0001104659-14-068930.txt : 20140929 0001104659-14-068930.hdr.sgml : 20140929 20140929160056 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-14-068930 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 10 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140923 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20140929 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140929 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TESARO, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001491576 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 272249687 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-35587 FILM NUMBER: 141127030 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 WINTER STREET, SUITE 3300 CITY: WALTHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02451 BUSINESS PHONE: (339) 970-0900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1000 WINTER STREET, SUITE 3300 CITY: WALTHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02451 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Tesaro, Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20100510 8-K 1 a14-21259_58k.htm 8-K

 

 

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): September 23, 2014

 


 

TESARO, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

(state or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)

 

001-35587

(Commission

File Number)

 

27-2249687

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

1000 Winter Street

Suite 3300

Waltham, Massachusetts

 

02451

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (339) 970-0900

 

 

(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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o                     Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o                     Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o                     Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o                     Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 



 

Section 1 — Registrant’s Business and Operations

 

Item 1.01                                           Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Underwriting Agreement and Indenture

 

On September 23, 2014, TESARO, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), in connection with the registered underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of $201,250,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”), including the underwriters’ option to purchase up to $26,250,000 aggregate principal amount of the Notes to cover over-allotments, if any (the “Option”), which was exercised in full. The closing of the sale of the Notes and the Option occurred on September 29, 2014. The Company estimates that the net proceeds from the Offering (including the Option) will be approximately $194.7 million after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.

 

The Offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-189718), previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including a final prospectus supplement to the prospectus contained therein filed with the SEC on September 24, 2014 (the “Prospectus”).

 

The Underwriting Agreement includes certain customary representations, warranties, and covenants by the Company, and it provides that the Company will indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or contribute to payments the Underwriters may be required to make because of any of those liabilities. The representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties.  The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Notes are governed by the terms of a Senior Debt Securities Indenture (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture relating to the Notes (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, each of which was entered into on September 29, 2014.  The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.00% per annum, payable semi-annually on April 1 and October 1, beginning from April 1, 2015, and will be convertible into cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination of cash and shares of the Company’s common stock, at the Company’s election. The Notes will mature on October 1, 2021, unless earlier converted or repurchased in accordance with their terms. Prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding April 1, 2021, the Notes will be convertible only upon the occurrence of certain events and during certain periods, and thereafter, at any time until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. The initial conversion price of the Notes is approximately $35.13 per share of common stock at an initial conversion rate of 28.4627 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which represents a premium of approximately 35% over the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock on September 23, 2014. The terms of the Notes, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture are described in the section of the Prospectus entitled “Description of Debt Securities,” as supplemented by the section entitled “Description of the Notes,” both of which are incorporated in this Current Report by reference. The foregoing description of the Notes and the Indenture does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture, which are filed as Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The legal opinion of Hogan Lovells US LLP relating to the validity of the Notes is attached as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

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Capped Call Transactions

 

In connection with the pricing of the Notes, the Company entered into privately-negotiated capped call transactions with Citibank, N.A. and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (the “Option Counterparties”). The aggregate cost of the capped call transactions entered into in connection with the pricing was approximately $18.11 million.  The Company and the Option Counterparties entered into additional capped call transactions on September 25, 2014 in connection with the Underwriters’ exercise of the Option at an aggregate cost of approximately $2.72 million.

 

The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution and/or offset the cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount upon conversion of the Notes in the event that the market price of the Company’s common stock is greater than the floor price of the capped call transactions, which will initially correspond to the initial conversion price of the Notes, with such reduction and/or offset being subject to a cap based on a cap price of approximately $45.54, subject to adjustment, which represents a premium of approximately 75% over the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock on September 23, 2014.

 

The capped call transactions are separate transactions entered into by the Company with the Option Counterparties, are not part of the terms of the Notes and will not change the holders’ rights under the Notes.

 

The foregoing description of the capped call transactions does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Base Capped Call Confirmations, dated September 23, 2014, between the Company and Citibank, N.A. and among the Company, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., acting solely as agent, which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference, and the Additional Capped Call Confirmations, dated September 25, 2014, between and among the same parties, in connection with the Underwriters’ exercise of the Option, which are filed as Exhibits 10.3 and 10.4, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Section 2 — Financial Information

 

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

 

The information included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Section 9 — Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

Item 9.01                                           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)                                 Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

 

 

1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated September 23, 2014, between the Company and the Underwriters named therein.

 

 

 

4.1

 

Senior Debt Securities Indenture, dated September 29, 2014, between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee

 

 

 

4.2

 

First Supplemental Indenture, dated September 29, 2014, between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee

 

 

 

5.1

 

Opinion of Hogan Lovells US LLP

 

 

 

10.1

 

Base Capped Call Confirmation, dated September 23, 2014, between the Company and Citibank, N.A.

 

 

 

10.2

 

Base Capped Call Confirmation, dated September 23, 2014, among the Company, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., acting solely as agent

 

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10.3

 

Additional Capped Call Confirmation, dated September 25, 2014, between the Company and Citibank, N.A.

 

 

 

10.4

 

Additional Capped Call Confirmation, dated September 25, 2014, among the Company, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., acting solely as agent

 

 

 

23.1

 

Consent of Hogan Lovells US LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).

 

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SIGNATURES

 

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

 

 

 

 

TESARO, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Dated: September 29, 2014

 

 

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EX-1.1 2 a14-21259_5ex1d1.htm EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

 

TESARO, Inc.

 

3.00% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2021

 

Underwriting Agreement

 

New York, New York
September 23, 2014

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.,

As Representatives of the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto

 

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

 

c/o Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

60 Wall Street, 46th Floor

New York, NY 10005

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

TESARO, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, the principal amount of its securities identified in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwritten Securities”). The Company also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional principal amount of securities set forth in Schedule I hereto to cover over-allotments (the “Option Securities”; the Option Securities, together with the Underwritten Securities, hereinafter called the “Securities”). The Securities are convertible into shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company at the conversion price set forth on Schedule IV hereto. The Securities are to be issued under a base indenture and a supplemental indenture (together, the “Indenture”), each to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined herein), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).  To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule II other than you, the term Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires.  Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after

 



 

the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference.  Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 20 hereof.

 

1.                                      Representations and Warranties.  The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1.

 

(a)                                 The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Act and has prepared and filed with the Commission an automatic shelf registration statement, as defined in Rule 405 (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I hereto) on Form S-3, including a related Base Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Securities.  Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing. The Company may have filed with the Commission, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), one or more preliminary prospectus supplements relating to the Securities, each of which has previously been furnished to you.  The Company will file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b).  As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain all information required by the Act and the Exchange Act and the respective rules thereunder and, except as otherwise required by law and after consultation with the Representatives, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall, except as otherwise required by law and after consultation with the Representatives, contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein.  The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x).  The initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement was not earlier than the date three years before the Execution Time.

 

(b)                                 On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date (as defined herein) and on any date on which Option Securities are purchased, if such date is not the Closing Date (a “settlement date”), the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date, at the Execution Time and on the Closing Date, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Closing Date the Indenture will comply in all material respects with the applicable  requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date and any settlement date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact

 

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necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.

 

(c)                                  (i) The Disclosure Package and the price to the public, the number of Underwritten Securities, the underwriting discount and the number of Option Securities to be included on the cover page of the Final Prospectus, when taken together as a whole, (ii) each electronic road show, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package and the price to the public, the number of Underwritten Securities, the underwriting discount and the number of Option Securities to be included on the cover page of the Final Prospectus, and (iii) any individual Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package and the price to the public, the number of Underwritten Securities, the underwriting discount and the number of Option Securities to be included on the cover page of the Final Prospectus, does not contain 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.  The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.

 

(d)                                 (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163, and (iv) at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), the Company was or is (as the case may be) a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405.  The Company agrees to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).

 

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(e)                                  (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) of the Securities and (ii) as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Company was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer.

 

(f)                                   From the time of initial filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission (or, if earlier, the first date on which the Company engaged directly or through any Person authorized to act on its behalf in any Testing-the-Waters Communication) through the Execution Time, the Company has been and is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”).  “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Act.

 

(g)                                  The Company (i) has not alone engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication and (ii) has not authorized anyone other than the Representatives to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications.  The Company reconfirms that the Representatives have been authorized to act on its behalf in undertaking Testing-the-Waters Communications.  The Company has not distributed any Written Testing-the-Waters Communications.  “Written Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any Testing-the-Waters Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act.

 

(h)                                 Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement on file at the time of issuance of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified.  The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.

 

(i)                                     The interactive data in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

 

(j)                                    Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized with full corporate power and authority to own or lease,

 

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as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(k)                                 As of the Execution Time, TESARO UK Limited does not have any material assets or liabilities and does not have any material operations.

 

(l)                                     All the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Subsidiaries have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and, except as otherwise set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Subsidiaries are directly owned by the Company free and clear of any perfected security interest or any other security interests, claims, liens or encumbrances.

 

(m)                             There is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or Final Prospectus, or to be filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as required (and the Preliminary Prospectus contains in all material respects the same description of the foregoing matters contained in the Final Prospectus); and the statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus (or statements incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus) under the headings “Risk Factors—Risk Related to Our Business and Industry—Recently enacted and future legislation may increase the difficulty and cost for us to obtain marketing approval of and commercialize our product candidates and affect the prices we may obtain,” “Risk Factors—Risk Related to Our Business and Industry—If we breach the license agreements for our product candidates, we could lose the ability to continue the development and commercialization of our product candidates,” “Risk Factors—Risk Related to Our Business and Industry—Our relationships with customers and third-party payors will be subject to applicable anti-kickback, fraud and abuse and other healthcare laws and regulations, which could expose us to criminal sanctions, civil penalties, contractual damages, reputational harm and diminished profits and future earnings,” “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property,” “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Common Stock—Some provisions of our charter documents and Delaware law may have anti-takeover effects that could discourage an acquisition of us by others, even if an acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders, and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management,” “Business—Licensing Agreements,” “Business—Patents and Proprietary Rights,” “Business—Government Regulation,” and “Description of our Common Stock,” insofar as such statements summarize legal matters, agreements,

 

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documents or proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings.

 

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

 

(o)                                 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 Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, will not be required to be registered as an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(p)                                 No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with the transactions contemplated herein, except such as have been or will be (in the case of Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee) obtained under the Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

 

(q)                                 Neither the execution and delivery of the Indenture, issue and sale of the Securities nor the consummation of any other of the transactions herein or therein contemplated nor the fulfillment of the terms hereof or thereof, including the issuance of the Common Stock upon the conversion of the Securities, will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or the Subsidiaries pursuant to, (i) the charter or by-laws of the Company or the Subsidiaries, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company or the Subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or the Subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or the Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) as would not have a Material Adverse Effect or an adverse effect on the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(r)                                    No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement except for such rights of the Investors as have been waived.

 

(s)                                   The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, will constitute a legal, valid and binding instrument enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement

 

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of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and the Securities have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

(t)                                    The consolidated historical financial statements and schedules of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of the dates and for the periods indicated, comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein).

 

(u)                                 No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or the Subsidiaries or their respective property is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened that (i) could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(v)                                 Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to the conduct of its operations as presently conducted, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(w)                               Neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries is in violation or default of (i) any provision of its charter or by-laws, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or the Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, as applicable, except with respect to the Subsidiaries (and their respective properties), and except with respect to the Company (and its properties) in the

 

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case of clauses (ii) and (iii), in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(x)                                 Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and delivered their report with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, are independent public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder.

 

(y)                                 The Company has filed all tax returns that are required to be filed or has requested extensions thereof (except in any case in which the failure so to file would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto)) and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing is due and payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being contested in good faith or as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

(z)                                  No labor problem or dispute with the employees of the Company or the Subsidiaries exists or is threatened or, to the Company’s knowledge, imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or the Subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, that could have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

(aa)                          The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or the Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; and there are no claims by the Company or the Subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause; neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

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(bb)                          The Subsidiaries are not currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on the Subsidiaries’ capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to the Subsidiaries from the Company or from transferring any of the Subsidiaries’ property or assets to the Company, except as described in or contemplated by the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

(cc)                            The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by all applicable authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except in each case, the lack of which would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

(dd)                          The Company maintains a consolidated system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.  The Company’s consolidated internal controls over financial reporting are effective and the Company and the Subsidiaries are not aware of any material weakness in the Company’s consolidated internal controls over financial reporting.

 

(ee)                            The Company maintains consolidated “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

 

(ff)                              The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

 

(gg)                            Except in each case as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and the Subsidiaries are (i) 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 or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”), (ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their

 

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respective businesses and (iii) have not received notice of any actual or potential liability under any environmental law, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).  Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries has been named as a “potentially responsible party” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended.

 

(hh)                          None of the following events has occurred or exists:  (i) a failure to fulfill the obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to a Plan, determined without regard to any waiver of such obligations or extension of any amortization period; (ii) an audit or investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other federal or state governmental agency or any foreign regulatory agency with respect to the employment or compensation of employees by any of the Company or the Subsidiaries that could have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) any breach of any contractual obligation, or any violation of law or applicable qualification standards, with respect to the employment or compensation of employees by the Company or the Subsidiaries that could have a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur:  (i) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans in the current fiscal year of the Company and the Subsidiaries compared to the amount of such contributions made in the most recently completed fiscal year of the Company and the Subsidiaries; (ii) a material increase in the “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106) of the Company and the Subsidiaries compared to the amount of such obligations in the most recently completed fiscal year of the Company and the Subsidiaries; (iii) any event or condition giving rise to a liability under Title IV of ERISA that could have a Material Adverse Effect; or (iv) the filing of a claim by one or more employees or former employees of the Company or the Subsidiaries related to their employment that could have a Material Adverse Effect.  For purposes of this paragraph, the term “Plan” means a plan (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA) subject to Title IV of ERISA with respect to which the Company or the Subsidiaries may have any liability.

 

(ii)                                  There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company and any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), to the extent applicable to the Company, including Section 402 relating to loans.

 

(jj)                                Neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or the

 

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Subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA; and the Company, the Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, its affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.

 

(kk)                          The operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements and the money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company or the Subsidiaries conduct business and the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “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 the Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(ll)                                  Neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or the Subsidiaries is currently subject to any sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to the Subsidiaries or any joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

(mm)                  The Company and the Subsidiaries own, possess, have a license to or have other rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trade and service marks, trade and service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, domain names, inventions, trade secrets, technology, know-how and other intellectual property, including registrations and applications for registration thereof (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”) necessary for the conduct of the Company’s business as now conducted or as proposed in the Final Prospectus to be conducted, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as set forth in the statements incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus under the heading “Business—Patents and Proprietary Rights,” (a) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no rights of third parties to any such Intellectual Property that interfere with the Company’s rights thereto and/or ability to practice thereunder; (b) to

 

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the Company’s knowledge, there is no material infringement, misappropriation or other violation by third parties of any such Intellectual Property; (c) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s rights in or to any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (d) the issued patents, and the registered trade marks, service marks and trade names included in the Intellectual Property owned by the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, licensed to the Company, have not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (e) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes or otherwise misappropriates or violates any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim; (f) to the Company’s knowledge, there is no U.S. patent or published U.S. patent application which contains claims that dominate or may dominate any Intellectual Property described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus as being owned by or licensed to the Company or that interferes with the issued or pending claims of any such Intellectual Property; (g) there is no prior art of which the Company is currently aware that may render any U.S. patent held or licensed by the Company invalid or any U.S. patent application held or licensed by the Company unpatentable which has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (h) to the Company’s knowledge, none of the Intellectual Property used by the Company in its business has been obtained or is being used by the Company in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or in violation of the rights of any third parties; and (i) the Company is not aware of any facts that it believes would form a reasonable basis for a successful challenge that any of its employees are in or have ever been in violation of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where such violation relates to such employee’s breach of a confidentiality obligation, obligation to assign to the Company Intellectual Property, or obligation not to use third party Intellectual Property or other proprietary rights in each case, on behalf of or for the benefit of the Company; and (j) the Company is not a party to or bound by any options, licenses or other agreements with respect to the Company’s or any third party’s Intellectual Property that are required to be set forth on the Final Prospectus, but are not described in all material respects in the Final Prospectus.

 

(nn)                          Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company: (A) is and at all times has been in material compliance with all statutes, rules or regulations applicable to the ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging, processing, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, sale, offer for sale, storage, import, export or disposal of any product that is

 

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under development, manufactured or distributed by the Company (“Applicable Laws”); (B) has not received any Form FDA 483, notice of adverse finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals, clearances, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws (“Authorizations”) that would, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (C) possesses all material Authorizations necessary for the operation of its business as described in the Registration Statement and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect and the Company is not in material violation of any term of any such Authorizations; (D) has not received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that any product, operation or activity is in material violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations, and has no knowledge that the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority or third party is considering any such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suit, investigation or proceeding; (E) has not received notice that the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any material Authorizations and has no knowledge that the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority is considering such action; (F) has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were materially complete and correct on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission); and (G) has not, either voluntarily or involuntarily, initiated, conducted, or issued or caused to be initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, post sale warning, “dear doctor” letter, or other notice or action relating to the alleged lack of safety or efficacy of any product or any alleged product defect or violation and, to the Company’s knowledge, no third party has initiated, conducted or intends to initiate any such notice or action.

 

(oo)                          The studies, tests and preclinical and clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company were and, if still ongoing, are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards and all Applicable Laws and Authorizations, including, without limitation, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; the descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus are accurate and complete in all material respects and fairly present the data derived from such studies, tests and trials; except to the extent disclosed in the

 

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Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company is not aware of any studies, tests or trials, the results of which the Company believes reasonably call into question the study, test, or trial results described or referred to in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus when viewed in the context in which such results are described and the clinical state of development; and, except to the extent disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus, the Company has not received any notices or correspondence from the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authority requiring the termination, suspension or material modification of any studies, tests or preclinical or clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company.

 

(pp)                          Except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company (i) does not have any material lending relationship with the Representatives or, to the knowledge of the Company, any bank or lending affiliate of the Representatives and (ii)  does not intend to use any of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder to repay any outstanding debt owed to any affiliate of the Representatives.

 

(qq)                          As used in this subsection:

 

“Governmental Entity” means any national, federal, state, county, municipal, local or foreign government, or any political subdivision, court, body, agency or regulatory authority thereof, and any Person exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory, taxing or administrative functions of or pertaining to any of the foregoing.

 

“Law” means any federal, state, local, national or foreign law, statute, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, writ, stipulation, award, injunction, decree or arbitration award or finding.

 

(i)                                     The Company has not committed any act, made any statement or failed to make any statement that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA or any other Governmental Entity to invoke its policy with respect to “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities”, or similar policies, set forth in any applicable Laws. Neither the Company, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, key employees or agents has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct that has resulted, or would reasonably be expected to result, in debarment under applicable Law, including, without limitation, 21 U.S.C. Section 335a. No claims, actions, proceedings or investigations that would reasonably be expected to result in such a material debarment or exclusion are pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company or any of its respective officers, employees or agents.

 

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(ii)                                  Each of the Company and its directors, officers, employees, and agents (in each case, while acting in such capacity) is, and at all times has been, in material compliance with all health care Laws applicable to the Company or by which any of its properties, businesses, products or other assets is bound or affected, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)), the Anti-Inducement Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a(a)(5)), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq.), the administrative False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.), the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et seq.) (collectively, “Health Care Laws”). The Company has not received any notification, correspondence or any other written or oral communication from any Governmental Entity, including, without limitation, the FDA, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, of potential or actual material non-compliance by, or liability of, the Company under any Health Care Laws.

 

(iii)                               The Company is not a party to any corporate integrity agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, or similar agreements with or imposed by any Governmental Entity.

 

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.

 

2.                                      Purchase and Sale.  (a) Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule II hereto.

 

(b)         Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company hereby grants an option to the several Underwriters to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to the principal amount of Option Securities set forth in Schedule I hereto at the same purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto for the Underwritten Securities.  Said option may be exercised only to cover over-allotments in the sale of the Underwritten Securities by the Underwriters.  Said option may be exercised in whole or in part at any time on or before the 30th day after the date of the Prospectus upon written or telegraphic notice by the Representatives to the Company setting forth the aggregate principal amount of the Option Securities as to which the several Underwriters are exercising the option and the settlement date.  The

 

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aggregate principal amount of Option Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter shall be the same percentage of the total aggregate principal amount of the Option Securities to be purchased by the several Underwriters as such Underwriter is purchasing of the Underwritten Securities, subject to such adjustments as you in your absolute discretion shall make to ensure that the Option Securities are not issued in minimum denominations of less than $1,000 or whole multiples thereof.

 

3.                                      Delivery and Payment.  Delivery of and payment for the Underwritten Securities and the Option Securities (if the option provided for in Section 2(b) hereof shall have been exercised on or before the third Business Day immediately preceding the Closing Date) shall be made on the date and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days after the foregoing date as the Representatives shall designate, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Company or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”).  Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Company.  Delivery of the Underwritten Securities and the Option Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct.

 

If the option provided for in Section 2(b) hereof is exercised after the third Business Day immediately preceding the Closing Date, the Company will deliver the Option Securities (at the expense of the Company) to the Representatives, at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York, on the date specified by the Representatives (which shall be within three Business Days after exercise of said option) for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Company.  If settlement for the Option Securities occurs after the Closing Date, the Company will deliver to the Representatives on the settlement date for the Option Securities, and the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase the Option Securities shall be conditioned upon receipt of, supplemental opinions, certificates and letters confirming as of such date the opinions, certificates and letters delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6 hereof.

 

4.                                      Offering by Underwriters.  It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.

 

5.                                      Agreements.  The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

 

(a)                                 Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities, the Company will not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus unless the Company has furnished you and your counsel a copy for review prior to filing and will not file any

 

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such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object.  The Company will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing.  The Company will promptly advise the Representatives (i) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement, or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.  The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement and using its reasonable best efforts to have such amendment declared effective as soon as practicable.

 

(b)                                 The Company will prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms of the Securities and the offering thereof, in the form approved by you and attached as Schedule IV hereto and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.

 

(c)                                  If, at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

 

(d)                                 If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to

 

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amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, the Company promptly will (i) notify the Representatives of any such event, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

 

(e)                                  As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement or statements of the Company and the Subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.

 

(f)                                   The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a conformed copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.  The Company will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the offering.

 

(g)                                  The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to arrange, with the cooperation of the Underwriters, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably designate after consultation with the Company and will use its reasonable best efforts to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities, or subject it to taxation, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.

 

(h)                                 The Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company or any person in privity with the Company or any affiliate of the Company) directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act,

 

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any other shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock; or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, for a period of 60 days after the date of the Underwriting Agreement, provided, however, that the Company may (i) issue and sell Common Stock, or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock, pursuant to any employee stock option plan, incentive plan, stock ownership plan or dividend reinvestment plan of the Company in effect at the Execution Time or disclosed in the Final Prospectus, (ii) issue Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of securities outstanding at the Execution Time, (iii) file one or more registration statements on Form S-8, (iv) offer, issue and sell shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock in connection with any acquisition or strategic investment (including any joint venture, strategic alliance or partnership) as long as (x) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued or issuable does not exceed 10% of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the issuance and sale of the Securities, and (y) each recipient of any such shares or other securities agrees to restrictions on the resale of securities that are consistent with the lock-up letters described in Section 6(j) hereof for the remainder of the 60-day restricted period or (v) on or after October 31, 2014, file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement.

 

(i)                                     The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

 

(j)                                    The Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities.

 

(k)                                 Between the date hereof and the Closing Date, the Company will not do or authorize any act or thing that would result in an adjustment of the conversion price of the Securities.

 

(l)                                     The Company agrees to pay the costs and expenses relating to the following matters:  (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities, including any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance

 

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and sale of the Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, any blue sky memorandum and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the Securities; (v) the registration of the Securities under the Exchange Act and the listing of the Securities on the Nasdaq Global Select Market; (vi) any registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such registration and qualification); (vii) any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such filings); provided that the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to subclause (vi) and (vii) of this Section 5(l) shall not exceed $15,000; (viii) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective purchasers of the Securities; provided, however, that the Company shall be responsible for half of the cost and expenses of any aircraft chartered in connection with the “road show” for the Securities and the Underwriters shall be responsible for the balance; (ix) the fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; and (x) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder.

 

(m)                             The Company agrees that, unless it has or shall have obtained the prior written consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Company that, unless it has or shall have obtained, as the case may be, the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than the free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule III hereto.  Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.”  The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.

 

(n)                                 The Company will promptly notify the Representatives if the Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company at any time prior to the later of (a) completion of the distribution of the Securities within the meaning of the Act and (b) completion of the 60-day restricted period referred to in Section 5(h) hereof.

 

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(o)                                 If at any time following the distribution of any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication, any event occurs as a result of which such Written Testing-the-Waters Communication would include any untrue statement of a material fact or  omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that use of the Written Testing-the-Waters Communication may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Written Testing-the-Waters Communication to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to the Representatives in such quantities as may be reasonably requested.

 

6.                                      Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters.  The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Underwritten Securities and the Option Securities, as the case may be, shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time, the Closing Date and any settlement date pursuant to Section 3 hereof, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a)                                 The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.

 

(b)                                 The Company shall have requested and caused Hogan Lovells US LLP, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion and letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the form agreed by such counsel and the Underwriters.

 

(c)                                  (i) The Company shall have requested and caused Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, intellectual property counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the form agreed by such counsel and the Underwriters.   (ii) The Company shall have requested and caused Hogan Lovells US LLP, intellectual property counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the form agreed by such counsel and the Underwriters.

 

(d)                                 The Representatives shall have received from Latham & Watkins LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities,

 

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the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

 

(e)                                  The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Company, signed by the principal executive officer and the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have reviewed the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, Final Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto, as well as each electronic road show used in connection with the offering of the Securities, and this Agreement and that:

 

(i)                                     the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date;

 

(ii)                                  no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; and

 

(iii)                               since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

 

(f)                                   The Company shall have requested and caused Ernst & Young LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, substantially in the form as set forth in Exhibit B.

 

(g)                                  Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (f) of this Section 6 or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or

 

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contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

 

(h)                                 Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further customary information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.

 

(i)                                     The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Securities shall have been listed, subject to notice of issuance, on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, and satisfactory evidence of such actions shall have been provided to the Representatives.

 

(j)                                    At the Execution Time, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto from each officer and director of the Company and each holder of capital stock of the Company listed on Exhibit A-2 hereto prior to the date hereof addressed to the Representatives.

 

If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives.  Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.

 

The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of Latham & Watkins LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 140 Scott Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025, on the Closing Date.

 

7.                                      Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses.  If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters severally through Citigroup Global Markets Inc. on demand for all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been reasonably incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities; provided that if the sale of the Securities is not consummated because of any termination pursuant to Sections 10(i)(b), 10(ii) or 10(iii) the Company shall only be obligated to reimburse 50% of the Underwriters’ out-of-pocket expenses.

 

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8.                                      Indemnification and Contribution.  (a)  The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees, and agents of each Underwriter, each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the registration statement for the registration of the Securities as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, the Final Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion therein.  This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.

 

(b)                                 Each Underwriter severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity.  This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have.  The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth (i) in the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities and, under the heading “Underwriting” or “Plan of Distribution”, (ii) the list of Underwriters and their respective participation in the sale of the Securities, (iii) the sentences related to concessions and reallowances, (iv) the paragraph related to stabilization, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids and (v) the sentences related to the underwriters’ intent to make a market in the Securities, in any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing

 

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by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(c)                                  Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above.  The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party.  Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel (which, if the Company is the indemnifying party, shall be limited to one such separate counsel for any Underwriter together with all persons who control such Underwriter within the meaning of the Exchange Act or the Act, and no more than three such separate counsel for all the Underwriters) if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party.  An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.

 

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(d)                                 In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending the same) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities; provided, however, that in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may be provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder.  If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally shall contribute 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 of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus.  Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission.  The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  For purposes of this Section 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).

 

9.                                      Default by an Underwriter.  If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or

 

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Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the Company.  In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representatives shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company and any nondefaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.

 

10.                               Termination.  This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to such delivery and payment (i) (a) trading in the Company’s Common Stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the Nasdaq Global Select Market or (b) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal or New York State authorities or (iii) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

 

11.                               Representations and Indemnities to Survive.  The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company or its officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents, controlling persons or affiliates referred to in Section 8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.  The provisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.

 

12.                               Notices.  All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to the Citigroup Global Markets Inc. General Counsel (fax no.:  (212) 816-7912) and confirmed to the

 

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General Counsel, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York, 10013, Attention:  General Counsel, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., 60 Wall Street, 46th Floor, New York, NY 10005, Attention: Legal Department; or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to Company Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (fax no.: (339) 230-3961) and confirmed to it at 1000 Winter St., Suite #3300, Waltham, MA 02451, Attention: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to Asher Rubin and William Intner, Hogan Lovells US LLP, 100 International Drive, Suite 2000, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.

 

13.                               Successors.  This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

14.                               No fiduciary duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company and (c) the Company’s engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters).  The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

 

15.                               Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

16.                               Applicable Law.  This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.

 

17.                               Waiver of Jury Trial.  The Company and the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

18.                               Counterparts.  This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

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19.                               Headings.  The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

20.                               Definitions.  The terms that follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.

 

“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

“Base Prospectus” shall mean the base prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) above contained in the Registration Statement at the Execution Time.

 

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.

 

“Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto, (iv) the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto, if any, and (v) any other Free Writing Prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package.

 

“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto and any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement became or becomes effective.

 

“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

“Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

 

“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.

 

“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405.

 

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433.

 

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“Investors” shall mean the “Series A Investors” and “Series B Investors” listed in Schedule A to the Second Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2011, among the Company and the other parties named therein, as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of July 7, 2011.

 

“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) above which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.

 

“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in paragraph 1(a) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B, as amended on each Effective Date and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended.

 

“Rule 158”, “Rule 163”, “Rule 164”, “Rule 172”, “Rule 405”, “Rule 415”, “Rule 424”, “Rule 430B” and “Rule 433” refer to such rules under the Act.

 

“Subsidiaries” shall mean TESARO UK LIMITED, TESARO Securities Corporation and TESARO Development, Ltd.

 

“Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

“Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

 

TESARO, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 



 

The foregoing Agreement is hereby

confirmed and accepted as of the

date first above written.

 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

 

 

By: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Chris Hite

 

 

Name:

Chris Hite

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

By: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

 

By:

s/ Faiz Khan

 

 

Name:

Faiz Khan

 

 

Title:

Director

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Francis Windels

 

 

Name:

Francis Windels

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

For themselves and the other
several Underwriters, if any,
named in Schedule II to the
foregoing Agreement.

 

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SCHEDULE I

 

Underwriting Agreement dated September 23, 2014

 

Registration Statement No. 333-189718

 

Representatives: Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

Title, Purchase Price and Description of Securities:

 

Title: TESARO, Inc. 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2021

 

Principal amount of Underwritten Securities: $175,000,000.00

 

Purchase price (include accrued interest or amortization, if any): 97.00% of the principal amount thereof

 

Principal Amount of Option Securities: $26,250,000.00

 

Other provisions: The Securities are convertible, at the option of the holder, at any time prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding April 1, 2021 only under the following circumstances: (1) during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on December 31, 2014, if the closing sale price of the Company’s common stock, for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) in the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which the conversion occurs, is more than 130% of the conversion price of the Securities in effect on each applicable trading day; (2) during the five consecutive business-day period following any ten consecutive trading-day period in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Securities for each such trading day was less than 98% of the closing sale price of the Company’s common stock on such date multiplied by the then-current conversion rate; or (3) upon the occurrence of specified corporate events.

 

On or after April 1, 2021 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the stated maturity date, holders may surrender their notes for conversion at any time, regardless of the foregoing circumstances.

 

The initial conversion rate will be 28.4627 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Securities (equivalent to a conversion price of approximately $35.13 per share), subject to adjustment.

 

Closing Date, Time and Location:  September 29, 2014  at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time at Latham & Watkins LLP, 140 Scott Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

Type of Offering: Non-Delayed

 



 

Date referred to in Section 5(h) after which the Company may offer or sell securities issued by the Company without the consent of the Representatives: November 22, 2014

 

Modification of items to be covered by the letter Ernst & Young LLP delivered pursuant to Section 6(f) at the Execution Time: N/A

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

Underwriters

 

Principal Amount of
Underwritten Securities
to be Purchased

 

Principal
Amount of Option
Securities to be
Purchased if Option
is Fully Exercised

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

$

74,375,000.00

 

$

11,156,250.00

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

$

65,625,000.00

 

$

9,843,750.00

 

Leerink Partners LLC

 

$

17,500,000.00

 

$

2,625,000.00

 

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated

 

$

8,750,000.00

 

$

1,312,500.00

 

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

 

$

8,750,000.00

 

$

1,312,500.00

 

Total

 

$

175,000,000.00

 

$

26,250,000.00

 

 



 

SCHEDULE III

 

Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Disclosure Package

 

None

 



 

Final Term Sheet

 

SCHEDULE IV

 

See attached

 



 

Pricing Term Sheet
dated September 23, 2014

 

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus

Filed pursuant to Rule 433
Registration Statement No. 333-189718
Supplementing the Preliminary Prospectus
Supplement dated September 22, 2014

(To Prospectus dated July 1, 2013)

 

TESARO, INC.
OFFERING OF

$175,000,000 AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF

3.00% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2021

 

The information in this pricing term sheet supplements TESARO, Inc.’s preliminary prospectus supplement, dated September 22, 2014 (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) and the accompanying prospectus dated July 1, 2013, and supersedes the information in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying prospectus to the extent inconsistent therewith. Terms used, but not defined, in this pricing term sheet have the respective meanings set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this pricing term sheet to the “Issuer” refer only to TESARO, Inc. and not to its subsidiaries.

 

Issuer:

 

TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

 

 

Ticker / Exchange for Common Stock:

 

TSRO / NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”).

 

 

 

Trade Date:

 

September 24, 2014.

 

 

 

Settlement Date:

 

September 29, 2014.

 

 

 

Notes:

 

3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”).

 

 

 

Aggregate Principal Amount Offered:

 

$175.00 million aggregate principal amount of Notes (or $201.25 million, if the underwriters fully exercise their option to purchase additional Notes).

 

 

 

Maturity:

 

October 1, 2021, unless earlier repurchased or converted.

 

 

 

Annual Interest Rate:

 

3.00% per annum.

 

 

 

Interest Payment Dates:

 

April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on April 1, 2015.

 

 

 

Record Dates:

 

March 15 and September 15.

 

 

 

Last Reported Sale Price of Common Stock on NASDAQ on September 23, 2014:

 

$26.025 per share of the Issuer’s common stock (the “Common Stock”).

 

 

 

Conversion Premium:

 

Approximately 35% above the NASDAQ Last Reported Sale Price of Common Stock.

 



 

Initial Conversion Price:

 

Approximately $35.13 per share.

 

 

 

Initial Conversion Rate:

 

28.4627 shares of the Issuer’s Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes.

 

 

 

Net Proceeds after Expenses:

 

The Issuer estimates that the net proceeds from this offering will be approximately $169.25 million (or $194.71 million if the underwriters fully exercise their option to purchase additional Notes), after deducting the underwriting discount and its estimated offering expenses.

 

 

 

Use of Proceeds:

 

The Issuer intends to use approximately $18.11 million of the net proceeds from this offering to fund the payment of the cost of the capped call transactions described below. The Issuer expects to use the remaining net proceeds that it will receive from this offering to fund commercialization activities for rolapitant (oral formulation), clinical trials for rolapitant (intravenous formulation), niraparib and its other product candidates, to carry out its immuno-oncology platform strategy, and for working capital and general corporate purposes. The Issuer may also use a portion of the proceeds to in-license or acquire, as the case may be, product candidates, technologies, compounds, other assets or complementary businesses, though the Issuer has no current understandings, agreements or commitments to do so. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional Notes, the Issuer may use the net proceeds of the sale of the additional Notes to fund the payment of the cost of entering into additional capped call transactions and for the purposes described above.

 

 

 

Book-Running Managers:

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

 

Co-Managers:

 

Leerink Partners LLC

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

 

 

 

Capped Call Transactions:

 

In connection with the pricing of the Notes, the Issuer expects to enter into capped call transactions (the “capped call transactions”) with one or more of the underwriters (or their affiliates) (in such capacities, the “hedge counterparties”). The capped call transactions will cover, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Notes, the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the Notes. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional Notes, the Issuer may enter into additional capped call transactions with the hedge counterparties. The capped call transactions are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution and/or offset potential cash payments the Issuer is required to make in excess of the principal amount upon conversion of the Notes in the event that the market price per share of the Common Stock, as measured under the terms of the capped call transactions, is greater than the floor price of the capped call transactions, which initially corresponds to the Initial Conversion Price of the Notes and is subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the conversion rate of the Notes. If, however, the market price per share of the Common Stock, as measured under the terms of the capped call transactions, exceeds the cap price of the capped call transactions, the number of shares of the Common Stock and/or amounts of cash the Issuer receives upon exercise of the capped call transactions will be capped.

 

 

 

CUSIP Number:

 

881569 AA5

 



 

ISIN Number:

 

US881569AA53

 

 

 

Capitalization:

 

The Issuer’s entry into the capped call transactions, including the payment of the approximately $18.11 million premium therefor to the hedge counterparties (and the additional premium payable by the Issuer to the hedge counterparties if the Issuer enters into the additional capped call transactions described above), will result in a reduction to the Issuer’s additional paid-in capital, stockholders’ equity and total capitalization. The “As Adjusted” column in the capitalization table on page S-28 of the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement does not give effect to the Issuer’s entry into the capped call transactions, the payment of the premiums therefor to the hedge counterparties or such reductions to the Issuer’s additional paid-in capital, stockholders’ equity and total capitalization.

 

 

 

Increase in Conversion Rate Upon Conversion Upon a Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

 

The following table sets forth the number of additional shares of Common Stock that will be added to the conversion rate per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes for each stock price and effective date set forth below:

 

Effective

 

Stock Price

 

Date

 

$26.025

 

$30.00

 

$35.13

 

$40.00

 

$45.00

 

$50.00

 

$60.00

 

$80.00

 

$100.00

 

$125.00

 

$150.00

 

$200.00

 

September 29, 2014

 

9.9618

 

8.3487

 

6.4913

 

5.2721

 

4.3619

 

3.6807

 

2.7424

 

1.7207

 

1.1921

 

0.8162

 

0.5891

 

0.3341

 

October 1, 2015

 

9.9618

 

8.2242

 

6.3052

 

5.0615

 

4.1445

 

3.4663

 

2.5470

 

1.5715

 

1.0801

 

0.7364

 

0.5309

 

0.3007

 

October 1, 2016

 

9.9618

 

8.0571

 

6.0637

 

4.7923

 

3.8695

 

3.1976

 

2.3061

 

1.3927

 

0.9487

 

0.6448

 

0.4649

 

0.2638

 

October 1, 2017

 

9.9618

 

7.8170

 

5.7341

 

4.4332

 

3.5090

 

2.8506

 

2.0026

 

1.1760

 

0.7939

 

0.5394

 

0.3901

 

0.2225

 

October 1, 2018

 

9.9618

 

7.4791

 

5.2829

 

3.9505

 

3.0329

 

2.4002

 

1.6213

 

0.9178

 

0.6159

 

0.4212

 

0.3073

 

0.1771

 

October 1, 2019

 

9.9618

 

6.9821

 

4.6325

 

3.2705

 

2.3798

 

1.7993

 

1.1396

 

0.6181

 

0.4184

 

0.2924

 

0.2168

 

0.1270

 

October 1, 2020

 

9.9618

 

6.1798

 

3.5815

 

2.2111

 

1.4163

 

0.9651

 

0.5450

 

0.2984

 

0.2142

 

0.1556

 

0.1175

 

0.0700

 

October 1, 2021

 

9.9618

 

4.8707

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

 

The exact stock prices and effective dates may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:

 

·                  If the stock price is between two stock prices in the table or the effective date is between two effective dates in the table, the number of additional shares by which the conversion rate will be increased will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of additional shares set forth for the next higher and next lower stock prices and the earlier and later effective dates based on a 365-day year, as applicable.

 

·                  If the stock price is greater than $200.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above), no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

 

·                  If the stock price is less than $26.025 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices set forth in the column headings of the table above), no additional shares will be added to the conversion rate.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will the conversion rate be increased pursuant to the provisions described in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of the Notes—Adjustment to Conversion Rate upon Conversion upon a Make-Whole Adjustment Event” to exceed 38.4245 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the conversion rate as set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Description of the Notes—Conversion of Notes—Conversion Rate Adjustments.”

 



 

The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus), and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and other documents the Issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, by email at prospectus@citi.com or by calling toll-free at 1-800-831-9146 or from Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., attn: Prospectus Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005-2836, by email at prospectus.CPDG@db.com, or by telephone at (800) 503-4611.

 

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

 



 

Form of Lock-Up Agreement

 

EXHIBIT A-1

 

[Letterhead of officer, director or major shareholder of TESARO, Inc.]

 

TESARO, Inc.
Public Offering of Convertible Securities

 

, 2014

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
As Representatives of the several Underwriters

 

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10013

 

c/o Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

60 Wall Street, 46th Floor

New York, NY 10005

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

This letter is being delivered to you in connection with the proposed Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), between TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each of you as representatives (the “Representatives”) of a group of Underwriters named therein, relating to an underwritten public offering of Convertible Notes (the “Convertible Notes”) of the Company.  The Convertible Notes will be convertible into shares of the common stock, $0.0001 par value (the “Common Stock”), of the Company.

 

In order to induce you and the other Underwriters to enter into the Underwriting Agreement, the undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of, (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned or any person in privity with the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement (other than on Form S-8) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder with respect to (together, the “Exchange Act”), any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for such capital stock, or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, for a period from the date hereof until 60 days after the date of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), other than shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock disposed of not for consideration as bona fide gifts, by estate planning or intestacy, or distributions to limited partners, members, stockholders or affiliates of the undersigned; provided that (a) each recipient of transferred shares agrees in writing to be bound by the same restrictions in place for the undersigned pursuant to this letter for the duration of the Lock-Up Period and (b) and no filing under

 



 

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock shall be required or shall be voluntarily made by the undersigned during the Lock-Up Period.  The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to transactions relating to shares of Common Stock or other securities acquired in the Offering or in open market transactions; provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock shall be required or shall be voluntarily made by the undersigned during the Lock-Up Period.  If the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, the undersigned further agrees that the foregoing restrictions shall be equally applicable to any issuer-directed shares of Common Stock the undersigned may purchase in the Offering.

 

In the event that the Representatives release, in full or in part, any officer, director or stockholder of the Company (a “Stockholder”) from the restrictions of any lock-up agreement signed by such Stockholder with the Underwriters (a “Triggering Release”), then the undersigned shall be released in the same manner from the restrictions of this Agreement (i.e., in an amount equal to the same percentage of the shares of Common Stock being released in the Triggering Release relative to the undersigned’s ownership of Common Stock at the time of the request of the Triggering Release); provided that (i) in order to request a Triggering Release, the Stockholder requesting the Triggering Release must make a request in writing to the Company setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock to be released; (ii) the Company must notify the other Stockholders of the requested Triggering Release within three business days; (iii) any other Stockholder that intends to request a release of a pro rata portion of the shares of Common Stock held by them (the “Pro Rata Stockholders”) must (x) make such a request in writing to the Company and (y) certify in writing to the Underwriters and the Company the total number of shares of Common Stock held by such Pro Rata Stockholder; (iv) the Company must (x) make a request in writing to the Representatives setting forth for the Stockholder requesting the Triggering Release and for each Pro Rata Stockholder the number of shares of Common Stock for which each such Stockholder is requesting a release and (y) provide to the Representatives the total number of shares of common stock of the Company outstanding as of the date of the request of such Triggering Release and certify in writing to the Underwriters that such number is true and accurate.  If the Company fails to notify the undersigned within three business days of the request of the Triggering Release, the failure to give such notice shall not give rise to any claim or liability against the Representatives or the Underwriters.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no release by the Representatives of any shares of Common Stock will constitute a Triggering Release if the aggregate of such releases granted to any individual Stockholder requesting a release does not exceed 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock during the Lock-Up Period (as adjusted for any stock splits, reverse stock splits and the like after the date hereof) (for the avoidance of doubt, each individual affiliate of the undersigned that is a party to a separate lock-up agreement with the Underwriters shall be treated as a separate Stockholder); (ii) if the release, in full or in part, of any shares of Common Stock from the restrictions of its lock-up agreement is in connection with a follow-on offering of common stock (the “Follow-On Offering”), then the shares of Common Stock held by the undersigned shall be released only if the undersigned enters into a new lock-up agreement with the underwriters with respect to the shares of Common Stock that are not being released, upon terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters but with restrictions that will be no more restrictive than those set forth herein (other than that the expiration of the new lock-up may be up to 60 days from the date of such Follow-On Offering, subject to extension on the same terms as set forth herein) and only to the extent that the undersigned agrees to participate as a selling stockholder in the Follow-On Offering and to sell any of the shares of Common Stock released from the restrictions of this Agreement in such Follow-On Offering; and (iii) the Representatives shall not release, in full or in part, any Stockholder from the restrictions of any lock-up agreement signed by such Stockholder with the

 



 

Underwriters unless such Stockholder shall have first made a request pursuant to the clause (i) of the preceding paragraph.

 

Pursuant to Section 4.7 of the Tesaro, Inc. Second Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement dated as of June 6, 2011 (as amended, the “IRA”), if the undersigned is a party to the IRA and is a Holder of Registrable Securities (as such terms are defined therein), the undersigned, together with the other Holders entering into lock-up agreements in connection with the Offering, hereby waives on behalf of all Holders any registration or notice rights under the IRA, including without limitation any rights pursuant to Section 2.2 of the IRA.

 

If (i) for any reason the Underwriting Agreement shall be terminated prior to the Closing Date (as defined in the Underwriting Agreement), (ii) the Company informs the undersigned that the Board of Directors for the Company has determined not to proceed with the Offering, (iii) the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the Offering is withdrawn, or (iv) the Underwriting Agreement is not executed prior to October 31, 2014, the agreement set forth above shall likewise be terminated.

 

* * * * *

 

 

Yours very truly,

 

 

 

 

 

[Signature of officer, director or major stockholder]

 

 

 

 

 

[Name and address of officer, director or major stockholder]

 



 

EXHIBIT A-2

 

Leon O. Moulder, Jr.

Mary Lynne Hedley, Ph.D.

Tim Pearson

Edward C. English

David M. Mott

James O. Armitage, M.D.

Lawrence M. Alleva

Arnold L. Oronsky, Ph.D.

Beth Seidenberg, M.D.

Earl M. (Duke) Collier

Entities affiliated with New Enterprise Associates

Entity affiliated with InterWest Partners

 



 

Form of Comfort Letter of Ernst & Young LLP

EXHIBIT B

 

See attached

 


EX-4.1 3 a14-21259_5ex4d1.htm EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 


 

TESARO, INC.

 

as Primary Obligor

 

and

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

as Trustee

 


 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of September 29, 2014

 

Senior Debt Securities

 


 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1

SECTION 1.01 Definitions

1

SECTION 1.02 Compliance Certificates and Opinions

8

SECTION 1.03 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

8

SECTION 1.04 Acts of Holders

9

SECTION 1.05 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company

10

SECTION 1.06 Notice to Holders; Waiver

10

SECTION 1.07 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

10

SECTION 1.08 Successors and Assigns

11

SECTION 1.09 Separability Clause

11

SECTION 1.10 Benefits of Indenture

11

SECTION 1.11 Governing Law

11

SECTION 1.12 Legal Holidays

11

SECTION 1.13 Judgment Currency

11

SECTION 1.14 No Personal Liability

12

 

 

ARTICLE II. SECURITIES FORMS

12

SECTION 2.01 Forms of Securities

12

SECTION 2.02 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

12

SECTION 2.03 Securities Issuable in Global Form

12

 

 

ARTICLE III. THE SECURITIES

13

SECTION 3.01 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series

13

SECTION 3.02 Denominations

16

SECTION 3.03 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

16

SECTION 3.04 Temporary Securities

17

SECTION 3.05 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange

19

SECTION 3.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

20

SECTION 3.07 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

21

SECTION 3.08 Persons Deemed Owners

22

SECTION 3.09 Cancellation

22

SECTION 3.10 Computation of Interest

23

 

 

ARTICLE IV. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

23

SECTION 4.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

23

SECTION 4.02 Application of Trust Funds

24

 

 

ARTICLE V. REMEDIES

24

SECTION 5.01 Events of Default

24

SECTION 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

25

SECTION 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

26

SECTION 5.04 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

26

SECTION 5.05 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities

27

SECTION 5.06 Application of Money Collected

27

SECTION 5.07 Limitation on Suits

28

SECTION 5.08 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium if any, Interest and Additional Amounts

28

SECTION 5.09 Restoration of Rights and Remedies

28

SECTION 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative

28

 

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SECTION 5.11 Delay or Omission not Waiver

29

SECTION 5.12 Control by Holders of Securities

29

SECTION 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults

29

SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws

29

SECTION 5.15 Undertaking for Costs

29

 

 

ARTICLE VI. THE TRUSTEE

30

SECTION 6.01 Notice of Defaults

30

SECTION 6.02 Certain Rights of Trustee

30

SECTION 6.03 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

32

SECTION 6.04 May Hold Securities

32

SECTION 6.05 Money Held in Trust

32

SECTION 6.06 Compensation and Reimbursement

32

SECTION 6.07 Eligibility of Trustee; Conflicting Interests

33

SECTION 6.08 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

33

SECTION 6.09 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

34

SECTION 6.10 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

35

SECTION 6.11 Appointment of Authenticating Agent

35

 

 

ARTICLE VII. HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

36

SECTION 7.01 Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders

36

SECTION 7.02 Reports by Trustee

36

SECTION 7.03 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

36

 

 

ARTICLE VIII. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

37

SECTION 8.01 Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms

37

SECTION 8.02 Successor Substituted

37

 

 

ARTICLE IX. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

37

SECTION 9.01 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders

37

SECTION 9.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

38

SECTION 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures

39

SECTION 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indentures

39

SECTION 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

39

SECTION 9.06 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

39

 

 

ARTICLE X. COVENANTS

39

SECTION 10.01 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts

39

SECTION 10.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency

40

SECTION 10.03 Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust

40

SECTION 10.04 Existence

41

SECTION 10.05 Maintenance of Properties

41

SECTION 10.06 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims

41

SECTION 10.07 Commission and Other Reports to the Trustee

42

SECTION 10.08 Statement as to Compliance

42

SECTION 10.09 Additional Amounts

42

SECTION 10.10 Waiver of Certain Covenants

43

 

 

ARTICLE XI. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

43

SECTION 11.01 Applicability of Article

43

SECTION 11.02 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

43

 

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SECTION 11.03 Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed

44

SECTION 11.04 Notice of Redemption

44

SECTION 11.05 Deposit of Redemption Price

45

SECTION 11.06 Securities Payable on Redemption Date

45

SECTION 11.07 Securities Redeemed in Part

45

 

 

ARTICLE XII. SINKING FUNDS

46

SECTION 12.01 Applicability of Article

46

SECTION 12.02 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities

46

SECTION 12.03 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund

46

 

 

ARTICLE XIII. REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

46

SECTION 13.01 Applicability of Article

46

SECTION 13.02 Repayment of Securities

47

SECTION 13.03 Exercise of Option

47

SECTION 13.04 When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable

47

SECTION 13.05 Securities Repaid in Part

48

 

 

ARTICLE XIV. DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

48

SECTION 14.01 Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

48

SECTION 14.02 Defeasance and Discharge

48

SECTION 14.03 Covenant Defeasance

48

SECTION 14.04 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

49

SECTION 14.05 Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions

50

 

 

ARTICLE XV. MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

51

SECTION 15.01 Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called

51

SECTION 15.02 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings

51

SECTION 15.03 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings

51

SECTION 15.04 Quorum; Action

51

SECTION 15.05 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings

52

SECTION 15.06 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings

53

 

 

ARTICLE XVI. GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES

53

SECTION 16.01 Guarantee

53

SECTION 16.02 Future Guarantors

55

SECTION 16.03 Delivery of Guarantee

55

 

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RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN

TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 (THE “1939 ACT”) AND INDENTURE

 

1939 Act Section

 

Indenture Section

 

 

 

Section 310(a)(1)

 

607

(a)(2)

 

607

(b)

 

607, 608

Section 312(c)

 

701

Section 313(a)

 

702

(c)

 

702

Section 314(a)

 

703

(a)(4)

 

1010

(c)(1)

 

102

(c)(2)

 

102

(e)

 

102

Section 315(b)

 

601

Section 316(a) (last sentence)

 

101

(“Outstanding”)

 

 

(a)(1)(A)

 

502, 512

(a)(1)(B)

 

513

(b)

 

508

Section 317(a)(1)

 

503

(a)(2)

 

504

Section 318(a)

 

111

(c)

 

111

 

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

 

Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the 1939 Act, which provides that the provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 of the 1939 Act are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein.

 

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INDENTURE

 

INDENTURE, dated as of September 29, 2014, among TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as primary obligor (hereinafter called the “Company”), having its principal office at 1000 Winter Street, Suite 3300, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02451, and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (hereinafter called the “Trustee”), having its Corporate Trust Office at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, New York 10005, and any Person becoming a Guarantor hereunder.

 

RECITALS

 

The Company deems it necessary to issue from time to time for its lawful purposes senior debt securities (hereinafter called the “Securities”) evidencing its unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness, and has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of the Securities, unlimited as to principal amount, to bear interest at the rates or in accordance with such formulas, to mature at such times and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided.

 

This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, that are deemed to be incorporated into this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

 

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

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

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

 

ARTICLE I.

 

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

SECTION 1.01                    Definitions.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(3)           all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP; and

 

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

 

Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.04.

 

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

 

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

 

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“control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

Authenticating Agent” means the Trustee or any authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11.

 

Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper, printed in the English language or in an official language of the country of publication, customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, and of general circulation in each place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each such place. Whenever successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in different Authorized Newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any Business Day.

 

Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.

 

Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable, or other body with analogous authority with respect to the Company or a Guarantor, the executive committee of that board or body or any committee of that board or body duly authorized to act hereunder.

 

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

 

Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or other day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or particular location are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares (including preferred shares), interests, participations or other equity ownership interests (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) in the Person and any rights (other than debt securities convertible into or exchangeable for corporate Capital Stock), warrants or options to purchase any thereof.

 

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, Luxembourg, or its successor.

 

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and any successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the regulations thereunder.

 

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

 

Common Depositary” has the meaning specified in Section 3.04(b).

 

Common Shares” means, with respect to any Person, capital stock or shares of beneficial interest issued by such Person other than Preferred Shares.

 

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

 

Company Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”), and by

 

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its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Conversion Event” means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign Currency other than the Euro both by the government of the country that issued such currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii) the Euro both within the member states of the European Union that have adopted the single currency in accordance with the treaty establishing the European Community as amended by the treaty of the European Union and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the European Union or (iii) any currency for the purposes for which it was established.

 

Corporate Trust Officemeans, with respect to the office of the Trustee, the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, New York 10005; Attn:  Corporate Trust Services or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

corporation” includes corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate investment trusts, associations, companies and business trusts.

 

currency” means any currency, currency unit or composite currency, including, without limitation, the Euro, issued by the government of one or more countries or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.

 

Custodian” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.

 

Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.

 

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

 

DTC” means The Depository Trust Company for so long as it shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, or such successor as the Company shall designate from time to time in an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

 

Euroclear” means Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels Office, or its successor as operator of the Euroclear System.

 

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Article Five.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Exchange Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.04(b).

 

Foreign Currency” means any currency issued by the government of one or more countries other than the United States or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments.

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles, as in effect from time to time, as used in the United States applied on a consistent basis; provided, that solely for purposes of any calculation required by the financial covenants contained herein, “GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles as used in the United States on the date hereof, applied on a consistent basis.

 

Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United States or the government or governments that issued the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of a particular series are payable, for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person

 

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controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States or such government or governments that issued the Foreign Currency or Currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States or such other government or governments, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

 

Guarantee” has the meaning set forth in Article Sixteen hereof.

 

Guarantor” means any Person that is liable under a Guarantee under Article Sixteen hereof.

 

Holder” means, in the case of a Registered Security, the Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of a bearer security, the bearer thereof and, when used with respect to any coupon, shall mean the bearer thereof.

 

Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 3.01; provided, however, that, if at any time more than one Person is acting as Trustee under this instrument, “Indenture” shall mean, with respect to any one or more series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of the or those particular series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee established as contemplated by Section 3.01, exclusive, however, of any provisions or terms which relate solely to other series of Securities for which such Person is Trustee, regardless of when such terms or provisions were adopted, and exclusive of any provisions or terms adopted by means of one or more indentures supplemental hereto executed and delivered after such Person had become such Trustee but to which such Person, as such Trustee, was not a party.

 

Indexed Security” means a Security the terms of which provide that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.

 

interest,” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, shall mean interest payable after Maturity, and, when used with respect to a Security which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.09, includes such Additional Amounts.

 

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

 

Make-Whole Amount” means, in connection with any optional redemption or accelerated payment of any Securities, the excess, if any, of: (i) the aggregate present value as of the date of such redemption or accelerated payment of each dollar of principal being redeemed or paid and the amount of interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption or accelerated payment) that would have been payable in respect of each such dollar if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, determined by discounting such principal and interest at the Reinvestment Rate (determined on the third Business Day preceding the date notice of such redemption is given) from the respective dates on which such principal and interest would have been payable if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made to the date of redemption or accelerated payment; over (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Securities being redeemed or paid.

 

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

 

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Notice of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

 

Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”) and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of, or counsel for, the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

 

Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)               Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 14.02 and 14.03, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article Fourteen;

 

(iv)               Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and

 

(v)                Securities converted into Common Shares or Preferred Shares pursuant to or in accordance with this Indenture if the terms of such Securities provide for convertibility pursuant to Section 3.01;

 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or are present at a meeting of Holders for quorum purposes, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by TIA Section 313, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to be Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, (ii) the principal amount of any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency or Currencies that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined pursuant to Section 3.01 as of the date such Security is originally issued by the Company, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause (i) above) of such Security, (iii) the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 3.01, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.

 

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Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.  Upon the request of the Trustee, the Company shall promptly furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned by or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons and the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts set forth therein and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.

 

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

 

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

 

Place of Payment,” when used with respect to the Securities of or within any series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities are payable as specified as contemplated by Sections 3.01 and 10.02.

 

Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

 

Preferred Shares” means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock or of beneficial interest issued by such Person that are entitled to a preference or priority over any other shares of capital stock or beneficial interest issued by such Person upon any distribution of such Person’s assets, whether by dividend or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

 

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

 

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

 

Registered Security” shall mean any Security which is registered in the Security Register.

 

Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 3.01, whether or not a Business Day.

 

Reinvestment Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the sum of (i) the percentage specified in the terms of any Securities plus (ii) the arithmetic mean of the yields under the heading “Week Ending” published in the most recent Statistical Release under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month) corresponding to the remaining life to maturity, as of the payment date of the principal being redeemed or paid. If no maturity exactly corresponds to such maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to such maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the nearest month. For the purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount shall be used. If the format or content of the Statistical Release changes in a manner that precludes determination of the Treasury yield in the above manner, then the Treasury yield shall be determined in the manner that most closely approximates the above manner, as reasonably determined by the Company.

 

Repayment Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

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Repayment Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the price at which it is to be repaid by or pursuant to this Indenture.

 

Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the corporate trust department or any other successor group of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who in each case shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

Security” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and, more particularly, means any Security or Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, “Securities” with respect to the Indenture as to which such Person is Trustee shall have the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and shall more particularly mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such Person is not Trustee.

 

Security Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.05.

 

Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary which is a “significant subsidiary” (as defined in Article I, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated under the Securities Act) of the Company.

 

Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered Securities of or within any series means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.

 

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

 

Statistical Release” means the statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which reports yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities, or, if such statistical release is not published at the time of any determination under the Indenture, then such other reasonably comparable index which shall be designated by the Company.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to the Company or a Guarantor, a corporation or general partnership a majority of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company or the Guarantor. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means having voting power for the election of directors, general partners, trustees, managing members or Persons performing similar functions, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

 

Successor Company” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01(a).

 

Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 9.05.

 

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

 

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United States” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, the United States of America (including the states and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.

 

United States person” means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or an estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.

 

Yield to Maturity” means the yield to maturity, computed at the time of issuance of a Security (or, if applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such Security) and as set forth in such Security in accordance with generally accepted United States bond yield computation principles.

 

SECTION 1.02                    Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

 

Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (including certificates delivered pursuant to Section 10.08) shall include:

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

SECTION 1.03                    Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

SECTION 1.04                    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 of the Outstanding Securities of all series or one or more series, as the case may be, may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents 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. Such instrument or instruments and any such record (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments or so voting at any such meeting. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of a Security, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and any agent of the Trustee or the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. The record of any meeting of Holders of Securities shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 15.06.

 

Without limiting the generality of this Section 1.04, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including a U.S. depository that is a Holder of a global Security, 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 or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a U.S. depository that is a Holder of a global Security may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security through such U.S. depository’s standing instructions and customary practices.

 

The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any permanent global Security held by a U.S. depository entitled under the procedures of such U.S. depository 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 or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Persons who are beneficial owners of interests on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, whether or not such Persons remain beneficial owners after such record date.

 

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

 

(c)           The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

 

(d)           If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. Notwithstanding TIA Section 316(c), such record date shall be the record date specified in or pursuant to such Board Resolution, which shall be a date not earlier than the date 30 days prior to the first solicitation of Holders generally in connection therewith and not later than the date such solicitation is completed. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or

 

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other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than eleven months after the record date.

 

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

 

SECTION 1.05                    Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company.

 

(a)           Except as otherwise provided herein, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, the Company or the Trustee shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, overnight courier or transmitted by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission in PDF format as follows:

 

(1)           if to the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company, at its Corporate Trust Office;

 

(2)           if to the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder, at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, Attention: Chief Legal Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.

 

SECTION 1.06                    Notice to Holders; Waiver.

 

Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to Holders of Registered Securities by the Company or the Trustee, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each such Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not such Holder actually receives such notice.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

SECTION 1.07                    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

 

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

 

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SECTION 1.08                    Successors and Assigns.

 

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

 

SECTION 1.09                    Separability Clause.

 

In case any provision in this Indenture or in any Security 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.

 

SECTION 1.10                    Benefits of Indenture.

 

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

 

SECTION 1.11                    Governing Law.

 

This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York applicable to agreements made or instruments entered into and performed in said state. This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the TIA that are required to be part of this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

 

SECTION 1.12                    Legal Holidays.

 

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security other than a provision in the Securities of any series which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof), payment of interest or any Additional Amounts or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date or sinking fund payment date, or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 1.13                    Judgment Currency.

 

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, (i) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the amount due in respect of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest, or Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities of any series from the currency in which it is due (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which the judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which such judgment is given, and (ii) the Company’s obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency shall, despite any judgment in the Judgment Currency, be discharged by a payment on account thereof in the Judgment Currency only to the extent that, on the New York Banking Day following receipt of such payment in the Judgment Currency, the Trustee may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency so paid; and if the amount of the Required Currency that may be so purchased is less than the amount originally due in the Required Currency, the Company shall have a separate and independent obligation, despite any such payment or judgment, to indemnify the payee against such deficiency. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or other day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

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SECTION 1.14                    No Personal Liability.

 

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, in any Security appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any promoter, as such, or against any past, present or future shareholder, officer or director, as such, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereof, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereof, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

 

ARTICLE II.

 

SECURITIES FORMS

 

SECTION 2.01                    Forms of Securities.

 

The Registered Securities, if any, of each series shall be in substantially the forms as shall be established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto or approved from time to time by or pursuant to a Board Resolution in accordance with Section 3.01, shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Securities may be listed, or to conform to usage.

 

The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

 

SECTION 2.02                    Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

Subject to Section 6.11, the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

 

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

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

as Trustee

Dated:

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

SECTION 2.03                    Securities Issuable in Global Form.

 

If Securities of or within a series are issuable in global form, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, then, notwithstanding clause (7) of Section 3.01 and the provisions of Section 3.02, any such Security shall represent such of the Outstanding Securities of such series as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities of such series represented thereby may from time to time be increased or decreased to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee (or pursuant to its direction) in such manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.03 or 3.04. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.03 and, if applicable, Section 3.04, the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 3.03 or

 

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3.04 has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.

 

The provisions of the last sentence of Section 3.03 shall apply to any Security represented by a Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 3.03.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.07, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, payment of principal of and any premium and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.08 and except as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a permanent global Security (i) in the case of a permanent global Security in registered form, the Holder of such permanent global Security in registered form, or (ii) in the case of a permanent global Security in bearer form, Euroclear or Clearstream.

 

ARTICLE III.

 

THE SECURITIES

 

SECTION 3.01                    Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

 

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

 

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in one or more Board Resolutions or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board Resolutions and, subject to Section 3.03, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, any or all of the following, as applicable (each of which, if so provided, may be determined from time to time by the Company with respect to unissued Securities of the series when issued from time to time):

 

(1)           the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of such series from all other series of Securities);

 

(2)           any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06, 11.07 or 13.05);

 

(3)           the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities that will be issued and, if other than the entire aggregate principal amount thereof;

 

(4)           the date or dates, or the method by which such date or dates will be determined, on which the principal of the Securities of the series shall be payable;

 

(5)           the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be payable and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date, or the method by which such date shall be determined, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;

 

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(6)           the place or places, if any, other than or in addition to the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of, Securities of the series shall be payable, any Registered Securities of the series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, Securities of the series may be surrendered for exchange or conversion and notices or demands to or upon the Company in respect of Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served;

 

(7)           the period or periods within which, or the date or dates on which, the price or prices at which, the currency in which, and other terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, if the Company is to have the option;

 

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

 

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

 

(10)         if other than the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar and/or Paying Agent;

 

(11)         if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02 or, if applicable, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series that is convertible in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, or the method by which such portion shall be determined;

 

(12)         if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency or currencies in which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated;

 

(13)         whether the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or method may be based, without limitation, on one or more currencies, commodities, equity indices or other indices), and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

(14)         whether the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies other than that in which such Securities are payable in the absence of the making of such an election, the period or periods within which or the date or dates on which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of, and identity of the exchange rate agent with responsibility for, determining the exchange rate between the currency or currencies in which such Securities are payable in the absence of the making of such an election and the currency or currencies in which such Securities are to be payable upon the making of such an election;

 

(15)         provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be specified;

 

(16)         any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to Securities of the series, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;

 

(17)         whether Securities of the series are to be issuable as Registered Securities, bearer securities (with or without coupons) or both, any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of bearer securities and the terms upon which bearer securities of the series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the series and vice versa (if permitted by applicable laws and regulations), whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable

 

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initially in temporary global form and whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable in permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so, whether beneficial owners of interests in any such permanent global Security may exchange such interests for Securities of such series and of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section 3.05, and, if Registered Securities of the series are to be issuable as a global Security, the identity of the depositary for such series;

 

(18)         the date as of which any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of the series shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first Security of the series to be issued;

 

(19)         the Person to whom any interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, and the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner provided in Section 3.04;

 

(20)         the applicability, if any, of Sections 14.02 and/or 14.03 to the Securities of the series and any provisions in modification of, in addition to or in lieu of any of the provisions of Article Fourteen;

 

(21)         if the Securities of such series are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security of such series) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and/or terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;

 

(22)         if the Securities of the series are to be issued upon the exercise of warrants, the time, manner and place for such Securities to be authenticated and delivered;

 

(23)         whether and under what circumstances the Company will pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 10.09 on the Securities of the series to any Holder who is not a United States person (including any modification to the definition of such term) in respect of any tax, assessment or governmental charge and, if so, whether the Company will have the option to redeem such Securities rather than pay such Additional Amounts (and the terms of any such option);

 

(24)         the terms and conditions, if any, upon which the Securities may be convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares or other Capital Stock of the Company (or of another person) or other property (including cash or any combination thereof) and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion or exchange may be effected, including, without limitation, the initial conversion or exchange price or rate (or manner of calculation thereof), the portion that is convertible or exchangeable or the method by which any such portion shall be determined, the conversion or exchange period, provisions as to whether conversion or exchange will be at the option of the holders or at the option of the Company, the events requiring an adjustment of the conversion or exchange price, and provisions affecting conversion or exchange in the event of the redemption of such Securities;

 

(25)         whether and to what extent the Securities of such series will be guaranteed by a Guarantor and the identity of such Guarantor;

 

(26)         the terms, if any, of the transfer, mortgage, pledge or assignment as security for the Securities of such series of any properties, assets, moneys, proceeds, securities or other collateral, including whether certain provisions of the TIA are applicable and any corresponding changes to provisions of the applicable indenture as then in effect and including provisions addressing priority, perfection and escrow arrangements related to the security interest; and

 

(27)         any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).

 

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution (subject to Section 3.03) and set forth in such Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities

 

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of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional Securities of such series.

 

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

 

SECTION 3.02                    Denominations.

 

The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. With respect to Securities of any series denominated in Dollars, in the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Registered Securities of such series, other than Registered Securities issued in global form (which may be of any denomination), shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple in excess thereof.

 

SECTION 3.03                    Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

 

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such authorized officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Securities.

 

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

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities.

 

If all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate or formula, maturity date, redemption or repayment provisions, currency of denomination and payment, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d)) shall be fully protected in relying upon,

 

(i)            an Opinion of Counsel stating that

 

(a)           the form or forms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(b)           the terms of such Securities have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and

 

(c)           such Securities, when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to

 

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general equitable principles, and will entitle the Holders thereof to the benefits of this Indenture and any related Guarantee issued pursuant hereto; and

 

(ii)           an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the issuance of the Securities have been complied with and that, to the best of the knowledge of the signers of such certificate, no Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties, obligations or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the second preceding paragraph, if all the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.01 or a Company Order, or an Opinion of Counsel or an Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to the second preceding paragraph at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but such order, opinion and certificates, with appropriate modifications to cover such future issuances, shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series. After any such first delivery, any separate request by the Company that the Trustee authenticate Securities of such series for original issue will be deemed to be a certification by the Company that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to authentication and delivery of such Securities continue to have been complied with.

 

Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or any related Guarantee or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and any related Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, the Trustee shall be fully justified in relying thereon and in cancelling such Security and for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and any related Guarantee.

 

SECTION 3.04                    Temporary Securities.

 

(a)           Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form, or, if authorized, in bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities. In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be in global form.

 

Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which shall be exchanged in accordance with Section 3.04(b) or as otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution), if temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series

 

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of authorized denominations;. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

 

(b)           Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, this Section 3.04(b) shall govern the exchange of temporary Securities issued in global form other than through the facilities of DTC. If any such temporary Security is issued in global form, then such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the “Common Depositary”), for the benefit of Euroclear and Clearstream, for credit to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such other accounts as they may direct).

 

Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global Security (the “Exchange Date”), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the Exchange Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (subject to the Trustee’s receipt of sufficient delivery instructions from, or provided by or on behalf of, the Company), in exchange for each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be exchanged. The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, and, if any combination thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof (as identified or provided to the Trustee by the Common Depositary, or by Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable); provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security shall be accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Euroclear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and signed by Clearstream as to the portion of such temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01.

 

Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a series in a temporary global Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, to request such exchange on his behalf and delivers to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other form as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01), dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date, copies of which certificate shall be available from the offices of Euroclear and Clearstream, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent appointed for such series of Securities and each Paying Agent. Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage, transportation and the like unless such Person takes delivery of such definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euroclear or Clearstream. Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered in exchange for any portion of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the United States.

 

Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, interest payable on a temporary global Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series occurring prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euroclear and Clearstream on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euroclear and Clearstream to the Trustee of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01), for credit without further interest on or after such Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of Persons who are the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment Date and who have each delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Interest Payment

 

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Date occurring prior to such Exchange Date in the form set forth as Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture (or in such other forms as may be established pursuant to Section 3.01).

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the certifications made pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the certification requirements of the preceding two paragraphs of this Section 3.04(b) and of the third paragraph of Section 3.03 of this Indenture (in each case, without delivery of a certificate in the form of Exhibit A-1) and the interests of the Persons who are the beneficial owners of the temporary global Security with respect to which such certification was made will be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor on the Exchange Date or the date of certification if such date occurs after the Exchange Date, without further act or deed by such beneficial owners. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, no payments of principal or interest owing with respect to a beneficial interest in a temporary global Security will be made unless and until such interest in such temporary global Security shall have been exchanged for an interest in a definitive Security. Any interest so received by Euroclear and Clearstream and not paid as herein provided shall be returned to the Trustee prior to the expiration of two years after such Interest Payment Date in order to be repaid to the Company (subject, however, to any abandoned property laws that may be applicable).

 

SECTION 3.05                    Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment a register for each series of Securities (the registers maintained in such office or in any such office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes referred to collectively as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Registered Securities and of transfers of Registered Securities. The Security Register shall be in written form or any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, is hereby initially appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities on such Security Register as herein provided. In the event that the Trustee shall cease to be Security Registrar, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register at all reasonable times.

 

Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.05, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series at any office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, and containing identical terms and provisions.

 

Subject to the provisions of this Section 3.05, at the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination or denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency. Whenever any such Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable only as provided in this paragraph. If the depositary for any permanent global Security is DTC, then, unless the terms of such global Security expressly permit such global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive Securities, a global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to a nominee of DTC, or by a nominee of DTC to DTC, or to a successor to DTC for such global Security selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor to DTC. If at any time DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the applicable global Security or Securities or if at any time DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act if so required by applicable law or regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor depositary with respect to such global Security or Securities. If (x) a successor depositary for such global Security or Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability or ineligibility, (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the beneficial owners representing a

 

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majority in principal amount of the applicable series of Securities represented by such global Security or Securities advise DTC to cease acting as depositary for such global Security or Securities or (z) the Company, in its sole discretion, determines at any time that all Outstanding Securities (but not less than all) of any series issued or issuable in the form of one or more global Securities shall no longer be represented by such global Security or Securities, then the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver definitive Securities of like series, rank, tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security or Securities. If any beneficial owner of an interest in a permanent global Security is otherwise entitled to exchange such interest for Securities of such series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 and provided that any applicable notice provided in the permanent global Security shall have been given, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interest may be so exchanged, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver definitive Securities in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such beneficial owner’s interest in such permanent global Security. On or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such permanent global Security shall be surrendered for exchange by DTC or such other depositary as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the Company’s agent for such purpose; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection of Securities to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date if the Security for which exchange is requested may be among those selected for redemption. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such exchange occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such permanent global Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

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

 

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

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06, 11.07 or 13.05 not involving any transfer.

 

The Company or the Trustee, as applicable, shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security if such Security may be among those selected for redemption during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before selection of the Securities to be redeemed under Section 11.03 and ending at the close of business on the day of the mailing of the relevant notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Registered Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed, or (iii) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.

 

SECTION 3.06                    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

 

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them or any agent of either of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate

 

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and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

SECTION 3.07                    Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

 

Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.01, interest on any Registered Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for the payment of such interest as follows: (i) by wire transfer in immediately available funds to a Holder’s account within the United States if such Holder has provided wire transfer instructions to the Security Registrar; or (ii) by check mailed to a Holder at the address set forth in the Security Register if such Holder has not provided wire transfer instructions to the Security Registrar.

 

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01, every permanent global Security will provide that interest, if any, payable on any Interest Payment Date will be paid to DTC, Euroclear and/or Clearstream, as the case may be, with respect to that portion of such permanent global Security held for its account by Cede & Co. or the Common Depositary, as the case may be, for the purpose of permitting such party to credit the interest received by it in respect of such permanent global Security to the accounts of the beneficial owners thereof.

 

Except as otherwise specified with respect to a series of Securities in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.01, any interest on any Registered Security of any series that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

 

(1)           The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Registered Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment (which shall not be less

 

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than 20 days after such notice is received by the Trustee), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) 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 on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Registered Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be published at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment, but such publications shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Registered Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).

 

(2)           The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Registered Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange.

 

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section 3.05, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

 

SECTION 3.08                    Persons Deemed Owners.

 

Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.07) interest on, such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

None of the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in global form or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any depositary, as a Holder, with respect to such global Security or impair, as between such depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such global Security, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such global Security.

 

SECTION 3.09                    Cancellation.

 

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment at the option of the Holder, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner

 

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whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so acquire any of the Securities, however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. Canceled Securities held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and, upon written request, the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Company.

 

SECTION 3.10                    Computation Of Interest.

 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

 

ARTICLE IV.

 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

SECTION 4.01                    Satisfaction And Discharge Of Indenture.

 

This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series herein expressly provided for, any right to receive Additional Amounts, as provided in Section 10.09, and any right to convert or exchange Securities in accordance with their terms), and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series when

 

(1)           either

 

(A)          all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all coupons, if any, appertaining thereto (other than (i) Securities that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.06, and (ii) Securities of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

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

 

(i)            have become due and payable, or

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.06, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.11 and, if money shall have been deposited with and held by the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.02 and the last paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive.

 

SECTION 4.02                    Application of Trust Funds.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities, and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), and any interest and Additional Amounts for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

ARTICLE V.

 

REMEDIES

 

SECTION 5.01                    Events of Default.

 

“Event of Default”, wherever used herein with respect to any particular series of Securities, means any one of the following events with respect to such series of Securities (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether or not it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), it being understood that an Event of Default with respect to a particular series of Securities does not automatically constitute an Event of Default with respect to any other series of Securities:

 

(1)           default in any payment of interest on or any Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security when due and payable, which default continues for a period of 30 days; or

 

(2)           default in the payment of the principal amount of (or premium, if any, on) any Security when due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise; or

 

(3)           failure by the Company to comply with its obligations in Article Eight; or

 

(4)           default in the observance or performance of any covenant of the Company in this Indenture (except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.01), which default continues for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice, in each case received by the Company (and the Trustee, if applicable), specifying such default and requiring such default to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

 

(5)           the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

 

(A)          commences a voluntary case or files a petition, answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief,

 

(B)          consents to the entry of a decree or an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or to the commencement of any such case against it,

 

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(C)          consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or

 

(D)          makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

 

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

 

(A)          is for relief against the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor in an involuntary case,

 

(B)          adjudges the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor to be insolvent or approves a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of any of the foregoing,

 

(C)          appoints a Custodian of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor, or for all or substantially all of its property, or

 

(D)          orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or a Guarantor,

 

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or

 

(7)           any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.

 

As used in this Section 5.01, the term “Bankruptcy Law” means title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal or State law for the relief of debtors and the term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

 

SECTION 5.02                    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding other than an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.01 occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal or specified portion thereof shall become immediately due and payable.

 

If an Event of Default specified in clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.01 occurs, all unpaid principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series (or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of such series) shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of that series.

 

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

 

(1)           the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series):

 

(A)          all overdue installments of interest on and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of all Outstanding Securities of that series,

 

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(B)          the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Outstanding Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities,

 

(C)          to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of interest and any Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and

 

(D)          all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

 

(2)           all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.

 

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

 

SECTION 5.03                    Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.

 

The Company covenants that if:

 

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

 

(2)           default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of any series at its Maturity,

 

then the Company will, upon demand by the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities of such series, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amount, with interest upon any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

 

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

 

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

 

SECTION 5.04                    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

 

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company, a Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company, a Guarantor or such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any

 

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demand on the Company, Guarantor or obligor for the payment of overdue principal, premium, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

 

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

 

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

 

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities of such series 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 any predecessor Trustee, their agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.06.

 

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

 

SECTION 5.05                    Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities.

 

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

 

SECTION 5.06                    Application of Money Collected.

 

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

 

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys under Section 6.06, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

 

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

 

THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

 

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SECTION 5.07                    Limitation on Suits.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.

 

SECTION 5.08                    Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.07) interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, such Security on the respective due dates expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or for the enforcement of any applicable conversion right in the Securities, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

SECTION 5.09                    Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

 

If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security 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, the Company, any Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of Securities shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

SECTION 5.10                    Rights and Remedies Cumulative.

 

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

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SECTION 5.11                    Delay or Omission not Waiver.

 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article 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 of Securities.

 

SECTION 5.12                    Control by Holders of Securities.

 

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that

 

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

 

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

 

(3)           the Trustee need not take any action which might involve it in personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the Holders of Securities of such series not joining therein.

 

SECTION 5.13                    Waiver of Past Defaults.

 

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

 

(1)           in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on or Additional Amounts payable in respect of any Security of such series,

 

(2)           in the conversion or exchange of the Securities in accordance with their terms, or

 

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

 

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

 

SECTION 5.14                    Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.

 

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

 

SECTION 5.15                    Undertaking for Costs.

 

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or

 

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remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of any undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date) or for the enforcement of any applicable conversion right in the Securities.

 

ARTICLE VI.

 

THE TRUSTEE

 

SECTION 6.01                    Notice of Defaults.

 

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in TIA Section 313(c), notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to the Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default or breach of the character specified in Section 5.01(4) with respect to the Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 90 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

SECTION 6.02                    Certain Rights of Trustee.

 

Subject to the provisions of TIA Section 315(a) through 315(d):

 

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

 

(2)           any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate, Company Request or Company Order (other than delivery of any Security to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.03 which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

 

(3)           whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate, Opinion of Counsel, if applicable, or both and the Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in reliance on the certificate or opinion;

 

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

 

(5)           the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series pursuant to this Indenture (including upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), unless such Holders shall have

 

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offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

 

(6)                                 the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, 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 reasonable expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by any reason of such inquiry or investigation);

 

(7)                                 the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

 

(8)                                 the Trustee shall have no liability for the actions or omissions of any Paying Agent so long as the Trustee has acted in good faith and with due care with respect to a matter;

 

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

 

(10)                          the Trustee shall not be charged with notice or knowledge of any matter except to the extent actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or set forth in a written notice received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office and making express reference to the Indenture, the Company or the Securities;

 

(11)                          unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly provided herein, the Trustee shall be under no duty to review or evaluate the contents of any reports or other documents filed with it pursuant to Section 7.03 or Section 10.07 hereof, except to make them available for inspection at reasonable times by Holders of Securities;

 

(12)                          in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, consequential or punitive 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;

 

(13)                          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;

 

(14)                          the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder; and

 

(15)                          any permissive right or authority granted to the Trustee shall not be construed as a mandatory duty.

 

The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

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

 

Whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.02.

 

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SECTION 6.03                                                           Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

 

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in any Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

 

SECTION 6.04                                                           May Hold Securities.

 

The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to TIA Sections 310(b) and 311, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, Authenticating Agent or such other agent.

 

SECTION 6.05                                                           Money Held in Trust.

 

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.

 

SECTION 6.06                                                           Compensation and Reimbursement.

 

The Company agrees:

 

(1)                                 to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

 

(2)                                 except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment; and

 

(3)                                 to indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its own part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

 

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(5) or Section 5.01(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

 

As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on particular Securities.

 

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The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture (and shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.08).

 

SECTION 6.07                                                           Eligibility of Trustee; Conflicting Interests.

 

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee under TIA Section 310(a)(1) and shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (or of such Person is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000). If such Trustee publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Trustee shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

SECTION 6.08                                                           Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

 

(a)                                 No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.09.

 

(b)                                 The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

 

(c)                                  The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.

 

(d)                                 If at any time:

 

(1)                                 the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of TIA Section 310(b) after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

 

(2)                                 the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.07 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

 

(3)                                 the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

 

then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to TIA Section 315(e), any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

 

(e)                                  If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series). If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the

 

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occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, and to any successor Trustee appointed by the Company with respect to such Securities, the successor Trustee so appointed by the Holders shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to Securities of such series.

 

(f)                                   The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series in the manner provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in Section 1.06. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

 

SECTION 6.09                                                           Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

 

(a)                                 In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges and other due but unpaid amounts owing to it hereunder, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section 6.06.

 

(b)                                 In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto, pursuant to Article Nine hereof, wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

 

(c)                                  Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.

 

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(d)                                 No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.

 

SECTION 6.10                                                           Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

 

Any entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any 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 entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities. In case any Securities shall not have been authenticated by such predecessor Trustee, any such successor Trustee may authenticate and deliver such Securities, in either its own name or that of its predecessor Trustee, with the full force and effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee.

 

SECTION 6.11                                                           Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

 

At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption or repayment thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in good standing under the laws of the United States or of any State or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 (or of such Person is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000) and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authorities. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

 

Any entity into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any entity succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such entity shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 

An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in Section 1.06. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon

 

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acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

 

The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses for its services under this Section.

 

If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication substantially in the following form:

 

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

 

[NAME OF TRUSTEE]

 

 

 

 

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

as Authenticating Agent

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII.

 

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

 

SECTION 7.01                                                           Disclosure of Names and Addresses of Holders.

 

Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with TIA Section 312, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under TIA Section 312(b).

 

SECTION 7.02                                                           Reports by Trustee.

 

Within 60 days after June 30 of each year commencing with the first June 30 after the first issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as provided in TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such June 30 if required by TIA Section 313(a).

 

SECTION 7.03                                                           Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.

 

The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

 

(a)                                 semi-annually, with respect to each series of Securities, a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Registered Securities of such series as of the applicable date, and

 

(b)                                 at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

 

provided, however, that, so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

 

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ARTICLE VIII.

 

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE

 

SECTION 8.01                                                           Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.

 

The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets (as an entirety or substantially an entirety in one transaction as a series of transactions) to, any Person, unless:

 

(a)                                 the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company itself, is a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company itself) expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture; and

 

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

 

In the case of any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition pursuant to this Section 8.01, the Trustee shall receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that any such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition, and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 8.02                                                           Successor Substituted.

 

Upon any consolidation of the Company with or merger of the Company with or into, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of all or substantially all of its properties and assets (as an entirety or substantially an entirety in one transaction or a series of transactions) to, any Person in accordance with Section 8.01, the Successor Company formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter.

 

ARTICLE IX.

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

SECTION 9.01                                                           Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

Without the consent of any Holders of Securities, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, any Guarantor and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

 

(1)                                 to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency contained in this Indenture; or

 

(2)                                 to provide for the assumption by a successor corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company of the obligations of the Company contained in this Indenture; or

 

(3)                                 to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; provided, however, that such uncertificated Securities are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Securities are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code; or

 

(4)                                 to add Guarantees with respect to the Securities; or

 

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(5)                                 to secure the Securities; or

 

(6)                                 to add to or modify the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holder, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or

 

(7)                                 to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment of a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series;

 

(8)                                 to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts under an Indenture by more than one trustee;

 

(9)                                 to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to the extent necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities if such action does not adversely affect the interests of any Holder of such series in any material respect;

 

(10)                          to add or modify any other provision in this Indenture with respect to matters or questions arising hereunder which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which does not materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder; or

 

(11)                          to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to comply with any requirement of the Commission to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, or under any similar Federal statute hereafter enacted.

 

SECTION 9.02                                                           Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

 

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, any Guarantor of such Securities, 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 of Securities under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:

 

(1)                                 reduce the amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment or waiver; or

 

(2)                                 reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of any interest on any Security; or

 

(3)                                 reduce the principal amount of, or extend the Stated Maturity of, any Security; or

 

(4)                                 make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights, if any, of any Security; or

 

(5)                                 make any Security payable in money other than that stated in such Security; or

 

(6)                                 impair the right of a Holder to receive payment of principal (and premium, if any) and interest on, or any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, such Holder’s Securities on or after the due dates thereof or to institute a suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Securities, or

 

(7)                                 modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.02 or Section 5.13, except to increase the percentage of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities affected thereby required to consent to any supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 9.02 or to effect any waiver pursuant to Section 5.13; or

 

(8)                                 to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture may not be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.

 

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

 

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A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

 

SECTION 9.03                                                           Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

 

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture have been satisfied and such supplemental indenture is a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

 

SECTION 9.04                                                           Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

 

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.

 

SECTION 9.05                                                           Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

 

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect.

 

SECTION 9.06                                                           Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

 

Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall, if required by the Trustee, bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

 

ARTICLE X.

 

COVENANTS

 

SECTION 10.01                                                    Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, Interest and Additional Amounts.

 

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts payable in respect of the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such series of Securities and this Indenture. Unless otherwise specified with respect to Securities of any series pursuant to Section 3.01, at the option of the Company, all payments of principal shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for the payment of such interest as follows: (i) by wire transfer in immediately available funds to a Holder’s account within the United States if such Holder has provided wire transfer instructions to the Security Registrar; or (ii) by check mailed to a Holder at the address set forth in the Security Register if such Holder has not provided wire transfer instructions to the Security Registrar.

 

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SECTION 10.02                                                    Maintenance of Office or Agency.

 

The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of each such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. Nothing herein shall oblige the Trustee to maintain any such office or agency on behalf of the Company in any such Place of Payment, other than the Corporate Trust Office.

 

The Company may from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind any such designation; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to a series of Securities, the Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as Paying Agent and its Corporate Trust Office shall be considered as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.

 

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of the Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required, at least one exchange rate agent.

 

SECTION 10.03                                                    Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.

 

If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of any Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts in respect of, any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act.

 

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any), or interest on or Additional Amounts in respect of, any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts, so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest or Additional Amounts and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act.

 

The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will

 

(1)                                 hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;

 

(2)                                 give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company or a Guarantor (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest; and

 

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(3)                                 at any time during the continuance of any such default upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

 

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums.

 

Except as otherwise provided in the Securities of any series (and subject to any abandoned property laws that may be applicable), any money deposited with the Trustee in trust or with any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company in trust, for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any), interest or Additional Amounts has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company and any Guarantor(s) for payment of such principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security, without interest thereon, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

 

SECTION 10.04                                                    Existence.

 

Subject to Article Eight, the Company and each Guarantor will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that (1) the Company and each Guarantor shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise and (2) no Guarantor shall be required to preserve its existence if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the Company’s business and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 10.05                                                    Maintenance of Properties.

 

The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, cause all of its material properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company or any Subsidiary from discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company or the Subsidiary, desirable in the conduct of its business and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 10.06                                                    Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.

 

The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon it or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary unless such lien would not have a material adverse effect upon such property; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) for which the Company has set apart and maintains an adequate reserve.

 

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SECTION 10.07                                                    Commission and Other Reports to the Trustee.

 

(a)                                 The Company shall ensure delivery to the Trustee within 15 calendar days after it files such annual and quarterly reports, information, documents and other reports with the Commission, copies of its annual report and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act in accordance with TIA Section 314(a). In the event the Company is at any time no longer subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, it shall continue to provide the Trustee with reports containing substantially the same information as would have been required to be filed with the Commission if the Company had continued to have been subject to such reporting requirements. In such event, such reports shall be provided at the times the Company would have been required to provide reports if it had continued to have been subject to such reporting requirements. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely on Officers’ Certificates). The Trustee shall have no duty or responsibility to review such reports, information or documents. In the event that the Company shall provide the Trustee with any such report, information or document and shall not have filed such report, information or document on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system, the Trustee shall promptly mail copies of such report, information or document to each Holder (other than reports provided solely pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)).

 

(b)                                 The Company intends to file the reports, information and documents referred to in Section 10.07(a) with the Commission in electronic form pursuant to Regulation S-T of the Commission using the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (or any successor system). Compliance with the foregoing shall constitute delivery by the Company of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee in compliance with the provisions of Section 10.07(a) and TIA Section 314(a). The Trustee shall have no duty to search for or obtain any electronic or other filings that the Company makes with the Commission, regardless of whether such filings are periodic, supplemental or otherwise. Delivery of the reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 10.07(b) shall be solely for the purposes of compliance with this Section 10.07(b) and with TIA Section 314(a). The Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not constitute notice to it of the content thereof or of any matter determinable from the content thereof, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder, as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely on Officers’ Certificates.

 

SECTION 10.08                                                    Statement as to Compliance.

 

The Company and each Guarantor will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of its compliance with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture and, in the event of any noncompliance, specifying such noncompliance and the nature and status thereof. For purposes of this Section 10.08, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 10.09                                                    Additional Amounts.

 

If any Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series Additional Amounts as may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context except in the case of Section 5.02(1), the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 3.01 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

 

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Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, if the Securities of a series provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal and any premium is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal and any premium or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the Company’s principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of and any premium or interest on the Securities of that series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that series who are not United States persons without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of the series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities of that series and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by the terms of such Securities. In the event that the Trustee or any Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall not so receive the above-mentioned certificate, then the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall be entitled (i) to assume that no such withholding or deduction is required with respect to any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest with respect to any Securities of a series until it shall have received a certificate advising otherwise and (ii) to make all payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest with respect to the Securities of a series without withholding or deductions until otherwise advised. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them or in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section or in reliance on the Company’s not furnishing such an Officers’ Certificate.

 

SECTION 10.10                                                    Waiver of Certain Covenants.

 

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 10.04 to 10.09, inclusive, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of all outstanding Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

 

ARTICLE XI.

 

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

 

SECTION 11.01                                                    Applicability of Article.

 

Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article.

 

SECTION 11.02                                                    Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.

 

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of less than all of the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 15 days prior to the giving of the notice of redemption in Section 11.04 (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee, for purposes of the Trustee’s administrative convenience), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

 

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SECTION 11.03                                                    Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.

 

If less than all the Securities of any series issued on the same day with the same terms are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series issued on such date with the same terms not previously called for redemption, on a pro rata basis to the extent practicable, by lot or by such other  method unless otherwise required by law and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.

 

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

 

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

 

SECTION 11.04                                                    Notice of Redemption.

 

Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 1.06, not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, unless a shorter period is specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 3.01, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, but failure to give such notice in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other such Security or portion thereof.

 

Any notice that is mailed to the Holders of Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives the notice.

 

All notices of redemption shall state:

 

(1)                                 the Redemption Date,

 

(2)                                 the Redemption Price, accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 11.06, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any,

 

(3)                                 if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed,

 

(4)                                 in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the holder will receive, without a charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,

 

(5)                                 that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price and accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section 11.06, if any, will become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after said date,

 

(6)                                 the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest, if any, or for conversion,

 

(7)                                 that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case,

 

(8)                                 the CUSIP number of such Security, if any, and

 

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(9)                                 if applicable, that a Holder of Securities who desires to convert Securities for redemption must satisfy the requirements for conversion contained in such Securities, the then existing conversion price or rate, and the date and time when the option to convert shall expire.

 

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company; provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date (or such shorter period as may be agreed 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 above.

 

SECTION 11.05                                                    Deposit of Redemption Price.

 

At least one Business Day prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, which it may not do in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article Twelve, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 or in the Securities of such series) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.

 

SECTION 11.06                                                    Securities Payable on Redemption Date.

 

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) (together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, , such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Registered Securities of a series, installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.07.

 

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, and, to the extent legally enforceable, interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security on the Redemption Date.

 

SECTION 11.07                                                    Securities Redeemed in Part.

 

Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article or of Article Twelve) shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge a new Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

 

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ARTICLE XII.

 

SINKING FUNDS

 

SECTION 12.01                                                    Applicability of Article.

 

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series.

 

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment”, and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any mandatory sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series.

 

SECTION 12.02                                                    Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

 

The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of a series, (1) deliver Outstanding Securities of such series (other than Outstanding Securities any previously called for redemption) and (2) apply as a credit Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, as provided for by the terms of such Securities, or which have otherwise been acquired by the Company; provided that such Securities so delivered or applied as a credit have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the applicable Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such mandatory sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

 

SECTION 12.03                                                    Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

 

Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for Securities of any series, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 12.02, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered and credited. If such Officers’ Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.06 and 11.07.

 

ARTICLE XIII.

 

REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS

 

SECTION 13.01                                                    Applicability of Article.

 

Repayment of Securities of any series before their Stated Maturity at the option of Holders thereof shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities, if any, and (except as otherwise specified by the terms of such series established pursuant to Section 3.01) in accordance with this Article.

 

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SECTION 13.02                                                    Repayment of Securities.

 

Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest, if any, thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants that at least one Business Day prior to the Repayment Date it will deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money in the currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of, and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 or in the Securities of such series) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.

 

SECTION 13.03                                                    Exercise of Option.

 

Securities of any series subject to repayment at the option of the Holders thereof will contain an “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse of such Securities. In order for any Security to be repaid at the option of the Holder, the Trustee must receive at the Place of Payment therefor specified in the terms of such Security (or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of such Securities) not earlier than 60 days nor later than 30 days prior to the Repayment Date (1) the Security so providing for such repayment together with the “Option to Elect Repayment” form on the reverse thereof duly completed by the Holder (or by the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) or (2) a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member of a national securities exchange, or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”), or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States setting forth the name of the Holder of the Security, the principal amount of the Security, the principal amount of the Security to be repaid, the CUSIP number, if any, or a description of the tenor and terms of the Security, a statement that the option to elect repayment is being exercised thereby and a guarantee that the Security to be repaid, together with the duly completed form entitled “Option to Elect Repayment” on the reverse of the Security, will be received by the Trustee not later than the fifth Business Day after the date of such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter; provided, however, that such telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter shall only be effective if such Security and form duly completed are received by the Trustee by such fifth Business Day. If less than the entire principal amount of such Security is to be repaid in accordance with the terms of such Security, the principal amount of such Security to be repaid, in increments of the minimum denomination for Securities of such series, and the denomination or denominations of the Security or Securities to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the principal amount of such Security surrendered that is not to be repaid, must be specified. The principal amount of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof may not be repaid in part if, following such repayment, the unpaid principal amount of such Security would be less than the minimum authorized denomination of Securities of the series of which such Security to be repaid is a part. Except as otherwise may be provided by the terms of any Security providing for repayment at the option of the Holder thereof, exercise of the repayment option by the Holder shall be irrevocable unless waived by the Company.

 

SECTION 13.04                                                    When Securities Presented for Repayment Become Due and Payable.

 

If Securities of any series providing for repayment at the option of the Holders thereof shall have been surrendered as provided in this Article and as provided by or pursuant to the terms of such Securities, such Securities or the portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid shall become due and payable and shall be paid by the Company on the Repayment Date therein specified, and on and after such Repayment Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Securities on such Repayment Date) such Securities shall, if the same were interest-bearing, cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for repayment in accordance with such provisions, the principal amount of such Security so to be repaid shall be paid by the Company, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Repayment Date; provided, however, that, in the case of Registered Securities (except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the Registered Securities of a series), installments of interest, if any, whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Repayment Date shall be payable (but without interest thereon, unless the Company shall default in the payment thereof) to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more

 

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Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.07.

 

If the principal amount of any Security surrendered for repayment shall not be so repaid upon surrender thereof, such principal amount (and, to the extent legally enforceable, the interest, if any, thereon accrued to such Repayment Date) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Repayment Date at the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) borne by such Security on the Repayment Date.

 

SECTION 13.05                                                    Securities Repaid in Part.

 

Upon surrender of any Registered Security which is to be repaid in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security, without service charge and at the expense of the Company, a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, of any authorized denomination specified by the Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the portion of the principal of such Security so surrendered which is not to be repaid.

 

ARTICLE XIV.

 

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

 

SECTION 14.01                                                    Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

If, pursuant to Section 3.01, provision is made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 14.02 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under Section 14.03, then the provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article (with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to any Securities), shall be applicable to such Securities, and the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities, elect to have Section 14.02 (if applicable) or Section 14.03 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding Securities upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article.

 

SECTION 14.02                                                    Defeasance and Discharge.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities on the date the conditions set forth in Section 14.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 14.05 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (A) and (B) below, and to have satisfied all of its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the written request and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights of Holders of such Outstanding Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 14.04 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.05, 3.06, 10.02 and 10.03 and with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section 10.09, and under or with respect to Section 6.06 hereof, (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (D) the rights of Holders to convert Securities, if any, in accordance with their terms, and (E) this Article. Subject to compliance with this Article Fourteen, the Company may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 14.03 with respect to such Securities.

 

SECTION 14.03                                                    Covenant Defeasance.

 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 10.04 to 10.08, inclusive,

 

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and, if specified pursuant to Section 3.01, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Outstanding Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 14.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”), and such Securities shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with Sections 10.04 to 10.08, inclusive, or such other covenant, but shall continue to be deemed “Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or such other covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such Section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a default or an Event of Default under Section 5.01(4) or 5.01(7) or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.

 

SECTION 14.04                                                    Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

 

The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 14.02 or Section 14.03 to any Outstanding Securities of or within a series:

 

(a)                                 The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.07 who shall agree in writing with the Company and the Trustee, an executed copy of which shall be provided to the Trustee, to comply with the provisions of this Article Fourteen applicable to it (any such other trustee being referred to herein, and in Section 14.05, as an “Other Qualifying Trustee”) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (1) an amount in such currency or currencies in which such Securities are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity, or (2) Government Obligations applicable to such Securities (determined on the basis of the currency or currencies in which such Securities are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity) which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Securities, money in an amount, or (3) a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount, sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or Other Qualifying Trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Outstanding Securities on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities. The Trustee shall have no liability for the actions or omissions of any Other Qualifying Trustee.

 

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

 

(c)                                  No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as Sections 5.01(5) and 5.01(6) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

 

(d)                                 In the case of an election under Section 14.02, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.

 

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(e)                                  In the case of an election under Section 14.03, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

 

(f)                                   The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 14.02 or the covenant defeasance under Section 14.03 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that either (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to subsection (a) above and the related exercise of the Company’s option under Section 14.02 or Section 14.03 (as the case may be), registration is not required under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, by the Company, with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the Trustee for such trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said Act have been effected.

 

(g)                                  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section, such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 3.01.

 

SECTION 14.05                                                    Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant to Section 3.01) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or Other Qualifying Trustee) pursuant to Section 14.04 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee (or such Other Qualifying Trustee, as applicable), in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to Section 3.01, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 14.04(a) has been made, (a) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.01 or the terms of such Security to receive payment in a currency other than that in which the deposit pursuant to Section 14.04(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the currency in which the deposit pursuant to Section 14.04(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect of such Security into the currency in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on the applicable market exchange rate for such currency in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except, with respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.

 

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 14.04 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities.

 

Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, subject to Section 6.06, the Trustee (or such Other Qualifying Trustee, as applicable) shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds therefrom) held by it as provided in Section 14.04 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Article.

 

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ARTICLE XV.

 

MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

 

SECTION 15.01                                                    Purposes for Which Meetings May be Called.

 

A meeting of Holders of Securities of any series may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Securities of such series.

 

SECTION 15.02                                                    Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.

 

(a)                                 The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series for any purpose specified in Section 15.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 1.06, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

 

(b)                                 In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Securities of such series for any purpose specified in Section 15.01, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have made the first publication of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided herein, then the Company or the Holders of Securities of such series in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.

 

SECTION 15.03                                                    Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.

 

To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series, or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Outstanding Securities of such series by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company or a Guarantor and their counsel.

 

SECTION 15.04                                                    Quorum; Action.

 

The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of such series; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series, the Persons entitled to vote such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Securities of such series, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 15.02(a), except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series which shall constitute a quorum.

 

Except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.02, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the

 

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Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.02, any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of a series may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series.

 

Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Securities of such series, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 15.04, if any action is to be taken at a meeting of Holders of Securities of any series with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage in principal amount of all Outstanding Securities affected thereby, or of the Holders of such series and one or more additional series:

 

(i)                                     there shall be no minimum quorum requirement for such meeting; and

 

(ii)                                  the principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series that vote in favor of such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action shall be taken into account in determining whether such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action has been made, given or taken under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 15.05                                                    Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings.

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding any provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Securities of a series in regard to proof of the holding of Securities of such series and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.04 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 1.04. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 1.04 or other proof.

 

(b)                                 The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 15.02(b), in which case the Company or the Holders of Securities of the series calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting.

 

(c)                                  At any meeting each Holder of a Security of such series or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by him; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security of such series or proxy.

 

(d)                                 Any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series duly called pursuant to Section 15.02 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series represented at the meeting, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

 

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SECTION 15.06                                                    Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.

 

The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Securities of any series shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Securities of such series or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Securities of such series held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in duplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Securities of any Series shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the fact, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 15.02 and, if applicable, Section 15.04. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Company and another to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.

 

ARTICLE XVI.

 

GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES

 

SECTION 16.01                                                    Guarantee.

 

(1)                                 Each Person designated as a “Guarantor” in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officers’ Certificate establishing a series of Securities that also establishes itself as a Guarantor of such Securities by Board Resolution or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Board Resolutions and set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, with respect to each series of Securities to which this Article Sixteen is made applicable, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees (the “Guarantee”) to each Holder of a Security of such series authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Securities of such series or the obligations of the Company under this Indenture or the Securities of such series, that: (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, or any Additional Amount in respect of, the Securities of such series will be paid in full when due, whether at the Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Date, by acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise; (ii) all other obligations of the Company to the Holders of such series or the Trustee under this Indenture or the Securities of such series will be promptly paid in full, all in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such series; and (iii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Securities of such series or any of such other obligations thereunder, they will be paid in full when due in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at the Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Date, by acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed for whatever reason, each Guarantor shall be obligated to pay the same before failure so to pay becomes an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series. If the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on, or any Additional Amount in respect of, the Securities of a series so guaranteed when and as the same shall become due, whether at the Stated Maturity or Interest Payment Date, by acceleration, call for redemption, or otherwise, without the necessity of action by the Trustee or any Holder, each Guarantor with respect to such series shall be required to promptly make such payment in full. The obligations of all Guarantors under this Article Sixteen shall be joint and several.

 

(2)                                 Each Guarantor agrees with respect to Securities of any series that its obligations with regard to this Guarantee shall be as principal and not merely as surety and shall be full, irrevocable and unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities of such series or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any delays in obtaining or realizing upon or failures to obtain or realize upon collateral, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstances that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or a guarantor. Each Guarantor with respect to Securities of any series 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

 

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proceeding first against the Company or right to require the prior disposition of the assets of the Company to meet its obligations, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of all obligations contained in the Securities of such series and this Indenture as it relates to such series of Securities.

 

(3)                                 If any Holder of Securities of a series or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to any of the Company or a Guarantor with respect to Securities of that series, or any Custodian, trustee, or similar official acting in relation to any of the Company or a Guarantor, any amount paid by any of the Company or a Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder with respect to Securities of that series, the Guarantee with respect to Securities of that series, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. Each Guarantor agrees that it will not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders of Securities of a series in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations of Securities of such series. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (i) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 5.02 for the purposes of a Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration as to the Company of the obligations so guaranteed, and (ii) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of those obligations as provided in Section 5.02, those obligations (whether or not due and payable) will forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors with respect to Securities of a series for purposes of the Guarantee.

 

(4)                                 Each Guarantor and by its acceptance of a Security issued hereunder each Holder hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee by each Guarantor set forth in Section 16.01(1) not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purpose of any Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar Federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders and all Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of each of the Guarantors under the Guarantee set forth in Section 16.01(1) shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to the next succeeding sentence, result in the obligations of such Guarantor under such Guarantee not constituting such a fraudulent transfer or conveyance. Each Guarantor that makes any payment or distribution under Section 16.01(1) shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor equal to its Pro Rata Portion of such payment or distribution. For purposes of the foregoing, the “Pro Rata Portion” of any Guarantor means the percentage of net assets of all Guarantors held by such Guarantor, determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

(5)                                 It is the intention of the parties that the obligations of the Guarantors shall be in, but not in excess of, the maximum amount permitted by applicable law. Accordingly, if the obligations in respect of the Guarantee would be annulled, avoided or subordinated to the creditors of any Guarantor by a court of competent jurisdiction in a proceeding actually pending before such court as a result of a determination both that such Guarantee was made without fair consideration and, immediately after giving effect thereto, such Guarantor was insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they mature or left with an unreasonably small capital, then the obligations of such Guarantor under such Guarantee shall be reduced by such court if and to the extent such reduction would result in the avoidance of such annulment, avoidance or subordination; provided, however, that any reduction pursuant to this paragraph shall be made in the smallest amount as is strictly necessary to reach such result. For purposes of this paragraph, “fair consideration,” “insolvency,” “unable to pay its debts as they mature,” “unreasonably small capital” and the effective times of reductions, if any, required by this paragraph shall be determined in accordance with applicable law.

 

(6)                                 If the obligations of any Guarantor are reduced pursuant to Section 16.01(4) or 1601(5) above, such reduction shall be applied proportionately with respect to all Securities (of whatever series) guaranteed under Section 16.01, in accordance with the respective outstanding principal amount of such Securities so guaranteed (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, the accreted value of such Securities) and being then due upon the acceleration of the payment of such Securities.

 

(7)                                 A Guarantor may consolidate with, sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into, the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or another Guarantor at any time without limitation,

 

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provided that, if the successor entity or entity acquiring the assets is a Subsidiary of the Company or another Guarantor, such entity expressly or by operation of law assumes all of the obligations of the Guarantor under this Indenture in connection with the transaction. In any such case, the Guarantor shall be released from all obligations under this Indenture.

 

(8)                                 In addition to the transactions permitted by Section 16.01(7), a Guarantor may consolidate with, sell, lease or convey all or substantially all of its assets to, or merge with or into, any other corporation, provided that, in any such case, the Guarantor shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor corporation or corporation acquiring the assets shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States or a State thereof and such corporation expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Guarantor under this Indenture by supplemental indenture complying with Article Nine hereof, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such corporation. In any such case, the Guarantor shall be released from all obligations under this Indenture. Any such consolidation, sale, lease, conveyance or merger is also subject to the condition that the Trustee receive an Officers’ Certificate of the Guarantor and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction, and the assumption by any successor corporation or acquiror of assets, complies with the provisions of this Section 16.01(8) and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

 

(9)                                 Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a sale, transfer or other disposition of the Guarantor or of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor to a Person other than the Company or another Subsidiary (including by way or merger or consolidation), or the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Guarantor (other than to the Company or another Subsidiary) otherwise not prohibited by the Indenture, such Guarantor shall be automatically released from all obligations under this Indenture. Upon the delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and, if requested by the Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the transaction or series of related transactions giving rise to the release of such obligations was made in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations. Any Guarantor not so released remains liable for the full amount of principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities as provided in this Article Sixteen.

 

SECTION 16.02                                                    Future Guarantors.

 

Each Person providing a guarantee of any Security of a series pursuant to this Indenture shall execute and deliver a supplemental indenture making such Person a party to this Indenture for the purpose of becoming a Guarantor.

 

SECTION 16.03                                                    Delivery Of Guarantee.

 

The delivery of any Security of a series by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in Section 16.01 on behalf of each Guarantor for that series.

 

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

 

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

 

 

TESARO, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher J. Grell

 

Name:

Christopher J. Grell

 

Title:

Vice President

 



 

EXHIBIT A

 

FORMS OF CERTIFICATION

 



 

EXHIBIT A-1

 

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY PERSON ENTITLED

 

TO OBTAIN INTEREST

 

PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE EXCHANGE DATE

 

CERTIFICATE

 

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

 

To: [Euroclear] [Clearstream]

 

From: [Beneficial Holder]

 

This is to certify that, as of the date hereof, and except as set forth below, the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account (i) are owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States person(s)”), (ii) are owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 2.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such United States financial institution hereby agrees, on its own behalf or through its agent, that you may advise TESARO, Inc. (the “Company”) or its agent that such financial institution will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) are owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, in addition, if the owner is a United States or foreign financial institution described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)), this is to further certify that such financial institution has not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

 

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.

 

We undertake to advise you promptly by tested telex on or prior to the date on which you intend to submit your certification relating to the above-captioned Securities held by you for our account in accordance with your operating procedures if any applicable statement herein is not correct on such date, and in the absence of any such notification it may be assumed that this certification applies as of such date.

 

This certificate excepts and does not relate to [U.S.$]                          of such interest in the above-captioned Securities in respect of which we are not able to certify and as to which we understand an exchange for an interest in a permanent global Security or an exchange for and delivery of definitive Securities (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) cannot be made until we do so certify.

 

We understand that this certificate may be required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

 

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This certificate may be relied upon by you and each of the Company, [Name of Trustee], as trustee under the Indenture dated as of                          , 20     between [Name of Trustee], as trustee, and the Company (the “Indenture”) and any Paying Agent (as defined in the Indenture).

 

Dated:                          , 20

 

[To be dated no earlier than the 15th day prior to (i) the Exchange Date or (ii) the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

 

 

[Name of Person Making Certification]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Authorized Signatory)

 

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A-2

 

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EUROCLEAR AND CLEARSTREAM IN

 

CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE OF A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY

 

GLOBAL SECURITY OR TO OBTAIN INTEREST PAYABLE PRIOR TO THE

 

EXCHANGE DATE

 

CERTIFICATE

 

[Insert title or sufficient description of Securities to be delivered]

 

To: [Name of Trustee], as trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Indenture dated as of                          , 20     by and between the Company (as defined below) and the Trustee.

 

From: [Euroclear] [Clearstream]

 

This is to certify that, based solely on written certifications that we have received in writing, by tested telex or by electronic transmission from each of the persons appearing in our records as persons entitled to a portion of the principal amount set forth below (our “Member Organizations”) substantially in the form attached hereto, as of the date hereof, [U.S.$] principal amount of the above-captioned Securities (i) is owned by person(s) that are not citizens or residents of the United States, domestic partnerships, domestic corporations or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States Federal income taxation regardless of its source (“United States person(s)”), (ii) is owned by United States person(s) that are (a) foreign branches of United States financial institutions (financial institutions, as defined in U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.165-12(c)(1)(v) are herein referred to as “financial institutions”) purchasing for their own account or for resale, or (b) United States person(s) who acquired the Securities through foreign branches of United States financial institutions and who hold the Securities through such United States financial institutions on the date hereof (and in either case (a) or (b), each such financial institution has agreed, on its own behalf or through its agent, that we may advise TESARO, Inc. (the “Company”) or its agent that such financial institution will comply with the requirements of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations thereunder), or (iii) is owned by United States or foreign financial institution(s) for purposes of resale during the restricted period (as defined in United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(7)), and, to the further effect, that financial institutions described in clause (iii) above (whether or not also described in clause (i) or (ii)) have certified that they have not acquired the Securities for purposes of resale directly or indirectly to a United States person or to a person within the United States or its possessions.

 

As used herein, “United States” means the United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia); and its “possessions” include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island and the Northern Mariana Islands.

 

We further certify that (i) we are not making available herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) any portion of the temporary global Security representing the above-captioned Securities excepted in the above-referenced certificates of Member Organizations and (ii) as of the date hereof we have not received any notification from any of our Member Organizations to the effect that the statements made by such Member Organizations with respect to any portion of the part submitted herewith for exchange (or, if relevant, collection of any interest) are no longer true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.

 

We understand that this certification is required in connection with certain tax legislation in the United States. If administrative or legal proceedings are commenced or threatened in connection with which this certificate is or would be relevant, we irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy thereof to any interested party in such proceedings.

 

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This certificate may be relied upon by you and by the Company. Dated:                   , 20

 

To be dated no earlier than the Exchange Date or the relevant Interest Payment Date occurring prior to the Exchange Date, as applicable]

 

[Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels Office,] as Operator of the Euroclear System] [Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, Luxembourg]

 

By:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EX-4.2 4 a14-21259_5ex4d2.htm EX-4.2

Exhibit 4.2

 

 


 

TESARO, Inc.

 

(Company)

 

U.S. Bank National Association

 

(Trustee)

 

3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021

 


 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

Dated as of September 29, 2014

 

To

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of September 29, 2014

 


 

 



 

ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

1

 

 

 

Section 1.01

Definitions and References

1

Section 1.02

References to Interest

13

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2. THE NOTES

13

 

 

 

Section 2.01

Title and Terms; Payments

13

Section 2.02

Ranking

15

Section 2.03

Denominations

15

Section 2.04

Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating

15

Section 2.05

Temporary Notes

15

Section 2.06

Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange

16

Section 2.07

Reserved

17

Section 2.08

Reserved

17

Section 2.09

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes

17

Section 2.10

Persons Deemed Owners

18

Section 2.11

Transfer and Exchange

18

Section 2.12

Purchase of Notes; Cancellation

22

Section 2.13

CUSIP Numbers

22

Section 2.14

Payment and Computation of Interest

23

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3. REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS

23

 

 

 

Section 3.01

Purchase at Option of Holders upon a Fundamental Change

23

Section 3.02

Fundamental Change Company Notice

24

Section 3.03

Repurchase Procedures

25

Section 3.04

Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice

26

Section 3.05

Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice

26

Section 3.06

Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price

27

Section 3.07

Notes Purchased in Whole or in Part

27

Section 3.08

Covenant To Comply with Applicable Laws upon Purchase of Notes

27

Section 3.09

Repayment to the Company

28

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4. CONVERSION

28

 

 

 

Section 4.01

Right To Convert

28

Section 4.02

Conversion Procedures

30

Section 4.03

Settlement Upon Conversion

32

Section 4.04

Adjustment of Conversion Rate

36

Section 4.05

Discretionary and Voluntary Adjustments

46

Section 4.06

Adjustment to Conversion Rate Upon Conversion in Connection with a Make-Whole Adjustment Event

46

Section 4.07

Effect of Recapitalization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale

48

 

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Section 4.08

Certain Covenants

50

Section 4.09

Responsibility of Trustee

50

Section 4.10

Notice of Adjustment to the Trustee

50

Section 4.11

Notice to Holders

51

 

 

 

ARTICLE 5. COVENANTS

53

 

 

 

Section 5.01

Payment of Principal and Interest and the Fundamental Change Purchase Price

53

Section 5.02

Maintenance of Office or Agency

53

Section 5.03

Provisions as to Paying Agent

54

Section 5.04

Reports

55

Section 5.05

Statements as to Defaults

55

Section 5.06

Additional Interest Notice

56

Section 5.07

Reserved

56

Section 5.08

Reserved

56

Section 5.09

Corporate Existence

56

Section 5.10

Restriction on Resales

56

Section 5.11

Further Instruments and Acts

56

Section 5.12

Par Value Limitation

56

Section 5.13

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

57

Section 5.14

Restriction on Purchases

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6. REMEDIES

57

 

 

 

Section 6.01

Events of Default

57

Section 6.02

Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment

59

Section 6.03

Additional Interest

60

Section 6.04

Waiver of Past Defaults

60

Section 6.05

Control by Majority

61

Section 6.06

Limitation on Suits

61

Section 6.07

Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert

62

Section 6.08

Collection of Indebtedness; Suit for Enforcement by Trustee

62

Section 6.09

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes

62

Section 6.10

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

62

Section 6.11

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

63

Section 6.12

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

63

Section 6.13

Delay or Omission Not a Waiver

63

Section 6.14

Priorities

63

Section 6.15

Undertaking for Costs

64

Section 6.16

Waiver of Stay, Extension and Usury Laws

64

Section 6.17

Notices from the Trustee

64

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; NO DEFEASANCE

64

 

 

 

Section 7.01

Discharge of Liability on Notes

64

 

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Section 7.02

Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by Trustee

65

Section 7.03

Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held

65

Section 7.04

Return of Unclaimed Monies

66

Section 7.05

Reinstatement

66

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

66

 

 

 

Section 8.01

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

66

Section 8.02

Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders

67

Section 8.03

Notice of Amendment or Supplement

68

Section 8.04

Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc.

68

 

 

 

ARTICLE 9. SUCCESSOR COMPANY

68

 

 

 

Section 9.01

Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms

68

Section 9.02

Successor Corporation to Be Substituted

69

Section 9.03

Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee

70

 

 

 

ARTICLE 10. NO OPTIONAL REDEMPTION

70

 

 

 

Section 10.01

No Redemption Rights

70

 

 

 

ARTICLE 11. THE TRUSTEE

71

 

 

 

Section 11.01

Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee

71

Section 11.02

Reserved

72

Section 11.03

Rights of the Trustee

72

Section 11.04

Trustee’s Disclaimer

74

Section 11.05

Trustee or Agents May Own Notes

74

Section 11.06

Monies to be Held in Trust

74

Section 11.07

Compensation and Expenses of Trustee

74

Section 11.08

Officers’ Certificate as Evidence

75

Section 11.09

Conflicting Interests of Trustee

75

Section 11.10

Eligibility of Trustee

76

Section 11.11

Resignation or Removal of Trustee

76

Section 11.12

Acceptance by Successor Trustee

77

Section 11.13

Succession by Merger, Etc.

78

Section 11.14

Preferential Collection of Claims

78

Section 11.15

Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company

78

 

 

 

ARTICLE 12. MISCELLANEOUS

79

 

 

 

Section 12.01

Effect on Successors and Assigns

79

Section 12.02

Governing Law

79

Section 12.03

No Note Interest Created

79

Section 12.04

Trust Indenture Act

79

Section 12.05

Benefits of Indenture

79

 

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Section 12.06

Calculations

79

Section 12.07

Execution in Counterparts

80

Section 12.08

Notices

80

Section 12.09

No Recourse Against Others

81

Section 12.10

Tax Withholding

81

Section 12.11

Waiver of Jury Trial

81

Section 12.12

U.S.A. Patriot Act

81

Section 12.13

Force Majeure

82

Section 12.14

Submission to Jurisdiction

82

Section 12.15

Ratification of Base Indenture

82

Section 12.16

No Guarantors

82

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of September 29, 2014, (this “Supplemental Indenture”), to the Indenture, dated as of September 29, 2014 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance therewith, the “Base Indenture” and, as amended, modified and supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee,(in such capacity, the “Trustee”), conversion agent, registrar and paying agent.

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered the Base Indenture to the Trustee to provide, among other things, for the issuance, from time to time, of Securities (as defined in the Base Indenture), in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, in one or more series to be established by the Company under, and authenticated and delivered as provided in, the Base Indenture;

 

WHEREAS, Section 2.01 of the Base Indenture provides for the Company and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to establish the forms of Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 3.01 of the Base Indenture;

 

WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of the Company’s 3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”), having the terms, tenor, amount and other provisions hereinafter set forth, and, to provide therefor, has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when duly executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, in accordance with the terms of the Notes and the Base Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the benefit of each other and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders (as hereinafter defined), as follows:

 

ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

Section 1.01          Definitions and References. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01.  Terms defined herein and in the Base Indenture shall have the meaning set forth in this

 

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Section 1.01.  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Base Indenture.  The words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other Subdivision.  The word “or” is not exclusive and the word “including” means including without limitation.  The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.  References to any Article, Section, Schedule or Exhibit are to this Supplemental Indenture except as herein otherwise expressly provided.

 

The changes, modifications and supplements to the Base Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture shall be applicable only with respect to, and shall govern only the terms of (and only the rights of the Holders and the obligations of the Company with respect to), the Notes, which may be issued from time to time, and shall not apply to any other securities that may be issued under the Base Indenture (or govern the rights of the holders of securities or the obligations of the Company with respect to any such other securities) unless a supplemental indenture with respect to such other securities specifically incorporates such changes, modifications and supplements.  The provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall, with respect to the Notes, supersede any corresponding provisions in the Base Indenture.  If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes conflicts with any provision of the Base Indenture, then (except as otherwise provided in any supplement to the Base Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture executed and delivered after the date hereof) the terms of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes shall, to the extent of such conflict, govern with respect to the Notes.  Subject to the preceding sentence, and except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of the Base Indenture shall apply to the Notes and govern the rights of the Holders of the Notes and the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect thereto.

 

Whenever this Supplemental Indenture provides that any article, section or other part hereof shall apply to the Notes in lieu of any article, section or other part of the Base Indenture, such article, section or other part of the Base Indenture shall, for purposes of interpreting the Base Indenture as it relates to the Notes, be deemed to be replaced with such article, section or other part hereof, mutatis mutandis.

 

Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable by the Company pursuant to Section 6.03.

 

Additional Notes” means any Notes (other than the Initial Notes) issued under this Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 2.01, with the same terms as the Initial Notes except to the extent permitted otherwise under Section 2.01.

 

Additional Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(a).

 

Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06(b).

 

Agent” means any Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent or any other agent appointed pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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

 

Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Notes.

 

Base Indenture” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Bid Solicitation Agent” means the Company or the Person appointed by the Company from time to time to solicit bids for the Trading Price of the Notes in accordance with Section 4.01(b)(ii).  The Company shall initially act as the Bid Solicitation Agent.

 

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which state or federally chartered banking institutions in New York, New York are not required to be open.

 

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

 

Cash Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a).

 

Change in Control” means an event that shall be deemed to have occurred at the time, after the first date of original issuance for the Initial Notes, any of the following occurs:

 

(1)           any “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries, is or becomes the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Common Equity representing 50% or more of the total voting power of the Company’s Common Equity or has the power, directly or indirectly, to elect a majority of the members of the Board of Directors;

 

(2)           the consummation of (x) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (y) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock shall be converted into cash, securities or other property; or (z) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one of the Company’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that neither (a) a transaction pursuant to which the Persons that “beneficially owned,” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) directly or indirectly, the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction “beneficially own,” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) directly or indirectly, the Common Equity

 

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representing at least a majority of the total voting power of all outstanding classes of the Common Equity of the surviving or transferee Person and such holders’ proportional voting power immediately after such transaction vis-à-vis each other with respect to the securities they receive in such transaction shall be in substantially the same proportions as their respective voting power vis-à-vis each other immediately prior to such transaction, nor (b) any merger solely for the purpose of changing the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation and resulting in the reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of Common Stock of the surviving entity shall constitute a “Change in Control”;

 

(3)           the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors; or

 

(4)           the holders of the Company’s Capital Stock approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company (whether or not otherwise in compliance with this Supplemental Indenture);

 

provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, a “Change in Control” shall not be deemed to have occurred if at least 90% of the consideration paid for the Common Stock in a transaction or transactions described under clause (2) of this definition of “Change in Control” above (excluding cash payments for any fractional shares and cash payments made pursuant to dissenters’ appraisal rights) consists of shares of common stock traded on a Permitted Exchange, or shall be so traded immediately following such transaction, and as a result therefrom, such consideration becomes the Reference Property for the Notes.  For the purposes of this definition of “Change in Control,” any transaction or event that constitutes a Change in Control under both clause (1) and clause (2) above will be deemed to constitute a Change in Control solely under clause (2) of this definition of “Change in Control.

 

If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the Reference Property comprised of securities of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Adjustment Event Period and any related Fundamental Change Purchase Date, references to the Company in this definition of “Change in Control” shall apply to such other entity instead.

 

Clause A Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

Clause B Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

Clause C Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

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

 

Closing Sale Price” of the Common Stock for any day means the closing sale price per share (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) at 4:00 p.m. New York City time on that day as reported in composite transactions for the Exchange, or if the Common Stock is not listed on the Exchange, the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed for trading or, if the Common Stock is

 

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not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization at 4:00 p.m. New York City time on such date (or, in either case, the then-standard closing time for regular trading on the relevant exchange or trading system).  If the closing sale price of the Common Stock is not so reported, the “Closing Sale Price” shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and last ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose.

 

Combination Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a).

 

Common Equity” of any Person means the Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that shall control the management or policies of such Person.

 

Common Stock” means the shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company authorized at the date of this instrument as originally executed or shares of any class or classes of common stock resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof; provided, however, that if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares so issuable on conversion of Notes shall include shares of all such classes, and the shares of each such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.

 

common stock” includes any stock of any class of Capital Stock which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuer thereof and which is not subject to redemption by the issuer thereof.

 

Company” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 9, shall include its successors and assigns.

 

Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by one of its Officers, and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors who (i) was a member of such Board of Directors on the first date of original issuance of the Initial Notes, or (ii) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election.

 

Conversion Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02.

 

Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b).

 

Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b)(i).

 

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Conversion Period” means, with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion, (i) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to the 45th Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the third VWAP Trading Day immediately following such Conversion Date; and (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after the 45th Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the 42nd Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.

 

Conversion Price” means, in respect of each Note, as of any date, $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate in effect on such date.

 

Conversion Rate” means initially 28.4627 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustment as set forth herein.

 

Corporate Trust Office” means, with respect to the office of the Trustee, the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, New York 10005; Attn: Corporate Trust Services or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

corporation” means a corporation, association, joint stock company, limited liability company or business trust.

 

Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the Notes (so long as the Notes constitute Global Notes), or any successor entity.

 

Daily Conversion Value” means, for each VWAP Trading Day during any Conversion Period, one-fortieth (1/40th) of the product of (i) the applicable Conversion Rate in effect on such VWAP Trading Day and (ii) the Daily VWAP on such VWAP Trading Day.

 

Daily Measurement Value” means, for any conversion of Notes, the applicable Specified Dollar Amount divided by 40.

 

Daily Net Share Number” means, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes surrendered for conversion, for each of the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the Conversion Period, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (A) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value for such VWAP Trading Day and the Daily Measurement Value, divided by (B) the Daily VWAP for such VWAP Trading Day.

 

Daily Settlement Amount” for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes surrendered for conversion, for each of the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the Conversion Period, shall consist of: (i) if the Daily Conversion Value for such VWAP Trading Day exceeds the Daily Measurement Value, the sum of (x) a cash payment of the Daily Measurement Value; and (y) a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Daily Net Share

 

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Number for such VWAP Trading Day; or (ii) if the Daily Conversion Value for such VWAP Trading Day is less than or equal to the Daily Measurement Value, a cash payment equal to the Daily Conversion Value.

 

Daily VWAP” for the Common Stock (or any security that is part of the Reference Property underlying the Notes, if applicable), in respect of any VWAP Trading Day, means the per share volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock (or other security) as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg Page “TSRO Equity AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available, or the Bloomberg Page for any security that is part of such Reference Property, if applicable) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such VWAP Trading Day or, if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable (or such Reference Property is not a security), the market value of one share of the Common Stock (or such Reference Property) on such VWAP Trading Day as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors in a commercially reasonable manner, using, if practicable, a volume-weighted average price method (unless such Reference Property is not a security).  The “Daily VWAP” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside the regular trading session.

 

Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

Depositary” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in the form of a Global Note, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder. The Company has appointed The Depository Trust Company as the initial Depositary for the Notes.

 

Distributed Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

Dollar” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the U.S. that is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the time of payment.

 

Effective Date” means, with respect to a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Adjustment Event, as applicable, the date such Fundamental Change or Make-Whole Adjustment Event occurs or becomes effective; provided, however, that, as used in Section 4.04, “Effective Date” means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share subdivision or combination, as applicable.

 

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.

 

Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable,

 

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from the seller of the Common Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.

 

Exchange” means The NASDAQ Global Select Market or its successor.

 

Final Settlement Method Election Date” means the 85th Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.

 

Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Free Convertibility Date” means April 1, 2021.

 

Fundamental Change” means the occurrence of a Change in Control or a Termination of Trading.

 

Fundamental Change Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02(a).

 

Fundamental Change Expiration Time” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a)(i).

 

Fundamental Change Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01.

 

Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a)(i).

 

Fundamental Change Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01.

 

Global Note” means a Note evidencing all or part of a series of Notes, issued to the Depositary for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

 

Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Register.

 

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

 

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Initial Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.

 

Interest Payment Date” means, with respect to the payment of interest on the Notes, each April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on, in the case of the Initial Notes, April 1, 2015.

 

Issue Date” means, with respect to any Notes, the date the Notes are originally issued as set forth on the face of the Notes under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Make-Whole Adjustment Event” means (i) any Change in Control (determined after giving effect to any exceptions or exclusions from the definition of “Change in Control” but without giving effect to the proviso in clause (2) of the definition thereof) and (ii) any Termination of Trading.

 

Make-Whole Adjustment Event Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(a).

 

Maturity Date” means October 1, 2021.

 

Merger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a).

 

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

 

Officer” or “officer” shall mean, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”) of the Company.

 

Offer Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(e).

 

Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”) and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee.

 

Open of Business” means 9:00 a.m., New York City time.

 

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of, or counsel for, the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

 

Outstanding” means, with respect to the Notes, any Notes authenticated by the Trustee except (i) Notes cancelled by it, (ii) Notes delivered to it for cancellation and (iii)(A) Notes replaced pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, on and after the time such Note is replaced (unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that such Note is held by a protected purchaser), (B) Notes converted pursuant to Article 4 hereof, on and after their Conversion Date, (C) any and all Notes, the principal of which has become due and payable

 

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as of the Maturity Date, on a Fundamental Change Purchase Date, or otherwise and in respect of which the Paying Agent is holding, in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture, money sufficient to pay all of the Notes then payable, and (D) any and all Notes owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.  In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Notes owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company shall be considered as though not Outstanding, except that in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only such Notes which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be disregarded. Upon the request of the Trustee, the Company shall promptly furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned by or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons and the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts set forth therein and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this definition of the term “outstanding” shall apply to the Notes in lieu of “Outstanding” in the Base Indenture (other than the proviso set forth in the definition of “Outstanding” in the Base Indenture).

 

Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal amount of, interest on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, any Notes on behalf of the Company.

 

Permitted Exchange” has the meaning mentioned in the definition of “Termination of Trading.”

 

Physical Notes” means permanent, certificated Notes in definitive, fully registered form issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

Physical Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a).

 

Preliminary Prospectus Supplement” means the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated September 22, 2014 related to the offering of the Initial Notes.

 

Record Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of Common Stock entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, statute, contract or otherwise).

 

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Reference Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a).

 

Register” and “Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 2.06(a).

 

Regular Record Date” means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date, March 15 (whether or not a Business Day) or September 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

Reporting Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.03(a).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading.  If the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.

 

Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a)(ii).

 

Settlement Election” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a)(i).

 

Settlement Election Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a)(i).

 

Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, as elected (or deemed to be elected) by the Company in accordance with Section 4.03(a)(i).

 

Specified Dollar Amount” means, for any conversion of Notes, the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received by the Holder upon conversion as specified in the Company’s Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice (which may be part of the Settlement Election Notice) or otherwise deemed to be elected by the Company in respect of such conversion as provided herein.

 

Specified Dollar Amount Election” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a)(i).

 

Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a)(i).

 

Spin-Off” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

Stock Price” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c).

 

Successor Company” has the meaning specified in Section 9.01(a).

 

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

 

Termination of Trading” means that the Common Stock (or other Reference Property into which the Notes are then convertible) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of the Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) (such exchanges or any of their respective successors, a “Permitted Exchange”).

 

Transfer Agent” initially means Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

 

Trading Day” means a day on which (i) the Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed on the Exchange, the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed, or if the Common Stock is not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the principal other market on which the Common Stock is traded, is open for trading, in each case, with a scheduled closing time of 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then-standard closing time for regular trading on the relevant exchange or trading system, or if the Common Stock is not so listed or traded, any Business Day and (ii) a Closing Sale Price for the Common Stock is available on such securities exchange or market.

 

Trading Price” means, on any date of determination, the average of the secondary market bid quotations per $1,000 principal amount of Notes obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent (or, if the Company is acting as the Bid Solicitation Agent, the Company) for $2,000,000 principal amount of the Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company; provided that, if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company or the Bid Solicitation Agent, as applicable, but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Company or the Bid Solicitation Agent, as applicable, that one bid shall be used.  If on any date of determination, (i) the Company or the Bid Solicitation Agent, as applicable, cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $2,000,000 principal amount of the Notes from an independent nationally recognized securities dealer, (ii) if the Company is not acting as the Bid Solicitation Agent and the Company fails to request the Bid Solicitation Agent to obtain bids when required or (iii) if the Company requests that the Bid Solicitation Agent obtain bids and the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to obtain such bids (or, if the Company is acting as the Bid Solicitation Agent, the Company fails to obtain such bids), then, in each case, the Notes shall be convertible under the condition to conversion set forth in Section 4.01(b)(ii) for the next 5 consecutive Business Days following such date of determination.

 

Trigger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to Section 11.12, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.

 

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

 

Underwriting Agreement” means that certain Underwriting Agreement, dated September 23, 2014, among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as representatives of the underwriters.

 

Unit of Reference Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a).

 

U.S.” means the United States of America.

 

Valuation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c).

 

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

 

VWAP Market Disruption Event” means (i) a failure by the Exchange, or if the Common Stock is not listed on the Exchange, the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed, to open for trading during its regular trading session or (ii) the occurrence or existence for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the Exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options, contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock, and such suspension or limitation occurs or exists at any time before 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such day.

 

VWAP Trading Day” means a day on which (i) there is no VWAP Market Disruption Event and (ii) the Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed on the Exchange, the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the principal other market on which the Common Stock is traded, is open for trading, in either case, with a scheduled closing time of 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) or the then-standard closing time for regular trading on the relevant exchange or market, or if the Common Stock is not listed, any Business Day.

 

Section 1.02          References to Interest.  Any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest, if, in such context, Additional Interest, is, was or would be payable pursuant hereto.  Any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

 

ARTICLE 2.
THE NOTES

 

Section 2.01          Title and Terms; Payments.  The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture is initially limited to

 

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$201,250,000.00 (the “Initial Notes”), except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.09, 2.11, 2.12, 3.07 or 4.02.  The Company may, from time to time after the execution of this Supplemental Indenture, execute and deliver to the Trustee for authentication Additional Notes of an unlimited aggregate principal amount, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Additional Notes upon receipt of a Company Order, without any further action by the Company hereunder; provided, however, that (1) if any such Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, any such Additional Notes shall have a separate CUSIP number for so long as they remain not fungible; (2) such Additional Notes must be issued pursuant to the same terms (other than the date of issuance for such Notes and, if applicable in accordance with Section 2.14, the date from which interest shall initially accrue and the date of the first interest payment) as the Initial Notes; (3) the Trustee must receive an Officers’ Certificate as described in Section 3.03 of the Base Indenture and to the effect that such issuance of Additional Notes complies with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, including each provision of this paragraph and all conditions precedent to the issuance and authentication of such Additional Notes have been satisfied; and (4) the Trustee must receive an Opinion of Counsel as described in Section 3.03 of the Base Indenture and which shall state (a) that the form of such Additional Notes has been established by a supplemental indenture or pursuant to the Board Resolutions in accordance with this Section 2.01 and Section 2.04 and in conformity with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture; (b) that the terms of such Additional Notes have been established in accordance with this Section 2.01 and in conformity with the other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and all conditions precedent to the issuance and authentication of such Additional Notes have been satisfied; and (c) that such Additional Notes have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, shall constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

 

The Notes shall be known and designated as the “3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021” of the Company.  The principal amount shall be payable on the Maturity Date unless no longer Outstanding because earlier purchased, converted or redeemed in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture.

 

The principal amount of Physical Notes shall be payable in U.S. dollars at the Corporate Trust Office and at any other office or agency, in each case in the continental U.S., maintained by the Company for such purpose.  Interest on Physical Notes shall be payable (i) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or less of Notes, by check mailed to such Holders at the address set forth in the Register and (ii) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $1,000,000 of Notes, either by check mailed to such Holders or, upon request by such a Holder, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to such Holder’s account within the U.S.  The Company shall pay or cause the Trustee or Paying Agent to pay principal of, and interest on, Global Notes in U.S. dollars and in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be,

 

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as the registered Holder of such Global Note, on each Interest Payment Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Maturity Date or other payment date, as the case may be.

 

Section 2.02          Ranking.  The Notes constitute direct unsecured, senior obligations of the Company.

 

Section 2.03          Denominations.  Pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 3.02 of the Base Indenture, the Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and in minimum denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

Section 2.04          Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.  The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Company by one of its Officers.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 2.02 of the Base Indenture, each Note will bear a Trustee’s certificate of authentication substantially in the form included in Exhibit A hereto.  Each Note will also bear the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes.  The Company Order shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated, and shall further specify the amount of such Notes to be issued as one or more Global Notes or as one or more Physical Notes.  The Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes as provided in this Supplemental Indenture and not otherwise.

 

Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

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

 

Section 2.05          Temporary Notes.  Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Physical Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officer executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by such Officer’s execution of such Notes.

 

After the preparation of Physical Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Physical Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 5.02, without charge to the Holder.  Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, in exchange therefor a like

 

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principal amount of Physical Notes of authorized denominations.  Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Supplemental Indenture as Physical Notes.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.05 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 3.04 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 2.06          Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)           The Company shall cause to be kept at the applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee in the continental U.S. a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 5.02 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration and transfer of Notes.  The Trustee is hereby appointed registrar (the “Registrar”) for the purpose of registering the transfer and exchange of the Notes as herein provided.

 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 5.02 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor.

 

At the option of the Holder and subject to the other provisions of Section 2.11, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

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

 

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

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Company and the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.11 not involving any transfer.

 

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Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Note in the circumstances set forth in Section 2.11(a)(iv).

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.06(a) shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 3.05 of the Base Indenture.

 

(b)           Neither any members of, or participants in, the Depositary (collectively, the “Agent Members”) nor any other Persons on whose behalf any Agent Member may act shall have any rights under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to any Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary or any nominee thereof, or under any such Global Note, and the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee, the Agents and any of their respective agents as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever.  Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any liability, responsibility or obligation to any Agent Members or any other Person on whose behalf Agent Members may act with respect to (i) any ownership interests in the Global Note, (ii) the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee, (iii) any notice required hereunder, (iv) any payments under or with respect to the Global Note or (v) actions taken or not taken by any Agent Members. The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary in accordance with Applicable Procedures. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its direct or indirect participants.

 

(c)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, any Agent or any of their respective agents from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent Members and any other Person on whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.  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 that a Holder is entitled to take under this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes.

 

Section 2.07          Reserved

 

Section 2.08          Reserved

 

Section 2.09          Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes.  If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, in exchange therefor a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of written notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the

 

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Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

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

 

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.09, the Company may require payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.09 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Supplemental Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

 

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

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.09 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 3.06 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 2.10          Persons Deemed Owners.  Subject to the rights of Holders as of the Regular Record Date to receive payments of interest on the related Interest Payment Date, prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee, each Agent, and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the Register as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal of such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee, the Agents nor any of their respective agents shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.09 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 3.08 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 2.11          Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)           Provisions Applicable to All Transfers and Exchanges.

 

(i)            Subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.11, Physical Notes and beneficial interests in Global Notes may be transferred or exchanged from time to time as desired, and each such transfer or exchange shall be noted by the Registrar in the Register.

 

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(ii)           All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Supplemental Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

(iii)          No service charge shall be imposed on any Holder of a Physical Note or any owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Note for any exchange or registration of transfer, but each of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar may require such Holder or owner of a beneficial interest to pay a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed in connection with such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

(iv)          Unless the Company specifies otherwise, none of the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar or any co-Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Note (i) that has been surrendered for conversion, or (ii) as to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not withdrawn, except to the extent any portion of such Note is not subject to the foregoing.

 

(v)                       Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall have (i) any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Supplemental Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such transfer certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by the terms of this Supplemental Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof, or (ii) any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

 

(b)           In General; Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in Global Notes.  So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law or by Section 2.11(c):

 

(i)            all Notes shall be represented by one or more Global Notes;

 

(ii)           every transfer and exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall be effected through the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture; and

 

(iii)          each Global Note may be transferred only as a whole and only (A) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, (B) by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the Depositary or (C) by

 

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the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

(c)           Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes for Physical Notes.

 

(i)            Notwithstanding any other provision of this Supplemental Indenture, each Global Note shall be exchanged for Physical Notes if the Depositary delivers notice to the Company that:

 

(A)          the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue to act as Depositary; or

 

(B)          the Depositary is no longer registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act or is otherwise no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Note;

 

and, in each case, the Company promptly delivers a copy of such notice to the Trustee and a successor Depositary is not appointed within 90 days after such notice from the Depositary is received.

 

In each such case, the Company shall, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee, in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly authenticate and deliver, for each beneficial interest in each Global Note so exchanged, an aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes equal to the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest, registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary specifies.

 

(ii)           In addition, if an Event of Default has occurred with regard to the Notes represented by the relevant Global Note and such Event of Default has not been cured or waived, any owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may deliver a written request through the Depositary to exchange such beneficial interest for Physical Notes.

 

In such case, (A) the Registrar shall deliver notice of such request to the Company and the Trustee, which notice shall identify the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest and the CUSIP of the relevant Global Note; (B) the Company shall, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee, in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly authenticate and deliver, to such owner, for the beneficial interest so exchanged by such owner, Physical Notes registered in such owner’s name having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest as the Depositary specifies; and (C) the Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall cause the principal amount of such Global Note to be decreased by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest so exchanged.  If all of the beneficial interests in a Global Note are so exchanged, such Global Note shall be deemed surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation,

 

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and the Trustee shall cause such Global Note to be cancelled in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

 

(d)                                 Transfer and Exchange of Physical Notes.

 

(i)                                     If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may transfer a Physical Note by: (A) surrendering such Physical Note for registration of transfer to the Registrar, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar; and (B) satisfying all other requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.11.  Upon the satisfaction of conditions (A) and (B) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, shall, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Physical Notes, of any authorized denomination, having like aggregate principal amount.

 

(ii)                                  If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may exchange a Physical Note for other Physical Notes of any authorized denominations and aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be exchanged by surrendering such Notes, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar, at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purposes pursuant to Section 5.02.  Whenever a Holder surrenders Notes for exchange, the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order and in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly authenticate and deliver the Notes that such Holder is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

(iii)                               If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may transfer or exchange a Physical Note for a beneficial interest in a Global Security by (A) surrendering such Physical Note for registration of transfer or exchange, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar, at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purposes pursuant to Section 5.02; (B) satisfying all other requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.11; and (C) providing written instructions to the Trustee to make, or to direct the Registrar to make, an adjustment in its books and records with respect to the applicable Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by such Global Note, which instructions shall contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase.  Upon the satisfaction of conditions (A), (B) and (C), the Trustee shall cancel such Physical Note and cause, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of such Physical Note, and shall credit or cause to

 

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be credited the account of the Person specified in the instructions provided by the exchanging Holder in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Physical Note.  If no Global Notes are then Outstanding, the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order and in accordance with Section 2.04, shall promptly authenticate, a new Global Note in the appropriate aggregate principal amount.

 

Section 2.12                             Purchase of Notes; Cancellation.  The Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries may, to the extent permitted by law, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company or to the Company’s Subsidiaries), purchase Notes in the open market or by tender offer at any price or by private agreement.  The Company shall cause any Notes so purchased (other than Notes purchased pursuant to cash-settled swaps or other derivatives) to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation.  For the avoidance of doubt, any such Notes purchased by the Company shall be retired and no longer Outstanding hereunder.

 

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold.  The Trustee shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, purchase, repurchase, conversion or cancellation in accordance with its customary practices.  If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes in any manner whatsoever, such acquisition shall not operate as a satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. The Notes so acquired, while held by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, shall not entitle the Holder thereof to convert the Notes. The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has paid in full or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

The Registrar shall retain, in accordance with its customary procedures, copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to this Section 2.12.  The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.12 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 3.09 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 2.13                             CUSIP Numbers.  In issuing the Notes, the Company may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use); provided that the Trustee shall not have any liability for any defect in the CUSIP numbers as they appear on any Notes, notice, or elsewhere and; provided further, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.

 

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Section 2.14                             Payment and Computation of Interest.  The Notes shall bear cash interest at a rate of 3.00% per year until the Maturity Date, unless earlier purchased or converted, in accordance with the provisions herein.  Interest on the Notes shall accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, (x) in the case of the Initial Notes, September 29, 2014 or (y) in the case of any other Notes, the date of original issuance of such Notes.  Interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the Close of Business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date; provided that, if any Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date or Fundamental Change Purchase Date of a Note falls on a day that is not a Business Day (which, solely for the purposes of any payment required to be made on any such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date or and solely for purposes of this Section, shall also not include days in which the office where the place of payment in the continental U.S. is authorized or required by law to close), the required payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest on such payment shall accrue in respect of the delay.  Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

 

Payments of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, principal and interest on any Note, in each case, that are not made when due shall accrue interest per annum at the then-applicable interest rate plus one percent from the required payment date.

 

The Company shall pay Additional Interest under certain circumstances as provided in Section 6.03.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 2.14 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 1.12 of the Base Indenture.

 

ARTICLE 3.
REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS

 

Section 3.01                             Purchase at Option of Holders upon a Fundamental Change.  If a Fundamental Change occurs, then each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes, or any portion of such Holder’s Notes that is equal to $1,000, or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, on a date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 or more than 35 Business Days after the occurrence of such Fundamental Change, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to but excluding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Price”); provided, however, that if the Fundamental Change Purchase Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which it relates, the Company shall instead pay interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of the Note as of the preceding Regular Record Date and the Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall then be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Note subject to purchase and shall not include any accrued and unpaid interest.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no purchase of any Notes pursuant to this Section 3.01 if the principal amount of the Notes has

 

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been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Notes).  In the event the principal amount of the Notes is accelerated following delivery of a Fundamental Change Company Notice (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Notes), the Trustee shall promptly (i) return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes tendered to it or (ii) effect appropriate book-entry transfers to the respective beneficial holders thereof any beneficial interests in a Global Note tendered to it in compliance with the Applicable Procedures, in which case, upon such return or transfer, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

 

Section 3.02                             Fundamental Change Company Notice.

 

(a)                                 General.  On or before the 10th Business Day after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall mail to all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent (in the case of any Paying Agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of such Fundamental Change and of the purchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof.  Such notice shall be sent to the Holders in accordance with Section 12.08(c) (with a copy to the Trustee).  In addition to providing such Fundamental Change Company Notice, on or before the 10th Business Day after the occurrence of such Fundamental Change, the Company shall issue a press release announcing the occurrence of such Fundamental Change and make the press release available on the Company’s website.  Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:

 

(i)                                     the events causing the Fundamental Change;

 

(ii)                                  the Effective Date of the Fundamental Change, and whether the Fundamental Change is a Make-Whole Adjustment Event;

 

(iii)                               the last date on which a Holder of Notes may exercise the purchase right pursuant to Section 3.01;

 

(iv)                              the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;

 

(v)                                 the Fundamental Change Purchase Date;

 

(vi)                              the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;

 

(vii)                           the applicable Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the applicable Conversion Rate resulting from the Fundamental Change, and the procedures required for exercise of a Holder’s right to convert its Notes as described in Section 4.02;

 

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(viii)                        if applicable, that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in accordance with Section 3.05;

 

(ix)                              the procedures required for exercise of the purchase option upon the Fundamental Change, including that the Holder must exercise the purchase option prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time; and

 

(x)                                 that the Holder shall have the right to withdraw any Notes surrendered for purchase prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time and the procedures required for withdrawal of any such exercise as described in 3.05;

 

(b)                                 No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.01.

 

(c)                                  At the Company’s written request, the Trustee shall give the Fundamental Change Company Notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company; provided, further that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee, at least five Business Days before the Fundamental Change Company Notice is required to be given to the Holders (or such shorter period agreed to by the Trustee), an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and attaching the form of Fundamental Change Company Notice and including the information required by Section 3.02(a). Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall be responsible for determining if a Fundamental Change has occurred or for delivering a Fundamental Change Company Notice to Holders or for the content of any Fundamental Change Company Notice.

 

Section 3.03                             Repurchase Procedures.

 

(a)                                 Purchases of Notes under Section 3.01 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:

 

(i)                                     if the Notes to be purchased are Physical Notes, delivery to the Trustee and the Paying Agent by the Holder of a duly completed notice in the Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”) together with the Physical Notes duly endorsed for transfer, at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, (the “Fundamental Change Expiration Time”); and

 

(ii)                                  if the Notes to be purchased are Global Notes, delivery to the Trustee and the Paying Agent of the beneficial interest in such Global Notes, by

 

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book-entry transfer, in compliance with the Applicable Procedures and the satisfaction of any other requirements of the Depositary in connection with tendering beneficial interests in a Global Note for purchase by the Fundamental Change Expiration Time.

 

The Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be purchased shall state:

 

(i)                                     if certificated, the certificate numbers of such Holder’s Notes to be purchased;

 

(ii)                                  the portion of the principal amount of such Notes to be purchased, equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof; and

 

(iii)                               that such Notes are to be purchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Supplemental Indenture.

 

(b)                                 Notice to Company.  The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.

 

Section 3.04                             Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice.  Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of Physical Notes and a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or beneficial interests in a Global Note by book-entry transfer as specified in Section 3.03, the Holder of the tendered Note shall (unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.05) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, in cash with respect to such Note (and any previously accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, if applicable).  Provided that a Holder has tendered its Notes by book-entry transfer or delivery to the Trustee, such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder, provided that the conditions in this Article 3 have been satisfied (including, without limitation, the proper delivery or book-entry transfer of such Note as required under Section 3.03(a)) and subject to the Paying Agent holding money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, on the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date or, if later, the time of delivery or book-entry transfer of such Note to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 3.01.

 

Section 3.05                             Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice.  A Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Paying Agent in accordance with the Fundamental Change Company Notice, as applicable, at any time prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time, as applicable, specifying:

 

(a)                                 the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted;

 

(b)                                 if certificated, the certificate numbers of the withdrawn Notes; and

 

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(c)                                  the principal amount, if any, of each Note that remains subject to the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof;

 

provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.

 

The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been withdrawn in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.05.

 

Section 3.06                             Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price.  Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided herein) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such Business Day) sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be purchased as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date.  If the Paying Agent holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the tendered Notes on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for the purchase and not validly withdrawn: (a) such tendered Notes shall cease to be Outstanding and interest shall cease to accrue thereon (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes is made or whether or not the Note is delivered to the Paying Agent) and (b) all other rights of the Holders of such tendered Notes shall terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price and, if the Fundamental Change Purchase Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the related Interest Payment Date, the right of the Holder of record on such Regular Record Date to receive any interest payment pursuant to Section 3.01).

 

Section 3.07                             Notes Purchased in Whole or in Part.  Any Note that is to be purchased pursuant to this Article 3, whether in whole or in part, shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent (with due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and, to the extent that only a part of the Note so surrendered is to be purchased, the Company shall execute and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Note, without service charge, a new Note or Notes, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the Note so surrendered that is not purchased.

 

Section 3.08                             Covenant To Comply with Applicable Laws upon Purchase of Notes.  In connection with any purchase of Notes under Section 3.01, the Company shall, in each case if required by law, (i) comply with the provisions of Rule 13e-4, Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange Act to the extent any such rules are applicable, (ii) file a Schedule TO or any successor or similar schedule, if required, under the Exchange Act and (iii) otherwise comply with all U.S. federal or state securities laws applicable to the Company in connection

 

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with such purchase offer, in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 3 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified under this Article 3.

 

Section 3.09                             Repayment to the Company.  To the extent that the aggregate amount of money deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.06 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Notes or portions thereof that the Company is obligated to purchase as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, then, following the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, the Paying Agent shall, upon demand of the Company, promptly return any such excess to the Company.

 

ARTICLE 4.
CONVERSION

 

Section 4.01                             Right To Convert.  (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any portion of its Notes at an initial Conversion Rate of 28.4627 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial Conversion Price of approximately $35.13 per share of Common Stock) into the Settlement Amount determined in accordance with Section 4.03(a)(ii), at any time until the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Free Convertibility Date, (x) only upon satisfaction of one or more of the conditions described in Section 4.01(b), and (y) on or after the Free Convertibility Date, at any time until the Close of Business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date regardless of whether the conditions described in Section 4.01(b) are satisfied.

 

(b)                                 (i)  A Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion during any calendar quarter (and only during such calendar quarter) commencing after the calendar quarter ending December 31, 2014 if the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which the conversion occurs, is more than 130% of the applicable Conversion Price in effect on each applicable Trading Day.

 

(ii)                                  If, prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Free Convertibility Date, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on each Trading Day during any ten consecutive Trading Day period (the “Measurement Period”) is less than 98% of the product of (x) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on such date and (y) the applicable Conversion Rate on such Trading Day, a Holder may surrender Notes for conversion at any time during the five consecutive Business Days following such Measurement Period. The Bid Solicitation Agent shall, on the Company’s behalf, determine if the Notes are convertible and shall notify the Company and the Trustee in writing accordingly.  However, the Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company) shall have no obligation to solicit market bid quotations for the Company to determine the Trading Price of the Notes unless the Company has requested such solicitation in writing; and the

 

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Company shall have no obligation to make such request (or, if the Company is the Bid Solicitation Agent, to determine the Trading Price of the Notes) unless a Holder of a Note provides the Company and the Trustee with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on any Trading Day would be less than 98% of the product of (x) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (y) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day.  At such time, the Company shall instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company) to determine, or, if the Company is acting as the Bid Solicitation Agent, the Company shall determine, the Trading Price of the Notes beginning on the next Trading Day and on each of the next nine Trading Days. If, at any time after the condition to conversion set forth in this Section 4.01(b)(ii) has been met, the Trading Price for the Notes on any Trading Day is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of (x) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (y) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day, the Bid Solicitation Agent shall, on the Company’s behalf so notify the Holders and the Trustee.

 

(iii)                               If the Company elects to issue or distribute, as the case may be, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock (x) any rights, options or warrants entitling them to subscribe for or purchase, for a period expiring within 45 calendar days after the declaration date for such issuance, shares of the Common Stock, at a price per share that is less than the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten consecutive Trading Days immediately preceding the declaration date for such issuance; or (y) cash, debt securities (or other evidence of indebtedness) or other assets or securities (including for the avoidance of doubt, any rights, options or warrants that are not described in the proceeding clause (x), but excluding dividends or distributions in respect of which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is made pursuant to Section 4.04(a)), which distribution has a per share value exceeding 10% of the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock as of the Trading Day immediately preceding the declaration date for such distribution, then, in either case, the Company must deliver notice of such distribution, and of the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution, to the Holders at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.  After the Company has delivered such notice, Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time until the earlier of (a) the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution and (b) the Company’s announcement that such issuance or distribution shall not take place; provided, however, that a Holder may not exercise this right to convert if the Holder may participate in the distribution without conversion of the Notes as if it held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate.

 

(iv)                              If a transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Adjustment Event occurs, a holder may surrender Notes for conversion at any time from and after the date that is 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date of the transaction or event until the Close of

 

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Business on (x) if such transaction or event is a Fundamental Change, the Business Day immediately preceding the related Fundamental Change Purchase Date, or (y) otherwise, the 40th Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the effective date for such transaction or event.  To the extent practicable, the Company shall give notice to Holders of the anticipated effective date for such transaction or event not less than 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date or, if the Company does not have knowledge of such transaction or event at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date, within two Business Days of the date upon which the Company receives notice, or otherwise becomes aware of, such transaction or event (but in no event later than the actual effective date of such transaction or event).

 

(v)                                 Holders shall have the right to surrender Notes for conversion if the Company is a party to a consolidation, merger or binding share exchange or a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property and assets that does not also constitute a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Adjustment Event, in each case pursuant to which the Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property.  In such event, Holders shall have the right to surrender Notes for conversion at any time from and including the 50th Scheduled Trading Day prior to the anticipated effective date of such transaction to, and including, the 40th Scheduled Trading Day following the effective date of such transaction.  The Company shall notify the Holders at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date of such transactions or, if such effective date is anticipated to occur in less than 50 Scheduled Trading Days after the date upon which the Company receives notice, or otherwise became aware, of such transaction or event, within two Business Days of the date upon which the Company receives notice, or otherwise becomes aware, of such transaction or event (but in no event later than the actual effective date of such transaction or event).

 

Section 4.02                             Conversion Procedures.

 

(a)                                 Each Note shall be convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent and, if applicable, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

 

(b)                                 To exercise the conversion privilege with respect to a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Holder must comply with the Applicable Procedures for converting a beneficial interest in a Global Note and any taxes or duties if required pursuant to Section 4.02(g), and the Conversion Agent must be informed of the conversion in accordance with the customary practice of the Depositary.

 

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(i)                                     complete and manually sign a conversion notice in the form set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (the “Conversion Notice”) or a facsimile of the Conversion Notice;

 

(ii)                                  deliver the Conversion Notice, which is irrevocable, and the Physical Note to the Conversion Agent;

 

(iii)                               if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents;

 

(iv)                              if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes as set forth in Section 4.02(g); and

 

(v)                                 if required, make any payment required under Section 4.02(f).

 

If, upon conversion of a Note, any shares of Common Stock are to be issued to a Person other than the Holder of such Note, the related Conversion Notice shall include such other Person’s name and address.

 

If a Note has been submitted for repurchase pursuant to a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, such Note may not be converted except to the extent the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice with respect to such Note has been withdrawn by the Holder in accordance with Section 3.05 and such Note is no longer submitted for repurchase pursuant to a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice.

 

For any Note, the date on which the Holder of such Note satisfies all of the applicable requirements set forth above with respect to such Note shall be the “Conversion Date” with respect to such Note.  The Company shall determine the Conversion Date for each such Note in accordance with the requirements set forth herein.

 

Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Notes (or portion thereof) surrendered for conversion at the Close of Business on the applicable Conversion Date; provided, however, that except to the extent required by Section 4.04, the person in whose name any shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion, if any, shall be treated as a stockholder of record of such shares as of the Close of Business on the Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) or on the last VWAP Trading Day of the relevant Conversion Period (in the case of any other Settlement Method).  For the avoidance of doubt, until a Holder is deemed to become the holder of record of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Holder’s Notes as contemplated in the immediately preceding sentence, such Holder shall not have any rights as a holder of the Common Stock with respect to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes.  At the Close of Business on the Conversion Date for a Note, the converting Holder shall no longer be the Holder of such Note.

 

(c)                                  Endorsement.  Any Notes surrendered for conversion shall, unless shares of Common Stock issuable on conversion are to be issued in the same name as the registration of such Notes, be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by instruments of

 

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transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or its duly authorized attorney.

 

(d)                                 Physical Notes.  If any Physical Notes in a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall upon receipt of a Company Order authenticate and deliver to the Holder of the Physical Notes so surrendered, without charge, new Physical Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Physical Notes.

 

(e)                                  Global Notes.  Upon the conversion of a beneficial interest in Global Notes, the Conversion Agent shall make a notation in its records as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversions of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.

 

(f)                                   Interest Due Upon Conversion.  If a Holder converts a Note after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the Open of Business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, in addition to tendering such Note to the Conversion Agent in accordance with Section 4.02(b) such Holder must deliver directly to the Company an amount of cash equal to the amount of interest that shall payable on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that a Holder need not make such payment (1) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date; (2) if the Conversion Date follows the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; or (3) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note.

 

(g)                                  Taxes Due upon Conversion.  If a Holder converts a Note and the Company elects to deliver shares of Common Stock, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of the Common Stock upon the conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests that any shares be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name or delivered to a person other than the Holder, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax.

 

Section 4.03                             Settlement Upon Conversion.

 

(a)                                 Settlement.  Subject to this Section 4.03 and Sections 4.05 and 4.06, upon conversion of a Note, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to Holders, in full satisfaction of, its conversion obligation under Section 4.01, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount consisting of, at the election of the Company, solely cash (“Cash Settlement”), shares of Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock pursuant to Section 4.03(b)) (“Physical Settlement”) or through payment and delivery, as the case

 

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may be, of a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock with a particular Specified Dollar Amount (“Combination Settlement”).

 

(i)                                     Settlement Election.  All conversions occurring on or after the Final Settlement Method Election Date shall be settled using the same Settlement Method.  Prior to the Final Settlement Method Election Date the Company shall use the same Settlement Method for all conversions occurring on the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions that occur on different Conversion Dates.  If the Company elects a Settlement Method  (a “Settlement Election”) and a Specified Dollar Amount, if applicable (a “Specified Dollar Amount Election”) on or prior to the Final Settlement Method Election Date, the Company shall provide to the Holders so converting through the Trustee a written notice of such Settlement Method (each such notice, a “Settlement Election Notice”) or such Specified Dollar Amount (each such notice, a “Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice”), no later than the Close of Business on the second Trading Day immediately following the related Conversion Date unless the Company has previously made an irrevocable election pursuant to the immediately following paragraph.  If the Company does not timely elect a Settlement Method, the Company shall no longer have the right to elect Cash Settlement or Physical Settlement, and the Company shall be deemed to have elected Combination Settlement in respect of its conversion obligation, and the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be $1,000.  If the Company elects Combination Settlement but does not timely notify the Holders of the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, such Specified Dollar Amount shall be deemed to be $1,000.

 

In addition, the Company may, prior to the Final Settlement Method Election Date, at its option, irrevocably elect Combination Settlement with a particular Specified Dollar Amount for all conversions subsequent to the Company’s such irrevocable notice to Holders by written notice of such election to the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent.

 

(ii)                                  Settlement Amount.  The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes (the “Settlement Amount”) shall be computed as follows:

 

(A)                               if the Company elects to satisfy its conversion obligation through Physical Settlement, the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date for such conversion, together with cash in lieu of any fractional shares of Common Stock pursuant to Section 4.03(b);

 

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respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the related Conversion Period; and

 

(C)                               if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its conversion obligation through Combination Settlement, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, an amount of cash and number of shares of Common Stock, if any, equal to the sum of the Daily Settlement Amounts for each of the 40 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the related Conversion Period.

 

(iii)                               Delivery Obligation.  The Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the Settlement Amount due in respect of its conversion obligation under this Section 4.03, (x) on the third Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date, if the Company elects Physical Settlement, unless such Conversion Date occurs following the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in which case the Company shall make such delivery (and payment, if applicable) on the Maturity Date or (y) on the third Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the related Conversion Period, in any other case; provided, however, that, in the case of clause (x) or (y) above, if prior to the Conversion Date for any converted Notes, the Common Stock has been replaced by Reference Property consisting solely of cash, the Company shall pay the consideration due in respect of such conversion on the tenth Business Day immediately following the related Conversion Date, and, notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 4.03, no Conversion Period shall apply to those conversions.  For the avoidance of doubt, in the case of Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, if a VWAP Market Disruption Event occurs on a Scheduled Trading Day during the Conversion Period, or if such Scheduled Trading day is not a VWAP Trading Day for any other reason, then the Daily Conversion Value or Daily Settlement Amount, as applicable, will be determined on the next following VWAP Trading Day, and delivery of the Settlement Amount will be delayed accordingly.  No interest will accrue on account of such delay.

 

(b)                                 Fractional Shares.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not issue fractional shares of Common Stock as part of the Settlement Amount due with respect to any converted Note.  Instead, if any Settlement Amount includes a fraction of a share of the Common Stock, the Company shall, in lieu of delivering such fraction of a share of Common Stock, pay an amount of cash equal to the product of such fraction of a share and (i) in a Physical Settlement, the Daily VWAP on the relevant Conversion Date, or if such Conversion Date is not a VWAP Trading Day, the immediately preceding VWAP Trading Day or (ii) in the case of any other Settlement Method, the Daily VWAP on the last VWAP Trading Day of the relevant Conversion Period (subject to Section 4.03(c) immediately below).

 

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(c)                                  Conversion of Multiple Notes by a Single Holder.  If a Holder surrenders more than one Note for conversion on a single Conversion Date, the Company will calculate the number of shares of Common Stock due with respect to such Notes as if such Holder had surrendered for conversion one Note having an aggregate principal amount equal to the sum of the principal amounts of each of the Notes surrendered for conversion by such Holder on such Conversion Date.

 

(d)                                 Settlement of Accrued Interest and Deemed Payment of Principal.  If a Holder converts a Note, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate to account for any accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, and the Company’s delivery or payment, as the case may be, of cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock into which a Note is convertible shall be deemed to satisfy and discharge in full the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, such Note to, but excluding, the Conversion Date; provided, however, that subject to Section 4.02(f), if a Holder converts a Note after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the Open of Business on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, the Company shall still be obligated to pay the interest due on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of such Note on such Regular Record Date.

 

As a result, except as otherwise provided in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence, any accrued and unpaid interest with respect to a converted Note shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited.  In addition, if the Settlement Amount for any Note includes both cash and shares of Common Stock, accrued and unpaid interest shall be deemed to be paid first out of the amount of cash delivered upon such conversion.

 

(e)                                  Notices.  Whenever a Conversion Date occurs with respect to a Note, the Conversion Agent shall, as promptly as possible, and in no event later than the Business Day immediately following such Conversion Date, deliver to the Company and the Trustee, if it is not then the Conversion Agent, written notice that a Conversion Date has occurred, which notice shall state such Conversion Date, the principal amount of Notes converted on such Conversion Date and the names of the Holders that converted Notes on such date.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee and Conversion Agent in writing of any payments made pursuant to Sections 4.02(f) or 4.02(g), as applicable.  The Company will notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent in writing upon the occurrence of the Conversion Date for each Note tendered for conversion.

 

On the first Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the Conversion Period applicable to any Note surrendered for conversion in a Cash Settlement or a Combination Settlement, the Company shall deliver a written notice to the Conversion Agent and the Trustee (if not also the Conversion Agent) stating the amount of cash and the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, that the Company is obligated to pay or deliver, as the case may be, to satisfy its conversion obligation with respect to each Note converted on such Conversion Date.

 

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Section 4.04                             Adjustment of Conversion Rate.  The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted as described in this Section 4.04, except that the Company shall not make any adjustment to the Conversion Rate if Holders are entitled to participate (other than in the case of a share split or share combination), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described below without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.

 

(a)                                 If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on all or substantially all shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

OS1

OS0

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Effective Date of such share split or combination, as applicable;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or immediately after the Open of Business on such Effective Date, as applicable;

 

 

OS0 =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Effective Date, as applicable; and

 

 

OS1 =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the Effective Date of such share split or share combination, as applicable.

 

Any adjustment made under this Section 4.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the Open of Business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination.  If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 4.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution or to effect such share split or share combination, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared or such share split or share combination had not been announced.

 

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(b)                                 If an Ex-Dividend Date occurs for a distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock of any rights, options or warrants entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days from the announcement date of such distribution, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock, at a price per share less than the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such distribution, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

OS0 + X

 

OS0 + Y

 

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

 

OS0 =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

 

X =

the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and

 

 

Y =

the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants divided by the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the distribution of such rights, options or warrants.

 

Any increase made under this Section 4.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.  To the extent that such rights, options or warrants are not exercised prior to their expiration or shares of Common Stock are not delivered upon the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered.  If such rights, options or warrants are not so distributed, or if such rights, options or warrants are not exercised prior to their expiration, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution had not occurred.

 

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For purposes of this Section 4.04(b) and Section 4.01(b)(iii)(x), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders of the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share less than the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement for such distribution, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise thereof, with the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors.

 

(c)                                  If an Ex-Dividend Date occurs for a Company distribution of shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities of the Company, the “Distributed Property”), excluding:

 

(i)                                     dividends or distributions and rights, options or warrants as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 4.04(a) or Section 4.04(b);

 

(ii)                                  dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 4.04(d); and

 

(iii)                               Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 4.04(c) shall apply,

 

then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

SP0

 

SP0 - FMV

 

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

 

SP0 =

the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and

 

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FMV =

the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) of Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock as of the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.

 

If “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than the “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of Notes shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes it holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock, without having to convert its Notes, the amount and kind of Distributed Property that such Holder would have received as if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Record Date for the distribution.

 

Any increase made pursuant to the formula above shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.  If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 4.04(c), where there has been an Ex-Dividend Date for a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to any Subsidiaries of the Company or business units of the Company, and such Capital Stock or similar equity interest is listed or quoted (or shall be listed or quoted upon the consummation of the distribution) on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

FMV0 + MP0

 

MP0

 

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such Spin-Off;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such Spin-Off;

 

 

FMV0 =

the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Ex-Dividend date for the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and

 

 

MP0 =

the average of the Closing Sale Prices of Common Stock over the Valuation Period.

 

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The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall be determined on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period but shall be given effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for the Spin-Off.  If the Ex-Dividend Date for the Spin-Off is less than 10 consecutive Trading Days prior to, and including, the end of the Conversion Period in respect of any conversion, references within this Section 4.04(c) to 10 consecutive Trading Days shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion, with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date for the Spin-Off to, and including, the last VWAP Trading Day of such Conversion Period.  In respect of any conversion during the Valuation Period for any Spin-Off, references within this Section 4.04(c) related to 10 consecutive Trading Days shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion, with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date for such Spin-Off to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date.

 

If any such dividend or distribution that constitutes a Spin-Off is declared but not paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared.

 

For purposes of the second adjustment formula set forth in this Section 4.04(c), (i) the Closing Sale Price of any Capital Stock or similar equity interest shall be calculated in a manner analogous to that used to calculate the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock in the definition of “Closing Sale Price” set forth in Section 1.01, (ii) whether a day is a Trading Day (and whether a day is a Scheduled Trading Day and whether a VWAP Market Disruption Event has occurred) for such Capital Stock or similar equity interest shall be determined in a manner analogous to that used to determine whether a day is a Trading Day (or whether a day is a Scheduled Trading Day and whether a VWAP Market Disruption Event has occurred) for the Common Stock, and (iii) whether a day is a Trading Day to be included in a Valuation Period shall be determined based on whether a day is a Trading Day for both the Common Stock and such Capital Stock or similar equity interest.

 

Subject to Section 4.04(f), for the purposes of this Section 4.04(c), rights, options or warrants distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock entitling them to acquire the Company’s Capital Stock or other securities, (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (a “Trigger Event”):  (1) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; (2) are not exercisable; and (3) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 4.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.04(c) shall be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 4.04(c).  If any such rights, options or warrants, distributed prior to the first date of original issuance of the Initial Notes are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different

 

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securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Record Date of such deemed distribution (in which case the original rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders).  In addition, in the event of any distribution or deemed distribution of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants which shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any Holders thereof, upon such final purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share purchase price received by holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming each such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants which shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not been issued.

 

For purposes of Sections 4.04(a) through (c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 4.04(c) applies includes one or both of:

 

(A)                               a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 4.04(a) also applies (the “Clause A Distribution”); or

 

(B)                               an issuance of rights, options or warrants entitling holders of the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock to which Section 4.04(b) also applies (the “Clause B Distribution”),

 

then (i) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a distribution to which this Section 4.04(c) applies (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required to be made under this Section 4.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall be made, (ii) the Clause B Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 4.04(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company, (A) the “Record Date” of the Clause B Distribution and the Clause A Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to be the Record Date of the Clause C Distribution and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or the Clause B Distribution shall not be deemed to be “outstanding immediately prior to the Close of Business on such Record Date” within the meaning of Section 4.04(b), and (iii) the Clause A Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution or the Clause B Distribution, as the case may be, except that, if determined by the Company, (A) the “Record Date” of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, if any, shall

 

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be deemed to be the Record Date of the Clause C Distribution, and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution shall not be deemed to be “outstanding immediately prior to the Close of Business on such Record Date or such Effective Date” within the meaning of Section 4.04(a).

 

(d)                                 If an Ex-Dividend Date occurs for any cash dividend or distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock (other than any dividend or distribution in connection with the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

SP0

 

SP0 - C

 

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;

 

 

SP0 =

the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and

 

 

C =

the amount in cash per share that the Company pays or distributes to holders of the Common Stock.

 

Such increase shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution.  No adjustment pursuant to the above formula shall result in a decrease of the Conversion Rate.  If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or not to make such distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

If “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes it holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, without having to convert its Notes, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder had owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Record Date for such cash dividend or distribution.

 

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(e)                                  If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for the Common Stock, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (the “Offer Expiration Date”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 x

AC + (SP1 x OS1)

 

OS0 x SP1

 

 

where,

 

CR0 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date;

 

 

CR1 =

the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date;

 

 

AC =

the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer;

 

 

OS0 =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the expiration time of the tender or exchange offer on the Offer Expiration Date (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer);

 

 

OS1 =

the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the expiration time of the tender or exchange offer on the Offer Expiration Date (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and

 

 

SP1 =

the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date.

 

The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall be determined at the Close of Business on the tenth Trading Day immediately following, but excluding, the Offer Expiration Date but shall be given effect at the Open of Business on the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date.  If the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date is less than 10 Trading Days prior to, and including, the end of the Conversion Period in respect of any conversion, references within this Section 4.04(e) to 10 Trading Days shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion, with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and

 

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including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date to, and including, the last VWAP Trading Day of such Conversion Period.  In respect of any conversion during the 10 Trading Days commencing on the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date, references within this Section 4.04(e) to 10 Trading Days shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion, with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date.  No adjustment pursuant to the above formula shall result in a decrease of the Conversion Rate.

 

(f)                                   Special Settlement Provisions.  (i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if a Holder converts a Note and:

 

(A)                               Combination Settlement is applicable to such Note and shares of Common Stock are deliverable to settle the Daily Net Share Number for a given Trading Day within the Conversion Period applicable to such Note;

 

(B)                               any distribution, transaction or event described in Sections 4.04(a) through (e) has not yet resulted in an adjustment to the applicable Conversion Rate on such Trading Day; and

 

(C)                               the shares of Common Stock deliverable in respect of such Trading Day are not entitled to participate in the relevant distribution or transaction (because such shares of Common Stock were not held on a related Record Date or otherwise),

 

then the Company shall adjust the number of shares of Common Stock delivered in respect of the relevant Trading Day to reflect the relevant distribution or transaction.

 

If a Holder converts a Note and:

 

(A)                               Physical Settlement, is applicable to such Note;

 

(B)                               any distribution or transaction described in Sections 4.04(a) through (e) has not yet resulted in an adjustment to the applicable Conversion Rate on a given Conversion Date; and

 

(C)                               the shares of Common Stock deliverable on settlement of the related conversion are not entitled to participate in the relevant distribution or transaction (because such shares of Common Stock were not held on a related Record Date or otherwise),

 

then the Company shall adjust the number of shares of Common Stock delivered in respect of such conversion to reflect the relevant distribution or transaction.

 

(ii)                                  If a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date as described above, and a Holder that has converted its Notes on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related Record Date

 

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would be treated as the record holder of shares of Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date pursuant to Section 4.03 based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the foregoing Conversion Rate adjustment provisions, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall not be made for such converting Holder.  Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and participate in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.

 

(g)                                  Poison Pill.  If a Holder converts a Note, to the extent that the Company has a rights plan in effect, on the Conversion Date applicable to such Note, the Holder converting such Note shall receive, in addition to any shares of Common Stock otherwise received in connection with such conversion on such Conversion Date the rights under the rights plan, unless prior to such Conversion Date the rights have separated from the Common Stock, in which case, and only in such case, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all holders of the Common Stock, Distributed Property as described in Section 4.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination of such rights.

 

(h)                                 Deferral of Adjustments.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall not be required to adjust the Conversion Rate unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent; provided, however, that any such minor adjustments that are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment, and provided, further, that any such adjustment of less than one percent that has not been made shall be made (x) upon any repurchase of Notes by the Company at the option of Holder pursuant to Article 3, (y) on each of the VWAP Trading Days within any Conversion Period and (z) upon any Conversion Date.  In addition, the Company shall not account for such deferrals when determining whether any of the conditions to conversion have been satisfied or what number of shares of Common Stock a Holder would have held on a given day had it converted its Notes.

 

(i)                                     Limitation on Adjustments.  Except as stated in this Section 4.04, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities.  If, however, the application of the formulas in Sections 4.04(a) through (e) would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, then, except to the extent of any readjustment to the Conversion Rate, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate shall be made (other than as a result of a reverse share split or share combination).

 

(j)                                    For purposes of this Section 4.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include

 

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shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.

 

Section 4.05                             Discretionary and Voluntary Adjustments.

 

(a)                                 Discretionary Adjustments.  Whenever any provision of the Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Closing Sale Prices, Daily VWAPs, Daily Conversion Values, Daily Settlement Amounts or the Stock Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Adjustment Event over a span of multiple days, the Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Offer Expiration Date or Effective Date of the event occurs, at any time during the period from which such Closing Sale Prices, Daily VWAPs, Daily Conversion Values, Daily Settlement Amounts or Stock Prices are to be calculated.

 

(b)                                 Voluntary Adjustments.  To the extent permitted by applicable law and applicable requirements of the Exchange and any other securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed, the Company is permitted to increase the Conversion Rate of the Notes by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if such increase is irrevocable for such period and the Board of Directors determines that such increase would be in the Company’s best interest.  The Company may also (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase shares of Common Stock in connection with a dividend or distribution of shares (or rights to acquire shares) or similar event.

 

Section 4.06                             Adjustment to Conversion Rate Upon Conversion in Connection with a Make-Whole Adjustment Event.

 

(a)                                 Increase in the Conversion Rate.  If a Make-Whole Adjustment Event occurs and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Adjustment Event, then the Company shall, to the extent provided herein, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”), as described in this Section 4.06.  A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” a Make-Whole Adjustment Event if the relevant Conversion Notice is received by the Conversion Agent during the period from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Adjustment Event up to, and including, the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Purchase Date or, if such Make-Whole Adjustment Event is not also a Fundamental Change, the 40th Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date for such Make-Whole Adjustment Event (such period, the “Make-Whole Adjustment Event Period”).

 

(b)                                 Cash Mergers.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if the consideration paid to holders of the Common Stock in any Make-Whole Adjustment Event described in clause (2) of the definition of “Fundamental Change” is comprised

 

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entirely of cash, then, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Adjustment Event, the payment and delivery obligations upon the conversion of a Note shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price for such Make-Whole Adjustment Event and shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the applicable Conversion Rate (including any adjustment as described in this Section 4.06) multiplied by such Stock Price.  In such event, the Company’s conversion obligation shall be determined and paid to Holders in cash on the tenth Business Day following the applicable Conversion Date.  Otherwise, the Company shall settle any conversion of the Notes following the Effective Date for a Make-Whole Adjustment Event in accordance with Section 4.03 (but subject to Section 4.04).

 

(c)                                  Determining the Number of Additional Shares.  The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased for a Holder that converts its Notes in connection with a Make-Whole Adjustment Event shall be determined by reference to the table attached as Schedule A, based on the Effective Date and the price (the “Stock Price”) paid (or deemed paid) per share of Common Stock in the Make-Whole Adjustment Event as determined under the two immediately following sentences.  In the event that the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in a Make-Whole Adjustment Event described in clause (2) of the definition of “Fundamental Change,” the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share of Common Stock.  Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Adjustment Event.

 

(d)                                 Interpolation and Limits.  The exact Stock Prices and Effective Dates may not be set forth in the table in Schedule A, in which case:

 

(i)                                     If the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table or the Effective Date is between two dates in the table, the number of Additional Shares shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the next higher and next lower Stock Prices and the earlier and later dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year.

 

(ii)                                  If the Stock Price is greater than $200.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.

 

(iii)                               If the Stock Price is less than $26.025 per share (subject to adjustments in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.

 

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$1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustments in the same manner as the Conversion Rate is required to be adjusted as set forth in Section 4.04.

 

(iv)                              The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise required to be adjusted.  The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted.  The number of Additional Shares set forth in such table shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate is required to be adjusted as set forth in Section 4.04.

 

(e)                                  Notices.  The Company shall notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of the anticipated Effective Date of any Make-Whole Adjustment Event and issue a press release announcing such anticipated Effective Date as soon as practicable after determining such anticipated Effective Date (and make the press release available on the Company website).  The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to give notice to Holders of the anticipated Effective Date for a Make-Whole Adjustment Event not less than 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to such anticipated Effective Date.

 

Section 4.07                             Effect of Recapitalization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale.

 

(a)                                 Merger Events.  In the case of:

 

(i)                                     any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than as a result of a subdivision or combination for which an adjustment was made pursuant to Section 4.04(a));

 

(ii)                                  a consolidation, merger, combination or binding share exchange involving the Company; or

 

(iii)                               a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition to a third party of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety or substantially as an entirety;

 

and, in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, common stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Merger Event,” any such common stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), “Reference Property,” and (i) the amount and kind of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock is entitled to receive in the applicable Merger Event, or (ii) if as a result of the applicable Merger Event, each share of Common Stock is converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive

 

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more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), the per share of Common Stock weighted average of the amounts and kinds of Reference Property received by the holders of Common Stock that affirmatively make such an election, a “Unit of Reference Property”), then, at the effective time of such Merger Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes into a number of shares of the Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such Merger Event shall, without the consent of the Holders, be changed into a right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes into or based on a number of Units of Reference Property equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such Merger Event, and, prior to or at the effective time of such Merger Event, the Company or the successor or purchasing person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that at and after the effective time of the Merger Event, (i) the Company shall continue to have the right to determine the Settlement Method applicable to any conversion of Notes, unless it has previously irrevocably elected Combination Settlement with a particular Specified Dollar Amount, (ii) any amount otherwise payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes shall continue to be payable in cash under Section 4.03,  (iii) the number of shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 4.03 and 4.06 shall instead be deliverable in Units of Reference Property and (iv)  the Daily VWAP shall, to the extent reasonably possible, be calculated based on the value of a Unit of Reference Property.

 

The Company shall not become a party to any Merger Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 4.07.  Such supplemental indenture described in the immediately preceding paragraph shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent to the adjustments provided for in this Article 4 in the judgment of the Board of Directors or the board of directors of the successor person.  If, in the case of any such Merger Event, the Reference Property receivable thereupon by a holder of Common Stock includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) of a person other than the successor or purchasing person, as the case may be, in such Merger Event, then such indenture shall also be executed by such other person.

 

(b)                                 Notice of Supplemental Indentures.  The Company shall cause written notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be given to each Holder in accordance with Section 12.08(c) within 20 calendar days after execution thereof.  Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.  The above provisions of this Section 4.07 shall similarly apply to successive Merger Events.

 

(c)                                  Prior Notice.  In addition, at least 10 Scheduled Trading Days before any Merger Event, the Company shall give notice to Holders of such Merger Event, or, if the Company has not publicly announced such Merger Event at such time, as promptly as practicable after publicly announcing such Merger Event.  In any such notice, the Company shall also specify the composition of the Unit of Reference Property for such Merger Event, or, if the Company has not determined the composition of such Unit of Reference Property at such time, the Company shall provide an additional written notice

 

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to Holders that states the composition of such Unit of Reference Property as promptly as practicable after determining its composition.

 

Section 4.08                             Certain Covenants.

 

(a)                                 Reservation of Shares.  To the extent necessary to satisfy its obligations under this Supplemental Indenture, prior to issuing any shares of Common Stock, the Company shall reserve out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to permit the conversion of the Notes.

 

(b)                                 Certain other Covenants.  The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of Notes shall be issued in book-entry format, shall be newly issued shares or treasury shares, shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and shall be free from preemptive rights and free from any tax, lien or charge (other than those created by the Holder or due to a change in registered owner).  The Company shall list or cause to have quoted any shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of Notes on each national securities exchange or over-the-counter or other domestic market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.

 

Section 4.09                             Responsibility of Trustee.  The Trustee and any Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Notes or any other person to determine or calculate the Conversion Rate, to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate, or to confirm the accuracy of any such adjustment when made or the appropriateness of the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same.  The Trustee and any Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock or of any other securities or property that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Notes; and the Trustee and the Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto.  Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Notes for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article 4.  The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including without limitation its right to be compensated, reimbursed and indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, including its capacity as Conversion Agent.

 

Section 4.10                             Notice of Adjustment to the Trustee.  Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment, a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment and the calculations of the Conversion Rate.  Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume that the last Conversion Rate of which it

 

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has knowledge is still in effect.  Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date as of which each adjustment becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to the Holder of each Note in accordance with Section 12.08(c) within 20 days after execution thereof.  Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality, effectiveness or validity of any such adjustment and shall not be an Event of Default under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 4.11          Notice to Holders.

 

(a)           Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions.  The Company shall deliver written notices of the events specified below at the times specified below and containing the information specified below unless, in each case, (i) pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture, the Company is already required to deliver notice of such event containing at least the information specified below at an earlier time or (ii) the Company, at the time it is required to deliver a notice, does not have knowledge of all of the information required to be included in such notice, in which case, the Company shall (A) deliver notice at such time containing only the information that it has knowledge of at such time (if it has knowledge of any such information at such time), and (B) promptly upon obtaining knowledge of any such information not already included in a notice delivered by the Company, deliver notice to each Holder containing such information.  In each case, the failure by the Company to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event.

 

(i)            Issuances, Distributions, and Dividends and Distributions.  If the Company (A) announces any issuance of any rights, options or warrants that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(b); (B) authorizes any distribution that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(c) (including any separation of rights from the Common Stock described in Section 4.04(f)); or (C) announces any dividend or distribution that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(d), then the Company shall deliver to the Holders at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance, dividend or distribution, notice describing such issuance, dividend or distribution, as the case may be, and stating the expected Ex-Dividend Date and Record Date for such issuance, distribution, dividend or distribution, as the case may be.  In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Holders written notice if the consideration included in such issuance, dividend or distribution, or the Ex-Dividend Date or Record Date of such issuance, dividend or distribution, as the case may be, changes.

 

(ii)           Tender and Exchange Offers.  If the Company announces any tender or exchange offer that could require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(e), the Company shall deliver to the Holders on the day it announces such tender or exchange offer, and, if the Company is required to file with the Commission a Schedule TO in connection with such

 

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tender or exchange offer, an additional written notice (i) when the Company first files such Schedule TO, which notice shall include the address at which such Schedule TO is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system (or any successor thereto), and (ii) whenever the Company files an amendment to such Schedule TO, which notice shall include the address at which such amendment is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system (or any successor thereto).

 

(iii)          Voluntary Increases.  If the Company increases the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(b), the Company shall deliver notice to the Holders at least 15 calendar days prior to the date on which such increase shall become effective, which notice shall state the date on which such increase shall become effective and the amount by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased.

 

(iv)          Dissolutions, Liquidations and Winding-Ups.  If there is a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company, the Company shall deliver notice to the Holders at promptly as possible, but in any event at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, as the case may be, is expected to become effective or occur, and (ii) the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, as the case may be, which notice shall state the expected effective date and Record Date for such event, as applicable, and the amount and kind of property that a holder of one share of the Common Stock is expected to be entitled, or may elect, to receive in such event.  The Company shall deliver an additional written notice to Holders, as promptly as practicable, whenever the expected effective date or Record Date, as applicable, or the amount and kind of property that a holder of one share of the Common Stock can expect to be entitled to receive in such event, changes.

 

(b)           Notices After Certain Actions and Events.  Whenever an adjustment to the Conversion Rate becomes effective pursuant to Section 4.04, 4.05 or 4.06, the Company shall (i) promptly deliver to the Conversion Agent and the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such adjustment has become effective, the Conversion Rate, the manner in which the adjustment was computed and describing the facts upon which the adjustment was based (and unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect) and (ii) issue a press release (and make such press release available on the Company’s website) stating that such adjustment has become effective and the Conversion Rate or conversion privilege as adjusted.  Failure to give any such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the validity of any such adjustment.

 

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ARTICLE 5.
COVENANTS

 

Section 5.01          Payment of Principal and Interest and the Fundamental Change Purchase Price.

 

The Company covenants and agrees that it shall cause to be paid the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price), and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, with respect to, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 5.01 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 10.01 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.02          Maintenance of Office or Agency.

 

The Company shall maintain in the continental U.S. an office of the Paying Agent, an office of the Registrar and an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for conversion (“Conversion Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Supplemental Indenture (other than the type contemplated by Section 12.14) may be served (which may be an office or drop facility of the Trustee or any Agent).  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the Trustee.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate as co-registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the continental U.S. for such purposes.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.  The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.

 

The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Registrar, Conversion Agent, and its Corporate Trust Office shall be considered as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes.  The Company or its Affiliates may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

 

With respect to any Global Note, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be the place of payment where such Global Note may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion or for registration of transfer or exchange, or where successor Notes may be delivered in exchange therefor; provided, however, that any such payment, conversion, presentation, surrender or delivery effected pursuant to the Applicable Procedures for such

 

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Global Note shall be deemed to have been effected at the place of payment for such Global Note in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 5.01 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 10.02 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.03          Provisions as to Paying Agent.

 

(a)           If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company shall cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree, subject to the provisions of this Section 5.03:

 

(i)            that it shall hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes;

 

(ii)           that it shall give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and

 

(iii)          that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it shall forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.

 

The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, accrued and unpaid interest, or Fundamental Change Purchase Price, as the case may be, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action, provided that, if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.

 

(b)           If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it shall, on or before each due date of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal,  accrued and unpaid interest, if any, or Fundamental Change Purchase Price so becoming due and shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.

 

(c)           Anything in this Section 5.03 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the

 

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Trustee all sums held in trust by any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 5.03, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment by the any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent (if other than the Company) shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums.

 

(d)           Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, accrued and unpaid interest, Fundamental Change or Purchase Price has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on written request of the Company contained in an Officers’ Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that before the Trustee or such Paying Agent are required to make any such repayment, the Company shall cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 calendar days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be repaid to the Company.

 

Section 5.04          Reports.  The Company shall (i) file with the Commission within the time periods prescribed by the Commission’s rules and regulations and (ii) furnish to the Trustee and the Holders, within 15 calendar days after it is required to file the same with the Commission (after giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act), all the quarterly and annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports, if any, that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.  The Company shall not be required to file any report or other information with the Commission if the Commission does not permit such filing; provided, however, the Company shall be required to furnish such reports to the Trustee.  Any such report, information or document that the Company files with the Commission through the EDGAR system (or any successor thereto) shall be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee for the purposes of this Section 5.04 at the time of such filing through the EDGAR system (or such successor thereto).

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 5.04 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 10.07 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.05          Statements as to Defaults.  The Company is required to deliver to the Trustee (i) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014), an Officers’ Certificate stating whether or not the signers thereof know of any default of the Company that occurred during the previous year and whether the Company, to the Officer’s knowledge, is in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture and (ii) within 30 days after

 

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the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of any events that would constitute Defaults or Events of Default, setting forth the details of such Defaults or Events of Default, their status and the action the Company is taking or proposes to take in respect thereof.  The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default except in accordance with Section 11.03(i).

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 5.05 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 10.08 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.06          Additional Interest Notice.  If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 6.03, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate, prior to the Regular Record Date for each applicable Interest Payment Date, to that effect stating (a) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (b) the date on which such interest is payable.  Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable.  The Trustee shall have no obligation to calculate or determine the amount of any Additional Interest payable by the Company under this Supplemental Indenture.  If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.

 

Section 5.07          Reserved

 

Section 5.08          Reserved

 

Section 5.09          Corporate Existence.  Subject to Article 9, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the Company’s business and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 5.059 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 10.04 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 5.10          Restriction on Resales.  The Company shall not, and shall procure that no “affiliate” (as defined under Rule 144) of the Company shall, resell any of the Notes that have been reacquired by the Company or any such “affiliate” (as defined under Rule 144).

 

Section 5.11          Further Instruments and Acts.  Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 5.12          Par Value Limitation.  The Company shall not take any action that, after giving effect to any adjustment pursuant to Article 4, would result in the issuance of shares of Common Stock for less than the par value of such shares of Common Stock.

 

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Section 5.13          Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.  If at any time the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

 

(a)           semi-annually, not later than the 10th day after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing all the information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its Paying Agents other than the Trustee, of the names and addresses of the Holders, as of such preceding Regular Record Date, and

 

(b)           at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 15 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date the Trustee may reasonably require.

 

ARTICLE 6.
REMEDIES

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Article 6 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Article V of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 6.01          Events of Default.  Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default”:

 

(a)           the Company’s failure to pay the principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

 

(b)           the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations under Article 4 to deliver or pay, as the case may be, the Settlement Amount owing upon conversion of any Note (including any Additional Shares or cash in lieu thereof) within five Business Days;

 

(c)           the Company’s failure to pay any interest on any Note when due, and such failure continues for a period of 30 calendar days;

 

(d)           the Company’s failure to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price on any Note when due;

 

(e)           the Company’s failure to timely provide a Fundamental Change Company Notice, notice of a distribution pursuant to Section 4.01(b)(iii), notice of a transaction pursuant to Section 4.01(b)(iv) or Section 4.01(b)(v), as applicable, or notice of a Make-Whole Adjustment Event in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.02(a), Section  4.01(b)(iii), Section 4.01(b)(iv), Section 4.01(b)(v) or Section 4.06(e), as applicable.

 

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in whose performance or whose breach is specifically addressed in Sections 6.01(a) through (e) above) and such failure continues for 60 calendar days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding (a copy of which notice, if given by Holders, must also to be given to the Trustee) has been received by the Company;

 

(g)           any indebtedness for money borrowed by, or any other payment obligation of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary (or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), in an outstanding principal amount, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $15.0 million (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) is not paid at final maturity (or when otherwise due) or is accelerated, and such indebtedness is not discharged (or such default in payment or acceleration is cured or rescinded) within thirty 30 days after such due date or acceleration, as the case may be;

 

(h)           the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary (or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) fails to pay one or more final and non-appealable judgments entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction, the aggregate uninsured or unbonded portion of which is in excess of $15.0 million, provided that, no Event of Default shall be deemed to occur under this clause (h) if such judgments are paid, discharged or stayed within 30 days after the entry of such judgment;

 

(i)            the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company (i) commences a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking the liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect; (ii)  seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any substantial part of the Company’s or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company’s property, (iii) consents to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or (v) fails generally to pay its debts as they become due; or

 

(j)            an involuntary case or other proceeding is commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company (i) seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding remains undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days.

 

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Section 6.02          Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment.

 

(a)           If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, either the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may, and the Trustee at the written request of such Holders shall, declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes then Outstanding to be due and payable immediately.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company occurs, 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes shall automatically become immediately due and payable.

 

(b)           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 6.02(a), Section 6.04 or any other provision of this Supplemental Indenture, if, at any time after the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable in accordance with Section 6.02(a), and before any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained, and each of the conditions set forth in the immediately following clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) is satisfied:

 

(i)            the Company delivers or deposits with the Trustee the amount of cash sufficient to pay all matured installments of principal and interest upon all the Notes, and the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on such principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest, at the rate or rates, if any, specified in the Notes to the date of such payment or deposit), and such amount as shall be sufficient to pay the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimburse the Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances (including the fees and expenses of its agents and counsel);

 

(ii)           rescission and annulment would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction; and

 

(iii)          any and all Events of Default under this Supplemental Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Notes that became due because of the acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein,

 

then, the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults and Events of Default with respect to the Notes (except for any Default or Event of Default arising from (a) the Company’s failure to pay principal of, or any interest on any Notes, (b) the Company’s failure to deliver the Settlement Amounts due upon conversion of any Note within the applicable time period set forth under Section 4.03(a), or (c) the Company’s failure to comply with any provision of this Supplemental Indenture the modification of which would require the consent of the

 

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Holder of each Outstanding Note affected) and may rescind and annul the declaration of acceleration resulting from such Defaults or Events of Default and their consequences; provided, that no such rescission or annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default or shall impair any right consequent on such Default or Event of Default; provided further that all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 5.03 of the Base Indenture have been paid.

 

Section 6.03          Additional Interest.

 

(a)           Notwithstanding Section 6.02, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default under Section 6.01(f) relating to (i) the Company’s failure to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act any documents or reports the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or (ii) the Company’s failure to comply with Section 5.04 (such Event of Default, a “Reporting Event of Default”), shall, for the 180 days after the occurrence of such Reporting Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest at an annual rate equal to 0.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes during the first 90 days thereafter and 0.50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes from the 91st day to, but not including, the 181st day after the occurrence of such Reporting Event of Default (or, if applicable, the earlier date on which such Reporting Event of Default is cured or waived), payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes.

 

(b)           If the Reporting Event of Default is continuing on the 181st day after the date on which such Reporting Event of Default occurred, the Notes shall be subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02(a).

 

(c)           In order to elect to pay the Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 180 days after the occurrence of a Reporting Event of Default, the Company must notify all Holders of Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of such election on or before the date on which such Reporting Event of Default would otherwise occur.  Upon the Company’s failure to timely give such notice or pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.  Nothing in this Section 6.03 shall affect the rights of Holders of Notes in the event of the occurrence of any other Event of Default.

 

(d)           Such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes.

 

Section 6.04          Waiver of Past Defaults.   Subject to Section 6.02(b), the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes then Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive any Default or Event of Default (except for any Default or Event of Default arising from (a) the Company’s failure to pay principal of, or any interest on, any Notes, (b) the Company’s failure to pay or  deliver the Settlement Amounts due upon conversion of any Note within the applicable time period set forth under Section 4.03(a), or (c) the Company’s failure to comply with any provision of this Supplemental

 

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Indenture the modification of which would require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected) and rescind any acceleration resulting from such Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided, that no such waiver shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default or shall impair any right consequent on such Default or Event of Default.

 

Section 6.05          Control by Majority.  Subject to the Trustee’s duties in the case of an Event of Default, the Trustee shall not be obligated to exercise any of its rights or powers at the request of the Holders unless the Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.  Subject to this Supplemental Indenture, applicable law and the Trustee’s indemnification, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may direct in writing the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes.  The Trustee, however, may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Supplemental Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any Holder, or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability.  In addition, the Trustee will not be required to expend its own funds under any circumstances.

 

Section 6.06          Limitation on Suits.  Subject to Section 6.07, no Holder shall have any right to institute any proceeding under this Supplemental Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or Trustee, or for any other remedy under this Supplemental Indenture or with respect to the Notes unless:

 

(a)           the Holder has previously delivered to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default;

 

(b)           the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes deliver to the Trustee a written request that the Trustee pursue a remedy with respect to such Event of Default and have offered indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee to institute such proceeding as Trustee;

 

(c)           the Trustee has failed to institute a proceeding within 60 days after such notice, request and offer; and

 

(d)           the Trustee has not received from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes a direction inconsistent with such written request within 60 days after such notice, request and offer.

 

No one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Supplemental Indenture to affect, disturb, prejudice the rights of any other Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Supplemental Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

 

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Section 6.07          Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Supplemental Indenture, the above limitations set forth under Section 6.06 do not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder for the enforcement of a payment of the principal of, or any interest on, any Note, on or after the applicable due date, the right to convert the Note or to receive the Settlement Amounts due upon conversion in accordance with Article 4, or the right of a beneficial owner to exchange its beneficial interest in a Global Note for a Physical Note if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing in accordance with Section 2.11.

 

Section 6.08          Collection of Indebtedness; Suit for Enforcement by Trustee.  If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a), 6.01(b), 6.01(c) or 6.01(d) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal of, interest on, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, the Settlement Amounts due upon the conversion of the Notes and such further amount as is sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, as well as any other amounts that may be due hereunder

 

Section 6.09          Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes.  All rights of action and claims under this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the compensation, and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

 

Section 6.10          Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.  The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company, its creditors or its property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, shall be entitled to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and 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 consents 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, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee hereunder.  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 hereunder 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 is 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 to accept or to adopt on behalf of any Holder, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or

 

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

 

Section 6.12          Rights and Remedies Cumulative.  Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in Section 2.09, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.  The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

Section 6.13          Delay or Omission Not a 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 6 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 (subject to the limitations contained in this Supplemental Indenture) or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

Section 6.14          Priorities.  If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

 

FIRST:  to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 11.07, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

 

SECOND: to the Holders, for any amounts due and unpaid on the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest on, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, and any cash due upon conversion of, any Note, without preference or priority of any kind, according to such amounts due and payable on all of the Notes; and

 

THIRD:  the balance, if any, to the Company or to such other party as a court of competent jurisdiction directs.

 

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calendar days prior to such record date, the Trustee shall deliver to each Holder a written notice, which notice shall state such record date, such payment date and the amount of such payment.

 

Section 6.15          Undertaking for Costs.  All parties to this Supplemental Indenture agree, and each Holder, by such Holder’s acceptance of a Note, shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Supplemental Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 6.15 shall not apply to (i) any suit instituted by the Trustee, (ii) any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding, (iii) any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price) of, or any interest on any Note on or after the applicable due date expressed or provided for in this Supplemental Indenture, (iv) any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note or to receive the Settlement Amounts due upon conversion of any Note in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, or (v) any suit for the enforcement of the right of a beneficial owner to exchange its beneficial interest in a Global Note for a Physical Note if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing in accordance with Section 2.11.

 

Section 6.16          Waiver of Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.  The Company covenants that, to the extent that it may lawfully do so, 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 Supplemental Indenture; and the Company, to the extent that it may lawfully do so, hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall instead suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

 

Section 6.17          Notices from the Trustee.  If a Default occurs and is continuing and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee must mail notice of such Default to each Holder within 90 days after it occurs.  Except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on, any Note or of a Default in the delivery of the Settlement Amounts due upon conversion of any Note, the Trustee may withhold notice if and so long as the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding notice is in the interests of the Holders.

 

ARTICLE 7.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; NO DEFEASANCE

 

Section 7.01          Discharge of Liability on Notes.  Neither Article XIII nor Article XIV of the Base Indenture shall apply with respect to the Notes.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Article 7 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Article IV of the Base Indenture.  When (i) (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all

 

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Notes theretofore authenticated (other than any Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered) and not theretofore canceled, or (b) all the Notes not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable (whether on the Maturity Date, on any Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise) and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, or deliver to the Holders, as applicable, an amount of cash (and, to the extent applicable, deliver to the Holders a number of shares of Common Stock to satisfy the Company’s obligations with respect to outstanding conversions) sufficient to pay all amounts due on all of such Notes (other than any Notes that shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest due, accompanied, except in the event the Notes are due and payable solely in cash at the Maturity Date or upon an earlier Fundamental Change Purchase Date, by a verification report as to the sufficiency of the deposited amount from an independent certified accountant or other financial professional satisfactory to the Trustee, and the Company shall have paid or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, and (ii) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions  precedent in this Supplemental Indenture provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture have been complied with, then this Supplemental Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (A) rights hereunder of Holders to receive all amounts owing upon the Notes and the other rights, duties and obligations of Holders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so deposited with the Trustee and (B) the rights, obligations, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the obligations of the Company in respect thereof), and the Trustee, on written demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any reasonable costs or expenses thereafter reasonably incurred by the Trustee, including the fees and expenses of its counsel, and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes.

 

Section 7.02          Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by Trustee.  Subject to Section 7.04, all monies deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01 shall be held in trust for the sole benefit of the Holders of the Notes, and such monies and shall be applied by the Trustee to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company if acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment of all sums or amounts due and to become due thereon for principal and interest, if any.

 

Section 7.03          Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held.  Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture, all excess monies then held by any Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall, upon written request of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee, and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such amounts.

 

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Section 7.04          Return of Unclaimed Monies.  Subject to the requirements of applicable law, any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee for payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Notes and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the Holders of the Notes for two years after the date upon which the principal of or interest, if any, on such Notes, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Company by the Trustee on written demand, and all liability of the Trustee shall thereupon cease with respect to such monies; and the Holders shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment that such Holder may be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.

 

Section 7.05          Reinstatement.  If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any monies in accordance with Section 7.02 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 7.01 until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such amounts in accordance with Section 7.02; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of interest on, principal of or delivery in respect of any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the monies held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE 8.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

Section 8.01          Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

Without notice to, or the consent of, any Holder, the Company (when authorized by a Board Resolution) and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, for any of the following purposes:

 

(a)           to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency in this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes;

 

(b)           to evidence the succession by a Successor Company and to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the Company’s obligations under this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes;

 

(c)           to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;

 

(d)           to secure the Notes;

 

(e)           to add to the Company’s covenants such further covenants, restrictions or conditions for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company by this Supplemental Indenture;

 

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(g)           upon the occurrence of an event described under Section 4.07, solely to (i) provide that the Notes are convertible into Reference Property, subject to Section 4.03, and (ii) effect the related changes to the terms of the Notes described under Section 4.07, in each case, in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Supplemental Indenture; or

 

(h)           to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; or

 

(i)            to conform the terms of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes to the description thereof in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the offering of the Initial Notes.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 8.01 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 9.01 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 8.02          Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

 

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes) and by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Notes or 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 Supplemental Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Supplemental Indenture, and the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may waive the Company’s compliance in any instance with any provision herein without notice to the other Holders; provided, however, that no such amendment, supplement or waiver shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

 

(a)           change the Maturity Date of the principal of, or the stated time for payments of interest on, the Notes;

 

(b)           reduce the principal amount of the Notes;

 

(c)           reduce the rate of interest on the Notes;

 

(d)           reduce the amount of principal payable upon acceleration of the Maturity Date of any Note;

 

(e)           change the place or currency of payment of principal of, or interest on, any Note;

 

(f)            impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on its Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on, or with respect to, such Holder’s Notes;

 

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(g)           modify the provisions with respect to the purchase rights of Holders as described in Section 3.01 in a manner that is materially adverse to Holders;

 

(h)           modify the ranking provisions of this Supplemental Indenture;

 

(i)            make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights or reduces the Conversion Rate, of any Notes; or

 

(j)            make any change to the provisions of this Article 8 which require each Holder’s consent or to the waiver provisions in Section 6.04 of this Supplemental Indenture except to increase the percentage required for modification, amendment or waiver or to provide for consent of each affected Holder of Notes.

 

It shall not be necessary for any Act or consent of Holders under this Section 8.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act or consent shall approve the substance thereof.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Section 8.02 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Section 9.02 of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 8.03          Notice of Amendment or Supplement.  After an amendment or supplement under this Article 8 becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders a written notice briefly describing such amendment or supplement.  However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders, or any defect in the notice, shall not impair or affect the validity of the amendment or supplement.

 

Section 8.04          Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc..  The Trustee shall sign any amendment or supplement authorized pursuant to this Article 8 if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee.  If it does, the Trustee may, but need not, sign it.  In signing or refusing to sign such amendment or supplement, the Trustee shall receive, and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel provided at the expense of the Company providing that such amendment or supplement is authorized or permitted by this Supplemental Indenture, that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such amendment or supplement have been satisfied and such amendment or supplement is a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

ARTICLE 9.
SUCCESSOR COMPANY

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Article 9 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Article VIII of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 9.01          Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms.  Subject to the provisions of Section 9.03, the Company shall not consolidate with, enter into a binding share exchange with, or merge with or into, another Person or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or

 

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otherwise dispose of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to another Person, unless:

 

(a)           the resulting, surviving transferee or successor Person (the “Successor Company”), if any, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the U.S., any state of the U.S. or the District of Columbia and the Successor Company, if any, expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Supplemental Indenture;

 

(b)           immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Notes;

 

(c)           if, as a result of any such transaction, the Notes become convertible pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture into Common Stock or other securities issued by a third party (subject to Section 4.03), such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all obligations of the Company or such Successor Company under the Notes and this Supplemental Indenture; and

 

(d)           all other conditions specified in this Article 9 are met.

 

Upon any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition to another Person, the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of the Company under this Supplemental Indenture, and the Company shall be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and this Supplemental Indenture except in the case of any such lease.

 

For purposes of this Section 9.01, any sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company that would, if the Company held such properties and assets directly, have constituted the sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be treated as such under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 9.02          Successor Corporation to Be Substituted.  In case of any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition to another Person and upon the assumption by the Successor Company (if other than the Company), by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery of any Settlement Amount due upon conversion of the Notes, the due and punctual payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if any, and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture to be performed by the Company under this Supplemental Indenture, such Successor Company shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Supplemental Indenture, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part; provided, however, that in the case of a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition to one or more of its Subsidiaries of all or

 

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substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company, the Notes shall remain convertible based on the Settlement Amount, in accordance with Section 4.03, but subject to adjustment (if any) in accordance with Section 4.06.  Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon receipt of a Company Order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Supplemental Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose.  All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Supplemental Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.  In the event of such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition to another Person (but not in the case of a lease), the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 9 may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

In case of any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition to another Person, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

 

Section 9.03          Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee.  In the case of any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition pursuant to Section 9.01, the Trustee shall receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that any such consolidation, merger, binding share exchange, sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition and any such assumption and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

ARTICLE 10.
NO OPTIONAL REDEMPTION

 

Section 10.01       No Redemption Rights.  The Company shall not redeem the Notes prior to Maturity, and no sinking fund is provided for the Notes. Neither Article XI nor Article XII of the Base Indenture shall apply to the Notes.

 

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ARTICLE 11.
THE TRUSTEE

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture or the Notes, this Article 11 shall apply to the Notes in lieu of Article VI of the Base Indenture.

 

Section 11.01       Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.

 

(a)           The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing 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 Supplemental Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Supplemental Indenture against the Trustee.  In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Supplemental Indenture and use the same degree of care in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

 

(b)           Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:

 

(i)            the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture and applicable law, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Supplemental Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Supplemental Indenture against the Trustee; and

 

(ii)           in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Supplemental Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Supplemental Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

(c)           No provision of this Supplemental Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

(i)            this subsection (c) does not limit the effect of this Section 11.01;

 

(ii)           the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith, unless it is proved in a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

 

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(iii)          the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the written direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding determined as provided in Section 1.04 of the Base Indenture relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Supplemental Indenture;

 

(d)           Whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Supplemental Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 11.01.

 

(e)           The Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness or calculation of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Registrar with respect to the Notes.

 

(f)            If any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred.

 

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

 

Section 11.02       Reserved

 

Section 11.03       Rights of the Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act:

 

(a)           The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.

 

(b)           Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a Board Resolution.

 

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the Indenture and the Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in reliance on the certificate or opinion.

 

(d)           The Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection and any advice or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel.

 

(e)           The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Supplemental Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture (including upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.

 

(f)            The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, 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 reasonable expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation).

 

(g)           The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder.

 

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

 

(i)            In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, consequential or punitive 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.

 

(j)            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 a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Notes and the Indenture.

 

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(k)           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.

 

(l)            The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.

 

(m)          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 Supplemental Indenture.

 

(n)           Any permissive right or authority granted to the Trustee shall not be construed as a mandatory duty.

 

Section 11.04       Trustee’s Disclaimer.  The recitals contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes.  The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Supplemental Indenture and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes.

 

Section 11.05       Trustee or Agents May Own Notes.  The Trustee or any Agent, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee or Agent.

 

Section 11.06       Monies to be Held in Trust.  Subject to the provisions of Section 7.02, all monies and properties received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received.  Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on or the investment of any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed in writing from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.

 

Section 11.07       Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.  The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to from time to time in writing between the Company and the Trustee, and the Company shall pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its own negligence or willful

 

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misconduct, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable decision.

 

The Company also covenants to indemnify each of the Trustee and the Agents (and their respective officers, directors and employees), in any capacity under this Supplemental Indenture and their respective agents for, and to hold each of them harmless from and against, any and all loss, liability, claim, damage, cost or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on its own part and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust and the performance of its duties and/or the exercise of its rights hereunder or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, a Holder or any other Person)  of liability in the premises.  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, unless the Company is materially prejudiced thereby.  The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense.  The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel if (i) the Company shall have failed to assume the defense thereof or employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, or (ii) the Trustee has been advised by such counsel that there may be one or more defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Company.  The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

The obligations of the Company under this Section 11.07 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the Notes upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes.  The obligation of the Company under this Section 11.07 shall survive the payment of the Notes, the satisfaction and discharge of this Supplemental Indenture and/or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

 

When the Trustee, any Agent, and any of their respective agents incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.

 

Section 11.08       Officers’ Certificate as Evidence.  Subject to Section 11.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

 

Section 11.09       Conflicting Interests of Trustee.  If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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Section 11.10       Eligibility of Trustee.  There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (or if such Person is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000).  If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.10, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

Section 11.11       Resignation or Removal of Trustee.

 

(a)           The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and to the Holders of Notes.  Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee.  If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment thirty (30) days after such notice of resignation is given to the Company and the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten (10) Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders, appoint a successor identified in such notice or may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or, if any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note or Notes for at least six (6) months may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.15, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.

 

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

 

(i)            the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 11.09 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note or Notes for at least six (6) months; or

 

(ii)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.10 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder; or

 

(iii)          the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;

 

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then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.15, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note or Notes for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee; provided, however, that if no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and have accepted appointment thirty (30) days after either the Company or the Holders has removed the Trustee, the Trustee so removed may petition at the Company’s expense any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.

 

(c)           The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee which shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless, within ten (10) days after notice to the Company of such nomination, the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, or if such Trustee so removed or any Holder fails to act, the Company, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 11.11(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.

 

(d)           Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 11.11 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 11.12.

 

Section 11.12       Acceptance by Successor Trustee.  Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 11.11 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amount then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.07, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act.  Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers.  Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property and funds held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.07.

 

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No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 11.12 unless, at the time of such acceptance, such successor trustee shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 11.09 and be eligible under the provisions of Section 11.10.

 

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 11.12, the Company (or the former trustee, at the written direction of the Company) shall give or cause to be given notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders of Notes in accordance with Section 12.08(c).  If the Company fails to give such notice within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Company.

 

Section 11.13       Succession by Merger, Etc.  Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or exchanged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, exchange or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including any trust created by this Supplemental Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided that in the case of any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, such corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 11.09 and eligible under the provisions of Section 11.10.

 

In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Supplemental Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or any authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force that is provided in the Notes or in this Supplemental Indenture; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, exchange or consolidation.

 

Section 11.14       Preferential Collection of Claims.  If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of the claims against the Company (or any such other obligor).

 

Section 11.15       Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company.  Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Supplemental Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Supplemental Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective.  The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such

 

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application (which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

 

ARTICLE 12.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 12.01       Effect on Successors and Assigns.  All agreements of the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent in this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors.

 

Section 12.02       Governing Law.  Notwithstanding Section 1.11 of the Base Indenture, the Indenture and the Notes, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, (without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law or any successor thereto).

 

Section 12.03       No Note Interest Created.  Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.

 

Section 12.04       Trust Indenture Act.  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Supplemental Indenture, the latter provision shall control.  If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Supplemental Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

 

Section 12.05       Benefits of Indenture.  Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Agent or their successors hereunder or the Holders of the Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Section 12.06       Calculations.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Supplemental Indenture, the Company and its Agents (other than Trustee, Registrar, Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and Conversion Agent) shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Closing Sale Prices, any adjustments to the Conversion Rate, the conversion obligation deliverable in respect of any conversion and accrued interest payable on the Notes. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, its calculations shall be final and binding on Holders. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent are entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the

 

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Company’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee shall forward the Company’s calculations to any Holders upon the written request of that Holder.

 

Whenever the Company is required to calculate or make adjustments to the Conversion Rate, the Company shall do so to the 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock, rounding any additional decimal places up or down in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

Section 12.07       Execution in 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 or PDF 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 Indenture for all purposes.  Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

Section 12.08       Notices.

 

(a)           Except as otherwise provided herein, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Supplemental Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, the Company or the Trustee shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, overnight courier or transmitted by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission in PDF format as follows:

 

(i)            if to the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company, at its Corporate Trust Office;

 

(ii)           if to the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder, at the address of its principal office at 1000 Winter Street, Suite 3300, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451.

 

(b)           The Company or the Trustee, by notice given to the other in the manner provided in this Section 12.08, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

 

(c)           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, any notice or communication to Holders of Notes in global form (or of a beneficial interest therein) shall be given through the facilities of the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures; provided, however, that notices to the Holders of Physical Notes shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid to the addresses as they appear on the Register of the Notes maintained by the Registrar.  Notices shall be deemed to have been given on the date given through the facilities of the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures or the date of such mailing, as applicable.  Whenever a notice is required to be given by the Company, such notice may be given by the Trustee on the Company’s behalf.

 

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(d)                                 Whenever the Company is required to deliver notice to the Holders, the Company shall, by the date it is required to deliver such notice to the Holders, deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee and the Agents.  Notices to the Trustee shall be deemed given upon actual receipt thereof.

 

(e)                                  In respect of this Supplemental Indenture, the Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to verify or confirm that the Person sending instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications or information by electronic transmission is, in fact, a Person authorized to give such instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications or information on behalf of the party purporting to send such electronic transmission; and the Trustee shall not have any liability for losses, liabilities, costs or expenses incurred or sustained by any party as a result of such reliance upon or compliance with such instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications or information.  Each other party agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of electronic methods to submit instructions, directions, reports, notices or other communications or information to the Trustee, including, without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, notices, reports or other communications or information, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.

 

Section 12.09                      No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Company shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes, the Indenture or any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each Holder, by accepting a Note, waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

 

Section 12.10                      Tax Withholding.  Nothing herein shall preclude any tax withholding required by law or regulation.  In particular, any deemed distribution treated as a dividend generally would not give rise to any cash from which any applicable withholding tax could be satisfied and, therefore, if withholding taxes, including backup withholding, are paid on behalf of a Holder or beneficial owner, those withholding taxes may be set off against payments of cash or common stock, if any, payable on the Notes or, in some circumstances, against any payments on the Common Stock.

 

Section 12.11                      Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH OF THE COMPANY 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 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

Section 12.12                      U.S.A. Patriot Act.  The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee.  The parties to this Supplemental Indenture agree that they

 

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shall provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

 

Section 12.13                      Force Majeure.  In no event shall the Trustee or any Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, disasters, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

Section 12.14                      Submission to Jurisdiction.  The Company hereby irrevocably consents to jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the courts of the United States of America located in the City of New York and the County of New York, over any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes or the transactions contemplated hereby.  The Company waives any objection that it may have to the venue of any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes or the transactions contemplated hereby in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States of America, in each case, located in the City of New York and County of New York, or that such suit, action or proceeding brought in the courts of the State of New York or the United States of America, in each case, located in the City of New York and County of New York was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same.  The Company hereby irrevocably appoints Corporation Service Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 210, New York, NY 10036, as its authorized agent in the State of New York upon which process may be served in any such suit or proceedings, and agrees that service of process upon such agent shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company in any such suit or proceeding.  The Company further agrees to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such agent in full force and effect for the term of this Supplemental Indenture.  Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture shall in any way be deemed to limit the ability to serve any such writs, process or summonses in any other manner permitted by applicable law.

 

Section 12.15                      Ratification of Base Indenture.  Except as amended hereby with respect to the Notes, the Base Indenture, as amended and supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Base Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

 

Section 12.16                      No Guarantors.  Article XVI of the Base Indenture shall not apply with respect to the Notes.

 

Section 12.17                      Restriction on Purchases.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Holder of a Physical Note and each Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note, in each case, by its acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have acknowledged and agreed that no “affiliate” (as defined under Rule 144) of the Company or person that has been an “affiliate” (as defined under Rule 144) of the Company during the three months immediately preceding the

 

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date of issuance of a Note may purchase, otherwise acquire or hold such Note or a beneficial interest therein, except, in the case of the Company or its Subsidiaries, in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.12 and Section 5.10.

 

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

 

 

TESARO, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

Title:

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, Registrar, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher J. Grell

 

Name:

Christopher J. Grell

 

Title:

Vice President

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased pursuant to Section 4.06 based on hypothetical Stock Prices and the dates set forth below.

 

Effective

 

Stock Price

 

Date

 

$26.025

 

$30.00

 

$35.13

 

$40.00

 

$45.00

 

$50.00

 

$60.00

 

$80.00

 

$100.00

 

$125.00

 

$150.00

 

$200.00

 

September 29, 2014

 

9.9618

 

8.3487

 

6.4913

 

5.2721

 

4.3619

 

3.6807

 

2.7424

 

1.7207

 

1.1921

 

0.8162

 

0.5891

 

0.3341

 

October 1, 2015

 

9.9618

 

8.2242

 

6.3052

 

5.0615

 

4.1445

 

3.4663

 

2.5470

 

1.5715

 

1.0801

 

0.7364

 

0.5309

 

0.3007

 

October 1, 2016

 

9.9618

 

8.0571

 

6.0637

 

4.7923

 

3.8695

 

3.1976

 

2.3061

 

1.3927

 

0.9487

 

0.6448

 

0.4649

 

0.2638

 

October 1, 2017

 

9.9618

 

7.8170

 

5.7341

 

4.4332

 

3.5090

 

2.8506

 

2.0026

 

1.1760

 

0.7939

 

0.5394

 

0.3901

 

0.2225

 

October 1, 2018

 

9.9618

 

7.4791

 

5.2829

 

3.9505

 

3.0329

 

2.4002

 

1.6213

 

0.9178

 

0.6159

 

0.4212

 

0.3073

 

0.1771

 

October 1, 2019

 

9.9618

 

6.9821

 

4.6325

 

3.2705

 

2.3798

 

1.7993

 

1.1396

 

0.6181

 

0.4184

 

0.2924

 

0.2168

 

0.1270

 

October 1, 2020

 

9.9618

 

6.1798

 

3.5815

 

2.2111

 

1.4163

 

0.9651

 

0.5450

 

0.2984

 

0.2142

 

0.1556

 

0.1175

 

0.0700

 

October 1, 2021

 

9.9618

 

4.8707

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

0.0000

 

 



 

EXHIBIT A

 

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

 

[For Global Notes, include the following legend:]

 

[THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A NOTE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”), A NEW YORK CORPORATION, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL IN AS MUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]

 

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TESARO, Inc.
    3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021

 

No.:

[          ]

 

 

CUSIP:

[CUSIP NUMBER]

 

 

Principal Amount $

 

[          ] [For Global Notes, include the following: as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Note attached hereto]

 

TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay to [          ] [include “Cede & Co.” for Global Note] or registered assigns, the principal amount of [add principal amount in words] $[          ] [For Global Notes, include the following:, as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Note attached hereto,] on October 1, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”).

 

Interest Payment Dates:  April 1 and October 1.

 

Regular Record Dates:  March 15 and September 15.

 

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, TESARO, Inc. has caused this instrument to be signed manually or by facsimile by one of its duly authorized Officers.

 

 

TESARO, Inc.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Supplemental Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

 

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

 

TESARO, Inc.
3.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 29, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), to the Base Indenture, dated as of September 29, 2014 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance therewith, the “Base Indenture” and, as amended, modified and supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, herein called the “Trustee,” and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.

 

This Note does not benefit from a sinking fund.  This Note is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Holder of this Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase this Note, or any portion of this Note (in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof), on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for such Fundamental Change Purchase Date.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at any time until the Close of Business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert this Note or a portion of this Note such that the principal amount of this Note converted equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, into a number of shares of Common Stock and an amount in cash, if any, in lieu of fractional shares, determined in accordance with Article 4 of the Supplemental Indenture and subject to adjustment as set forth therein.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company shall make all payments in respect of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, and the principal amount of, this Note to the Holder that surrenders this Note to the Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of this Note.  The Company shall pay cash amounts in money of the U.S. that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of

 

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all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past Defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Note, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it, and the Trustee shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, and shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of the principal hereof or interest hereon, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to, and the amount of cash, the number of shares of Common Stock or the combination thereof, as the case may be, due upon conversion of this Note or after the respective due dates expressed in the Indenture.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price), interest with respect to, and the amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due upon conversion of, this Note at the time, place and rate, and in the coin and currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer to the Trustee, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon a new Note of this series and of like tenor for the same aggregate principal amount shall be issued to the designated transferee.

 

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

 

Subject to the rights of the Holders as of the Regular Record Date to receive interest on the related Interest Payment Date, prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of

 

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transfer, the Company, the Trustee, the Agents and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name the Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee, the Agents nor any agents shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entirety), JT TEN (= joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= custodian) and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

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

 

All defined terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.  If any provision of this Note limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Indenture, such provision of the Indenture shall control.

 

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ATTACHMENT 1

 

[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]

 

To:          TESARO, Inc.

 

The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below.  If any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 4.02(g) of the Supplemental Indenture.

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, if this notice is being delivered on a date after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the Open of Business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, this notice must be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Note to be converted.  Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note.

 

Principal amount to be converted (in an integral multiple of $1,000, if less than all):

 

$                                                  

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature(s)

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature Guarantee Programs:

 

(i) The Notes Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) The New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MNSP); (iii) another guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee.)

 

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Fill in if a check is to be issued, or shares of Common Stock or Notes are to be registered, otherwise than to or in the name of the registered Holder.

 

 

 

 

(Name)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Address)

 

 

 

 

 

Please print name and address

 

 

(including zip code)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Social Security or other Taxpayer

 

 

Identifying Number)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature(s)

 

 

(Sign exactly as such Person’s name appears above)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature Guarantee Programs:

 

 

(i) The Notes Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) The New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MNSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP) or (iv) another guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee.)

 

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ATTACHMENT 2

 

[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE PURCHASE NOTICE]

 

To:          TESARO, Inc.

 

The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a Fundamental Change Company Notice from TESARO, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Purchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture referred to in this Note (i) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (in a principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) below designated, and (ii) if such Fundamental Change Purchase Date does not occur during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Purchase Date.

 

Principal amount to be purchased (if less than all):

 

$                                                                            

 

Certificate number (if Notes are in certificated form)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature(s)

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number

 

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ATTACHMENT 3

 

[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]

 

For value received,                     hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto                               (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee) the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                         to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature(s)

 

 

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an institution which is a member of one of the following recognized signature Guarantee Programs: (i) The Notes Transfer Agent Medallion Program (STAMP); (ii) The New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (MNSP); (iii) The Stock Exchange Medallion Program (SEMP) or (iv) another guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee)

 

 

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ATTACHMENT 4

 

[Insert for Global Note]

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
Initial Principal Amount of Global Note:

 

Date

 

Amount of Increase
in Principal
Amount of Global
Note

 

Amount of
Decrease in
Principal Amount
of Global Note

 

Principal Amount
of Global Note
After Increase or
Decrease

 

Notation by
Registrar, Note
Custodian or
authorized
signatory of
Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EX-5.1 5 a14-21259_5ex5d1.htm EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

 

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Harbor East

100 International Drive

Suite 2000

Baltimore, MD 21202

T +1 410 659 2700

F +1 410 659 2701

www.hoganlovells.com

 

September 29, 2014

 

Board of Directors

TESARO, Inc.

1000 Winter Street

Suite 3300

Waltham, MA 02451

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We are acting as counsel to TESARO, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Underwriting Agreement, dated September 23, 2014 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule II of the Underwriting Agreement, relating to the issuance by the Company of $201,250,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.00% convertible senior notes due 2021 (the “Notes”), pursuant to the Company’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-189718) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2013 (the “Registration Statement”), relating to the public offering of certain securities of the Company that may be offered and sold from time to time and on a delayed or a continuous basis as set forth in the prospectus dated July 1, 2013 (the “Prospectus”). The Notes are convertible into shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Conversion Shares”), in accordance with the terms of the Indenture (as defined below). This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. § 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement.

 

For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined copies of such agreements, instruments and documents as we have deemed an appropriate basis on which to render the opinions hereinafter expressed. In our examination of the aforesaid documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, the authenticity of all original documents, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies (including telecopies). As to all matters of fact, we have relied on the representations and statements of fact made in the documents so reviewed, and we have not independently established the facts so relied on. This opinion letter is given, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing.

 

For the purposes of this opinion letter, we have assumed that (i) U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Indenture, dated as of September 29, 2014, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Base Indenture”), filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 2014 and incorporated into the Registration Statement by reference, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 29, 2014 (together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 29, 2014 and incorporated into the Registration Statement by reference, has all requisite power and authority

 


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under all applicable laws, regulations and governing documents to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture and has complied with all legal requirements pertaining to its status as such status relates to the Trustee’s right to enforce the Indenture against the Company, (ii) the Trustee has duly authorized, executed and delivered the Indenture, (iii) the Trustee is validly existing and in good standing in all necessary jurisdictions, (iv) the Indenture constitutes a valid and binding obligation, enforceable against the Trustee in accordance with its terms, (v) there has been no material mutual mistake of fact or misunderstanding or fraud, duress or undue influence in connection with the negotiation, execution and delivery of the Indenture, and the conduct of all parties to the Indenture has complied with any requirements of good faith, fair dealing and conscionability, and (vi) there are and have been no agreements or understandings among the parties, written or oral, and there is and has been no usage of trade or course of prior dealing among the parties that would, in either case, define, supplement or qualify the terms of the Indenture. We also have assumed the validity and constitutionality of each relevant statute, rule, regulation and agency action covered by this opinion letter.

 

This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on the applicable provisions of (i) the laws of the State of New York (but not including any laws, statutes, ordinances, administrative decisions, rules or regulations of any political subdivision below the state level), as currently in effect and (ii) the Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended. We express no opinion herein as to any other laws, statutes, ordinances, rules or regulations (and in particular, we express no opinion as to any effect that such other laws, statutes, ordinances, rules or regulations may have on the opinions expressed herein).

 

Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:

 

(a)                                 The Notes have been duly authorized on behalf of the Company and that, following (i) receipt by the Company of the consideration for the Notes specified in the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Pricing Committee of the Board of Directors and the Underwriting Agreement and (ii) the due execution, authentication, issuance and delivery of the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, the Notes will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company.

 

(b)                                 The Conversion Shares initially issuable upon conversion of the Notes have been duly authorized and reserved and, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Notes and the Indenture, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 

The opinions expressed herein may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights (including, without limitation, the effect of statutory and other law regarding fraudulent conveyances, fraudulent transfers and preferential transfers) and by the exercise of judicial discretion and the application of principles of equity, good faith, fair dealing, reasonableness, conscionability and materiality (regardless of whether the Notes are considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

 

This opinion letter has been prepared for use in connection with the filing by the Company of a Current Report on Form 8-K on the date hereof, which Form 8-K will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, and speaks as of the date hereof. We assume no obligation to advise you of any changes in the foregoing subsequent to the delivery of this letter.

 

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the above-described Form 8-K and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus and the supplement to the Prospectus dated September 23, 2014, which constitute part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are an “expert” within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

 

HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

 

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EX-10.1 6 a14-21259_5ex10d1.htm EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

BASE CAPPED CALL OPTION
TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION

 

Date:

September 23, 2014

 

 

To:

TESARO, Inc. (“Counterparty”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

xxx.xxx.xxxx

 

 

Attention:

Tim Pearson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

From:

Citibank, N.A. (“Dealer”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

(212) 723-8328

 

The purpose of this communication (this “Confirmation”) is to set forth the terms and conditions of the above-referenced Transaction entered into on the Trade Date specified below between you and us.  This Confirmation supplements, forms a part of, and is subject to the Master Terms and Conditions for Capped Call Option Transactions dated as of September 23, 2014 (as amended from time to time, the “Master Confirmation”) between you and us.

 

1.                                      The definitions and provisions contained in the Definitions (as such term is defined in the Master Confirmation) and in the Master Confirmation are incorporated into this Confirmation.  In the event of any inconsistency between those definitions and provisions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern.

 

2.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates is entered into as part of an integrated hedging transaction of the Convertible Notes pursuant to the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-6.

 

3.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates shall have the following terms:

 

Trade Date:

 

September 23, 2014

 

 

 

Effective Date:

 

The closing date of the initial issuance of the Convertible Notes.

 

 

 

Premium:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Premium Payment Date:

 

The Effective Date

 

 

 

Convertible Notes:

 

3.0% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021, offered pursuant to a Prospectus Supplement dated as of September 23, 2014 and issued by Counterparty pursuant to the Indenture.

 

 

 

Number of Units:

 

The number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount to be issued by Counterparty on the closing date for the initial issuance of the Convertible Notes,

 

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excluding any Convertible Notes that may be purchased by the Underwriters upon exercise of their option pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement that are issued on such date (the “Relevant Convertible Notes”).  For the avoidance of doubt, the Number of Units shall be reduced by any Units that are exercised.

 

 

 

Number of Exercised Units:

 

For any Conversion Date, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i)  the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD1,000 principal amount satisfying all of the requirements for conversion on such Conversion Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (ii) the Number of Units on such Conversion Date.

 

 

 

Strike Price:

 

As of any date, an amount in USD equal to USD 1,000 divided by the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Cap Price:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Applicable Percentage:

 

60.0%

 

 

 

Number of Shares:

 

The product of the Applicable Percentage, the Number of Units and the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Expiration Date:

 

The earlier of (i) the last day on which any Convertible Notes remain outstanding and (ii) the second “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Unit Entitlement:

 

As of any date, a number of Shares per Unit equal to the Conversion Rate (determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Indenture, except without regard to any adjustments to the Conversion Rate pursuant to the Excluded Provisions of the Indenture).

 

 

 

Conversion Rate:

 

As defined in the Indenture.

 

 

 

Indenture:

 

That certain Base Indenture to be dated as of September 29, 2014 by and between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Convertible Notes are to be issued, as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture thereto to be dated as of September 29, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”).

 

 

 

 

 

The parties acknowledge that references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein are based on the Base Indenture in effect on the date of this Confirmation and the draft of the Supplemental Indenture last reviewed by the Dealer as of the date of this Confirmation. If the Supplemental Indenture as executed differs from such draft of the

 

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Supplemental Indenture, the parties shall amend this Confirmation and the Master Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties. References to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein or in the Master Confirmation, subject to the foregoing, are references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture as in effect on the date of the execution of the Supplemental Indenture (the “Original Indenture”); provided that if the Original Indenture is amended following such date pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture (any such amendment, a “Merger Amendment”), (A) as long as the Calculation Agent determines that such Merger Amendment appropriately adjusts the terms of the Convertible Notes in a commercially reasonable manner to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as so amended, and (B) otherwise, (1) such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as if it had been amended to appropriately adjust the terms of the Convertible Notes to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner and (2) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the applicable Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture as deemed amended pursuant to sub-clause (1) above.  If the Indenture is amended following such date other than pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture and other than any amendment pursuant to Section 8.01(i) of the Indenture that, as determined by the Calculation Agent, conforms the Indenture to the description of the Convertible Notes in the preliminary prospectus supplement related to the Convertible Notes, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the Convertible Notes, without prejudice to the provisions set forth in Section 11(e) of the Master Confirmation, (x) such amendment shall be disregarded for purposes of the Transaction unless the parties otherwise agree in writing and (y) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations, the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture without giving effect to such amendment.

 

 

 

Settlement Provision:

 

Section 4.03 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Excluded Provisions:

 

The Make-whole Provision and Section 4.05(b) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

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Make-whole Provision:

 

Section 4.06 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Conversion Rate Adjustment Fallback Provisions:

 

The second sentence of Section 4.04(c) and the second sentence of Section 4.04(d) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Prices Provision:

 

Section 4.05(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Shares Provision:

 

Section 4.04(f) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Dilution Provision:

 

The Adjustment of Shares Provision, the Adjustment of Prices Provision and Sections 4.04(a) through 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Merger Provision:

 

Section 4.07(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Tender Offer Provision:

 

Section 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Cut-Off Date:

 

The 45th “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Affected Portion:

 

With respect to any Early Conversion Event, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount converted on the relevant Conversion Date and (ii) the Number of Units as of the relevant Early Termination Date.

 

 

 

Early Unwind Date:

 

September 29, 2014, or such later date as agreed by the parties hereto.

 

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4.                                      Counterparty hereby agrees (a) to check this Confirmation promptly upon receipt so that errors or discrepancies can be promptly identified and rectified and (b) to confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of the agreement between us with respect to the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, by manually signing this Confirmation and providing any other information requested herein or in the Master Confirmation and immediately returning an executed copy to Confirmation Unit via 212-615-8985.  Hard copies should be returned to Citibank, N.A., 333 West 34th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10001, Attention:  Confirmation Unit.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herman Hirsch

 

 

 

Name:

Herman Hirsch

 

 

 

Title:

Authorized Representative

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confirmed as of the

 

 

date first above written:

 

 

 

 

 

TESARO, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

 

Title:

EVP and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

[TSRO – Base Capped Call Confirmation]

 



 

SCHEDULE 1

 

Premium:

USD10,867,500.00

 

 

Cap Price:

USD45.5438

 


EX-10.2 7 a14-21259_5ex10d2.htm EX-10.2

Exhibit 10.2

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

BASE CAPPED CALL OPTION
TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION

 

Date:

September 23, 2014

 

 

To:

TESARO, Inc. (“Counterparty”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

xxx.xxx.xxxx

 

 

Attention:

Tim Pearson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

From:

Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (“Dealer”)

 

Transaction Reference Number:  600545

 

The purpose of this communication (this “Confirmation”) is to set forth the terms and conditions of the above-referenced Transaction entered into on the Trade Date specified below between you and us.  This Confirmation supplements, forms a part of, and is subject to the Master Terms and Conditions for Capped Call Option Transactions dated as of September 23, 2014 (as amended from time to time, the “Master Confirmation”) between you and us.

 

1.                                      The definitions and provisions contained in the Definitions (as such term is defined in the Master Confirmation) and in the Master Confirmation are incorporated into this Confirmation.  In the event of any inconsistency between those definitions and provisions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern.

 

2.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates is entered into as part of an integrated hedging transaction of the Convertible Notes pursuant to the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-6.

 

3.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates shall have the following terms:

 

Trade Date:

 

September 23, 2014

 

 

 

Effective Date:

 

The closing date of the initial issuance of the Convertible Notes.

 

 

 

Premium:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Premium Payment Date:

 

The Effective Date

 

 

 

Convertible Notes:

 

3.00% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021, offered pursuant to a Prospectus Supplement dated as of September 23, 2014 and issued by Counterparty pursuant to the Indenture.

 

 

 

Number of Units:

 

The number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount to be issued by Counterparty on the

 

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closing date for the initial issuance of the Convertible Notes, excluding any Convertible Notes that may be purchased by the Underwriters upon exercise of their option pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement that are issued on such date (the “Relevant Convertible Notes”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Number of Units shall be reduced by any Units that are exercised.

 

 

 

Number of Exercised Units:

 

For any Conversion Date, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD1,000 principal amount satisfying all of the requirements for conversion on such Conversion Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (ii) the Number of Units on such Conversion Date.

 

 

 

Strike Price:

 

As of any date, an amount in USD equal to USD 1,000 divided by the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Cap Price:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Applicable Percentage:

 

40.0%

 

 

 

Number of Shares:

 

The product of the Applicable Percentage, the Number of Units and the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Expiration Date:

 

The earlier of (i) the last day on which any Convertible Notes remain outstanding and (ii) the second “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Unit Entitlement:

 

As of any date, a number of Shares per Unit equal to the Conversion Rate (determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Indenture, except without regard to any adjustments to the Conversion Rate pursuant to the Excluded Provisions of the Indenture).

 

 

 

Conversion Rate:

 

As defined in the Indenture.

 

 

 

Indenture:

 

That certain Base Indenture to be dated as of September 29, 2014 by and between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Convertible Notes are to be issued, as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture thereto to be dated as of September 29, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”).

 

 

 

 

 

The parties acknowledge that references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein are based on the Base Indenture in effect on the date of this Confirmation and the draft of the Supplemental Indenture last reviewed by the Dealer as of the date of this Confirmation. If the Supplemental

 

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Indenture as executed differs from such draft of the Supplemental Indenture, the parties shall amend this Confirmation and the Master Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties. References to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein or in the Master Confirmation, subject to the foregoing, are references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture as in effect on the date of the execution of the Supplemental Indenture (the “Original Indenture”); provided that if the Original Indenture is amended following such date pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture (any such amendment, a “Merger Amendment”), (A) as long as the Calculation Agent determines that such Merger Amendment appropriately adjusts the terms of the Convertible Notes in a commercially reasonable manner to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as so amended, and (B) otherwise, (1) such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as if it had been amended to appropriately adjust the terms of the Convertible Notes to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner and (2) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the applicable Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture as deemed amended pursuant to sub-clause (1) above. If the Indenture is amended following such date other than pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture and other than any amendment pursuant to Section 8.01(i) of the Indenture that, as determined by the Calculation Agent, conforms the Indenture to the description of the Convertible Notes in the preliminary prospectus supplement related to the Convertible Notes, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the Convertible Notes, without prejudice to the provisions set forth in Section 11(e) of the Master Confirmation, (x) such amendment shall be disregarded for purposes of the Transaction unless the parties otherwise agree in writing and (y) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations, the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture without giving effect to such amendment.

 

 

 

Settlement Provision:

 

Section 4.03 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

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Excluded Provisions:

 

The Make-whole Provision and Section 4.05(b) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Make-whole Provision:

 

Section 4.06 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Conversion Rate Adjustment Fallback Provisions:

 

The second sentence of Section 4.04(c) and the second sentence of Section 4.04(d) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Prices Provision:

 

Section 4.05(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Shares Provision:

 

Section 4.04(f) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Dilution Provision:

 

The Adjustment of Shares Provision, the Adjustment of Prices Provision and Sections 4.04(a) through 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Merger Provision:

 

Section 4.07(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Tender Offer Provision:

 

Section 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Cut-Off Date:

 

The 45th “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Affected Portion:

 

With respect to any Early Conversion Event, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount converted on the relevant Conversion Date and (ii) the Number of Units as of the relevant Early Termination Date.

 

 

 

Early Unwind Date:

 

September 29, 2014, or such later date as agreed by the parties hereto.

 

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4.                                      Counterparty hereby agrees (a) to check this Confirmation promptly upon receipt so that errors or discrepancies can be promptly identified and rectified and (b) to confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of the agreement between us with respect to the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, by manually signing this Confirmation and providing any other information requested herein or in the Master Confirmation and immediately returning an executed copy to Dealer.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Michael Sanderson

 

 

Name:

Michael Sanderson

 

 

Title:

Attorney in Fact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Lars Kestner

 

 

Name:

Lars Kestner

 

 

Title:

Attorney in Fact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,

 

acting solely as Agent in connection with the Transaction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Michael Sanderson

 

 

Name:

Michael Sanderson

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Lars Kestner

 

 

Name:

Lars Kestner

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

Confirmed as of the

date first above written:

 

TESARO, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Title:

EVP and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[TSRO – Base Capped Call Confirmation]

 



 

SCHEDULE 1

 

Premium:                                           USD7,245,000

 

Cap Price:                                        USD45.5438

 


EX-10.3 8 a14-21259_5ex10d3.htm EX-10.3

Exhibit 10.3

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

ADDITIONAL CAPPED CALL OPTION
TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION

 

Date:

September 25, 2014

 

 

To:

TESARO, Inc. (“Counterparty”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

xxx.xxx.xxxx

 

 

Attention:

Tim Pearson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

From:

Citibank, N.A. (“Dealer”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

(212) 723-8328

 

The purpose of this communication (this “Confirmation”) is to set forth the terms and conditions of the above-referenced Transaction entered into on the Trade Date specified below between you and us.  This Confirmation supplements, forms a part of, and is subject to the Master Terms and Conditions for Capped Call Option Transactions dated as of September 23, 2014 (as amended from time to time, the “Master Confirmation”) between you and us.

 

1.                                      The definitions and provisions contained in the Definitions (as such term is defined in the Master Confirmation) and in the Master Confirmation are incorporated into this Confirmation.  In the event of any inconsistency between those definitions and provisions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern.

 

2.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates is entered into as part of an integrated hedging transaction of the Convertible Notes pursuant to the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-6.

 

3.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates shall have the following terms:

 

Trade Date:

 

September 25, 2014

 

 

 

Effective Date:

 

The closing date of the Convertible Notes purchased by the Underwriters upon exercise, on the date hereof, of their option pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement.

 

 

 

Premium:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Premium Payment Date:

 

The Effective Date

 

 

 

Convertible Notes:

 

3.00% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021, offered pursuant to a Prospectus Supplement dated as of September 23, 2014 and issued by Counterparty pursuant to the Indenture.

 

 

 

Number of Units:

 

The number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount purchased by the Underwriters upon exercise, on the date hereof, of their option pursuant to Section

 

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2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Relevant Convertible Notes”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Number of Units shall be reduced by any Units that are exercised.

 

 

 

Number of Exercised Units:

 

For any Conversion Date, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) (a) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD1,000 principal amount satisfying all of the requirements for conversion on such Conversion Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture minus (b) the “Number of Exercised Units” for such Conversion Date under the Transaction evidenced by the Master Confirmation as supplemented by the Base Capped Call Option Transaction Confirmation between Dealer and Counterparty, dated as of the date of the Master Confirmation (the “Base Call Option Confirmation”) and (ii) the Number of Units on such Conversion Date.

 

 

 

Strike Price:

 

As of any date, an amount in USD equal to USD 1,000 divided by the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Cap Price:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Applicable Percentage:

 

60.0%

 

 

 

Number of Shares:

 

The product of the Applicable Percentage, the Number of Units and the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Expiration Date:

 

The earlier of (i) the last day on which any Convertible Notes remain outstanding and (ii) the second “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Unit Entitlement:

 

As of any date, a number of Shares per Unit equal to the Conversion Rate (determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Indenture, except without regard to any adjustments to the Conversion Rate pursuant to the Excluded Provisions of the Indenture).

 

 

 

Conversion Rate:

 

As defined in the Indenture.

 

 

 

Indenture:

 

That certain Base Indenture to be dated as of September 29, 2014 by and between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Convertible Notes are to be issued, as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture thereto to be dated as of September 29, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”).

 

 

 

 

 

The parties acknowledge that references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein are based on the Base Indenture in effect on the date of this Confirmation and

 

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the draft of the Supplemental Indenture last reviewed by the Dealer as of the date of this Confirmation. If the Supplemental Indenture as executed differs from such draft of the Supplemental Indenture, the parties shall amend this Confirmation and the Master Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties. References to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein or in the Master Confirmation, subject to the foregoing, are references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture as in effect on the date of the execution of the Supplemental Indenture (the “Original Indenture”); provided that if the Original Indenture is amended following such date pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture (any such amendment, a “Merger Amendment”), (A) as long as the Calculation Agent determines that such Merger Amendment appropriately adjusts the terms of the Convertible Notes in a commercially reasonable manner to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as so amended, and (B) otherwise, (1) such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as if it had been amended to appropriately adjust the terms of the Convertible Notes to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner and (2) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the applicable Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture as deemed amended pursuant to sub-clause (1) above. If the Indenture is amended following such date other than pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture and other than any amendment pursuant to Section 8.01(i) of the Indenture that, as determined by the Calculation Agent, conforms the Indenture to the description of the Convertible Notes in the preliminary prospectus supplement related to the Convertible Notes, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the Convertible Notes, without prejudice to the provisions set forth in Section 11(e) of the Master Confirmation, (x) such amendment shall be disregarded for purposes of the Transaction unless the parties otherwise agree in writing and (y) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations, the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture without giving effect to such amendment.

 

 

 

Settlement Provision:

 

Section 4.03 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

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Excluded Provisions:

 

The Make-whole Provision and Section 4.05(b) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Make-whole Provision:

 

Section 4.06 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Conversion Rate Adjustment Fallback Provisions:

 

The second sentence of Section 4.04(c) and the second sentence of Section 4.04(d) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Prices Provision:

 

Section 4.05(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Shares Provision:

 

Section 4.04(f) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Dilution Provision:

 

The Adjustment of Shares Provision, the Adjustment of Prices Provision and Sections 4.04(a) through 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Merger Provision:

 

Section 4.07(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Tender Offer Provision:

 

Section 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Cut-Off Date:

 

The 45th “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Affected Portion:

 

With respect to any Early Conversion Event, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) (a) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount converted on the relevant Conversion Date minus (b) the “Affected Portion” (as defined in the Base Call Option Confirmation) and (ii) the Number of Units as of the relevant Early Termination Date.

 

 

 

Early Unwind Date:

 

September 29, 2014, or such later date as agreed by the parties hereto.

 

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4.                                      Counterparty hereby agrees (a) to check this Confirmation promptly upon receipt so that errors or discrepancies can be promptly identified and rectified and (b) to confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of the agreement between us with respect to the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, by manually signing this Confirmation and providing any other information requested herein or in the Master Confirmation and immediately returning an executed copy to Confirmation Unit via 212-615-8985.  Hard copies should be returned to Citibank, N.A., 333 West 34th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10001, Attention:  Confirmation Unit.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

CITIBANK, N.A.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herman Hirsch

 

Name:

Herman Hirsch

 

Title:

Authorized Representative

 

 

Confirmed as of the

date first above written:

 

TESARO, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

Title:

EVP and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[TSRO – Additional Capped Call Confirmation]

 



 

SCHEDULE 1

 

Premium:                                           USD1,630,125.00

 

Cap Price:                                        USD45.5438

 


EX-10.4 9 a14-21259_5ex10d4.htm EX-10.4

Exhibit 10.4

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

ADDITIONAL CAPPED CALL OPTION
TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION

 

Date:

September 25, 2014

 

 

To:

TESARO, Inc. (“Counterparty”)

 

 

Telefax No.:

xxx.xxx.xxxx

 

 

Attention:

Tim Pearson, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

From:

Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (“Dealer”)

 

Transaction Reference Number:  600998

 

The purpose of this communication (this “Confirmation”) is to set forth the terms and conditions of the above-referenced Transaction entered into on the Trade Date specified below between you and us.  This Confirmation supplements, forms a part of, and is subject to the Master Terms and Conditions for Capped Call Option Transactions dated as of September 23, 2014 (as amended from time to time, the “Master Confirmation”) between you and us.

 

1.                                      The definitions and provisions contained in the Definitions (as such term is defined in the Master Confirmation) and in the Master Confirmation are incorporated into this Confirmation.  In the event of any inconsistency between those definitions and provisions and this Confirmation, this Confirmation will govern.

 

2.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates is entered into as part of an integrated hedging transaction of the Convertible Notes pursuant to the provisions of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-6.

 

3.                                      The particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates shall have the following terms:

 

Trade Date:

 

September 25, 2014

 

 

 

Effective Date:

 

The closing date of the Convertible Notes purchased by the Underwriters upon exercise, on the date hereof, of their option pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement.

 

 

 

Premium:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Premium Payment Date:

 

The Effective Date

 

 

 

Convertible Notes:

 

3.00% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021, offered pursuant to a Prospectus Supplement dated as of September 23, 2014 and issued by Counterparty pursuant to the Indenture.

 

 

 

Number of Units:

 

The number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount purchased by the Underwriters upon

 

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exercise, on the date hereof, of their option pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Underwriting Agreement (the “Relevant Convertible Notes”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Number of Units shall be reduced by any Units that are exercised.

 

 

 

Number of Exercised Units:

 

For any Conversion Date, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) (a) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD1,000 principal amount satisfying all of the requirements for conversion on such Conversion Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture minus (b) the “Number of Exercised Units” for such Conversion Date under the Transaction evidenced by the Master Confirmation as supplemented by the Base Capped Call Option Transaction Confirmation between Dealer and Counterparty, dated as of the date of the Master Confirmation (the “Base Call Option Confirmation”) and (ii) the Number of Units on such Conversion Date.

 

 

 

Strike Price:

 

As of any date, an amount in USD equal to USD 1,000 divided by the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Cap Price:

 

As set forth in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

 

Applicable Percentage:

 

40.0%

 

 

 

Number of Shares:

 

The product of the Applicable Percentage, the Number of Units and the Unit Entitlement.

 

 

 

Expiration Date:

 

The earlier of (i) the last day on which any Convertible Notes remain outstanding and (ii) the second “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Unit Entitlement:

 

As of any date, a number of Shares per Unit equal to the Conversion Rate (determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the Indenture, except without regard to any adjustments to the Conversion Rate pursuant to the Excluded Provisions of the Indenture).

 

 

 

Conversion Rate:

 

As defined in the Indenture.

 

 

 

Indenture:

 

That certain Base Indenture to be dated as of September 29, 2014 by and between Counterparty and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), pursuant to which the Convertible Notes are to be issued, as supplemented by a Supplemental Indenture thereto to be dated as of September 29, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”).

 

 

 

 

 

The parties acknowledge that references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein are based on the

 

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Base Indenture in effect on the date of this Confirmation and the draft of the Supplemental Indenture last reviewed by the Dealer as of the date of this Confirmation. If the Supplemental Indenture as executed differs from such draft of the Supplemental Indenture, the parties shall amend this Confirmation and the Master Confirmation in good faith to preserve the intent of the parties. References to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture herein or in the Master Confirmation, subject to the foregoing, are references to the Indenture or sections of the Supplemental Indenture as in effect on the date of the execution of the Supplemental Indenture (the “Original Indenture”); provided that if the Original Indenture is amended following such date pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture (any such amendment, a “Merger Amendment”), (A) as long as the Calculation Agent determines that such Merger Amendment appropriately adjusts the terms of the Convertible Notes in a commercially reasonable manner to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as so amended, and (B) otherwise, (1) such references shall be deemed to refer to the Original Indenture as if it had been amended to appropriately adjust the terms of the Convertible Notes to account for the relevant Merger Event in compliance with the Merger Provision, as determined by the Calculation Agent in a commercially reasonable manner and (2) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the applicable Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture as deemed amended pursuant to sub-clause (1) above. If the Indenture is amended following such date other than pursuant to the Merger Provision of the Indenture and other than any amendment pursuant to Section 8.01(i) of the Indenture that, as determined by the Calculation Agent, conforms the Indenture to the description of the Convertible Notes in the preliminary prospectus supplement related to the Convertible Notes, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the Convertible Notes, without prejudice to the provisions set forth in Section 11(e) of the Master Confirmation, (x) such amendment shall be disregarded for purposes of the Transaction unless the parties otherwise agree in writing and (y) with respect to any exercise of Units thereafter, the Calculation Agent shall determine the Settlement Date and Delivery Obligation pursuant to the Master Confirmation and this Confirmation, except that in making such determinations, the Calculation Agent shall refer to the relevant provisions of the Indenture without giving effect to such amendment.

 

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Settlement Provision:

 

Section 4.03 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Excluded Provisions:

 

The Make-whole Provision and Section 4.05(b) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Make-whole Provision:

 

Section 4.06 of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Conversion Rate Adjustment Fallback Provisions:

 

The second sentence of Section 4.04(c) and the second sentence of Section 4.04(d) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Prices Provision:

 

Section 4.05(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Adjustment of Shares Provision:

 

Section 4.04(f) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Dilution Provision:

 

The Adjustment of Shares Provision, the Adjustment of Prices Provision and Sections 4.04(a) through 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Merger Provision:

 

Section 4.07(a) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Tender Offer Provision:

 

Section 4.04(e) of the Supplemental Indenture

 

 

 

Cut-Off Date:

 

The 45th “Scheduled Trading Day” (as defined in the Indenture) immediately preceding the “Maturity Date” (as defined in the Indenture).

 

 

 

Affected Portion:

 

With respect to any Early Conversion Event, a number of Units equal to the lesser of (i) (a) the number of Convertible Notes in denominations of USD 1,000 principal amount converted on the relevant Conversion Date minus (b) the “Affected Portion” (as defined in the Base Call Option Confirmation) and (ii) the Number of Units as of the relevant Early Termination Date.

 

 

 

Early Unwind Date:

 

September 29, 2014, or such later date as agreed by the parties hereto.

 

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4.                                      Counterparty hereby agrees (a) to check this Confirmation promptly upon receipt so that errors or discrepancies can be promptly identified and rectified and (b) to confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the terms of the agreement between us with respect to the particular Transaction to which this Confirmation relates, by manually signing this Confirmation and providing any other information requested herein or in the Master Confirmation and immediately returning an executed copy to Dealer.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Michael Sanderson

 

 

Name:

Michael Sanderson

 

 

Title:

Attorney in Fact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Lars Kestner

 

 

Name:

Lars Kestner

 

 

Title:

Attorney in Fact

 

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,

 

acting solely as Agent in connection with theTransaction

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Michael Sanderson

 

 

Name:

Michael Sanderson

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Lars Kestner

 

 

Name:

Lars Kestner

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

Confirmed as of the

 

date first above written:

 

 

 

TESARO, INC.

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Name:

Timothy R. Pearson

 

 

Title:

EVP and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[TSRO – Additional Capped Call Confirmation]

 



 

SCHEDULE 1

 

Premium:

 

USD1,086,750.00

 

 

 

Cap Price:

 

USD45.5438

 


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