the Guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect or the Guarantor denies or disaffirms in writing its obligations under its Guarantee;

 

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(ix)    the Company, the Guarantors, or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, either:

(1)    commences a voluntary case or proceeding;

(2)    consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding;

(3)    consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for any substantial part of its property;

(4)    makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

(5)    consents to or acquiesces in the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it; or

(x)    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that either:

(1)    is for relief against the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries in an involuntary case or proceeding; or

(2)    appoints a custodian of the Company, the Guarantor, or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries, or for any substantial part of the property of the Company, the Guarantors, or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries;

(3)    orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company, the Guarantor, or any of their respective Significant Subsidiaries,

and, in each case under this Section 7.01(A)(x), such order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for at least sixty (60) days.

(B)    Cause Irrelevant. Each of the events set forth in Section 7.01(A) will constitute an Event of Default regardless of the cause thereof or whether voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body.

Section 7.02.    ACCELERATION.

(A)    Automatic Acceleration in Certain Circumstances. If an Event of Default set forth in Section 7.01(A)(ix) or 7.01(A)(x) occurs with respect to the Company or the Guarantor (and not solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or the Guarantor), then the principal amount of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, all of the Notes then outstanding will immediately become due and payable without any further action or notice by any Person.

(B)    Optional Acceleration. Subject to Section 7.03, if an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default set forth in Section 7.01(A)(ix) or 7.01(A)(x) with respect to the Company

 

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or the Guarantor and not solely with respect to a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or the Guarantor) occurs and is continuing, then the Trustee, by notice to the Company, or Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the principal amount of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, all of the Notes then outstanding to become due and payable immediately.

(C)    Rescission of Acceleration. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may, on behalf of all Holders, rescind any acceleration of the Notes and its consequences if (i) such rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and (ii) all existing Events of Default (except the non-payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes that has become due solely because of such acceleration) have been cured or waived. No such rescission will affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

Section 7.03.    SOLE REMEDY FOR A FAILURE TO REPORT.

(A)    Generally. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, the Company may elect that the sole remedy for any Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(A)(vi) arising from the Company’s failure to comply with Section 3.02 (including the Company’s obligations under Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act) (a “Reporting Event of Default”) will, for each of the first three hundred and sixty five (365) calendar days on which a Reporting Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, consist exclusively of the accrual of Special Interest on the Notes. If the Company has made such an election, then (i) the Notes will be subject to acceleration pursuant to Section 7.02 on account of the relevant Reporting Event of Default from, and including, the three hundred and sixty sixth (366th) calendar day on which a Reporting Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or if the Company fails to pay any accrued and unpaid Special Interest when due; and (ii) Special Interest will cease to accrue on any Notes from, and including, such three hundred and sixty sixth (366th) calendar day (it being understood that interest on any defaulted Special Interest will nonetheless accrue pursuant to Section 2.05(B)).

(B)    Amount and Payment of Special Interest. Any Special Interest that accrues on a Note pursuant to Section 7.03(A) will be payable on the same dates and in the same manner as the Stated Interest on such Note and will accrue at a rate per annum equal to one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the principal amount thereof for the first one hundred and eighty (180) days on which Special Interest accrues and, thereafter, at a rate per annum equal to one half of one percent (0.50%) of the principal amount thereof. However, in no event will Special Interest accrue on any day on a Note at a combined rate per annum that exceeds 0.50%. For the avoidance of doubt, any Special Interest that accrues on a Note will be in addition to the Stated Interest that accrues on such Note.

(C)    Notice of Election. To make the election set forth in Section 7.03(A), the Company must send to the Holders, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, before the date on which each Reporting Event of Default first occurs, a notice that (i) briefly describes the report(s) that the Company failed to file with the SEC; (ii) states that the Company is electing that the sole remedy for such Reporting Event of Default consist of the accrual of Special Interest; and (iii)

 

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briefly describes the periods during which and rate at which Special Interest will accrue and the circumstances under which the Notes will be subject to acceleration on account of such Reporting Event of Default.

(D)    Notice to Trustee and Paying Agent; Trustee’s Disclaimer. If Special Interest accrues on any Note, then, no later than five (5) Business Days before each date on which such Special Interest is to be paid, the Company will deliver an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee and the Paying Agent stating (i) that the Company is obligated to pay Special Interest on such Note on such date of payment; and (ii) the amount of such Special Interest that is payable on such date of payment. The Trustee will have no duty to determine whether any Special Interest is payable or the amount thereof.

(E)    No Effect on Other Events of Default. No election pursuant to this Section 7.03 with respect to a Reporting Event of Default will affect the rights of any Holder with respect to any other Event of Default, including with respect to any other Reporting Event of Default.

Section 7.04.    OTHER REMEDIES.

(A)    Trustee May Pursue All Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of any amounts due with respect to the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Indenture or the Notes.

(B)    Procedural Matters. The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in such proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy following an Event of Default will not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of, or acquiescence in, such Event of Default. All remedies will be cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

Section 7.05.    WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.

An Event of Default pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (iv) or (vi) of Section 7.01(A) (that, in the case of clause (vi) only, results from a Default under any covenant that cannot be amended without the consent of each affected Holder), and a Default that could lead to such an Event of Default, can be waived only with the consent of each affected Holder. Each other Default or Event of Default may be waived, on behalf of all Holders, by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding. If an Event of Default is so waived, then it will cease to exist. If a Default is so waived, then it will be deemed to be cured and any Event of Default arising therefrom will be deemed not to occur. However, no such waiver will extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right arising therefrom.

Section 7.06.    CONTROL BY MAJORITY.

Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law, the Indenture or the Notes, or that,

 

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subject to Section 7.1 of the Base Indenture, the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or may involve the Trustee in liability, unless the Trustee is offered and if requested, provided security and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to the Trustee that may result from the Trustee’s following such direction (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to determine whether any direction is prejudicial to any Holder).

Section 7.07.    LIMITATION ON SUITS.

No Holder may pursue any remedy with respect to the Indenture or the Notes (except to enforce (x) its rights to receive any payment or delivery, as applicable, of the principal of, or the Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for, or interest on, any Notes; or (y) the Company’s obligations to convert any Notes pursuant to Article 5), unless:

(A)    such Holder has previously delivered to the Trustee notice that an Event of Default is continuing;

(B)    Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding deliver a request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy;

(C)    such Holder or Holders offer and, if requested, provide to the Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to the Trustee that may result from the Trustee’s following such request;

(D)    the Trustee does not comply with such request within sixty (60) calendar days after its receipt of such request and such offer of security or indemnity; and

(E)    during such sixty (60) calendar day period, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding do not deliver to the Trustee a direction that is inconsistent with such request.

A Holder of a Note may not use the Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder. The Trustee will have no duty to determine whether any Holder’s use of the Indenture complies with the preceding sentence.

Section 7.08.    ABSOLUTE RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PAYMENT AND CONVERSION CONSIDERATION AND TO INSTITUTE SUIT FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF SUCH RIGHT.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes (but without limiting Section 8.01), the right of each Holder of a Note to receive payment or delivery, as applicable, of the principal of, or the Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for, or any interest on, or the Conversion Consideration due pursuant to Article 5 upon conversion of, such Note on or after the respective due dates therefor provided in the Indenture and the Notes, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery after such respective due dates, will not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

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Section 7.09.    COLLECTION SUIT BY TRUSTEE.

The Trustee will have the right, upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iv) of Section 7.01(A), to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the total unpaid or undelivered principal of, or Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for, or interest on, or Conversion Consideration due pursuant to Article 5 upon conversion of, the Notes, as applicable, and, to the extent lawful, any Default Interest on any Defaulted Amounts, and such further amounts sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including compensation provided for in Section 7.7 of the Base Indenture.

Section 7.10.    TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.

The Trustee has the right to (A) file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) or its creditors or property and (B) collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims. Each Holder authorizes any custodian in such proceeding to make such payments to the Trustee, and, if the Trustee consents to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to the Trustee for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.7 of the Base Indenture. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements, advances and other amounts out of the estate in such proceeding, is denied for any reason, payment of the same will be secured by a lien on, and will be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding (whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise). Nothing in the Indenture will be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize, consent to, accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

Section 7.11.    PRIORITIES.

The Trustee will pay or deliver in the following order any money or other property that it collects pursuant to this Article 7:

First:    to the Trustee and its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.7 of the Base Indenture, including payment of all fees, compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

Second:     to Holders for unpaid amounts or other property due on the Notes, including the principal of, or the Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for, or any interest on, or any Conversion Consideration due upon conversion of, the Notes, ratably, and without preference or priority of any kind, according to such amounts or other property due and payable on all of the Notes; and

 

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Third:    to the Company or such other Person as a court of competent jurisdiction directs.

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment or delivery to the Holders pursuant to this Section 7.11, in which case the Trustee will instruct the Company to, and the Company will, deliver, at least fifteen (15) calendar days before such record date, to each Holder and the Trustee a notice stating such record date, such payment date and the amount of such payment or nature of such delivery, as applicable.

Section 7.12.    UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under the Indenture or the Notes or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court, in its discretion, may (A) require the filing by any litigant party in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and (B) assess reasonable costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) against any litigant party in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such litigant party; provided, however, that this Section 7.12 does not apply to any suit by the Trustee, any suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 7.08 or any suit by one or more Holders of more than ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding.

Section 7.13.    TRUSTEES OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE NOTICE OF DEFAULTS TO HOLDERS.

If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, then the Trustee will send Holders a notice of such Default or Event of Default within ninety (90) days after it occurs or, if it is not actually known to the Trustee at such time, promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) after it becomes actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee; provided, however, that, except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any Note, the Trustee may withhold such notice if and for so long as it in good faith determines that withholding such notice is in the interests of the Holders.

Article 8.     AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS

Section 8.01.    WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 8.02, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes without the consent of any Holder to:

(A)    cure any ambiguity or correct any omission, defect or inconsistency in the Indenture or the Notes;

(B)    add additional guarantees with respect to the Company’s obligations under the Indenture or the Notes;

 

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(C)    secure the Notes or the Guarantee;

(D)    add to the Company’s or the Guarantor’s covenants or Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred on the Company or the Guarantor;

(E)    provide for the assumption of the Company’s or the Guarantor’s obligations under the Indenture and the Notes pursuant to, and in compliance with, Section 6.01 or Section 6.03, as applicable;

(F)    enter into supplemental indentures pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 5.09 in connection with a Common Stock Change Event;

(G)    irrevocably elect or eliminate any Settlement Method or Specified Dollar Amount; provided, however, that no such election or elimination will affect any Settlement Method theretofore elected (or deemed to be elected) with respect to any Note pursuant to Section 5.03(A);

(H)    evidence or provide for the acceptance of the appointment, under the Indenture, of a successor Trustee;

(I)    conform the provisions of the Indenture and the Notes to the “Description of Notes” section of the Company’s preliminary prospectus supplement, dated June 21, 2020, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet, dated June 22, 2020;

(J)    provide for or confirm the issuance of additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.03(B);

(K)    provide for any transfer restrictions that apply to any Notes issued under the Indenture (other than the Initial Notes) that, at the time of their original issuance, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act or that are originally issued in reliance upon Regulation S under the Securities Act;

(L)    comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with effecting or maintaining the qualification of the Indenture, or any supplemental indenture thereto, under the Trust Indenture Act, as then in effect; or

(M)    make any other change to the Indenture or the Notes that does not, individually or in the aggregate with all other such changes, adversely affect the rights of the Holders, as such, in any material respect.

At the written request of any Holder of a Note or owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Company will provide a copy of the “Description of Notes” section and pricing term sheet referred to in Section 8.01(I).

 

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Section 8.02.    WITH THE CONSENT OF HOLDERS.

(A)    Generally. Subject to Sections 8.01, 7.05 and 7.08 and the immediately following sentence, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee may, with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes or waive compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing sentence, but subject to Section 8.01, without the consent of each affected Holder, no amendment or supplement to the Indenture or the Notes, or waiver of any provision of the Indenture or the Notes, may:

(i)    reduce the principal, or extend the stated maturity, of any Note;

(ii)    reduce the Redemption Price or Fundamental Change Repurchase Price for any Note or change the times at which, or the circumstances under which, the Notes may or will be redeemed or repurchased by the Company;

(iii)    reduce the rate, or extend the time for the payment of interest on any Note;

(iv)    make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Note;

(v)    impair the rights of any Holder set forth in Section 7.08 (as such section is in effect on the Issue Date);

(vi)    change the ranking of the Notes or the Guarantee;

(vii)     release the Guarantee of the Guarantor or modify or amend the terms and conditions of the obligations of the Guarantor, as guarantor of the Notes, in any manner that is adverse to the rights of the Holders, as such, other than any elimination of the Guarantee in accordance with the Indenture;

(viii)    make any Note payable in money, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Indenture or the Note;

(ix)    reduce the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to any amendment, supplement, waiver or other modification; or

(x)    make any direct or indirect change to any amendment, supplement, waiver or modification provision of the Indenture or the Notes that requires the consent of each affected Holder.

For the avoidance of doubt, pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this Section 8.02(A), no amendment or supplement to the Indenture or the Notes, or waiver of any provision of the Indenture or the Notes, may change the amount or type of consideration due on any Note (whether on an Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or the Maturity Date or upon conversion, or otherwise), or the date(s) or time(s) such consideration is payable or deliverable, as applicable, without the consent of each affected Holder.

(B)    Holders Need Not Approve the Particular Form of any Amendment. A consent of any Holder pursuant to this Section 8.02 need approve only the substance, and not necessarily the particular form, of the proposed amendment, supplement or waiver.

 

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Section 8.03.    NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS.

As soon as reasonably practicable after any amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant to Section 8.01 or 8.02 becomes effective, the Company will send to the Holders and the Trustee notice that (A) describes the substance of such amendment, supplement or waiver in reasonable detail and (B) states the effective date thereof; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to provide such notice to the Holders if such amendment, supplement or waiver is included in a periodic report filed by the Company with the SEC within four (4) Business Days of its effectiveness. The failure to send, or the existence of any defect in, such notice will not impair or affect the validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

Section 8.04.    REVOCATION, EFFECT AND SOLICITATION OF CONSENTS; SPECIAL RECORD DATES; ETC.

(A)    Revocation and Effect of Consents. The consent of a Holder of a Note to an amendment, supplement or waiver will bind (and constitute the consent of) each subsequent Holder of any Note to the extent the same evidences any portion of the same indebtedness as the consenting Holder’s Note, subject to the right of any Holder of a Note to revoke (if not prohibited pursuant to Section 8.04(B)) any such consent with respect to such Note by delivering notice of revocation to the Trustee before the time such amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective.

(B)    Special Record Dates. The Company may, but is not required to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent or take any other action in connection with any amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant to this Article 8. If a record date is fixed, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 8.04(A), only Persons who are Holders as of such record date (or their duly designated proxies) will be entitled to give such consent, to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, regardless of whether such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date; provided, however, that no such consent will be valid or effective for more than one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days after such record date.

(C)    Solicitation of Consents. For the avoidance of doubt, each reference in the Indenture or the Notes to the consent of a Holder will be deemed to include any such consent obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, any Notes.

(D)    Effectiveness and Binding Effect. Each amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant to this Article 8 will become effective in accordance with its terms and, when it becomes effective with respect to any Note (or any portion thereof), will thereafter bind every Holder of such Note (or such portion).

Section 8.05.    NOTATIONS AND EXCHANGES.

If any amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note, then the Trustee or the Company may, in its discretion, require the Holder of such Note to deliver such Note to the Trustee so that the Trustee may place an appropriate notation prepared by the Company on such Note and return such Note to such Holder. Alternatively, at its discretion, the Company may, in

 

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exchange for such Note, issue, execute and deliver, and the Trustee will authenticate, in each case in accordance with Section 2.02, a new Note that reflects the changed terms. The failure to make any appropriate notation or issue a new Note pursuant to this Section 8.05 will not impair or affect the validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

Section 8.06.    TRUSTEE TO EXECUTE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.

The Trustee will execute and deliver any amendment or supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article 8; provided, however, that the Trustee need not (but may, in its sole and absolute discretion) execute or deliver any such amendment or supplemental indenture that adversely affects the Trustee’s rights, duties, liabilities or immunities. In executing any amendment or supplemental indenture, the Trustee will be entitled to receive, and (subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2 of the Base Indenture) will be fully protected in relying on, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the execution and delivery of such amendment or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by the Indenture; and (B) in the case of the Opinion of Counsel, such amendment or supplemental indenture is valid, binding and enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

Article 9.     GUARANTEES

Section 9.01.    GUARANTEES.

(A)    Subject to the provisions of this Article 9, the Guarantor hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, on a joint and several basis, to each Holder of the Notes and the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any interest on, and any Conversion Consideration for, the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due whether at maturity, by acceleration, on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon Redemption or otherwise and interest on the overdue principal of, any interest on, or any Conversion Consideration for, the Notes, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Notes, or under the Indenture with respect to the Notes, will promptly be paid or delivered in full or performed, as applicable, in each case in accordance with the Indenture and the Notes (collectively, the “Guarantee Obligations”) in each case subject to Section 9.02. The Guarantor agrees that the Guarantee Obligations will rank equally in right of payment with other indebtedness of the Guarantor, except to the extent such other indebtedness is subordinate to the Guarantee Obligations, in which case the obligations of the Guarantor under the Guarantee will rank senior in right of payment to such other indebtedness, and except for claims of creditors that are mandatorily preferred by law, in which case the obligations of the Guarantor under the Guarantee will rank junior in right of payment to such claims.

(B)    To evidence its Guarantee set forth in this Section 9.01, the Guarantor hereby agrees that this Indenture (or a supplement thereto) shall be executed on behalf of the Guarantor by an Officer of the Guarantor.

(C)    The Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Section 9.01 hereof shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Guarantee on the Notes.

 

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(D)    If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture (or a supplement thereto) or any notation of Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates a Note, the Guarantee of such Note shall be valid nevertheless.

(E)    The Guarantor further agrees (to the extent permitted by law) that the Guarantee Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound under this Section 9.01 notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guarantee Obligation.

(F)    The Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guarantee Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Notes or the Guarantee Obligations.

(G)    The Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a guarantee of payment when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder to any security held for payment of the Guarantee Obligations.

(H)    Except as set forth in Section 9.02, the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than payment of the Guarantee Obligations in full), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guarantee Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guarantee Obligations of the Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (a) the failure of any Holder to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company, the Guarantor or any other person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder for the Guarantee Obligations; (e) any change in the ownership of the Company; (f) any Default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guarantee Obligations or (g) any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of the Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of the Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

(I)    The Guarantor agrees that its Guarantee herein shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Guarantee Obligations or the Guarantor is released from its Guarantee in compliance with Section 6.01 or Section 10.01 hereof. The Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of, or interest on any of the Guarantee Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.

 

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(J)    In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder has at law or in equity against the Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any of the Guarantee Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, by Redemption or otherwise, the Guarantor hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid amount of such Guarantee Obligations then due and owing and (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guarantee Obligations then due and owing (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) (including interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding relating to the Company or the Guarantor whether or not a claim for postfiling or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding).

(K)    The Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guarantee Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in this Indenture for the purposes of its Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guarantee Obligations guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any such declaration of acceleration of the Guarantee Obligations, the Guarantee Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantor for the purposes of this Guarantee.

(L)    The Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all fees, costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any rights under this Section 9.01.

(M)    The Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that the Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made on the obligations under the Guarantee, the Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the Company who has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. The provisions of this Section 9.01(M) shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantor to the Trustee and the Holders and the Guarantor shall remain liable to the Trustee and the Holders for the full amount guaranteed by the Guarantor hereunder.

(N)    Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by the Guarantor hereunder, the Guarantor shall not be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Trustee or any Holder against the Company or guarantee or right of offset held by the Trustee or any Holder for the payment of the Guarantee Obligations, nor shall the Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Company in respect of payments made by the Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Trustee and the Holders by the Company on account of the Guarantee Obligations are paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Guarantee Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by the Guarantor in trust for the Trustee and the Holders, segregated from other funds of the Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by the Guarantor, be turned over to the Trustee in the exact form received by the Guarantor (duly indorsed by the Guarantor to the Trustee, if required), to be applied against the Guarantee Obligations.

 

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Section 9.02.    LIMITATION ON GUARANTOR LIABILITY.

The Guarantor and, by its acceptance of a Note, each Holder of a Note hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that in no event shall any Guarantee Obligations under the Guarantee constitute or result in a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of, or result in a violation of, any United States federal, or applicable United States state, fraudulent transfer or conveyance or similar law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, in the event that the Guarantee Obligations, if any, in respect of the Notes would, but for this sentence, constitute or result in such a fraudulent transfer or conveyance or violation, then the liability of the applicable Guarantor under its Guarantee in respect of the Notes shall be reduced to the extent necessary to eliminate such fraudulent transfer or conveyance or violation under the applicable fraudulent transfer or conveyance or similar law.

Article 10.     SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 10.01.    TERMINATION OF COMPANYS OBLIGATIONS.

The Indenture and the Guarantee will be discharged, and will cease to be of further effect, as to all Notes issued under the Indenture, when:

(A)    all Notes then outstanding (other than Notes replaced pursuant to Section 2.12) have (i) been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) become due and payable (whether on a Redemption Date, a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Maturity Date, upon conversion or otherwise) for an amount of cash or Conversion Consideration, as applicable, that has been fixed;

(B)    the Company has caused there to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee, or with the Paying Agent (or, with respect to Conversion Consideration, the Conversion Agent), in each case for the benefit of the Holders, or has otherwise caused there to be delivered to the Holders, cash (or, with respect to Notes to be converted, Conversion Consideration) sufficient to satisfy all amounts or other property due on all Notes then outstanding (other than Notes replaced pursuant to Section 2.12);

(C)    the Company has paid all other amounts payable by it under the Indenture with respect to the Notes; and

(D)    the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that the conditions precedent to the discharge of the Indenture with respect to the Notes have been satisfied;

provided, however, that Article VII of the Base Indenture and Section 11.01 will survive such discharge and, until no Notes remain outstanding, Section 2.14 and the obligations of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent with respect to money or other property deposited with them will survive such discharge.

At the Company’s written request, the Trustee will acknowledge the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture as to the Notes.

 

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Section 10.02.    REPAYMENT TO COMPANY.

Subject to applicable unclaimed property law, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent will promptly notify the Company if there exists (and, at the Company’s request, promptly deliver to the Company) any cash, Conversion Consideration or other property held by any of them for payment or delivery on the Notes that remain unclaimed two (2) years after the date on which such payment or delivery was due. After such delivery to the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent will have no further liability to any Holder with respect to such cash, Conversion Consideration or other property, and Holders entitled to the payment or delivery of such cash, Conversion Consideration or other property must look to the Company for payment as a general creditor of the Company.

Section 10.03.    REINSTATEMENT.

If the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Conversion Agent is unable to apply any cash or other property deposited with it pursuant to Section 10.01 because of any legal proceeding or any order or judgment of any court or other governmental authority that enjoins, restrains or otherwise prohibits such application, then the discharge of the Indenture pursuant to Section 10.01 will be rescinded; provided, however, that if the Company thereafter pays or delivers any cash or other property due on the Notes to the Holders thereof, then the Company will be subrogated to the rights of such Holders to receive such cash or other property from the cash or other property, if any, held by the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Conversion Agent, as applicable.

Article 11.     MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.01.    NOTICES.

Any notice or communication by the Company or the Guarantor or the Trustee to the other will be deemed to have been duly given if in writing and delivered in person or by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission, electronic transmission or other similar means of unsecured electronic communication or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, or to the other’s address, which initially is as follows:

If to the Company or the Guarantor:

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, Texas 76155

Attention: Treasurer

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

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, California 94025

Attention: Anthony J. Richmond

Telephone: ###

 

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and:

Latham & Watkins LLP

885 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attention: Greg Rodgers

Telephone: ###

If to the Trustee:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290

Minneapolis, MN 55402

Attention: American Airlines Group Inc., Administrator

Telephone: ###

The Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee, by notice to the others, may designate additional or different addresses (including facsimile numbers and electronic addresses) for subsequent notices or communications.

All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) will be deemed to have been duly given: (A) at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; (B) five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; (C) when receipt acknowledged, if transmitted by facsimile, electronic transmission or other similar means of unsecured electronic communication; and (D) the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.

All notices or communications required to be made to a Holder pursuant to the Indenture must be made in writing and will be deemed to be duly sent or given in writing if mailed by first class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to its address shown on the Register; provided, however, that a notice or communication to a Holder of a Global Note may, but need not, instead be sent pursuant to the Depositary Procedures (in which case, such notice will be deemed to be duly sent or given in writing). The failure to send a notice or communication to a Holder, or any defect in such notice or communication, will not affect its sufficiency with respect to any other Holder.

If the Trustee is then acting as the Depositary’s custodian for the Notes, then, at the reasonable request of the Company to the Trustee, the Trustee will cause any notice prepared by the Company to be sent to any Holder(s) pursuant to the Depositary Procedures, provided such request is evidenced in a Company Order delivered, together with a copy of such notice to be sent, to the Trustee at least two (2) Business Days before the date such notice is to be so sent. For the avoidance of doubt, such Company Order need not be accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee will not have any liability relating to the contents of any notice that it sends to any Holder pursuant to any such Company Order.

 

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If a notice or communication is mailed or sent in the manner provided above within the time prescribed, it will be deemed to have been duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, (A) whenever any provision of the Indenture requires a party to send notice to another party, no such notice need be sent if the sending party and the recipient are the same Person acting in different capacities; and (B) whenever any provision of the Indenture requires a party to send notice to more than one receiving party, and each receiving party is the same Person acting in different capacities, then only one such notice need be sent to such Person.

Section 11.02.    DELIVERY OF OFFICERS CERTIFICATE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.

Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under the Indenture (provided no Opinion of Counsel need be furnished in connection with the initial authentication of Notes under the Indenture), the Company will furnish to the Trustee:

(A)    an Officer’s Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee that complies with Section 11.03 and states that, in the opinion of the signatory thereto, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for in the Indenture relating to such action have been satisfied; and

(B)    an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee that complies with Section 11.03 and states that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants, if any, have been satisfied.

Section 11.03.    STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN OFFICERS CERTIFICATE AND OPINION OF COUNSEL.

Each Officer’s Certificate (other than an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to Section 3.03) or Opinion of Counsel with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in the Indenture will include:

(A)    a statement that the signatory thereto has read such covenant or condition;

(B)    a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained therein are based;

(C)    a statement that, in the opinion of such signatory, he, she or it has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him, her or it to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been satisfied; and

(D)    a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such signatory, such covenant or condition has been satisfied.

 

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Section 11.04.    RULES BY THE TRUSTEE, THE REGISTRAR AND THE PAYING AGENT.

The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of Holders. The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

Section 11.05.    NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND STOCKHOLDERS.

No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Company or the Guarantor, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantee or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting any Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

Section 11.06.    GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.

THE INDENTURE, THE GUARANTEE AND THE NOTES, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THE INDENTURE, THE GUARANTEE OR THE NOTES, WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTOR, THE TRUSTEE AND EACH HOLDER (BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF ANY NOTE) IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES, THE GUARANTEES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEE.

Section 11.07.    SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon the Indenture or the transactions contemplated by the Indenture may be instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City of New York or the courts of the State of New York, in each case located in the City of New York (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail (to the extent allowed under any applicable statute or rule of court) to such party’s address set forth in Section 11.01 will be effective service of process for any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court. Each of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each Holder (by its acceptance of any Note) irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim any such suit, action or other proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

 

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Section 11.08.    NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.

Neither the Indenture nor the Notes may be used to interpret any other indenture, note, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person, and no such indenture, note, loan or debt agreement may be used to interpret the Indenture or the Notes.

Section 11.09.    SUCCESSORS.

All agreements of the Company in the Indenture and the Notes will bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in the Indenture will bind its successors.

Section 11.10.    FORCE MAJEURE.

The Trustee and each Note Agent will not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility under the Indenture or the Notes by reason of any occurrence beyond its control (including any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, act of God or war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, act of terrorism or unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or facsimile or other wire or communication facility).

Section 11.11.    U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT.

The Company acknowledges that, in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions, in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The Company agrees to provide the Trustee with such information as it may request to enable the Trustee to comply with the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act.

Section 11.12.    CALCULATIONS.

The Company will be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Indenture or the Notes, including determinations of the Last Reported Sale Price, the Daily Conversion Value, the Daily Cash Amount, the Daily Share Amount, accrued interest on the Notes and the Conversion Rate.

The Company will make all calculations in good faith, and, absent manifest error, its calculations will be final and binding on all Holders. The Company will provide a schedule of its calculations to the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and any Holder upon written request therefor, and each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent may rely conclusively on the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification.

Section 11.13.    SEVERABILITY; ENTIRE AGREEMENT.

If any provision of the Indenture or the Notes is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of the Indenture or the Notes will not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. The Base Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture and the exhibits hereto and thereto set forth the entire agreement and understanding of the parties related to this transaction and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written.

 

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Section 11.14.    COUNTERPARTS.

The parties may sign any number of copies of the Indenture. Each signed copy will be an original, and all of them together represent the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of the Indenture by facsimile, electronically in portable document format or in any other format will be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart. For the avoidance of doubt, the words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery” and words of like import in or relating to this Supplemental Indenture or any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture will be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which will be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means, provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustee is not under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless agreed to by it pursuant to reasonable procedures approved by such parties.

Section 11.15.    TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.

The table of contents and the headings of the Articles and Sections of the Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of the Indenture and will in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions of the Indenture.

Section 11.16.    WITHHOLDING TAXES.

Each Holder of a Note agrees, and each beneficial owner of an interest in a Global Note, by its acquisition of such interest, is deemed to agree, that if the Company or other applicable withholding agent pays withholding taxes or backup withholding on behalf of such Holder or beneficial owner as a result of an adjustment or the non-occurrence of an adjustment to the Conversion Rate, then the Company or such withholding agent, as applicable, may, at its option, set off such payments against payments of cash or the delivery of other Conversion Consideration on such Note, any payments on the Common Stock or sales proceeds received by, or other funds or assets of, such Holder or the beneficial owner of such Note.

Section 11.17.    TRUST INDENTURE ACT CONTROLS.

If any provision of the Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision that is required to be included in the Indenture by the Trust Indenture Act, then required provision of the Trust Indenture Act will control.

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

 

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.
By:  

/s/ Thomas T. Weir

  Name:   Thomas T. Weir
  Title:   Vice President and Treasurer
AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
By:  

/s/ Thomas T. Weir

  Name:   Thomas T. Weir
  Title:   Vice President and Treasurer
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Hallie E. Field

  Name:   Hallie E. Field
  Title:   Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF NOTE

[Insert Global Note Legend, if applicable]

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Note due 2025

 

CUSIP No.: [                    ]    Certificate No. [                    ]
ISIN No.: [                    ]   

American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation, for value received, promises to pay to [Cede & Co.], or its registered assigns, the principal sum of [        ] dollars ($[        ]) [(as revised by the attached Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note)]* on July 1, 2025 and to pay interest thereon, as provided in the Indenture referred to below, until the principal and all accrued and unpaid interest are paid or duly provided for.

 

Interest Payment Dates:    January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing on [date].
Regular Record Dates:    June 15 and December 15.

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

[The Remainder of This Page Intentionally Left Blank; Signature Page Follows]

 

 

* 

Insert bracketed language for Global Notes only.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, American Airlines Group Inc. has caused this instrument to be duly executed as of the date set forth below.

 

    AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.
Date:                                                                               By:  

                                         

      Name:
      Title:

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Date:                                                                                            By:  

 

      Authorized Signatory

 

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AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Note due 2025

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), designated as its 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), all issued or to be issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Base Indenture”), dated as of June 25, 2020, and a first supplemental indenture (as the same may be amended from time to time, the “Supplemental Indenture,” and the Base Indenture, as amended by the Supplemental Indenture, and as the same may be further amended or supplemented from time to time with respect to the Notes, the “Indenture”), dated as of June 25, 2020, each among the Company, the Guarantor and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used in this Note without definition have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.

The Indenture sets forth the rights and obligations of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders and the terms of the Notes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Note, to the extent that any provision of this Note conflicts with the provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture will control.

1.    Interest. This Note will accrue interest at a rate and in the manner set forth in Section 2.05 of the Supplemental Indenture. Stated Interest on this Note will begin to accrue from, and including, [date].

2.    Maturity. This Note will mature on July 1, 2025, unless earlier repurchased, redeemed or converted.

3.    Guarantee. The Company’s obligations under the Notes, and under the Indenture with respect to the Notes, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as provided in Article 9 of the Supplemental Indenture.

4.    Method of Payment. Cash amounts due on this Note will be paid in the manner set forth in Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture.

5.    Persons Deemed Owners. The Holder of this Note will be treated as the owner of this Note for all purposes.

6.    Denominations; Transfers and Exchanges. All Notes will be in registered form, without coupons, in principal amounts equal to any Authorized Denominations. Subject to the terms of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note may transfer or exchange this Note by presenting it to the Registrar and delivering any required documentation or other materials.

7.    Right of Holders to Require the Company to Repurchase Notes upon a Fundamental Change. If a Fundamental Change occurs, then each Holder will have the right to require the Company to repurchase such Holder’s Notes (or any portion thereof in an Authorized Denomination) for cash in the manner, and subject to the terms, set forth in Section 4.02 of the Supplemental Indenture.

 

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8.    Right of the Company to Redeem the Notes. The Company will have the right to redeem the Notes for cash in the manner, and subject to the terms, set forth in Section 4.03 of the Supplemental Indenture.

9.    Conversion. The Holder of this Note may convert this Note into Conversion Consideration in the manner, and subject to the terms, set forth in Article 5 of the Supplemental Indenture.

10.    When the Company May Merge, Etc. Article 6 of the Supplemental Indenture places limited restrictions on the Company’s ability to be a party to a Business Combination Event.

11.    Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs, then the principal amount of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, all of the Notes then outstanding may (and, in certain circumstances, will automatically) become due and payable in the manner, and subject to the terms, set forth in Article 7 of the Supplemental Indenture.

12.    Amendments, Supplements and Waivers. The Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes or waive compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes in the manner, and subject to the terms, set forth in Article 8 of the Supplemental Indenture.

13.    No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders. No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Company or the Guarantor, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the Guarantor under the Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantee or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting any Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

14.    Authentication. No Note will be valid until it is authenticated by the Trustee. A Note will be deemed to be duly authenticated only when an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or a duly appointed authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication of such Note.

15.    Abbreviations. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or its assignee, such as TEN COM (tenants in common), TEN ENT (tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (custodian), and U/G/M/A (Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

16.    Governing Law. THIS NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS NOTE, WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

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* * *

To request a copy of the Indenture, which the Company will provide to any Holder at no charge, please send a written request to the following address:

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, Texas 76155

Attention: Treasurer

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE*

INITIAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE: $[        ]

The following exchanges, transfers or cancellations of this Global Note have been made:

 

Date    Amount of Increase
(Decrease) in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note
     Principal Amount of
this Global Note
After Such Increase
(Decrease)
     Signature of
Authorized
Signatory of Trustee
 
                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
        

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* 

Insert for Global Notes only.

 

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CONVERSION NOTICE

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Subject to the terms of the Indenture, by executing and delivering this Conversion Notice, the undersigned Holder of the Note identified below directs the Company to convert (check one):

☐  the entire principal amount of

☐  $            * aggregate principal amount of

the Note identified by CUSIP No.                      and Certificate No.                     .

The undersigned acknowledges that if the Conversion Date of a Note to be converted is after a Regular Record Date and before the next Interest Payment Date, then such Note, when surrendered for conversion, must, in certain circumstances, be accompanied with an amount of cash equal to the interest that would have accrued on such Note to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date.

 

Date:                                                                              

 

      (Legal Name of Holder)
    By:  

                                         

      Name:
      Title:
    Signature Guaranteed:
   

 

    Participant in a Recognized Signature
    Guarantee Medallion Program
    By:  

 

      Authorized Signatory

 

 

* 

Must be an Authorized Denomination.

 

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FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Subject to the terms of the Indenture, by executing and delivering this Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, the undersigned Holder of the Note identified below is exercising its Fundamental Change Repurchase Right with respect to (check one):

☐  the entire principal amount of

☐  $             * aggregate principal amount of

the Note identified by CUSIP No.                      and Certificate No.                     .

The undersigned acknowledges that this Note, duly endorsed for transfer, must be delivered to the Paying Agent before the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price will be paid.

 

Date:                                                                              

 

      (Legal Name of Holder)
    By:  

 

      Name:
      Title:
    Signature Guaranteed:
   

 

    Participant in a Recognized Signature
    Guarantee Medallion Program
    By:  

 

     

Authorized Signatory

 

 

* 

Must be an Authorized Denomination.

 

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FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Subject to the terms of the Indenture, by executing and delivering this Optional Repurchase Notice, the undersigned Holder of the Note identified below is exercising its Optional Repurchase Right with respect to (check one):

☐  the entire principal amount of

☐  $            * aggregate principal amount of

the Note identified by CUSIP No.                      and Certificate No.                     .

The undersigned acknowledges that this Note, duly endorsed for transfer, must be delivered to the Paying Agent before the Optional Repurchase Price will be paid.

 

Date:                                                                              

 

      (Legal Name of Holder)
    By:  

 

      Name:
      Title:
    Signature Guaranteed:
   

 

    Participant in a Recognized Signature
    Guarantee Medallion Program
    By:  

                                         

     

Authorized Signatory

 

 

* 

Must be an Authorized Denomination.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC.

6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Subject to the terms of the Indenture, the undersigned Holder of the within Note assigns to:

 

Name:  

 

 
Address:  

 

 
Social security or tax identification number:  

 

 

the within Note and all rights thereunder irrevocably appoints:

as agent to transfer the within Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him/her.

 

Date:                                                                              

 

      (Legal Name of Holder)
    By:  

                                         

      Name:
      Title:
    Signature Guaranteed:
   

 

    Participant in a Recognized Signature
    Guarantee Medallion Program
    By:  

 

     

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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EXHIBIT B-1

FORM OF GLOBAL NOTE LEGEND

THIS IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, WHICH MAY BE TREATED BY THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND ANY AGENT THEREOF AS THE OWNER AND HOLDER OF THIS NOTE FOR ALL PURPOSES.

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

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE WILL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC, OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE, AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE WILL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN ARTICLE 2 OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

   53rd at Third
   885 Third Avenue
   New York, New York 10022-4834
   Tel: +1.212.906.1200 Fax: +1.212.751.4864
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   Houston    Silicon Valley
   London    Singapore
   Los Angeles    Tokyo
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American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, Texas 76155

 

  Re:

Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-236503); 85,215,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the offering of up to 85,215,000 shares (including up to 11,115,000 shares issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”). The offering of the Shares was made under a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 19, 2020 (Registration No. 333-236503) (the “Registration Statement”), a base prospectus dated February 19, 2020 included in the Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective (the “Base Prospectus”), a preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 21, 2020 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (together with the Base Prospectus, the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) and a prospectus supplement dated June 22, 2020 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”). The Shares are being sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement dated June 22, 2020 by and among the Company and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed on Schedule I thereto, and the Company (the “Underwriting Agreement”).

This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issue of the Shares.


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As such counsel, we have examined such matters of fact and questions of law as we have considered appropriate for purposes of this letter. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company and others as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We are opining herein as to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws.

Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the purchasers, and have been issued by the Company against payment therefor in the circumstances and pursuant to the terms contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, the issue and sale of the Shares will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that the Company will comply with all applicable notice requirements regarding uncertificated shares provided in the DGCL.

This opinion is for your benefit in connection with the Registration Statement and may be relied upon by you and by persons entitled to rely upon it pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Act. We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 25, 2020 and to the reference to our firm contained in the Prospectus under the heading “Legal Matters.” In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Latham & Watkins LLP

Exhibit 5.2

 

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   885 Third Avenue
   New York, New York 10022-4834
   Tel: +1.212.906.1200 Fax: +1.212.751.4864
   www.lw.com   
  

 

FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES

   Beijing    Moscow
   Boston    Munich
   Brussels    New York
   Century City    Orange County
June 25, 2020    Chicago    Paris
   Dubai    Riyadh
   Düsseldorf    San Diego
   Frankfurt    San Francisco
   Hamburg    Seoul
   Hong Kong    Shanghai
   Houston    Silicon Valley
   London    Singapore
   Los Angeles    Tokyo
   Madrid    Washington, D.C.
   Milan   

American Airlines Group Inc.

1 Skyview Drive

Fort Worth, Texas 76155

 

  Re:

Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-236503); $1,150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to American Airlines Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the offering of up to $1,150.0 million aggregate principal amount (including up to $150.0 million aggregate principal amount issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional notes) of 6.50% convertible senior notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) and the guarantee of the Notes (the “Guarantee”) by American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), pursuant to an indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), and a supplemental indenture to the Base Indenture, dated as of June 25, 2020, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee (together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), setting forth the terms of the Notes. The offering of the Notes was made under a registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 19, 2020 (Registration No. 333-236503) (the “Registration Statement”), a base prospectus dated February 19, 2020 included in the Registration Statement at the time it originally became effective (the “Base Prospectus”), a preliminary prospectus supplement dated June 21, 2020 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (together with the Base Prospectus, the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) and a prospectus supplement dated June 22, 2020 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”). The Notes are being sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated June 22, 2020, among the Company, the Guarantor and the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriting Agreement”). The Notes are convertible, in accordance with their terms and the terms of the Indenture, into cash, shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”), or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at the option of the Company.


June 25, 2020

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This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issue of the Notes, the Guarantee and the Common Stock.

As such counsel, we have examined such matters of fact and questions of law as we have considered appropriate for purposes of this letter. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company and the Guarantor and others as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We are opining herein as to the internal laws of the State of New York, and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), and we express no opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the effect thereon, of the laws of any other jurisdiction or, in the case of Delaware, any other laws, or as to any matters of municipal law or the laws of any local agencies within any state.

Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof:

(1)    When the Notes have been duly executed, issued, and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered against payment therefor in the circumstances contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes and the Guarantee will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, and will be legally valid and binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with their respective terms.

(2)      The shares of Common Stock of the Company initially issuable upon conversion of the Notes (the “Conversion Shares”) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company and, when issued upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that the Company will comply with all applicable notice requirements regarding uncertificated shares provided in the DGCL.

Our opinions are subject to: (i) the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, preference, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors; (ii) the effect of general principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law (including the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief), concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, and the discretion of the court before which a proceeding is brought; (iii) the invalidity under certain circumstances under law or court decisions of provisions providing for the indemnification of or contribution to a party with respect to a liability where such indemnification or contribution is contrary to public policy; and (iv) we express no opinion as to (a) any provision for liquidated damages, default interest, late charges, monetary penalties, make-whole premiums or other economic remedies to the extent such provisions are deemed to constitute a penalty, (b) consents to, or restrictions upon, governing law, jurisdiction, venue, arbitration, remedies, or judicial relief, (c) the waiver of rights or defenses contained in Section 4.4 of the Base Indenture; (d) any


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provision requiring the payment of attorneys’ fees, where such payment is contrary to law or public policy; (e) any provision permitting, upon acceleration of the Notes, collection of that portion of the stated principal amount thereof which might be determined to constitute unearned interest thereon; (f) provisions purporting to make a guarantor primarily liable rather than as a surety; (g) provisions purporting to waive modifications of any guaranteed obligation to the extent such modification constitutes a novation (h) advance waivers of claims, defenses, rights granted by law, or notice, opportunity for hearing, evidentiary requirements, statutes of limitation, trial by jury or at law or other procedural rights; (i) waivers of broadly or vaguely stated rights; (j) disclaimers or limitations of duty; (k) provisions for exclusivity, election or cumulation of rights or remedies; (l) provisions authorizing or validating conclusive or discretionary determinations; (m) grants of setoff rights; (n) proxies, powers and trusts; (o) provisions prohibiting, restricting or requiring consent to assignment or transfer of any right or property; and (p) the severability, if invalid, of provisions to the foregoing effect.

With your consent, we have assumed (a) that the Indenture, the Guarantee and the Notes (collectively, the “Documents”) have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto other than the Company and the Guarantor, (b) that the Documents constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto other than the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against each of them in accordance with their respective terms, and (c) that the status of the Documents as legally valid and binding obligations of the parties is not affected by any (i) breaches of, or defaults under, agreements or instruments, (ii) violations of statutes, rules, regulations or court or governmental orders, or (iii) failures to obtain required consents, approvals or authorizations from, or make required registrations, declarations or filings with, governmental authorities.

This opinion is for your benefit in connection with the Registration Statement may be relied upon by you and by persons entitled to rely upon it pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Act. We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 25, 2020 and to the reference to our firm contained in the Prospectus under the heading “Legal Matters.” In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Latham & Watkins LLP