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): February 23, 2022
Twitter, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 001-36164 | 20-8913779 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, California 94103
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(415) 222-9670
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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☐ | 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 |
Name of each exchange on which registered | ||
Common Stock, par value $0.000005 per share | TWTR | New York Stock Exchange |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2). 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. |
Purchase Agreement
On February 23, 2022, Twitter, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representative of the several initial purchasers listed in Schedule I thereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), relating to the sale by the Company of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”), in private placement to “qualified institutional buyers” pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act (the “Offering”). The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, investments, repayment of debt, repurchases of the Company’s common stock, working capital and potential acquisitions and strategic transactions. The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company together with customary closing conditions. Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to indemnify the Initial Purchasers against certain liabilities, including under the Securities Act.
The description of the Purchase Agreement contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Indenture
On February 25, 2022, the Company entered into an indenture, relating to the issuance of the Notes (the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
The Notes mature on March 1, 2030, and bear interest at a rate of 5.000% per annum. Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year, commencing on September 1, 2022.
The Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at any time prior to December 1, 2029, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus a “make-whole” premium and accrued and unpaid interest, if any. On and after December 1, 2029, the Company may redeem the Notes at 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
If the Company experiences a change of control triggering event (as defined in the Indenture), the Company must offer to repurchase the Notes at a repurchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the applicable repurchase date.
The Indenture contains covenants that, among other things, restrict the ability of the Company and its domestic restricted subsidiaries to:
• | create certain liens and enter into sale and lease-back transactions; and |
• | consolidate with or merge with or into or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all the properties and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. |
These covenants are subject to a number of other limitations and exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
The Indenture provides for customary events of default, including, but not limited to, failure to pay principal and interest, failure to comply with covenants, agreements or conditions, and certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency involving the Company and its significant subsidiaries. In the case of an event of default arising from specified events of bankruptcy or insolvency involving the Company or any future guarantor of the Notes that is a significant subsidiary, all outstanding Notes under the Indenture will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any other event of default under the Indenture occurs or is continuing, the Trustee or holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes under the Indenture may declare the principal of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes to be due and payable immediately.
The description of the Notes and the Indenture contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of (i) the Indenture which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference and (ii) the Form of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030, which is filed as Exhibit 4.2 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03. | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant |
The information set forth in Item 1.01 with respect to the Indenture and the Notes above is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
On February 23, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing that it proposes to offer $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1.
On February 23, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of its offering of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.2.
Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
TWITTER, INC. | ||||||
February 25, 2022 | By: | /s/ Ned Segal | ||||
Ned Segal | ||||||
Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit 4.1
INDENTURE
Dated as of February 25, 2022
Between
TWITTER, INC.
and
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
5.000% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2030
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE |
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Section 1.01 | Definitions | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02 | Other Definitions | 14 | ||||
Section 1.03 | Rules of Construction | 15 | ||||
Section 1.04 | Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act | 16 | ||||
Section 1.05 | Acts of Holders | 17 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES |
19 | |||||
Section 2.01 | Form and Dating; Terms | 19 | ||||
Section 2.02 | Execution and Authentication | 19 | ||||
Section 2.03 | Registrar and Paying Agent | 20 | ||||
Section 2.04 | Money Held by the Paying Agent | 20 | ||||
Section 2.05 | Holder Lists | 21 | ||||
Section 2.06 | Transfer and Exchange | 21 | ||||
Section 2.07 | Replacement Notes | 22 | ||||
Section 2.08 | Outstanding Notes | 22 | ||||
Section 2.09 | Treasury Notes | 22 | ||||
Section 2.10 | Temporary Notes | 23 | ||||
Section 2.11 | Cancellation | 23 | ||||
Section 2.12 | Defaulted Interest | 23 | ||||
Section 2.13 | CUSIP and ISIN Numbers | 24 | ||||
ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION |
24 | |||||
Section 3.01 | Notices to Trustee | 24 | ||||
Section 3.02 | Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased | 24 | ||||
Section 3.03 | Notice of Redemption | 25 | ||||
Section 3.04 | Effect of Notice of Redemption | 25 | ||||
Section 3.05 | Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price | 26 | ||||
Section 3.06 | Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part | 26 | ||||
Section 3.07 | Optional Redemption | 26 | ||||
Section 3.08 | Sinking Fund | 27 | ||||
ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS |
27 | |||||
Section 4.01 | Payment of Notes; Additional Amounts | 27 | ||||
Section 4.02 | Maintenance of Office or Agency | 28 | ||||
Section 4.03 | Provision of Financial Information | 28 | ||||
Section 4.04 | Compliance Certificate | 29 | ||||
Section 4.05 | [Reserved] | 29 | ||||
Section 4.06 | Stay, Extension and Usury Laws | 29 | ||||
Section 4.07 | Limitation on Sale and Lease-back Transactions | 29 | ||||
Section 4.08 | Limitation on Liens | 30 | ||||
Section 4.09 | Corporate Existence | 31 | ||||
Section 4.10 | Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event | 32 | ||||
Section 4.11 | Additional Note Guarantors | 34 |
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Section 4.12 | [Reserved] | 35 | ||||
Section 4.13 | Further Instruments and Acts | 35 | ||||
Section 4.14 | Additional Interest Notice | 35 | ||||
Section 4.15 | Financial Calculations for Limited Condition Acquisitions | 35 | ||||
ARTICLE 5 SUCCESSORS |
36 | |||||
Section 5.01 | Consolidation, Merger and Conveyance, Transfer and Lease of Assets | 36 | ||||
Section 5.02 | Successor Entity Substituted | 38 | ||||
ARTICLE 6 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES |
38 | |||||
Section 6.01 | Events of Default | 38 | ||||
Section 6.02 | Acceleration | 39 | ||||
Section 6.03 | Other Remedies | 40 | ||||
Section 6.04 | Waiver of Past Defaults | 41 | ||||
Section 6.05 | Control by Majority | 41 | ||||
Section 6.06 | Limitation on Suits | 42 | ||||
Section 6.07 | Rights of Holders to Receive Payment | 42 | ||||
Section 6.08 | Collection Suit by Trustee | 42 | ||||
Section 6.09 | Restoration of Rights and Remedies | 42 | ||||
Section 6.10 | Rights and Remedies Cumulative | 42 | ||||
Section 6.11 | Delay or Omission Not Waiver | 42 | ||||
Section 6.12 | Trustee May File Proofs of Claim | 42 | ||||
Section 6.13 | Priorities | 43 | ||||
Section 6.14 | Undertaking for Costs | 43 | ||||
ARTICLE 7 TRUSTEE |
44 | |||||
Section 7.01 | Duties of Trustee | 44 | ||||
Section 7.02 | Rights of Trustee | 45 | ||||
Section 7.03 | Individual Rights of Trustee | 46 | ||||
Section 7.04 | Trustees Disclaimer | 46 | ||||
Section 7.05 | Notice of Defaults | 46 | ||||
Section 7.06 | [Reserved] | 47 | ||||
Section 7.07 | Compensation and Indemnity | 47 | ||||
Section 7.08 | Replacement of Trustee | 47 | ||||
Section 7.09 | Successor Trustee by Merger, etc. | 48 | ||||
Section 7.10 | Eligibility; Disqualification | 48 | ||||
Section 7.11 | Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company | 49 | ||||
ARTICLE 8 DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE |
49 | |||||
Section 8.01 | Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture | 49 | ||||
Section 8.02 | Legal Defeasance | 50 | ||||
Section 8.03 | Covenant Defeasance | 51 | ||||
Section 8.04 | Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Notes | 51 | ||||
Section 8.05 | Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent | 51 | ||||
Section 8.06 | Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years | 52 | ||||
Section 8.07 | Reinstatement | 51 |
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ARTICLE 9 AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER |
52 | |||||
Section 9.01 | Without Consent of Holders | 52 | ||||
Section 9.02 | With Consent of Holders | 53 | ||||
Section 9.03 | Compliance with Trust Indenture Act | 54 | ||||
Section 9.04 | Revocation and Effect of Consents | 54 | ||||
Section 9.05 | Notation on or Exchange of Notes | 54 | ||||
Section 9.06 | Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc. | 54 | ||||
ARTICLE 10 GUARANTEES |
55 | |||||
Section 10.01 | Note Guarantee | 55 | ||||
Section 10.02 | Limitation on Guarantor Liability | 56 | ||||
Section 10.03 | Execution and Delivery | 56 | ||||
Section 10.04 | Subrogation | 57 | ||||
Section 10.05 | Benefits Acknowledged | 57 | ||||
Section 10.06 | Release of Note Guarantees | 57 | ||||
ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS |
58 | |||||
Section 11.01 | Trust Indenture Act Controls | 58 | ||||
Section 11.02 | Notices | 58 | ||||
Section 11.03 | Communication by Holders with Other Holders | 59 | ||||
Section 11.04 | Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent | 59 | ||||
Section 11.05 | Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion | 60 | ||||
Section 11.06 | Rules by Trustee and Agents | 60 | ||||
Section 11.07 | No Personal Liability of Stockholders, Partners, Officers or Directors | 60 | ||||
Section 11.08 | Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction | 60 | ||||
Section 11.09 | Waiver of Jury Trial | 61 | ||||
Section 11.10 | Force Majeure | 61 | ||||
Section 11.11 | No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements | 61 | ||||
Section 11.12 | Successors | 61 | ||||
Section 11.13 | Severability | 61 | ||||
Section 11.14 | Counterpart Originals | 62 | ||||
Section 11.15 | Table of Contents, Headings, etc. | 62 | ||||
Section 11.16 | U.S.A. PATRIOT Act | 62 |
Appendix A | Provisions Relating to Initial Notes and Additional Notes | |
Exhibit A | Form of Note | |
Exhibit B | Form of Supplemental Indenture to Be Delivered by Subsequent Guarantors |
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INDENTURE, dated as of February 25, 2022 between Twitter, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee.
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of and issue of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 (the Initial Notes);
WHEREAS, the Company has received good and valuable consideration for the execution and delivery of this Indenture and the Notes; and
WHEREAS, all necessary acts and things have been done to make: (1) the Notes, when duly issued and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company and (2) this Indenture a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.01 Definitions.
Additional Interest means all additional interest owing on the Notes pursuant and subject to Section 6.02(d).
Additional Notes means additional Notes (other than Initial Notes) issued from time to time under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.01.
Affiliate of any Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such Person. For the purposes of this definition, control when used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms controlling and controlled have meanings that correspond to the foregoing.
Agents means any Custodian, Registrar or Paying Agent.
Aggregate Debt means the sum of the following as of the date of determination: (1) the lesser of (A) the then outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries incurred after the Issue Date and secured by Liens not permitted under Section 4.08(a) and (B) the fair market value of the assets subject to the Liens referred to in clause (A), as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors; and (2) the then existing Attributable Liens of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of sale and lease-back transactions entered into after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 4.07(b); provided, that any such Attributable Liens will be excluded from this clause (2) to the extent that such Indebtedness relating thereto is included in clause (1) of this definition. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event will the amount of Indebtedness (including Guarantees of such Indebtedness) be required to be included in the calculation of Aggregate Debt more than once despite the fact that more than one Person is liable with respect to such Indebtedness and despite the fact that such Indebtedness is secured by the assets of more than one Person.
Applicable Premium means, with respect to any Note on any applicable redemption date, the greater of:
(1) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note; and
(2) the excess, if any, of:
(a) the present value at such redemption date of all scheduled interest and principal payments due on the Note (excluding accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over
(b) the principal amount of such Note.
Attributable Liens means in connection with a sale and lease-back transaction the lesser of: (1) the fair market value of the assets subject to such transaction, as determined in good faith by the Companys Board of Directors; and (2) the present value (discounted at a rate of 10% per annum compounded monthly) of the obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the shorter of the term of the related lease or the period through the first date on which the Company or the applicable Subsidiary may terminate the lease.
Bankruptcy Code means the United States Bankruptcy Code, codified as Title 11, U.S. Code § 101 1330, as amended.
Board of Directors means the Board of Directors of the Company or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such Board.
Business Day means each day that is not a Legal Holiday.
Capital Stock means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares of stock of a corporation, partnership interests or other equivalent interests (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in such Persons equity, entitling the holder to receive a share of the profits and losses, and a distribution of assets, after liabilities, of such Person.
Change of Control means:
(1) the Company becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) that any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company, its Subsidiaries or any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, is or has become the beneficial owner (as such term is used in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Company; provided, however, that for purposes of this clause (1) such person or group shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all shares that any such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time, directly or indirectly; provided, further, that no person or group shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of any securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person or group until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange under such offer; and provided, further, that a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control under this clause
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(1) if (a) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company, and (b)(i) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Companys Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (ii) immediately following that transaction no person or group (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company; or
(2) the Company sells, conveys, transfers or leases (either in one transaction or a series of related transactions) all or substantially all assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to, or merges or consolidates with, a Person (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), other than any such merger or consolidation where the shares of the Companys Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person or parent entity thereof immediately after giving effect to such transaction.
Change of Control Triggering Event means the occurrence of (1) a Change of Control that is accompanied or followed by a downgrade of the Notes within the Ratings Decline Period for such Change of Control by each of Moodys and S&P (or, in the event Moodys or S&P or both shall cease rating the Notes (for reasons outside the control of the Company) and the Company shall select any other nationally recognized rating agency, the equivalent of such ratings by such other nationally recognized rating agency) and (2) the rating of the Notes on any day during such Ratings Decline Period is below the lower of the rating by such nationally recognized rating agency in effect (a) immediately preceding the first public announcement of the Change of Control (or occurrence thereof if such Change of Control occurs prior to public announcement) and (b) on the Issue Date.
Company means Twitter, Inc. and any successor thereto in accordance with Article 5.
Comparable Treasury Issue means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the period from the redemption date to the scheduled final maturity of the Notes that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the period from the redemption date to the scheduled final maturity of the Notes.
Comparable Treasury Price means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the arithmetic average, as determined by the Company, of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations; or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the arithmetic average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.
Consolidated EBITDA means, with respect to any Person for any Measurement Period, the sum of, without duplication, the amounts for such period, taken as a single accounting period, of: (1) Consolidated Net Income; (2) Consolidated Non-cash Charges; (3) Consolidated Interest Expense; (4) Consolidated Income Tax Expense; (5) restructuring expenses and charges; (6) any expenses or charges related to any equity offering, Investment, recapitalization or incurrence of Indebtedness not prohibited under this Indenture (whether or not successful), including any Swap Contract relating thereto or entered into in connection therewith, or related to the issuance of the Notes; (7) costs or accruals or reserves incurred in connection with acquisitions after the Issue Date; (8) any costs or expenses incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement, any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the
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Company or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Equity Interests); and (9) the amount of reasonably identifiable and factually supportable run-rate cost savings, operating expense reductions, and synergies that are projected by the Company in good faith to result from actions either taken or expected to be taken within 24 months of the determination to take such action, net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such period from such actions (which cost savings, operating expense reductions, and synergies shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, or synergies had been realized on the first day of such period).
Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the applicable Measurement Period to any asset sales or other dispositions or acquisitions, investments, mergers, consolidations and discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP) by such Person and its Subsidiaries (1) that have occurred during such Measurement Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of such Measurement Period and on or prior to the date of the transaction in respect of which Consolidated EBITDA is being determined and (2) that the Company determines in good faith are outside the ordinary course of business, in each case as if such asset sale or other disposition or acquisition, investment, merger, consolidation or disposed operation occurred on the first day of such Measurement Period; provided, further, that the Company shall not be required to give pro forma effect to any transaction that it does not in good faith deem material. Such pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company.
Consolidated Income Tax Expense means, with respect to any Person for any period, the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP paid or accrued during such period, including any penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from any tax examinations, to the extent the same were deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income.
Consolidated Interest Expense means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the total net interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP to the extent deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income, of such Person and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation: (1) any amortization of deferred financings costs, debt discount, commissions, fees and expenses and any other amounts of non-cash interest; (2) the net cost under any Swap Contract in respect of interest rate protection (including any amortization of discounts) and any one-time cash costs associated with breakage in respect of Swap Contracts in respect of interest rate protection; (3) the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation; (4) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, bankers acceptances, financing activities or similar activities; (5) all accrued interest; (6) the interest component of Finance Lease obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person and its Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; (7) all capitalized interest of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period; (8) the amount of any interest expense attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary; (9) any additional interest owing pursuant to a registration rights agreement or indenture with respect to any securities and any payments with respect to make-whole premiums or other breakage costs of any Indebtedness; and (10) any penalties and interest relating to taxes.
Consolidated Net Income means, with respect to any Person, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period as determined in accordance with GAAP, adjusted, to the extent included in calculating such net income, by excluding, without duplication: (1) all extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses (net of fees and expense relating to the transaction giving rise thereto), income, expenses, charges, severance, relocation costs, integration and facilities or bases opening costs and other business optimization expenses
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(including related to new product introductions and other strategic or cost savings initiatives), accruals or reserves (including restructuring and integration costs related to acquisitions and adjustments to existing reserves), signing costs, retention or completion bonuses, other executive recruiting and retention costs, transition costs, costs related to closure/consolidation of facilities or bases and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans; (2) the portion of net income of such Person and its Subsidiaries allocable to minority interest in unconsolidated Persons (provided, however, that net income of any such unconsolidated Person or Subsidiary shall be included to the extent that cash dividends or distributions have actually been received by such Person); (3) gains or losses in respect of any asset sales outside of the ordinary course of business by such Person or one of its Subsidiaries (net of fees and expenses relating to the transaction giving rise thereto), on an after-tax basis; (4) the net income (loss) from any disposed or discontinued operations or any net gains or losses on disposed or discontinued operations, on an after-tax basis; (5) any gain or loss realized as a result of the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles; (6) any net after-tax gains or losses attributable to the early extinguishment or conversion of indebtedness, derivative instruments or other long-term liabilities; (7) non-cash gains, losses, income and expenses resulting from the application of fair value accounting to certain derivative instruments as required by Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 or any related subsequent Accounting Standards Codification Topics; (8) gains or losses resulting from currency fluctuations; (9) any costs or expenses incurred during such period relating to litigation or other disputes; and (10) the effects of adjustments in any line item in such Persons consolidated financial statements required or permitted by Financial Accounting Standards Codification Topic 805 Business Combinations and Topic 350 Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (ASC 805 and ASC 350) (formerly Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement Nos. 141 and 142, respectively) resulting from the application of purchase accounting, including in relation to any acquisition that is consummated after the Issue Date or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof, net of taxes.
In addition, to the extent not already included in Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall include the amount of proceeds received from business interruption insurance and reimbursements of any expenses or charges that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any Investment or sale, conveyance, transfer or disposition of assets not prohibited under this Indenture.
Consolidated Non-cash Charges means, with respect to any Person for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization (including amortization of goodwill, other intangibles, deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses), impairment charges or asset write-off or write-downs, non-cash compensation expense incurred in connection with the issuance of Equity Interests to any director, officer, employee or consultant of such Person or any Subsidiary, and other non-cash expenses of such Person and its Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (excluding any such charges constituting an extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring item or loss and excluding any such charges constituting an extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring item or loss or any charge which requires an accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any future period).
Consolidated Subsidiaries means, as of any date of determination and with respect to any Person, those Subsidiaries of that Person whose financial data is, in accordance with GAAP, reflected in that Persons consolidated financial statements.
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee shall mean the address of the Trustee specified in Section 11.02 or such other address as to which the Trustee may give notice to the Holders and the Company.
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Credit Agreement means that certain revolving credit agreement, dated as of August 7, 2018, by and among the Company, the lenders party thereto, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, as amended from time to time.
Custodian means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any successor entity thereto.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
Definitive Note means a certificated Initial Note or Additional Note (bearing the Restricted Note Legend if the transfer of such Note is restricted by applicable law) that does not include the Global Notes Legend.
Depositary means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.03(b) as the Depositary with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as Depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Indenture.
Disqualified Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, Equity Interests of such Person that by their terms (or by terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event, the passage of time or otherwise are:
(1) required to be redeemed or redeemable at the option of the holder in whole or in part prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes for consideration other than Qualified Equity Interests; or
(2) convertible at the option of the holder thereof into Disqualified Equity Interests or exchangeable for Indebtedness;
provided, in each case, that (x) only the portion of such Equity Interests which is required to be redeemed, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof before such date will be deemed to be Disqualified Equity Interests, (y) Equity Interests will not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because of provisions giving holders thereof the right to require repurchase or redemption upon a change of control or asset sale occurring prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes, and (z) Equity Interests issued to any plan for the benefit of employees of such Person or its subsidiaries or by any plan to such employees will not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because it may be required to be repurchased by such Person or its subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
Dividing Person has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of Division.
Division means, with respect to a Person that is a limited liability company, the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of such Person (the Dividing Person) among two or more limited liability companies (whether pursuant to a plan of division or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.
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Division Successor means any Person that, upon the consummation of a Division of a Dividing Person, holds all or substantially all of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations previously held by such Dividing Person immediately prior to the consummation of such Division. A Dividing Person which retains all or substantially all of its assets, liabilities and/or obligations after a Division shall be deemed a Division Successor upon the occurrence of such Division.
Domestic Restricted Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that is organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, other than any such Subsidiary that is owned (directly or indirectly) by a Foreign Subsidiary of such Person.
Equity Interests means all Capital Stock and all warrants or options with respect to, or other rights to purchase, Capital Stock, but excluding Indebtedness convertible into or exchangeable for equity.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Finance Lease means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property, whether real, personal or mixed, of such Person as lessee is required to be classified and accounted for as a finance lease in accordance with GAAP.
Foreign Subsidiary means with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than one that is organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the 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 of the United States, which are in effect as of the date of determination; provided that, except as otherwise specifically provided, all calculations made for purposes of determining compliance with the terms of the provisions of this Indenture shall utilize GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date.
Governmental Obligations means securities that are:
(1) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged; or
(2) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the timely payment of which is unconditionally Guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America,
which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.
Guarantee means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person; provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term Guarantee used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guarantor means any Subsidiary of the Company that executes a Note Guarantee in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
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Holder means a Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register.
Indebtedness of any specified Person means any obligation for borrowed money.
For the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness with respect to any Person only includes indebtedness for the repayment of money provided to such Person, and does not include any other kind of indebtedness or obligation notwithstanding that such other indebtedness or obligation may be evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or other similar instrument, may be in the nature of a financing transaction, or may be an obligation that under GAAP is classified as debt or another type of liability, whether required to be reflected on the balance sheet of such Person or otherwise.
Initial Purchasers means the several initial purchasers listed on Schedule I to the purchase agreement entered into in connection with the offer and sale of the Notes on the Issue Date dated February 23, 2022 between the company and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.
Interest means, with respect to the Notes, regular interest with respect thereto and Additional Interest, if any, unless the context otherwise requires.
Investment by any Person means any direct or indirect loan, advance (or other extension of credit) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property or assets to another Person or any other payments for property or services for the account or use of another Person) another Person, including, without limitation, the following: (1) the purchase or acquisition of any Capital Stock or other evidence of beneficial ownership in another Person; and (2) the purchase, acquisition or Guarantee of the Indebtedness or other liability of another Person.
Issue Date means February 25, 2022.
Joint Venture means, with respect to any Person, any partnership, corporation or other entity in which up to and including 50% of the Equity Interests is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries.
Legal Holiday means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banking institutions or the corporate trust office are not required to be open in the State of New York or a place of payment.
Lien means any lien, security interest, mortgage, charge or similar encumbrance; provided, however, that in no event shall an operating lease or a nonexclusive license be deemed to constitute a Lien.
Measurement Period means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of the Company for which financial statements have been filed with the SEC.
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Moodys Corporation and its successors.
Note Guarantee means any guarantee in respect of the Notes that may from time to time be entered into by a Subsidiary of the Company after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 4.11.
Notes means the Initial Notes and more particularly means any Note authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. For all purposes of this Indenture, the term Notes shall also include any Additional Notes that may be issued under a supplemental indenture and Notes to be issued or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture.
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Obligations means, with respect to any Indebtedness, all obligations (whether in existence on the Issue Date or arising afterwards, absolute or contingent, direct or indirect) for or in respect of principal (when due, upon acceleration, upon redemption, upon mandatory repayment or repurchase pursuant to a mandatory offer to purchase, or otherwise), premium, interest, penalties, fees, indemnification, reimbursement and other amounts payable and liabilities with respect to such Indebtedness, including all interest accrued or accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or similar case or proceeding at the contract rate (including, without limitation, any contract rate applicable upon default) specified in the relevant documentation, whether or not the claim for such interest is allowed as a claim in such case or proceeding.
Offering Memorandum means the preliminary offering memorandum, dated February 23, 2022, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet dated February 23, 2022, relating to the sale of the Initial Notes.
Officer means, with respect to the Company or any Guarantor, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Controller, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, (1) of such Person or (2) if such Person is owned or managed by a single entity, of such entity (or any other individual designated as an Officer for the purposes of this Indenture by the Board of Directors).
Officers Certificate means a certificate signed by one Officer of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable.
Opinion of Counsel means a written opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 11.05 hereof. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
Par Call Date means December 1, 2029 (three months prior to the maturity date of the Initial Notes).
Permitted Liens means:
(1) Liens on any assets, created solely to secure obligations incurred to finance the refurbishment, improvement or construction of such asset, which obligations are incurred no later than 12 months after completion of such refurbishment, improvement or construction, and all renewals, extensions, refinancings, replacements or refundings of such obligations;
(2) Liens securing (a) Indebtedness under Senior Credit Facilities, including any letter of credit relating thereto and (b) obligations of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries under Swap Contracts and in respect of treasury and cash management services provided by, or entered into with, the lenders under Senior Credit Facilities or their affiliates (so long as such Persons remain lenders or affiliates thereof after entry into such agreements or arrangements); provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness secured by such Liens pursuant to this clause (2) shall not exceed $2.0 billion;
(3) (a) Liens given to secure the payment of the purchase price or other acquisition, installation or construction costs incurred in connection with the acquisition (including acquisition
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through merger or consolidation) of any Principal Property, including Finance Lease transactions in connection with any such acquisition and including any purchase money Liens, and (b) Liens existing on any Principal Property at the time of acquisition (including acquisition through merger or consolidation) thereof or at the time of acquisition by the Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary of any Person then owning such property whether or not such existing Liens were given to secure the payment of the purchase price of the property to which they attach; provided that with respect to clause (a), the Liens shall be given within 12 months after such acquisition and shall attach solely to the Principal Property acquired or purchased and any improvements then or thereafter placed thereon and any proceeds thereof, accessions thereto and insurance proceeds thereof;
(4) Liens in favor of the Company or a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary;
(5) Liens on any Principal Property in favor of the United States of America or any State thereof or any political subdivision thereof to secure progress or other payments or to secure Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such Principal Property;
(6) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers, warehousemens and mechanics Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business, Liens in connection with legal proceedings and Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory, common law or contractual provision relating to bankers Liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to securities accounts, deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution;
(7) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet overdue for a period of more than 30 days or subject to penalties for non-payment or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(8) Liens to secure the performance of bids, trade or commercial contracts, government contracts, purchase, construction, sales and servicing contracts (including utility contracts), leases, statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business, deposits as security for contested taxes, import or customs duties, liabilities to insurance carriers or for the payment of rent, and Liens to secure letters of credit, Guarantees, bonds or other sureties given in connection with the foregoing obligations or in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of social security or similar laws and regulations;
(9) Licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property of the Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries and leases and subleases of property granted to others not in any way interfering in any material respect with the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(10) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods, documents of title and proceeds of any Person securing such Persons obligation in respect of letters of credit or bankers acceptances issued or created in the ordinary course of business for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment, or storage of such inventory or other goods;
(11) Liens on stock, partnership or other equity interests in any Joint Venture of the Company or any of its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries or in any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary that owns an equity interest in a Joint Venture to secure Indebtedness contributed or advanced solely to that Joint Venture; provided that, in each case, the Indebtedness secured by such Lien is not secured by a Lien on any other property of the Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary;
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(12) Liens and deposits securing netting services, business credit card programs, overdraft protection and other treasury, depository and cash management services or incurred in connection with any automated clearinghouse transfers of funds or other fund transfer or payment processing services;
(13) Liens on, and consisting of, deposits made by the Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary to discharge or defease the Notes and this Indenture or any other Indebtedness;
(14) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof incurred in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;
(15) easements, rights of way, covenants, restrictions, minor encroachments, protrusions, municipal and zoning and building ordinances and similar charges, encumbrances, title defects or other irregularities, governmental restrictions on the use of property or conduct of business, and other similar charges and encumbrances and Liens in favor of governmental authorities and public utilities, that do not materially interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(16) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods and Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements; or
(17) any extension, renewal, substitution or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), in whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in clauses (1) through (16) above, inclusive.
For the avoidance of doubt, the inclusion of specific Liens in this definition of Permitted Liens shall not create any implication that the obligations secured by such Liens constitute Indebtedness.
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 Property means, with respect to any Person, all of such Persons interests in any kind of property or asset (including the capital stock in and other securities of any other Person), except such as the Board of Directors by resolution determines in good faith (taking into account, among other things, the materiality of such property to the business, financial condition and earnings of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole) not to be material to the business of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Qualified Equity Interests means all Equity Interests of a Person other than Disqualified Equity Interests.
Ratings Decline Period means, with respect to any Change of Control, the period that (1) begins on the earlier of (a) the date of the first public announcement of the occurrence of such Change of Control or of the intention by the Company or a stockholder of the Company, as applicable, to effect such Change of Control or (b) the occurrence of such Change of Control and (2) ends on the 60th calendar day following consummation of such Change of Control; provided, however, that such period shall be extended for so long as the rating of the Notes, as noted by the applicable rating agency, is under publicly announced consideration for downgrade by the applicable rating agency.
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Record Date for the interest or Additional Interest, if any, payable on any applicable Interest Payment Date means February 15 or August 15 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Redemption Price, when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
Reference Treasury Dealer means three primary U.S. Government securities dealers selected by the Company, and each of their respective successors. If any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, the Company will substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer.
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, on any redemption date, the arithmetic average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by each Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding that redemption date.
Responsible Officer means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such persons knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
Restricted Notes Legend means the first legend set forth in Section 2.3(e)(i) of Appendix A to this Indenture.
S&P means S&P Global Ratings (a division of S&P Global, Inc.) or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
SEC means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such SEC is not existing, then the body performing such duties at such time.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Senior Credit Facilities means, with respect to the Company or any of its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities, including the Credit Agreement, or other financing arrangements (including, without limitation, commercial paper facilities or indentures) providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, letters of credit or other long-term indebtedness, including any notes, mortgages, guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements or refundings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount permitted to be borrowed thereunder or alters the maturity thereof or adds Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder and whether by the same or any other agent, lender or group of lenders.
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Senior Officer of any specified Person means the chief executive officer, any president, any vice president, the chief financial officer, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the secretary or any assistant secretary.
Significant Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is a significant subsidiary of the Company as defined under clauses (1) or (2) of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule).
Stated Maturity, means, with respect to any Notes or any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such Note as the fixed date on which the principal amount of such Note or such installment of interest is due and payable.
Subsidiary of a Person means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other similar entity a majority of whose Voting Stock is owned by such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated, the term Subsidiary refers to a Subsidiary of the Company.
Swap Contract means (1) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including, without limitation, any fuel price caps and fuel price collar or floor agreements and similar agreements or arrangements designed to protect against or manage fluctuations in fuel prices and any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (2) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a Master Agreement), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
Transfer Restricted Notes means Definitive Notes and any other Notes that bear or are required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend.
Treasury Rate means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day immediately preceding that redemption date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that redemption date.
Trust Indenture Act means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-777bbbb).
Trustee means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving hereunder.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York.
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Voting Stock of a Person means all classes of capital stock or other interests (including partnership interests) of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.
Section 1.02 Other Definitions.
Term |
Defined in Section | |
Additional Interest Notice | 4.14 | |
Agent Members | 2.1(c) of Appendix A | |
Applicable Procedures | 1.1(a) of Appendix A | |
Authentication Order | 2.02(c) | |
Book-Entry Interest | 2.1(c) of Appendix A | |
Clearstream | 1.1(a) of Appendix A | |
continuing Person | 5.01(a)(1) | |
Definitive Notes Legend | 2.3(e) of Appendix A | |
Distribution Compliance Period | 1.1(a) of Appendix A | |
DTC | 2.03(b) | |
Euroclear | 1.1(a) of Appendix A | |
Event of Default | 6.01 | |
Expiration Date | 1.05(j) | |
Global Note | 1.1(a) of Appendix A | |
Global Notes Legend | 2.3(e) of Appendix A | |
Interest Payment Date | Exhibit A | |
LCA Election | 4.15 | |
LCA Test Date | 4.15 | |
Limited Condition Acquisition | 4.15 | |
Note Register | 2.03(a) | |
offer | 4.10(a) |
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Term Defined in Section Section 1.03 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: (1) a term defined in Section 1.01 or 1.02 has the meaning assigned to it therein; (2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
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(4) words in the singular include the plural, and
words in the plural include the singular; (5) provisions apply to successive events and
transactions; (6) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an Appendix,
Article, Section, clause, Schedule or Exhibit refers to an Appendix, Article, Section, clause, Schedule or Exhibit, as the case may be, of this Indenture; (7) the words herein, hereof and other words of similar import refer to this
Indenture as a whole and not any particular Article, Section, clause or other subdivision; (8) including means including without limitation; (9) $ refers to U.S. dollars; (10) references to sections of, or rules under, the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust
Indenture Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time; (11) unless otherwise provided, references to agreements and other instruments shall be deemed to
include all amendments and other modifications to such agreements or instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture; and (12) in the event that a transaction meets the criteria of more than one category of permitted
transactions or listed exceptions, the Company may classify such transaction as it, in its sole discretion, determines. Section 1.04
Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture specifically refers to a provision of the Trust
Indenture Act and states that such provision is applicable to this Indenture, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following Trust Indenture Act terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings: indenture securities means the Notes; indenture security holder means a Holder of a Note; indenture to be qualified means this Indenture; indenture trustee or institutional trustee means the Trustee; and obligor on the Notes and the Note Guarantees means the Company and any Guarantor, respectively, and any successor obligor
upon the Notes and the Note Guarantees, respectively. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the Trust Indenture
Act, defined by Trust Indenture Act reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the Trust Indenture Act have the meanings so assigned to them. 16
Section 1.05 Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture
to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company and any Guarantor. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent, or the holding by any Person of a Note, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 7.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the Company and any Guarantor, if made in the manner
provided in this Section 1.05. (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved (1) by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof or (2) in any other manner deemed reasonably sufficient by the Trustee. Where such execution is by or on behalf of any legal entity other than an individual, such certificate or affidavit or
other manner shall also constitute proof of the authority of the Person executing the same. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other
manner that the Trustee deems sufficient. (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register. (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Note
shall bind every future Holder of the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by the Trustee, the Company
or any Guarantor in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note. (e) The
Company may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders entitled to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, or to vote
on any action authorized or permitted to be taken by Holders; provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration,
request or direction referred to in clause (f) below. Unless otherwise specified, if not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder made by any Person in respect of any such action, or in the case of any such vote, prior to
such vote, any such record date shall be the later of 20 days prior to the first solicitation of such consent or vote or the date of the most recent list of Holders furnished to the Trustee prior to such solicitation or vote. If any record date is
set pursuant to this clause (e), the Holders on such record date, and only such Holders, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless made, given or taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Notes, or each affected
Holder, as applicable, in each case on such record date. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action to be taken by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder in the manner set forth in Section 11.02. (f) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to join in the
giving or making of (1) any notice of Default, (2) any declaration of 17
acceleration referred to in Section 6.02, (3) any direction referred to in Section 6.05 or (4) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 6.06(a) and shall
incur no liability whatsoever for the setting of such record date. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or
direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless made, given or taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Notes or each affected Holder, as applicable, in each case on such record date. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Companys expense, shall cause notice of such record date,
the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company and to each Holder in the manner set forth in Section 11.02. (g) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Note
may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Note or by one or more duly appointed agents, each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount. Any notice given or
action taken by a Holder or its agents with regard to different parts of such principal amount pursuant to this paragraph shall have the same effect as if given or taken by separate Holders of each such different part. (h) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Holder, including a Depositary that is the Holder of a Global
Note, may make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a Depositary
that is the Holder of a Global Note may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such Global Note through such Depositarys standing instructions and customary practices. (i) The Company may fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons who are beneficial owners of
interests in any Global Note held by a Depositary entitled under the procedures of such Depositary, if any, to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders; provided that if such a record date is fixed, only the Holders on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies shall be entitled to make,
give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date. No such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action shall be effective hereunder unless made, given or taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date. (j) With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.05, the party hereto that sets such record
dates may designate any day as the Expiration Date and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date
is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 11.02, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set
pursuant to this Section 1.05, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 120th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the
Expiration Date as provided in this clause (j). 18
ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES Section 2.01 Form and Dating;
Terms. (a) Provisions relating to the Initial Notes and Additional Notes are set forth in Appendix A hereto,
which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Notes and the Trustees certificate of authentication shall each be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated in and
expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, rules or agreements with national securities exchanges to which the Company or any Guarantor is subject, if any, or usage
(provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company). Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof. (b) The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture is unlimited. The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this
Indenture and the Company, any Guarantor and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the
express provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Indenture shall govern and be controlling. The Notes shall be subject to
repurchase by the Company at the option of the Holders pursuant to an Offer to Purchase as provided in Section 4.10. The Notes shall not be redeemable, other than as provided in Article 3. Additional Notes may be created and issued from time to time by the Company without notice to or consent of the Holders and shall be
consolidated with and form a single class with the Initial Notes and shall have the same terms as to ranking, status, redemption or otherwise as the Initial Notes (other than issue price or the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of
such Additional Notes except for the first payment of interest following the issue date of such Additional Notes and as set forth in this sentence with respect to tax fungibility); provided that if any Additional Notes are not fungible with
the Notes for U.S. federal income tax, U.S. securities law or other purposes, then the Additional Notes will have one or more separate CUSIP numbers. Any Additional Notes shall be issued with the benefit of an indenture supplemental to this
Indenture. Section 2.02 Execution and Authentication. (a) At least one Officer shall execute the Notes on behalf of the Company by manual or facsimile signature. If an
Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note shall nevertheless be valid. (b) A Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose until
authenticated substantially in the form of Exhibit A by the manual signature of the Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been duly authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. 19
(c) On the Issue Date, the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a written
order of the Company signed by an Officer (an Authentication Order), authenticate and deliver the Initial Notes. In addition, at any time, from time to time, the Trustee shall upon receipt of an Authentication Order authenticate
or cause the authentication agent to authenticate and deliver any Additional Notes for an aggregate principal amount specified in such Authentication Order for such Additional Notes issued hereunder. (d) The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. An authenticating
agent may authenticate Notes 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 Holders or an
Affiliate of the Company. Section 2.03 Registrar and Paying Agent. (a) The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for
exchange (Registrar) and at least one office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment (Paying Agent). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes (Note Register) reflecting
ownership of book-entry and definitive registered Notes outstanding from time to time, if any, and will facilitate transfers and exchanges of book-entry and definitive registered Notes on behalf of the Company. The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term Registrar includes any co-registrar, and the term Paying Agent includes any additional
paying agent. The Company may rescind or change any Paying Agent or Registrar without prior notice to any Holder. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this Indenture. If the Company
fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be to entitled to compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.07. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent
or Registrar. (b) The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (DTC) to act as
Depositary with respect to the Global Notes. The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Paying Agent and Registrar for the Notes and to act as Custodian with respect to the Global Notes. (c) The Trustee shall have no liability for the actions or inactions of the Depositary. Section 2.04 Money Held by the Paying Agent. The Company shall, no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date for the payment of principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on any of the Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held in trust for the Holders entitled to the same, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act. The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent
for the payment of principal of and premium, if any, interest on the Notes, and shall notify the Trustee 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) shall have no further
liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all money held by it as Paying Agent. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings
relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes. 20
Section 2.05 Holder Lists. The Registrar shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and
addresses of all Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least five Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form
and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders. Section 2.06 Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Notes shall be issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the surrender of a Note for
registration of transfer and in compliance with Appendix A. (b) To permit registrations of transfers and
exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.02 or at the Registrars request. (c) No service charge shall be made to a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note or to a Holder of a
Definitive Note for any registration of transfer or exchange (other than pursuant to Section 2.07), but the Holders shall be required to pay any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such
transfer taxes or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.06, 4.10, and 9.05). (d) [Reserved]. (e) All Global Notes and Definitive Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Global Notes or
Definitive Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Global Notes or Definitive Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(f) Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required (1) to issue, to register the transfer of or to
exchange any Notes during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of sending of a notice of redemption of Notes for redemption under Section 3.02 or the making of an Offer to Purchase and ending at the close of
business on the day of such sending, (2) to register the transfer of or to exchange any Note so selected for redemption or subject to purchase in an Offer to Purchase in whole or in part, except the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of any Note
being redeemed or purchased in part or (3) if a redemption or purchase pursuant to an Offer to Purchase is to occur after a Record Date but on or before the corresponding Interest Payment Date, to register the transfer of or exchange any Note
on or after the Record Date and before the date of redemption or purchase. (g) Prior to due presentment for the
registration of a transfer of any Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on such Notes and for all other purposes, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the Company shall be affected by notice to the contrary. (h) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Company designated pursuant
to Section 4.02, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more replacement Notes of any authorized denomination or denominations of a like aggregate
principal amount. 21
(i) At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other
Notes of any authorized denomination or denominations of a like aggregate principal amount upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Global Notes or
Definitive Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate, the replacement Global Notes and Definitive Notes which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to in accordance with the provisions
of Section 2.02. (j) All certifications, certificates and Opinions of Counsel required to be submitted to
the Registrar pursuant to this Section 2.06 to effect a registration of transfer or exchange may be submitted by mail or by facsimile or electronic transmission. Section 2.07 Replacement Notes. If
a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if a Holder claims that its Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken and the Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the ownership and loss, destruction or theft of such Note, the
Company shall issue and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, shall authenticate a replacement Note if the Trustees requirements are met. An indemnity bond must be provided by the Holder that is sufficient in the judgment of
the Trustee, to protect the Trustee, and the Company to protect the Company, the Trustee, any Agent and any authenticating agent from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Company may charge the Holder for the expenses of
the Company and the Trustee in replacing a Note. Every replacement Note is a contractual obligation of the Company and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
Section 2.08 Outstanding Notes. (a) The Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it,
those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest in a Global Note effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. Except as set forth in
Section 2.09, a Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Note. (b) If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof
satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser, as such term is defined in Section 8-303 of the UCC in effect in the State of New York. (c) If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01, from and after such date it ceases
to be outstanding and interest on it ceases to accrue. (d) If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a
Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any thereof) holds, on the maturity date, any redemption date or any date of purchase pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, money sufficient to pay Notes payable or to be redeemed or purchased on that date, then on and
after that date such Notes shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding and shall cease to accrue interest. Section 2.09 Treasury Notes. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned
by the Company, or by any Affiliate of the Company, shall be considered as though not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes
that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so 22
owned which have been pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgees right to deliver any such direction, waiver
or consent with respect to the Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company or any obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. Section 2.10 Temporary Notes. Until Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, shall
authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Without
unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes. Holders and beneficial holders, as the case may be, of temporary Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits
accorded to Holders, or beneficial holders, respectively, of Notes under this Indenture. Section 2.11 Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. Each Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to
them for cancellation. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for cancellation and shall dispose of such cancelled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange
Act). The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. Section 2.12 Defaulted Interest. (a) If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it shall pay the defaulted interest in any lawful
manner plus, to the extent lawful, interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent special record date, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in an Officers Certificate of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or the Paying Agent an amount of
money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such defaulted interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such defaulted interest as provided in this Section 2.12. The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee each such special record date and payment date;
provided that no such special record date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related payment date for such defaulted interest. At least 10 days before the special record date, the Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company) shall send, or cause to be sent to each Holder a notice that states the special record date, the related payment date and the amount of such interest to be paid. (b) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12 and for greater certainty, each Note delivered under
this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue interest, which were carried by such other Note. 23
Section 2.13 CUSIP and ISIN Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP and/or ISIN numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP and/or
ISIN numbers in notices of redemption or exchange or in Offers to Purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the
Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption or exchange or in Offers to Purchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or exchange of Offer to Purchase shall not
be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall as promptly as practicable notify the Trustee and the Agents in writing of any change that the Company is aware of in the CUSIP or ISIN numbers. ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION Section 3.01 Notices to Trustee. If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Section 3.07, it shall furnish to the Trustee, at least five Business Days before
notice of redemption is required to be sent or caused to be sent to Holders pursuant to Section 3.03 (unless a shorter period shall be agreed to by the Trustee) but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an Officers Certificate
setting forth (1) the paragraph or subparagraph of such Note and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (2) the redemption date, (3) the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (4) the
Redemption Price. Section 3.02 Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased. (a) If less than all of the Notes are to be so redeemed pursuant to Section 3.07 or purchased in an Offer to
Purchase at any time, the Trustee shall select the Notes or portions thereof to be redeemed or purchased (1) if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities
exchange on which the Notes are listed or (2) if the Notes are not so listed, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, subject to DTC procedures. In the event of partial
redemption or purchase by lot, the particular Notes to be redeemed or purchased shall be selected, unless otherwise provided herein, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date by the Trustee from the then outstanding Notes
not previously called for redemption or purchase. (b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of
the Notes selected for redemption or purchase and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption or purchase, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed or purchased. Notes and portions of Notes selected shall be in minimum amounts of
$2,000 and whole multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; no Notes of $2,000 or less shall be redeemed in part, except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed or purchased, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder,
even if not $2,000 or a multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, shall be redeemed or purchased. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption or purchase also apply to portions of
Notes called for redemption or purchase. (c) After the redemption date, upon surrender of a Note to be redeemed
in part only, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the original Note representing the same Indebtedness to the extent not redeemed shall be issued in the name of the Holder of the Notes upon cancellation of the
original Note (or appropriate book entries shall be made to reflect such partial redemption). 24
Section 3.03 Notice of Redemption. (a) The Company shall send, or cause to be sent (or, in the case of Notes held in book-entry form, by electronic
transmission) notices of redemption of Notes at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Article at such Holders registered address or otherwise in
accordance with the procedures of the Depositary (with a copy to the Trustee), except that redemption notices may be sent more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with Article 8. (b) The notice shall identify the Notes (including CUSIP numbers) to be redeemed and shall state: (1) the redemption date; (2) the Redemption Price, including the portion thereof representing any accrued and unpaid interest;
(3) if any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount of that Note
that is to be redeemed; (4) the name and address of the Paying Agent; (5) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption
Price; (6) that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment or the Paying Agent
is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date; (7) the paragraph or subparagraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the
Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; (8) that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP or ISIN number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes; and (9) if applicable, any condition to such redemption. (c) At the Companys request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Companys name and at
the Companys expense; provided that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee, at least five Business Days before notice of redemption is required to be sent or caused to be sent to Holders pursuant to this Section 3.03
(unless a shorter period shall be agreed to by the Trustee), an Officers Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the preceding paragraph in the form
of such notice. Section 3.04 Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is sent in accordance with Section 3.03, Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the
redemption date at the Redemption Price (except as provided for in Section 3.07). The notice, if sent in a manner herein provided, shall be conclusively 25
presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for
redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note. Subject to Section 3.05, on and after the redemption date, Interest ceases to accrue on Notes or portions of Notes called for
redemption. Section 3.05 Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price. (a) Prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the redemption or purchase date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption or purchase price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes to be redeemed or purchased on that date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly send to each Holder to
be redeemed or repurchased the applicable redemption or purchase price thereof and accrued and unpaid interest thereon. The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by
the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption or purchase price of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased. (b) If the Company complies with the provisions of Section 3.05(a), on and after the redemption or purchase date,
interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption or purchase on and after such date. If a Note is redeemed or purchased on or after a Record Date but on or prior to the related Interest Payment Date, then
any accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption or purchase date shall be paid on the relevant Interest Payment Date to the Person in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business on such Record Date. If any Note called for
redemption or purchase shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption or purchase because of the failure of the Company to comply with Section 3.05(a), interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption or purchase date
until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest accrued to the redemption or purchase date not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01. Section 3.06 Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part. Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, the
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to the Holder (or cause to be transferred by book entry) at the expense of the Company a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered representing
the same Indebtedness to the extent not redeemed or purchased; provided that each new Note shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. It is understood that, notwithstanding anything in
this Indenture to the contrary, only an Authentication Order and not an Opinion of Counsel or Officers Certificate is required for the Trustee to authenticate such new Note. Section 3.07 Optional Redemption. (a) The Notes may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at any time prior to the Par Call Date, at the option of the
Company, on one or more occasions, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior notice sent to each Holders registered address (with a copy to the Trustee), at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes
redeemed plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date
that is on or prior to the redemption date). Calculation of the Applicable Premium will be made by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate; provided that such calculation or the correctness
thereof shall not be a duty or obligation of the Trustee. 26
(b) On or after the Par Call Date, the Notes may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company, on one or more occasions, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior notice sent to each Holders registered address (with a copy to the Trustee), at a Redemption Price equal to 100%
of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest
payment date that is on or prior to the redemption date). (c) Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07
shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.06. (d) Any redemption or notice, may, at the
Companys discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including the completion of an offering of Capital Stock of the Company or other corporate transaction. If such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more
conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Companys discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the date the notice of
redemption was sent, including by electronic transmission) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied
by the redemption date, or by the redemption date as so delayed, or such notice may be rescinded at any time in the Companys discretion if in the good faith judgment of the Company any or all of such conditions will not be satisfied. In
addition, the Company may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption price and performance of the Companys obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person. (e) The Company and its Affiliates may acquire Notes by means other than a redemption described in this
Section 3.07, whether by open market purchases, tender offer, negotiated transactions or otherwise, in accordance with applicable securities laws, so long as such acquisition does not otherwise violate the terms of this Indenture. Section 3.08 Sinking Fund. The
Company shall not be required to make mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes. ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS Section 4.01 Payment of
Notes; Additional Amounts. (a) The Company shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than one of
the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, holds as of 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and
interest then due. (b) The principal amount and accrued interest on the Notes shall be payable at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for such purpose; provided that, except in the case of a Global Note, the Company will pay interest (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address will appear in the
Note Register or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds to each Holder with an aggregate principal amount of Notes in excess of $5,000,000, to the place 27
and account within the United States if the Person entitled to the payment as specified in the Note Register has provided the Trustee or Paying Agent the requisite information to make such wire
transfer in writing at least 15 calendar days prior to the interest payment date. (c) The Company shall pay
interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, at the rate equal to the then applicable interest rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; it shall pay interest
(including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace period) at the same rate to the extent lawful. Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. (a) The Company shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the
Trustee, Registrar or co-registrar) where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company and any Guarantor in respect of the Notes
and this Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency, if other than an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee; provided that the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee shall not be a place of service of legal process for the Company. (b) The Company may also from time to time designate additional offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other
office or agency. (c) The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as one such office
or agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.03. Section 4.03 Provision of Financial Information. (a) The Company covenants to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the same are required to be filed with the
SEC, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may prescribe) that the Company may be required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Exchange Act (other than confidential filings, documents subject to confidential treatment and correspondence with the SEC); provided that in each case the delivery of materials to the Trustee by electronic means or filing of documents
pursuant to the SECs EDGAR system (or any successor electronic filing system) shall be deemed to be filed with the Trustee as of the time such documents are filed via the EDGAR system (or its successor) for
purposes of this Section 4.03, provided, however, that the Trustee shall have no obligation whatsoever to determine whether or not such information, documents or reports have been filed pursuant to the EDGAR system (or
its successor) or the contents of such filings. Delivery of such information, documents and reports to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustees receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Companys compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers Certificates). (b) At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long
as any of the Notes shall, at such time, constitute restricted securities 28
within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide to the Trustee and will, upon written request, provide to any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of
such Notes the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes pursuant to Rule 144A. The Company shall take such further action as any Holder or beneficial owner of
such Notes may reasonably request to the extent from time to time required to enable such Holder or beneficial owner to sell such Notes in accordance with Rule 144A, as such rule may be amended from time to time. Section 4.04 Compliance Certificate. (a) The Company and each Guarantor (to the extent that such Guarantor is so required under the Trust Indenture Act)
shall deliver to the Trustee, within 100 days after the end of each fiscal year ending after the Issue Date, a certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company 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 Officer with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its
obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge, the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every condition and covenant contained in
this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults of which he or she may have
knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto). (b) Upon the Company
becoming aware of any Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, the Company shall promptly (which shall be no more than five Business Days following the date on which the Company becomes aware of such Default) send to the Trustee
an Officers Certificate specifying such event and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. Section 4.05
[Reserved]. Section 4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in
any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company and each
Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to
the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted. Section 4.07 Limitation on
Sale and Lease-back Transactions. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Domestic
Restricted Subsidiaries, to enter into any transaction for the sale and leasing back of any Principal Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, unless: (1) such transaction was entered into prior to the Issue Date; 29
(2) such transaction was for the sale to and leasing
back from the Company or a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary of any Principal Property; (3) such
transaction involves a lease of a Principal Property executed by the time of or within 12 months after the latest of the acquisition, the completion of construction or improvement, or the commencement of commercial operation, of such Principal
Property; (4) such transaction involves a lease for not more than three years (or which may be
terminated by the Company or the applicable Domestic Restricted Subsidiary within a period of not more than three years); (5) the Company or the applicable Domestic Restricted Subsidiary would be entitled to incur Indebtedness
secured by a mortgage on the property to be leased in an amount equal to Attributable Liens with respect to such sale and lease-back transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes pursuant to Section 4.08(a); or (6) the Company or the applicable Domestic Restricted Subsidiary applies an amount equal to the net
proceeds from the sale of the Principal Property to the purchase of other Principal Property or to the retirement, repurchase or other repayment or prepayment of long-term Indebtedness within 365 calendar days before or after the effective date of
any such sale and lease-back transaction; provided that in lieu of applying such amount to such retirement, repurchase, repayment or prepayment, the Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary may deliver Notes to the Trustee for
cancellation, such Notes to be credited at the cost thereof to the Company or such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, any
transaction that is required to be accounted for as a sale and lease-back transaction in accordance with GAAP shall not be deemed to be a sale and lease-back transaction subject to the foregoing restrictions in this Section 4.07(a) unless such
transaction involves an actual transfer of Principal Property. (b) Notwithstanding Section 4.07(a), the
Company and its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into any sale and lease-back transaction which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions if after giving effect thereto and at the time of determination, Aggregate Debt does
not exceed an amount equal to the greater of (a) $5,000,000,000, and (b) 4.0 times Consolidated EBITDA of the Company for the Measurement Period immediately preceding the closing date of the sale and lease-back transaction. Section 4.08 Limitation on Liens. (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries, to enter into, create,
incur or assume any Lien on any Principal Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in order to secure any Indebtedness, without effectively providing that the Notes or the related Note Guarantees shall be equally and ratably secured with
(or at the Companys option, prior to) such Indebtedness until such time as such Indebtedness is no longer secured by such Lien, except: (1) Liens existing as of the Issue Date; (2) Liens granted after the Issue Date created in favor of the holders of the Notes; (3) Liens created in substitution of, or as replacements for, any Liens described in clauses
(1) and (2) above; provided that based on a good faith determination of one of the 30
Companys Senior Officers, the Principal Property encumbered under any such substitute or replacement Lien is substantially similar in nature to the Principal Property encumbered by the
otherwise permitted Lien which is being replaced; and (4) Permitted Liens. (b) Notwithstanding Section 4.08(a), the Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary may, without equally and
ratably securing the Notes, create or incur Liens which would otherwise be subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 4.08(a) if after giving effect thereto, Aggregate Debt does not exceed an amount equal to the greater of (a)
$5,000,000,000, and (b) 4.0 times Consolidated EBITDA of the Company for the Measurement Period immediately preceding the date of the creation or incurrence of the Lien. The Company or any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary also may, without equally and
ratably securing the Notes, create or incur Liens that extend, renew, substitute or replace (including successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), in whole or in part, any Lien permitted pursuant to the preceding sentence. (c) For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.08 (A) a Lien securing an item of Indebtedness
need not be permitted solely by reference to one category of permitted Liens (or any portion thereof) described in the definition of Permitted Liens or pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of this Section 4.08 but may be permitted in
part under any combination thereof and (B) in the event that a Lien securing an item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of permitted Liens (or any portion thereof) described in the
definition of Permitted Liens or pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of this Section 4.08, the Company may, in its sole discretion, classify or reclassify, or later divide, classify or reclassify (as if incurred at such later time),
such Lien securing such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this Section 4.08 and will be entitled to only include the amount and type of such Lien or such item of Indebtedness secured by such Lien (or
any portion thereof) in one of the categories of permitted Liens (or any portion thereof) described in the definition of Permitted Liens or pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of this Section 4.08 and, in such event, such Lien
securing such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) will be treated as being incurred or existing pursuant to only such clause or clauses (or any portion thereof) or pursuant to clause (a) of this Section 4.08 without giving pro
forma effect to such item (or portion thereof) when calculating the amount of Liens or Indebtedness that may be incurred pursuant to any other clause or paragraph. In addition, for purposes of calculating compliance with the foregoing covenant, in
no event will the amount of any Indebtedness or Liens securing Indebtedness be required to be included more than once despite the fact that more than one Person is or becomes liable with respect to such Indebtedness and despite the fact that such
Indebtedness is or may be secured by the assets of more than one Person. Section 4.09 Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 5, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect
(1) its corporate existence and the corporate, partnership, limited liability company, unlimited liability company or other existence of each of its Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be
amended from time to time) of the Company or any such Subsidiary and (2) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that the Company shall not be required to preserve any
such right, license or franchise, or the corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other existence of any of its Subsidiaries, if the Company in good faith shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the
conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. 31
Section 4.10 Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event. (a) An Offer to Purchase means an offer by the Company to purchase Notes as required by this
Indenture. An Offer to Purchase must be made by written offer (the offer) sent to the Holders. The Company will notify the Trustee at least 5 days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to the Trustee) prior to sending the offer
to Holders of its obligation to make an Offer to Purchase, and the offer will be sent by the Company or, at the Companys written request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. (b) The offer must include or state the following, which shall (where applicable) be the terms of the Offer to
Purchase: (1) the provision of this Indenture pursuant to which the Offer to Purchase is being
made; (2) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes offered to be purchased by the
Company pursuant to the Offer to Purchase (the purchase amount); (3) the
purchase price, including the portion thereof representing accrued and unpaid interest (the Purchase Price); (4) an expiration date (the Offer Expiration Date) not less than 30 days or more
than 60 days after the date of the offer (except in the case of a conditional Offer to Purchase made in advance of a Change of Control as described in Section 4.10(g)), and a settlement date for purchase (the purchase date)
not more than five Business Days after the Offer Expiration Date; (5) that a Holder may tender all
or any portion of its Notes pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, subject to the requirement that any portion of a Note tendered must be in minimum denominations of $2,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; (6) the place or places where Notes are to be surrendered for tender pursuant to the Offer to Purchase;
(7) that each Holder electing to tender a Note pursuant to the offer will be required to surrender
such Note at the place or places specified in the offer prior to the close of business on the expiration date (such Note being, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, duly endorsed or accompanied by a duly executed written instrument of
transfer); (8) that Interest on any Note not tendered, or tendered but not purchased by the
Company pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, will continue to accrue; (9) that on the purchase date
the Purchase Price will become due and payable on each Note accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, and interest on Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the purchase date; (10) that Holders are entitled to withdraw Notes tendered by giving notice, which must be received by
the Company, as applicable, or the Trustee not later than the close of business on the Offer Expiration Date, setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the tendered Notes, the certificate number of the tendered Notes and a
statement that the Holder is withdrawing all or a portion of the tender; 32
(11) a statement that if Notes in an aggregate
principal amount less than or equal to the purchase amount are duly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, the Company will purchase all such Notes; (12) a statement that if any Note is purchased in part, new Notes equal in principal amount to the
unpurchased portion of the Note will be issued; (13) a statement that if any Note contains a CUSIP
number, no representation is being made as to the correctness of the CUSIP number either as printed on the Notes or as contained in the offer and that the Holder should rely only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes; and (14) if the Notes are held in book entry form, Holders must comply with the applicable procedures of
the Depositary. (c) Prior to the purchase date the Company will accept tendered Notes for purchase as required by
the Offer to Purchase and deliver to the Trustee all Notes so accepted together with an Officers Certificate specifying which Notes have been accepted for purchase. On the purchase date the Purchase Price will become due and payable on each
Note accepted for purchase, and interest on Notes purchased will cease to accrue on and after the purchase date. The Trustee will promptly return to Holders any Notes not accepted for purchase and send to Holders new Notes equal in principal amount
to any unpurchased portion of any Notes accepted for purchase in part. (d) The Company will, to the extent
applicable, comply with Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws in making any Offer to Purchase, and the above procedures will be deemed modified as necessary to permit such compliance.
To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Indenture, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will be deemed to have complied with its obligations
described in this Indenture by virtue of such compliance. (e) Not later than 60 days following a Change of
Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem all of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.07, the Company will make an Offer to Purchase all of the outstanding Notes at a Purchase Price in cash equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the purchase date. (f) The
Company will not be required to make an Offer to Purchase following a Change of Control Triggering Event if (1) a third party makes the Offer to Purchase in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in
this Indenture applicable to an Offer to Purchase made by the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Offer to Purchase or (2) a notice of redemption has been given pursuant to Section 3.07. (g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, an Offer to Purchase may be made in advance of a Change of
Control Triggering Event, conditional upon the applicable Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making of such Offer to Purchase. Such conditional Offer to Purchase may state that, in the
Companys discretion, the purchase date may be delayed until such time as any or all applicable conditions shall be satisfied, or that such purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that the Company shall determine
that the Change of Control Triggering Event will not occur by the purchase date, or by the purchase date as so delayed. 33
(h) If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of
the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in a Change of Control Offer and the Company, or any third party making a Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Company as described above, repurchase all of the Notes validly
tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party will have the right, upon not less than 15 days nor more than 60 days prior notice to the Holders of the Notes and the Trustee (provided that such notice is
given not more than 30 days following such repurchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer described above), to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount
thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date, subject to the right of Holders of the Notes of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the corresponding interest payment date. (i) Other than as specifically provided in this Section 4.10, any purchase pursuant to this Section 4.10
shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.02, 3.05 and 3.06. Section 4.11 Additional Note Guarantors. (a) After the Issue Date, the Company will, to the extent required to comply with Section 4.11(b), cause all or
any of its Subsidiaries to: (1) execute and deliver a supplemental indenture to this Indenture, the
form of which is attached as Exhibit B, pursuant to which such Subsidiary will agree to be a Guarantor under this Indenture and be bound by the terms of this Indenture applicable to Guarantors, including, but not limited to, Article 10; provided
that such Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (such opinion or portions thereof may be in form and substance substantially similar to the Opinion of Counsel delivered on the Issue Date and which may contain customary
exceptions) to the effect that: (i) such Note Guarantee has been duly executed and authorized; and
(ii) such Note Guarantee constitutes a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such
Subsidiary; and (2) waive and not in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage
of, any rights of reimbursement, indemnity or subrogation or any other rights against the Company or any other Subsidiary as a result of any payment by such Subsidiary under its Note Guarantee. (b) The Company shall not permit any Domestic Restricted Subsidiary, other than a Guarantor or a Foreign Subsidiary,
to become a guarantor with respect to any Indebtedness under the Senior Credit Facilities, in each case, of the Company or any Guarantor unless: (1) such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary within 60 days executes and delivers a supplemental indenture to
this Indenture, the form of which is attached as Exhibit B hereto, providing for a Guarantee by such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary, except that with respect to a guarantee of Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor, if such Indebtedness is by
its express terms subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantors Guarantee, any such guarantee by such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary with respect to such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or
such Guarantors Guarantee substantially to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes or such Guarantors Guarantee; and 34
(2) such Domestic Restricted Subsidiary shall within
60 days deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel; provided that this Section 4.11(b) shall not be applicable to any guarantee of any
Domestic Restricted Subsidiary that existed at the time such Person became a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Domestic Restricted Subsidiary. The Company may elect, in its sole discretion, to cause any Subsidiary that is not otherwise required to be a Guarantor to become a
Guarantor, in which case such Subsidiary shall only be required to execute and deliver a supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing for a Guarantee by such Subsidiary, and the Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel required in
connection therewith. Section 4.12 [Reserved]. Section 4.13 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may
be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture. Section 4.14 Additional Interest Notice. In the event that the Company is required to pay Additional Interest to Holders of Notes, the Company will provide written notice
(Additional Interest Notice) to the Trustee of its obligation to pay Additional Interest no later than fifteen days prior to the proposed payment date for the Additional Interest, and the Additional Interest Notice shall set forth
the amount of Additional Interest to be paid by the Company on such payment date. The Trustee shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Notes to determine the Additional Interest, or with respect to the nature,
extent, or calculation of the amount of Additional Interest owed, or with respect to the method employed in such calculation of the Additional Interest. Section 4.15 Financial Calculations for Limited Condition Acquisitions. When calculating the availability under any basket or ratio under this Indenture or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, in each
case, in connection with any acquisition (including by way of merger) whose consummation is not conditioned upon the availability of, or on obtaining, third-party financing (a Limited Condition Acquisition) and any actions or
transactions related thereto, the date of determination of such basket or ratio and whether any such action or transaction is permitted (or any requirement or condition therefor is complied with or satisfied) and of any Default or Event of Default
may, at the option of the Company (the Companys election to exercise such option, an LCA Election), be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (such date, the LCA
Test Date). If, after giving pro forma effect to the Limited Condition Acquisition and any actions or transactions related
thereto and any related pro forma adjustments, the Company or any of its Domestic Restricted Subsidiaries would have been permitted to take such actions or consummate such transactions 35
on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such basket, ratio or test (and any related requirements and conditions), such basket, ratio or test (and any related requirements and conditions)
shall be deemed to have been complied with (or satisfied) for all purposes (in the case of Indebtedness, for example, whether such Indebtedness is committed, issued or incurred at the LCA Test Date or at any time thereafter); provided that
(a) if financial statements for one or more subsequent fiscal quarters shall have become available, the Company may elect, in its sole discretion, to re-determine all such baskets, ratios or tests on the
basis of such financial statements, in which case, such date of redetermination shall thereafter be deemed to be the applicable LCA Test Date for purposes of such baskets, ratios or tests, and (b) except as contemplated in the foregoing clause
(a), compliance with such baskets, ratios or tests (and any related requirements and conditions) shall not be determined or tested at any time after the applicable LCA Test Date for such Limited Condition Acquisition and any actions or transactions
related thereto. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Company has made an LCA Election, (1) if any of the ratios, tests or baskets
for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCA Test Date would at any time after the LCA Test Date have been exceeded or otherwise failed to have been complied with as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio, test or basket,
including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA on a pro forma basis of the Company or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Acquisition, such baskets, tests or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded or failed to have been
complied with as a result of such fluctuations; (2) if any related requirements and conditions (including as to the absence of any continuing Default or Event of Default) for which compliance or satisfaction was determined or tested as of the
LCA Test Date would at any time after the LCA Test Date not have been complied with or satisfied (including due to the occurrence or continuation of an Default or Event of Default), such requirements and conditions will not be deemed to have been
failed to be complied with or satisfied (and such Default or Event of Default shall be deemed not to have occurred or be continuing); and (3) in calculating the availability under any ratio, test or basket in connection with any action or
transaction unrelated to such Limited Condition Acquisition following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement for such
Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio, test or basket shall be determined or tested giving pro forma effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and any actions or
transactions related thereto). With respect to any such calculations of the availability under any basket or ratio under this Indenture
or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, in each case in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition and any actions or transactions related thereto, the Company will deliver to the Trustee promptly following the date the definitive
agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is entered into an Officers Certificate stating that such definitive agreement has been executed and that the Company has made any applicable basket or ratio calculations in accordance with this
provision and in compliance with the terms of this Indenture. ARTICLE 5 SUCCESSORS Section 5.01 Consolidation,
Merger and Conveyance, Transfer and Lease of Assets. (a) The Company may not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer (including by way of a Division)
or lease all or substantially all the properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis), taken as a whole, to, any Person, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, unless: (1) (i) in the case of a Division where the Company is the Dividing Person, the Division Successor shall
remain or become a co-issuer of the Notes and (ii) in all other cases, either (A) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger is the Company (the Person formed by or surviving
a consolidation or merger, the continuing Person) or (B) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer or which
leases, all or substantially all the properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (determined on a consolidated basis), taken as a whole (the Successor Company), is an entity organized under the laws of the United
States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia; 36
(2) if the Company is not the continuing Person, the
Successor Company expressly assumes the Companys obligations with respect to the Notes and this Indenture pursuant to a supplemental indenture; (3) except in the case of a transaction with the Company or a Guarantor where the Company is the
continuing Person, immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; (4) if the Company is not the continuing Person, each Guarantor (unless such Guarantor is the Successor
Company or is the subject of a consolidation or merger pursuant to which it is not the Person formed by such consolidation or not the surviving Person in such merger) shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Note Guarantee shall apply
to such Persons obligations in respect of this Indenture and the Notes; and (5) if the
Company is not the continuing Person, the Company or the Successor Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture
(if any) comply with this Indenture and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such supplemental indenture (if any) is a legal and binding agreement enforceable against the Successor Company; provided that in giving an Opinion of Counsel, counsel may
rely on an Officers Certificate as to any matters of fact. (b) In addition, the Company will not permit any
Guarantor to merge with or into or convey, transfer (including by way of a Division) or lease all or substantially all of such Guarantors properties and assets (determined on a consolidated basis for such Guarantor and its Subsidiaries), taken
as a whole, to, any other Person (in each case, other than with, into or to (as applicable) the Company or another Guarantor), in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, unless: (1) either (i) the continuing Person or Division Successor, as applicable, is such Guarantor or
(ii) the Division Successor or Person (if other than such Guarantor) formed by such consolidation or into which such Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, all or substantially all the
properties and assets (determined on a consolidated basis for such Guarantor and its Subsidiaries), taken as a whole (the Successor Guarantor), is an entity organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia; (2) if such Guarantor is not the continuing Person, the
Successor Guarantor expressly assumes such Guarantors obligations under its Note Guarantee and this Indenture pursuant to a supplemental Indenture; 37
(3) immediately after giving effect to the
transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and (4) if such Guarantor is not the continuing Person, the Company delivers, or causes to be delivered, to
the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such supplemental
indenture (if any) is a legal and binding agreement enforceable against the Successor Company; provided that in giving an Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely on an Officers Certificate as to any matters of fact, provided that this Section 5.01(b) shall not apply to a transaction pursuant to which such Guarantor shall be released from its obligations under
this Indenture and the Notes in accordance with the provisions described in Section 10.06. Section 5.02 Successor Entity Substituted.
Upon any transaction or series of related transactions to which the requirements of Section 5.01(a) apply, in the case of the
Company, or the requirements of Section 5.01(b) apply, in the case of a Guarantor, and are effected in accordance with such requirements, the Successor Company or Successor Guarantor, as applicable, shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and
may exercise every right and power of, the Company or the applicable Guarantor, as applicable, under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Successor Company or Successor Guarantor, as applicable, had been named as the Company or applicable
Guarantor, as applicable, therein; and when a Successor Company or Successor Guarantor, as applicable, duly assumes all of the obligations and covenants of the Company pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes, except in the case of a lease, the
predecessor Person shall be relieved of all such obligations. ARTICLE 6 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES Section 6.01
Events of Default. Each of the following is an Event of Default under this Indenture: (a) failure by the Company to pay principal or premium, if any, on any Note when due at maturity, upon redemption or
otherwise (including the failure to pay the repurchase price for Notes tendered pursuant to an Offer to Purchase); (b) failure by the Company to pay any interest (including Additional Interest) on any Note for 30 calendar days after
the interest becomes due; (c) failure by the Company to comply with Section 4.10 in connection with a Change
of Control Triggering Event and such failure continues for a period of 30 calendar days; (d) failure by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to perform, or breach by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of, any other covenant, agreement or condition in this Indenture for 90 calendar days after either the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the outstanding Notes have given the Company written notice of the breach in the manner required by this Indenture; 38
(e) [reserved]; (f) except as permitted in this Indenture, any Note Guarantee of any Significant Subsidiary shall for any reason cease
to be, or it shall be asserted by any Guarantor or the Company not to be, in full force and effect and enforceable in accordance with its terms; (g) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Debtor Relief Law: (1) commences proceedings to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent; (2) consents to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it
of a petition or answer or consent seeking an arrangement of debt, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or relief under applicable Debtor Relief Laws; (3) consents to the appointment of a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of it or for all or substantially all of its property; or (4) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; (h) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Debtor Relief Law that: (1) is for relief against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in a proceeding in which the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary is to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent; (2) appoints a
receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, or for all or substantially all of the property of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary; or (3) orders the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary; and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days. Section 6.02 Acceleration. (a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(g)
or Section 6.01(h) with respect to the Company or any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary) occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Notes may declare the principal of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes to be due and payable immediately by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders); provided,
however, that after such acceleration, but before a judgment or decree based on acceleration, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes may rescind and annul such acceleration if such rescission and
annulment would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of accelerated principal of or interest on the Notes, have been cured or waived as provided in this
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(b) If a Default for failure to report or failure to deliver a
required certificate in connection with another Default (the Initial Default) occurs, then, at the time such Initial Default is cured, such Default for a failure to report or failure to deliver a required certificate in connection
with another Default that resulted solely because of that Initial Default will also be cured without any further action. (c) If an Event of Default described in Section 6.01(g) or Section 6.01(h) with respect to the Company or
any Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary occurs and is continuing, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest that is both accrued and unpaid on all the Notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other
act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company so elects, the
sole remedy of the Holders for the Companys failure to comply with Section 4.03 will for the first 180 days after the occurrence of such failure consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate per
annum equal to 0.25% for the first 180 days after the occurrence of such failure. The Additional Interest will accrue on all outstanding Notes from and including the date on which such failure first occurs until such violation is cured or waived and
shall be payable on each relevant Interest Payment Date to Holders of record on the regular Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date. On the 181st day after such failure (if such violation is not cured or waived prior to such
181st day), such failure will then constitute an Event of Default without any further notice or lapse of time and the Notes will be subject to acceleration as provided above. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee an Officers Certificate stating Additional Interest is due, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. The Trustee shall not at any time be under any duty or
responsibility to any Holder to determine whether any Additional Interest is payable, or with respect to the nature, extent, or calculation of any taxes or the amount of any Additional Interest are owed, or with respect to the method employed in
such calculation of any Additional Interest. (e) The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding
Notes may waive all past Defaults (except with respect to nonpayment of principal, premium or interest) and rescind any acceleration with respect to any such Default and its consequences if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have
been cured or waived. Section 6.03 Other Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the
payment of principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture. (b) The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them
in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.
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Section 6.04 Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by written notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the
Holders of all of the Notes waive any existing or past Default and its consequences hereunder, except: (1) a continuing Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note
held by a non-consenting Holder (including any Note which is required to have been purchased pursuant to an Offer to Purchase); and (2) a Default with respect to a provision that under Section 9.02 cannot be amended without the
consent of each Holder affected, provided, however, that, subject to Section 6.02, the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes 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 6.05 Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes are given the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or that the Trustee determines in
good faith is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee shall not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any such direction is unduly prejudicial to any other Holder), is otherwise
contrary to applicable law, or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability or expense for which the Trustee has not received indemnity or security against cost, loss, liability or expense reasonably satisfactory to it, and the Trustee may
take any other action it deems proper which is not inconsistent with any such direction received from the Holders. Section 6.06 Limitation on
Suits. (a) No Holder of any Note will have any right to institute any proceeding with respect to this
Indenture or for any remedy thereunder, unless (1) such Holder shall have previously given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default, (2) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Notes shall have made written request to the Trustee, (3) such Holder or Holders shall provide indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against cost, loss, liability or expense, to institute such proceeding as Trustee, (4) the Trustee has not
complied with such request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of indemnity and (5) the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes a direction
inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period. Such limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder of a Note directly (as opposed to through the Trustee) for enforcement of payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on such Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note. (b) A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or
priority over another Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holders). 41
Section 6.07 Rights of Holders to Receive Payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on its Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note (including in connection with an Offer to Purchase), or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired
or affected without the consent of such Holder. Section 6.08 Collection Suit by Trustee. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment
in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal of and premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid to but not including the date of payment on the Notes, together with interest on overdue
principal and, to the extent lawful, interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the compensation and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents
and counsel. Section 6.09 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 proceedings, the Company, the Guarantors, 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 proceedings has 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 Notes in Section 2.07,
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 are, to the extent permitted by law, cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy. Section 6.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder 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 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may file proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any other obligor
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upon the Notes including the Guarantors), its creditors or its property and is entitled and empowered to participate as a member in any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter
and to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims. Any custodian 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 to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel, and
any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.07 out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall 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 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 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 6.13 Priorities. If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the money in the following order: (a) first, to the Trustee and its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.07, including payment of
all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection; (b) second, to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest respectively; and (c) third, to the Company or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct, including a Guarantor,
if applicable. The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.13. Promptly after any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee shall cause notice of such record date and payment date to be given to the Company and to each Holder in the manner set forth in Section 11.02. Section 6.14 Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.14 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by
a Holder pursuant to Section 6.07, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. 43
ARTICLE 7 TRUSTEE Section 7.01 Duties of
Trustee. (a) The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Notes and after
the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such persons own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default: (1) the duties of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and
the Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and (2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate
the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein). (c) The Trustee may not be relieved
from liabilities for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that: (1) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.01; (2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible
Officer, unless it is proved in a court of competent jurisdiction that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and (3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith
in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05. (d) Whether or not therein expressly
so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.01. (e) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under this Indenture at the
request or direction of any of the Holders unless the Holders have offered and, if requested, provided, to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any cost, loss, liability or expense. (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. 44
Section 7.02 Rights of Trustee. (a) The Trustee may conclusively rely upon and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting based on any
document 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, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or
attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation. (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it shall require an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel subject to the other provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee may consult with
counsel of its selection and the written or verbal advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good
faith and in reliance thereon. (c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not be
responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent or attorney appointed with due care. (d) The Trustee
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture. (e) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the
Company shall be sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company. (f) None of the provisions of this Indenture
shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise to incur any liability, financial or otherwise, in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers. (g) 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 existence of a Default or Event of
Default, the Notes and this Indenture. (h) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special,
indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of
action. (i) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without
limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each Agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder. (j) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers Certificate setting forth the names of
individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers Certificate, including any Person
specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded. 45
(k) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in
respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder. (l) Under no circumstances shall the Trustee be
liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Notes. (m) The permissive right of the
Trustee to do things enumerated in the documents shall not be construed as a duty. (n) The Trustee shall not be
responsible or liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith at the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes as to the time, method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy
available to the Trustee or the exercising of any power conferred by this Indenture. Section 7.03 Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any
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. However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days,
apply to the SEC for permission to continue or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11. Section 7.04 Trustees Disclaimer. The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall
not be accountable for the Companys use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money paid to the Company or upon the Companys direction under any provision of this Indenture, it shall not be responsible for the use or application of any
money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it shall not be responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in the Notes or any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this Indenture
other than its certificate of authentication. Section 7.05 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder a
notice of the Default within 90 days after it has actual knowledge thereof. Except in the case of an Event of Default specified in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01, the Trustee may withhold from the Holders notice of any continuing
Default if the Trustee determines in good faith that withholding the notice is in the interest of the Holders. The Trustee shall not be deemed to know of any Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless
written notice of any event which is such a Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. 46
Section 7.06 [Reserved]. Section 7.07 Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall pay to the Trustee (acting in any capacity hereunder)
from time to time such compensation for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder as the parties shall agree in writing from time to time. The Trustees compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of
an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee promptly upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the
reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustees agents and counsel. The Trustee shall provide the Company reasonable notice of any expenditure not in the ordinary course of business. (b) The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall indemnify the Trustee (acting in any capacity
hereunder) for, and hold each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee and their directors, officers, employees and agents harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claims, liability or expense (including attorneys fees and expenses and
court costs) incurred by it in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder (including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Company or any Guarantor (including
this Section 7.07) or defending itself against any claim whether asserted by any Holder, the Company, any Guarantor or any other Person, or liability in connection with the acceptance, exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder). The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any 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. The Company shall defend the claim
and the Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any cost, loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee through the
Trustees own willful misconduct or gross negligence, as finally adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction. (c) To secure the Companys and the Guarantors payment obligations under this Section 7.07, the
Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of and interest on particular Notes. (d) The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.07 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. (e) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders
services after an Event of Default specified in Sections 6.01(g) or 6.01(h) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of its agents and counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration
under any Debtor Relief Law. Section 7.08 Replacement of Trustee. (a) A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon
the successor Trustees acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 7.08. The Trustee may resign in writing at any time by giving 30 days prior notice of such resignation to the Company and be discharged from the trust
hereby created by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing. The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10; 47
(2) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an
insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Debtor Relief Law; (3) a receiver or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or (4) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting. (b) 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 aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. (c) If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the Companys expense), the Company or the Holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the appointment of a successor Trustee. (d) If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder who has been a
Holder for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.10, such Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee. (e) A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the
Company. Thereupon, 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 under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall send a notice of
its succession to Holders. The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee; provided all sums owing to the Trustee hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in
Section 7.07. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the Companys obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee. (f) As used in this Section 7.08, the term Trustee shall also include each Agent. Section 7.09 Successor Trustee by Merger, etc. Any organization or entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any organization or
entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the
Trustee hereunder, provided such organization or entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 7.10, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. Section 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a corporation or national banking association organized
and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of 48
any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and that has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. (b) This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of Trust Indenture Act Sections
310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee is subject to Trust Indenture Act Section 310(b). Section 7.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against
the Company. The Trustee is subject to Trust Indenture Act Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in Trust
Indenture Act Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to Trust Indenture Act Section 311(a) to the extent indicated therein. ARTICLE 8 DISCHARGE AND
DEFEASANCE Section 8.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. The Company and the Guarantors may terminate their obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees when: (a) either: (1) all the Notes that have been authenticated and delivered have been accepted by the Trustee for
cancellation (other than any Notes which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.07); or (2) (x) all outstanding Notes issued under this Indenture have become due and payable; (y) all
outstanding Notes issued under this Indenture have or will become due and payable at the Stated Maturity within one year; or (z) all outstanding Notes issued under this Indenture are subject to redemption within one year (and the Company shall
have entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption), and in each case, the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds for the purpose
of making payments to the Holders under this Indenture an amount of cash (which may include Governmental Obligations), dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders, sufficient to pay and discharge all outstanding Notes issued under the Indenture
on the Stated Maturity or the scheduled date of redemption; and (b) the Company shall have paid or
caused to be paid all other sums then due and payable under this Indenture; and (c) the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. If the foregoing conditions are met, the Trustee, on demand and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments
reasonably requested by and prepared by the Company acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees except as to: (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange of Notes; 49
(ii) the Companys right of optional redemption;
(iii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes; (iv) rights of Holders to receive payment of the principal amount, premium (if any) and interest
when due and payable, solely out of the trust created pursuant to this Section 8.01; (v) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee, and the Companys obligations in connection therewith; and (vi) the rights of the Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with
the Trustee payable to all or any of them; and the rights of the Company to be repaid any money pursuant to Sections 8.05 and Section 8.06. Section 8.02 Legal Defeasance. Upon making the deposit referred to in Section 8.02(a), the Company will be deemed to have paid and the Company and the Guarantors will
be discharged from their respective obligations in respect of the Notes, the Note Guarantees and this Indenture, other than their obligations in Article 2 and Sections 4.01, 4.02, 7.07, 7.08 and as set forth in clauses (i) through (vi) of
Section 8.01; provided that the following conditions have been satisfied: (a) the Company has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds for the purpose of making the following payments, dedicated solely to the benefits of the holders of the Notes in cash or Governmental Obligations or a combination
thereof (other than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Company in accordance with Section 8.06) in each case sufficient without reinvestment, in the written opinion of an internationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and discharge, all of the principal, premium (if any) and interest when the same becomes due and payable at Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon
required repurchase or otherwise or if the Company has made irrevocable arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the Companys name and at the Companys expense; (b) unless the Notes have become due and payable or will become due and payable at Stated Maturity or upon redemption
within one year and, in the case of redemption, the Company has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name of the Trustee, the Company has delivered to the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that, as a result of a published ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, a ruling directed to the Trustee from the Internal Revenue Service or a change in applicable U.S. federal income tax law, the Holders
(or beneficial owners) of the Notes will not recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, defeasance and discharge to be effected and will be subject to the same federal income tax as would be the case if
the deposit, defeasance and discharge did not occur; (c) no Default with respect to the outstanding Notes has
occurred and is continuing at the time of such deposit after giving effect to the deposit; (d) the defeasance
will not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, assuming all Notes were in default within the meaning of such Act; 50
(e) the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, any other material agreement or material instrument (other than this Indenture and the Notes) to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and (f) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case
stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein relating to the defeasance have been complied with. Upon and following the
satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, the Trustee upon request will acknowledge in writing the discharge of the Companys and the Guarantors respective obligations under the Notes, the Note Guarantees and this Indenture except for the
surviving obligations specified above. Section 8.03 Covenant Defeasance. Upon making the deposit referred to in Section 8.02(a), the failure of the Company to perform the obligations set forth in Sections
4.03, 4.07, 4.08, 4.10, 4.11 and the events described in Sections 6.01(c) and 6.01(d) will no longer constitute an Event of Default; provided that the following conditions have been satisfied: (a) the Company has complied with clauses (a), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of Section 8.02; and (b) unless the Notes have become due and payable or will become due and payable at Stated Maturity or upon
redemption within one year and, in the case of redemption, the Company has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name of the Trustee, the Company has delivered
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders (or beneficial owners) of the Notes will not recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and covenant defeasance to be effected and will
be subject to the same federal income tax as would be the case if the deposit and covenant defeasance did not occur. Except as
specifically stated above, none of the Companys and the Guarantors respective obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees will be discharged pursuant to this Section 8.03. Section 8.04 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Notes. Subject to 8.06, all moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Sections 8.01, 8.02 and 8.03 shall be held in trust and applied by it to
the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such moneys or Governmental Obligations have been
deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal, premium (if any) and interest. Such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. Section 8.05 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys held by any Paying Agent under the
provisions of this Indenture at the time of such satisfaction and discharge shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to the Company or paid to the Trustee and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect
to such moneys or Governmental Obligations. 51
Section 8.06 Return of Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying Agent Unclaimed for Two Years. Any moneys or Governmental Obligations deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of or
premium (if any) on or interest on any Note and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date upon which such principal, premium or interest shall have become due and payable, shall, at the Companys request, be repaid to the
Company by the Trustee or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of the Note shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which
such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease. Section 8.07 Reinstatement. If
the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or Government Obligations in accordance with Section 8.01, 8.02 or 8.03, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Companys and the Guarantors obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to
Section 8.01, 8.02 or 8.03 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.01, 8.02 or 8.03, as the case may be; provided that, if the Company makes any payment of
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent. ARTICLE 9 AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT
AND WAIVER Section 9.01 Without Consent of Holders. Notwithstanding Section 9.02, without the consent of any Holder, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee at any time and from time
to time, may amend this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees for any of the following purposes: (a) to
evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company or a Guarantor or successive successions and the assumption of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company or a Guarantor by a successor; (b) to add to the covenants of the Company and Guarantors for the benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any of its
rights or powers; (c) to add Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders; (d) to add to, change or eliminate any provision of this Indenture applying to the Notes or Note Guarantees;
provided that the Company deems such action necessary or advisable and that such action does not adversely affect the interests of any Holder of the Notes; 52
(e) to evidence and provide for a successor Trustee or to add to or
change any provisions to the extent necessary to appoint a separate Trustee for the Notes; (f) to cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency under this Indenture, or to make other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture as evidenced by an Officers Certificate; (g) to supplement any provisions of this Indenture necessary to defease and discharge the Notes or this Indenture
otherwise in accordance with the defeasance or discharge provisions of Article 8, as the case may be; provided that such change or modification does not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect; (h) to add to, change or eliminate any provisions of this Indenture in accordance with the qualification of the
Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or to comply with the provisions of DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream or the Trustee with respect to provisions of this Indenture or the Notes or Note Guarantees relating to transfers or exchanges of
Notes or beneficial interests in the Notes; (i) to provide collateral security for the Notes and any Note
Guarantees; (j) to provide for additional Guarantors in accordance with Section 4.11 and Article 10 or to
release a Guarantor in accordance with Article 10; (k) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in
accordance with Section 2.01; or (l) conform any provision of the Indenture or the Notes to the
Description of notes contained in the Offering Memorandum, as evidenced in an Officers Certificate. Section 9.02 With Consent
of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Notes affected by such supplemental indenture; provided, however, that, no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding Note affected thereby, (a) reduce the rates of or change the time for payment of interest on any Notes; (b) reduce the principal amount of, or change the Stated Maturity of, any Notes; (c) reduce the Redemption Price, or purchase price upon a Change of Control Triggering Event, of any Notes or amend or
modify in any manner adverse to the Holders thereof the Companys obligation to make such payments; (d) change the currency of payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest; (e) reduce the quorum requirements under this Indenture; 53
(f) reduce the percentage in principal amount of outstanding Notes,
the consent of whose Holders is required for modification of this Indenture, for waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture, for waiver of certain defaults or consent to take any action; (g) adversely affect the ranking of the Notes; (h) waive any default in the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest; or (i) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on the Notes. Section 9.03 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. If, at the time of any amendment or supplement to this Indenture, this Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, then such
amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes shall be set forth in an amended or supplemental indenture that complies with the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect. Section 9.04 Revocation and Effect of Consents. (a) Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Note is a continuing
consent by the Holder of a Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holders Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note. However, any such Holder of a Note
or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke the consent as to its Note if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or amendment becomes effective. An amendment, supplement or
waiver becomes effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder. (b) The Company may, but
shall not be obligated to, fix a record date pursuant to Section 1.05 for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment, supplement, or waiver. Section 9.05 Notation on or Exchange of Notes. (a) The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter
authenticated. The Company in exchange for all Notes may issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver. (b) Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such
amendment, supplement or waiver. Section 9.06 Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc. The Trustee shall sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment, supplement or waiver does
not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. In executing any amendment, supplement or waiver, the Trustee shall receive and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon,
in addition to the documents required by Section 11.04, an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which may contain customary qualifications) stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture complies with the
provisions hereof (including Section 9.03) and such amended or supplemental indenture is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms. 54
ARTICLE 10 GUARANTEES Section 10.01 Note
Guarantee. (a) Subject to this Article 10, each of the Guarantors, if any, hereby, jointly and severally,
irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, on a senior basis, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder
or thereunder, that: (1) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including Additional Interest, if any) on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the
terms hereof and thereof; and (2) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension
or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment by the Company when due of any amount so guaranteed or any performance so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally obligated
to pay the same immediately. Each Guarantor agrees that this is a guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection. (b) The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity,
regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any
action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in
the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that this Note Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete
performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and this Indenture, or pursuant to Section 10.06. (c) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantors or any
custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid either to the Trustee or such Holder, this Note Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in
full force and effect. (d) Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in
relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on
the other hand, (1) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in
respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (2) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 6, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the
Guarantors for the purpose of this Note Guarantee. The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the
Holders under the Note Guarantees. 55
(e) Each Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and
continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation, reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for
all or any significant part of the Companys assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Notes are, pursuant to
applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the Notes or the Note Guarantees, whether as a voidable preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise, all as though
such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Notes shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such
amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned. (f) In case any provision of any Note Guarantee
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. (g) Each payment to be made by a Guarantor in respect of its Note Guarantee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any kind or nature. Section 10.02 Limitation on Guarantor
Liability. Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of Notes, each Holder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties
that the Note Guarantee of such Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Debtor Relief Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar U.S. federal or state law to
the extent applicable to any Note Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustee, the Holders and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each Guarantor shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after
giving effect to such maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor that are relevant under such laws and after giving effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from or payments made by or on
behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under this Article 10, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under
applicable law. Each Guarantor that makes a payment under its Note Guarantee shall be entitled upon payment in full of all Note Guarantee obligations under this Indenture to a contribution from each other Guarantor in an amount equal to such other
Guarantors pro rata portion of such payment based on the respective net assets of all the Guarantors at the time of such payment determined in accordance with GAAP. Section 10.03 Execution and Delivery. (a) To evidence its Note Guarantee set forth in Section 10.01, each Guarantor hereby agrees that this Indenture
shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer or person holding an equivalent title. (b) Each
Guarantor hereby agrees that its Note Guarantee set forth in Section 10.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the Notes. (c) If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Note, the Note Guarantees shall be valid nevertheless. 56
(d) The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the
authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Note Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors. (e) If required by Section 4.11, the Company shall cause any newly created or acquired Domestic Restricted
Subsidiary to comply with the provisions of Section 4.11 and this Article 10, to the extent applicable. Section 10.04 Subrogation. Each Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of Holders against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by any Guarantor pursuant to
the provisions of Section 10.01; provided that, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no Guarantor shall be entitled to enforce or receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all
amounts then due and payable by the Company under this Indenture or the Notes shall have been paid in full. Section 10.05 Benefits
Acknowledged. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements
contemplated by this Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to its Note Guarantee are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits. Section 10.06 Release of Note Guarantees. (a) A Note Guarantee by a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged, and such Note
Guarantee shall thereupon terminate and be discharged and of no further force and effect, and no further action by such Guarantor, the Company or the Trustee shall be required for the release of such Guarantors Note Guarantee: (1) (A) concurrently with any sale, exchange, disposition or transfer (by merger or otherwise) of
(x) any Equity Interests of such Guarantor following which such Guarantor is no longer a Subsidiary of the Company or (y) all or substantially all the properties and assets of such Guarantor to a Person that is not the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries; (B) upon the release or discharge of the Note Guarantee by such Guarantor of the
Senior Credit Facilities, except a release or discharge as a result of payment under such Note Guarantee; (C) upon the merger or consolidation of such Guarantor with and into either the Company or any other
Guarantor that is the surviving person in such merger or consolidation, or upon the liquidation of such Guarantor following the transfer of all or substantially all of its property and assets to either the Company or another Guarantor; or (D) upon the Company exercising its legal defeasance or covenant defeasance options in accordance with
Article 8 or the Companys obligations under this Indenture being discharged in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Notes; and (2) such Guarantor delivering to the Trustee an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
each stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with. 57
(b) At the request of the Company, the Trustee shall execute and
deliver any documents reasonably requested by the Company in order to acknowledge such release, discharge and termination in respect of the applicable Note Guarantee. Neither the Company nor any Guarantor shall be required to make a notation on the
Notes to reflect any Note Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge. ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS Section 11.01 Concerning
the Trust Indenture Act. Unless otherwise stated, the Trust Indenture Act Section 318(c), as amended, shall not be applicable
to, and shall not govern, this Indenture, the Notes or any Notes Guarantee. Section 11.02 Notices. (a) Any notice or communication by the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee to the others is duly given if in writing
and (1) delivered in person, (2) mailed by first-class mail (certified or registered, return receipt requested) or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery or (3) sent by facsimile or electronic transmission, to the
others addresses: If to the Company and/or any Guarantor: c/o Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, California 94103 Attention: Chief Legal Officer With a copy to: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, California 94304-1050 Fax No: (650) 493-6811 Attention: Lisa Stimmell If to the Trustee: c/o U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee 633 West Fifth Street, 24th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 Attention: Bradley Scarbrough (Twitter, Inc. 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030) The Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee, by notice to the others, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
(b) All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) shall be deemed to have been duly given: at
the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; on the first date of which publication is made if by publication; five calendar days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed by first-class mail; the next Business Day after
timely delivery to the courier, if 58
mailed by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery; when receipt acknowledged, if sent by facsimile or electronic transmission; provided that any notice or communication
delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed effective upon actual receipt thereof. (c) Any notice or communication
to a Holder shall be 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 Note Register or by such other delivery system as the Trustee
agrees to accept. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. (d) Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. (e) Where this Indenture provides for notice of any
event to a Holder of a Global Note, such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary for such Note (or its designee), pursuant to the applicable procedures of such Depositary, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice. (f) The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon notice, instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by
unsecured facsimile or electronic .pdf transmission; provided, however, that (1) the party providing such written notice, instructions or directions, subsequent to such transmission of written instructions, shall provide the
originally executed instructions or directions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (2) such originally executed notice, instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized representative of the party providing such notice,
instructions or directions. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustees reasonable reliance upon and compliance with such notice, instructions or directions notwithstanding
such notice, instructions or directions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent notice, instructions or directions. (g) If a notice or communication is sent in the manner provided above within the time prescribed, it is duly given,
whether or not the addressee receives it. (h) If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall
mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time. Section 11.03 Communication by Holders with Other Holders. Holders may communicate pursuant to Trust Indenture Act Section 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or the Notes. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Trust Indenture Act Section 312(c). Section 11.04 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Company or any Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company or such
Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee: (1) an Officers Certificate
(which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.05) stating that, in the opinion of the signer(s), all conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been satisfied;
provided that no Officers Certificate shall be required in connection with the issuance of Notes on the Issue Date; and 59
(2) an Opinion of Counsel (which shall include
the statements set forth in Section 11.05 and which may contain customary qualifications) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants have been complied with; provided that no such Opinion of
Counsel shall be required in connection with the issuance of Notes on the Issue Date and any Opinion of Counsel may rely as to factual matters on an Officers Certificate. Section 11.05 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 Section 4.04) shall include: (1) a statement that the Person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (2) a brief statement as to the nature
and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he or she has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with (and, in the case of an Opinion of Counsel, may be limited to reliance on an Officers
Certificate as to matters of fact); and (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of
such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. Section 11.06 Rules by Trustee and Agents. 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 11.07 No Personal Liability of Stockholders, Partners, Officers or Directors. No director, officer, employee, stockholder, general or limited partner or incorporator, past, present or future, of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, as such or in such capacity, shall have any personal liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes, any Note Guarantee or this Indenture by reason of his, her or its status as such director, officer, employee,
stockholder, general or limited partner or incorporator. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes. Section 11.08 Governing Law, Consent to
Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND ANY NOTE GUARANTEE WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY. 60
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, 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 partys address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court. The parties 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 11.09 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL
RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. Section 11.10 Force Majeure. In
no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Indenture arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its reasonable 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 or
hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances. Section 11.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other
Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture. Section 11.12 Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture
shall bind its successors. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Indenture shall bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in Section 10.06. Section 11.13 Severability. In
case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes 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. 61
Section 11.14 Counterpart Originals. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic 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, PDF or other electronic transmission shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. All notices,
approvals, consents, requests and any communications hereunder must be in writing (provided that any such communication sent to the Trustee hereunder must be in the form of a document that is signed manually or by way of a digital signature provided
by DocuSign or other electronic signature provider that the Company plans to use (or such other digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Trustee by the authorized representative), in English. The Company agrees to assume all risks
arising out of the use of using digital signatures and electronic methods to submit communications to Trustee, including without limitation the risk of Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third
parties. Section 11.15 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 of this Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. Section 11.16 U.S.A. PATRIOT Act. To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, federal law requires all financial institutions to
obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. For a non-individual person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity the Trustee will ask for
documentation to verify its formation and existence as a legal entity. The Trustee may also ask to see financial statements, licenses, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity or other
relevant documentation. The parties each agree to provide all such information and documentation as to themselves as requested by the Trustee to ensure compliance with federal law. [Signatures on following page] 62
/s/ Ned Segal [Signature Page to
Indenture]
/s/ Bradley Scarbrough [Signature Page to
Indenture]
APPENDIX A PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL NOTES AND ADDITIONAL NOTES Section 1.1
Definitions. (a) Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Appendix A have the meanings given to them in this Indenture. The following capitalized terms
have the following meanings: Applicable Procedures means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a
Regulation S Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Global Note, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time. Clearstream means Clearstream Banking, Société Anonyme, or any successor securities clearing agency. Distribution Compliance Period, with respect to any Note, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and
including the later of (a) the day on which such Note is first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the
Company to the Trustee, and (b) the date of issuance with respect to such Note or any predecessor of such Note. Euroclear means the Euroclear Clearance System or any successor securities clearing agency. Global Note means a Note in registered global form without interest coupons, including without limitation, the Rule 144A
Global Note and the Regulation S Global Note in global form. QIB means a qualified institutional buyer as
defined in Rule 144A. Regulation S means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act. Rule 144 means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act. Rule 144A means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act. Rule 904 means Rule 904 promulgated under the Securities Act. (b) Other Definitions. Term: Defined in Section: 1
Term: Defined in Section: Section 2.1 Form and Dating. (a) The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof shall be (i) offered and sold by the Company to the Initial
Purchasers and (ii) resold, initially only to (1) QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A (Rule 144A Notes) and (2) Persons other than U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S
(Regulation S Notes). Such Initial Notes may thereafter be transferred to, among others, QIBs and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S. (b) Global Notes. Rule 144A Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes
in definitive, fully registered form (collectively, the Rule 144A Global Note) and Regulation S Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more global Notes (collectively, the Regulation
S Global Note), in each case without interest coupons and bearing the Global Notes Legend and Restricted Notes Legend, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with the Custodian, and registered
in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in the Indenture. Beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note shall not be exchangeable
for interests in the Rule 144A Global Note or any other Note without a Restricted Notes Legend until the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period. Each Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified in the
Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note attached thereto and each shall provide that it shall represent up to the aggregate principal amount of Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal
amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as applicable, to reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in accordance with instructions given by the Holder thereof as required by Section 2.06 of the Indenture
and Section 2.3(c) below. (c) Book-Entry Provisions. This Section 2.1(c) shall apply only to a
Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary. The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this
Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.2 and pursuant to an order of the Company signed by one Officer of the Company, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (i) shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co.,
as nominee of such Depositary and (ii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositarys instructions or held by the Trustee as Custodian. Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (Agent Members) shall have no rights under the Indenture with respect to
any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Trustee as Custodian or under such Global Note, and the Depositary or its nominee as registered holder of such Global Note may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of
the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of such Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder
of a beneficial interest in any Global Note (a Book-Entry Interest). Transfers of Book-Entry Interests shall be subject to Applicable Procedures. 2
(d) Definitive Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.3
or 2.4, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes shall not be entitled to receive physical, certificated Notes. Section 2.2 Authentication. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery upon a written
order of the Company signed by one Officer of the Company (a) Initial Notes for original issue on the date hereof in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000,000 and (b) subject to the terms of the Indenture, Additional Notes. Such
order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be authenticated and whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes or Additional Notes. Section 2.3 Transfer and Exchange. (a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes. When Definitive Notes are presented to the
Registrar with a request: (i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or (ii) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other
authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction
are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange: (1) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing; and (2) in the case of Transfer Restricted Notes, are accompanied by the following additional information
and documents, as applicable: (A) if such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Registrar by
a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note); or (B) if such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company, a certification to that effect (in
the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note); or (C) if such Definitive Notes are
being transferred pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act or in reliance upon another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, (x) a certification to that
effect (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) and (y) if the Company so requests, an opinion of counsel or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to them as to the compliance with the restrictions set forth in the
applicable legends set forth in Section 2.3(e)(i). (b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for
a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note. A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly
endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar, together with: (i) (A) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such
Definitive Note is being transferred (1) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (2) outside the United States of America in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 904 under the
Securities Act; or (B) such other certification and Opinion of Counsel as the Trustee shall require; and 3
(ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to
make, or to direct the Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain
information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing
between the Depositary and the Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the
account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If no Global Notes are then outstanding and the Global Note has not been previously
exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.4, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of the Company in the form of an Officers Certificate, a new Global Note in the appropriate
principal amount. (c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. (i) The transfer and exchange of Global
Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with the Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the Applicable Procedures therefor. A transferor of a
beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global
Note or another Global Note and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the
beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred. Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through the Regulation S Global Note, whether before or after
the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, shall be made only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Notes from the transferor to the effect that such transfer is being made in
accordance with Regulation S or (if available) Rule 144 under the Securities Act and that, if such transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, the interest transferred shall be held immediately thereafter
through Euroclear or Clearstream. (ii) If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial
interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an
amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of Global Note from which such interest is being
transferred. (iii) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix A (other than the
provisions set forth in Section 2.4), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary. (iv) [Reserved]. 4
(d) Restrictions on Transfer of Regulation S
Global Note. (i) Prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be held through Euroclear or Clearstream. During the Distribution Compliance Period, beneficial
ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and only (1) to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (2) so long
as such security is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom the selling holder reasonably believes is a QIB that purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or
transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (3) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S, (4) pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act provided by Rule 144 (if applicable)
under the Securities Act or another available exemption or (5) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States of
America. Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through the Rule 144A Global Note shall be made only in accordance with Applicable Procedures and upon
receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Note to the effect that such transfer is being made to a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A in a
transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. (ii) Upon the expiration of the Distribution
Compliance Period, beneficial ownership interests in the Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of the Indenture. (e) Legends. (i) Except as permitted by this Section 2.3(e), each Note certificate evidencing the Global Notes
and the Definitive Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only)
(Restricted Notes Legend): THE OFFERING AND SALE OF THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER
THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND, ACCORDINGLY, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS,
EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE NEXT SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE HOLDER: (1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF TWITTER,
INC. AND (A) IT IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (A QIB), OR (B) IT HAS ACQUIRED THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT; 5
(2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE OR
ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN EXCEPT (A) TO TWITTER, INC. OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, (B) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QIB PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE
REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (C) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR 904 OF REGULATION S OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) IN
ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION; AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE OR AN INTEREST HEREIN IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE
SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS OFFSHORE TRANSACTIONS AND UNITED STATES HAVE
THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY RULE 902 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING. Each Definitive Note shall bear the following additional legend (Definitive Notes Legend): IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS
SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS. Each Global Note shall bear the
following additional legend (Global Notes Legend): UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF), 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 SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITARY, TO NOMINEES OF THE
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DEPOSITARY OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSORS NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET
FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. (ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a
Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Definitive Note that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the
transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144. (iii) [Reserved]. (iv) [Reserved]. (v) Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period of any Initial
Note or Additional Note acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Note or Additional Note bear the Restricted Notes Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Note or Additional Note be
issued in global form shall continue to apply. (vi) Any Additional Notes sold in a registered
offering shall not be required to bear the Restricted Notes Legend. (vii) To the extent that any
Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes held by or on behalf of the Depositary, the Company may cause the Restricted Notes Legend on any such Global Notes to be removed (or deemed removed) and cause such Global Notes to be identified by an
unrestricted CUSIP at any time on or after the one year anniversary of the later of (x) the Issue Date and (y) the date on which Additional Notes were last issued (it being understood that, if Additional Notes bear a different CUSIP, the
date after which the Company may cause the Restricted Notes Legend to be removed (1) with respect to such Additional Notes shall be the one year anniversary of their date of issuance and (2) with respect to the Initial Notes shall be the
one year anniversary of the Issue Date) by: (A) delivering to the Trustee a written notice
(x) certifying that all Notes represented by such Global Notes would be freely tradable under Rule 144 by a person who is not an affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144) and has not been an Affiliate of the Company (within the
meaning of Rule 144) during the immediately preceding three months, (y) instructing the Trustee to take any actions as may be necessary so that the Restricted Notes Legend set forth on the Global Notes shall be deemed removed from the Global
Notes in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes and the Indenture, without further action on the part of Holders and (z) instructing the Trustee to take any actions as may be necessary so that the restricted CUSIP number for the
Notes shall be removed from the Global Notes and replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number. Immediately upon receipt of such notice by the Trustee the Restricted Notes Legend will be deemed removed from each of the Global Notes specified in such
notice and the restricted CUSIP number will be deemed removed from each of such Global Notes and deemed replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number; and (B) providing the Depositary an instruction letter for the Depositarys mandatory exchange process
(or any successor notice, form or action required pursuant to the Applicable Procedures) to the extent required. 7
(viii) From and after the one year anniversary of the
issue date of any Transfer Restricted Note, upon written direction of the Company: (A) The
Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange any Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note for a Definitive Note that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted
Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar and the Company that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 and that such Holder is not (and has not been during the preceding three months) an affiliate (as
defined under Rule 144) of the Company; and (B) Beneficial interests in a Transfer Restricted Note
that is a Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in Global Note that does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar and the Company that its request for such exchange was made in reliance
on Rule 144 and that such Holder is not (and has not been during the preceding three months) an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of Rule 144. (f) Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial interests in a
Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Depositary to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time
prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented
by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, to reflect such
reduction. (g) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes. (i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate,
Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrars request. (ii) No service charge shall be made for any
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or
similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.07, 2.10, 3.06, 4.10 and 9.05 of the Indenture). (iii) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying
Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether
or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary. (iv) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of the Indenture shall evidence the same
debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange. 8
(h) No Obligation of the Trustee. (i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a
member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with
respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All
notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The
rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the Applicable Procedures. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with
respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners. (ii) The Trustee shall have no
obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under the Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or
among Agent Members, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of
the Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. (iii) [Reserved]. (iv) In connection with any exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that bears a Restricted
Notes Legend for any Global Note that does not bear a Restricted Notes Legend in accordance with Section 2.3(e), if a Global Note that does not bear a Restricted Notes Legend is not then outstanding (or an insufficient principal amount of such
Global Notes are outstanding to permit such exchange) and the Global Notes have not been previously exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.4, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon written order of
the Company in the form of an Officers Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel one or more new Global Note without the Restricted Notes Legend in the appropriate principal amounts. Section 2.4 Definitive Notes. (a) A Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as Custodian pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be
transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.3
and (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depositary for such Global Note or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in
each case, a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or after the Company becomes aware of such cessation, or (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such beneficial owner
requests that its beneficial interest in a Global Note be exchanged for notes in physical, certificated form, or (iii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of certificated
Notes under the Indenture. In addition, any Affiliate of the Company or any Guarantor that is a beneficial owner of all or part of a Global Note may have such Affiliates beneficial interest transferred to such Affiliate in the form of a
Definitive Note, by providing a written request to the Company and the Trustee and such Opinions of Counsel, certificates or other information as may be required by the Indenture or the Company or Trustee. 9
(b) Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners
thereof pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each
portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Any portion of a Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in
minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof and registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct. Any certificated Initial Note or Additional Note in the form of a Definitive Note delivered in exchange
for an interest in the Global Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.3(f), bear the Restricted Notes Legend. (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.4(b), the registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and
otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under the Indenture or the Notes. (d) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.4(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), the
Company shall promptly make available to the Registrar a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons. 10
EXHIBIT A [FORM OF FACE OF NOTE] [Insert
the Restricted Notes Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture] [Insert the Global Notes Legend, if applicable,
pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture] [Insert the Definitive Notes Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the
Indenture] A-1
CUSIP [ ] ISIN [ ]1 [RULE 144A][REGULATION S][GLOBAL] NOTE 5.000% Senior Note due 2030 TWITTER, INC. promises to pay to CEDE & CO. or registered assigns, the principal sum [set forth on the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note
attached hereto] [of U.S. Dollars] on March 1, 2030. Interest Payment Dates: March 1 and September 1 Record Dates: February 15 and August 15 Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 90184L AP7 Rule 144A Note ISIN: US90184LAP76 Regulation S Note CUSIP: U8882P AB3 Regulation S Note ISIN: USU8882PAB32 A-2
IN WITNESS HEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. Dated: [ ] [ ],
20[ ] Dated: A-3
[Back of Note] 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated. 1. INTEREST. Twitter, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), promises to pay interest on the
principal amount of this Note at 5.000% per annum from and including [February 25, 2022]2[ ]3 until but excluding maturity and shall pay Additional Interest, if any. The Company shall pay or cause to be paid interest semi-annually in arrears on March 1 and September 1 of each year
and on the maturity date (each, an Interest Payment Date). If any Interest Payment Date, optional redemption date, purchase date or maturity date is not a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any)
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on such payment for the period after such payment was due to such next succeeding Business
Day. Interest on the Notes shall accrue from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from and including the date of issuance; provided that the first Interest Payment Date shall be
September 1, 2022. The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at the interest rate on the Notes; it shall
pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law) on overdue installments of interest, including Additional Interest, if any, (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at
the interest rate on the Notes. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. 2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company shall pay or cause to be paid interest, including Additional Interest, if any, on
the Notes to the Persons who are registered holders of Notes at the close of business on February 15 and August 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are
canceled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.12 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Principal of and premium, if any, and interest, including Additional Interest,
if any, on the Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest, including Additional Interest, if any, may be made by check mailed to the Holders at
their respective addresses set forth in the register of Holders; provided that payment by wire transfer within the continental United States of immediately available funds shall be required with respect to principal of and interest, including
Additional Interest, if any, and premium, if any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions within the continental United States to the Company or the Paying Agent. Such payment
shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. With respect to any Definitive Notes, presentment of Notes is due at maturity. 3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, the Trustee under the
Indenture, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity. With respect to the Initial Notes. With respect to the Notes other than the Initial Notes. Fill in appropriate date. A-4
4. INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated
as of February 25, 2022 (the Indenture), between the Company and the Trustee. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company designated as its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030. The Company shall be entitled
to issue Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.01 of the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture for a statement of such terms. To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the
express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling. 5. REDEMPTION AND REPURCHASE; SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE. The Notes are subject to optional redemption, and may be subject of an Offer to Purchase, as further described in the Indenture. The Company
shall not be required to make any mandatory redemption or mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes. The Notes are subject to satisfaction, discharge and defeasance as further described in the Indenture. 6. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of
$2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish
appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and Holders shall be required to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected
for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, the Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before the sending of a notice of redemption of Notes to be
redeemed. 7. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.
8. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the Notes may be amended or
supplemented as provided in the Indenture. 9. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. The Events of Default relating to the Notes
are defined in Section 6.01 of the Indenture. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the rights and obligations of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders shall be as set forth in the Indenture. 10. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for
any purpose until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee. 11. [Reserved]. 12. GOVERNING LAW. THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND
THE GUARANTEES WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY. A-5
13. CUSIP AND ISIN NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated
by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP and ISIN numbers to be printed on the Notes, and the Trustee may use CUSIP and ISIN numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon. The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to the Company
at the following address: c/o Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San
Francisco, California 94103 Attention: Chief Legal Officer A-6
ASSIGNMENT FORM To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (Insert assignees soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.) (Print or type assignees name,
address and zip code) to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him. Date: Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to
the Trustee). A-7
CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED NOTES This
certificate relates to $ principal amount of Notes held in (check applicable space) book-entry or
definitive form by the undersigned. The undersigned (check one
box below): has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global
Note held by the Depositary a Note or Notes in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Note (or the portion thereof indicated above) in accordance with
the Indenture; or has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or register the transfer of a Note or Notes.
In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the holding
period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with its terms: CHECK ONE BOX BELOW Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate
in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (4) or (5) is checked, the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions,
certifications and other information as the Company or the Trustee has reasonably requested for the Company to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933. Signature must be guaranteed by a participant
in a recognized signature guaranty medallion program or
other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee A-8
TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED. The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises
sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is
relying upon the undersigneds foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A. NOTICE: To be executed by an executive
officer A-9
OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE If you want to elect to have all of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Indenture, check the box below:
[ ] If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10, state the amount you elect to
have purchased: $ Date: Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to
the Trustee). A-10
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE* The initial outstanding principal amount of this Global Note is $__________. The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an
interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made: Date of This schedule should be included only if the Note is issued in global form. A-11
EXHIBIT B FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE TO
BE DELIVERED BY GUARANTORS [ ] Supplemental
Indenture (this Supplemental Indenture), dated as of [ ] [ ], 20[ ], among
(the Guaranteeing Subsidiary), a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
Company), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee). W I T N E S S
E T H WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture (the Indenture), dated
as of February 25, 2022, providing for the issuance of an unlimited aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 (the Notes); WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a
supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall unconditionally guarantee all of the Companys Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture
without the consent of Holders of Notes. NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows: 1. Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them
in the Indenture. 2. Guarantor. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby agrees to be a Guarantor under the
Indenture and to be bound by the terms of the Indenture applicable to Guarantors, including, but not limited to, Article 10 thereof and further agrees that this Supplemental Indenture is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms. 3. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF. 4. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture. Except as expressly amended hereby,
the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of
Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby 5. Counterparts. This
Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of
signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all
purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF or other B-1
electronic transmission shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. All notices, approvals, consents, requests and any communications hereunder must be in writing (provided
that any such communication sent to the Trustee hereunder must be in the form of a document that is signed manually or by way of a digital signature provided by DocuSign or other electronic signature provider that the Company plans to use (or such
other digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Trustee by the authorized representative), in English. The Company agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of using digital signatures and electronic methods to submit
communications to Trustee, including without limitation the risk of Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties. 6. Headings. The headings of the Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Supplemental Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. 7. Trustees Disclaimer. The Trustee makes no representations and will not be responsible in any manner
whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Company and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the
same. 8. Notices. All notices or other communications to the New Guarantor shall be given as provided in
Section 11.02 of the Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly
executed, all as of the date first above written. [Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]
Offer Expiration Date
4.10(b)
Offer to Purchase
4.10(a)
Paying Agent
2.03(a)
purchase amount
4.10(b)
purchase date
4.10(b)
Purchase Price
4.10(b)
QIB
1.1(a) of Appendix A
Registrar
2.03(a)
Regulation S
1.1(a) of Appendix A
Regulation S Global Note
2.1(b) of Appendix A
Regulation S Notes
2.1(a) of Appendix A
Restricted Notes Legend
2.3(e) of Appendix A
Rule 144
1.1(a) of Appendix A
Rule 144A
1.1(a) of Appendix A
Rule 144A Global Note
2.1(b) of Appendix A
Rule 144A Notes
2.1(a) of Appendix A
Rule 904
1.1(a) of Appendix A
Successor Company
5.01(a)(1)
Successor Guarantor
5.01(b)(1)
TWITTER, INC.
By:
Name:
Ned Segal
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:
Name:
Bradley Scarbrough
Title:
Vice President
Agent Members
2.1(c)
Book-Entry Interest
2.1(c)
Definitive Notes Legend
2.3(e)
Global Notes Legend
2.3(e)
Regulation S Global Note
2.1(b)
Regulation S Notes
2.1(a)
Restricted Notes Legend
2.3(e)
Rule 144A Notes
2.1(a)
Rule 144A Global Note
2.1(b)
No.
[Up to][$ ]
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TWITTER, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture:
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:
Authorized Signatory
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(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:
(Insert assignees legal name)
and irrevocably appoint
Your Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)
Signature Guarantee*:
*
☐
☐
☐
(1)
to the Company or subsidiary thereof; or
☐
(2)
to the Registrar for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer; or
☐
(3)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933; or
☐
(4)
to a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that
such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933; or
☐
(5)
in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933.
Your Signature:
Signature Guarantee:
Date:
Signature of Signature Guarantor
Dated:
Your Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears
on the face of this Note)
Tax Identification No.:
Signature Guarantee*:
*
Exchange
Amount of
decrease
in Principal
Amount
Amount of increase
in Principal
Amount of this
Global Note
Principal Amount of
this Global Note
following such
decrease or increase
Signature of
authorized signatory
of Trustee or
Custodian
*
TWITTER, INC.,
By:
Name:
Title:
[NAME OF GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY]
By:
Name:
Title:
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
Exhibit 10.1
Twitter, Inc.
5.000% Senior Notes Due 2030
Purchase Agreement
February 23, 2022
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
As representative of the several Purchasers
named in Schedule I hereto,
c/o | J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
383 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10179
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Twitter, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Company), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated in this agreement (this Agreement), to issue and sell to the Purchasers named in Schedule I hereto (the Purchasers), for whom you are acting as representative (the Representative), an aggregate of $1,000,000,000 principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 (the Securities).
1. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Purchasers that:
(a) A preliminary offering memorandum, dated February 23, 2022 (the Preliminary Offering Memorandum), and an offering memorandum, dated February 23, 2022 (the Offering Memorandum), have been prepared in connection with the offering of the Securities. The Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined in Section 1(b)), is hereinafter referred to as the Pricing Memorandum. Any reference to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to refer to and include all documents filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), on or prior to the date of such memorandum and incorporated by reference therein and any reference to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum, as the case may be, as amended or supplemented, as of any specified date, shall be deemed to include (i) any documents filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum, as the case may be, and prior to such specified date and (ii) any Additional Issuer Information (as defined in Section 5(f)) furnished by the Company prior to the completion of the distribution of the Securities; and all documents filed under the Exchange Act and so deemed to be included in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum or the
Offering Memorandum, as the case may be, or any amendment or supplement thereto are hereinafter called the Exchange Act Reports (provided that where only sections of such documents are specifically incorporated by reference, only such sections shall be considered to be part of the Exchange Act Reports). The Exchange Act Reports, when they were or are filed with the Commission, conformed or will conform in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and no such documents were filed with the Commission since the Commissions close of business on the business day immediately prior to the date of this Agreement and prior to the execution of this Agreement, except as set forth on Schedule II(a) hereof. The Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum and any amendments or supplements thereto did not and will not, as of their respective dates, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by a Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use therein;
(b) For the purposes of this Agreement, the Applicable Time is 3:05 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date of this Agreement; the Pricing Memorandum as supplemented by the information set forth in Schedule III hereto, taken together (collectively, the Pricing 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 Company Supplemental Disclosure Document (as defined in Section 6(a)(i)) listed on Schedule II(b) hereto does not conflict with the information contained in the Pricing Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum and each such Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing 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; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements or omissions made in a Company Supplemental Disclosure Document in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by a Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use therein;
(c) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Memorandum any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, other than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Memorandum; and, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Memorandum, there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than as a result of the exercise of stock options, the vesting of restricted stock units or the granting of stock options, restricted stock, or restricted stock units in the ordinary course of business pursuant to the Companys stock plans that are described in the Pricing Memorandum or the repurchase of shares of the Companys common stock, par value $0.000005 per share (the Stock) either (i) pursuant to the stock repurchase program authorized by the Companys board of directors and disclosed in the Pricing Memorandum (collectively, Stock Plans), including the repurchase or withholding of
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shares of Stock to cover tax withholding obligations of holders of securities issued pursuant to the Stock Plans or (ii) which were issued pursuant to the early exercise of stock options by option holders, pursuant to restricted stock awards, or pursuant to agreements in connection with which the Company acquired businesses or assets from third parties and are subject to repurchase by the Company) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than, in each case, as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Memorandum;
(d) The Company and its subsidiaries do not own any real property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them (other than with respect to Intellectual Property which is addressed exclusively in subsection (aa)), in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as are described in the Pricing Memorandum or such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; and any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them, to the Companys knowledge, under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases (subject to the effects of (A) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting rights or remedies of creditors generally; (B) the application of general principles of equity (including without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether enforcement is considered in proceedings at law or in equity); and (C) applicable law and public policy with respect to rights to indemnity and contribution) (collectively, the Enforceability Exceptions) with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries;
(e) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Pricing Memorandum, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the financial position, stockholders equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a Material Adverse Effect); and each significant subsidiary of the Company (each, a Significant Subsidiary), as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act), has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation (or other entity) in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, to the extent that the concept of good standing (or a functional equivalent) is applicable under the laws of such jurisdiction, except where the failure to be so qualified or to be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(f) The Company has the capitalization as set forth in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are non-assessable;
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and all of the issued shares of capital stock (or other ownership interests) of each Significant Subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and (except for directors qualifying shares) are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims except for such liens, encumbrances, equities or claims that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(g) The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the indenture relating to the Securities to be dated as of February 25, 2022 (the Indenture) between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee (the Trustee), under which they are to be issued, and delivered and paid for pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions;
(h) The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, such Indenture will constitute a valid and legally binding instrument, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms subject to the Enforceability Exceptions; and the Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum;
(i) Prior to the date hereof, the Company, has not and to its knowledge none of its affiliates acting on its behalf, has taken any action which is designed to or which has constituted or which would reasonably have been expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company in connection with the offering of the Securities other than as permitted by Regulation M under the Exchange Act;
(j) The issue and sale of the Securities and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the Indenture and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, (A) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) the Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, or (C) any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, except, in the case of (A) and (C), for such violations that would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or the Indenture, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Purchasers;
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(k) Neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is (A) in violation of its Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or similar organizational documents or (B) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound, except in the case of (B) for such defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;
(l) The statements set forth in the Pricing Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum under the caption Description of Notes, insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Securities, and under the captions, Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations, and Plan of Distribution, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, fairly and accurately summarize the matters set forth therein in all material respects;
(m) Other than as set forth in the Pricing Memorandum, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or, to the Companys knowledge, of which any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which would reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the Companys knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others;
(n) When the Securities are issued and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, the Securities will not be of the same class (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Act (Rule 144A)) as securities which are listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system, and will be eligible for resale under Rule 144A;
(o) The Company is subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(p) The Company is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package, will not be, required to register as an investment company, as such term is defined in the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the Investment Company Act);
(q) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(r) Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf (other than the Purchasers, as to which no representation is made) has offered or sold the Securities by means of any general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) under the Act or, with respect to Securities sold outside the United States to non-U.S. persons (as defined in Rule 902 under the Act), by means of any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Rule 902 under the Act and the Company, any affiliate of the Company and any person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchasers, as to which no representation is made) has complied with the offering restrictions within the meaning of such Rule 902;
(s) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) has, directly or through any agent, sold, offered for sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect of, any security (as defined in the Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Act;
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(t) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who have audited certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(u) The Company maintains a system of internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that is designed to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by the Companys principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or under their supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (U.S. GAAP) and to provide reasonable assurance that interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Pricing Memorandum, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum is prepared in accordance with the Commissions rules and guidelines applicable thereto. The Companys internal control over financial reporting is effective and the Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting;
(v) Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Memorandum, there has been no change in the Companys internal control over financial reporting that has materially and adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect, the Companys internal control over financial reporting;
(w) The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are designed to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its subsidiaries is made known to the Companys principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective;
(x) The financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, included in each of the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates indicated and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in all material respects in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in all material respects in accordance with the Commissions rules and guidelines applicable thereto;
(y) The Company and its subsidiaries own, possess or can obtain on reasonable terms sufficient rights to use all patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names and other intellectual property (collectively, Intellectual Property) used in, held for use in or necessary for the conduct of the business now operated by them, except where the failure to own or possess any of the foregoing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its
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subsidiaries has received any written notice or claim alleging any infringement, misappropriation, violation of or conflict with any such rights of others, except in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there is no pending or, to the Companys knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by any party challenging the validity, scope, enforceability or ownership of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or its subsidiaries, and all Intellectual Property owned by the Company or its subsidiaries is owned solely by the Company or its subsidiaries, is valid and enforceable, and is owned free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, defects or other restrictions. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all material trade secrets and confidential information owned, used or held for use by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that the Company in its reasonable business judgment wishes to maintain as trade secrets;
(z) The Company and its subsidiaries have complied and are in compliance in all material respects with their respective privacy policies and other contractual or legal obligations regarding the collection, processing, use, transfer, storage, protection, disposal and disclosure by the Company and its subsidiaries of personal and/or user data or information gathered or accessed in the course of their respective operations, and with respect to all such data or information, the Company and its subsidiaries have taken the steps reasonably necessary to protect such information against loss and against unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse, and, other than as set forth in the Pricing Memorandum, to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no privacy or data security breach, incident or other unauthorized access to or other misuse of such data or information that would individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(aa) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), for which the Company or any member of its Controlled Group (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code)) would have any liability has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to, ERISA and the Code, except for such noncompliance, as would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;
(bb) The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries possess all licenses, permits, certificates and other authorizations from, and have made all declarations and filings with, all governmental authorities, required or necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate their respective properties and to carry on their respective businesses as now or proposed to be conducted as set forth in the Pricing Memorandum (Permits), except where the failure to obtain such Permits would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its Significant Subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of their respective obligations with respect to such Permits and no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit except, in each case, as would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(cc) Except as described in or incorporated by reference into the Pricing Memorandum, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any subsidiary and any person granting such person the right to require the Company or any subsidiary to file a registration statement under the Act with respect to any securities of the Company or any subsidiary;
(dd) The Company and each of its subsidiaries have filed all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions thereof (except where the failure to file would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by U.S. GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no unpaid tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which has had a Material Adverse Effect; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have notice or knowledge of any unpaid tax deficiency which is reasonably expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its subsidiaries and would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ee) The Company and its subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or materials, pollutants or contaminants (Environmental Laws), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ff) There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (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) which would individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect;
(gg) The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries taken as a whole are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as the Company believes are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged;
(hh) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director or executive officer thereof, nor, to the Companys knowledge, any affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any employee, agent or representative of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, has taken any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any government official (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for
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political office) to corruptly influence official action or secure an improper advantage for the Company; and the Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance in all material respects with applicable anti-corruption laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws in all material respects;
(ii) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are conducted 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 knowledge of the Company, threatened; and
(jj) (A) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director or executive officer thereof, nor, to the Companys knowledge, any employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (Person) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is:
(1) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a specially designated national or blocked person), the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the European Union, any European Union member state, Her Majestys Treasury (HMT), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, Sanctions), nor
(2) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, the so-called Donetsk Peoples Republic, the so-called Luhansk Peoples Republic or any other Covered Region of Ukraine identified pursuant to Executive Order 14065 and Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria);
(B) The Company will not, directly or indirectly, knowingly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person:
(1) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or
(2) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise); and
(C) For the past 5 years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in and will not knowingly engage in any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.
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2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Purchasers, and each of the Purchasers agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of 99.100% of the principal amount of the Securities, plus accrued interest, if any, from February 25, 2022 to, but excluding, the Time of Delivery (the Purchase Price), the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the name of such Purchaser in Schedule I hereto.
3. Upon the authorization by the Company of the release of the Securities, the several Purchasers propose to offer the Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Offering Memorandum and each Purchaser, acting severally and not jointly, hereby represents and warrants to, and agrees with the Company that:
(a) it will sell the Securities only to persons who it reasonably believes are qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Act in transactions meeting the requirements of Rule 144A or in accordance with Regulation S under the Act (Regulation S);
(b) It is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Act or an Institutional Accredited Investor, within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Act; and
(c) Neither it nor any of its affiliates or any other person acting on its or their behalf (i) will solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Act or (ii) have engaged or will engage in any directed selling efforts (within the meaning of Regulation S) with respect to the Securities.
4. (a) The Securities to be purchased by each Purchaser hereunder will be represented by definitive global Securities in book-entry form which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (DTC) or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver the Securities to the Representative, for the account of each Purchaser, against payment by or on behalf of such Purchaser of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of Federal (same day) funds, by causing DTC to credit the Securities to the account of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at DTC. The Company will cause the certificates representing the Securities to be made available to the Representative for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery (as defined below) at the office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, California 94025 (the Closing Location). The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on February 25, 2022 or such other time and date as the Representative and the Company may agree upon in writing; provided, however, that any other delivery date for which written notice must be given hereunder must be at least two New York Business Days (as defined below) after such written notice is given and may not be earlier than February 25, 2022 nor later than ten New York Business Days (as defined below) after the date of such notice. Such time and date for delivery of the Securities are herein called the Time of Delivery.
(b) The documents to be delivered at the Time of Delivery by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 8 hereof, including the cross-receipt for the Securities and any additional documents requested by the Purchasers pursuant to Section 8(j) hereof, will be delivered at such time and date at the Closing Location, and the Securities will be delivered at the office of DTC (or its designated custodian), all at the Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding the Time of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties hereto. For the purposes of this
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Section 4, New York Business Day shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
5. The Company agrees with each of the Purchasers:
(a) To prepare the Offering Memorandum in a form approved by the Representative; to make no amendment or any supplement to the Offering Memorandum which shall be disapproved by the Representative promptly after reasonable notice thereof; and to furnish the Purchasers with copies thereof;
(b) Promptly from time to time to take such action as the Representative may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative may reasonably request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the Securities, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction or subject itself to taxation in such jurisdiction in which it was not otherwise subject to taxation as a foreign corporation;
(c) To furnish the Purchasers with written and electronic copies of the Offering Memorandum and any amendment or supplement thereto in such quantities as the Representative may from time to time reasonably request, and if, at any time prior to the expiration of nine months after the date of the Offering Memorandum, any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Offering Memorandum as then amended or supplemented would include an 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 when such Offering Memorandum is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum, to notify the Representative and upon its request to prepare and furnish without charge to each Purchaser and to any dealer in securities (whose name and address the Purchasers shall furnish to the Company) as many written and electronic copies as it may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Offering Memorandum or a supplement to the Offering Memorandum which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance;
(d) During the period beginning from the date hereof and continuing until the date that is 60 days after the date of the Offering Memorandum, not to offer, issue, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise transfer or dispose of any debt securities of the Company having a tenor of more than one year;
(e) Not to be or become, at any time prior to the expiration of two years after the Time of Delivery, an open-end investment company, unit investment trust, closed-end investment company or face-amount certificate company that is or is required to be registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act;
(f) At any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, for the benefit of holders from time to time of Securities, to furnish at its expense, upon request, to holders of Securities and prospective purchasers of Securities designated by such holders, information (the Additional Issuer Information) satisfying the requirements of subsection (d)(4)(i) of Rule 144A under the Act;
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(g) To furnish to the holders of the Securities as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by independent public accountants) and, as soon as practicable after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal quarter ending after the date of the Offering Memorandum), to make available to its stockholders consolidated summary financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail; provided that the Company may satisfy the requirements of this subsection (g) by electronically filing such reports or information through EDGAR as long as the Company files all reports required under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
(h) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its controlled affiliates (as defined in Rule 144 under the Act) to, resell any of the Securities which constitute restricted securities under Rule 144 that have been reacquired by any of them (other than pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Act) for a period of one (1) year after the date of issuance of such Securities;
(i) To use the net proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in the manner specified in the Pricing Memorandum under the caption Use of Proceeds; and
(j) Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) will, directly or through any agent, sell, offer for sale, solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of, any security (as defined in the Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Act.
6. (a) (i) The Company represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Representative, it and its affiliates and any other person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchasers, as to which no statement is given) (x) have not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that, if the offering of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement were conducted as a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Act with the Commission, would constitute an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 under the Act (any such offer including any electronic roadshow is hereinafter referred to as a Company Supplemental Disclosure Document), (y) have not solicited and will not solicit offers for, and have not offered or sold and will not offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D and (z) will not engage in any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Regulation S, and all such persons will comply with the offering restrictions requirement of Regulation S;
(ii) each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, represents and agrees that, without the prior consent of the Company and the Representative, other than one or more term sheets relating to the Securities containing customary information and conveyed to purchasers of securities, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that, if the offering of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement were conducted as a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Act with the Commission, would constitute a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 under the Act required to be filed under the Act (any such offer (other than any such term sheet), is hereinafter referred to as a Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Document); and
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(iii) any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Document, the use of which has been consented to by the Company and the Representative, is listed as applicable on Schedule II(b) or Schedule II(c) hereto, respectively.
7. The Company covenants and agrees with the several Purchasers that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Companys counsel and accountants in connection with the issue of the Securities and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, reproduction and filing of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum and any amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Purchasers and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing or producing any Agreement among Purchasers, this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities, closing documents (including any compilations thereof) and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(b) hereof, including the reasonably documented fees and disbursements of one counsel in each jurisdiction for the Purchasers in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys (such fees not to exceed $10,000); (iv) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the Securities; (v) the cost of preparing the Securities; (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any agent of the Trustee and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities; (vii) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with any road show presentation to potential purchasers of the Securities; (viii) any other costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Securities to the Purchasers, including any transfer taxes or other taxes payable thereon; and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section, and Sections 9 and 12 hereof, the Purchasers will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.
8. The obligations of the Purchasers hereunder shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and other statements of the Company herein are, at and as of the Time of Delivery, true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:
(a) Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Purchasers, shall have furnished to the Representative such written opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, with respect to such matters as it may reasonably request, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(b) Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative such written opinion or opinions, dated the Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative;
(c) On the date of this Agreement and also at the Time of Delivery, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP shall have furnished to the Representative a letter or letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof (the executed copy of the letter delivered on the date of this Agreement is attached as Annex A hereto) and the bring-down letter to be delivered at the Time of Delivery shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative;
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(d) (i) The Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, shall not have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Pricing Memorandum any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Memorandum, and (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Pricing Memorandum there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than as a result of the exercise of stock options, the vesting of restricted stock units or the granting of stock options, restricted stock, or restricted stock units in the ordinary course of business pursuant to the Stock Plans or the repurchase of any shares of Stock either (i) pursuant to the stock repurchase program authorized by the Companys board of directors and disclosed in the Pricing Memorandum or to cover withholding taxes on behalf of holders of securities issued pursuant to the Stock Plans or (ii) which were issued pursuant to the early exercise of stock options by option holders, pursuant to restricted stock awards, or pursuant to agreements in connection with which the Company acquired businesses or assets from third parties and are subject to repurchase by the Company) or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Pricing Memorandum, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in the Representatives judgment so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or the delivery of the Securities being delivered at the Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in this Agreement and in each of the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum;
(e) On or after the Applicable Time and prior to the Time of Delivery (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Companys debt securities by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Companys debt securities;
(f) On or after the Applicable Time and prior to the Time of Delivery there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC; (ii) a suspension or material limitation in trading in the Companys securities on the New York Stock Exchange; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities declared by either Federal, New York State or California State authorities or a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or (v) the occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in financial, political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any such event specified in clause (iv) or (v) in the Representatives judgment makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or the delivery of the Securities being delivered at the Time of Delivery on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Memorandum;
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(g) The chief financial officer of the Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated as of the Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative;
(h) The Purchasers shall have received an executed copy of the Indenture;
(i) The Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through the facilities of DTC; and
(j) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representative at the Time of Delivery certificates of officers of the Company reasonably satisfactory to Representative as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein at and as of the Time of Delivery, as to the performance by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Time of Delivery, as to the matters set forth in subsection (d) of this Section and as to such other matters as the Representative may reasonably request. The officer(s) signing and furnishing such certificate(s) may rely on his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.
9. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Purchaser against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Purchaser may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Memorandum, or any amendment or supplement thereto, any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Purchaser for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred and documented by such Purchaser in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that 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 an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Memorandum or any amendment or supplement thereto or any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use therein.
(b) Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Memorandum, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Pricing Memorandum, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Offering Memorandum or any such amendment or supplement or any Company Supplemental Disclosure Document, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Purchaser through the
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Representative expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the following information in the Pricing Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum: (x) the fourth and fifth sentences of the paragraph under the heading Plan of distributionNew issue of notes and (y) the paragraph under the heading Plan of distributionStabilization; and each Purchaser will reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred and documented by the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; provided that the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party under such subsection unless and to the extent it has been materially prejudiced through the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses; provided, further, that the omission to so notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the indemnifying party has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party; (iii) the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
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referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other from the offering of the Securities. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Purchasers on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total discounts and commissions received by the Purchasers, in each case as set forth in the Offering Memorandum. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Purchasers on the other and the parties relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Purchasers agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Purchasers were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred and documented by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Purchaser shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities purchased by it pursuant to this Agreement and distributed to investors were offered to investors exceeds the amount of any damages which such Purchaser has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. The Purchasers obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of each Purchaser and each person, if any, who controls any Purchaser within the meaning of the Act and each broker-dealer affiliate of each Purchaser; and the obligations of the Purchasers under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Purchasers may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act.
10. (a) If any Purchaser shall default in its obligation to purchase the Securities which it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the Representative may in its discretion arrange for it or another party or other parties to purchase such Securities on the terms contained herein at the
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Time of Delivery. If within thirty-six hours after such default by any Purchaser the Representative does not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or other parties reasonably satisfactory to the Representative to purchase such Securities on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, the Representative notifies the Company that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, or the Company notifies the Representative that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Securities, the Representative or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Offering Memorandum, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to prepare promptly any amendments or supplements to the Offering Memorandum which in the opinion of the Representative may thereby be made necessary. The term Purchaser as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement with respect to such Securities.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers by the Representative and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Purchaser to purchase the principal amount of Securities which such Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder at the Time of Delivery and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Purchaser to purchase its pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities which such Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Purchaser from liability for its default.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers by the Representative and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Securities which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Purchasers to purchase Securities of a defaulting Purchaser or Purchasers, then this Agreement shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Purchaser or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company and the Purchasers as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Purchaser from liability for its default.
11. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Purchasers, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Purchaser or any officer, director, broker-dealer affiliate or controlling person of any Purchaser, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.
12. If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company shall not then be under any liability to any Purchaser except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason (other than those set forth in clauses (i), (iii), (iv) or (v) of Section 8(f)), the Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided
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herein, the Company will reimburse the Purchasers through the Representative for all documented out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by the Representative, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred and documented by the Purchasers in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities, but the Company shall then be under no further liability to any Purchaser except as provided in Sections 7 and 9 hereof.
13. In all dealings hereunder, the Representative shall act on behalf of each of the Purchasers, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Purchaser made or given by the Representative.
All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to the Purchasers shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to the Representative at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: High Yield Syndicate, and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth in the Offering Memorandum, Attention: General Counsel; provided, however, that any notice to a Purchaser pursuant to Section 9 hereof shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to such Purchaser at its address set forth in its Purchasers questionnaire, which address will be supplied to the Company by the Representative upon request. Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.
In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Purchasers 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 Purchasers to properly identify their respective clients.
14. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Purchasers, the Company and, to the extent provided in Sections 9 and 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company and the officers, directors, broker-dealer affiliates or any controlling person of any Purchaser, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Securities from any Purchaser shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.
15. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
16. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arms-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Purchasers, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each Purchaser is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, (iii) no Purchaser has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Purchaser has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) or any other obligation to the Company except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement and (iv) the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Purchasers, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto. None of the activities of any of the Purchasers in connection with the transactions contemplated herein shall constitute a recommendation, investment advice, or solicitation of any action by any of the Purchasers with respect to any entity or natural person.
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17. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Purchasers, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
18. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY MATTERS RELATED TO THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this agreement or our 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.
19. The Company and each Purchaser 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.
20. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including any electronic signature covered by the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures and Records Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.
21. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company (and the Companys employees, representatives, and other agents) are authorized to disclose to any and all persons, the tax treatment and tax structure of the potential transaction and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and other tax analyses) provided to the Company relating to that treatment and structure, without the Purchasers imposing any limitation of any kind. However, any information relating to the tax treatment and tax structure shall remain confidential (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent necessary to enable any person to comply with securities laws. For this purpose, tax treatment means U.S. federal and state income tax treatment, and tax structure is limited to any facts that may be relevant to that treatment.
22. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.
(a) In the event that any Purchaser that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Purchaser 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 Purchaser that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Purchaser becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Purchaser 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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(c) As used in this section:
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.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us three counterparts hereof, and upon the acceptance hereof by the Representative, on behalf of each of the Purchasers, this letter and such acceptance hereof shall constitute a binding agreement among each of the Purchasers and the Company. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each of the Purchasers is pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Purchasers, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company for examination upon request, but without warranty on your part as to the authority of the signers thereof.
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Very truly yours, | ||||
TWITTER, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Ned Segal | |||
Name: | Ned Segal | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
Accepted as of the date hereof: | ||||
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | ||||
By: | /s/ Catherine ODonnell | |||
Name: | Catherine ODonnell | |||
Title: | JPMorgan Securities | |||
Managing Director |
On behalf of each of the Purchasers
[Signature Page to Purchase Agreement]
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SCHEDULE I
Purchaser |
Principal Amount of Securities to be Purchased |
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J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
$ | 330,000,000 | ||
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
260,000,000 | |||
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
150,000,000 | |||
BofA Securities, Inc. |
95,000,000 | |||
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC |
95,000,000 | |||
Allen & Company LLC |
40,000,000 | |||
Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC |
15,000,000 | |||
Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. |
15,000,000 | |||
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Total |
$ | 1,000,000,000 | ||
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SCHEDULE II
(a) | Additional Documents Incorporated by Reference: |
None.
(b) | Company Supplemental Disclosure Documents: |
Electronic Roadshow Presentation, dated February 23, 2022
Term Sheet setting forth the final terms of the Securities, substantially in the form attached hereto as Schedule III.
(c) | Purchaser Supplemental Disclosure Documents: |
None.
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SCHEDULE III
[Term Sheet]
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Pricing Term Sheet, dated February 23, 2022
to Preliminary Offering Memorandum, dated February 23, 2022
Strictly Confidential
Twitter, Inc.
This pricing term sheet is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, dated February 23, 2022 (the Preliminary Offering Memorandum). The information in this pricing term sheet supplements the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and updates and supersedes the information in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum to the extent it is inconsistent with the information in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum. Terms used and not defined herein have the meanings assigned in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum.
The notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction. The notes may not be offered or sold in the United States or to U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) except in transactions exempt from, or not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Accordingly, the notes are being offered only to (1) qualified institutional buyers as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (Rule 144A) and (2) to non-U.S. persons outside the United States in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act (Regulation S).
Issuer: | Twitter, Inc. (the Company) | |
Security Description: | 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030 (the notes) | |
Distribution: | Rule 144A and Regulation S without registration rights | |
Principal Amount: | $1,000,000,000 | |
Gross Proceeds: | $1,000,000,000 | |
Maturity: | March 1, 2030 | |
Coupon: | 5.000% | |
Issue Price: | 100.000% of face amount | |
Yield to Maturity: | 5.000% | |
Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | +306 basis points | |
Benchmark Treasury Price and Yield: | 1.500% UST due February 15, 2030 | |
Interest Payment Dates: | March 1 and September 1, commencing September 1, 2022 | |
Optional Redemption: | Make-whole call @ T+50 bps prior to December 1, 2029 (the date that is three months prior to the maturity date of the notes). |
On or after December 1, 2029 (the date that is three months prior to the maturity date of the notes), at par, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. | ||
Change of Control: | Putable at 101% of principal plus accrued and unpaid interest | |
Trade Date: | February 23, 2022 | |
Settlement: | T+2; February 25, 2022. | |
CUSIP / ISIN: | 90184L AP7/US90184LAP76 (144A)
U8882P AB3/USU8882PAB32 (Reg S) | |
Denominations/Multiple: | $2,000 / $1,000 | |
Existing Ratings*: | S&P: BB+ Moodys: Ba2 | |
Joint Book-Running Managers: | J.P. Morgan Securities LLC Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC BofA Securities, Inc. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC | |
Co-managers: | Allen & Company LLC Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. |
This material is confidential and is for your information only and is not intended to be used by anyone other than you. This information does not purport to be a complete description of these notes or the offering. Please refer to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum for a complete description.
This communication is being distributed in the United States to Qualified Institutional Buyers (as defined in Rule 144A), and to Non-U.S. persons (as defined under Regulation S) outside the United States.
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation in such jurisdiction.
* | A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time. |
Any disclaimer or other notice that may appear below is not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimer or notice was automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent by Bloomberg or another email system.
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ANNEX A
[Form of Pricing Comfort Letter
of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.]
Exhibit 99.1
Twitter, Inc. Announces Proposed $1 Billion Senior Notes Offering
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 23, 2022 Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2030 (the notes) in a private placement to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act).
The notes will be senior obligations of Twitter, and interest will be payable semi-annually in arrears. The interest rate and other terms of the notes are to be determined through negotiations between Twitter and the initial purchasers.
Twitter intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, investments, repayment of debt, repurchases of Twitters common stock, working capital and potential acquisitions and strategic transactions. From time to time Twitter evaluates potential strategic transactions and acquisitions of businesses, technologies or products. Currently, however, Twitter does not have any agreements with respect to any such material strategic transactions or acquisitions.
This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The notes have not been and will not be registered under the Act or the securities laws of any jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
Contacts
Investors:
ir@twitter.com
Press:
press@twitter.com
Exhibit 99.2
Twitter Prices Offering of Senior Notes
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 23, 2022 Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced the pricing of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% senior notes due 2030 (the Notes). The Notes are being offered to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act. The sale of the Notes is expected to close on February 25, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Interest on the Notes will be payable in cash semi-annually in arrears, beginning on September 1, 2022.
The Notes will mature on March 1, 2030, unless earlier repurchased or redeemed. Holders of the Notes may require Twitter to repurchase the Notes upon the occurrence of certain change of control events at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
Prior to December 1, 2029, Twitter may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus a make-whole premium and accrued and unpaid interest, if any. On and after December 1, 2029, Twitter may redeem the Notes at 100% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
Twitter intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, investments, repayment of debt, repurchases of Twitters common stock, working capital and potential acquisitions and strategic transactions. From time to time Twitter evaluates potential strategic transactions and acquisitions of businesses, technologies or products. Currently, however, Twitter does not have any agreements with respect to any such material strategic transactions or acquisitions.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
Contacts
Investors:
ir@twitter.com
Press:
press@twitter.com