EX-4.3 3 d600386dex43.htm EX-4.3 EX-4.3

Exhibit 4.3

 

 

ENEL CHILE S.A.

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

Trustee

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of

June 12, 2018

 

 

Providing for Issuance of Debt Securities in series

 

 


CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

 

Trust Indenture Act Section

  Indenture Section
§ 310   (a)(1)   609
  (a)(2)   609
  (a)(3)   Not Applicable
  (a)(4)   Not Applicable
  (a)(5)   609
  (b)   608
    610
  (c)   Not Applicable
§ 311     613
§ 312   (a)   701
    702(a)
  (b)   702(a)
  (c)   702(c)
§ 313   (a)   703(a)
  (b)   703(b)
  (c)   703(a)
  (d)   703(c)
§ 314   (a)(1)(2)(3)   704
  (a)(4)   1004
  (b)   Not Applicable
  (c)(1)   102
  (c)(2)   102
  (c)(3)   Not Applicable
  (d)   Not Applicable
  (e)   102
§ 315   (a)   601(a)
    601(c)
  (b)   602
  (c)   601(b)
  (d)   601(c)
  (d)(1)   601(a)
  (d)(2)   601(c)(2)
  (d)(3)   601(c)(3)
  (e)   514
§ 316   (a)   101
  (a)(1)(A)   502
    512
  (a)(1)(B)   513
  (a)(2)   Not Applicable
  (b)   508
  (c)   104(d)
§ 317   (a)(1)   503
  (a)(2)   504
  (b)   1003
§ 318   (a)   107

 

Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         PAGE  

Recitals of the Company

     1  

Agreements of the Parties

     1  

ARTICLE ONE Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

     1  

SECTION 101.

 

Definitions

     1  

SECTION 102.

 

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

     10  

SECTION 103.

 

Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee

     10  

SECTION 104.

 

Acts of Holders

     11  

SECTION 105.

 

Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company

     12  

SECTION 106.

 

Notices to Holders; Waiver

     13  

SECTION 107.

 

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

     13  

SECTION 108.

 

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

     13  

SECTION 109.

 

Successors and Assigns

     13  

SECTION 110.

 

Separability Clause

     13  

SECTION 111.

 

Benefits of Indenture

     13  

SECTION 112.

 

Governing Law

     13  

SECTION 113.

 

Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process

     14  

SECTION 114.

 

Waiver of Immunity

     15  

SECTION 115.

 

Waiver of Jury Trial

     15  

SECTION 116.

 

Legal Holidays

     15  

SECTION 117.

 

Judgment Currency

     15  

SECTION 118.

 

Counterparts

     16  

ARTICLE TWO Security Forms

     16  

SECTION 201.

 

Forms Generally

     16  

SECTION 202.

 

Forms of Securities

     16  

SECTION 203.

 

Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication

     17  

SECTION 204.

 

Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security

     17  

ARTICLE THREE The Securities

     20  

SECTION 301.

 

General Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms of Particular Series

     20  

SECTION 302.

 

Denominations

     23  

SECTION 303.

 

Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating

     23  

SECTION 304.

 

Temporary Securities

     24  


SECTION 305.

 

Registration, Transfer and Exchange

     25  

SECTION 306.

 

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities

     27  

SECTION 307.

 

Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved

     27  

SECTION 308.

 

Taxation

     29  

SECTION 309.

 

Persons Deemed Owners

     32  

SECTION 310.

 

Cancellation

     32  

SECTION 311.

 

Computation of Interest

     32  

SECTION 312.

 

Medium-term Securities

     32  

ARTICLE FOUR Satisfaction and Discharge

     33  

SECTION 401.

 

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

     33  

SECTION 402.

 

Application of Trust Money

     34  

ARTICLE FIVE Remedies

     34  

SECTION 501.

 

Events of Default

     34  

SECTION 502.

 

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

     36  

SECTION 503.

 

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee

     37  

SECTION 504.

 

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     38  

SECTION 505.

 

Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities

     39  

SECTION 506.

 

Application of Money Collected

     39  

SECTION 507.

 

Limitation on Suits

     39  

SECTION 508.

 

Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest

     40  

SECTION 509.

 

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

     40  

SECTION 510.

 

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

     40  

SECTION 511.

 

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

     41  

SECTION 512.

 

Control by Holders

     41  

SECTION 513.

 

Waiver of Past Defaults

     41  

SECTION 514.

 

Undertaking for Costs

     41  

SECTION 515.

 

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

     42  

ARTICLE SIX The Trustee

     42  

SECTION 601.

 

Certain Duties and Responsibilities

     42  

SECTION 602.

 

Notice of Defaults

     44  

SECTION 603.

 

Certain Rights of Trustee

     44  

SECTION 604.

 

Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

     45  

 

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SECTION 605.

 

May Hold Securities

     46  

SECTION 606.

 

Money Held in Trust

     46  

SECTION 607.

 

Compensation and Reimbursement

     46  

SECTION 608.

 

Disqualification; Conflicting Interests

     47  

SECTION 609.

 

Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility

     47  

SECTION 610.

 

Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor

     47  

SECTION 611.

 

Acceptance of Appointment by Successor

     48  

SECTION 612.

 

Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business

     49  

SECTION 613.

 

Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company

     50  

SECTION 614.

 

Appointment of Authenticating Agent

     50  

ARTICLE SEVEN Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

     51  

SECTION 701.

 

Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders

     51  

SECTION 702.

 

Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders

     52  

SECTION 703.

 

Reports by Trustee

     52  

SECTION 704.

 

Reports by Company

     52  

SECTION 705.

 

FATCA Compliance by Trustee

     53  

ARTICLE EIGHT Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer

     53  

SECTION 801.

 

Company May Consolidate, etc., only on Certain Terms

     53  

SECTION 802.

 

Successor Corporation Substituted

     54  

ARTICLE NINE Supplemental Indentures

     54  

SECTION 901.

 

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders

     54  

SECTION 902.

 

Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders

     55  

SECTION 903.

 

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

     56  

SECTION 904.

 

Effect of Supplemental Indentures

     56  

SECTION 905.

 

Conformity with Trust Indenture Act

     57  

SECTION 906.

 

Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures

     57  

ARTICLE TEN Covenants

     57  

SECTION 1001.

 

Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest

     57  

SECTION 1002.

 

Maintenance of Office or Agency

     57  

SECTION 1003.

 

Money for Security Payments To Be Held in Trust

     57  

SECTION 1004.

 

Statement as to Compliance

     59  

SECTION 1005.

 

Corporate Existence

     59  

 

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SECTION 1006.

 

Limitation on Liens

     59  

SECTION 1007.

 

Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions

     61  

SECTION 1008.

 

Maintenance of Books and Records

     61  

SECTION 1009.

 

Further Assurances

     61  

SECTION 1010.

 

Waiver of Certain Covenants

     62  

SECTION 1011.

 

Maintenance of Properties

     62  

SECTION 1012.

 

Maintenance of Insurance

     62  

ARTICLE ELEVEN Redemption of Securities

     62  

SECTION 1101.

 

Applicability of Article

     62  

SECTION 1102.

 

Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee

     63  

SECTION 1103.

 

Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed

     63  

SECTION 1104.

 

Notice of Redemption

     64  

SECTION 1105.

 

Deposit of Redemption Price

     65  

SECTION 1106.

 

Securities Payable on Redemption Date

     65  

SECTION 1107.

 

Securities Redeemed in Part

     65  

SECTION 1108.

 

Provisions with Respect to any Sinking Funds

     65  

SECTION 1109.

 

Optional Redemption in the Event of Change in Tax Treatment

     66  

ARTICLE TWELVE Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

     67  

SECTION 1201.

 

Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

     67  

SECTION 1202.

 

Defeasance and Discharge

     67  

SECTION 1203.

 

Covenant Defeasance

     68  

SECTION 1204.

 

Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance

     68  

SECTION 1205.

 

Deposited Money and U.S.

     70  

SECTION 1206.

 

Reinstatement

     71  

 

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THIS INDENTURE dated as of June 12, 2018 (the “Indenture”), between ENEL CHILE S.A., a Chilean sociedad anónima abierta (limited liability stock company) (hereinafter called the “Company”), having its principal office at Santa Rosa 76, Santiago, Chile, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation, as trustee hereunder (the “Trustee”), security registrar and paying agent.

Recitals of the Company

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of its debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, to be issued in one or more fully registered series.

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

Agreements of the Parties

To set forth or to provide for the establishment of the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are and are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a series thereof, as the case may be:

ARTICLE ONE

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

SECTION 101.    Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

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

(b)    all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or by Commission rule under the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;

(c)    all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the Republic, including the accounting regulations adopted by the CMF applicable to all companies in the Republic subject to the oversight of the CMF at the date of such computation;


(d)    all references in this instrument to designated “Articles”, “Sections” and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this instrument. The words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and

(e)    “including” and words of similar import shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation”.

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

“Additional Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 308.

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

“Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Section 204.

“Applicable Tax Law” has the meaning specified in Section 705.

“Attributable Value” means, as to any particular lease under which the Company or any Subsidiary is at any time liable as lessee and any date as of which the amount thereof is to be determined, the total net obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease (including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended) discounted from the respective due dates thereof to such date at a rate per annum equivalent to the interest rate inherent in such lease (as determined in good faith by the Company in accordance with generally accepted financial practice).

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to authenticate Securities under Section 614.

“Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

“Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

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

 

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“Business Day” means each day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in the pertinent Place or Places of Payment are authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.

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

“CMF” means the Chilean Financial Market Commission (Comisión para el Mercado Financiero).

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

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

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

“Company Order” or “Company Request” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Company by any two of the following: its Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, its Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, its Controller, Assistant Controller, its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, its principal executive officer, its principal financial officer, its principal accounting officer or any other officer, employee or agent of the Company duly authorized by a Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate and delivered to the Trustee.

“Consent” means a written consent signed in the name of the Company by any two of the following: its Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, its Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, its Controller, Assistant Controller, its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, its principal executive officer, its principal financial officer, its principal accounting officer or any other officer, employee or agent of the Company duly authorized by a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate and delivered to the Trustee.

“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means the total of all assets (including revaluations thereof as a result of commercial appraisals, price-level restatement or otherwise) appearing on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries, net of all applicable reserves and deductions, but excluding goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and all other like intangible assets (which term shall not be construed to include such revaluations), less the aggregate of the current liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries appearing on such balance sheet.

 

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“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in New York, New York at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 101 Barclay Street, 7th Floor East, New York, New York, attention: International Corporate Trust Administration; and such other office as the Trustee may designate from time to time.

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307.

“Depositary” means, unless otherwise specified by the Company pursuant to either Section 204 or 301, with respect to Securities of any series issuable or issued as a Global Security, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, or any successor thereto registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation.

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

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

“FATCA” has the meaning specified in Section 308.

“Global Security” means, with respect to any series of Securities issued hereunder, a Security which is executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and an indenture supplemental hereto, if any, or Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate and pursuant to a Company Request, which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and which shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all of the Outstanding Securities of such series or any portion thereof, in either case having the same terms, including the same original issue date, date or dates on which principal is due, and interest rate or method of determining interest.

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

“IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person (without duplication), (a) any liability of such Person (1) for borrowed money or under any reimbursement obligation relating to a letter of credit, financial bond or similar instrument or agreement, (2) evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or similar instrument or agreement (including a purchase money obligation) given in connection with the acquisition of any business, properties or assets of any kind (other than a trade payable or a current liability arising in the ordinary course of business or a performance bond or similar obligation), (3) for the

 

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payment of money relating to any obligations under any capital lease of real or personal property or (4) for purposes of Sections 1006 and 1007, under any agreement or instrument in respect of an interest rate or currency swap, exchange or hedging transaction or other financial derivatives transaction; (b) any liability of others described in the preceding clause (a) that the Person has guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal liability; and (c) any amendment, supplement, modification, deferral, renewal, extension or refunding of any liability of the types referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above. For the purpose of determining any particular amount of Indebtedness under this definition, guarantees of (or obligations with respect to letters of credit or financial bonds supporting) Indebtedness otherwise included in the determination of such amount shall also not be included.

“Indenture” or “this 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 and conditions of each series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.

“Interest”, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity.

“Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any series of Securities, means the Stated Maturity of any installment of interest on those Securities.

“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 117.

“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest, charge or other encumbrance (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof other than a title retention agreement in connection with the purchase of goods in the ordinary course of business).

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

“Minimum Withholding Level” has the meaning specified in Section 1109.

“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by any two of the following: the Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, its principal executive officer, its principal financial officer, its principal accounting officer or any other officer, employee or agent of the Company duly authorized by a Board Resolution, and delivered to the Trustee. Wherever this Indenture requires that an Officers’ Certificate be signed also by an engineer or an accountant or other expert, such engineer, accountant or other expert (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture or the TIA) may be in the employ of the Company, and shall be acceptable to the Trustee, whose acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

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“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) be an employee of or of counsel to the Company. Such counsel shall be acceptable to the Trustee, whose acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld.

“Original Issue Discount Security” means (a) 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, and (b) any other Security issued with “original issue discount” for United States Federal income tax purposes.

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

(a)    such Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

(b)    such Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust 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; and

(c)    such Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, or which shall have been paid pursuant to the terms of Section 306 (except with respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that such Security is held by a Person in whose hands such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company).

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of such Securities Outstanding have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i) the principal amount of any Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of the taking of such action upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof and (ii) 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. In determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the

 

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pledgee certifies to the Trustee the pledgee’s right to act as owner 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 such other obligor.

“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, which shall initially be the Trustee.

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

“Place of Payment” means, with respect to any series of Securities issued hereunder, the city or political subdivision so designated with respect to the series of Securities in question in accordance with the provisions of Section 301, which if not so designated shall be The City of New York.

“Predecessor Securities” 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 306 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.

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

“Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price specified in such Security or pursuant to this Indenture or any supplemental indenture at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture or, if not specified, at 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Security on any Interest Payment Date means the date specified in such Security or pursuant to this Indenture as the Regular Record Date, irrespective of whether such date is a Business Day.

“Relevant Jurisdiction” has the meaning specified in Section 308.

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

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

 

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“Republic” means the Republic of Chile.

“Required Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 117.

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

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which the Company or any Subsidiary sells or transfers any property to any Person with the intention of taking back a lease of such property pursuant to which the rental payments are calculated to amortize the purchase price of such property substantially over the useful life thereof and such property is in fact so leased.

“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Security” or “Securities” means any note or notes, bond or bonds, debenture or debentures, or any other evidences of indebtedness, as the case may be, of any series authenticated and delivered from time to time under this Indenture.

“Security Register” shall have the meaning specified in Section 305.

“Security Registrar” means the Person who keeps the Security Register specified in Section 305, which shall initially be the Trustee.

“Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary which, at the date of determination, based on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for its most recently completed fiscal year, would be a “significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission as in effect on the date of the Indenture, assuming the Company is the registrant referred to in such definition, and applying for purposes of such determination the accounting principles from time to time applicable to the Company under the rules and regulations of the CMF or any successor or other governmental authority of the Republic having authority to mandate the accounting principles that the Company may or shall use in preparation of its financial reports.

“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

“Specified Property” means any generation, transformation, transmission or distribution facility of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, whether at the date of this Indenture owned or thereafter acquired, including any land, buildings, structures or machinery and other fixtures that constitute any such facility, or portion thereof.

 

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“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.

“Subsidiary” means any corporation or other business entity of which the Company possesses (either directly or through one or more other Subsidiaries) through ownership or control of share capital or other ownership interests, or through contractual or other rights, the power to elect or appoint, under ordinary circumstances, a majority of the directors, managers or trustees of such corporation or other business entity (whether or not capital stock or other ownership interests or any other class or classes shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency).

“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 308.

“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as provided in Section 905.

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

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

“Vice President”, when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”, including an assistant vice president.

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power to elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or other governing body) of such corporation other than stock having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency.

SECTION 102.    Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee 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 counsel providing such Opinion of 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 by or on behalf of the Company with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for the written statement required by Section 1004) shall include

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

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

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

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

SECTION 103.    Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to the other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

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

 

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by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless counsel providing such Opinion of Counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

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

SECTION 104.    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 or Holders of any series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. If any Securities are denominated in coin or currency other than that of the United States, then for the purposes of determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities have taken any action as herein described, the principal amount of such Securities shall be deemed to be that amount of United States dollars that could be obtained for such principal amount on the basis of the spot rate of exchange into United States dollars for the currency in which such Securities are denominated (as evidenced to the Trustee by an Officers’ Certificate) as of the date the taking of such action by the Holders of such requisite principal amount is evidenced to the Trustee as provided in the immediately preceding sentence. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

(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 to such execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation or a member of a partnership, on behalf of such corporation or partnership, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

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

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notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Company may, at its option, by Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders of such series entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action may be given before or after the record date, but only the Holders of Securities Outstanding of the relevant series of record at the close of business on such record date and no other Holders shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities Outstanding have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for that purpose the Securities Outstanding shall be computed as of the record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders of Securities Outstanding of the relevant series on the record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.

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

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

SECTION 105.    Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

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

(b)    the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (except as otherwise expressly provided herein or, in the case of a request for repayment, as specified in the Security carrying the right to repayment) if in writing and mailed by first class mail, transmitted by E-mail or forwarded by internationally recognized overnight courier to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument, E-mail: nicolas.billikopf@enel.com, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.

 

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SECTION 106.    Notices to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Security expressly provided) if in writing and delivered, to each Holder affected by such event, at its 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 is given by mail, neither the inadvertent 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. Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or otherwise, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to any Holder when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any method of notification as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

SECTION 107.    Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by any of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through the operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control.

SECTION 108.    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 109.    Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 110.    Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

SECTION 111.    Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in any Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and the Holders of Securities (or such of them as may be affected thereby), any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 112.    Governing Law. This Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SECTION 113.    Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process. (a) The Company irrevocably consents to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any court of the State of New York or any United States Federal court sitting, in each case, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, United States of America, and any appellate court from any thereof, and waives any immunity from the jurisdiction of such courts over any suit, action or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture or the Securities. The Company irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to any suit, action or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture or the Securities in such courts whether on the grounds of venue, residence or domicile or on the ground that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Company is subject by a suit upon such judgment; provided that service of process is effected upon the Company in the manner provided by this Indenture or as otherwise permitted by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any suit, action or proceeding brought in connection with this Indenture or the Securities against the Company may be instituted in any competent court in the Republic.

(b)    The Company agrees that service of all writs, process and summonses in any suit, action or proceeding brought in connection with this Indenture or the Securities against the Company in any court of the State of New York or any United States Federal court sitting, in each case, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, may be made upon CT Corporation System at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011, whom the Company irrevocably appoints as its authorized agent for service of process. The Company represents and warrants that CT Corporation System has agreed to act as the Company’s agent for service of process. The Company agrees that such appointment shall be irrevocable so long as any of the Securities remain outstanding or until the irrevocable appointment by the Company of a successor in The City of New York as its authorized agent for such purpose and the acceptance of such appointment by such successor. The Company further agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents and instruments, that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. If CT Corporation System shall cease to act as the agent for service of process for the Company, the Company shall appoint without delay another such agent and provide prompt written notice to the Trustee of such appointment. With respect to any such action in any court of the State of New York or any United States Federal court, in each case, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, service of process upon CT Corporation System, as the authorized agent of the Company for service of process, and written notice of such service to the Company, shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Company.

(c)    Nothing in this Section shall affect the right of any party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law or affect the right of any party to bring any action or proceeding against any other party or its property in the courts of other jurisdictions.

 

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SECTION 114.    Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that the Company or any of its respective properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to, or have attributed to it, any right of immunity, on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise, from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from the giving of any relief in any thereof, from setoff or counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any court, from service of process, from attachment upon or prior to judgment, from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, or from execution of judgment, or from other legal process or proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of any judgment, in any jurisdiction in which the proceedings may at any time be commenced, with respect to its obligations, liabilities or any other matter under or arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Securities, the Company, to the fullest extent permitted by law, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim any such immunity and consents to such relief and enforcement.

SECTION 115.    Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE AND EACH HOLDER BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF A SECURITY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

SECTION 116.    Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then payment of interest 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 or Stated Maturity, and no interest shall accrue on such payment for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.

SECTION 117.    Judgment Currency. The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium or interest, if any, on the Securities of any series (the “Required Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures, the Trustee could purchase the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency and (b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture.

 

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SECTION 118.    Counterparts. This instrument 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 instrument. The exchange of copies of this instrument and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

ARTICLE TWO

Security Forms

SECTION 201.    Forms Generally. The Securities of each series 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 and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable laws or regulations or with the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities are listed or market on which the Securities are admitted to trading, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the person or persons executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. Any portion of the text of any Security may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Security.

The definitive Securities shall be printed or produced in the manner determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities, subject, with respect to the Securities of any series, to the rules of any securities exchange on which such Securities are listed or market in which the Securities are admitted to trading.

SECTION 202.    Forms of Securities. Each Security shall be in one of the forms approved from time to time by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers’ Certificate or one or more indentures supplemental hereto. Prior to the delivery of a Security to the Trustee for authentication in any form approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate by or pursuant to which such form of Security has been approved, which Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate shall have attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security which has been approved thereby or, if a Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate authorizes a specific person or persons to approve a form of Security, a certificate of such person or persons approving the form of Security attached thereto. Any form of Security approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate must be acceptable as to form to the Trustee, such acceptance to be evidenced by the Trustee’s authentication of Securities in that form or a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and delivered to the Company.

 

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SECTION 203.    Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication. The form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication for any Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be substantially as follows:

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
as Trustee,
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

SECTION 204.    Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security. (a) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 202 and 301 that the Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the Trustee or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 303 and the Company Request delivered to the Trustee or its agent thereunder, authenticate and deliver such Global Security or Securities which (i) shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, the Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Global Security or Securities or such portion thereof as the Company shall specify in a Company Request, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee or its agent to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary’s instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially as follows:

“UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC” OR THE “DEPOSITARY”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY AS REFERRED TO IN THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERENCED. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR INDIVIDUAL SECURITIES, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE (A) BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR (B) BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR (C) BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.”

(b)    Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 204 or of Section 305, but subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) below, unless the terms of a Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged in whole or in part for individual Securities, a Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part and in the manner provided in Section 305, only to a nominee of the Depositary for such Global Security, to the Depositary for such Global Security, to a successor Depositary for such Global Security selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor Depositary.

(c)    (i) If at any time the Depositary for a Global Security notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or if at any time the Depositary for the Securities for such series ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to such Global Security. If a successor Depositary for such Global Security is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of individual Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver, individual Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.

(ii)    The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that the Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of individual Securities of such series in exchange in whole or in part for such Global Security, will authenticate and deliver individual Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Security or Securities representing such series or portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security or Securities.

(iii)    If (A) an Event of Default under the Securities of any series has occurred and is continuing and all principal of and premium, if any, and accrued interest on such Securities shall have become immediately due and payable as provided by Section 502 and (B) the Trustee has been advised by counsel that in

 

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connection with such Event of Default that it is necessary or appropriate for the Trustee or the Holders to obtain possession of such Securities, the Trustee may, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, determine that the Securities of such series represented by a Global Security or Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or Securities. In such event, the Company agrees to execute and the Trustee will authenticate and deliver, in exchange for such Global Security or Securities, individual Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Securities of such series represented by such Global Security or Securities.

(iv)    If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 202 and 301 with respect to Securities issued or issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Depositary for such Global Security or Securities may surrender such Global Security or Securities in exchange in whole or in part for individual Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company and such Depositary. Thereupon the Company shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge to Holders of the Securities, (1) to each Person specified by such Depositary, a new Security or Securities of the same series of like tenor and terms and of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person’s beneficial interest in the Global Security or Securities; and (2) to such Depositary, a new Global Security or Securities of like tenor and terms and in an authorized denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered Global Security or Securities and the aggregate principal amount of Securities delivered to the Holders thereof.

(v)    In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding four paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee or its agent will authenticate and deliver individual Securities in definitive registered form in authorized denominations. Upon the exchange of the entire principal amount of a Global Security for individual Securities, such Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee or its agent. Except as provided in the preceding paragraph, Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this Section 204, (1) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or the Security Registrar and (2) shall bear any legend set forth in such Global Security (other than a legend relating to such Global Security’s status as a Global Security) or which the Company believes is reasonably necessary to comply with the applicable law. The Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deliver such Securities to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.

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Depositary, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the Global Security, (ii) the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent, employee, officer or director of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever, (iii) the Trustee may deal with the Depositary as the authorized representative of the Agent Members, (iv) the rights of the Agent Members shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law and agreement between the Agent Members and the Depositary and (v) the Depositary will make book entry transfers among the Agent Members and will receive and transmit distributions of principal and interest on the Securities to such Agent Members. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Security.

ARTICLE THREE

The Securities

SECTION 301.    General Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms of Particular Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered and Outstanding under this Indenture is not limited.

The Securities may be issued in one or more series up to an aggregate principal amount of Securities as from time to time may be authorized by the Board of Directors. All Securities of each series under this Indenture shall in all respects be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits hereof with respect to such series without preference, priority or distinction on account of the actual time of the authentication and delivery or Stated Maturity of the Securities of such series.

Each series of Securities shall be created either by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers’ Certificate or one or more indentures supplemental hereto. The Securities of each such series may bear such date or dates, be payable at such place or places, have such Stated Maturity or Maturities, be issuable at such premium over or discount from their face value, bear interest at such rate or rates (which may be fixed or floating), from such date or dates, payable in such installments and on such dates and at such place or places to the Holders of Securities registered as such on the related Regular Record Dates, or may bear no interest, and may be redeemable or repayable at such Redemption Price or Prices or Repayment Price or Prices, as the case may be, whether at the option of the Holder or otherwise, and upon such terms and subject to such conditions, all as shall be provided for in or pursuant to the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture creating that series. The Company may from time to time, without the consent of Holders of a series of Securities, issue further Securities having terms identical to those of such series of Securities so that any further issue is consolidated and forms a single series with such series of Securities; provided that if any further Securities are not fungible with such series of Securities for United States Federal income tax purposes, such further Securities shall have separate CUSIP and ISIN

 

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numbers. There may also be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers’ Certificate or a supplemental indenture prior to the issuance of Securities of each such series, provision for:

(1)    the exchange or conversion of the Securities of that series, at the option of the Holders thereof, for or into new Securities of a different series or other securities or other property, including shares of capital stock of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any such shares;

(2)    a sinking or purchase fund or other analogous obligation;

(3)    if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies or units based on or related to currencies in which the Securities of such series shall be denominated and in which payments of principal of, and any premium and interest on, such Securities shall or may be payable;

(4)    if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies or units based on or related to currencies other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made;

(5)    if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series may be determined with reference to an index based on (i) a currency or currencies or units based on or related to currencies other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, (ii) changes in the price of one or more other securities or groups or indexes of securities or (iii) changes in the prices of one or more commodities or groups or indexes of commodities, or any combination of the foregoing, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

(6)    if the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series is to be limited, such limitations;

(7)    the exchange of Securities of that series, at the option of the Holders thereof, for other Securities of the same series of the same aggregate principal amount of a different authorized kind or different authorized denomination or denominations, or both;

(8)    the appointment by the Trustee of an Authenticating Agent in one or more places other than the location of the office of the Trustee with power to act on behalf of the Trustee and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of the Securities of any one or more series in connection with such transactions as shall be specified in the provisions of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture creating such series;

 

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(9)    the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series, if other than the total principal amount thereof, which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or provable in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 504;

(10)    any Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series, if not set forth herein, and any additions, deletions or other changes to the Events of Default set forth herein that shall be applicable to the Securities of such series (including a provision making any Event of Default set forth herein inapplicable to the Securities of that series);

(11)    any covenant solely for the benefit of the Securities of such series and any additions, deletions or other changes to the provisions of Article Ten or any definitions relating to such Article that shall be applicable to the Securities of such series (including a provision making any Section of such Article inapplicable to the Securities of such series);

(12)    the applicability of Article Twelve of this Indenture to the Securities of such series;

(13)    if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of a Global Security or Global Securities, the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security or Global Securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual Securities; and the Depositary for such Global Security or Global Securities (if other than the Depositary specified in Section 101 hereof);

(14)    the subordination of the Securities of such series to any other indebtedness of the Company, including the Securities of any other series;

(15)    whether such Securities shall be issued as part of a new or existing series of Securities and the title of such Securities (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of another series); and

(16)    any other terms and conditions of the series, which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,

all upon such terms and conditions as may be determined in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers’ Certificate or a supplemental indenture with respect to such series. All Securities of the same series shall be substantially identical in tenor and effect, except as to denomination.

The form of the Securities of each series shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture in or pursuant to the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture creating such series. The Securities of each series shall be distinguished from the Securities of each other series in such manner, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as the Board of Directors may determine.

 

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Unless otherwise provided with respect to Securities of a particular series, the Securities of any series may only be issuable in registered form, without coupons.

Any terms or provisions in respect of the Securities of any series issued under this Indenture may be determined pursuant to this Section by providing in a Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture for the method by which such terms or provisions shall be determined.

SECTION 302.    Denominations. The Securities of each series shall be issuable in such denominations and currency as shall be provided in the provisions of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture creating such series. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of that series shall be issuable only in U.S. dollars in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

SECTION 303.    Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating. The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any two of the following: its Chairman of the Board, its President, one of its Vice Presidents, its Treasurer, its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, its principal executive officer, its principal financial officer, its principal accounting officer or any other officer, employee or agent of the Company duly authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate to execute the Securities. The signature of any of these officers, employees or agents on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers, employees or agents 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 executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication; and the Trustee shall, upon Company Order, authenticate and deliver such Securities as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.

Prior to any such authentication and delivery, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to any Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel required to be furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 102, and the Board Resolution and any certificate relating to the issuance of the series of Securities required to be furnished pursuant to Section 202, an Opinion of Counsel stating that:

(1)    all laws and requirements with respect to the execution and delivery by the Company of such Securities have been complied with, the Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities and such Securities have been duly authorized and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authentication and delivery by the Trustee, constitute legal, valid and binding

 

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obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity) and entitled to the benefits of this Indenture, equally and ratably with all other Securities, if any, of such series Outstanding;

(2)    the Indenture is qualified under the Trust Indenture Act or the Indenture is not required to be so qualified; and

(3)    such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request;

and, if the authentication and delivery relates to a new series of Securities created by an indenture supplemental hereto, also stating that all laws and requirements with respect to the form and execution by the Company of the supplemental indenture with respect to that series of Securities have been complied with, the Company has corporate power to execute and deliver any such supplemental indenture and has taken all necessary corporate action for those purposes and any such supplemental indenture has been executed and delivered and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity).

The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue thereof will adversely affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture.

Unless otherwise provided in the form of Security for any series, all Securities shall be dated the date of their authentication.

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

The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP”, “private placement”, “ISIN”, “Common Code” or other securities identification numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee may refer to such identification numbers of the Securities in any Securities, checks, advices of payment or notices of redemption and related materials as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as appears on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related materials, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.

SECTION 304.    Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and, upon receipt of the documents required by Section 303, together with a Company Order, the Trustee shall

 

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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 and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, 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, without charge to the Holder; and upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of such series of authorized denominations and of like tenor and terms. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of such series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

Upon any exchange of a portion of a temporary Global Security for a definitive Global Security or for the individual Securities represented thereby pursuant to this Section 304 or Section 305, the temporary Global Security shall be endorsed by the Trustee to reflect the reduction of the principal amount evidenced thereby, whereupon the principal amount of such temporary Global Security shall be reduced for all purposes by the amount so exchanged and endorsed.

SECTION 305.    Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall keep or cause to be kept a register (herein sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities, or of Securities of a particular series, and for transfers of Securities or of Securities of such series. Any such Security Register shall be in written form or in any other form permitted under applicable law and capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. At all reasonable times the information contained in such register or registers shall be available for inspection by the Trustee at the office or agency to be maintained by the Company as provided in Section 1002.

Subject to Section 204, upon surrender for transfer of any Security of any series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of such series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms.

Subject to Section 204, at the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of such series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms, upon

 

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surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any 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 transfer or exchange.

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

Unless otherwise provided in the Security to be transferred or exchanged, no service charge shall be made on any Holder for any transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may (unless otherwise provided in such Security) require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304 or 906 not involving any transfer.

The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, transfer or exchange any Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the date of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of such series selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the date of such mailing, (ii) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except for the portion of such Security not so selected for redemption or (iii) to transfer or exchange any Security between any Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date.

None of the Company, the Trustee, any agent of 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 Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility or obligation to any participant in the Depositary, any Person claiming a beneficial ownership interest in the Securities under or through the Depositary or any such participant, or any other Person which is not shown on the Security Register as being a Holder, with respect to (1) the Securities; (2) the accuracy of any records maintained by the Depositary or any such participant; (3) the payment by the Depositary or any such participant of any amount in respect to the principal of or premium or interest on the Securities; (4) any notice which is permitted or required to be given to Holders of Securities under this Indenture; or (5) any consent given or other action taken by the Depositary as Holder of Securities.

 

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The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Security Registrar and Paying Agent for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from time to time authorize any Person to act as Security Registrar or Paying Agent in place of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture.

SECTION 306.    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If (a)(i) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or (ii) the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (b) there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and, upon delivery of a Company Request, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor, series, Stated Maturity and principal amount, and bearing a number not contemporaneously Outstanding.

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

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

Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of the same 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 307.    Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Unless otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 301, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the

 

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relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of its having been such Holder; and, except as hereinafter provided, such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or clause (b) below:

(a)    The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names any such Securities (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 such Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this 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 nor 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 the Holder of each such Security at its address as it appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b).

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

If any installment of interest, the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Security called for redemption pursuant to Article Eleven, is not paid or duly provided for on or prior to the Redemption Date in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section, such interest shall be payable as part of the Redemption Price of such Securities.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon 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.

 

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SECTION 308.    Taxation. (a) All payments and deliveries of or in respect of principal, interest and premium, if any, on each Security shall be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any present or future taxes, penalties, fines, duties, assessments or other governmental charges of whatever nature (or interest on any of the foregoing) (collectively, “Taxes”) imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by, within or on behalf of the Republic or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having power to tax (a “Relevant Jurisdiction”), unless such withholding or deduction is required by law or by regulation or the interpretation or administration thereof. If the Company is required to make any withholding or deduction described in the preceding sentence with respect to any payment or delivery of principal, interest and premium, if any, made in respect of the Securities, the Company will pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary to ensure that the net amounts received by the Holder of such Security (including Additional Amounts) after such withholding or deduction shall equal the respective amounts of principal, interest and premium, if any, that would have been receivable in respect of such Security in the absence of such withholding or deduction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such Additional Amounts shall be payable in respect of any Security:

(i)    in the case of payments for which presentation of a Security is required, if such Security is presented for payment more than 30 days after the later of (x) the date on which such payment first became due and (y) if the full amount payable has not been received in the Place of Payment by the Trustee on or prior to such due date, the date on which, the full amount having been so received and notice to that effect shall have been given to the Holder by the Trustee or the Paying Agent, on behalf of the Trustee, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such Additional Amounts on presenting such Security for payment on the last day of the applicable 30-day period;

(ii)    for any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, use, value added, transfer, excise, capital gains, personal property or similar Taxes;

(iii)    if held by or on behalf of a Holder or beneficial owner who is liable for Taxes in respect of such Security by reason of having some present or former, direct or indirect, connection with a Relevant Jurisdiction (including, without limitation, being a citizen of, being incorporated or engaged in a trade or business in, or having a residence or principal place of business, permanent establishment or other presence in a Relevant Jurisdiction), other than the mere holding of such Security or the receipt of principal, interest or premium, if any, in respect thereof;

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or other reporting requirement concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the applicable Relevant Jurisdiction, or to make any other similar claim for exemption to the applicable Relevant Jurisdiction, if, after having been requested in writing by the Company to comply with such applicable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement, or to make such a claim, such Holder or beneficial owner fails to do so within 30 days;

(v)    for any Taxes which are payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments of principal, interest and premium, if any, on such Security;

(vi)    for any Taxes that would not have been so imposed if the Holder had presented a Security for payment (where presentation is required) to another Paying Agent, if any;

(vii)    with respect to any payment to a Holder of a Security that is a fiduciary or partnership (including an entity treated as a partnership for tax purposes) or any Person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment or Security, to the extent that a beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary, a member of such partnership or the beneficial owner of such payment or Security would not have been entitled to the Additional Amounts had such beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial owner been the actual Holder of such Security;

(viii)    for any Taxes imposed on or in respect of (x) Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as amended, and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof (“FATCA”), (y) any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and any other jurisdiction which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of the foregoing clause (x), or (z) any agreement entered into pursuant to the implementation of the preceding clauses (x) or (y) with the Internal Revenue Service, the United States government or any governmental or taxation authority under any other jurisdiction; or

(ix)     for any combination of the foregoing clauses (i) through (viii) above.

(b)    All references in this Indenture to principal, interest or premium shall be deemed to include references to any Additional Amounts which may be payable under this Section with respect to such principal, interest or premium. The Company will also (i) make any required withholding or deduction for Taxes imposed with respect to payments on the Securities and (ii) remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law. Upon request, the Company shall provide the Trustee with documentation evidencing the payment of Taxes in respect of which the Company has paid Additional Amounts. Copies of such documentation shall be made available by the Trustee to the holders or the other paying agents, as applicable, upon written request therefor.

 

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Refunds, if any, of Taxes with respect to which the Company pays Additional Amounts shall be for the account of the Company. If Additional Amounts actually paid with respect to a Security pursuant to the preceding paragraph (a) are based on rates of deduction or withholding of Taxes imposed by a Taxing Authority in excess of the appropriate rate applicable to the Holder or the beneficial owner of such Security, and, as a result thereof, such Holder or beneficial owner is entitled under the law of such Taxing Authority to make a claim for a refund or credit of such Taxes, then such Holder or beneficial owner shall, by accepting a Security or an interest therein, be deemed to have assigned and transferred all right, title and interest to any such claim for a refund or credit of such Taxes to the Company. However, by making such assignment, the holder or beneficial owner makes no representation or warranty that the Company will be entitled to receive such claim for refund or credit and incurs no other obligation (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any filing or other action) with respect thereto.

(c)    The Company shall promptly pay when due any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies that arise in any jurisdiction from the execution, delivery, or registration of each Security or any other document or instrument relating to the issuance thereof, excluding any such taxes, charges or similar levies imposed by any jurisdiction outside of the Republic and except as provided in Section 305. The Company shall indemnify and make whole the Holders of Securities for any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies payable by the Company as provided in this clause (c) paid by such Holders.

(d)    At least 10 Business Days prior to the first Interest Payment Date for the Securities of such series, and, if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, at least 10 Business Days prior to each subsequent Interest Payment Date for the Securities of such series, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and any other Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and any such other Paying Agent as to whether payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of such series (including Additional Amounts) due on such date shall be subject to deduction or withholding for or on account of any taxes and the rate of any such deduction or withholding. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any other Paying Agents for, and to hold each harmless against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on their part, arising out of or in connection with actions taken or not taken by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished to them pursuant to this paragraph or the failure to furnish any such Officers’ Certificate. The obligations of the Company under the preceding sentence shall survive payment of all the Securities of such series, the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee, the Security Registrar or any Paying Agent. Any Officers’ Certificate required by this Section to be provided to the Trustee and any other Paying Agent shall be deemed to be duly provided if telecopied to the Trustee and such other Paying Agent. Upon request, the Company shall provide the Trustee with documentation evidencing the payment of Taxes in respect of which the Company has paid any Additional Amounts. Copies of such documentation shall be made available by the Trustee to the Holders or the other Paying Agents, as applicable, upon written request therefor.

 

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SECTION 309.    Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered in the Security Register as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any), and (subject to Section 307) interest on, such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 310.    Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer, conversion or exchange or credit against a sinking fund, if any, shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Security shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of all cancelled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures and shall deliver a certificate of such disposition to the Company; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be required to destroy such cancelled Securities.

SECTION 311.    Computation of Interest. Unless otherwise provided as contemplated in Section 301, interest on the Securities shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

SECTION 312.    Medium-term Securities. Notwithstanding any contrary provision herein, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary for the Company to deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate, Board Resolution, supplemental indenture, Opinion of Counsel or Company Request otherwise required pursuant to Sections 202, 301 and 303 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued; provided that any subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series upon original issuance shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Company that as of the date of such request, the statements made in the Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 102 shall be true and correct as if made on such date.

An Officers’ Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the circumstances set forth in the preceding paragraph may provide that Securities which are the subject thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or its agent on original issue from time to time upon the written order of a person or persons designated in such Officers’ Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution and that such person or persons are

 

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authorized to determine, consistent with such Officers’ Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution, such terms and conditions of said Securities as are specified in such Officers’ Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution.

ARTICLE FOUR

Satisfaction and Discharge

SECTION 401.    Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities (except as to any surviving rights of conversion, transfer or exchange of Securities of such series expressly provided for herein or in the form of Security for such series), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series, when

(a)    either

(1)    all Securities of that series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306, 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 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation; or

(2)    all such Securities of that series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or for cancellation

(i)    have become due and payable, or

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

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

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 the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee cancelled or 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;

 

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(b)    the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the Securities of such series;

(c)    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 with respect to the Securities of such series have been complied with; and

(d)    the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that payment of amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee as provided in clause (a) hereof will not be subject to future Taxes imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by, within or on behalf of the Relevant Jurisdiction, except to the extent that Additional Amounts in respect thereof shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee as provided in clause (a) hereof.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee with respect to that series under Section 607 shall survive and the obligations of the Trustee under Sections 402 and 1003 shall survive.

SECTION 402.    Application of Trust Money. All money and obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 or Article Twelve and all money received by the Trustee in respect of such obligations shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the series of Securities in respect of which it was deposited and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for whose payment such money and obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee; but such money and obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

ARTICLE FIVE

Remedies

SECTION 501.    Events of Default. “Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means with respect to any series of Securities any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), unless such event is either inapplicable to a particular series (to the extent expressly provided in the form of Security for such series) or it is specifically deleted or modified in the supplemental indenture creating such series of Securities or in the form of Security for such series:

(1)    default by the Company in the payment of any principal of the Securities of that series when due and payable, whether at Maturity, upon redemption or otherwise; or

 

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(2)    default by the Company in the payment of any interest or any Additional Amounts when due and payable on any Security of that series and the continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or

(3)    default in the performance or observance of any other term, covenant, warranty or obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the Securities of such series or this Indenture, not otherwise expressly defined as an Event of Default in (1) or (2) above, and the continuance of such default for more than 60 days after there has been given by registered or certified mail or internationally recognized overnight courier to the Company by the Trustee or by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that series then Outstanding a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied; or

(4)    the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall default in the payment of principal of, or interest on, any individual note, bond, coupon or other instrument or agreement evidencing or pursuant to which there is outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, whether such Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, having a principal amount exceeding US$150,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency), other than the Securities of that series, by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, when the Indebtedness shall become due and payable (whether at maturity, upon redemption or acceleration or otherwise), if such default shall continue for more than the period of grace, if any, originally applicable thereto and the time for payment of such amount has not been expressly extended; or

(5)    the entry of an order for relief against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under any Bankruptcy Law by a court having jurisdiction in the premises or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company or any Significant Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent under any other applicable law, or the entry of a decree or order approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under any Bankruptcy Law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law, including a “veedor”) of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and in each case the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

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Bankruptcy Law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law, including a “veedor”) of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action; or

(7)    any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental indenture under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such series.

The term “Bankruptcy Law” as used in this Section means the Chilean Ley de Insolvencia y Reemprendimiento (Law No. 20,720), as amended, or any other applicable law which amends, supplements or supersedes the foregoing and any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law of any applicable jurisdiction.

SECTION 502.    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of Default described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4) or (7) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any series, then and in each and every such case, unless the principal of all the Securities of such series shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series then Outstanding hereunder (each such series acting as a separate class), by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities of such series then Outstanding and all accrued interest thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Securities of such series contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default described in paragraph (5) or (6) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every such case, the principal amount (or, if any Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the Securities then Outstanding and all accrued interest thereon shall, without any notice to the Company or any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of the Securities, become and be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Securities contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made with respect to the Securities of any series 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 aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if

 

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

(A)    all overdue installments of interest on the Securities of such series,

(B)    the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of such series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities of such series, to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,

(C)    interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities of such series, to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, 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 all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;

and

(2)    all Events of Default with respect to such series of Securities, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Securities of such series which have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.

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

SECTION 503.    Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if

(a)    default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security of any series when such interest becomes due and payable, or

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

(c)    default is made in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund or analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the Securities of any series,

and any such default continues for any period of grace provided with respect to the Securities of such series, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holder of any such Security (or the Holders of any such series in the case of clause (c) above), the whole amount then due and payable on any such Security (or on

 

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the Securities of any such series in the case of clause (c) above) for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, with interest, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and upon overdue installments of interest, at such rate or rates as may be prescribed therefor by the terms of any such Security (or of Securities of any such series in the case of clause (c) above); and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

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 the Securities of such series and collect the money 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, wherever situated.

If an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities 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 504.    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise,

(i)    to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary and 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 all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

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and any receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official, including a “veedor”) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payment 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, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

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

SECTION 505.    Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities of any series may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities of such series 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 agent and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities of the series in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

SECTION 506.    Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities 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 on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities of such series and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

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

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

SECTION 507.    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 the Securities or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless

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

 

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

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

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

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

it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Securities of such series 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 Holders of Securities of such series, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and proportionate benefit of all the Holders of all Securities of such series.

SECTION 508.    Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture and any provision of the Securities, 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 Section 307) interest on such Security (including Additional Amounts) on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the case may be) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 509.    Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the Holders 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 510.    Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 306, 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.

 

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SECTION 511.    Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

SECTION 512.    Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in aggregate 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

(a)    the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken or would conflict with this Indenture or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer, determine that the proceedings so directed would involve it in personal liability or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such direction, and

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

SECTION 513.    Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate 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 not theretofore cured

(a)    in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund or analogous obligation with respect to the Securities of such series, or

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

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

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agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series to which the suit relates, 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 Repayment Date).

SECTION 515.    Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

ARTICLE SIX

The Trustee

SECTION 601.    Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities,

(1)    the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(2)    in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may, with respect to Securities of such series, conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

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such series such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.

(c)    No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that

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

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

(3)    the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders under Section 502 or pursuant to the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and

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

(d)    In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for:

(i)    any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances; and

(ii)    special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action. The Trustee shall not be required to risk or expend its own funds in performing any of its obligations if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it.

 

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

SECTION 602.    Notice of Defaults. Within 60 days after a Responsible Officer of Trustee receives a written notice of any default hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee shall deliver to all Holders of such series, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder notified 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 or Additional Amounts on any Security of such series or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment or analogous obligation with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of such series; and provided further that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(3) with respect to Securities of such series no such notice to Holders of such series shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default”, with respect to Securities of any series, means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.

SECTION 603.    Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 601:

(a)    the Trustee may 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 or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

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

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

(d)    the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection for the Trustee in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from any action or nonaction based on its good faith reliance upon any such advice of counsel or Opinion of Counsel for any errors in judgment made by the Trustee in good faith;

 

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

(f)    the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture 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;

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

(h)    the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of a default hereunder unless and until a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge (in the case of a payment default) or written notice of such default;

(i)    the Trustee shall act at the instruction or other directions of any person upon which the Trustee is authorized to rely pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, and shall not be liable for such actions, except to the extent caused by Trustee as result of the negligence or willful misconduct of the Trustee;

(j)    the Trustee agrees to accept and act upon notice, instructions or directions pursuant to the Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction. The party providing electronic instructions agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties; and

(k)    the rights and obligations of the Trustee under this Article Six shall be extended to the Trustee in its roles as Security Registrar and Paying Agent.

SECTION 604.    Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes

 

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no 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 has duly authorized, executed and delivered this Indenture, has the power to authenticate the Securities and has the ability to perform its obligations hereunder. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

SECTION 605.    May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.

SECTION 606.    Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall hold funds related to the Securities uninvested without liability for interest, unless otherwise agreed with the Company.

SECTION 607.    Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:

(a)    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);

(b)    except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the 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 expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or wilful misconduct; and

(c)    to indemnify the Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or wilful misconduct on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

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 (and premium, if any) or interest on particular Securities.

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SECTION 608.    Disqualification; Conflicting Interests. The Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act during the period of time provided for therein. In determining whether the Trustee has a conflicting interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities of any series, there shall be excluded for purposes of the conflicting interest provisions of such Section 310(b) the Securities of every other series issued under this Indenture. Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application referred to in the second to last paragraph of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

SECTION 609.    Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of Securities, which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any State, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least US$50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by United States Federal or State authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities 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 610.    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 under Section 611.

(b)    The Trustee may resign with respect to any series of Securities at any time 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 with respect to any series of Securities at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.

(d)    If at any time:

(1)    the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act pursuant to Section 608 with respect to any series of Securities after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series for at least six months, or

 

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(2)    the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 with respect to any series of Securities and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or

(3)    the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or

(4)    the Trustee 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 a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate may remove the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of that series, or in the case of clause (4), with respect to all series, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least 6 months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the series, or, in the case of clause (4), with respect to all series.

(e)    If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities for any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee for that series of Securities. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapacity, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to such series of Securities shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to such series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company with respect to such series. If no successor Trustee with respect to such series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of such series and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to 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 by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of that series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

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Company and to the predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee shall become effective with respect to any series as to which it is resigning or being removed as Trustee, and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to any such series; but, on request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such predecessor Trustee shall, upon payment of its reasonable charges, if any, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the predecessor Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such predecessor Trustee hereunder with respect to all or any such series, subject nevertheless to its lien, if any, provided for in Section 607. 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.

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 predecessor Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not being succeeded shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and 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.

No successor Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible with respect to that series under this Article.

SECTION 612.    Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, 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.

 

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SECTION 613.    Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. If and when the Trustee shall become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of any series), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act (including Section 311 thereof) regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of any series).

SECTION 614.    Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee, with the approval of the Company, 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 thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as an Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and, if other than the Company itself, subject to supervision or examination by United States Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

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

An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and, if other than the Company, to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and, if other than the Company, 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, with the approval of the Company, may appoint a

 

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successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall deliver written notice of such appointment, to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.

The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent (other than an Authenticating Agent appointed at the request of the Company from time to time) reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section 607.

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 the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:

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

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:  

 

  As Authenticating Agent
By:  

 

Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE SEVEN

Holders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company

SECTION 701.    Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee

(a)    semiannually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record Date, in each year in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, a list of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such series as of such 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,

 

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excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar.

SECTION 702.    Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders. (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders of Securities received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b)    The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities of any series, and the corresponding rights of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act (including Section 312(b) thereof).

SECTION 703.    Reports by Trustee. (a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under the Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (including Section 313 thereof) at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

(b)    A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange (if any) upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

SECTION 704.    Reports by Company. (a) The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports as may be required by the Trust Indenture Act (including Section 314 thereof); provided that any such information, documents or reports filed electronically with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be deemed filed with, and delivered to, the Trustee and transmitted to the Holders at the same time as filed with the Commission. Delivery of such information, documents and reports to the Trustee and transmission thereof to the Holders is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute a representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information, documents or reports.

(b)    If the Company is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, then it will make available, upon request, to the Trustee and Holders the information required pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

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as required by Section 704(a), delivery of any reports, information or documents to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 704 is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute actual or constructive knowledge or notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein.

SECTION 705.    FATCA Compliance by Trustee. In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time that a foreign financial institution, issuer, Paying Agent, Holder or other institution is or has agreed to be subject to related to this Indenture, including, without limitation, FATCA (“Applicable Tax Law”), the Company agrees (i) to use commercially reasonable efforts to provide to the Trustee, upon written request, information about Holders or other applicable parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions), to the extent the Company has such information in its possession, that the Trustee reasonably determines is necessary to enable the Trustee to determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Tax Law, and (ii) that the Trustee shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Tax Law for which the Trustee shall not have any liability, except as may result from its own negligence or willful misconduct. The terms of this Section 705 shall survive the termination of this Indenture.

ARTICLE EIGHT

Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer

SECTION 801.    Company May Consolidate, etc., only on Certain Terms. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:

(1)    the successor shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Republic, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (and Additional Amounts, if any) on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;

(2)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and

(3)    the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article, and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.

 

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SECTION 802.    Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any conveyance or transfer of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 801, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer 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 corporation had been named as the Company herein. In the event of any such conveyance or transfer, the Company as the predecessor corporation may be dissolved, wound up or liquidated at any time thereafter.

ARTICLE NINE

Supplemental Indentures

SECTION 901.    Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, 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, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(1)    to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or

(2)    to add to the covenants of the Company, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company, for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of any or all series (and if such covenants or the surrender of such right or power are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included or such surrenders are expressly being made solely for the benefit of one or more specified series); or

(3)    to cure any ambiguity or defect or to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein; or

(4)    to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or the Securities or make any other changes herein or therein; or

(5)    to add to this Indenture such provisions as may be expressly permitted by the TIA, excluding, however, the provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA as in effect at the date as of which this Indenture was executed or any corresponding provision in any similar federal statute hereafter enacted; or

(6)    to establish any form of Security, as provided in Article Two, and to provide for the issuance of any series of Securities as provided in and subject to the terms of Article Three (including the issuance of further securities having identical terms to the series of any Securities so that the further issue is consolidated and forms a single series with such Securities) and to set forth the terms thereof, and/or to add to the rights of the Holders of the Securities of any series; or

 

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(7)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment by another corporation as a successor Trustee hereunder with respect to one or more series of Securities and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to Section 611; or

(8)    to add any additional Events of Default in respect of the Securities of any or all series (and if such additional Events of Default are to be in respect of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of one or more specified series); or

(9)    to provide for the issuance of Securities in bearer form with coupons, to the extent permitted by law, as well as fully registered form; or

(10)    to conform the Indenture and/or the Securities to any provision of the “Description of Notes” section or other relevant section describing the terms of the Indenture (as amended by any supplemental indenture) or the Securities contained in the applicable prospectus, offering memorandum or other relevant offering document relating to the issuance of such Securities.

No supplemental indenture for the purposes identified in clauses (2), (3),(4), (6) or (8) above may be entered into if to do so would adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities of any series in any material respect.

SECTION 902.    Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture or indentures, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, 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 the Securities of each such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of each such series adversely affected thereby:

(1)    change the Maturity of the principal of, or the Stated Maturity of any premium on, or any installment of interest on, any Security of such series, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest (or Additional Amounts, if any, or premium, if any) payable thereon, or change the method of computing the amount of principal thereof or interest (or Additional Amounts, if any, or premium, if any) payable thereon on any date or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security of such series or any

 

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premium or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Maturity or the Stated Maturity, as the case may be, thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be); or

(2)    reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences, provided for in this Indenture; or

(3)    modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1010, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series adversely affected thereby.

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

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

SECTION 903.    Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 601) 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. The Trustee may, but shall not (except to the extent required in the case of a supplemental indenture entered into under Section 901(5) or 901(7)) 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 904.    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 shall be bound thereby to the extent provided therein.

 

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SECTION 905.    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 906.    Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. Securities 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 in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and such Securities may be delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.

ARTICLE TEN

Covenants

SECTION 1001.    Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. With respect to each series of Securities, the Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities in accordance with their terms and this Indenture, and will duly comply with all the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in, or made in the Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.

SECTION 1002.    Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the principal Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

SECTION 1003.    Money for Security Payments To Be Held in Trust. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent for any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest 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 of its action or failure to so act.

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principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any Securities of such series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal (and premium, if any) or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure to so act.

The Company will cause the bank through which any payment on the Securities is made to deliver to the Paying Agent by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time), two Business Days prior to the due date for such payment irrevocable confirmation (by tested telex or authenticated Swift MT 100 Message) of its intention to make such payment.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee for any series of Securities 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 of such series in trust 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 any other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of such series; and

(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 with respect to any series of Securities 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 such Paying Agent in respect of each and every series of Securities as to which it seeks to discharge this Indenture or, if for any other purpose, all sums so held in trust by the Company in respect of all Securities, 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 money.

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 (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to

 

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the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the request and expense of the Company deliver to the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be repaid was held in trust, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a notice that such moneys remain unclaimed and that, after a date specified in the notice, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date on which the notice was first delivered to the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be repaid was held in trust, any unclaimed balance of such moneys then remaining will be paid to the Company free of the trust formerly impressed upon it.

The Company initially authorizes the Trustee to act as Paying Agent for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from time to time authorize one or more Persons to act as Paying Agent in addition to or in place of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture.

SECTION 1004.    Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement signed by the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company, stating that

(1)    a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of the Company’s performance under this Indenture and under the terms of the Securities has been made under such officer’s supervision; and

(2)    to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Company has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture through such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to such officer and the nature and status thereof.

SECTION 1005.    Corporate Existence. Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and will use its best efforts to do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and such rights and franchises of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve or to cause its Subsidiaries to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

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Indebtedness is secured by a Lien upon any Specified Property or any Capital Stock of or Indebtedness of any Person, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless, concurrently with the issuance, assumption or guarantee of such Indebtedness, the Securities shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such Indebtedness; provided, however, that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to:

(1)    any Lien on any property acquired, constructed or improved by the Company or any Subsidiary which is created, incurred or assumed contemporaneously with, or within one year after, such acquisition (or in the case of any such property constructed or improved, after the completion or commencement of commercial operation of such property, whichever is later) to secure or provide for the payment of any part of the purchase price of such property or the costs of such construction or improvement (including costs such as escalation, interest during construction and finance costs); provided that in the case of any such construction or improvement the Lien shall not apply to any such property theretofore owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, other than any theretofore unimproved real property on which the property so constructed, or the improvement, is located;

(2)    any Lien on any property existing at the time of acquisition thereof and which is not created as a result of or in connection with or in anticipation of such acquisition (unless such Lien was created to secure or provide for the payment of any part of the purchase price of such property and is otherwise permitted by paragraph (1) above);

(3)    any Lien on any property of a Person which is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or a Subsidiary or any Lien existing on property of a Person which existed at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and, in either such case, which is not created as a result of or in connection with or in anticipation of any such transaction (unless such Lien was created to secure or provide for the payment of any part of the purchase price of such Person and is otherwise permitted by paragraph (1) above);

(4)    any Lien which secures only Indebtedness owing by a Subsidiary to the Company, to one or more Subsidiaries or to the Company and one or more Subsidiaries;

(5)    any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or replacements) in whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (1) through (4), inclusive; provided, however, that the principal amount of Indebtedness secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement, and that such extension, renewal or replacement shall be limited to all or a part of the property which secured the Lien so extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements on such property);

 

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(6)    any Lien to secure the performance of tenders, bids, leases, progress payments, performance or return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations; and

(7)    any Lien existing on the date of this Indenture or granted pursuant to an agreement existing on the date of this Indenture.

(b)    Notwithstanding clause (a) of this Section or the provisions of Section 1007, the Company or any Subsidiary may issue, assume or guarantee Indebtedness secured by a Lien which would otherwise be prohibited under the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section or enter into Sale and Leaseback Transactions that would otherwise be prohibited by Section 1007; provided that the aggregate amount of such Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries together with the aggregate Attributable Value of all such Sale and Leaseback Transactions of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets at the time any such Indebtedness is issued, assumed or guaranteed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or at the time any such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is entered into.

SECTION 1007.    Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary may enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Specified Property, unless either (x) the Company or such Subsidiary would be entitled pursuant to Section 1006 to issue, assume or guarantee Indebtedness secured by a Lien on such Specified Property without equally and ratably securing the Securities or (y) the Company or such Subsidiary shall apply or cause to be applied, in the case of a sale or transfer for cash, an amount equal to the net proceeds thereof and, in the case of a sale or transfer otherwise than for cash, an amount equal to the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) of the Specified Property so leased, to the retirement, within one year after the effective date of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction, of Indebtedness of the Company ranking at least on a parity with the Securities and owing to a Person other than the Company or any Affiliate of the Company or to the acquisition, purchase, construction, development, extension or improvement of real property or personal property used by the Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business. The restrictions set forth in the preceding sentence will not apply to transactions providing for a lease for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years or to arrangements between the Company and a Subsidiary or between Subsidiaries.

SECTION 1008.    Maintenance of Books and Records. The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain books, accounts and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the Republic or in the applicable jurisdiction.

SECTION 1009.    Further Assurances. The Company shall, at its own cost and expense, execute and deliver to the Trustee all such other documents, instruments and agreements and do all such other acts and things as may be reasonably required, in the opinion of the Trustee, to enable the Trustee to exercise and enforce its rights under this Indenture and under the documents, instruments and agreements required under this Indenture and to carry out the intent of this Indenture.

 

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SECTION 1010.    Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in respect of any series of Securities, in any particular instance, to comply with any covenant or condition set forth in Sections 1006 and 1007, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series at the time Outstanding shall, 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 covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 1011.    Maintenance of Properties. The Company will cause all tangible 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 such equipment and will cause to be made such repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be reasonably 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 1011 shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

SECTION 1012.    Maintenance of Insurance. The Company shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, with insurers the Company reasonably believes to be financially sound and reputable, insurance deemed adequate by the Company with respect to its properties and business and the properties and business of its Subsidiaries against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by corporations in the same or similar business and owning and/or operating properties similar to those owned and/or operated by the Company or its Subsidiaries. Such insurance may be subject to coinsurance deductibility or similar clauses which, in effect, result in self-insurance of certain losses, provided that such self-insurance is in accord with the practices of corporations in the same or similar business and adequate insurance reserves are maintained in connection with such self-insurance.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

Redemption of Securities

SECTION 1101.    Applicability of Article. The Company may reserve the right to redeem and pay before Stated Maturity all or any part of the Securities of any series, either by optional redemption, sinking or purchase fund or analogous obligation or otherwise, by provision therefor in the form of Security for such series established and approved pursuant to Section 202 and on such terms as are specified in such form or in

 

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the Board Resolution, Officers’ Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto with respect to Securities of such series as provided in Section 301. Redemption of Securities of any series shall be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and, to the extent that this Article does not conflict with such terms, the succeeding Sections of this Article.

SECTION 1102.    Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of the Company to redeem any Securities redeemable at the election of the Company shall be evidenced by, or made pursuant to authority granted by, a Board Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of any Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.

The Company’s election to redeem any Securities may be conditioned and provide that it is subject to the occurrence of any events or the satisfaction of any conditions described in the notice of redemption on or before the date fixed for the redemption. A notice of conditional redemption will be of no effect unless all conditions to the redemption have occurred or been satisfied on or before the redemption date or have been waived by the Company.

In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such Securities or in the notice of redemption, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction or the occurrence or satisfaction or waiver by the Company of such condition.

SECTION 1103.    Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed. For definitive Securities only, if less than all the Securities of like tenor and terms of any series are to be redeemed, the particular definitive 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 not previously called for redemption, by lot or such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may include provision for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series. For Global Securities, the particular Securities to be redeemed will be selected in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. Unless otherwise provided in the terms of a particular series of Securities, the portions of the principal of Securities so selected for partial redemption shall be equal to the minimum authorized denomination of the Securities of such series, or an integral multiple thereof, and the principal amount which remains outstanding shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of such series. If less than all the Securities of unlike tenor and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company.

 

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In the case of redemption of the definitive Securities, the Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Security 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 of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.

SECTION 1104.    Notice of Redemption. Written notice of redemption shall be delivered not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at its address appearing in the Security Register.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(1)    the Redemption Date;

(2)    the Redemption Price;

(3)    if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the Securities to be redeemed, from the Holder to whom the notice is given;

(4)    if the Company’s election to redeem the Securities to be redeemed is subject to the occurrence of any events or the satisfaction of any conditions, a description of the events that must occur or the conditions that must be satisfied on or before the Redemption Date unless waived by the Company;

(5)    that on the Redemption Date, subject to the occurrence of any events or the satisfaction or waiver of any conditions specified in the notice of redemption, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security, and that interest, if any, thereon shall cease to accrue from and after said date;

(6)    the place where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, which shall be the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment; and

(7)    if applicable, that the redemption is on account of a sinking or purchase fund, or other analogous obligation.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, upon delivery of a Company Request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.

 

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SECTION 1105.    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, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.

SECTION 1106.    Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of Redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, subject to the occurrence of any events or the satisfaction or waiver of any conditions specified in the notice of redemption, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of such Securities for redemption in accordance with the notice, such Securities shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price. Installments of interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as such on the relevant Regular Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security, or as otherwise provided in such Security.

SECTION 1107.    Securities Redeemed in Part. Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment with respect to that series (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 its attorney duly authorized in writing) and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms, 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.

SECTION 1108.    Provisions with Respect to any Sinking Funds. Unless the form or terms of any series of Securities shall provide otherwise, in lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to such series of Securities in cash, the Company may at its option (1) deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities of such series theretofore acquired by the Company, or (2) receive credit for any Securities of such series (not previously so credited) acquired by the Company and theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or redeemed by the Company other than through the mandatory sinking fund, and if it does so then (i) Securities so delivered or credited shall be credited at the applicable sinking fund Redemption Price with respect to Securities of such series, and (ii) on or before the 60th day next preceding each sinking fund Redemption Date with respect to such series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee (A) an Officers’ Certificate specifying the portions of such sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and by

 

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delivery or credit of Securities of such series acquired by the Company or so redeemed, and (B) such Securities so acquired, to the extent not previously surrendered. Such Officers’ Certificate shall also state the basis for such credit and that the Securities for which the Company elects to receive credit have not been previously so credited and were not redeemed by the Company through operation of the mandatory sinking fund, if any, provided with respect to such Securities and shall also state that no Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series has occurred and is continuing. All Securities so delivered to the Trustee shall be cancelled by the Trustee and no Securities shall be authenticated in lieu thereof.

If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) with respect to any series of Securities made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments with respect to Securities of such series made in cash shall exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request), unless otherwise provided by the terms of such series of Securities, that cash shall be applied by the Trustee at the written direction of the Company on the sinking fund Redemption Date with respect to Securities of such series next following the date of such payment to the redemption of Securities of such series at the applicable sinking fund Redemption Price with respect to Securities of such series, together with accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption, with the effect provided in Section 1106. The Trustee or the Depositary shall select, in the manner provided in Section 1103, for redemption on such sinking fund Redemption Date a sufficient principal amount of Securities of such series to utilize that cash and shall thereupon cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series for the sinking fund to be given in the manner provided in Section 1104 (and with the effect provided in Section 1106) for the redemption of Securities in part at the option of the Company. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the Trustee to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to the next cash sinking fund payment with respect to Securities of such series received by the Trustee and, together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section 1108. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to Securities of any series held by the Trustee at the Maturity of Securities of such series, and not held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series, shall be applied by the Trustee, together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of such series at Maturity.

On or before each sinking fund Redemption Date provided with respect to Securities of any series, the Company shall pay to the Trustee in cash a sum equal to all accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed on such sinking fund Redemption Date pursuant to this Section 1108.

SECTION 1109.    Optional Redemption in the Event of Change in Tax Treatment. If as a result of any change in or amendment to the laws or treaties (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of a Relevant Jurisdiction, or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation, administration or application of such laws, treaties, rules, or regulations (including a holding by a court of competent jurisdiction), which change or amendment becomes effective or, in the case of a change in official interpretation, administration or application, is announced on or after the issue date of the

 

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Securities of any series (or if a successor assumes the obligations under the Securities, such later date), the Company has or will become obligated to pay any Additional Amounts in excess of the Additional Amounts the Company would be obligated to pay if payments were subject to withholding or deduction at a rate of 4% (the “Minimum Withholding Level”), the Company may, at its option, redeem all, but not less than all, of the Securities of such series, at the Redemption Price, together with any accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, upon irrevocable notification as provided in Section 1104 not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days prior to the Redemption Date. No notice of such redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Company would, but for such redemption, be obligated to pay Additional Amounts above the Minimum Withholding Level, if payment in respect of the Securities of such series were actually due on such date. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not have the right to so redeem the Securities solely because the Company becomes obligated to pay Additional Amounts that are less than or equal to the amounts payable at the Minimum Withholding Level. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not have the right to so redeem the Securities of any series unless it determines, in its reasonable business judgment, that it cannot avoid the obligation to pay the Additional Amounts above the Minimum Withholding Level by the use of reasonable measures available to it; provided that for the avoidance of doubt changing the jurisdiction of the Company is not a reasonable measure for the purposes of this Section. Prior to any notification of redemption of the Securities of any series pursuant to this Section 1109, the Company will deliver to the Trustee: (1) an Officers’ Certificate stating that the Company is entitled to effect a redemption of the Securities of such series pursuant to this Indenture and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the condition or conditions precedent to the right of the Company to so redeem have occurred or been satisfied; and (2) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts above the Minimum Withholding Level as a result of the change or amendment, as described above, and stating that all governmental approvals necessary for the Company to effect the redemption have been obtained and are in full force and effect or specifying any such necessary approvals that as of the date of the opinion have not been obtained.

ARTICLE TWELVE

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

SECTION 1201.    Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The Company may at its option by Board Resolution or Officers’ Certificate, at any time, elect to have either Section 1202 or Section 1203 applied to the Outstanding Securities of any series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article Twelve.

SECTION 1202.    Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 1201 to have this Section 1202 applied to all the Outstanding Securities of any series, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all Outstanding Securities of such series on the date the conditions in Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter, “defeasance”). For

 

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this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by all the Outstanding Securities of any series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under the Securities of such series and this Indenture insofar as the Securities of such series are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same) except for the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of the Securities of such series to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1204 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, Additional Amounts, if any, and interest on the Securities of such series when such payments are due, (b) the Company’s obligations with respect to the Securities of such series under Sections 304, 305, 306, 308, 1002 and 1003, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (d) this Article Twelve and the Company’s obligations to the Trustee under Section 607. Subject to compliance with this Article Twelve, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1202 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1203.

SECTION 1203.    Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company’s exercise of the option provided in Section 1201 to have this Section 1203 applied to all the Outstanding Securities of any series, (i) the Company shall be released from its obligations under Sections 1006 and 1007 (and with respect to Section 1004, shall be required to provide a statement only with respect to those covenants not defeased pursuant to this Section 1203) with respect to the Securities of such series and (ii) the occurrence of an event with respect to the Securities of such series specified in Sections 501(3) (with respect to any of Sections 1006 and 1007), 501(4) or 501(5) shall not be deemed to be an Event of Default on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1204 are satisfied (hereinafter, “covenant defeasance”). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or clause, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or clause or by reason of any reference in any such Section or clause to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture, with respect to the Securities of such series and any other series as to which the Company has not elected to have either Section 1202 or Section 1203 applied, shall be unaffected thereby.

SECTION 1204.    Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 1202 or Section 1203 to the then Outstanding Securities of the applicable series:

(1)    The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Twelve applicable to it) in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, or dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of all Outstanding Securities of the applicable series, (A) cash, and/or (B) U.S. Government Obligations that through the payment of interest and principal

 

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in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide cash sufficient, in the opinion of an internationally recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay and discharge the principal of (and premium, if any), and each installment of interest (including Additional Amounts) on, the applicable series of Securities on the Stated Maturity of such principal of (and premium, if any) or installment of interest (including Additional Amounts) in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such series of Securities.

(2)    In the case of an election under Section 1202, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable United States Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon, such opinion shall confirm that, the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities with respect to such series of Securities will not recognize gain or loss for United States Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to United States Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred.

(3)    In the case of an election under Section 1203, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities of the applicable series will not recognize gain or loss for United States Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to United States Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred.

(4)    The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that such series of Securities, if then listed on any securities exchange, will not be delisted as a result of such deposit.

(5)    No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or, insofar as subsections 501(5) and (6) inclusive are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 121st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).

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

(8)    The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that payment of amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee as provided in clause (1) hereof will not be subject to future Taxes imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by, within or on behalf of the Relevant Jurisdiction, except to the extent that Additional Amounts in respect thereof shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee as provided in clause (1) hereof.

(9)    The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under Section 1202 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1203, as the case may be, have been complied with.

(10)    Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

SECTION 1205.    Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions. Subject to the provisions of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively, for purposes of this Section, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1204 in respect of the Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such series of 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 Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1204 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the applicable series of Outstanding Securities.

Anything in this Article Twelve to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1204 which, in the opinion of an internationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance.

 

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SECTION 1206.    Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 1202 or 1203 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article Twelve until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 1202 or 1203; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or interest on or Additional Amounts in respect of any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such series of Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent.

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

 

ENEL CHILE S.A.
  By:  

/s/ Nicola Cotugno

    Name: Nicola Cotugno
    Title: Chief Executive Officer
  By:  

/s/ Raffaele Grandi

    Name:   Raffaele Grandi
    Title:   Chief Financial Officer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
  By:  

/s/ Wanda Camacho

    Name:   Wanda Camacho
    Title:   Vice President

 

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